Climate Update - what must happen & news links
The Limits of Clean Energy
If the world isn’t careful, renewable energy could become as destructive as fossil fuels.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-limits-of-clean-energy?utm_source...
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People must use less transport, eat less red meat and buy fewer clothes if the UK is to virtually halt greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, the government's chief environment scientist has warned.
https://t.co/YXylkMMa7g?amp=1
urgent changes needed include ending population growth, leaving fossil fuels in the ground, halting forest destruction and slashing meat eating.
https://t.co/wRMbIUYwkB?amp=1
Global emissions need to be halved by next decade and net-zero by mid century, says energy economist Nebojsa Nakicenovic
https://t.co/fcp0MUWpc2?amp=1
“Nearly two-thirds of the pledges under the Paris climate agreement are ‘totally insufficient’ to meet critical climate targets.” And almost no nation in the world is on track to meet those targets.
tweet here: https://twitter.com/dwallacewells/status/1193207884378718214
India, the U.S. and China saw some of the biggest rises in greenhouse gas emissions in 2018, a new report says. The EU’s output fell by 2.5%
tweet here: https://twitter.com/tictoc/status/1193498581392605184
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FROM THE WEB
greenwashing-capitalism-wont-heal-the-planet/
https://truthout.org/articles/greenwashing-capitalism-wont-heal-the-planet/
worlds-richest-1-cause-double-co2-emissions-of-poorest-50-says-oxfam
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/21/worlds-richest-1-cau...
carbon-dioxide-emissions-would-need-to-reach-net-zero-by-2050-to-avoid-the-worst-effects-of-climate-change#
https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/coronavirus-leading-through-t...
Updates for October
Temperature world wide
We just had the warmest October on record (narrowly ahead of Oct 2015), according to #Copernicus #C3S. Monthly temperatures over the past 12 months have averaged close to 1.2°C above the pre-industrial level defined by IPCC.
tweet here: https://twitter.com/WMO/status/1191729621164789763
Funding
Bank of England boss says global finance is funding 4C temperature rise
https://amp.theguardian.com/business/2019/oct/15/bank-of-england-boss-wa...
Ocean acidification
tweet here: https://twitter.com/PaulEDawson/status/1194585449899208704
“If 0.25 was enough to precipitate a mass extinction, we should be worried.”
Researchers estimate that the pH of the ocean will drop by 0.4 pH units by 2100 if carbon emissions are not stopped, or by 0.15 units if global temperature rise is limited to 2C.
Where's Greta?
I'll hopefully make it to COP25 in Madrid.
I’ve been offered a ride from Virginia on the 48ft catamaran
La Vagabonde. Australians @Sailing_LaVaga,
Elayna Carausu & @_NikkiHenderson
from England will take me across the Atlantic.
We sail for Europe tomorrow morning! (Nov 13th)
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CLIMATE NEWS FOR THE LAST 6 MONTHS
September 2020
(up to 23rd)
Ocean carbon uptake widely underestimated
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200904090312.htm
Humans, not climate, have driven rapidly rising mammal extinction rate
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200909100244.htm#
Siberia's permafrost erosion has been worsening for years
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200916113452.htm
How much will polar ice sheets add to sea level rise?
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200917122838.htm
Curbing land clearing for food production is vital to reverse biodiversity declines
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200917135517.htm
August 2020
Sea level rise from ice sheets track worst-case climate change scenario
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200831112101.htm
July 2020
Agriculture - a climate villain? Maybe not!
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200707113331.htm
Tree planting does not always boost ecosystem carbon stocks, study finds
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200715123154.htm
Heat stress: The climate is putting European forests under sustained pressure
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200716123000.htm
Discovery of first active seep in Antarctica provides new understanding of methane cycle
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200722163246.htm
June 2020
Carbon emission from permafrost soils underestimated by 14%
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200615140854.htm
New species extinction target proposed for global nature rescue plan
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200616113915.htm
New species extinction target proposed for global nature rescue plan
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200616113915.htm
Half of the world's population exposed to increasing air pollution
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200617090958.htm
Global warming will cause ecosystems to produce more methane than first predicted
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200629120210.htm
Major new paleoclimatology study shows global warming has upended 6,500 years of cooling
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200630072044.htm
May 2020
Warming Midwest conditions may result in corn, soybean production moving north
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/05/200504150218.htm
Planting trees is no panacea for climate change
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/05/200507143008.htm
Sea level could rise by more than 1 meter by 2100 if emission targets are not met
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/05/200508083545.htm
El Niño-linked decreases in soil moisture could trigger massive tropical-plant die offs
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/05/200511142116.htm
Climate change will turn coastal Antarctica green, say scientists
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/05/200520084135.htm
World can likely capture and store enough carbon dioxide to meet climate targets
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/05/200521083551.htm
April 2020
Some of the latest climate models provide unrealistically high projections of future warming
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/04/200430113003.htm
Glacier detachments: A new hazard in a warming world?
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/04/200428131709.htm
Unusually clear skies drove record loss of Greenland ice in 2019
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/04/200415091236.htm
Offshore oil and gas platforms release more methane than previously estimated
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/04/200413140507.htm
Long-living tropical trees play outsized role in carbon storage
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/04/200409141550.htm
New study helps improve accuracy of future climate change predictions
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/04/200408104950.htm
Upper ocean water masses shrinking in changing climate: Less efficient CO2 sink
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/04/200406112530.htm