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IPCC report: The 10 key conclusions

Business Green

The report today - the IPCC's first of its kind since 2013 - may not make for joyful reading on the state of the only habitable home humans have, but coming just weeks before the crucial COP26 Climate Summit its core conclusions could not be more essential to every business on the planet. And today the IPCC concluded the 1.5C

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Rain comes to the Arctic, with a cascade of troubling changes

Grist

All that rain is significant because the melting of the Greenland ice sheet — like the melting of other glaciers around the world — is one of the most important drivers of sea level rise. Caribou walk in the foreground of a glacier on July 12, 2013 in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland.

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Is human activity responsible for the climate emergency? New report calls it ‘unequivocal.’

Grist

Carbon dioxide levels in the air are now at their highest point for at least 2 million years. Sea level rising so fast? The many scientific advances since the last comprehensive IPCC report in 2013 mean better projections for specific regions of the world. When was the last time we saw heating this fast?

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50 Books on Climate Change and Sustainbility

Green Market Oracle

Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today. Climate changes triggered the first human migrations out of Africa. Falling sea levels allowed our passage across the Bering Sea. Miami, Florida, is likely to be entirely underwater by the end of this century.