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234 scientists read 14,000+ research papers to write the upcoming IPCC climate report – here’s what you need to know and why it’s a big deal

DeSmogBlog

The last big IPCC assessment was released in 2013. Instead, you can read their shorter chapters on the scientific consensus on topics like extreme weather or regional changes in sea-level rise. Four RCPs were the focus of the future-looking climate modeling studies incorporated into the 2013 report. Look around.

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Scientists Have Now Linked Worsening Western Wildfires to Top Polluters

DeSmogBlog

New research for the first time links wildfire risks and impacts in western North America to carbon emissions traceable to the world’s largest fossil fuel and cement companies. This research builds on over a decade of science tracing heat-trapping emissions and impacts on a global scale to particular fossil fuel operations.”

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You Can't Say You Haven't Been Warned

Green Market Oracle

In 2013 The U.S. Seven years ago the IEA and the WRI warned that we need to stop burning fossil fuels. In fact, in the 1960s the fossil fuel industry's own science revealed that they are causing global warming. A 2019 IPCC report warned that we are seeing accelerated ice melt and sea level rise.

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Net Economic Gains from Climate Action

Green Market Oracle

s National Oceanographic Centre, the costs of sea level rise alone could exceed $14 trillion a year by 2100. In 2013 the stock of manageable assets was $143 trillion as estimated by the Financial Stability Board, updated based on EIU data in 2015 suggests that number is $207 trillion. According to the U.K.’s

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

Grist

Accelerating melting of ice has poured trillions of tonnes of water into the oceans, where oxygen levels are falling – suffocating the seas – and acidity is rising. Sea level has already risen by nearly 8 inches, with more now irreversibly baked in. Sea level rising so fast? Oceans so acidic?

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A decidedly impartial review of Mark Jacobson’s 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything

Renewable Energy World

Meeting of The Solutions Project and Sierra Club at Cornell University on April 20, 2013. Mark Jacobson appears on The Late Show with David Letterman on September 23, 2013 © Mark Jacobson. The fossil fuel divestment movement led by Bill McKibben’s 350.org Jacobson, Mark Ruffalo, and Josh Fox. © Jon Wank.

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'We can end the climate wars': Can Australia's 'greenslide' election provide renewed momentum for COP27?

Business Green

Albanese, a veteran politician who served as deputy prime minister under the last Labor government that was voted out in 2013, is to be sworn into office today. Could Australia be about to ditch its climate laggard reputation and in the process help reinvigorate climate diplomacy efforts worldwide?