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The pollution paradox: How cleaning up smog drives ocean warming

Grist

A vast expanse of ocean stretching from Alaska to California periodically warms by up to 4 degrees Celsius (7 degrees Fahrenheit), decimating fish stocks, starving seabirds, creating blooms of toxic algae, preventing salmon returns to rivers, displacing sea lions, and forcing whales into shipping lanes to find food. Met Office.

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Scientists Have Now Linked Worsening Western Wildfires to Top Polluters

DeSmogBlog

The findings offer new insight into corporate actors’ responsibility for the climate impact of worsening wildfires and strengthen the rapidly growing scientific field known as attribution science , which quantifies the influence of climate change on extreme weather events and connects pollution sources to observed climate impacts.

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Google joins a mission to map global methane emissions from space

The Verge: Energy

A rendering of MethaneSat | Image courtesy of Google Google announced a partnership with the nonprofit Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) today to map methane pollution and oil and gas infrastructure from space. Meanwhile, Google is using AI to map oil and gas infrastructure to create a global map of pollution sources.

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New study says the world blew past 1.5 degrees of warming four years ago

Grist

Limiting average global warming to 1.5 Still, until this week’s study, there have been precious few alternative means of determining the average global ocean temperature before widespread industrialization and rampant carbon pollution. degrees Celsius, or 2.7 They don’t like to be disturbed.)

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1% of global population causes 50% of all carbon pollution emitted by the aviation industry

AGreenLiving

Recent research published in Global Environmental Change has revealed that only 1% of people cause half of all aviation pollution globally. According to the study, regular “super emitters” are polluting the environment at the expense of millions of people who do not fly. Continued here:Â .

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Climate Justice Means Racial Justice

Sustainability Consulting

Global warming, an existential crisis becoming all too real like COVID-19, will only exacerbate these inequalities, unless we act now. Power plants, toxic waste dumps, and other air and water polluting industries are more often located in poor neighborhoods where there is a higher concentration of people of color.

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What the IPCC report means for corporate boards

Business Green

In 2013, the so-called fifth assessment report painted a dark picture of our future if we were to continue down the same track. Global warming of 1.5 Many changes in the climate system become larger in direct relation to increasing global warming. It is the new normal.