article thumbnail

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

article thumbnail

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. The Alder fire in the Druid Complex in Yellowstone National Park, August 19, 2013. This latest study extends that analysis to the realm of wildfires.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

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. But at least that herd can still be hunted.

article thumbnail

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?