Energy Innovation
DECEMBER 17, 2018
As societies around the world continue emitting heat-trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, they face the consequence of sea level rise. Since 1900, sea levels have increased 8 inches on average globally, and by 2100, sea levels will likely rise between 1 and 4 feet (Sweet et al.
Energy Innovation
APRIL 2, 2019
New research focused on the mechanisms and rates of how snow and ice is lost to the ocean from the land, along with studies of past climates offer new insights into how much sea level may change in the coming years. Both approaches utilize computer models to further explore the relationship between sea level and climate.
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Grist
APRIL 14, 2022
The new study also adds to the growing consensus that limiting warming to 1.5 degrees C — the target that became a global rallying cry following the advocacy of vulnerable island nations during the 2015 U.N. The prime minister of Barbados, for instance, called 2 degrees of warming a “death sentence.”. While the 1.5-degree
Grist
SEPTEMBER 10, 2022
The research projects that four of these tipping points will move from possible to likely as global temperatures reach 1.5 degrees C of warming, the goal set by nations in the Paris Agreement in 2015. Several other critical tipping points will become likely if global temperatures surpass the 1.5 degree threshold.
Grist
MARCH 20, 2023
The newest publication is an attempt to distill everything the panel has said since August 2021, when it began releasing its sixth assessment of global warming. There’s no new research in this latest report, but it injects new urgency into scientists’ and activists’ calls for rapid, systemic action from global decision-makers.
DeSmogBlog
OCTOBER 29, 2021
s investigative journalism arm, and the British Channel 4 News this summer exposing how the oil giant and lobby groups such as the American Petroleum Institute seed doubt about climate change and undermine legislation to stop global warming. This document shows that the oil industry was informed of the science of global warming.
Grist
APRIL 8, 2022
But hidden on page 25 of the “Summary for Policymakers” was an even grimmer note: That even in the IPCC’s most optimistic models, the chances of holding global warming to less than 1.5 When nations gathered in France in 2015, they initially were aiming to keep global temperatures “well below 2 degrees Celsius.”
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