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Report: Nobody talks about ‘global warming’ anymore

Grist

Big news: Global warming is over. A new report shows how differently people talk about climate change from how they did 10 years ago. They found that searches for global warming , once the most common phrase for our overheating planet, are down 73 percent since 2010. Just the phrase itself, though.

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IPCC: ‘Limiting global warming will require major transitions in the energy sector’

Smart Energy International

The UN IPCC has released its latest climate change mitigation report, which provides an updated global assessment of mitigation progress and pledges. One of its core findings is that major transitions in the energy industry will be key to mitigating the climate crisis. Climate change policy.

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Climate Change Thrust Into the Spotlight as the Amazon Fires Rage

The Environmental Blog

Back in 2019, actor Leonardo DiCaprio stated, “The lungs of the earth are in flames,” in reference to the fires that were blazing in the Amazon. Climate change is a top issue for young Brazilians, who fear that the damage being done by global warming poses a threat to their lives today and for the years to come. .

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Give Climate Change the Name It Deserves: Fossil-Fueled Destruction

DeSmogBlog

The violence of the atmospheric shifts, their deeply uneven impacts and the implications of mass extinctions that are expected at current emission levels, add up to much more than “climate change.” The term “global warming” stuck. And that term is rapidly being outrun by the speed of the changes.

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The world’s first climate change report card is in

The Verge: Energy

It’s the first “Global Stocktake” of the progress nearly 200 countries have made since they adopted the Paris agreement in 2015. By pushing nations to slash their greenhouse gas emissions, the global accord strives to avoid climate change so extreme that life on Earth would struggle to adapt.

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Good news: The media is getting the facts right on climate change

Grist

It might sound like a low bar, but for those who care about facts, it’s been a long wait: News coverage of climate is finally getting the science right. That’s a sharp change from the last comparable study in 2004, when researchers discovered that more than half of articles treated dissenting opinions as equally valid.

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A common talking point about climate change gets it all wrong, new study says

Grist

Common wisdom says that the average person doesn’t care about climate change because they think its effects will unfold in the far-off future or in faraway places. This point is repeated ad infinitum in tips about how to talk about the climate crisis, in books, articles, and guides for public officials. One problem?