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Report: Nobody talks about ‘global warming’ anymore

Grist

Big news: Global warming is over. They found that searches for global warming , once the most common phrase for our overheating planet, are down 73 percent since 2010. Climate change began to outpace global warming around 2015 , and the newly popular climate crisis might someday catch up if current trends continue.

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Immediate action on organic waste needed to meet Paris targets, says biogas group

Envirotec Magazine

Human activity generates 105bn tonnes of organic wastes (food waste, sewage and garden wastes, food and drink processing wastes, and farm and agricultural wastes) annually by human activity. Treating the world’s unavoidable organic wastes through AD would help meet over one quarter of this alarming shortfall (2).

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Brazilian study suggests better ways of managing MSW

Envirotec Magazine

The national composition of MSW is 50% organic matter, 35% recyclables and 15% landfill refuse. Harmonia, which is located in the state of Rio Grande do Sul in the South region, also features domestic composting, and diverts almost half its organic waste from MSW collection and treatment systems. São Paulo has three sanitary landfills.

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Predictable and Rare Climate Impacts in 2019

Green Market Oracle

There were also some rare global warming impacts including massive volumes of ice melt in Greenland and tropical cyclones that intensified at one of the fastest rates ever observed. The World Meteorological Organization's annual " State of the Global Climate " reported a number of climate impacts in 2019.

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“Cost-effective alternative to air source heat pumps” secures £1.3m funding

Envirotec Magazine

Instead of using refrigerant gases with high global warming potential (GWP), Barocal’s technology uses new solid-state, temperature-changing materials. Said to be cheap and non-toxic, they are organic materials that release and absorb heat at different pressures as they change volume.

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2019 is Another Data Point in the Constellation of Hot Data

Green Market Oracle

The heat records keep adding to the mountain of data points that demonstrate that we are suffering from ever worsening global warming. This year (2019) is likely to be the second warmest year in the hottest decade on record. Except for January of this year, each month in 2019 has been in the top three hottest on record.

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Report: As Climate Crisis Expands, Canada Still Hands Billions to Fossil Fuel Industry

DeSmogBlog

That level of support could have fully funded every major wind and solar project in Canada from 2019 to 2021 12 times over,” said Levin. “It The pipeline has been called a ‘global warming machine.’ It is 10 times what the government has invested in climate change adaptation since 2015.