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The scientist who warned the US about climate change says it’s worse than we thought. Again.

Grist

A new study published by legendary climate scientist James Hansen and a global team of researchers has found that the planet might breach the 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit) warming target by the end of the decade and surpass the 2 degrees C target by 2050. degrees Celsius (2.7 degree limit is deader than a doornail. “And

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How does climate change threaten where you live? A region-by-region guide.

Grist

Every four years, the federal government is required to gather up the leading research on how climate change is affecting Americans, boil it all down, and then publish a National Climate Assessment. Even if we stopped burning oil and gas tomorrow, some degree of planetary warming is baked in. Here they are.

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Climate Related Excerpts from the Ninth Democratic Primary Debate

Green Market Oracle

BIDEN: It [climate change] is the existential threat humanity faces, global warming. I went out to tech -- you have a facility where you have one of the largest, largest solar panel arrays in the world. One, get back into that international climate change agreement. And you can do this in a smart way.

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How many trees are needed to offset a city’s carbon emissions?

AGreenLiving

The natural process of all plants taking in carbon and releasing oxygen not only gives us clean air to breathe but also stores carbon that otherwise contributes to global warming. The study provides one tool in an array of options to reduce carbon release. Every other city in the study came in at over 200,000 trees a year.

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'Unintended consequences': Road to net-zero must harmonise different climate priorities, warns Nature Capital Committee

Business Green

The independent advisory committee wants the government to ensure that any strategies geared towards meeting the 2050 net zero goal complement the government's broader climate commitments and fully consider the risk of driving up emissions in other sectors. But efforts need to be ramped up, and radically.

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'Half measures won't halve emissions': The green economy reacts to IPCC's climate solutions report

Business Green

Yet while that very broad assessment certainly remains true, today's intervention from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was always going to be a little different. This report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a litany of broken climate promises. on the table. And it is damning.

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Why should the Scottish woodlands be protected?

AGreenLiving

Although Scotland is more heavily forested than England or Wales, much of its woodlands have been lost to logging, urban sprawl and climate change. Reforestation has thereby become an important tool in combatting Earth’s climate emergency. Many are nationally and globally rare and some are found nowhere else in the world.”