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Researchers identify human influence as key agent of ocean warming patterns in the future

Envirotec Magazine

The oceans play an important role in regulating our climate and its change by absorbing heat and carbon. In the future, the imprint of rising atmospheric temperatures on ocean warming will likely dominate that of changes in ocean circulation. This is despite having been identified and modelled as a key factor over the past 60 years.

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The COVID Covenant: Going big is the price of admission

GreenBiz

This is a threat we know will affect billions of people and displace hundreds of millions more through sea-level rise, desertification and other disastrous impacts by the time our children are grown. We need to shift the whole game, raise the level of ambition, move that needle. The stakes are high. Like heroism.

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A record warm streak in the oceans has scientists worried

Grist

“This is an unusually abrupt rise to a level that’s above what it’s been at any previous year.” Oceans have absorbed a massive amount of the carbon dioxide that humans have generated since the Industrial Revolution. It appears at the moment that we are seeing the early stages of an El Niño emerging,” Rohde said.

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Tory members back stronger green energy policies, as Sunak cools on heat pumps

Business Green

Meanwhile, the urgency and scale of the climate crisis continues to hit home across the UK, with the Met Office today warning that the impacts of climate change are starting to hit harder in the UK through more volatile weather extremes such as flooding, drought and heatwaves, as well as physical impacts such as sea level rise and coastal erosion.

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How the Climate Conversation Changed in 2021

Planet Pulse

We can see wildfires burning greater areas, heatwaves becoming more frequent and more deadly, hurricanes stronger and more damaging, the sea level rising, floods increasing, droughts getting stronger. The impacts are already here. So if that’s the case, why aren’t we acting?”. Meeting audacious goals with meaningful change.

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AI can significantly improve grid management reports DOE

Smart Energy International

Industrials and manufacturing Improving manufacturing quality control and better sort feedstocks for recycling streams Reducing carbon footprint of industry, data centres by optimising energy consumption, cooling, etc.

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A vital Atlantic Ocean system could collapse sooner than previously thought

Grist

That collapse could eventually spell catastrophe for the people who live in countries that border the Atlantic Ocean, leading to increased sea-level rise in the United States, decreased temperatures and altered storm patterns over western Europe, rejiggered climate and agricultural zones, and hotter ocean temperatures in the Caribbean.