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Michael Mann: Australia, Your Country Is Burning – Dangerous Climate Change Is Here With You Now

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 4 mins This article originally appeared in The Guardian and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalistic collaboration to strengthen coverage of the climate story. It too is now threatened by climate change. By Michael Mann. I witnessed this firsthand.

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The new vocabulary of climate change was written in Icelandic

Grist

For most people, what climate change really means for humanity’s future hasn’t sunk in yet; otherwise, he reasons, everyone would be clamoring for action. Drawing from Icelandic mythology, science, and his family’s history, Magnason gives the vocabulary of climate change new charge. The personal works as an entry point.

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Big Oil faces a flood of climate lawsuits — and they’re moving closer to trial

Grist

Today, around 30 lawsuits have been filed around the country as cities, states, and Indigenous tribes seek to make the industry pay for the costs of climate change. All the while, the effects of climate change — the heat waves, the blazes, the wildfire smoke — have only grown more obvious, and more costly.

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Have the world’s coral reefs already crossed a tipping point?

Grist

Earlier this month, the world officially entered its fourth — and probably worst — mass coral bleaching event in history, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the International Coral Reef Initiative. In the Indian Ocean, even coral species known to be resistant to hot temperatures are bleaching.

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Legal Action Against High Emitters Failing to Use Latest Climate Science, Study Finds

DeSmogBlog

Attempts to sue polluting companies and governments over their responsibility for climate change would have a greater chance of success if they made better use of the latest science, according to a study by Oxford University researchers. The study reviewed 73 climate litigation cases against polluters across 14 jurisdictions.

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The IPCC report brings the future of the climate into clearer focus

Envirotec Magazine

Greater clarity about the trajectory of climate change – and the need for decisive action – appeared to be forthcoming from the latest summary from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published on 9 August. And RCP8.5 Taking out the uncertainty. Policy response.

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Rising sea temperatures and coral loss: “Most detailed scientific picture to date”

Envirotec Magazine

Corals reefs across the world are under relentless stress from warming caused by climate change and other local pressures such as overfishing, unsustainable coastal development and declining water quality. Large scale coral bleaching events are the greatest disturbance to the world’s coral reefs. in 73 countries. Key findings.