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

Envirotec Magazine

The results imply widespread ocean warming and sea level rise, compared to the past, including increased warming near the Eastern edges of ocean basins leading to more sea level rise along the Western coastlines of continents in the North Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

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NY Bond Act is Big News for Climate

Rinexii

billion to improve public health and reduce pollution Green roofing and rooftop gardens, clean energy, and zero emission school buses will all help reduce emissions and help cool off urban areas. As sea levels rise and floods become more common, infrastructure like this will be all the more critical to reducing damage.

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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.” Rising ocean temperatures lead to changing circulation patterns, coral bleaching, sea-level rise, changes in fish migration and marine food webs, and ocean deoxygenation — when oceanic “dead zones” form.

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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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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. Further, faster.

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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.

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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?”.