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Sea Level Rise: The Past As An Indicator Of The Future

Energy Innovation

New research focused on the mechanisms and rates of how snow and ice is lost to the ocean from the land, along with studies of past climates offer new insights into how much sea level may change in the coming years. Both approaches utilize computer models to further explore the relationship between sea level and climate.

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Scientists Have Now Linked Worsening Western Wildfires to Top Polluters

DeSmogBlog

New research for the first time links wildfire risks and impacts in western North America to carbon emissions traceable to the world’s largest fossil fuel and cement companies. Instead, an additional area spanning almost 20 million acres, or roughly the size of Maine, has burned in forest fires across western North America since 1986.

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IPCC report: The 10 key conclusions

Business Green

As underscored by recent flooding, heatwaves, and wildfires across parts of North America, Europe, Asia and Africa, the report makes clear that climate change is accelerating and intensifying across every region of the planet. Climate impacts are happening now, worsening and in some cases irreversible.

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Prehistoric landscape reconstruction reveals early dinosaurs lived on tropical islands

Envirotec Magazine

Sea levels were high, as a great sea, the Rhaetian Ocean, flooded most of the land. The Atlantic Ocean began to open up between Europe and North America causing the land level to fall. In the Bristol Channel area, sea levels were 100 metres higher than today.

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Can the first US 'chief heat officer' build a model for future resilience?

Business Green

2021 has been a scorching year for extreme heat events across North America - cities across the usually temperate Pacific Northwest reached temperatures as high as 117 degrees Fahrenheit in July. Her work in that role encompassed a variety of issues that intersected with climate change issues such as extreme weather and sea-level rise.

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AI can significantly improve grid management reports DOE

Smart Energy International

Simulating disruption/disaster scenarios to inform resilience strategies Enhancing system efficiency and coordination to restart the grid during full or partial blackouts Optimising the deployments of repair crews to accelerate response Identifying the fastest path to system restoration.

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Is human activity responsible for the climate emergency? New report calls it ‘unequivocal.’

Grist

Carbon dioxide levels in the air are now at their highest point for at least 2 million years. Sea level rising so fast? of heating, heavy rain and flooding are projected to intensify in Europe, North America and most regions of Africa and Asia. “We When was the last time we saw heating this fast?