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“Slap in the face:” Gas project approval collides with fresh warnings on sea level rise, ocean heat

Renew Economy

Pacific Island group condemns Australia's support for gas project extension as major new climate report warns we are "fast running out of time to turn the tide" on ocean acidification and sea level rise.

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Nature-positive AI projects hailed successes following £2 million investment

Envirotec Magazine

This insight can be used by insurance brokers, local authorities, and engineering firms to scenario plan for storm surge or sea-level rises, targeting and monitoring environmental and shoreline remediation efforts.

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1.5 Degrees C: Understanding World’s Critical Warming Threshold

The City Fix

Nearly a decade ago, the world rallied around the Paris Agreement on climate change and the goal of holding global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees C (2.7 degrees F). Since then, the “1.5C goal” has become the world’s North Star.

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Technofossils: How future archeologists will study our everyday objects

Grist

So as sea level rises, theres a massive problem: The degree to which those are going to be buried safely over time, or whether theyre going to erode and disgorge of all that stuff into the oceans, we dont really know. Q: You mentioned sea level rise. youve got at least 50,000 landfills along coastlines.

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1.5°C Paris target too high for polar ice sheets, says new study

Envirotec Magazine

Research led by Durham University suggests the target should instead be closer to 1C to avoid significant losses from the polar ice sheets and prevent a further acceleration in sea level rise. The team reviewed a wealth of evidence to examine the effect that the 1.5C The authors argue that further warming to 1.5C C or higher.

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Kemi Badenoch is wrong - Net zero by 2050 is difficult, it's not impossible

Business Green

And that temperature target is at the heart of the Paris Agreement because it is deemed to be the level at which the risks of passing tipping points in the climate system that trigger catastrophic runaway warming become unacceptable. This is not a game.

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In defence of science: Let’s tell the truth on climate and health

Eco-Business

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