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The mission of this working group is to explore the evidence regarding points of leverage assisting human groups in coping with or reducing the risk of global climate change.

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Analysis: Putin's efforts to hold Europe hostage over energy supplies. is

Thu, 2022-09-08 10:57 — mike kraft

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has prompted the biggest shake-up of European energy markets this century. This film explains how Europe became so dependent on cheap Russian gas, and explores the hard choices facing the EU as it tries to balance energy security and climate ambitions.

Read more at https://on.ft.com/3D7bv31

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Study: ‘bleakest warning yet’ on impacts of climate breakdown

Mon, 2022-02-28 10:12 — mike kraft
IPCC issues ‘bleakest warning yet’ on impacts of climate breakdown Report says human actions are causing dangerous disruption, and window to secure a liveable future is closing the Guardian
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Climate Change: overview of related provisions of House-passed Build Back Better legislation

Mon, 2021-11-22 12:09 — mike kraft
Build Back Better and American Climate Leadership If we, once again, kick the “climate can” down the road, we should be prepared for the road to be flooded, washed away, covered in debris, and possibly surrounded by burning forests. Steve Cohen State of the Planet
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Climate Change: US and Japan block G7 proposals to limit coal useage

Mon, 2021-06-14 11:37 — mike kraft
US and Japan leave G7 stuck on coal The climate unity of rich democracies foundered on their inability to commit to ending coal use. POLITICO

FALMOUTH, England — At a global summit meant to showcase their efforts to rescue the climate, the leaders of the richest, most advanced countries on the planet were left stuck on the rock that fueled the 19th century.

Days of negotiations at the G7 leaders summit in Cornwall failed to set an end-date for coal after the U.S. and Japan blocked a deal.

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Climate issue: Biden doubles funding to prepare for severe storms

Tue, 2021-05-25 09:20 — mike kraft
As hurricane season looms, Biden doubles funding to prepare for extreme weather President Biden will announce Monday after that he’s doubling the amount of funding the U.S. government will spend helping communities prepare to withstand extreme weather events, while launching a new effort at NASA to collect climate data.
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‘Urgent’ Need for Businesses to Adapt to Growing Threat from Climate Change, McKinsey Says

Sat, 2020-01-18 22:48 — Kathy Gilbeaux

           

A dog looks out of a house flooded by Hurricane Maria, in Catano town, Juana Matos, Puerto Rico, on September 21, 2017.  Hector Retamal | AFP | Getty Images

CLICK HERE - REPORT - Climate risk and response: Physical hazards and socioeconomic impacts - January 2020

cnbc.com - by Pippa Stevens - January 16, 2020

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McKinsey said trillions of dollars in economic activity and hundreds of millions lives are at risk from a changing climate.

“Much as thinking about information systems and cyber-risks has become integrated into corporate and public-sector decision making, climate change and its resulting risks will also need to feature as a major factor in decisions,” McKinsey Global Institute director Jonathan Woetzel said.

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink warned this week that the intensifying climate crisis will bring about a fundamental reshaping of finance, with a significant reallocation of capital set to take place “sooner than most anticipate.”

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Oceans are Warming at the Same Rate as if Five Hiroshima Bombs Were Dropped in Every Second

Thu, 2020-01-16 21:43 — Kathy Gilbeaux

           

CLICK HERE - STUDY - Record-Setting Ocean Warmth Continued in 2019

cnn.com - by  Ivana Kottasová - January 13, 2020

The world's oceans are now heating at the same rate as if five Hiroshima atomic bombs were dropped into the water every second, scientists have said.

A new study released on Monday showed that 2019 was yet another year of record-setting ocean warming, with water temperatures reaching the highest temperature ever recorded.

An international team of 14 scientists examined data going back to the 1950s, looking at temperatures from the ocean surface to 2,000 meters deep. The study, which was published in the journal Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, also showed that the oceans are warming at an increasing speed.

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Australia's Indigenous People Have a Solution for the Country's Bushfires. And It's Been Around for 50,000 Years

Sun, 2020-01-12 22:02 — Kathy Gilbeaux

           

ADELAIDE HILLS - MFS fire crews fight a bushfire on Wattle Road in Kersbrook, on January 2, 2015 in Adelaide Hills, Australia. (Photo by Campbell Brodie/Newspix/Getty Images)

cnn.com - by Leah Asmelash - January 12, 2020

The fires in Australia have been burning for months, consuming nearly 18 million acres of land, causing thousands to evacuate and killing potentially millions of animals . . .

 . . . The Australian state of New South Wales, where both Sydney and Canberra are located, declared a state of emergency this week, as worsening weather conditions could lead to even greater fire danger.

But a 50,000-year-old solution could exist: Aboriginal burning practices.

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A Climate Change-Driven Dengue Outbreak Has Been Described As The Caribbean’s ‘Worst Medical Crisis Ever’

Fri, 2020-01-03 09:25 — Kathy Gilbeaux

Dengue is transmitted by a bite from an infected Aedes aegypti mosquito. This is the same species that spreads Zika, Chikungunya and yellow fever. The most common symptoms of dengue are high fever, headaches and joint and muscle pain. (Photo by: BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

forbes.com - by Daphne Ewing-Chow - December 31, 2019

In January 2019, the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) warned the Caribbean region of an expected spike in dengue fever and called on communities to exercise caution and support the elimination of mosquito breeding sites to help combat the virus.

A full year later, the number of individuals in the Americas having contracted the mosquito-borne virus is approaching 3 million with at least 1,372 recorded deaths— the highest number of cases on record. The Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) and other experts have pointed to climate change as one of the leading causes for the surge in numbers, with poor environmental management and increased adaptability of mosquitoes listed as other causes.

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Report: Climate Change is Making Specific Weather Events More Extreme

Thu, 2019-12-12 09:33 — Kathy Gilbeaux

           

In this photo, a wildfire rages in the hills of the Los Angeles area (2017 stock image.) (istock)

CLICK HERE - RESEARCH - Explaining Extreme Events from a Climate Perspective

noaa.gov - December 9, 2019

A drought that parched the southwestern U.S. Extraordinary flooding in the Mid-Atlantic states. Heat waves that baked the Iberian peninsula and northeast Asia. Vanishing sea ice in the Bering Sea. 

Scientists say these remarkable 2018 extreme weather events were made more likely by human-caused climate change, in new research published today in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS). 

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