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A distraction due to errors, misunderstanding and misguided Norwegian statistics

Real Climate

The physics-based models describe how energy flows through the atmosphere and ocean, as well as how the forces from different air masses push against each other. Furthermore, the volume of the oceans increases from the melting of land ice. The global sea level acts like the mercury in a thermometer because warmer water expands.

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UK 2024 General Election – Mapped: The Tory network of climate denial and fossil fuel funding

A Greener Life

Since then, the Conservative government has made a series of U-turns on its own net zero policies, attacked Labour’s green spending plans, and doubled down on its support for new fossil fuel projects, approving more than 100 new North Sea oil and gas licences. This comes as DeSmog and Democracy for Sale reveal that £6.8 percent (£1.8

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Antarctic extreme events: ‘All-time records are being shattered not from decades ago, but from the last few years and months’

Frontiers

While the main focus has been on operational activities in Antarctica, global warming caused by fossil-fuel burning by these (and other) countries has left Antarctica on the brink of irreversible change. In the ocean, 19 marine heatwaves have been recorded between 2002 and 2018. Prof Martin Siegert in Antarctica.

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United Nations: The world smashed heat records in 2023

A Greener Life

This week, the UN body, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said that every major global climate record was broken last year and warned that 2024 could be even worse with the highest concern being ocean heat and shrinking sea ice. The trend of ocean warming continues to head in one direction.

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U.N. Human Rights Committee finds that Australia is violating human rights obligations towards Torres Strait Islanders for climate inaction

Law Columbia

Rising sea temperatures are impairing the health of marine environments around the islands, by coral bleaching and ocean acidification. The complaint argues these violations stem from insufficient climate mitigation targets, as well as a general failure to cease to promote fossil fuel extraction and use. Ryan [2002] HCA 54).

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Danger Looms Where Toxic Algae Blooms

Circle of Blue

That was 200,000 more acres than in 2002, when the USDA began tracking that data. The fossil fuel sector and its industrial allies block curbs to greenhouse gas emissions. Produced by David Ruck and Plastic Oceans, the film has aired at film festivals around the region this year. million acres in both states in 2017.

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Release: Nearly all COP27 sponsors are either major polluters or enablers of fossil fuel industry

Corp Watch

Blue Gold: The Battle Against Corporate Theft of the World's Water by Maude Barlow, Tony Clarke (2002) For God, Country, and Coca-Cola: The Unauthorized History of the Great American Soft Drink and the Company that Makes It by Mark Pendergrast (1993). The Real Thing: Truth and Power at the Coca-Cola Company by Constance Hays (2004).