Inside Climate News
OCTOBER 30, 2024
By Bob Berwyn The 10 deadliest weather disasters since 2004, including three tropical cyclones, four heatwaves, two floods and a drought, killed at least 570,000 people, and a new study shows how all of them were intensified by global warming, “caused by the burning of oil, gas and coal and deforestation.”
Law Columbia
MARCH 28, 2022
Brazil (on deforestation and human rights) (ADPF 760) and PSB et al. The PPCDAm represents a package of measures and financial directives by the Federal Government to combat deforestation and degradation in the Amazon. Two climate litigation cases are included on the docket on March 30th: PSB et al. Brazill (on Amazon Fund) (ADO 59).
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Real Climate
AUGUST 25, 2023
We have direct AMOC measurements only since 2004, a time span too short for this type of study. For the AMOC (and other climate tipping points ), the only action we can take to minimise the risk is to get out of fossil fuels and stop deforestation as fast as possible. I’ve seen two main arguments there.
Edouard Stenger
MAY 24, 2018
Since that fateful English class in April 2004, a lot has changed and I have spent thousands of hours reading and writing about climate change. Deforestation has to be put to an end and we need to reforest and afforest globally. Humankind just had to stop using coal and natural gas and replace them by solar PV.
Edouard Stenger
MARCH 5, 2018
Pinker was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world in 2004 and his books are regularly featured in the best-selling lists. . See the huge amount of problems of all kinds, deforestation, obesity, diabetes, staggering inequality… We need to concentrate on quality over quantity. Conclusion.
Edouard Stenger
NOVEMBER 13, 2017
To put this in perspective, Kees van der Leun tweeted last month, ” Annual global solar PV market hit the 1 GW mark in 2004. Meanwhile, as WRI reports , Brazil and Indonesia have seen higher levels of deforestation. In 2016, the world added 138.5 GW of renewables to the grids. It crashed the 10 GW barrier in 2010.
Our Environment
MAY 21, 2021
Brazil’s Amazon: Deforestation ‘surges to 12-year high’ Retrieved from [link]. African biomass burning is a substantial source of phosphorus deposition to the Amazon, Tropical Atlantic Ocean, and Southern Ocean. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(33), 16216-16221. Shukman, D.
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