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Why Were 2023 and 2024 So Hot?

Union of Concerned Scientists

The year 2023 was by far the warmest in Earths recorded history, and perhaps in the past 100,000 years , shattering the previous record set in 2016 by 0.27C (0.49F). According to recent data from NOAAs National Center for Environmental Information, 2024 is likely to be even warmer than 2023. But why were 2023 and 2024 so warm?

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​​The Science Behind Sea Level Rise: How Past Emissions Will Shape Our Future

Union of Concerned Scientists

One team found that emissions just up until 2016 could lead to approximately 2.33.6 feet of sea level rise by 2300even if no other emissions happened after 2016. A few studies give us insight into the committed sea level rise that can result just from emissions that have already occurred in the past.

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‘Virtually Any City on Earth Can Burn Now’

Inside Climate News

By Kiley Bense The journalist John Vaillants book Fire Weather begins in the spring of 2016 in the boreal forests surrounding the remote Canadian city of Fort McMurray, where a fire is growing. In the superheated 21st century, the old rules for wildfires no longer apply. John Vaillant, author of Fire Weather, explains.

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Amazon Sees Record High Deforestation in First Half of 2022

Yale E360

In the first half of this year, deforestation claimed roughly 1,500 square miles of the Amazon rainforest, an area five times the size of New York City and the greatest loss since at least 2016, according to the Brazilian Space Agency. Read more on E360 ?.

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Associations between per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and county-level cancer incidence between 2016 and 2021 and incident cancer burden attributable to PFAS in drinking water in the United States

Environmental News Bits

Associations between per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and county-level cancer incidence between 2016 and 2021 and incident cancer burden attributable to PFAS in drinking water in the United States. Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology.

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Chesapeake Bay Program Reports Highest Number Of Forest Buffers Planted Across Watershed Since 2016

PA Environment Daily

miles of forest buffers, the highest number of new forest buffers restored since 2016. Partners came closest to reaching the ambitious 900 mile a year goal in 2016 when they planted 676.4 in 2023, the highest number since 2016. miles (about 75% attainment of the goal), but progress lagged in the ensuing years.

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DHL Is Investing $7.5 Billion to Ensure Climate Goals Are Met

Environment + Energy Leader

But it blew past that threshold in 2016, prompting the company to set even more ambitious targets — to reduce all transport-related emissions to zero by 2050. . When DHL first set its GoGreen target in 2007-2008, the goal was to become 30% more efficient by 2020. The post DHL Is Investing $7.5

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