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Bankrolling the Burn: Why Climate Scientists are Taking on Fossil Fuel Financiers

Union of Concerned Scientists

Here are some key points emerging from last week’s event and UCS’s analysis, demonstrating why we must keep up the pressure on Citi and other Big Banks to do better when it comes to climate change and environmental justice: Citi continues to finance more fossil fuels than low-carbon energy projects and companies In 2021, Dr. Fatih Birol, head of the (..)

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The Stream, August 11, 2021: Piazza San Marco Underwater In Rare Summer Flood

Circle of Blue

Heat waves aren’t just uncomfortable, they’re also deadly to humans, and to animals.” – Nerilie Abram, a climate scientists at Australian National University. The post The Stream, August 11, 2021: Piazza San Marco Underwater In Rare Summer Flood appeared first on Circle of Blue.

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Winners of 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics built mathematics of climate modeling, making predictions of global warming and modern weather forecasting possible

Environmental News Bits

by David Randall (Colorado State University) As a climate scientist myself, I was excited to learn that Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi have been awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize for Physics.

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A science-based move to climate change adaptation

Real Climate

Climate change adaptation was addressed in the Paris Agreement from 2015, the Climate Adaptation Summit in January 2021 , and will be one of four key priorities during the upcoming COP26. However, I would argue that the climate research community has not had a visible presence during any of these meetings.

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Physicists rise to the climate challenge: the October 2021 issue of Physics World

Physics World

Thankfully, plenty of physicists are already doing their bit to tackle the climate crisis, as we report in the October issue of Physics World magazine. The cover feature by James Dacey includes interviews with many of the climate scientists speaking at IOP Publishing’s forthcoming Environmental Research 2021 online conference.

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The Stream, August 12, 2021: Major Rivers in India Are Rising To Dangerous Levels

Circle of Blue

Climate Change Is Intensifying the Water Cycle, New IPCC Report Finds – The climate crisis will jeopardize key sources of fresh water and make extreme weather events more severe. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of the world’s leading climate scientists, released its sixth climate assessment on Monday.

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As its Lone Climate Scientist Board Member Departs, ExxonMobil Still Heads in the Wrong Direction

Union of Concerned Scientists

There has been comparatively less attention to the decision by climate scientist Dr. Susan Avery not to seek re-election to the ExxonMobil board of directors. Yet this shift in corporate leadership is significant, marking the end of a chapter in ExxonMobil’s long and ongoing history of climate deception and disinformation.