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Climate Change Is Intensifying the Water Cycle, New IPCC Report Finds

Circle of Blue

This trend will continue as glacial melting, decreased rainfall, and a “thirstier” atmosphere jeopardize sources of freshwater in some parts of the globe. It finds more evidence that severe weather events are linked to carbon in the atmosphere and are becoming more extreme. Heavy rainfall will also become more common and more powerful.

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The summary for policymakers of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change sixth assessment reports synthesis

Real Climate

The term “fossil fuels”, however, is mentioned 16 times. It’s indeed true that emissions must go down, but we also must explicitly acknowledge that we need to reduce our dependence on coal, oil and gas (“fossil fuels”). Humans work hard to add greenhouse gases such as CO 2 into the atmosphere.

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What’s Up With Water — August 16, 2021

Circle of Blue

It finds more evidence that severe weather events are linked to carbon in the atmosphere and that those weather events are becoming more extreme. The report stated unequivocally, for the first time, that climate change is occurring due to “human influence,” namely the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation.

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Emergency? Part 4

Legal Planet

Methane has a comparatively short life in the atmosphere (about 12 years, as opposed to 100 years or more for CO2) and high potency (84 times stronger than CO2, averaged over 20 years). Next time: ending deforestation. Here’s Part 1 , Part 2 , and Part 3 ). Download as PDF The post Emergency? Part 4 appeared first on Legal Planet.

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2023 confirmed as the warmest year ever recorded

A Greener Life

degrees Celsius warmer than in the 1850-1900 pre-industrial period, when humans began burning fossil fuels on an industrial scale, pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The Copernicus Climate Change Service added, that in 2023 the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere rose to the highest level ever recorded at 419 PPM.

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Space for all: here are some of the huge commercial opportunities away from Earth

Physics World

Weighing just 260 kg each, they will fly in very-low-Earth orbit at heights of roughly 550 km, which means that atmospheric drag will pull them down within a few years so they don’t end up as yet more space junk. Of course, there is an environmental cost to space, with most launches relying on fossil fuels.

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Carbon isn’t bad

HumanNature

Before I make such a controversial claim, let’s get some facts straight… There is far too much carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. On timescales from minutes to millennia, carbon cycles through Earth’s many carbon pools , including sedimentary rocks, plants, soils, oceans, and the atmosphere.