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Tropical storms in the Gulf of Mexico are 50 percent more likely to undergo rapid intensification during marine heat waves, or periods of hot sea surface temperatures.

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What we actually need to be doing is deciding on which 2/3 of proved deposits we're going to be leaving in the ground, not rushing to extract even more.

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Helene was the second major hurricane (Cat 3 or higher) of the 2024 season. Record-setting Hurricane Beryl preceded it as the earliest-forming Category 5 hurricane in the Atlantic basin’s history. Beryl became a major hurricane in the month of June east of the Lesser Antilles, the first time that’s ever happened during the first month of hurricane season since record-keeping began in 1851.

Maybe EVs are not a comprehensive climate solution??

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The Manufacturer's Accountability Project is ubiquitous fighting cities' and states' suits against oil companies. Now, it's clear they're being funded directly by at least one of those companies.

The justices have spent the last few years invalidating environmental protections and handcuffing federal regulators. There’s more in store this term.

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I'll note that their definition of harms includes a lot of things besides just greenhouse gas emissions and climate impact. Full paper here

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They're pretty transparently using this to get funding for what are basically run as PR moves, rather than a serious attempt to limit greenhouse gas emissions — that entails leaving more than half the proved reserves of oil in the ground.

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Humanity has missed its chance of keeping global warming below 1.5C and it will take “heroic efforts” to stay below 2C this century, the scientist leading the global effort to understand climate change has warned.

EU Petition for taxing the rich and using the money for fighting climate change

Consumer pocketbooks are taking the heat. Climate change is no longer a theoretical issue that will happen at some distant point in the future, like 2050 or 2100. Already, unprecedented climate change is happening on a regular basis and clobbering the American capitalistic system via consumer pocketbooks. People can’t afford ordinary life. They’re priced out of the market. Everything is getting more expensive by the year, every year.

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Rescue teams are searching for survivors after flash floods and landslides hit parts of Bosnia, killing at least 16 people and injuring dozens more.

The paper is here

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This appears to be aimed at subsidizing the construction of a gas-burning power plant, rather than achieving a reduction in net CO2 emissions

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“Through a sort of grating irony,” writes Charif Majdalani, Lebanon “remains a sort of model but in the negative sense of the term, because it concentrates in itself all the problems of the contemporary world.” Will it someday regain its role as a positive model?

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The patterns of Earth’s high winds have surprisingly widespread effects on life on the ground. A recent study in the journal Nature shows that when the summer jet stream over Europe veers north or south of its usual path, it brings weather extremes that can exacerbate epidemics, ruin crop harvests, and feed wildfires.

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"This should be the final nail in the coffin for the false narrative that LNG was somehow a climate solution”

Two environmental activists who glued themselves to a J.M.W. Turner painting at Manchester Art Gallery in July 2022 were acquitted today in a Manchester court. The pair affixed themselves to the frame of Tomson’s Aeolian Harp (1809) by Turner and sprayed “No New Oil” and the Just Stop Oil logo on the floor with chalk...

Lake Superior is known for its pristine waters, but a combination of nutrient additions from increasing human activity (including farming and development), warming temperatures and stormy conditions have resulted in more frequent blooms of potentially harmful algae...

Wildfires are burning through the carbon budget that humans have allocated themselves to limit global heating, a study shows.

"A warming world combined with deforestation has made for a dire drought situation in Brazil. Latin America's largest country is enduring its most intense and widespread drought in history.

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Climate change is making outdoor sport harder

A research group at the Finnish Museum of Natural History is investigating the adaptive potential of plant species amid a warming climate. Their recent study investigates the Siberian primrose, a plant species that occurs on the coasts of the Bothnian Bay and Arctic Ocean. Climate change is threatening the viability of the species...

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