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Climate change science: breaking news, trends and impacts. A project of Resource Media (http://t.co/acbWutH68H).
San Francisco, CA, USA
Joined June 2009
“These temperatures are not just statistics but have names and stories. The planet has a fever and that’s its symptom.” https://t.co/gGpC3Wc7MR?
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Report: Temperatures in the #Arctic remained near record highs in 2019, leading to low summer sea ice, cascading impacts on the regional food web and growing concerns over #sealevelrise. #climatecrisis
nytimes.com
It was another very warm year in the region, leading to low winter sea ice and growing concerns over sea level rise.
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“Climate silence” is hampering our ability to take the steps needed to keep global warming in check at a time when calls from scientists are becoming increasingly urgent. #climatecrisis
csmonitor.com
Disagreement on climate change can often stifle conversation. Must the discussion stop when we start butting heads?
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“With every degree of warming, a child born today faces a future where their health and well-being will be increasingly impacted by the realities and dangers of a warmer world.” #climatecrisis
nytimes.com
A study from the Lancet points to infectious diseases, worsening air pollution, rising temperatures and even malnutrition as threats to child health as the climate changes.
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#Climate and weather-related events have directly cost the US more than $500 billion over the past five years.
markets.businessinsider.com
Global warming is expected to severely disrupt business operations and economic activity in the coming years.
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More than 1,000 Google employees are calling on Google to produce zero #climate emissions by 2030, and stop funding climate denial organizations. https://t.co/JTpeDGBrNE
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U.S. readers - will your state lose its state bird to the #climate crisis?
nytimes.com
New research shows that hundreds of North American birds are at risk of major habitat disruption from climate change.
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Global heating made Hurricane #Dorian bigger, wetter – and more deadly. "We know that warm waters fuel hurricanes, and Dorian was strengthened by waters well above average temperatures" #climate
theguardian.com
We know that warm waters fuel hurricanes, and Dorian was strengthened by waters well above average temperatures
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The images acquired by the radar on board #Sentinel1 🇪🇺🛰️ over #AbacoIsland in the #Bahamas show the mind-boggling magnitude of the storm surge as a result of #HurricaneDorian
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Cooling without AC: From ancient building designs that have been tried and tested over 7,000 years, to cutting-edge technologies, it is possible to create buildings that stay cool with virtually no energy requirements at all.
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#Climate skeptics and deniers have often accused scientists of exaggerating the threat of climate change, but the evidence shows that not only have they not exaggerated, they have underestimated. https://t.co/Rq78NTzgia
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July was the hottest month measured on Earth since records began in 1880, the latest in a long line of peaks that backs up predictions for man-made #climate change.
apnews.com
BERLIN (AP) — July was the hottest month measured on Earth since records began in 1880, the latest in a long line of peaks that scientists say backs up predictions for man-made climate change.
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Ag can be a big part of the solution to climate change here in the US. Want to know how? We've got you https://t.co/OnunMxlbVP
#IPCC #SRCCL #agriculture
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The world’s land and water resources are being exploited at “unprecedented rates,” a new United Nations report warns, which combined with #climate change is putting dire pressure on the ability of humanity to feed itself. https://t.co/yKAwqiTtEv
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Pockets in several U.S. states — and across the globe — are draining their limited #water supplies, and the #climate crisis is making it worse. https://t.co/koufc4AP3H
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A quarter of humanity faces looming water crises - in part due to the #climate crisis. https://t.co/g2wgeF3s59
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In the midst of a dangerous heatwave across much of the northern hemisphere, this news: June 2019 was hottest on record for the globe. #climatechange #climatecrisis
https://t.co/omFpZVhndU
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With global population hurtling toward 10 billion people, farms will have to quickly & efficiently increase output—or risk wiping out the world's forests, driving thousands of species extinct & blowing past global #climate goals.
insideclimatenews.org
To feed a global population that’s hurtling toward 10 billion people, the world’s farms will have to increase output faster and more efficiently than at any point in history—or risk wiping out the...
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New study finds #California wildfires are driven by climate change.“Each degree of warming causes way more fire than the previous degree of warming did. And that’s a really big deal.”
theatlantic.com
“Each degree of warming causes way more fire than the previous degree of warming did. And that’s a really big deal.”
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The combined forces of #climate change, conflict and economic stagnation are driving more people around the world into hunger, reversing earlier progress, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization reported Monday.
insideclimatenews.org
The combined forces of climate change, conflict and economic stagnation are driving more people around the world into hunger, reversing earlier progress, the United Nations Food and Agriculture...
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