Most recent 10 articles: Guardian - Climate Change
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Human-caused heating behind extreme droughts in Syria, Iraq and Iran, study finds - Guardian - Climate Change (Nov 8) |
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Nov 8 · Millions of people’s lives wrecked by droughts that used to happen once every 250 years but now expected once a decade
Extreme droughts that have wrecked the lives of millions of people in Syria, Iraq and Iran since 2020 would not have happened without human-caused global heating, a study has found.
The climate crisis means such long-lasting and severe droughts are no longer rare, the analysis showed. In the Tigris-Euphrates basin, which covers large parts of Syria and Iraq, droughts of this severity happened about once every 250 years before global heating – now they are expected once a decade.
In Iran, extreme drought occurred once every 80 years in the past but ... Read more ...
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Humanity at ‘code red,’ facing climate emergency, scientists warn - Guardian - Climate Change (Oct 02, 2023) |
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Oct 02, 2023 · Life on planet is in peril, say climate experts, as they call for a rapid and just transition to a sustainable future
Earth’s “vital signs” are worse than at any time in human history, an international team of scientists has warned, meaning life on the planet is in peril.
Their report found that 20 of the 35 planetary vital signs they use to track the climate crisis are at record extremes. As well as greenhouse gas emissions, global temperature and sea level rise, the indicators also include human and livestock population numbers.
Many climate records were broken by enormous margins in 2023, including global air temperature, ocean temperature and Antarctic sea ice ... Read more ...
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Wild spring weather swings hurt New York’s fall apple harvest » Yale Climate Connections - Guardian - Climate Change (Oct 02, 2023) |
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Oct 02, 2023 · National union members urge government to create water strategy to prevent such losses
Potato and cereal crops are likely to have been heavily damaged by the recent devastating floods across the UK, farmers have warned.
Entire fields have been submerged in water after Storm Babet swept across the country, with crops ruined. Extreme weather events are becoming more likely and frequent due to climate breakdown, and have caused food shortages and price increases.
The storms have left at least seven people dead and hundreds more homeless after flash floods followed heavy rain. An estimated 1,250 properties in England have been flooded while about 30,000 properties have ... Read more ...
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Greenhouse gas emissions - Guardian - Climate Change (Jul 01, 2023) |
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Jul 01, 2023 · Crossbench senator’s support is crucial if government is to introduce planned revamp of safeguard mechanism
The independent senator David Pocock has urged the Albanese government to quickly implement all recommendations from a review of Australia’s carbon credit system, given that it wants to introduce a climate policy that relies heavily on offsets.
Pocock’s is a key vote if the government is to introduce a planned revamp of the safeguard mechanism, a scheme that is meant to reduce carbon pollution from 215 big polluting industrial and resources sites.
The Canberra senator said he wanted to see the 16 recommendations of the former chief scientist Prof Ian Chubb’s ... Read more ...
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Industrial heavyweights call for urgent action on cutting Australia’s emissions - Guardian - Climate Change (Jul 01, 2023) |
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Jul 01, 2023 · In joint statement companies say they are 'ready to seize opportunity’ of decarbonisation and call on others to join them
Some of Australia’s biggest heavy industrial companies – including BHP, BlueScope, Rio Tinto and Woodside – say urgent action is needed from governments, investors and business for Australia to cut greenhouse gas emissions in line with its goal of limiting global heating to 1.5C.
A joint statement signed by 17 members of the Australian Industry Energy Transitions Initiative follows their support for a report in February that found they could cut direct emissions in their supply chains by more than 90% by 2050 without relying heavily on carbon offsets. Read more ...
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The time for a climate trigger in Australia has hopefully, finally, belatedly come - Guardian - Climate Change (Jul 01, 2023) |
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Jul 01, 2023 · It could be part of the solution to the impasse over the safeguard mechanism. Even if it isn’t, the logic for it should be irresistible
New Orleans was still awash in the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and the then prime minister, John Howard, was in climate doubt and delay mode when Anthony Albanese got to his feet in the Australian parliament to argue for a better way ahead.
Then a mid-ranking opposition frontbencher, the future PM gave a nod to the carnage in Louisiana before running through the “profound risks’’ that Australia would face if greenhouse gas emissions kept rising – a now-familiar list including worsening heatwaves, less rain in the south, more rain in ... Read more ...
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Weather tracker: Shanghai reports record high May temperature of 36.7C - Guardian - Climate Change (Jun 02, 2023) |
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Jun 02, 2023 · Heatwave continues in southern and eastern Asia as temperatures exceed 40C in vast swathes of region
Shanghai in China has reported a record high May temperature of 36.7C, breaking the previous record by 1C. The new high temperature on 29 May comes amid the heatwave affecting southern and eastern Asia since mid-April. Vast swathes of the region have had temperatures exceeding 40C, with parts of Pakistan reaching almost 50C in mid-May.
South-east Asia has been affected particularly badly, with record high national temperatures in Laos (43.5C), Vietnam (44.2C), and Thailand (45.4C). This is due to low amounts of rainfall over the previous winter resulting in drier soils, ... Read more ...
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'Climate negotiations are inherently abusive’: campaigner Brianna Craft on the struggle smaller countries face - Guardian - Climate Change (Jun 02, 2023) |
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Jun 02, 2023 · In her memoir, the Cop delegate draws parallels with her violent childhood home and the imbalance of power in global summits
When Brianna Craft arrived at her first UN climate conference in 2011, she was 24, optimistic and full of hope, believing that the negotiations were where the crisis would be solved.
More than a decade later, her feelings have changed significantly. “Yes, it is the only thing that exists where the poorest countries have a seat at the table,” she says of the annual “conferences of the parties”, or Cops, “but that does not mean it is a good thing, or a right thing, or a just thing”.
Her memoir, Everything That Rises, charts how she came to this ... Read more ...
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Greenhouse gas emissions - Guardian - Climate Change (Jun 02, 2023) |
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Jun 02, 2023 · The central Asian country has the worst rate of climate-heating 'super-emitter’ events in the world
The US is in negotiations with Turkmenistan over an agreement to plug the central Asian nation’s colossal methane leaks.
Turkmenistan was responsible for 184 “super-emitter” events in which the powerful greenhouse gas was released in 2022, the highest number in the world. One caused climate pollution equivalent to the rate of emissions from 67m cars.
US officials hope that some leaks from Turkmenistan’s oil and gas industry could be halted by the start of the UN’s Cop28 climate summit in late November. Success would represent a major achievement in tackling the ... Read more ...
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