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Oil Executives Privately Contradicted Public Statements on Climate, Files Show - New York Times - Climate Forward (Sep 14, 2022) |
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Sep 14, 2022 · The documents, subpoenaed in a House investigation of climate disinformation, show company leaders contravening industry commitments.
Documents obtained by congressional investigators show that oil industry executives privately downplayed their companies’ own public messages about efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and weakened industry-wide commitments to push for climate policies.
Internal Exxon documents show that the oil giant pressed an industry group, the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative, to remove language from a 2019 policy statement that “could create a potential commitment to advocate on the Paris Agreement goals.” The Paris Agreement is the landmark 2015 ... | By Hiroko Tabuchi Read more ...
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NYTimes: Cloud Wars: Mideast Rivalries Rise Along a New Front - New York Times - Climate Forward (Aug 28, 2022) |
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Aug 28, 2022 · As climate change makes the region hotter and drier, the U.A.E. is leading the effort to squeeze more rain out of the clouds, and other countries are rushing to keep up.
Artificial lakes like this one in Dubai are helping fuel an insatiable demand for water in the United Arab Emirates.Credit...
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Iranian officials have worried for years that other nations have been depriving them of one of their vital water sources. But it was not an upstream dam that they were worrying about, or an aquifer being bled dry.
In 2018, amid a searing drought and rising temperatures, some senior officials concluded that someone was stealing their water ... | By Alissa J. Rubin Read more ...
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NYTimes: Arctic Warming Is Happening Faster Than Described, Analysis Shows - New York Times - Climate Forward (Aug 11, 2022) |
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Aug 11, 2022 · The warming at the top of the globe, a sign of climate change, is happening much faster than previously described compared with the global average, scientists said Thursday.
The rapid warming of the Arctic, a definitive sign of climate change, is occurring even faster than previously described, researchers in Finland said Thursday.
Over the past four decades the region has been heating up four times faster than the global average, not the two to three times that has commonly been reported. And some parts of the region, notably the Barents Sea north of Norway and Russia, are warming up to seven times faster, they said.
One result of rapid Arctic warming is faster ... | By Henry Fountain Read more ...
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NYTimes: It's Been a ‘Summer of Disasters,' and It's Only Half Over - New York Times - Climate Forward (Aug 03, 2022) |
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Aug 03, 2022 · Subscriber-only Newsletter
David Wallace-Wells
Opinion Writer
“We’re naming summer 'Danger Season’ in the U.S.,” wrote Kristy Dahl, the principal climate scientist for the Union of Concerned Scientists, in early June. A couple of days later, at Axios, the climate reporter Andrew Freedman echoed that warning: “America is staring down a summer of disasters.”
The season is now only half over, and the worst months for California fires, which typically provide the most harrowing images of the summer, still lie ahead. But the calendar has already been stuffed with climate disruption, so much so that one disaster often seemed layered over the last, with newspaper ... | By David Wallace-Wells Read more ...
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NYTimes: Heat Waves Around the World Push People and Nations ‘To the Edge' - New York Times - Climate Forward (Jun 24, 2022) |
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Jun 24, 2022 · Millions of Americans are once again in the grips of dangerous heat. Hot air blanketed Europe last weekend, causing parts of France and Spain to feel the way it usually does in July or August. High temperatures scorched northern and central China even as heavy rains caused flooding in the country’s south. Some places in India began experiencing extraordinary heat in March, though the start of the monsoon rains has brought some relief.
It’s too soon to say whether climate change is directly to blame for causing severe heat waves in these four powerhouse economies - which also happen to be the top emitters of heat-trapping gases - at roughly the same time, just days into summer. Read more ...
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NYTimes: Extreme Weather Hits China With Massive Floods and Scorching Heat - New York Times - Climate Forward (Jun 23, 2022) |
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Jun 23, 2022 · HONG KONG - China is grappling with extreme weather emergencies across the country, with the worst flooding in decades submerging houses and cars in the south and record-high heat waves in the northern and central provinces causing roads to buckle.
Water levels in more than a hundred rivers across the country have surged beyond flood warning levels, according to the People’s Daily, the ruling Communist Party’s mouthpiece. The authorities in Guangdong Province on Tuesday raised alerts to the highest level after days of rainfall and floods, closing schools, businesses and public transport in affected areas.
The flooding has disrupted the lives of almost half a million ... Read more ...
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NYTimes: Indoor Farming Is a ‘No-Brainer - New York Times - Climate Forward (Jun 21, 2022) |
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Jun 21, 2022 · Mr. Alexander is the author of “Ten Tomatoes That Changed the World: A History.”
It’s shaping up to be a tough year for agriculture: With record drought gripping the West, farmers in California’s Central Valley are leaving vast tracts of fertile land unplanted. A January cold snap in Florida devastated tomato crops there, leaving the survivors vulnerable to disease. Two months later, an unusually hard freeze in the Carolinas left some farmers with little to no strawberries and blueberries.
Yet neither drought nor frost is ever a concern for the growers of tomatoes, strawberries and other crops currently ripening inside enormous greenhouses, some sprawling across 175 ... | By William Alexander Read more ...
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NYTimes: Why Do We Swallow What Big Oil and the Green Movement Tell Us? - New York Times - Climate Forward (May 17, 2022) |
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May 17, 2022 · It has long been said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. By that definition, we’re the ones detached from reality if we keep accepting what the oil industry and the green movement keep telling us over and over again and expecting a different result.
The greens keep saying that because the price of wind and solar is now as cheap as, or cheaper than, fossil fuels, they’ve won the energy war. Game, set, match - welcome to the green planet.
The oil companies say - as they have in each previous energy crisis since 1973 - that the only answer to this energy crisis is the one they’ve offered for the past ... | By Thomas L. Friedman Read more ...
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California Reveals Its Plan to Phase Out New Gas-Powered Cars by 2035 - The New York Times - New York Times - Climate Forward (Apr 13, 2022) |
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Apr 13, 2022 · If adopted, the new measures would make a dent in the state’s greenhouse gas emissions and set the bar for the broader auto industry.
WASHINGTON - California on Wednesday made public an aggressive plan to mandate a steady increase in the sale of electric and zero-emissions vehicles, the first step in enacting a first-in-the-nation goal of banning new gasoline-powered cars by 2035.
Under the proposed rule, issued by the California Air Resources Board, the state will require 35 percent of new passenger vehicles sold in the state by 2026 to be powered by batteries or hydrogen. Less than a decade later, the state expects 100 percent of all new car sales to be free of the ... | By Lisa Friedman Read more ...
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NYTimes: Putin's War Has Started a Global Food Crisis - New York Times - Climate Forward (Apr 05, 2022) |
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Apr 05, 2022 · Note: Prices as of April 4.
Ms. Menker is the founder of Gro Intelligence, an artificial-intelligence company that forecasts global agricultural markets and the impacts of climate change. Mr. Shah is the president of the Rockefeller Foundation and a former administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development.
The humanitarian disaster produced by Russia’s needless invasion of Ukraine shocks the conscience: 10 million Ukrainians displaced and innumerable Ukrainians killed. But because Ukraine and Russia are both major food exporters, the human toll will grow much larger, far from Ukraine’s borders.
As Ukraine’s farms have turned into battlefields, ... | By Sara Menker and Rajiv Shah Read more ...
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Tree Planting Is Booming. Here’s How That Could Help, or Harm, the Planet. - New York Times - Climate Forward (Mar 14, 2022) |
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Mar 14, 2022 · Reforestation can fight climate change, uplift communities and restore biodiversity. When done badly, though, it can speed extinctions and make nature less resilient.
A tree planted for every T-shirt purchased. For every bottle of wine. For every swipe of a credit card. Trees planted by countries to meet global pledges and by companies to bolster their sustainability records.
As the climate crisis deepens, businesses and consumers are joining nonprofit groups and governments in a global tree planting boom. Last year saw billions of trees planted in scores of countries around the world. These efforts can be a triple win, providing livelihoods, absorbing and locking away ... | By Catrin Einhorn Read more ...
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How Redlining Contributed to Air Pollution Across America - New York Times - Climate Forward (Mar 09, 2022) |
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Mar 09, 2022 · A new study shows how redlining, a Depression-era housing policy, contributed to inequalities that persist decades later in U.S. cities.
Urban neighborhoods that were redlined by federal officials in the 1930s tended to have higher levels of harmful air pollution eight decades later, a new study has found, adding to a body of evidence that reveals how racist policies in the past have contributed to inequalities across the United States today.
In the wake of the Great Depression, when the federal government graded neighborhoods in hundreds of cities for real estate investment, Black and immigrant areas were typically outlined in red on maps to denote risky places to lend. ... | By Raymond Zhong and Nadja Popovich Read more ...
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Amazon Rainforest May Be Approaching a Critical Tipping Point, Study Finds - New York Times - Climate Forward (Mar 07, 2022) |
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Mar 07, 2022 · The region is nearing a threshold beyond which its forests may be replaced by grasslands, with huge repercussions for biodiversity and climate change.
The Amazon is losing its ability to recover from disturbances like droughts and land-use changes, scientists reported Monday, adding to concern that the rainforest is approaching a critical threshold beyond which much of it will be replaced by grassland, with vast consequences for biodiversity and climate change.
The scientists said their research did not pinpoint when this threshold, which they described as a tipping point, might be reached.
“But it’s worth reminding ourselves that if it gets to that tipping point, ... | By Henry Fountain Read more ...
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The New York Times Climate Newsletter - New York Times - Climate Forward (Mar 01, 2022) |
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Mar 01, 2022 · There’s the world as it is. And then there’s the world as it could be.
This newsletter will be about both.
This week, there’s a BIG thing that matters. It’s the long-awaited report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It shows us the world as it is: already hotter than a century ago. It implores us to adapt, and adapt quickly, so that the future is livable, maybe even a little better.
The panel’s report was prepared by 270 scientists from 67 countries. It draws on thousands of scientific studies. It’s exhaustive. My colleagues, Brad Plumer, Raymond Zhong and Lisa Friedman wrote about the assessment.
How does it matter to our lives right ... | By Somini Sengupta Read more ...
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U.S. Oil Industry Uses Ukraine Invasion to Push for More Drilling at Home - New York Times - Climate Forward (Feb 26, 2022) |
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Feb 26, 2022 · The goal is “energy security,” lobbyists said, although clean-energy advocates counter that wind and solar provide more protection from boom-and-bust oil markets.
Russian troops hadn’t yet begun their full-on assault on Ukraine late Wednesday when the rallying cry came from the American oil and gas industry.
“As crisis looms in Ukraine, U.S. energy leadership is more important than ever,” the American Petroleum Institute, the powerful industry lobby group, wrote on Twitter with a photo that read: “Let’s unleash American energy. Protect our energy security.”
The crux of the industry’s argument is that any effort to restrain drilling in America makes a world already ... | By Hiroko Tabuchi Read more ...
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Sale of Leases for Wind Farms Off New York Raises More Than $4 Billion - New York Times - Climate Forward (Feb 25, 2022) |
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Feb 25, 2022 · The auctioned areas are expected to generate enough power for nearly 2 million homes once turbines are built.
WASHINGTON - The United States government netted a record $4.37 billion on Friday from the sale of six offshore wind leases off the coasts of New York and New Jersey, a major step in the Biden administration’s goal of ushering in a future powered by renewable energy.
The auction, of more than 488,000 acres in the Atlantic Ocean between Cape May, N.J., and Montauk Point, N.Y., was the Biden administration’s first offshore lease sale.
When turbines are built and start working, the auctioned acres are expected to generate up to 7,000 megawatts, enough to power ... | By Lisa Friedman Read more ...
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A Top A.F.L.-C.I.O. Official Joins Greenpeace USA - New York Times - Climate Forward (Feb 24, 2022) |
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Feb 24, 2022 · The move by Tefere Gebre, the No. 3 official at the A.F.L.-C.I.O., highlights what many labor and environmental officials say is a need to cooperate.
Signaling the growing importance of ties between labor and environmental organizers on climate change, the A.F.L.-C.I.O.’s third-ranking official has announced that he was leaving to join Greenpeace USA.
The official, Tefere Gebre, the labor federation’s executive vice president, will become chief program officer for the environmental group on Tuesday. He will oversee all of Greenpeace USA’s campaigns, communications, direct action and organizing and report to the group’s co-executive directors.
“I’m not leaving the ... | By Noam Scheiber Read more ...
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Using Science and Celtic Wisdom to Save Trees (and Souls) - New York Times - Climate Forward (Feb 24, 2022) |
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Feb 24, 2022 · Diana Beresford-Kroeger, a botanist and author, has created a forest with tree species handpicked for their ability to withstand a warming planet.
Diana Beresford-Kroeger at her home in Ontario. “If you build back the forests, you oxygenate the atmosphere more, and it buys us time,” she said.Credit...Nasuna Stuart-Ulin for The New York Times
MERRICKVILLE, Ontario - There aren’t many scientists raised in the ways of druids by Celtic medicine women, but there is at least one. She lives in the woods of Canada, in a forest she helped grow. From there, wielding just a pencil, she has been working to save some of the oldest life-forms on Earth by bewitching its ... | By Cara Buckley Read more ...
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Climate Change Could Increase Risk of Wildfires 50% by Century's End - New York Times - Climate Forward (Feb 23, 2022) |
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Feb 23, 2022 · Worsening heat and dryness could lead to a 50 percent rise in off-the-charts fires, according to a United Nations report.
A landmark United Nations report has concluded that the risk of devastating wildfires around the world will surge in coming decades as climate change further intensifies what the report described as a “global wildfire crisis.”
The scientific assessment is the first by the organization’s environmental authority to evaluate wildfire risks worldwide. It was inspired by a string of deadly blazes around the globe in recent years, burning the American West, vast stretches of Australia and even the Arctic.
The images from those fires - cities glowing ... | By Raymond Zhong Read more ...
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Sea Ice Around Antarctica Reaches a Record Low - New York Times - Climate Forward (Feb 23, 2022) |
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Feb 23, 2022 · The drop surprised scientists, and may help them understand more about climate change affecting Antarctica and its waters.
Sea ice around Antarctica has reached a record low in four decades of observations, a new analysis of satellite images shows.
As of Tuesday, ice covered 750,000 square miles around the Antarctic coast, below the previous record low of 815,000 square miles in early March 2017, according to the analysis by the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo.
“It’s really unprecedented,” said Marilyn N. Raphael, a professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles, who studies Antarctic sea ice. Warmer ocean temperatures may ... | By Henry Fountain Read more ...
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