Mostly humbug: COP 26 failing to be of much use
Matt McGrath – 25/01/2022 on BBC News
Climate change: ‘Fragile win’ at COP26 summit under threat
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Growing climate emergency: extreme floods warning for East Asia
David Nield – 23/01/2022 in Science Alert
Climate Change Could Open Up ‘Rivers in The Sky’ Over East Asia
Sourced from: Carnae et al. – 01/12/2021 in Geophysical Research Letters
Atmospheric Rivers Bring More Frequent and Intense Extreme Rainfall Events Over East Asia Under Global Warming
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Sovereign wealth funds must ditch fossil fuel assets or there will be no wealth left
Akmal Nartayev – 29/11/2021 in Development Asia
What’s in Store for Sovereign Wealth Funds in the Post-COP26 Era?
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Midwinter wildfire on California’s Redwood Coast highlights climate emergency
Luz Pena – 23/01/2022 on ABC7 Bay Area
‘Risk is real now’: Climate expert says California may see more unusual winter wildfires
See also: Priya Shukla – 24/01/2022 in Forbes
California Saw ‘Surreal’ Winter Wildfires Over The Weekend
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Coal assets face rapid stranding from green tech
New technologies dispatching power from sustainable long-term storage threaten to put coal-based dispatchable power stations out of business
By Alan Kohler, 24/01/2022 in the Newdaily
Long-duration energy storage systems are writing coal’s death certificate
Australia is sprinting towards 100 per cent renewable energy, 24/7, 365 days a year, but very few are ready for it, least of all the coal industry and its subsidiary, the Morrison government.
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GHG emissions driving towards global mass extinction
In the last 150 years, greenhouse gases have spiked to never before seen levels. Global masss extinction will result if these are not reversed,.
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Western Australia’s NB4 heatwave threatens even worse for the future as the world continues to warm
Peter Hannam – 21/01/2022 in the Guardian
Record-breaking Western Australia heatwave has days to run before it moves east
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Based on their policy differences the party you elect to govern may profoundly affect your live — or even your future survival
Thom Woodroofe – 21/01/2022 in the Guardian
Make no mistake – Labor and the Coalition have starkly different climate policies
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We shouldn’t forget – Antarctic ice is also melting
Zach Labe is always a good source of graphics summarizing collections of data on our changing climate Here he shows the melting of sea ice around Antarctica. The horizontal line shows the average extent of sea ice over the era of satellite measurements (beginning in 1978). The red line shows how much smaller extent of sea ice this January so far.
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Looming crisis from developing shutdown of Gulf stream
Amanda Oglesby – 20/01/2022 in App.
Gulf Stream is the weakest in 1,000 years; that could drive more Jersey Shore flooding
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