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Why the COP28 Climate Pact Likely Won’t Cut It – Mother Jones
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Climate negotiators meeting in Dubai last month pledged to chart a course for stabilizing the climate system using good science. But many scientists say these promises are at best ill-defined and at worst a travesty of good science—vague and full of loopholes.
The UN climate conference in Dubai agreed on an action plan for two key objectives: to keep the world
24 Climate Predictions for 2024 – Mother Jones
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Last year, climate change came into sharp relief for much of the world: The planet experienced its hottest 12-month period in 125,000 years. Flooding events inundated communities from California to East Africa to India. A heat wave in South America caused temperatures to spike above 100 degrees Fahrenheit in the middle of winter, and a heat dome across much of
How electricity could help tackle a surprising climate villain
Cement hides in plain sight—it’s used to build everything from roads and buildings to dams and basement floors. But there’s a climate threat lurking in those ubiquitous gray slabs. Cement production accounts for more than 7% of global carbon dioxide emissions—more than sectors like aviation, shipping, or landfills.
Humans have been making cement, in one form or another, for thousands of years. Ancient Romans used volcanic ash, crushed lime, and seawater to build the aqueducts and iconic structures like the … Read more
Top 10 Terms That Capture the Climate in 2023 – Mother Jones
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To say that 2023 is one for the record books is a vast understatement—the year was so out of the norm that you’re forced to go back at least 125,000 years for a point of reference. The last time anyone experienced a year as warm as this one, mastodons and giant sloths roamed across North America during the beginning of
The Wildfire Survivors Who Didn’t Want to Be Climate Models
Everyone says Lytton was a beautiful place to live. The small Canadian town sits at the confluence of two rivers and was built on one of the oldest continuously inhabited areas in North America—the Nlaka’pamux people have called it home for more than 10,000 years. About 250 people lived in the Lytton of the recent past, on a few cross streets and several dozen lots—you could take it in all in one breath. One blistering June evening in 2021, a
The UN Climate Conference Finally Names the Culprit, Fossil Fuels—but Is It Enough?
The Climate Villain You’ve Probably Never Thought About – Mother Jones
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The elephants are gone. The trees are logged out. The Beng Per Wildlife Sanctuary in central Cambodia is largely destroyed, after being handed over by the government to a politically well-connected local plantation company to grow rubber.
In West Africa, the Luxembourg-based plantations giant Socfin has been accused in recent weeks of deforestation and displacing Indigenous people around its rubber plantations in
UN Climate Summit “on the Verge of Complete Failure” – Mother Jones
Al Gore at the COP28 climate summit.Kamran Jebreili/AP
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The United Nations climate summit in Dubai promises no shortage of drama in its final days—in part because negotiations over whether or not to phase out global fossil fuel use appear to have collapsed. One major goal of this year’s conference, known as COP28, is a “global stocktake” documenting the world’s climate progress
Climate change made 2023 the hottest year on record
This year didn’t just shatter records. It changed the scales.
Graph after graph tracking this year’s soaring global temperatures reveal that not only were the numbers higher than ever recorded in many places around the world, but the deviation from the norm was also astonishingly large.
“The margins by which records are being broken this year have surprised not just me but [other climate scientists] that I trust, even my very unalarmist friends,” says Doug McNeall of the U.K. Met
World Leaders Plot Ways To Destroy Civilization At Climate Summit
It’s common knowledge at this point that pretty much every prediction ever made by climate activists has turned out to be completely false. But, for the most part, all along, there’s one thing these activists have been smart enough to do. They’ve typically made predictions that were pretty far out into the future. They didn’t say anything that could be proven wrong within a couple of months. They knew enough to create some distance between their prediction, and the day