Tag: Fossil fuels
How a modern warning system was overwhelmed – POLITICO
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The first warnings of a major flood came four days before the rain.
The notifications were increasingly urgent, landing in the inboxes of government officials across Germany and Belgium. They described alarming scenarios: once-in-a-generation floods, extreme danger.
The alerts came from scientists working on the European Flood Awareness System (EFAS) who had seen satellite forecasts showing the Rhine and Meuse river basins would be hit by a massive dump of rain for two
How climate change will widen Europe’s divides – POLITICO
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This is the first chapter in The Road to COP26 series.
Climate change isn’t just coming for Europe. It’s coming for the European Union.
Europe’s north will struggle with floods and fires, even with warming at the lowest end of expectations — the Paris Agreement limits of 1.5 or 2 degrees above the pre-industrial global average. But the south will be hammered by drought, urban heat and agricultural decline, driving a wedge
Big Oil and Gas Kept a Dirty Secret for Decades. Now They May Pay the Price.
This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration co-founded by The Nation and Columbia Journalism Review to strengthen coverage of the climate emergency.
After a century of wielding extraordinary economic and political power, America’s petroleum giants face a reckoning for driving the greatest existential threat of our lifetimes.
An unprecedented wave of lawsuits filed