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New UN report projects warming at 3.1C

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The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) recently released its Emissions Gap Report 2023, painting a sobering picture of our global climate trajectory.

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Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is hit with mass bleaching but another coral reef flourishes in Cambodia

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Australia's Great Barrier Reef is hit with mass bleaching but another coral reef flourishes in Cambodia.

Surface air temperature anomaly for 2023 relative to the average for the 1991-2020 reference period. Data source: ERA5. Credit: C3S/ECMWF.

2023 is the hottest year on record

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2023 is the hottest year on record, with global temperatures close to the 1.5°C limit with global average temperature of 14.98°C, 0.17°C higher than 2016, the last warmest year.

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Something is slowing down climate change in the Himalayas

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Something is slowing down climate change in the Himalayas, a good sign for the rivers fed by the glaciers in the region.

Globally averaged surface air temperature anomalies relative to 1991–2020 for each September from 1940 to 2023. Data source: ERA5. Credit: Copernicus Climate Change Service/ECMWF.

2023 on track to be the warmest year on record – September 2023 warmest ever yet

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2023 on track to be the warmest year on record and September 2023 is the warmest ever yet according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service

Eunice Newton Foote's paper on CO2

Fantastic Women Series: Eunice Newton Foote

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Eunice Newton Foote - She was the first one to observe the effect of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in 1856. We know this now as the Greenhouse Effect, the cause of our current global warming.

Sea level rise contributions from the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets, and maps of projected 2150 CE Antarctic ice sheet surface elevation following different greenhouse gas emission scenarios (SSP1-1.9, strong emission cuts; SSP2-4.5, medium emission cuts; SSP5-8.5, weak emission cuts). Credit: Institute for Basic Science, Jun-Young Park

Global sea levels will rise past 1.8°C planetary warming

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A study published in Nature Communications by an international team of scientists shows that an irreversible loss of the West Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets, and a corresponding rapid acceleration...

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Antartica’s only endemic insect might go extinct due to warming

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Antartica's only endemic insect is a Midge and it might go extinct due to warming. A new study says that Belgica antartica may not survive in higher temperatures.

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“Unequivocal” that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land

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The latest IPCC report says that it is Unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land. Urges drastic cutting of emissions

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