Evidence shows 2°C ocean warming is enough to destabilize Antarctica
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- Written by Envisionation Envisionation
- Published: 17 February 2020 17 February 2020
A melting of the Antarctic ice sheets would have far-reaching consequences for sea-level rise and coastal regions around the world. Based on new data from the Antarctic ice, an international team of scientists now reveals how the ice sheet reacted to rising temperatures in the past. Published in the US Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, their study using data from a blue ice field shows for the first time that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet already proved to be quite unstable during the last warm period 120,000 years ago. The Eemian warm period was the last phase of climate history with global temperatures similar to those that the world is heading towards due to manmade global warming in the coming decades.
Buildings can become a global CO2 sink if made out of wood instead of cement and steel
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- Written by Envisionation Envisionation
- Published: 27 January 2020 27 January 2020
A material revolution replacing cement and steel in urban construction by wood can have double benefits for climate stabilization, a new study shows. First, it can avoid greenhouse gas emissions from cement and steel production. Second, it can turn buildings into a carbon sink as they store the CO2 taken up from the air by trees that are harvested and used as engineered timber. However while the required amount of timber harvest is available in theory, such an upscaling would clearly need the most careful, sustainable forest management and governance, the international team of authors stresses.
XR's Rupert Read in Davos: "The mother of all protests" in 2020
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- Written by Nick Breeze (@NickGBreeze) Nick Breeze (@NickGBreeze)
- Published: 23 January 2020 23 January 2020
The World Economic Forum (WEF) is the first of the big global conferences of 2020 that will lead us to COP26 in Glasgow where governments will be under enormous pressure to agree safe and realistic action for the future. With Extinction Rebellion (XR) and other protest groups converging in the Swiss alpine town of Davos, I asked their leading spokesperson, Rupert Read, whether the tone being set here is encouraging:
The Journey To COP26 - Glasgow - Starts Now
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- Written by Nick Breeze Nick Breeze
- Published: 16 January 2020 16 January 2020
The UK is readying itself for the presidency of the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26), to be held in Glasgow in November 2020. In the wake of the failure of COP25, a British presidency must bring to bear its accumulated powers in diplomacy, persuasion, purpose, and determination, to recreate trust in the Paris accord, kickstarting a new decade of meaningful achievements on safeguarding our collective future.
Interview with Jackie Bond: Extinction Rebellion... radical climate action... 'of course I wanted to join'
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- Written by Nick Breeze (@NickGBreeze) Nick Breeze (@NickGBreeze)
- Published: 04 January 2020 04 January 2020
Seeing the extent of environmental destruction in 2015, Jackie Bond started volunteering for the Green Party in Southwark, SE London. In the last year, aside for standing for the Greens in Vauxhall and doubled their share of the vote, she has worked extensively with Extinction Rebellion, organising civil actions in pursuit of radical climate action. In this interview with Nick Breeze, Jackie discusses how she got involved in XR, why we need to put the climate crisis at the centre of policymaking, and her strategy for creating change in the UK.
Interview: James Hansen on negative emissions & the baby boomer issue
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- Written by Nick Breeze (@NickGBreeze) Nick Breeze (@NickGBreeze)
- Published: 31 December 2019 31 December 2019
Longstanding climate change siren, Professor James Hansen talks to Nick Breeze about negative emissions technologies NET's, accelerating emissions, the need for international and intergenerational cooperations. Is he optimistic?
Decontaminating soils in 9000km2 around Fukishima
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- Written by EGU Press EGU Press
- Published: 23 December 2019 23 December 2019
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Following the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in March 2011, the Japanese authorities decided to carry out major decontamination works in the affected area, which covers more than 9,000 km2.
Greta Thunberg press Conference at the UN: I will share my platform
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- Written by Nick Breeze - @NickGBreeze Nick Breeze - @NickGBreeze
- Published: 09 December 2019 09 December 2019
UN Reports: To hit 1.5ºC Paris Agreement we must cut global emissions by 7.6% per year
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- Written by UNEP REPORT UNEP REPORT
- Published: 26 November 2019 26 November 2019
On current unconditional pledges, the world is heading for a 3.2°C temperature rise - this is a disaster scenario for human civilisation and especially for the world's most vulnerable people. It is also a disaster for natural ecosystems and wildlife habitats.
Technologies and policy knowledge exist to cut emissions, but the transformation must begin now - the last decade has been wasted by empty rhetoric and regressive politicians taking us back to the last century.
British Museum Faces Continued Pressure To Drop Dirty Oil Money As BP-Sponsored High-Profile ‘Troy’ Event Blockaded
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- Written by London Reporter London Reporter
- Published: 21 November 2019 21 November 2019
- Performers refuse to leave British Museum and occupy entrances to BP-sponsored ‘Troy’ exhibition, forcing VIP launch event to be relocated
- Activists transform themselves into Troy-inspired “living statues” and cover themselves in oil as part of eye-catching protest against BP sponsorship
- BP staff and museum management among those confronted by activist action, with museum trustee forced to defend partnership
British Museum’s Glitzy Big Oil Backed Event Relocated Due To Climate Change Action
European Investment Bank Drops Funding For Coal & Oil companies as climate change emergency intensifies
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- Written by Nick Breeze Twitter @NickGBreeze Nick Breeze Twitter @NickGBreeze
- Published: 17 November 2019 17 November 2019
As climate change becomes more real in every part of our planet, whether it be forest fires in Australia, California, Europe and elsewhere, floods across the North of England or India and Bangladesh, the act to abandon fossil fuels is critical to effectively responding to the climate change crisis.
National Galleries Scotland Drops BP Sponsorship To Align With Climate Generation
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- Written by Social Reporter Social Reporter
- Published: 11 November 2019 11 November 2019
Protests by Edinburgh-based ‘BP or not BP? Scotland’ group in previous years have finally borne fruit as oil giant is booted
NEW REPORT: Over 75% of countries failing on Paris Agreement commitments
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- Written by New Report New Report
- Published: 05 November 2019 05 November 2019
NEW REPORT: "The comprehensive examination found that with few exceptions, the pledges of rich, middle income and poor nations are insufficient to address climate change," says Sir Robert Watson, former chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and co-author of the report. "Simply, the pledges are far too little, too late."