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Tech giants' net zero goals verging on fantasy: Researchers

Tech giants' net zero goals verging on fantasy: Researchers

Phys.org — The credibility of climate pledges by the world's tech giants to rapidly become carbon neutral is fading fast as they devour more and more energy in the race to develop AI and build data centers, researchers warned Thursday.
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Warning Signs On Climate Flashing Bright Red: Top Scientists

Warning Signs On Climate Flashing Bright Red: Top Scientists

Barron's — From carbon pollution to sea-level rise to global heating, the pace and level of key climate change indicators are all in uncharted territory, more than 60 top scientists warned Thursday.
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Sea level rise expected to accelerate even if warming is limited to 1.5C: Study

Sea level rise expected to accelerate even if warming is limited to 1.5C: Study

Phys.org — Rising seas will severely test humanity's resilience in the second half of the 21st century and beyond, even if nations defy the odds and cap global warming at the ambitious 1.5 degrees Celsius target, researchers said Tuesday.
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Top consultancy undermining climate change fight: whistleblowers

Top consultancy undermining climate change fight: whistleblowers

Al-Monitor — The world's top management consultancy McKinsey & Company is using its position as a key advisor to the UN's COP28 climate talks to push the interests of its big oil and gas clients, undermining efforts to end the use of the fossil fuels driving global warming, according to multiple sources and leaked documents.Behind closed doors, the US-based firm has proposed future energy scenarios to the agenda setters of the summit that are at odds with the climate goals it publicly espouses, an AFP investigation has found.
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Climate impacts set to cut 2050 global GDP by nearly a fifth

Climate impacts set to cut 2050 global GDP by nearly a fifth

Phys.org — Climate change caused by CO2 emissions already in the atmosphere will shrink global GDP in 2050 by about $38 trillion, or almost a fifth, no matter how aggressively humanity cuts carbon pollution, researchers said Wednesday.
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Earth Deep in Danger Zone Beyond Safe Planetary Boundaries, Study Warns

Earth Deep in Danger Zone Beyond Safe Planetary Boundaries, Study Warns

ScienceAlert — Human activity and appetites have weakened Earth's resilience, pushing it far beyond the "safe operating space" that keeps the world liveable for most species, including our own, a landmark study said Wednesday.
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Watching the world burn

Watching the world burn

correspondent.afp.com — As the planet reels from unprecedented heatwaves, floods, wildfires and droughts, you may be feeling a rising sense of unease or even panic. My own "Oh Shit!" moment came in early 2009, two years after I began writing on the science and geopolitics of climate change for Agence France-Presse.
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How the weight of the world fell on one geologist's shoulders

How the weight of the world fell on one geologist's shoulders

Phys.org — In 1981, newly minted palaeobiologist Jan Zalasiewicz assumed he was headed for a discreet career retrieving and deciphering fossils from Earth's deep past.
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Dreaming the impossible dream: the 1.5C climate target

Dreaming the impossible dream: the 1.5C climate target

ednh.news — Paris - In the realm of climate diplomacy, it's the little engine that could, the 80-to-1-odds Kentucky Derby winner, the low-budget multiverse fantasy that came out of nowhere to sweep the Oscars.
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Greenland's ice melted away at least once in last million years

Greenland's ice melted away at least once in last million years

Phys.org — The ice sheet atop Greenland -which holds enough frozen water to swamp coastal cities worldwide-has melted to the ground at least once in the last million years despite CO2 levels far lower than today, stunned scientists have reported.
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Carbon 'capture' climate tech is booming, and confusing

Carbon 'capture' climate tech is booming, and confusing

Al-Monitor — Humanity's failure to draw down planet-heating carbon dioxide emissions -- 41 billion tonnes in 2022 -- has thrust once-marginal options for capping or reducing CO2 in the atmosphere to centre stage in climate policy and investment.Carbon capture and storage (CCS) and direct air capture (DAC) are both complex industrial processes that isolate CO2 but these newly booming technologies are fundamentally different and often conflated.Here's a primer on what they are and how they differ.- What is carbon capture?
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Leaks show McKinsey pushed fossil fuel agenda at Ruto climate meeting in Nairobi

Leaks show McKinsey pushed fossil fuel agenda at Ruto climate meeting in Nairobi

Daily Nation — Documents reveal firm worked behind the scenes to shape agenda of Nairobi gathering.
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S. Arabia backs down from blocking UN climate report: Sources

S. Arabia backs down from blocking UN climate report: Sources

The Jakarta Post — Oil giant Saudi Arabia backed down at the last minute Saturday from obstructing the adoption of a major report by the UN's climate science panel, sources told AFP.
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Global economy must green faster to prevent dire climate impacts

Global economy must green faster to prevent dire climate impacts

Phys.org — Across virtually every sector, the greening of the global economy is unfolding far too slowly to stave off climate catastrophe, according to a sobering report Wednesday from a consortium of research organisations.
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Climate scientists fear tipping points (maybe you should too)

Climate scientists fear tipping points (maybe you should too)

ednh.news — Paris - Leaders may be going into the UN climate summit in Glasgow with the do-or-die goal of limiting global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius, but breaching that cap is not what keeps scientists awake at night. The real disaster scenario begins with the triggering of invisible climate tripwires known as tipping points.
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Warming climate decimates Antarctica's emperor penguin chicks

Warming climate decimates Antarctica's emperor penguin chicks

Le Monde — Around 30% of emperor penguin colonies were affected by sea ice loss in 2022, according to a lead scientist at the British Antarctic Survey.
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Welcome to the Anthropocene, Earth's new chapter

Welcome to the Anthropocene, Earth's new chapter

Phys.org — Since 2009, a cloistered band of hard-rock geologists and other scientists have toiled on a mission of great consequence.
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Climate: Battle lines harden over how to slash CO2

Climate: Battle lines harden over how to slash CO2

EDNH — Banish fossil fuels, capture their emissions, pull CO2 from thin air -- diplomats in Bonn for UN-led climate talks agree there's too much planet-warming CO2 in the atmosphere, but remain at loggerheads on the best way to reduce it
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Ozone layer healing but imperiled by schemes to curb Sun's heat

Ozone layer healing but imperiled by schemes to curb Sun's heat

ScienceAlert — The ozone layer that shields life on Earth from deadly solar radiation is on track to recover within decades, but controversial geoengineering schemes to blunt global warming could reverse that progress, a major scientific assessment warned Monday.
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Climate Economics Nobel May Do More Harm Than Good

Climate Economics Nobel May Do More Harm Than Good

Barron's — There are many reasons humanity has failed to rein in climate change despite decades of dire warnings. The inertia of an energy system overwhelmingly powered by oil, gas and coal; half-a-trillion dollars in fossil fuel subsidies every year; leaders too corrupt or feckless to push for systemic change; rich folk reluctant to consume differently, and poor folk eager to consume more -- all are huge obstacles to slowing, much less stopping, the global warming juggernaut.
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Extinct-in-the-wild species in conservation limbo

Extinct-in-the-wild species in conservation limbo

Al-Monitor — For species classified as "extinct in the wild", the zoos and botanical gardens where their fates hang by a thread are as often anterooms to oblivion as gateways to recovery, new research has shown.Re-wilding what are often single-digit populations faces the same challenges that pushed these species to the cusp of extinction in the first place, including a lack of genetic diversity.
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Coronavirus: who is most at risk of dying?

Coronavirus: who is most at risk of dying?

Medical Xpress — As the number of confirmed coronavirus cases across 61 countries hit 86,000 Saturday with nearly 3,000 deaths to date, the profile of those most at risk of dying is coming into focus, experts told AFP.
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Corn turning French hamsters into deranged cannibals: research

Corn turning French hamsters into deranged cannibals: research

Phys.org — A diet of corn is turning wild hamsters in northeastern France into deranged cannibals that devour their offspring, alarmed researchers have reported.
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No way to run a COP: climate summit host Egypt gets bad marks

No way to run a COP: climate summit host Egypt gets bad marks

Al-Monitor — Almost from the start, Egypt came under fire over its handling of the UN COP27 climate talks tasked with responding to the growing threat of global warming. As the negotiations drew to a close nearly two days late with a historic win for vulnerable countries on funding for climate "loss and damage", exhausted delegates lined up to voice hope -- and frustration at the lack of progress on tackling emissions.
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