#DennisQuaidWasRight
Another predicted impact of climate change may be here.
— Read on arstechnica.com/science/2021/02/atlantic-currents-seem-to-have-started-fading-last-century/
Month: February 2021
#MathsAreHard
Combined, the 75 new pledges would only achieve a 1% cut in global greenhouse gas pollution by 2030. But to keep the world below 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit), we’ll need a 45% global reduction.
Leading climate scientists are freaking out. That’s a clear takeaway from a new report commissioned by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the body that represents the 197 signatories of the Paris Climate Agreement.
— Read on earther.gizmodo.com/new-un-climate-report-puts-the-world-on-red-alert-for-c-1846363339
Hint: bring extra socks.
This is the grim lesson of paleoclimatology: The planet seems to respond far more aggressively to small provocations than it’s been projected to by many of our models.
— Read on www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/03/extreme-climate-change-history/617793/
The downgrading of Telone’s cancer classification paves the way for the reregistration of the pesticide, a process that happens every 15 years and enables the product to remain in use
— Read on theintercept.com/2021/02/25/epa-cancer-pesticide-telone/
…these processes were more-than-bad-enough before Trump; we’ll be cleaning up messes like this for the foreseeable future. Whee!
Glaciers in Antarctica are turning the concept of “glacial pace” on its head. A new study of a little-observed area on the continent finds that rising heat is making ice streams flow faster, which has worrisome consequences for sea level rise.
— Read on earther.gizmodo.com/a-huge-red-flag-just-popped-up-in-a-little-studied-regi-1846345394