Revved-up climate change now permeates Americans’ daily lives with harm that is “already far-reaching and worsening across every region of the United States,” a massive new government report says. Watch Biden’s remarks in the player above. The National Climate Assessment, which comes out every four to five years, was released Tuesday with details that bring climate change’s impacts…
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Hawaii closes last coal-fired power plant in bid to fight climate change | PBS NewsHour
HONOLULU (AP) — The last bits of ash and greenhouse gases from Hawaii’s only remaining coal-fired power plant slipped into the environment this week when the state’s dirtiest source of electricity burned its final pieces of fuel. The last coal shipment arrived in the islands at the end of July, and the AES Corporation coal…
Global warming: World has 50-50 chance of hitting 1.5C mark soon | DW | 10.05.2022
Global temperatures have a 48% chance of reaching 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels at least once within the next five years, according to new findings from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The 1.5-degree Celsius threshold is the lower limit of warming agreed in the Paris Agreement and exceeding this long-term will lead to potentially irreversible damage,…
