The planet marked an ominous milestone Friday: The first day global warmth crossed a threshold, if only briefly, that climate scientists have warned could have calamitous consequences. That does not mean efforts to limit global warming have failed — yet. Temperatures would have to surpass the 2-degree benchmark for months and years at a time…
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The climate change-fighting tech the Inflation Reduction Act could fund – The Washington Post
The proposed legislation includes tax credits, rule changes and grant dollars to lower carbon emissions and reduce household power bills. It could also have another effect: Making experimental green energy solutions, fantastical ideas that seem stolen from science fiction movies, more appetizing for investors to fund. To the naked eye, direct air capture machines look…
Climate change could cause a mass marine extinction event, study says – The Washington Post
The findings, published in the journal Science, reveal a potential mass extinction looming beneath the waves. The oceans have absorbed a third of the carbon and 90 percent of the excess heat created by humans, but their vast expanse and forbidding depths mean scientists are just beginning to understand what creatures face there. Yet the…
Climate change adaptation puts Patagonian penguins in peril – The Washington Post
The finding that chicks are leaving the nest earlier is from data collected between 1983 and 2017. Boersma and research students regularly checked the nests of banded Magellanic penguins for chicks. Like hospital midwives, they marked the newborns with temporary identifying bands, and then with stainless-steel tags on the outer webbing of the penguins’ feet. They measured the…
Despite Climate Change Fearmongering, Study Shows The Great Barrier Reef Is Growing Quickly
The Great Barrier Reef is experiencing incredible growth — and the media are silent. The Australian government’s most recent official on reef recovery indicates that coral cover at the Northern Great Barrier Reef “continued to increase to 27% from the most recent low point in 2017.” Meanwhile, the Central Great Barrier Reef saw a 26%…
Prince William on space tourism: Let’s stop climate change before looking for new planet – The Washington Post
William, Duke of Cambridge, told the BBC that society needs “the world’s greatest brains and minds fixed on trying to repair this planet,” and not focused on “trying to find the next place to go and live.” His comments come as world leaders and scientists continue to grapple with the climate change emergency and as…
