COP29 climate talks must deliver new finance package to match scale of climate catastrophe
BAKU, Monday 11 November 2024 — The United Nations COP29 climate summit kicks off today in Baku, Azerbaijan (11-22 November), with negotiations aiming to set a crucial new finance deal and to boost national climate commitments. This year’s talks are critical as countries must agree on a new climate finance package or New Collective Quantified […]
Fact brief – Is there an expert consensus on human-caused global warming?
Fact brief – Is there an expert consensus on human-caused global warming? Posted on 9 November 2024 by Guest Author Skeptical Science is partnering with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. This fact brief was written by Sue Bin Park from the Gigafact team in collaboration with members from our […]
Human-caused ocean warming intensified recent hurricanes, including all 11 Atlantic hurricanes in 2024 » Yale Climate Connections
Human-caused climate change boosted the wind speeds of recent Atlantic hurricanes, making them more damaging and costly, according to a pair of scientific reports released today. Research published in the journal Environmental Research: Climate, “Human-caused ocean warming has intensified recent hurricanes,” found that between 2019 and 2023, the maximum sustained winds of Atlantic hurricanes were 19 […]
A Paradigm Shift in Our Environmental Perspective – Climate Generation
“It’s so frustrating, I’m done,” one of my closest friends told me, walking out of her classroom. She explained to me that she planned to switch out of her AP Environmental Science course. It shocked me. She had her own garden and even sold some of her vegetables to promote local agriculture; I didn’t know […]
Coles urged to beef up deforestation policies at AGM
MELBOURNE, Tuesday 12 November 2024 — More than 60 people from some of Australia’s biggest environmental organisations have protested at a pop-up ‘deforestation zone’ outside the Coles annual general meeting in Melbourne, demanding the supermarket giant publicly commit to ending deforestation in its supply chain. Joined by executives of the Wilderness Society, Greenpeace Australia Pacific […]
2024 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #45
Latest Posts Archives 2024 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #45 Posted on 10 November 2024 by BaerbelW, Doug Bostrom, John Hartz A listing of 33 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, November 3, 2024 thru Sat, November 9, 2024. Summary […]
The first all-electric conference center in the U.S. opens in Ithaca, New York » Yale Climate Connections
In July, the country’s first all-electric conference center opened in the city of Ithaca, New York. The 15,000-square-foot facility uses electric heat pumps for heating and cooling. And its chefs serve meals for up to 800 people using electric induction ranges and electric fryers and ovens. Jablonski: “One of the cornerstones of the electrification of […]
The Different Paths to COP29 – Climate Generation
When boarding the last plane, almost everyone in the line held the same items. A backpack stuffed to the brim, a reusable water bottle, and some sort of camera. This was just one of the context clues, alongside environmental chatter, that made me realize the majority of the passengers were also on their way to […]
‘Final nail in the coffin’: No new coal announcement must be backed by end to exports
BAKU, Wednesday 20 November 2024 — In response to Minister Chris Bowen’s announcement from COP29 today that Australia will join the Call to Action for no new coal from the Powering Past Coal Alliance, the following quotes can be attributed to Dr Susie Byers, Head of Advocacy at Greenpeace Australia Pacific: “Greenpeace notes Minister Bowen’s […]
2024 will be the first year above 1.5°C
2024 will be the first year above 1.5°C Posted on 11 November 2024 by Zeke Hausfather This is a re-post from The Climate Brink, and an excerpt from a much more detailed State of the Climate Q3 2024 report that I published over at Carbon Brief today. See that for more details on climate model/observation comparisons, sea ice extent, […]