Temperature spike: Earth ties record high heat May reading
Earth's temperature spiked to tie a record high for May, U.S. meteorologists reported Friday.
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Beyond net-zero: We should, if we can, cool the planet back to pre-industrial levels
The world's focus is sharply fixed on achieving net-zero emissions, yet surprisingly little thought has been given to what comes afterwards. In our new paper, published today in Nature Climate Change, we discuss the big unknowns ...
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Aug 12, 2022
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Pacific trade winds stall global surface warming—for now
Heat stored in the western Pacific Ocean caused by an unprecedented strengthening of the equatorial trade winds appears to be largely responsible for the hiatus in surface warming observed over the past 13 years.
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Feb 9, 2014
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Researchers predict painted turtles face extinction due to global warming
(Phys.org) —A trio of Iowa State University researchers has predicted, in a paper published in The American Naturalist, that the painted turtle (Chrysemys picta) faces extinction over the next century due to global warming. ...
Amazon rainforest deforestation is influencing weather in Tibet
An international team of climate scientists has found evidence suggesting that deforestation in the Amazon rainforest is influencing weather in Tibet, more than 15,000 kilometers away. In their paper published in the journal ...
Earth's climate more sensitive to CO2 than previously thought, study finds
Ancient climates on Earth may have been more sensitive to carbon dioxide than was previously thought, according to new research from Binghamton University.
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Nov 16, 2015
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How 2 degrees rise means even higher temperatures where we live
At the recent COP21 climate conference in Paris, delegates reached an agreement that plans to limit global warming to "well below" two degrees Celsius. This stems from the fact that scientists and politicians now agree: the ...
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Jan 20, 2016
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14 million people were hit with climate disasters in the South-West Pacific last year
Sea surface temperatures and ocean heat in parts of the South-West Pacific are increasing at more than three times the global average and harming vital ecosystems, while sea level rise poses an existential threat to low-lying ...
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Nov 17, 2022
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Global heating may breach 1.5°C in 2024—here's what that could look like
It's official: 2023 was Earth's hottest year ever recorded, beating the previous record set in 2016 by a huge margin. Last year was also the first in which the world was close to 1.5°C (1.48°C) hotter than the pre-industrial ...
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Jan 11, 2024
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Runaway W. Antarctic ice sheet collapse not 'inevitable': study
The runaway collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet—which would trigger catastrophic sea level rise—is not "inevitable", scientists said Monday following research that tracked the region's recent response to climate ...
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Jan 22, 2023
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