The legislation supporting renewable energy, electric cars, power lines and public transit comes as U.N. climate scientists warn the world is running out of time By Dino Grandoni and Brady Dennis August 11, 2021 at 1:47 p.m. EDT After years of dragging their feet, lawmakers in Washington advanced a pair of major bills this week that include significant provisions for tackling climate change as scientists continue to ring alarm bells about the state…
The new report also updates one of the most powerful pieces of evidence for human-produced climate change: a comparison of model portrayals of global temperature since 1850 from two sets of models, one including and one excluding the last 170 years of emissions from fossil fuel burning (see below right). Without these human-produced greenhouse gases, the warming since 1850 simply doesn’t happen.
Aug. 9, 2021 at 4:44 am Updated Aug. 9, 2021 at 4:29 pm In the Pacific Northwest, shrinking glaciers, extreme heat waves, worsening droughts and acidifying oceans are all symptoms of climate change, which is affecting every corner of the globe and intensifying as emissions rise. That’s according to a blunt assessment of our warming world, which says that it is “unequivocal” that humans are heating up the planet and doing so at a rate not…
Wildfires in several states are burning with worrying ferocity across a tinder-dry landscape Maanvi Singh in San Francisco @maanvissingh Tue 13 Jul 2021 01.00 EDT As fires propagate throughout the US west on the heels of record heatwaves, experts are warning that the region is caught in a vicious feedback cycle of extreme heat, drought and fire, all amplified by the climate crisis. Firefighters are battling blazes from Arizona to Washington state that are burning…
A new study analyzing hundreds of aerial readings of emissions above the forest canopy found that forest regions in the southeast were most affected. By John Schwartz July 14, 2021Updated 1:29 p.m. ET Portions of the Amazon rainforest are now emitting more carbon dioxide than they absorb — a troubling sign for the fight against climate change, a new study suggests. Deforestation and an accelerating warming trend have contributed to change in the carbon balance,…
