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Ministers consider making UK’s carbon targets easier to meet
Fears Climate Change Committee’s advice not to allow carryover from last carbon budget will be ignored
Ministers are considering plans to weaken the UK’s carbon-cutting plans by allowing the unused portion of the last carbon budget to be carried over to the next period.
This would go against the strong recommendation of the government’s statutory climate advisers, the Climate Change Committee.
Continue reading...Brutal heatwaves and submerged cities: what a 3C world would look like
Climate scientists have told the Guardian they expect catastrophic levels of global heating. Here’s what that would mean for the planet
- World is on edge of climate abyss, UN warns
- Climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target
Global heating is likely to soar past internationally agreed limits, according to a Guardian survey of hundreds of leading climate experts, bringing catastrophic heatwaves, floods and storms.
Only 6% of the respondents thought the 1.5C limit could be achieved, and this would require extraordinarily fast, radical action to halt and reverse the world’s rising emissions from fossil fuel burning.
Continue reading...Island fights back grey squirrel invasion
INTERVIEW: DAC developer launches pilot facility, plans to scale new chemical approach
Virginia lawmakers poised to reach budget deal that excludes rejoining RGGI -media
Compliance players build length across North American carbon markets, speculators book V24 profits
‘Only hope we’ve got’: the audacious plan to genetically engineer Australia’s endangered northern quoll
In a revolutionary approach, scientists are hoping that modifying the marsupial’s genes to resist cane toads’ toxin will save it from extinction
In a laboratory in the University of Melbourne earlier this year, PhD student Pierre Ibri was running an experiment that could prove to be a critical step in an audacious plan to save Australia’s endangered northern quoll.
In plastic trays were groups of tissue cells of another Australian marsupial – the common and mouse-like fat-tailed dunnart – that he was subjecting to the toxin of the cane toad, an invasive amphibian that has cut a swathe through populations of native animals in Australia’s north.
Continue reading...Gigawatt-scale solar and battery project near Queensland coal plant wins federal green tick
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Tunnel of love? Cautious adders get a helping hand
EUA cancellations associated with coal closures set to cut supply by 160 Mt by 2030 -analyst
Mexican body introduces national carbon standard in push for voluntary market transparency -media
Chilean province moves to establish local offsetting exchange -media
The climate crisis is no laughing matter, no matter what those on Radio 4’s Today programme think | Bill McGuire
As a scientist, I’m faced with indifference and a failure to understand the reality of the climate crisis every day. We must wake people up
- Bill McGuire is professor emeritus of geophysical and climate hazards at UCL
Do you find climate breakdown funny? Do you think it’s a laughing matter that we are on track to bequeath to our children and their children a planet changed for the worse beyond all recognition? I don’t – and I’m sure the presenters of Radio 4’s Today programme don’t either. But I couldn’t help feeling we were having a bit of a Don’t Look Up moment yesterday, hearing them brush off predictions by top climate scientists that our world will end up at least 2.5C hotter as depressing and “gloomy”. This is not to say that laughter and grim news shouldn’t or can’t go together. I work with comedians to help get the climate crisis message across, but we use humour to aid understanding and to help cope, not to denigrate and mock.
The truth is that most people, including many professional journalists, and most politicians, don’t really “get” climate breakdown. Partly this reflects a heads-in-the-sand attitude, but mainly it flags a poor understanding of just how bad things are set to get.
Continue reading...Two Just Stop Oil protesters attack Magna Carta’s glass case
Group says two women in their 80s took hammer and chisel to protective glass at British Library
Two Just Stop Oil protesters have smashed the glass around Magna Carta at the British Library.
The Rev Sue Parfitt, 82, and Judy Bruce, 85, a retired biology teacher, targeted the protective enclosure with a hammer and chisel on Friday morning.
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