Washington Post (April 19)
“Earth’s record hot streak might be a sign of a new climate era.” Existing models are coming up short as scientists struggle “to explain how the planet could have exceeded previous temperature records by as much as half a degree Celsius (0.9 degrees Fahrenheit) last fall.” Efforts over the next quarter or so may determine “whether Earth’s climate has undergone a fundamental shift — a quantum leap in warming that is confounding climate models and stoking ever more dangerous weather extremes.”
Tags: Climate, Climate models, Confounding, Dangerous, Earth, Era, Existing models, Hot streak, Quantum leap, Records, Scientists, Struggle, Temperature, Warming, Weather extremes
CNN (March 7)
“February was 1.77 degrees Celsius warmer than the average February in pre-industrial times… and it capped off the hottest 12-month period in recorded history, at 1.56 degrees above pre-industrial levels.” The recent data from the EU’s Copernicus climate monitoring service also confirmed that February was “the ninth month in a row that global records tumbled” and “global ocean temperatures were also off the charts,” especially the North Atlantic, which “has set a new daily temperature record every day since March 5 last year.”
Tags: 1.77 degrees, Climate, Copernicus, EU’s, February, Global records, History, Hottest, North Atlantic, Ocean temperatures, Pre-industrial times, Warmer
Associated Press (January 10)
“Earth last year shattered global annual heat records, flirted with the world’s agreed-upon warming threshold and showed more signs of a feverish planet…. The European climate agency Copernicus said the year was 1.48 degrees Celsius (2.66 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times.”
Tags: 1.48°C, Climate, Copernicus, Earth, Europe, Feverish, Heat records, Planet, Shattered, Threshold, Warming
The Economist (November 2)
“Even as wars rage and the geopolitical climate darkens, the world economy has been an irrepressible source of cheer…. Unfortunately, however, this good cheer cannot last. The foundations for today’s growth look unstable. Peer ahead, and threats abound.”
Tags: Climate, Foundations, Geopolitical, Growth, Irrepressible, Threats, Unstable, Wars, World economy
BBC (May 24)
“Climate protesters stormed Shell’s annual shareholder meeting in London, with security having to step in to protect board members.” The protestors, activists and other “campaign groups are looking to ramp up the pressure on Shell and other energy companies to bring forward those targets to absolute carbon emissions cuts by 2030 and focus more resources on renewables.” The proposed targets were, however, “rejected in a vote by shareholders at the meeting.”
Tags: 2030, Activists, Annual meeting, Board members, Carbon emissions, Climate, Energy, London, Pressure, Protect, Protesters, Rejected, Renewables, Resources, Security, Shell, Targets, Vote
Financial Times (March 12)
As “crude oil hit 14-year highs,” the mood at Houston’s CERAWeek conference was decidedly upbeat. “Industry executives who have felt maligned during the onset of a global energy transition” were “again feeling at the centre of epochal events.” Supply security clearly topped climate.
Tags: CERAWeek, Climate, Crude oil, Energy transition, Epochal, Executives, Highs, Houston, Industry, Maligned, Supply security
Claims Journal (October 26)
The “COP26 climate talks in Glasgow starting next Sunday may be the world’s best last chance to cap global warming at the 1.5-2 degrees Celsius upper limit set out in the 2015 Paris Agreement. The stakes for the planet are huge – among them the impact on economic livelihoods the world over and the future stability of the global financial system.”
Tags: 1.5-2 degrees, Cap, Climate, COP26, Economic livelihoods, Financial system, Glasgow, Global warming, Last chance, Paris Agreement, Planet, Stability, Stakes
New York Times (October 11)
What “will become of all the species the planet stands to lose… if human beings cannot halt the rate at which our climate is heating and our habitats are fragmenting and our whole planet is being poisoned?” While it is “entirely possible that we will lose them all…. It’s also not unthinkable that we will yet find a way to work together to prevent the worst calamities from unfolding.”
Tags: Calamities, Climate, Habitats, Human beings, pecies, Planet, Poisoned, Prevent, Unthinkable, Work together
Washington Post (December 1)
“Experts have known for years what the United States must do: place a strong and steadily rising price on carbon dioxide emissions, invest heavily in clean-energy research and development, and make climate a top priority in international diplomacy. President Trump is instead denying the problem.”
Tags: Clean energy, Climate, CO2, Denying, Diplomacy, Emissions, Experts, Invest, Price, Priority, Trump, U.S.
New York Times (December 29)
“Three decades after a top climate scientist warned Congress of the dangers of global warming, greenhouse gas emissions keep rising and so do global temperatures.” We are “going nowhere fast on climate, year after year.”
Tags: Climate, Climate scientist, Congress, Dangers, Decades, Emissions Temperatures, Global warming, Greenhouse gas
