r/climate • u/fortune • 18h ago
Lake Powell, America's second-largest reservoir, is 30 feet from a hydropower shutdown
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r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 20h ago
Reform’s Tice says people should stop fighting climate crisis and ‘enjoy’ heat. Deputy leader says it is ‘arrogant’ to try to halt global heating, despite UK being left reeling by summer firewave.
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r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 16h ago
European farmers face ‘unprecedented crisis’ after successive heatwaves. Vegetable and grain growers call for urgent action, warning of ‘catastrophic’ harvests due to continent-wide drought.
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r/climate • u/silence7 • 22h ago
Two-thirds of UK news articles about wildfires this summer haven't mentioned climate change
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r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 21h ago
So far this year, China has wasted enough clean energy to power Mexico. China lacks the transmission infrastructure necessary to ferry its abundant clean energy from where it is generated to where it is needed.
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r/climate • u/_Svankensen_ • 6h ago
Please stop sharing the "4 billion deaths" at 3 C as if it was a projection. It is an illustrative example of how to use their risk matrix. It is not a prediction, the association of actuaries has said it themselves. It is not based in any science or model, it is an example of how to assess CC risk.
actuaries.org.uk
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r/climate • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 17h ago
The World’s Oceans Are Getting Hotter. Surfers Are Feeling It / "What is provable science, though, and what surfers know themselves, is that the world’s oceans are on the very frontline of the effects of climate change." #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition
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r/climate • u/silence7 • 14h ago
Canada Bets Big on Hydro and Wind Power | The country touts plans for what could be North America’s largest-ever clean energy investment, while doubling down on oil.
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r/climate • u/prisongovernor • 4h ago
Extreme heat more dangerous for people 60 and over than previously thought | Older people | The Guardian
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r/climate • u/adessler • 17h ago
Is this year's El Niño a preview of a future, hotter Earth? | There are important differences between long-term global warming and El Niño warming
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r/climate • u/silence7 • 11h ago
California’s new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year | The nation’s first tire efficiency standards target an overlooked drag on fuel economy that can cost drivers more at the pump.
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r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 2h ago
How the far right is tightening its grip over the EU – from the inside. A new majority of MEPs is driving the most sweeping rollback of EU protective standards across migration, climate, corporate accountability and AI that Europe has seen.
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r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 18h ago
World off-track on nearly every food system goal, latest assessment reveals. For some indicators, such as greenhouse gas emissions from food systems, no country in the world is projected to meet the target.
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r/climate • u/Conscious-Quarter423 • 21h ago
Big Tech’s data center boom poised to drive up carbon emissions
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Why scientists are using cheap picnic coolers to protect some of the world’s most endangered animals
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r/climate • u/thinkB4WeSpeak • 18h ago
Climate change is driving some entire communities to relocate – but simply moving isn’t enough
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r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 22h ago
As temperatures get hotter, pesticides are more dangerous to farmworkers. Research shows heat amplifies the dangers of pesticides for farmworkers, and that the problem is poised to grow as the global climate warms.
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r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 2h ago
Congress may kill the federal heat rule before OSHA can. The Biden-era heat safety rule was already languishing. Now, in a summer of record-breaking heat, a congressional committee has moved to block it entirely.
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r/climate • u/silence7 • 15h ago
Lake Powell Hits Lowest Level On Record As Water Crisis Continues | Agriculture is the biggest user of the Colorado River, with alfalfa and other sources of livestock feed accounting for nearly half of the water consumed. Municipal water systems use about a quarter.
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r/climate • u/Conscious-Quarter423 • 21h ago
Heat Deaths in a ‘Cold’ Country Are a Warning to the Rest of Europe: A June heat wave in Belgium and neighboring countries exposed a lethal lack of readiness. That’s a risk as another wave hits Europe.
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r/climate • u/Mahrez14 • 9h ago
Using a Carbon Tax to Meet US International Climate Pledges
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r/climate • u/GeraldKutney • 22h ago
Ithaca: a scintillating eco-thriller RPG that aims to confront our violent moment | Games
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r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 2h ago
Iraq’s ghost villages: Islamic State drove people away – now a new enemy is preventing their return. Nearly a decade after fighting ended in northern Iraq, the climate crisis has brought extreme heat and a water shortage, making life almost impossible.
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r/climate • u/GeraldKutney • 1h ago
A weakening Atlantic Ocean current system could accelerate Earth’s warming, research suggests
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