On the brink of the "Point of No Return": The World Smashed Past 1.5°C Global Warming In 2024, Says WMO Report

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The dream of keeping climate change to within 1.5°C (2.7°F) has taken a major hit. The latest climate report by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has confirmed that 2024 was likely the first calendar year to have a global temperature more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.

The global mean near-surface temperature last year was approximately 1.55°C (2.79°F) above the 1850 to 1900 average, making it the warmest year since records began over 175 years ago, according to the WMO’s State of the Global Climate report.

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In 2015, Obama committed the US to achieving UN global goals by 2030. Trump just rejected the goals

In 2015, then-President Barack Obama committed the United States to achieving newly adopted U.N. global goals by 2030, including ending poverty, achieving gender equality and urgently tackling climate change. The Trump administration now says it “rejects and denounces” the goals.....MORE

Disaster relief advocate calls for 'urgency' in Congress over tax relief legislation

With just a few weeks remaining in the current session of Congress, After the Fire USA CEO Jennifer Gray Thompson joins Meet the Press NOW to discuss why it’s so critical for the Senate to pass federal disaster tax relief legislation (H.R.5863) before the end of the year.

Unexplained And Deadly Heat Wave Hotspots Are Showing Up Across The Planet

We all know the planet is warming way too fast, and we all know it’s going to have some pretty dire consequences. However, a new study has found that this temperature increase is far from evenly spread, with distinct heat wave “hotspots” experiencing warming far beyond what can be explained by current climate models.....MORE

IT'S SCIENCE YOU IDIOTS!!

"Emergency" Warning For Antarctica Issued By Nearly 500 Polar Scientists

Hundreds of scientists have gathered for an “emergency summit” in Australia to discuss the imperiled future of Antarctica. Concluding their findings in a statement published today, the polar researchers have a stark message: urgent action is needed to prevent the melting of Antarctica and catastrophic sea level rises around the world.....MORE

Meanwhile, Trump says, "Drill, Baby, Drill"

Deadline looms for negotiators seeking a deal for cash to curb global warming

With time running down, negotiators at the United Nations annual climate talks on Wednesday remained mired in the maze of a trillion-dollar money problem, turning to host Azerbaijan to lead the way to daylight with a promised map to be released in the dark of night.

Vulnerable nations are seeking $1.3 trillion to deal with damage from climate change and to adapt to that change, including building out their own clean-energy systems. Experts agree that at least $1 trillion is called for, but both figures are far more than the developed world has so far offered.

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Why our brains are wired to ignore the climate crisis

How big industries, politicians and the media have warped public understanding and action on the climate crisis.

Telling the story of climate change psychology can reveal not only the ways in which we grapple with ecological breakdown but also how big industries, politicians and even the media have warped public understanding and action on the greatest crisis humanity faces.

Here's The HARD Truth About Devastating Storm Damage

The plague of hurricane damage in America should be blamed on Republicans' corrupt quest of "deregulation."

In 1972, MIT Scientists Predicted A "Global Collapse" This Century – New Data May Prove Them Correct

A fresh look at an influential report from the 1970s has found that its predictions of global collapse within this century are looking worryingly accurate.....MORE

Study: Tampa is an urban heat hotspot. What does that mean?

Depending on where you live in the Tampa Bay area, it could be up to 9 degrees hotter than the area's given forecast because of the urban heat island effect. This concept states that cities are bound to be hotter because buildings, roads and other heat-absorbing infrastructure replace vegetation in those areas.....MORE

Heat Advisory Issued For Portions Of West-Central Florida This Afternoon

Residents in parts of west-central Florida are urged to take precautions against dangerous heat conditions this afternoon, Sunday, July 7th, 2024. The National Weather Service (NWS) has issued a Heat Advisory, effective from noon until 6:00 pm EDT. Areas effected are Sumter, Pinellas, Polk, Hardee, Highlands, DeSoto, Coastal Levy, Coastal Citrus, Coastal Hernando, Coastal Pasco, Coastal Hillsborough, Coastal Manatee, Coastal Sarasota, Coastal Charlotte, Coastal Lee, Inland Levy, Inland Citrus, Inland Hernando, Inland Pasco, Inland Hillsborough, Inland Manatee, Inland Sarasota, Inland Charlotte, Inland Lee.....MORE

Tampa city leaders look to reduce heat risk in city ahead of summer

Tampa city leaders are set to discuss ways to reduce the city's heat risk, which is the leading cause of weather-related deaths in the United States.....Read More

Researchers studying ‘doomsday glacier’ make worrying discovery

Antarctica’s “doomsday glacier,” referred to as such for its potential to dramatically raise global sea levels, is melting faster than we thought thanks to warmer sea water passing below it, according to a new study.

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Watchdog Warns America’s Power Grid Could Buckle Under Sweltering Summer Heat

According to a new report by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), significant portions of the U.S. are at risk of blackouts during the summer months.....Read More

Florida joins a legal challenge against a new EPA rule to reduce power plant carbon pollution that is contributing to global warming

Florida and two dozen other states Thursday filed a legal challenge to a new U.S. Environmental Protection rule aimed at reducing carbon emissions from power plants.....Read More

Florida looking at a hotter-than-average summer, NOAA says

You may want to clean out the kiddie pool and dust off the patio furniture early this year. We’re in for a hot start to summer, according to a national weather outlook released Thursday by the National Weather Service.....Read More

Most coral reef areas experienced bleaching in past year

Coral reefs around the globe experienced a mass bleaching event in the past year as the ocean continues to heat, according to new research.

The impacted reefs include those in Florida, the Caribbean, parts of the Eastern Tropical Pacific like Costa Rica and Panama, Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, parts of the South Pacific, the Persian Gulf, and the Gulf of Aden, researchers said.

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After climate tipping points, change will come slowly, then all at once

The planetary danger signals are increasing. Climate scientists are beginning to worry we may be at a terrifying juncture, where the climate shifts dramatically from one state to another. An abrupt global warming episode, during which climate changes happen in decades not centuries, and interrelated tipping points cascade into one another amplifying the sudden shift in the world climate, pushing the planet out of the temperate sweet spot we humans have been lucky enough to live in.....Read More

Climate change’s impacts on coastal cities could be heightened as those cities sink: Study

Sea level rise caused by the changing climate is expected to wreak havoc on the nation’s coastal cities, impacts that could be heightened in the years ahead as the cities themselves are sinking, according to a study published this week.....Read More

Banks backpedal on climate amid federal scrutiny, anti-ESG pressure

Many of the largest U.S. banks and asset managers are retreating from their climate commitments amid rising federal scrutiny and an assault on environmentally conscious investing in state legislatures.

As more stringent federal oversight looms and bills to blacklist and in some cases criminalize banks that refuse to invest in fossil fuels are proposed in statehouses across the country, many banks have in different ways backpedaled — at least rhetorically — on steps they have taken since the 2015 Paris Climate Accords toward slowing the warming of the planet by financing a gradual transition away from fossil fuels.

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