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Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Saturday, December 7, 2024

Younger people disproportionately represented in climate heat-related mortality trend according to Mexico study

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Sorry Kids... latest research shows that increasing temperatures adding to extreme heat due to burning fossil fuels has a disproportionate i...
Saturday, October 19, 2024

AMOC collapse: Scientists issue open letter warning on catastrophic risk of Atlantic ocean circulation collapse

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Risk of Collapse of Ocean Circulation (AMOC) underestimated: Continued greenhouse gas emissions could trigger a regional cooling around the ...
Monday, January 29, 2024

IPCC plans 7th assessment cycle reports including Climate Change and Cities, Short-lived Climate Forcers, Carbon Dioxide Removal

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The 60th Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) met in Istanbul, Turkiye from 16–19 January 2024  (IPCC-60). This...
Thursday, January 4, 2024

Dr Jennifer Francis on weather whiplash, 2024 and beyond "Expect surprises, destruction, suffering..."

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New research has investigated abrupt swings in extreme weather in the Northern Hemisphere. This is being driven by Arctic amplified warming ...
Thursday, June 15, 2023

Major Scientific review of Synthetic Turf environmental and health impacts released by NSW Chief Scientist

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NSW CSE synthetic turf report a lot to chew over A major review and report on current scientific assessment of synthetic turf was published ...
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Friday, November 11, 2022

Guest Post: Global carbon emissions at record levels with no signs of shrinking, new data shows. Humanity has a monumental task ahead

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  Marcin Jozwiak/Unsplash , CC BY Pep Canadell , CSIRO ; Corinne Le Quéré , University of East ...
Wednesday, September 14, 2022

UN Secretary General highlights climate crisis at WMO United in Science Report 2022 launch

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The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) recently launched the United in Science report (13 September)  The United Nations Secretary Ge...
Sunday, March 6, 2022

Guest Post: ‘One of the most extreme disasters in colonial Australian history’: climate scientists on the floods and our future risk

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The City of Lismore under floodwaters, February 2022 . Andrew King , The University of Melbourne ; Linden Ashcroft , The University of Me...
Friday, September 24, 2021

IPCC climate science report: code red for humanity says UN Secretary General

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  "Today’s IPCC Working Group 1 Report is a code red for humanity.  The alarm bells are deafening, and the evidence is irrefutable:  gr...
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Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Sustainable sports fields are natural turf not synthetic in a time of climate emergency

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Moreland Council intends rolling out synthetic turf when evidence points to it being a highly problematic environmental and climate issue an...
Friday, April 16, 2021

Literature Review: Synthetic Turf carbon footprint, environmental, health, microplastics and biodiversity impacts

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  Hosken Reserve: grass oval used for soccer training, informal reacreation, off-lead dog exercise (Photo by John Englart) Abstract:  T...
Thursday, September 24, 2020

Letter to Peter Khalil MP on gas lead recovery announcement for Australia

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Dear Peter, I hope you and your family are keeping well during these pandemic times. I am occupying myself with a thousands small jobs fr...
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Friday, November 29, 2019

Scientists warn climate tipping points may be close, endorse need for climate emergency action

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Two peer reviewed statements by scientists just prior to the UN climate conference COP25 to be held in Madrid, Spain from December 2 to 13,...
Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Great Forest National Park and Port Philip Bay: communicating conservation research at #vicbiocon17

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Sarah Rees and Sheree Maris gave two inspiring presentations on science communication in conservation and biodiversity in an afternoon ple...
Monday, February 6, 2017

Chief Australian scientist compares Trump to Stalin on science censorship

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Alan Finkel, Australia's chief scientist, has compared Donald Trump to Josef Stalin, in the moves to censor environmental data and clim...
Saturday, January 21, 2017

100 climate impacts on oceans and marine ecosystems

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Over my last decade of reading on climate change, I have picked up a fact or two on oceans and the marine environment, and written the odd ...
Friday, November 11, 2016

Strong ambition needed to meet 1.5C #ParisAgreement Target #COP22

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According to the latest Climate Action Tracker assessment of national climate plans (NDCs), the Paris Agreement current commitments will l...
Thursday, October 27, 2016

Warm ocean water melting Antarctica from below adding to sea level rise

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Latest observational data from Amundsen Sea embayment (ASE) of West Antarctica confirms the retreat of ice shelf grounding lines caused by...
Thursday, August 25, 2016

Guest Post: Without a longer-term view, the Paris Agreement will lock in warming for centuries

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Eelco Rohling , Australian National University The Paris climate agreement set a “safe” global warming limit of below 2℃, aiming below...
Saturday, May 28, 2016

Australian Government censors UNESCO report on Great Barrier Reef #ReefGate

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A UNESCO report identifies World Heritage sites at risk from climate change, but there is no mention of Australian sites in the report. Th...