Climate change news for Wednesday 21st of March 2018
"The warming the world has already experienced could be enough to melt more than a third of the world’s glaciers outside Antarctica and Greenland – regardless of current efforts to reduce emissions... That is the stark conclusion of a new study, which analyses the lag between global temperature rise and the retreat of glaciers"
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"We estimate that 36% of Shark Bay, [Western Australia's] seagrass meadows were damaged following a marine heatwave in 2010/2011… [up to] 9 Tg CO2 could have been released to the atmosphere during the following three years, increasing emissions from land-use change in Australia by 4–21% per annum"
"As of this year, [scientists have] arrived at a startling consensus: the Paris Agreement is deeply flawed - and we're going to need a better one. The problem is that the Paris deal is built on the assumption that highly speculative technologies are going to save us from climate catastrophe"
"Every year, about 15 billion trees are cut down... [this] has accelerated global warming and imperiled the survival of millions of species... no one has been able to plant enough trees to make up for that loss—but..."
"The Manitoba government on Thursday introduced legislation underpinning its new provincial carbon tax and trading system, opening the door to linking with other jurisdictions through the use of offsets"
"We… examine the human health benefits of increasing... CO2 reductions by 180 GtC... The decreased air pollution leads to 153 ± 43 million fewer premature deaths worldwide, with ~40% occurring during the next 40 years"
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