The Climate Recap

Scorched Europe battles deadly fires. Turkey shuts shipping lane | Reuters More than 100,000 people have been evacuated over 3 weeks from flooding in Pakistan | NPR Lethal fires in Peru Andes | AP News Canada’s Northwest Territories declares emergency due to wildfires | Reuters Portland hits August record of 108 amid extreme Pacific Northwest heat wave | The Washington Post How climate change shap...

Deadly global heatwaves undeniably result of climate crisis, scientists show | The Guardian Is the Atlantic Ocean current system AMOC nearing collapse? Probably not – but scientists are seeing troubling signs | CBS News India pauses plans for new coal plants for five years to focus on renewable energy | PBS Canada releases framework to phase out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies | Reuters Britain...

Extreme weather: What you need to know about the global heatwave | Al Jazeera ‘It’s really cool’: Visitors flock to Death Valley amid soaring heatwave | NBC News Historically bad heat wave isn’t close to over: 5 maps to make you sweat | The Washington Post Children lost in flooding as US endures extreme weather, from smoke up North to heat in the West | AP News Flash floods rage in Vermont, New Yo...

World registers hottest day ever recorded on July 3 | Reuters Multnomah County in Oregon Sues Fossil Fuel Companies Over Heat Dome | The NYTimes Supreme Court rejects Navajo Nation’s water rights trust claim | ICT News Biden administration announces $7 bil in residential solar grant program | The Hill Ford Gets $9.2 Bil to Help US Catch Up with China’s EV Dominance | Bloomberg First ‘lab-grown’ me...

Canada wildfires are leading to air-quality alerts in US. Here’s why there is so much smoke | AP News Canada’s wildfires are part of our new climate reality, expert officials say | The Guardian Peru battles record dengue fever, in a warning of the warming world | The Washington Post El Nino is officially here, scientists say | Space Chinese cities break heat records, stressing electricity grid | R...

US, EU lawmakers push depose UAE’s Jaber from climate talks | Reuters Breakthrough Colorado River deal reached, outlining big water cuts for the next three years | The LA Times Supreme Court erases protections for most wetlands | E&E News Oil drilling project near mouth of Amazon River rejected by Brazil’s environment regulator | AP News Brazil’s Lula summons ministers as Congress seeks to dil...

Mexico bans solar geoengineering after rogue experiment | Climate Change News ‘It’s time to start suing’: States tee up next WOTUS war | E&E News HSBC’s secretive loan to a coal company bulldozing a village | The Bureau of Investigative Journalism Gas Stoves Back Under Scrutiny With New US Limits Proposed | BNA News Gas industry hires Democrats to win support of liberal voters | The Washington...

California contends with flooding, power outage as severe storms batter the state | CBS News Lake Tahoe snowpack levels nearly 250% above normal | Fox40 Low water levels have created an energy crisis at the world’s largest dam | The Washington Post Satellites watch Europe get hit by most severe winter heatwave ever | Space Ozone layer may be restored in decades, UN report says | BBC WE QUIT | Exti...

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This Will Be The Coldest Christmas In Decades… | Ryan Hall, Y’all Extreme winter spells trouble for food insecure | Axios State of the climate: 2022 to date is fourth warmest year on record | Carbon Brief Arctic is rapidly turning warmer, wetter, and riskier: report | Axios Drought emergency declared for all Southern California | The LA Times At Least 141 Die in Congo After Floods Hit Kinshasa | T...

Global renewable capacity set to double over next five years, says IEA | Reuters US utilities to triple battery storage capacity in 2025 - EIA | Reuters UK coal mine approval sparks global fury and hypocrisy claims | Climate Change News Onshore wind rules to be relaxed after Tory revolt | BBC ‘Burn everything’: Poland chokes on the smog of war | Reuters EU agrees new law to kick deforestation out...

Meta tops list of US corporate solar adopters with 3.6 GW, more than Amazon and Apple combined: SEIA | Utility Dive Evidence grows of forced labour and slavery in production of solar panels and wind turbines | The Guardian Swedish activists sue state over its climate policies | AP News Greta Thunberg, 600 others sue Sweden for climate inaction | Al Jazeera Puerto Rican towns sue Big Oil under RICO...

How much got done at COP27, the big UN climate conference in Egypt in mid-November? What ended up being on the final agenda? Listen to COP27 Week 1's recap first to gain more context. Source list- https://heavenly-sceptre-002.notion.site/COP-27-Week-2-aebc7cc0bbab4824b9415e622a251ef4 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/beckisphere Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/beckisphere

Flash floods in Australia’s southeast cut off inland towns | Reuters ‘Rain bursts’ over Sydney have intensified by 40% over the last two decades, research finds | The Guardian Warmest Armistice Day ever for England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland | The Guardian Study: Extreme heat is responsible for hundreds of deaths in Texas prisons | Grist World has nine years to avert catastrophic global warmi...

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UNESCO finds that some iconic World Heritage glaciers will disappear by 2050 | UNESCO Climate risks and rewards for the global workforce | Axios Report: Countries need an impossible amount of land to meet climate pledges | Grist Protected areas provide thermal buffer against climate change | Science Advances The staying power of fossil fuel subsidies | Axios Corporate climate action lags pledges |...

Chad declares state of emergency as floods affect 1 mil people | Reuters Storm Nalgae: floods and landslides in Philippines kill at least 72 | The Guardian Climate crisis fuelling unseasonably warm October in UK and Europe | The Guardian Climate-warming methane emissions rising faster than ever, study says | The Washington Post CO2 emissions growth slows way down | Axios Energy crisis sparked by U...

Southeast Australia braces more rain residents told evacuate | Reuters Cyclone lashes Bangladesh, killing nine flooding low-lying areas | Reuters Roslyn Moves Inland and Breaks Up After Lashing Mexican Coast | The NYTimes New fossil fuels ‘incompatible’ with 1.5ºC goal, comprehensive analysis finds | Carbon Brief Australia signs up to global pledge cut methane emissions by 30% | Reuters France bec...

Amount of ocean heat found to be accelerating and fueling extreme weather events | The Guardian Increasing Hurricane Intensification Rate Near the US Atlantic Coast | Geophysical Research Letters Clean Energy, Electric Cars Are Hitting Tipping Points for Global Mass Adoption | Bloomberg Solar powers India towards its 175GW renewables target for 2022 | Energy Monitor Australia and Singapore strike...

Nigeria Floods Kill Hundreds and Displace Over a Million | The NYTimes First came the fires. Now Australia is facing devastating floods. | The Washington Post Rare ‘triple’ La Niña climate event looks likely – what does the future hold? | Nature Historic October heat shatters record in the Pacific Northwest | The Washington Post Economic losses from hurricanes cannot be nationally offset under una...

Chad climate disaster leaves record 2.1 mil people hungry | Reuters: Alaska cancels snow crab season for first time after population crash | The Washington Post The 2022 Living Planet Index Is Out. Here’s How to Understand It. | The NYTimes Give up the gas: switching to electric appliances could save Australians up to $1,900 a year, report says | The Guardian Biden's security strategy goes bi...

Barges stranded as Mississippi River water levels reach critical low | The Guardian Ian is the 15th billion-dollar disaster this year so far | NOAA Surging Weather-related Power Outages | Climate Centra Climate Crisis Poses as Great a Risk to Energy Systems as Russia’s Ukraine Invasion, WMO Warns | EcoWatch Heat waves taking humanitarian toll | Axios UK heat waves linked to record excess deaths am...

Kenya lifts ban on genetically modified crops in response to drought | Reuters Sydney records wettest year since 1858 as Australia braces for more floods | Reuters Scotland ‘snow-free’ for fourth time in six years | BBC Snow loss is fueling the West’s megadrought | Grist Southern California faces new water restrictions next year | Los Angeles Times Drought-stricken Coalinga, CA may soon run out of...

UN ups flood aid appeal as Pakistan enters ‘second wave of death’ | Al Jazeera Some Chinese cities break October heat records as others shiver | CNN Climate change made 2022’s northern hemisphere droughts at least 20 times more likely | Carbon Brief North America Heat Wave Led to Record Ice Melt in Greenland | Bloomberg Eliminating waste is a climate solution | Grist Cutting emissions will hit gro...

Biden pledges $60 mil to stormproof Puerto Rico during visit | The Guardian See the Solar-Powered Florida Town That DIdn’t Lose Power During Ian | Business Insider Young people demand climate justice in run-up to COP27 UN talks | The Guardian Duncan’s First Nation sues Alberta for industry impacts | The Narwhal Federal Government’s $20 Bil Embrace of ‘Climate Smart’ Farming | The NYTimes Energy tr...