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Carbon dioxide now more than 50% higher than pre-industrial levels

By Third party content on June 11, 2022

Carbon dioxide measured at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Atmospheric Baseline Observatory peaked for 2022 at 421 parts per million in May, pushing the atmosphere further into territory not seen for millions of years, scientists from NOAA and Scripps Institution of Oceanographyoffsite link at the University of California San Diego announced today. NOAA's measurements of carbon dioxide at the […]

IPCC to global business and government leaders: the jig is up

By Third party content on March 3, 2022

The latest IPCC report provides further detail about just how far we’re careening off the proverbial rails and our ever-narrowing window for getting back on a habitable track. But it also provides deeper insight into a potential path forward — if we take definitive, collective action immediately. Six months ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) […]

Climate tipping points: an interview with Tim Lenton

By Press release on January 11, 2021

Over the past twenty years the concept of “tipping points” has become more familiar to the public. Tipping points are critical thresholds at which small changes can lead to dramatic shifts in the state of the entire system. Awareness of climate tipping points has grown in policy circles in recent years in no small part […]

Why the boom in biomass electricity needs to stop urgently

By Press release on September 6, 2020

The forest biomass industry is sprawling and spreading globally — rapidly growing in size, scale, revenue, and political influence — even as forest ecologists and climatologists warn that the industry is putting the planet’s temperate and tropical forests at risk, and aggressively lobbying governments against using wood pellets as a “renewable energy” alternative to burning […]

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