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The Climate Recap, brought to you by the Beckisphere Climate Corner, is the place to get your weekly dose of global and US-based climate and clean energy news. How are we doing at reducing the impacts of and preparing for climate change?
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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 shaped California’s first tropical storm in decades | E&E News Antarctic ice melt may have killed...
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 commits to hundreds of new North Sea oil and gas licenses | Reuters Rishi Sunak’s family firm Inf...
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 York; 50 rescued by shift boat | Reuters As China struggles with heat, flooding and drought, employ...
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’ meat approved by US regulators | The Hill New carbon accounting rules target ‘greenwashing’ | Phys ...
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 | Reuters Texas power use break records in heat wave this week, grid operators say | Reuters Scotlan...
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 dilute environmental powers | Reuters Wind is main source of UK electricity for first time | BBC Spa...
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 Post DeSantis keeps heat on gas stoves issue, proposing tax exemption | The Hill Energy transiti...
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 | Extinction Rebellion UK Public Order Bill: The British government wants to hand police unprecedented ...
Did world leaders and trends do the climate crisis any favors in 2022? Source list- https://heavenly-sceptre-002.notion.site/2022-Mitigation-Recap-724d1131fa1e4be0b51c44afb28a8c06 Youtube- https://youtube.com/beckisphere TikTok @beckisphere Instagram @theclimaterecap Patreon- https://www.patreon.com/beckisphere Buy Me A Coffee- https://www.buymeacoffee.com/beckisphere
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 | The NYTimes Met Office forecasts 2023 will be hotter than 2022 | BBC News HSBC Halts Finance for N...
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 of supply chains | Euractiv Alberta regulator withholding list of dangerous oil and gas sites | T...
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 alleging collusion on climate denial | Reuters Scholz welcomes Qatar LNG deal as ‘building block...
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 warming, study shows | The Washington Post World’s biggest carmakers to build 40 mil more vehicles tha...
What's the backdrop of this year's conference? And what got done on week 1? Source list- https://heavenly-sceptre-002.notion.site/COP27-week-1-0acdb4cd349941568aa6c4c4cd97ed15 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/beckisphere Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/beckisphere
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 | Axios Big food companies commit to regenerative agriculture, but skepticism remains | NPR Introd...
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 Ukraine war to speed up green transition, IEA | Reuters Climate pledges to date are not enough to ...
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 becomes latest country to leave controversial energy charter treaty | The Guardian Landowners call f...
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 agreement to achieve net-zero | AP News ‘Rewiring the nation’: Albanese and Andrews governments t...
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 unabated warming | Environmental Research Letters Hurricane ripple effects | Axios Oil and mining se...
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