Politics & Global Warming, December 2020
Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. >
CLIMATE CHANGE AND EXTREME HEAT
Hitting Home: The Compounding Costs of Climate Inaction. Report by Professor Will Steffen and Dr Simon Bradshaw (Climate Council of Australia) >
The Oceans
The quiet crossing of ocean tipping points. (National Academy of Sciences, USA) >
Powering a Better Australia
Some Large Corporations Implementing change. 'REenergising Australian business: the corporate race to 100% renewable energy.' REenergising Australian Business Report (Greenpeace, Sydney) >
CLIMATE and TRAVEL
Environmental impact of aviation (Wikipedia) >
EU RENEWABLE ENERGY
Landmark moment as EU Renewables overtake Fossil Fuels. ...'tracking Europe’s electricity transition was published on 25th January 2021. It revealed that renewables overtook fossil fuels to become the EU’s main source of electricity for the first time in 2020.' (Ember and Agora Energiewende, London) >
CHILDREN'S HEALTH
Child Malnourishment Likely Impacted by Climate Change 'Climate impacts associated with reduced diet diversity in children across nineteen countries.' (Environmental Research Letters) >
Increasing trends in regional heatwaves
'Heatwaves have increased in intensity, frequency and duration, with these trends projected to worsen under enhanced global warming.' (Nature Communications journal) >
Annual climate statement (Australia) 2020
'Australia's fourth-warmest year on record, with the annual national mean temperature 1.15 °C above average.' (Bureau of Meteorology, Canberra) >
Centre for Studies of Climate Change Denialism
'Scientific and political awareness of the greenhouse effect and human influence on the climate has existed for over three decades. During the 1980s, there was a strong environmental movement and a political consensus on the issue, but in recent years, climate change denial – denying that changes to the climate are due to human influence on the environment – has increased which makes the case for understanding why this is so.' (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) >