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Updates from the news #9
Updates from the news #9 – 15 October 2023 There continues to be a lot of online discussion of the astonishing leap in global heating during September. The increase was about 5˚C above any previous...
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Updates from the news #10; 23 October 2023
Bill McKibben points out that U.S. development of Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) will be a major carbon bomb. More than two dozen new or expansion LNG projects are under construction or consideration....
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Updates from the news #11; 30 October 2023
The Intercept provides a thorough analysis of how an oil boss was put in charge of a climate summit. Reporting by Ben Stockton and Amy Westervelt describes how leading figures in government such as...
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Updates from the news #12; 13 November
Insanity fact #3,787. Fossil fuel expansion is projected to be gobsmackingly mindboggling enormous in the coming years. The U.S., Brazil, and Saudi Arabia plan major increases in oil production....
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The USGCRP released the National Climate Assessment Five on Wednesday 15 November. I recorded a few initial impressions for my upper division course in Climate Change Biology, BSC3307C. You can view...
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Updates from the news #13; 27 November 2023
The UN Emissions Gap Report 2023 was formally released on 20 November 2023. Advanced press emphasized that fully implementing the revised Nationally Determined Contributions made under the Paris...
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Updates from the news #01 – 15 January 2024
Updates from the news #01 – 15 January 2024 This is the first Update since late 2023. These are written mostly for the students in my courses, which during spring semester 2024 are BSC2832 Global...
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Updates from the news #02 -15 February 2024
Updates from the news #02 – 15 February 2024 CO2 concentration at NOAA Mauna Loa Observatory 13 February 2024 – 424.20 ppm (one year ago – 421.18 ppm). Reminder: the safe level is 350 ppm. Latest...
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Updates from the news #3 – 15 March 2024
Updates from the news #03 – 15 March 2024 US spring phenology. The National Phenology Network spring leaf index anomaly for 12 March 2024 shows that the West Coast west of the Sierras and Cascades,...
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Updates from the news #4 spring 2024
Updates from the news #04 – 6 May 2024 Over the summer my updates will be only as frequent as my time permits. Grades for my two courses have been turned in, and on Wednesday 8 May I will travel with...
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Updates from the news #04 – 27 July Summer 2024
We need to be clear about the US moral responsibility for emissions and the largescale disruption of the climate system. The data are damning. The driver of climate change is the accumulation of...
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Featured image: The Ice Worm Glacier in the North Cascade mountains of Washington disappeared in 2023. The inset photo is the Ice Worm Glacier in 1986. ….and yes, there really are ice worms.
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Weekly updates to Climate Change Biology
Weekly video updates to my Climate Change Biology Course will appear below as they are produced during fall 2024. 4 September 2024 11 September – coming soon
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