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Aided by a supercomputer, meteorologists find 34% chance of record monthly rainfall being set, raising fears about major flooding
Fears have been raised that the UK could soon see a repeat of the sort of flooding that has hit in recent years after forecasters predicted a one-in-three chance there would be a new record set for monthly rainfall during coming winters.
The Met Office used a supercomputer to simulate possible extreme weather conditions to help build up a picture of what was likely to befall the UK. Forecasters found a 7% chance of a monthly rainfall record being set in the south-east. This rose to 34% once other regions of England and Wales were taken into account.
Continue reading...Doubts about the science are being replaced by doubts about the motives of scientists and their political supporters. Once this kind of cynicism takes hold, is there any hope for the truth? By David Runciman
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Continue reading...In this excerpt from The Bernie Sanders Show, Sanders talks to Gore about his new film, An Inconvenient Sequel
In this episode of the Bernie Sanders Show, Sanders talks to Al Gore about his new film, An Inconvenient Sequel. Below is an abridged transcript of their conversation.
A decade ago, the solutions were visible on the horizon. Now they’re here
So long as big money influences, they can use their lobbying to force the state legislatures to hold back solar and wind
Continue reading...I received the exciting news with a sense of dread. According to the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), which rates the sustainability of fish all over the world, North Sea cod is “back”. It says that the current stocks are such that it can now be fished without fear and purchased without guilt by eco-friendly consumers.
Since North Sea cod has been teetering on the verge of extinction since the 1970s, longer than the MSC has been rating fisheries, this seems startling and welcome news. After decades of reduced fishing quotas, fewer vessels, limited time at sea, wider-mesh nets, the periodic closing of some areas, cod has rebounded in the North Sea. Fishermen were promised that if they submitted to this draconian regime, in time stocks would be restored and they could return to a full-scale prosperous industry.
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Climate change is altering ocean ecology and changing habitats. The seas are getting warmer and fish are moving north
Continue reading...The Aboriginal Carbon Fund has signed an agreement with Canadian First Nations peoples to share lessons from successful land management program
Australia’s world-leading Indigenous land management and carbon farming programs are spreading internationally, with a formal agreement signed to help build a similar program in Canada.
A chance meeting between Rowen Foley from the Aboriginal Carbon Fund and a Candian carbon credit businessman at the 2015 Paris climate conference spawned a relationship that led to an agreement this week that will help Canadian First Nations peoples learn from the Australian Aboriginal carbon farming success.
Related: If you want to tackle carbon emissions let indigenous people control their land
Related: Coalition promises $30m for Indigenous rangers and says it will create new jobs
Continue reading...After a crisis, private contractors move in and suck up funding for work done badly, if at all – then those billions get cut from government budgets. Like Grenfell Tower, Hurricane Katrina revealed a disdain for the poor
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Continue reading...In first speech since cabinet return, environment secretary says he hopes US president will have a change of heart
Michael Gove has said he “deeply regrets” Donald Trump’s approach to the Paris agreement on climate change and hopes the president will have a change of heart, in his first speech since returning to the cabinet.
The environment secretary said international cooperation was crucial to resolve the problem of climate change, adding: “The world’s second-biggest generator of carbon emissions can’t simply walk out of the room when the heat is on.”
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Continue reading...A recent heatwave in Siberia’s frozen wastes has resulted in outbreaks of deadly anthrax and a series of violent explosions
Strange things have been happening in the frozen tundra of northern Siberia. Last August a boy died of anthrax in the remote Yamal Peninsula, and 20 other infected people were treated and survived. Anthrax hadn’t been seen in the region for 75 years, and it’s thought the recent outbreak followed an intense heatwave in Siberia, temperatures reaching over 30C that melted the frozen permafrost.
Long dormant spores of the highly infectious anthrax bacteria frozen in the carcass of an infected reindeer rejuvenated themselves and infected herds of reindeer and eventually local people.
Related: Methane release from melting permafrost could trigger dangerous global warming | John Abraham
Continue reading...The life of our reef is intimately linked to the health of our politics and the future of our communities. Coal has no role to play
David Ritter is chief executive of Greenpeace Australia PacificTen years ago, David Simon’s iconic TV series The Wire portrayed contemporary Baltimore as wracked by illegal drug use, violent crime and failing institutions. But underneath the symptoms were the structures of political economy. As the show’s tagline had it, “everything is connected”. Simons explained that the show was intended to depict “a world in which capital has triumphed completely, labour has been marginalised and moneyed interests have purchased enough political infrastructure to prevent reform.”
A world away and the idea that everything is connected through a malformed political economy is also central to Anna Krien’s recent Quarterly Essay, The Long Goodbye. Coal, Coral and Australia’s Climate Deadlock. In Krien’s Australia, it is the power of the coal industry that is the fundamental problem.
Related: Countries with coral reefs must do more on climate change – Unesco
Continue reading...The Sentinel-5P spacecraft is designed to monitor the pollution that causes a reported tens of thousands of deaths every year in the UK
Last year, the European Space Agency launched the Trace Gas Orbiter to Mars. It is designed to look for methane – a key tracer of life – to determine if Martian microbes are present on the red planet.
Now, ESA is preparing to launch another spacecraft to look at methane on another planet: our own.
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