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What if COP26 is a failure?
The world is not on target to meet the Paris agreement climate goals. Unless that changes, mankind's future hangs in the balance.
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Jerry Bowles

August 2021

Extreme weather warning us of much more catastrophic climate damage to come--UN study
The UN's sixth assessment report of the state of the planet was grim. Do we really still have time to save ourselves?
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Jerry Bowles
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Is the Gulf stream nearing collapse? New climate study suggests it's possible.
It's definitely slowing down and becoming more unstable. The impact on global weather patterns could be enormous.
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Jerry Bowles
Climate change could lead to 83 million "excess deaths" by 2100.
A young researcher calculates the Mortality Cost of Carbon. The number is staggering.
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Jerry Bowles

July 2021

COP26 Countdown: EU leaps in with Ambitious European Green Deal Rules
Unveils new law to cut emissions 55% by 2030. Ditch combustion engine by 2035.
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Jerry Bowles
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How long can humans survive in a climate of deadly heatwaves?
Some places on earth have already reached the limits of human tolerance for short periods of time. Scientists say it will get worse.
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Jerry Bowles
Will 'extreme weather attribution' become the next cultural wars bogeyman?
Prestigious global science collective study says extreme Pacific heatwave "virtually impossible" without climate change.
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Jerry Bowles
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Poor people and minorities are most vulnerable to extreme heatwaves. That's not an accident.
Residential redlining in the 1930s created mightily to today's urban heat disasters.
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Jerry Bowles

June 2021

It's the grid, stupid.
New energy sources are useless if they can't get to users. The U.S. electrical grid is straining under demands for more clean power and increasingly…
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Jerry Bowles
Northwest Heatwave is 'historic,' 'unprecedented,' but not unexpected
Climate scientists have been warning of this disaster for 30 years.
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Jerry Bowles
A promising step toward wider commercialization of carbon capture and storage
Battelle and its partners have successfully concluded a nearly 20-year CCUS pilot project associated with the Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration…
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Jerry Bowles
Pace of Antarctic glacier collapsing into sea accelerates
The Pine Island ice shelf lost a fifth of its area between 2017 and 2020, and retreated by 19 kilometers (approximately 12 miles) during that time.
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Jerry Bowles
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