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Researchers identify human influence as key agent of ocean warming patterns in the future

Envirotec Magazine

The results imply widespread ocean warming and sea level rise, compared to the past, including increased warming near the Eastern edges of ocean basins leading to more sea level rise along the Western coastlines of continents in the North Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

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The COVID Covenant: Going big is the price of admission

GreenBiz

This is a threat we know will affect billions of people and displace hundreds of millions more through sea-level rise, desertification and other disastrous impacts by the time our children are grown. We need to shift the whole game, raise the level of ambition, move that needle. The stakes are high. Further, faster.

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Addressing the Urgent Need for Direct Climate Cooling: Rationale and Options

Energy Central

Oxford Open Climate Change in an article "Addressing the Urgent Need for Direct Climate Cooling: Rationale and Options", argues "Only direct climate cooling has the potential to avert continued temperature rise in the near term and moderate at least some projected climate change disruption including extreme weather, sea level rise, loss (..)

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A record warm streak in the oceans has scientists worried

Grist

“This is an unusually abrupt rise to a level that’s above what it’s been at any previous year.” Rising ocean temperatures lead to changing circulation patterns, coral bleaching, sea-level rise, changes in fish migration and marine food webs, and ocean deoxygenation — when oceanic “dead zones” form.

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Report: It’s time for the U.S. to research solar geoengineering

Grist

To avoid the most disastrous sea-level rise, storms, heat waves, and drought, the best available science says that greenhouse gas emissions must be cut in half in the next decade or so and brought to net-zero by the middle of the century. Two possible interventions that could cool the planet involve altering clouds.

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How the Climate Conversation Changed in 2021

Planet Pulse

We can see wildfires burning greater areas, heatwaves becoming more frequent and more deadly, hurricanes stronger and more damaging, the sea level rising, floods increasing, droughts getting stronger. The impacts are already here. So if that’s the case, why aren’t we acting?”.

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Tory members back stronger green energy policies, as Sunak cools on heat pumps

Business Green

Meanwhile, the urgency and scale of the climate crisis continues to hit home across the UK, with the Met Office today warning that the impacts of climate change are starting to hit harder in the UK through more volatile weather extremes such as flooding, drought and heatwaves, as well as physical impacts such as sea level rise and coastal erosion.

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