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Climate news to watch in 2025 » Yale Climate Connections
2 天之前 · Wind turbines stand behind visitors at Gaomei wetland during sunset on August 22, 2024, in Taichung, Taiwan. Taiwan, a leader in utilizing natural resources for power, is rapidly expanding its wind power generation, particularly through offshore projects, to …
Portraits of catastrophe and courage in 2024
3 天之前 · More than ever, relentless global warming cast a shadow on the weather and climate happenings of 2024. It was the second year in a row (this one even warmer than 2023) when the average global temperature was in the vicinity of the 1.5°C-above-preindustrial threshold that policymakers have long pledged to avoid.. While researchers struggled to explain exactly why the global heat spike of 2023 ...
Our favorite Eye on the Storm stories of 2024
2024年12月20日 · We know not every reader will have caught up with all 151 Eye on the Storm posts that we’ve published since January 1 of this year. To help make things easier, we’re highlighting a few of our favorites below.
Climate change made Hurricane Helene and other 2024 disasters …
2024年10月9日 · Deadly Hurricane Helene, wildfires in the Amazon, an extreme monsoon downpour in India, a heat wave during the Summer Olympics, and other dangerous and devastating weather events in 2024 were all made more likely and damaging by climate change, scientists have found.
As renewables rise, the world may be nearing a climate turning …
2024年12月4日 · Climate pollution caused by burning fossil fuels hit a record 37.4 billion metric tons in 2024, marking a 0.8% rise from the previous year – and dashing hopes that a peak in global emissions might occur this year.. That’s according to the latest annual Global Carbon Budget, which underscores a deeper challenge: the world’s ongoing reliance on coal, oil, and gas, which continues to drive ...
Climate news to watch in 2024 - Yale Climate Connections
2024年1月3日 · Although the clean technology investments were only starting to be deployed in 2023, U.S. climate pollution fell by about 2-3% compared to the previous year and is now 18-19% below 2005 levels. Climate pollution in the European Union improved even more, declining by about 6-7% in 2023 as the member nations accelerated their clean energy deployments — in part to reduce their reliance on ...
The world just broke a stunning slew of heat records. Why right …
2023年7月7日 · Hottest single days globally on record. Drawing on multi-source analyses from NOAA of daily global temperature that extend back to 1979, the Climate Reanalyzer website shows that July 3, 2023, was the warmest single day on record — only to be toppled by July 4, tied on July 5, and broken again on July 6 (see Figure 1 below). The Copernicus Climate Change Project, part of the European Center ...
Climate change could create millions of climate migrants by 2050
2024年12月26日 · As seas rise along the coast of Bangladesh, salt water is seeping into farmland, destroying soil fertility. So some farmers and families are moving to the huge city of Dhaka in search of better opportunities. It’s one of many places around the world where droughts, floods, sea level rise, and ...
A major milestone: Global climate pollution may have just peaked
2024年7月16日 · Global society may have finally slammed on the brakes for climate-warming pollution released by human fossil fuel combustion. According to the Carbon Monitor Project, the total global climate pollution released between February and May 2024 declined slightly from the amount released during the same period in 2023.Many experts believe that the clean energy transition has reached the point where ...