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We Now Know How Much Climate Change Contributed to Australia’s Disastrous Bushfires Global Warming

We Now Know How Much Climate Change Contributed to Australia’s Disastrous Bushfires

This is what a climate emergency looks like.Photo: GettyThe most recent Australian bushfire season from hell is one for the record books. And a new analysis published Wednesday shows all the ways humans made it worse, and it’s clearer than ever that climate change left its mark all over this…
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March 4, 2020
Climate change boosted Australia bushfire risk by at least 30% Global Warming

Climate change boosted Australia bushfire risk by at least 30%

Image copyright MARTIN OLLMAN Image caption The 2019-2020 fire season was particularly challenging for Australia Scientists have published the first assessment quantifying the role of climate change in the recent Australian bushfires.Global warming boosted the risk of the hot, dry weather that's likely to cause bushfires by at least 30%,…
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March 4, 2020
Rising Sea Levels, Coastal Erosion: New Report Says Half the World’s Sandy Beaches at Risk From Climate Change By 2100 Global Warming

Rising Sea Levels, Coastal Erosion: New Report Says Half the World’s Sandy Beaches at Risk From Climate Change By 2100

(BERLIN) — Scientists say that half of the world’s sandy beaches could disappear by the end of the century if climate change continues unchecked. Researchers at the European Union’s Joint Research Center in Ispra, Italy, used satellite images to track the way beaches have changed over the past 30 years…
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March 2, 2020
NYT: Interior official pushes misleading information on climate crisis in reports Global Warming

NYT: Interior official pushes misleading information on climate crisis in reports

Washington (CNN)An Interior Department official pushed misleading information about climate change into the agency's reports, according to The New York Times, at a time when the Trump administration has rolled back environmental protection regulations and repeatedly downplayed the effects of the climate crisis. Citing emails and documents from the department,…
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March 2, 2020