Mother Jones: Even the Trump Administration Acknowledges That Global Temperatures Are Rising to Catastrophic Levels

"Predictions of climate change’s devastating impact—coastal flooding, demonstrable sea level rise, and more extreme weather events, to name a few—are so ubiquitous it becomes nearly impossible to fully understand their potentially catastrophic implications. But an acknowledgement last week that global temperatures may rise by a shocking 7 degrees by 2100 was startling for many reasons, especially because the Trump administration was the source of the estimate."

Dan Spinelli October 1, 2018 12:58 PM

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Union of Concerned Scientists: Why is ExxonMobil Still Funding Climate Science Denier Groups?- Allegations

"A decade after pledging to end its support for climate science deniers, ExxonMobil gave $1.5 million last year to 11 think tanks and lobby groups that reject established climate science and openly oppose the oil and gas giant’s professed climate policy preferences, according to the company’s annual charitable giving report released this week."

"ExxonMobil’s history of deceit

There is ample evidence that Exxon was fully aware of the danger its products pose to the planet since the 1980s and likely even earlier. Nonetheless, the company helped initiate a fossil fuel industry-backed climate disinformation campaign in 1998, a year before it merged with Mobil."

Elliott Negin, senior writer | August 31, 2018, 12:42 pm EST 

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Science News article: Earth's oceans have absorbed 60 percent more heat than previously thought

Date:

October 31, 2018

Source:

Princeton University

Summary:

Since 1991, the world's oceans have absorbed an amount of heat energy each year that is 150 times the energy humans produce as electricity annually, according to a new study. The strong ocean warming the researchers found suggests that Earth is more sensitive to fossil-fuel emissions than previously thought.

Excerpts: 

"Climate sensitivity is used to evaluate allowable emissions for mitigation strategies. Most climate scientists have agreed in the past decade that if global average temperatures exceed pre-industrial levels by 2? (3.6?), it is all but certain that society will face widespread and dangerous consequences of climate change.

The researchers' findings suggest that if society is to prevent temperatures from rising above that mark, emissions of carbon dioxide, the chief greenhouse gas produced by human activities, must be reduced by 25 percent compared to what was previously estimated, Resplandy said.

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FP article: The Hope at the Heart of the Apocalyptic Climate Change Report

Along with their latest dire predictions, the world’s leading climate scientists offered a new path forward—but will anyone take it?

 

"When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published a new special report last week, it came with both good news and bad.

From The post-human world site: A New Life Awaits Us On The ALIEN EARTH

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Last year it finally dawned on me that we’d never solve climate change in time.

That the operative question was now: what would the world would be like after it?

Climate change: Human driven mass extinction

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Australia's Environment Minister has let the public down yet again with her silence on the WWF's damning report into human-driven mass extinction, the Greens say.

"Today's World Wide Fund for Nature report is harrowing. But, as usual, we have not heard a peep from our Environment Minister Melissa Price on how the Liberal Government is going to act," Greens environment spokesperson Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said.

TINY SPEND ON 'EMERGING ENERGY' WON'T FIX NSW GOVT'S LACK OF CREDIBLE ENERGY AND EMISSIONS REDUCTION

The NSW Government has today launched an Emerging Energy Fund that promises $55 million for gas and renewable energy, a figure the Greens have slammed as totally inadequate and  lacking the ambition needed to transition NSW towards 100% renewable energy.
The $55 million is totally insufficient when you consider the NSW Government:
*         Received $37 billion from privatising the state's electricity assets since their election;
*         Received $4.1 billion for the transfer of Snowy Hydro to the federal government;
*         Underspent the NSW Climate Change Fund by $252 million between $2014-17;