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‘Code red’ — UN scientists warn of worsening global warming 
The 3,000-plus-page report from 234 scientists said warming is worsening extremes such as heat waves, droughts, and floods. Tropical cyclones are getting stronger, while Arctic sea ice is dwindling in the summer. All these trends will get worse, the report said.
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Earth is getting so hot that temperatures in about a decade will probably blow past a level of warming that world leaders have sought to prevent, according to a report released Monday that the United Nations called a “code red for humanity.”
“It’s just guaranteed that it’s going to get worse,”
said report co-author Linda Mearns, a senior climate scientist at the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research. “Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.”
Earth is getting so hot that temperatures in about a decade will probably blow past a level of warming that world leaders have sought to prevent, according to a report released Monday that the United Nations called a “code red for humanity.” “It’s just guaranteed that it’s going to get worse,” said report co-author Linda Mearns, a senior climate scientist at the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research. “Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.”
rump said ::
"The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive."
rump said ::
"The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive."
The authoritative Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, which calls climate change clearly human-caused and “unequivocal” and “an established fact,” makes more precise and warmer forecasts for the 21st century than it did the last time it was issued, in 2013.
The report said, the world will cross the 1.5-degree-Celsius warming mark in the 2030s, earlier than past predictions. Warming has ramped up in recent years, data shows.
‘Code red’ — UN scientists warn of worsening global warming
The 3,000-plus-page report from 234 scientists said warming is worsening extremes such as heat waves, droughts, and floods. Tropical cyclones are getting stronger, while Arctic sea ice is dwindling in the summer. All these trends will get worse, the report said.
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“This report tells us that recent changes in the climate are widespread, rapid and intensifying, unprecedented in thousands of years,” said IPCC Vice Chair Ko Barrett, senior climate adviser for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
story cut from cnn :: “This report tells us that recent changes in the climate are widespread, rapid and intensifying, unprecedented in thousands of years,” said IPCC Vice Chair Ko Barrett, senior climate adviser for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
With crucial international climate negotiations coming up in Scotland in November, world leaders said the report is causing them to try harder to cut carbon pollution. U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken called it “a stark reminder.”
story cut from cnn :: “This report tells us that recent changes in the climate are widespread, rapid and intensifying, unprecedented in thousands of years,” said IPCC Vice Chair Ko Barrett, senior climate adviser for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
With crucial international climate negotiations coming up in Scotland in November, world leaders said the report is causing them to try harder to cut carbon pollution. U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken called it “a stark reminder.”
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‘Code red’ — UN scientists warn of worsening global warming
The 3,000-plus-page report from 234 scientists said warming is worsening extremes such as heat waves, droughts, and floods. Tropical cyclones are getting stronger, while Arctic sea ice is dwindling in the summer. All these trends will get worse, the report said.
For example, the kind of heat wave that used to happen only once every 50 years now happens once a decade, and if the world warms another degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit), it will happen twice every seven years, the report said.
As the planet warms, places will get hit more not just by extreme weather but by multiple climate disasters at once, the report said. That’s like what’s now happening in the Western U.S., where heat waves, drought and wildfires compound the damage, Mearns said. Extreme heat is also driving massive fires in Greece and Turkey.
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Some harm from climate change — dwindling ice sheets, rising sea levels and changes in the oceans as they lose oxygen and become more acidic — is “irreversible for centuries to millennia,” the report said.
The world is “locked in” to 6 to 12 inches of sea level rise by mid-century, said report co-author Bob Kopp of Rutgers University.
Oddly, Fox news continue to promote global warming as a hoax despite overwhelming scientific evidences to the contrary. Nowadays, over 90% of top climate scientists accept manmade climate change. So Fox news have to resort to hiring non-experts to deny the truth. Fossil fuel lobbying at its worst.
Oh look one of our forum trolls is back from prison.
So first thing he does? Start trolling all over again.
thats what trolls do
Oh look one of our forum trolls is back from prison.
So first thing he does? Start trolling all over again.
thats what trolls do
True. And apparently we just picked up another one ...
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California's colossal Dixie Fire has destroyed nearly 550 homes; another 14,000 are at risk
The Dixie Fire is the largest single fire in California history
Heat waves and historic drought tied to climate change have made wildfires harder to fight in the American West. Scientists have said climate change has made the region much warmer and drier in the past 30 years and will continue to make the weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive.
The fires across the West come as parts of Europe also are enduring large blazes spurred by tinder-dry conditions.
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Get used to surging food prices: (inflation)
Extreme weather is here to stay
New York (CNN Business)Devastating heat. Debilitating droughts. Crippling frost. Extreme weather is creating nightmares for farmers around the world -- and making food more expensive for Americans.( inflation)
The food price spikes demonstrate how extreme weather, much of it caused by the climate crisis, is having a real-world impact on Americans. ( inflation)
And climate scientists warn the fallout will only intensify from here. (more inflation )
"Climate change is coming right into our dining room tables," Cynthia Rosenzweig, adjunct senior research scientist at the Columbia University Earth Institute, told CNN Business.
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Get used to surging food prices: ( inflation)
Extreme weather is here to stay
World food prices have soared by 31% over the past year (inflation ), according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Supply shortages caused by extreme weather is one of several factors behind this food price inflation.
"There's no doubt that changes in weather patterns are impacting our food supply," said Jennifer Bartashus, a senior analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence who covers retail staples and packaged food.
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Get used to surging food prices: ( inflation)
Extreme weather is here to stay
The rise in food prices can be partly driven by other factors
For instance, some food inflation is being caused by a shortage of workers (caused by the 2020 pandemic), including in the agricultural sector (immigrants ) amid the pandemic and also Trump administration's crackdown on immigration.
Transportation costs to deliver produce are also high because of elevated oil prices and a shortage of truck drivers.
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Get used to surging food prices: ( inflation)
Extreme weather is here to stay
The rise in food prices can be partly driven by other factors
93% of wheat in poor condition in Washington State
Wheat prices are going up in part due to "concerns over dry weather and crop conditions in North America," according to the UN food agency. Specifically, droughts in Canada and the Northwestern part of the United States have wiped out wheat crops.
The most recent crop report published by the USDA found that just 11% of spring wheat across six US states is in good to excellent condition. That's down from 69% a year ago.
In Washington State, a staggering 93% of the spring wheat is in poor or very poor condition because of droughts, according to the Drought Monitor.
"It's been cooked. Day in and day out they're getting temperatures they've never seen before," Yawger said.
The most recent crop report published by the USDA found that just 11% of spring wheat across six US states is in good to excellent condition. That's down from 69% a year ago. In Washington State, a staggering 93% of the spring wheat is in poor or very poor condition because of droughts, according to the Drought Monitor."It's been cooked. Day in and day out they're getting temperatures they've never seen before," Yawger said.
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'Complete crop failure' More than 95% of the Western part of the United States is currently in some level of drought.
"Droughts have caused some farmers to stop growing some crops altogether -- complete crop failure," said Rosenzweig.
obviously this drives up prices for the available wheat .
supply and demand .
and that rise in prices is part of fueling current inflation
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