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Climate-heating greenhouse gases at record levels, says UN

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Carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide are far above pre-industrial levels. Details here.

Air travel is the fastest-growing source of emissions.

Killing Plants Is the Fastest Way to End the World

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A Manitoba corn crop ruined by a freak summer frost. A PinP photo.

A recently-published study has found that “climate change and human activity are dooming species at an unprecedented rate.” Story here.

Is Warming Bringing a Wave of New Diseases to Arctic Wildlife?

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Rapid warming and vanishing sea ice in the Arctic has enabled new species, from humpback whales to white-tailed deer, to spread northward. Scientists are increasingly concerned that some of these new arrivals may be bringing dangerous pathogens that could disrupt the region’s fragile ecosystems. Details here.

White-tailed deer feed on hay-bales in Manitoba.
A PinP photo.

Ragweed may expand its range northward with climate change

Science Daily

Hay fever allergy. Photo by championswimmer.

A new predictive model developed by ecologists and climate scientists suggests that climate change may allow common ragweed to extend its growing range northward and into major northeast metro areas, worsening conditions for millions of people with hay fever and asthma. Details here.

Cry me a river: Low water levels causing chaos in Germany

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A river boat in Cologne. CE photo, Uwe Aranas

A new island in Lake Constance. A river in Berlin flowing backward. Dead fish on the banks of lakes and ponds. Barges barely loaded so they don't run aground. More here.

PROFIT VS PEOPLE Corporate Power + Climate Change = Geocide

Susan George: We are faced with determined adversaries who care nothing about human rights or climate change. They only want a world in which they can make endless amounts of money using all available resources, no matter what the costs to nature and to human life.

Susan George is president of the board of the Trans National Institute, an international research and advocacy institute committed to building a just, democratic and sustainable world. She spoke at the Seminar of the International Center for the promotion of Human Rights [CIPDH] and Unesco titled “Interreligious and inter cultural dialogue: consciences and climate change”  in September in Buenos Aires.  Read her lecture here.

Enbridge Pipeline Explosion Forces First Nations Community to Flee

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A 36-inch natural gas transmission pipeline owned and operated by Enbridge exploded in rural land north of Prince George, B. C. this week, the Canadian pipeline company said in a media release. Story here.

Spills & explosions are no strangers to this corporation. Here, technicians
cut and remove a section of pipe in an earlier Enbridge incident - a
pipeline oil spill site near Marshall, Michigan. The U.S. E.P.A.

Gas is not a "bridge fuel" - it's a climate disaster! (Video)

Summary for Policymakers of IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5oC approved by governments

Damaged buildings in Hull, Québec three days after the tornado.
Photo by Roc 1981.

INCHEON, Republic of Korea, 8 Oct - Limiting global warming to 1.5oC would require rapid, far- reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society, the IPCC said in a new assessment. Details here.

Climate scientists are struggling to find the right words for very bad news

The Washington Post.

A much-awaited report from the U.N.'s top climate science panel will show an enormous gap between where we are and where we need to be to prevent dangerous levels of warming. Story here.

Hurricane Florence. NASA

Thawing permafrost may release more CO2 than previously thought, study suggests

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New research from University of Alberta ecologists show "mineral weathering" can be a significant contributor to Arctic climate change. More here.

Melting permafrost in Alaska. Photo by the US Geological Survey.

For the First Time, Scientists Prove Human Activity Is the Top Cause of Warming Antarctic Waters...

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...and not regular temperature variations or responses to natural climate change. More here.

Mt. Herschel, Antarctica, with a penguin colony in the foreground, 2006.

Photo by Andrew Mandemaker.

Florence Flooding Kills 5,500 Pigs, 3.4 Million Chickens in the Carolinas

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The North Carolina Department of Agriculture said Wednesday that the historic flooding from Florence has killed about 3.4 million chickens and turkeys and 5,500 hogs. More here.

A Season of Smoke

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One of the biggest tsunamis ever recorded was set off three years ago by a melting glacier

The Washington Post

A rare and extreme tsunami ripped across an Alaskan fjord three years ago after 180 million tons of mountain rock fell into the water, driving a devastating wave that stripped shorelines of trees and reached heights greater than 600 feet, a large team of scientists documented on Thursday. The October 2015 cataclysm in Taan Fiord in southeastern Alaska appears to have been the fourth-highest tsunami recorded in the past century, and its origins — linked to the retreat of a glacier — suggest that it’s the kind of event we may see more often because of a warming climate.The new study even bluntly calls it a “hazard occasioned by climate change.” Story here.

Bad News for Crops! Global Warming = More & Hungrier Bugs!

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A corn rootworm. Public Domain.

Crop losses for critical food grains will increase substantially as the climate warms, as rising temperatures increase the metabolic rate and population growth of insect pests, according to new research. More here.

Most harm will befall crops in the temperate zone (shown in green). 

Effective fisheries management can reduce extinction risk of marine fish stocks

Science News - University of British Columbia

Fishing boats docked in Canada's Bay of Fundy.   
Dillon Kereluk from White Rock, Canada.

Effective fisheries management plans, coupled with actions to limit greenhouse gas emissions, both separately, but especially in tandem, would have an immediate effect on the number of marine species that face extinction. More here.

Earth's Carbon Concentrations Have Soared to Levels Not Seen in 800,000 Years

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Sunset on the Canadian prairies. A PinP photo.

One NOAA oceanographer warns that even if humanity "stopped the greenhouse gases at their current concentrations today, the atmosphere would still continue to warm for next couple decades to maybe a century." Story here.