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https://www.europesays.com/people/60050/ Bill Gates makes major climate change reversal after years of doomerism: ‘People will be able to live and thrive’ #Bill&MelindaGatesFoundation #BillGates #ClimateActivists #ClimateChange #ClimateDisaster #GlobalTemperature #GlobalTemperatures #GreenhouseGasEmissions #PoorestCountries
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Bill Gates makes major climate change reversal after years of doomerism: ‘People will be able to live and thrive’ https://www.byteseu.com/1996463/ #Bill&MelindaGatesFoundation #BillGates #Climate #ClimateActivists #ClimateChange #ClimateDisaster #GlobalTemperature #GlobalTemperatures #GlobalWarming #GreenhouseGasEmissions #PoorestCountries
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Hurdles to a hobby: How climate change and ‘runfluencer’ culture impact our daily jog
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#Berkeley #BerkeleyEarth #GlobalTemperature #RobertRohde #ZekeHausfather
February 2026 nominally 2nd warmest February on record
Average
- global temperature 1.55 ± 0.12 °C (2.78 ± 0.22 °F)
- land temperatures 2.55 ± 0.30 °C (4.59 ± 0.55 °F)
- ocean temperatures 1.04 ± 0.17 °C (1.87 ± 0.30 °F)
above 1850-1900 averagehttps://berkeleyearth.org/february-2026-temperature-update/
#climate #ClimateScience #climatechange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis
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#Berkeley #BerkeleyEarth #GlobalTemperature #RobertRohde #ZekeHausfather
February 2026 nominally 2nd warmest February on record
Average
- global temperature 1.55 ± 0.12 °C (2.78 ± 0.22 °F)
- land temperatures 2.55 ± 0.30 °C (4.59 ± 0.55 °F)
- ocean temperatures 1.04 ± 0.17 °C (1.87 ± 0.30 °F)
above 1850-1900 averagehttps://berkeleyearth.org/february-2026-temperature-update/
#climate #ClimateScience #climatechange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis
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#Berkeley #BerkeleyEarth #GlobalTemperature #RobertRohde #ZekeHausfather
February 2026 nominally 2nd warmest February on record
Average
- global temperature 1.55 ± 0.12 °C (2.78 ± 0.22 °F)
- land temperatures 2.55 ± 0.30 °C (4.59 ± 0.55 °F)
- ocean temperatures 1.04 ± 0.17 °C (1.87 ± 0.30 °F)
above 1850-1900 averagehttps://berkeleyearth.org/february-2026-temperature-update/
#climate #ClimateScience #climatechange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis
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#Berkeley #BerkeleyEarth #GlobalTemperature #RobertRohde #ZekeHausfather
February 2026 nominally 2nd warmest February on record
Average
- global temperature 1.55 ± 0.12 °C (2.78 ± 0.22 °F)
- land temperatures 2.55 ± 0.30 °C (4.59 ± 0.55 °F)
- ocean temperatures 1.04 ± 0.17 °C (1.87 ± 0.30 °F)
above 1850-1900 averagehttps://berkeleyearth.org/february-2026-temperature-update/
#climate #ClimateScience #climatechange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis
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#Berkeley #BerkeleyEarth #GlobalTemperature #RobertRohde #ZekeHausfather
February 2026 nominally 2nd warmest February on record
Average
- global temperature 1.55 ± 0.12 °C (2.78 ± 0.22 °F)
- land temperatures 2.55 ± 0.30 °C (4.59 ± 0.55 °F)
- ocean temperatures 1.04 ± 0.17 °C (1.87 ± 0.30 °F)
above 1850-1900 averagehttps://berkeleyearth.org/february-2026-temperature-update/
#climate #ClimateScience #climatechange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis
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Paleoclimatology: Earth's Past Explains Unprecedented Modern Warming Trend
#climatechange #climateforecast #CopernicusClimateChangeService #Globaltemperature #paleoclimatology
https://blazetrends.com/paleoclimatology-earths-past-explains-unprecedented-modern-warming-trend/?fsp_sid=156174 -
The remaining glaciers of California’s Sierra Nevada are vanishing
For as long as there have been people in what is now California, the granite peaks of the…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #andrewjones #California #glacier #globaltemperature #ICE #largeglacier #late1800 #researcher #Rock #Science #Scientist #sierranevada #stream #study #year #yosemite
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The remaining glaciers of California’s Sierra Nevada are vanishing
For as long as there have been people in what is now California, the granite peaks of the…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #andrewjones #California #glacier #globaltemperature #ICE #largeglacier #late1800 #researcher #Rock #Science #Scientist #sierranevada #stream #study #year #yosemite
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The world is on track for between 1.9 and 3.7°C of warming by 2100
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2465472-the-world-is-on-track-for-between-1-9-and-3-7c-of-warming-by-2100/#climatechange #climatecollapse #greenhouseeffect #extinctionrisk #anthropogenicclimatechange #stopai #extinction #globaltemperature
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And now, the moment you’ve all been waiting for…
Previously on “merging global temperatures”, we looked at different ways of hierarchically grouping global temperature datasets to get a reasonable best estimate and uncertainty range. There were three principle ways to do that grouping: by SST data set, by LSAT dataset, and by INERTPolation method (the errant capitalisation will have a purposed later).
I put these different groupings through my code for calculating an ensemble of ensembles and got the following summary statistics. I show here the annual means and a lowess smoothed series to highlight any differences in shorter and longer term behaviour.
First plot shows the means of the three ensembles and, as you can see, there is very little difference between them, so I won’t analyse this in detail.
Next up the standard deviation of the ensemble. There are some small differences here which are interesting.
The SST ensemble has a higher standard deviation in the 1880-1915 window possibly reflective of differences between marine datasets around this period. The LSAT ensemble has a larger standard deviation in the post 1930 period. Even though the differences are visible, they are still relatively small. The rule of thumb is that uncertainties in uncertainties are usually worse than 10% so we’re in that fuzzy zone where we can maybe explain why we see differences, but at the same time, we maybe don’t need to worry about them too much.
So, after all that, not much difference. This is a good thing though. It suggests that we’re not overly sensitive to reasonable choices about how to split up the ensemble.
We can also compare to what would happen if we just treated each dataset equally, as if they were all independent.
It doesn’t make much difference to the mean, but the uncertainty…
There’s a big difference there, with equal weighting generally coming in with a lower estimate of the uncertainty vs all the other combinations. This partly comes from burying DCENT in a mound of datasets that, for all their differences, are quite similar particularly in the early 20th century. I think this is a vote in favour of a more complex weighting.
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Bear with
It started with a trifling dissatisfaction with how the IPCC arrived at their composite global temperature series which then developed as new datasets came out. Or perhaps even before then, with a similarly trifling dissatisfaction on the very same topic. My blog doesn’t get a lot of comments, but the two more recent posts have had a lot of very interesting and technical comments from Bruce Calvert (Thanks Bruce) on how to formalise some of the ideas. My latest post on the topic largely ignored the formalisms because I have a preference for simple methods (and a small brain).
What both are trying to do is satisfy a bunch of criteria. We have a set of different global temperature datasets, but what we want is:
- A single dataset…
- That integrates all of the information that the individual datasets provide
- Also, integrating all the knowledge we have that isn’t necessarily tied up in those datasets
- With a reasonable central estimate
- And an uncertainty range that represents our uncertainty
- which can be used to generate samples that are representative of uncertainty at all time scales
- and are representative of actual global temperature variability
These criteria would make a useful dataset with broad utility.
My method (as it has developed) provides 1, 4, 5, and 6, but falls short on 2, 3 and 7 by throwing out some information and mixing together datasets that represent somewhat different things. One could quibble about 4, 5, and 6 of course.
The Guttorp and Craigmile method (see also) provides 1, 4, 6, and 7, but does less well (in my assessment, see the links above) on 2, 3 and 5. In places their central estimate is likely compromised by poor dataset choices and they ignore information that is available in the datasets. These issues could be remedied.
Is it reasonable? Well, it includes some older datasets (e.g. GETQUOCS) that have old bias adjustments because they have a nice uncertainty analysis. One might even argue that with the publication of DCENT, all other datasets are questionable. I would counter that by noting that the major compelling improvements from DCENT really affect the early 20th century warming, but prior to that it just widens the uncertainty range.
Does it really represent our uncertainty? Again, it’s hard to say. We have an ensemble of opportunity and rather a poor one at that. The hierarchical grouping I suggested is healthier than it was when I first suggested it. We now have DCENT and COBE-STEMP3, which broaden the range of estimates, but we are still trying to estimate a broad distribution with a handful of samples. My method is only as broad as the range of the datasets we have but this is partly by design. Another thing missing is the fact that we know that mixing and matching the land and ocean components of NOAAGlobalTemp and HadCRUT would widen the spread.
Does it use all the information? No. The hierarchy tries to encode the major covariances that define the structural uncertainties, assuming these come from the choice of SST (or marine temperature) dataset. We know that datasets use similar land temperature datasets and largely the same sea ice datasets. I also don’t use uncertainty ranges if they’re not represented by an ensemble. This is partly in order to avoid having to make assumptions about the correlation structures of the errors and partly because I don’t know what those structures are. I’m also missing information from the NOAAGlobalTemp ensemble. That would be a very useful addition. The Vaccaro dataset also has an ensemble and an interestingly different interpolation approach. And now there is a new dataset in preprint, GloSAT, which combines marine air temperatures with land air temperatures to give a completely new beast.
How to do better?
One obvious way is to get those missing ensembles.
Another is to employ the more formal statistical approach
Sticking with my simplistic approach, Bruce came up with an interestingly objective way to weight datasets using the estimated covariances between them. This would rely on expert judgement and it seems like this would be a difficult issue. There’s not a single covariance between datasets. Say two datasets use the same SST dataset, but different interpolation methods and land temperatures. At any time step, the two datasets will effectively give the SST dataset different weights and those weights will change over time. That means the covariance will change over time too. The temporal structure will also vary with time. It’s complex but we could come up with reasonable approximations. We could weight land and ocean as 30:70 representing the ratio, or have some simple smoothed representation. We could develop a hierarchy of hierarchies. We could take a survey of experts, asking them to make their covariance estimates. etc.
So, a first minimal extension is to include GloSAT and Vaccaro ensembles, because the data are just there begging to be used. I rearranged the hierarchy to put Vaccaro and GETQUOCS in the same category and separated them from the HadCRUT5 datasets. I also jacked the ensemble up to 50,000 members because I can and I want to make matplotlib explode.
The shape of the uncertainty curve might look odd, but it’s just a consequence of using 1850-1900 as a baseline. Uncertainty is generally smaller during the baseline period because each ensemble member is forced to average to zero during that period. It increases afterwards because there is a lot of uncertainty in the early 20th century.
Till next time…
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Researchers point out that the rapid increase in global temperature might be due to reduced planetary albedo.
https://newstainmentora.blogspot.com/2024/12/researchers-point-out-that-rapid.html
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Sunday Monday and Tuesday this week all exceeded Global Daily Average Temperature Record set in July 2023. Welcome to the Anthropocene.
“Monday 22 July revised to 17.16C, as Tuesday comes in at 17.15C. Both break the Sunday global temperature record and all break the global temperature record set last year
17.15C 23 July 2024
17.16C 22 July 2024
17.09C 21 July 2024
17.08C 6 July 2023 “ - 🇦🇺climatologist Andrew Watkins
#GlobalTemperature #climatecrisis
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#GlobalTemperature Anomalies from 1880 to 2023
From the #NASA Scientific Visualisation StudioFrom blue, to yellow, to burnt orange in 140 years
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5207/courtesy Gerald Kutney
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Global 2m surface temperatures spiked to 1.98°C above the 1850-1900 IPCC baseline on Nov 17 according to Prof Eliot Jacobson at the birdsite.
Only one day since 1940 has been more extreme: Feb. 28, 2016, with an anomaly of 1.99°C.
Update: The global 2m temperature on Nov. 18 was 2.01°C.
Based on the first 17 days of November, this month is heading towards a new global heat record.
#ClimateCrisis #GlobalTemperature
https://twitter.com/EliotJacobson/status/1725849894941024543
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The era of global boiling has arrived, says UN Secretary General, as July is the hottest month in recorded history. Cartoon for Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/opinie/spotprent~bbc70587/
I'm taking a break for summer. I'll be back with new cartoons at the end of August. See you then!
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Climate scientists need to be conveying daily info to the public in the same way that news organisations supply the business world with info on FTSE index and stocks and shares etc. So on news bulletins, we need regular updates on CO2 ppm; global temperature; stats on sea ice, sea surface temperatures etc. Is there an easy way to find this data and convey the info to general public? #climatescience #news #globaltemperature #seaice #statistics #ipcc #unitednations
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https://www.sciencealert.com/its-official-monday-was-the-hottest-day-on-earth-since-records-began
Monday July 3rd, was the hottest day on record, since we've begun keeping records An average of 17.01 degrees Celsius (62.6 F). Last year held the record before this, at 16.92 C.
The average global temperature typically tends to rise until the end of July or beginning of august.
#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Science #Temperature #GlobalTemperature #NOAA
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This visual shows how climate change will affect generations. A key graphic in the latest UN #IPCC #ClimateChange report shows how average global #temperature has changed over time https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/03/21/climate-ipcc-report-temperatures-graphic #TimesUp #GlobalHeating #ClimateCrisis #GlobalTemperature #health #environment #wildlife #humans
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2021 obeyed physics, was one of the warmest years on record - Enlarge (credit: NOAA)
We are still in the midst of running a ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1825722 #globaltemperature #climatechange #science
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Can temperature patterns predict next year’s global average? - Enlarge / One interesting way to look at the world: the darker the red, the closer the correlation ... more: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1685153 #globaltemperature #climatechange #science
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2019 was likely Earth’s second-hottest year on record - Enlarge / Temperature above or below the 1950-1981 average, in kelvins (equivalent to degrees C). (... more: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1644167 #globaltemperature #climatechange #science
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Natural cycles had little to do with 20th-century temperature trends - Enlarge (credit: UpNorthMemories)
Reconstructing crime scenes is more or less what most geoscient... more: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1508283 #globaltemperature #climatechange #science -
High time to to put the environment at the heart of people’s lives
In 2018 lots of people had hoped that many politicians all over the world would be willing to put the environment at the heart of people’s lives.
The United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (the UN-REDD Programme) which was the first joint UN global initiative on climate change could celebrate its 10th anniversary.
Many observers have suggested that we are witnessing a new mass extinction event (Ceballos et al. 2015), although there is as yet no scientific consensus. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) (Box 6.4) Red List of Threatened Species (http://www.iucnredlist.org/) provides the most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of plant, animal and fungi species. The Red List process has become a massive enterprise involving the IUCN Global Species Program staff, partner organizations and experts in the IUCN Species Survival Commission and partner networks who compile the species information to make The IUCN Red List the indispensable product it is today.
To date, many species groups including mammals, amphibians, birds, reef building corals and conifers have been comprehensively assessed. As well as assessing newly recognized species, the IUCN Red List also re-assesses the status of some existing species, sometimes with positive stories to tell.
More than 27,000 species are threatened with extinction. That is more than 27% of all assessed species. We all should be deeply concerned about ongoing and new threats to the animal species.
The status of vertebrates has been relatively well studied (Rodrigues et al. 2014), but fewer than 1 per cent of described invertebrates (Collen et al. 2012) and only about 5 per cent of vascular plants (Royal Botanical Gardens Kew 2016) have been assessed for extinction risk.
According to IUCN’s latest estimates, cycad species face the greatest risk of extinction with 63 per cent of species in this plant group considered threatened. The most threatened group of vertebrates are amphibians (41 per cent). Of the few invertebrate species assessments completed, 42 per cent of terrestrial, 34 per cent of freshwater and 25 per cent of marine species are considered at risk of extinction (Collen et al. 2012). Among well sampled invertebrate groups, reef-forming corals have the highest proportion (33 per cent) of species under threat.
We all should know the decline should not go on. We can reverse or at least halt, the decline in biodiversity. But this will demand political courage, empathy and respect for all species.
The physical signs and socio-economic impacts of climate change are accelerating as record greenhouse gas concentrations drive global temperatures towards increasingly dangerous levels, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
The WMO Greenhouse Gas Bulletin reports on atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases in the earth’s atmosphere. The report found that levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have reached another new record high, according to the World Meteorological Organization. There is no sign of a reversal in this trend, which is driving long-term climate change, sea level rise, ocean acidification and more extreme weather.The most comprehensive and rigorous assessment on the state of the environment completed by the UN in the last five years was published the 19th of March 2019, warning that damage to the planet is so dire that people’s health will be increasingly threatened unless urgent action is taken.
The report, which was produced by 250 scientists and experts from more than 70 countries, says that either we drastically scale up environmental protections, or cities and regions in Asia, the Middle East and Africa could see millions of premature deaths by mid-century. It also warns that pollutants in our freshwater systems will see anti-microbial resistance become a major cause of death by 2050 and endocrine disruptors impact male and female fertility, as well as child neurodevelopment.
But the report highlights the fact that the world has the science, technology and finance it needs to move towards a more sustainable development pathway, although sufficient support is still missing from the public, business and political leaders who are clinging to outdated production and development models.
The sixth Global Environmental Outlook has been released while environmental ministers from around the world are in Nairobi to participate in the world’s highest-level environmental forum. Negotiations at the Fourth UN Environment Assembly are expected to tackle critical issues such as stopping food waste, promoting the spread of electric mobility, and tackling the crisis of plastic pollution in our oceans, among many other pressing challenges.
“The science is clear. The health and prosperity of humanity is directly tied with the state of our environment,”
said Joyce Msuya, Acting Executive Director of UN Environment.
“This report is an outlook for humanity. We are at a crossroads. Do we continue on our current path, which will lead to a bleak future for humankind, or do we pivot to a more sustainable development pathway? That is the choice our political leaders must make, now.”
Innovative policy options
The projection of a future healthy planet with healthy people is based on a new way of thinking where the ‘grow now, clean up after’ model is changed to a near-zero-waste economy by 2050. According to the Outlook, green investment of 2 per cent of countries’ GDP would deliver long-term growth as high as we presently projected but with fewer impacts from climate change, water scarcity and loss of ecosystems.
At present the world is not on track to meet the SDGs by 2030 or 2050. Urgent action is required now as any delay in climate action increases the cost of achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement, or reversing our progress and at some point, will make them impossible.
The report advises adopting less-meat intensive diets, and reducing food waste in both developed and developing countries, would reduce the need to increase food production by 50% to feed the projected 9-10 billion people on the planet in 2050. At present, 33 per cent of global edible food is wasted, and 56 per cent of waste happens in industrialized countries, the report states.
While urbanization is happening at an unprecedented level globally, the report says it can present an opportunity to increase citizens’ well-being while decreasing their environmental footprint through improved governance, land-use planning and green infrastructure. Furthermore, strategic investment in rural areas would reduce pressure for people to migrate.
The report calls for action to curb the flow of the 8 million tons of plastic pollution going into oceans each year. While the issue has received increased attention in recent years, there is still no global agreement to tackle marine litter.
The scientists note advancements in collecting environmental statistics, particularly geospatial data, and highlight there is huge potential for advancing knowledge using big data and stronger data collection collaborations between public and private partners.
Policy interventions that address entire systems – such as energy, food, and waste – rather than individual issues, such as water pollution, can be much more effective, according to the authors. For example, a stable climate and clean air are interlinked; the climate mitigation actions for achieving the Paris Agreement targets would cost about US$ 22 trillion, but the combined health benefits from reduced air pollution could amount to an additional US$ 54 trillion.
“The report shows that policies and technologies already exist to fashion new development pathways that will avoid these risks and lead to health and prosperity for all people,”
said Joyeeta Gupta and Paul Ekins, co-chairs of the GEO-6 process.
“What is currently lacking is the political will to implement policies and technologies at a sufficient speed and scale. The fourth United Nations Environment Assembly in Nairobi in March needs to be the occasion when policymakers face up to the challenges and grasp the opportunities of a much brighter future for humanity.”
Everywhere in the world people should open their eyes and see around them how the climate is changing and how natures is intruding much more our way of life, by offering us more extreme weather types, with storms, floods,a.o..
In the United States of America there are deniers or people who want others to believe all that talk about global warming is fake news. They are not only misleading their own folks, they are endangering them too. In name of industrialisation and capital growth certain leaders mislead their people and do everything to give more opportunities to earn more money no matter what the impact on the environment may be. They are not interested in the world around them and certainly not interested in animal life and wellness for plants.
But we as creatures should know we are only placed into this world to use it as ‘tenants’, which demands from us to take care of it, with the knowledge that it does not belong to us personally.Each of us personally has to take their own responsibility and should be aware of the urgency for changing route in this world. All of us should take up the responsibility to safe or to repair this world for the next generations.
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- Africa’s human existence and development under threat from the adverse impacts of climate change
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High time to to put the environment at the heart of people’s lives
In 2018 lots of people had hoped that many politicians all over the world would be willing to put the environment at the heart of people’s lives.
The United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (the UN-REDD Programme) which was the first joint UN global initiative on climate change could celebrate its 10th anniversary.
Many observers have suggested that we are witnessing a new mass extinction event (Ceballos et al. 2015), although there is as yet no scientific consensus. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) (Box 6.4) Red List of Threatened Species (http://www.iucnredlist.org/) provides the most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of plant, animal and fungi species. The Red List process has become a massive enterprise involving the IUCN Global Species Program staff, partner organizations and experts in the IUCN Species Survival Commission and partner networks who compile the species information to make The IUCN Red List the indispensable product it is today.
To date, many species groups including mammals, amphibians, birds, reef building corals and conifers have been comprehensively assessed. As well as assessing newly recognized species, the IUCN Red List also re-assesses the status of some existing species, sometimes with positive stories to tell.
More than 27,000 species are threatened with extinction. That is more than 27% of all assessed species. We all should be deeply concerned about ongoing and new threats to the animal species.
The status of vertebrates has been relatively well studied (Rodrigues et al. 2014), but fewer than 1 per cent of described invertebrates (Collen et al. 2012) and only about 5 per cent of vascular plants (Royal Botanical Gardens Kew 2016) have been assessed for extinction risk.
According to IUCN’s latest estimates, cycad species face the greatest risk of extinction with 63 per cent of species in this plant group considered threatened. The most threatened group of vertebrates are amphibians (41 per cent). Of the few invertebrate species assessments completed, 42 per cent of terrestrial, 34 per cent of freshwater and 25 per cent of marine species are considered at risk of extinction (Collen et al. 2012). Among well sampled invertebrate groups, reef-forming corals have the highest proportion (33 per cent) of species under threat.
We all should know the decline should not go on. We can reverse or at least halt, the decline in biodiversity. But this will demand political courage, empathy and respect for all species.
The physical signs and socio-economic impacts of climate change are accelerating as record greenhouse gas concentrations drive global temperatures towards increasingly dangerous levels, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
The WMO Greenhouse Gas Bulletin reports on atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases in the earth’s atmosphere. The report found that levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have reached another new record high, according to the World Meteorological Organization. There is no sign of a reversal in this trend, which is driving long-term climate change, sea level rise, ocean acidification and more extreme weather.The most comprehensive and rigorous assessment on the state of the environment completed by the UN in the last five years was published the 19th of March 2019, warning that damage to the planet is so dire that people’s health will be increasingly threatened unless urgent action is taken.
The report, which was produced by 250 scientists and experts from more than 70 countries, says that either we drastically scale up environmental protections, or cities and regions in Asia, the Middle East and Africa could see millions of premature deaths by mid-century. It also warns that pollutants in our freshwater systems will see anti-microbial resistance become a major cause of death by 2050 and endocrine disruptors impact male and female fertility, as well as child neurodevelopment.
But the report highlights the fact that the world has the science, technology and finance it needs to move towards a more sustainable development pathway, although sufficient support is still missing from the public, business and political leaders who are clinging to outdated production and development models.
The sixth Global Environmental Outlook has been released while environmental ministers from around the world are in Nairobi to participate in the world’s highest-level environmental forum. Negotiations at the Fourth UN Environment Assembly are expected to tackle critical issues such as stopping food waste, promoting the spread of electric mobility, and tackling the crisis of plastic pollution in our oceans, among many other pressing challenges.
“The science is clear. The health and prosperity of humanity is directly tied with the state of our environment,”
said Joyce Msuya, Acting Executive Director of UN Environment.
“This report is an outlook for humanity. We are at a crossroads. Do we continue on our current path, which will lead to a bleak future for humankind, or do we pivot to a more sustainable development pathway? That is the choice our political leaders must make, now.”
Innovative policy options
The projection of a future healthy planet with healthy people is based on a new way of thinking where the ‘grow now, clean up after’ model is changed to a near-zero-waste economy by 2050. According to the Outlook, green investment of 2 per cent of countries’ GDP would deliver long-term growth as high as we presently projected but with fewer impacts from climate change, water scarcity and loss of ecosystems.
At present the world is not on track to meet the SDGs by 2030 or 2050. Urgent action is required now as any delay in climate action increases the cost of achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement, or reversing our progress and at some point, will make them impossible.
The report advises adopting less-meat intensive diets, and reducing food waste in both developed and developing countries, would reduce the need to increase food production by 50% to feed the projected 9-10 billion people on the planet in 2050. At present, 33 per cent of global edible food is wasted, and 56 per cent of waste happens in industrialized countries, the report states.
While urbanization is happening at an unprecedented level globally, the report says it can present an opportunity to increase citizens’ well-being while decreasing their environmental footprint through improved governance, land-use planning and green infrastructure. Furthermore, strategic investment in rural areas would reduce pressure for people to migrate.
The report calls for action to curb the flow of the 8 million tons of plastic pollution going into oceans each year. While the issue has received increased attention in recent years, there is still no global agreement to tackle marine litter.
The scientists note advancements in collecting environmental statistics, particularly geospatial data, and highlight there is huge potential for advancing knowledge using big data and stronger data collection collaborations between public and private partners.
Policy interventions that address entire systems – such as energy, food, and waste – rather than individual issues, such as water pollution, can be much more effective, according to the authors. For example, a stable climate and clean air are interlinked; the climate mitigation actions for achieving the Paris Agreement targets would cost about US$ 22 trillion, but the combined health benefits from reduced air pollution could amount to an additional US$ 54 trillion.
“The report shows that policies and technologies already exist to fashion new development pathways that will avoid these risks and lead to health and prosperity for all people,”
said Joyeeta Gupta and Paul Ekins, co-chairs of the GEO-6 process.
“What is currently lacking is the political will to implement policies and technologies at a sufficient speed and scale. The fourth United Nations Environment Assembly in Nairobi in March needs to be the occasion when policymakers face up to the challenges and grasp the opportunities of a much brighter future for humanity.”
Everywhere in the world people should open their eyes and see around them how the climate is changing and how natures is intruding much more our way of life, by offering us more extreme weather types, with storms, floods,a.o..
In the United States of America there are deniers or people who want others to believe all that talk about global warming is fake news. They are not only misleading their own folks, they are endangering them too. In name of industrialisation and capital growth certain leaders mislead their people and do everything to give more opportunities to earn more money no matter what the impact on the environment may be. They are not interested in the world around them and certainly not interested in animal life and wellness for plants.
But we as creatures should know we are only placed into this world to use it as ‘tenants’, which demands from us to take care of it, with the knowledge that it does not belong to us personally.Each of us personally has to take their own responsibility and should be aware of the urgency for changing route in this world. All of us should take up the responsibility to safe or to repair this world for the next generations.
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Find also to read
- How to make sustainable, green habits second nature
- Vatican meeting of mayors talking about global warming, human trafficking and modern-day slavery
- Republican member of Congress from Arizona to boycott pope’s address over climate change
- Building a low-carbon world: the sixth industrial revolution
- UK Politicians willing to tear up decades of environmental protections
- Air-conditioning threat and HFCs extremely powerful heat-trappers
- Ghosts of the mountains endangered big cat
- Africa’s human existence and development under threat from the adverse impacts of climate change
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- Climate Change: Earth Losing 50,000 Square Miles Tropical Rain Forest Annually
- Climate Change Emergency Declared But Where is the Response ?
- Carbon Markets
- Zambia’s growth is projected to slow from 3.7 percent in 2018 to 2.3 percent in 2019 – IMF report
- Study: Climate Change Friendly Air Conditioners Could Convert CO2 to Petroleum
- Photos for Fodder
- “Caring for Creation” – “Don’t believe me without researching the facts for yourself.”
- Summer extremes of 2018 linked to stalled giant waves in jet stream
- Climate change forced these Fijian communities to move – and with 80 more at risk, here’s what they learned
- Figures
- Facebook’s newest so-called ‘fact checkers’ are climate deniers paid by the Koch corporation
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High time to to put the environment at the heart of people’s lives
In 2018 lots of people had hoped that many politicians all over the world would be willing to put the environment at the heart of people’s lives.
The United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (the UN-REDD Programme) which was the first joint UN global initiative on climate change could celebrate its 10th anniversary.
Many observers have suggested that we are witnessing a new mass extinction event (Ceballos et al. 2015), although there is as yet no scientific consensus. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) (Box 6.4) Red List of Threatened Species (http://www.iucnredlist.org/) provides the most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of plant, animal and fungi species. The Red List process has become a massive enterprise involving the IUCN Global Species Program staff, partner organizations and experts in the IUCN Species Survival Commission and partner networks who compile the species information to make The IUCN Red List the indispensable product it is today.
To date, many species groups including mammals, amphibians, birds, reef building corals and conifers have been comprehensively assessed. As well as assessing newly recognized species, the IUCN Red List also re-assesses the status of some existing species, sometimes with positive stories to tell.
More than 27,000 species are threatened with extinction. That is more than 27% of all assessed species. We all should be deeply concerned about ongoing and new threats to the animal species.
The status of vertebrates has been relatively well studied (Rodrigues et al. 2014), but fewer than 1 per cent of described invertebrates (Collen et al. 2012) and only about 5 per cent of vascular plants (Royal Botanical Gardens Kew 2016) have been assessed for extinction risk.
According to IUCN’s latest estimates, cycad species face the greatest risk of extinction with 63 per cent of species in this plant group considered threatened. The most threatened group of vertebrates are amphibians (41 per cent). Of the few invertebrate species assessments completed, 42 per cent of terrestrial, 34 per cent of freshwater and 25 per cent of marine species are considered at risk of extinction (Collen et al. 2012). Among well sampled invertebrate groups, reef-forming corals have the highest proportion (33 per cent) of species under threat.
We all should know the decline should not go on. We can reverse or at least halt, the decline in biodiversity. But this will demand political courage, empathy and respect for all species.
The physical signs and socio-economic impacts of climate change are accelerating as record greenhouse gas concentrations drive global temperatures towards increasingly dangerous levels, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
The WMO Greenhouse Gas Bulletin reports on atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases in the earth’s atmosphere. The report found that levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have reached another new record high, according to the World Meteorological Organization. There is no sign of a reversal in this trend, which is driving long-term climate change, sea level rise, ocean acidification and more extreme weather.The most comprehensive and rigorous assessment on the state of the environment completed by the UN in the last five years was published the 19th of March 2019, warning that damage to the planet is so dire that people’s health will be increasingly threatened unless urgent action is taken.
The report, which was produced by 250 scientists and experts from more than 70 countries, says that either we drastically scale up environmental protections, or cities and regions in Asia, the Middle East and Africa could see millions of premature deaths by mid-century. It also warns that pollutants in our freshwater systems will see anti-microbial resistance become a major cause of death by 2050 and endocrine disruptors impact male and female fertility, as well as child neurodevelopment.
But the report highlights the fact that the world has the science, technology and finance it needs to move towards a more sustainable development pathway, although sufficient support is still missing from the public, business and political leaders who are clinging to outdated production and development models.
The sixth Global Environmental Outlook has been released while environmental ministers from around the world are in Nairobi to participate in the world’s highest-level environmental forum. Negotiations at the Fourth UN Environment Assembly are expected to tackle critical issues such as stopping food waste, promoting the spread of electric mobility, and tackling the crisis of plastic pollution in our oceans, among many other pressing challenges.
“The science is clear. The health and prosperity of humanity is directly tied with the state of our environment,”
said Joyce Msuya, Acting Executive Director of UN Environment.
“This report is an outlook for humanity. We are at a crossroads. Do we continue on our current path, which will lead to a bleak future for humankind, or do we pivot to a more sustainable development pathway? That is the choice our political leaders must make, now.”
Innovative policy options
The projection of a future healthy planet with healthy people is based on a new way of thinking where the ‘grow now, clean up after’ model is changed to a near-zero-waste economy by 2050. According to the Outlook, green investment of 2 per cent of countries’ GDP would deliver long-term growth as high as we presently projected but with fewer impacts from climate change, water scarcity and loss of ecosystems.
At present the world is not on track to meet the SDGs by 2030 or 2050. Urgent action is required now as any delay in climate action increases the cost of achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement, or reversing our progress and at some point, will make them impossible.
The report advises adopting less-meat intensive diets, and reducing food waste in both developed and developing countries, would reduce the need to increase food production by 50% to feed the projected 9-10 billion people on the planet in 2050. At present, 33 per cent of global edible food is wasted, and 56 per cent of waste happens in industrialized countries, the report states.
While urbanization is happening at an unprecedented level globally, the report says it can present an opportunity to increase citizens’ well-being while decreasing their environmental footprint through improved governance, land-use planning and green infrastructure. Furthermore, strategic investment in rural areas would reduce pressure for people to migrate.
The report calls for action to curb the flow of the 8 million tons of plastic pollution going into oceans each year. While the issue has received increased attention in recent years, there is still no global agreement to tackle marine litter.
The scientists note advancements in collecting environmental statistics, particularly geospatial data, and highlight there is huge potential for advancing knowledge using big data and stronger data collection collaborations between public and private partners.
Policy interventions that address entire systems – such as energy, food, and waste – rather than individual issues, such as water pollution, can be much more effective, according to the authors. For example, a stable climate and clean air are interlinked; the climate mitigation actions for achieving the Paris Agreement targets would cost about US$ 22 trillion, but the combined health benefits from reduced air pollution could amount to an additional US$ 54 trillion.
“The report shows that policies and technologies already exist to fashion new development pathways that will avoid these risks and lead to health and prosperity for all people,”
said Joyeeta Gupta and Paul Ekins, co-chairs of the GEO-6 process.
“What is currently lacking is the political will to implement policies and technologies at a sufficient speed and scale. The fourth United Nations Environment Assembly in Nairobi in March needs to be the occasion when policymakers face up to the challenges and grasp the opportunities of a much brighter future for humanity.”
Everywhere in the world people should open their eyes and see around them how the climate is changing and how natures is intruding much more our way of life, by offering us more extreme weather types, with storms, floods,a.o..
In the United States of America there are deniers or people who want others to believe all that talk about global warming is fake news. They are not only misleading their own folks, they are endangering them too. In name of industrialisation and capital growth certain leaders mislead their people and do everything to give more opportunities to earn more money no matter what the impact on the environment may be. They are not interested in the world around them and certainly not interested in animal life and wellness for plants.
But we as creatures should know we are only placed into this world to use it as ‘tenants’, which demands from us to take care of it, with the knowledge that it does not belong to us personally.Each of us personally has to take their own responsibility and should be aware of the urgency for changing route in this world. All of us should take up the responsibility to safe or to repair this world for the next generations.
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°°°
+
Preceding
Going for sustainable development
Shifting towards a cleaner economy
++
Find also to read
- How to make sustainable, green habits second nature
- Vatican meeting of mayors talking about global warming, human trafficking and modern-day slavery
- Republican member of Congress from Arizona to boycott pope’s address over climate change
- Building a low-carbon world: the sixth industrial revolution
- UK Politicians willing to tear up decades of environmental protections
- Air-conditioning threat and HFCs extremely powerful heat-trappers
- Ghosts of the mountains endangered big cat
- Africa’s human existence and development under threat from the adverse impacts of climate change
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Related
- Media failing on #climatechange – here’s how they can do better | The Guardian #Auspol #AusVotes2019 #ClimateElection #ClimateEmergency #StopAdani #ClimateStrike #ExtinctionRebellion #GreenNewDeal
- Climate Change: Earth Losing 50,000 Square Miles Tropical Rain Forest Annually
- Climate Change Emergency Declared But Where is the Response ?
- Carbon Markets
- Zambia’s growth is projected to slow from 3.7 percent in 2018 to 2.3 percent in 2019 – IMF report
- Study: Climate Change Friendly Air Conditioners Could Convert CO2 to Petroleum
- Photos for Fodder
- “Caring for Creation” – “Don’t believe me without researching the facts for yourself.”
- Summer extremes of 2018 linked to stalled giant waves in jet stream
- Climate change forced these Fijian communities to move – and with 80 more at risk, here’s what they learned
- Figures
- Facebook’s newest so-called ‘fact checkers’ are climate deniers paid by the Koch corporation
Rate this:
#2018 #2019 #2030 #2030AgendaForSustainableDevelopment #2050 #Africa #AmphibianS_ #Asia #CleanAir #ClimateChange #CycadS_ #EcologicalFootprint #Environment #EnvironmentalFootprint #EnvironmentalForum #EnvironmentalProtection #FoodWaste #GlobalEnvironmentalOutlookGEO_ #GlobalInitiativeOnClimateChange #GlobalTemperature #GreenhouseGas #GreenhouseGasGHGEmissions #Health #HighLevelWaste #Humankind #Industrialisation #InternationalUnionForTheConservationOfNatureSIUCN_ #InvertebrateSpecies #JoyceMsuya #JoyeetaGupta #MarineLitter #MiddleEast #Nairobi #NearZeroWasteEconomy #ParisAgreementOnClimateChange #PaulEkins #PlasticPollution #RedListOfThreatenedSpecies #ReefFormingCoral #SpeciesThreatenedWithExtinction #Tenant #UNEnvironmentAssembly #UnitedNationsCollaborativeProgrammeOnReducingEmissionsFromDeforestationAndForestDegradationUNREDDProgramme_ #Urbanization #VascularPlants #Waste #WaterScarcity #WayOfThinking #WellBeingOfPopulation #WorldMeteorologicalOrganizationWMO_
