2019 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #39

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Are we finally at a tipping point on climate action?

Climate change protesters are seen crossing the Victoria Bridge in Brisbane during the Global Strike 4 Climate rally in Brisbane, Australia on Sept. 20, 2019

It’s climate action week, and I’ve been asked this one question many times: Are we at a tipping point? 

Are we finally at a tipping point on climate action? by Akshat Rathi, Quartz, Sep 26, 2019

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Sun Sep 22, 2019

• Human Rights Leaders Unveil New Climate Declaration by Dana Drugmand, Climate Liability News, Sep 19, 2019
• How to avoid ‘unfair and risky’ climate change scenarios, Guest Post by Joeri Rogelj, Carbon Brief, Sep 18, 2019
• Vaclav Smil: ‘Growth must end. Our economist friends don’t seem to realise that’ Interview by Jonathan Watts, Observer/Guardian, Sep 21, 2019
• Climate Protesters and World Leaders: Same Planet, Different Worlds, Analysis by Somini Sengupta, Climate, New York Times, Sep 21, 2019
• Landmark United in Science report informs Climate Action Summit, WMO Press Release, Sep 22, 2019
• Cutting air pollution would not cause ‘near-term spike’ in global warming by Robert McSweeney, Carbon Brief, Sep 18, 2019
• Global Climate in 2015-2019: Climate change accelerates, WMO Press Release, Sep 22, 2019
• Youth leaders at UN demand bold climate change action by Seth Borenstein, AP/PBS News Hour, Sep 21, 2019

Mon Sep 23, 2019

• Climate activists plan to shut down the D.C. commute Monday by Hannah Natanson, Local Transportation, Washington Post, Sep 22, 2019
• Humanity and nature are not separate – we must see them as one to fix the climate crisis by Heather Alberro, The Conversation UK, Sep 17, 2019
• Who’s Speaking at the U.N. Climate Summit? Several Champions of Coal. by Somini Sengupta, Climate, New York Times, Sep 22, 2019
• The Climate Crisis Is the Battle of Our Time, and We Can Win, Opinion by Al Gore, New York Times, Sep 20, 2019
• Greta Thunberg to world leaders: 'How dare you – you have stolen my dreams and my childhood' - video by Reuters/Guardian, Sep 23, 2019
• If world leaders choose to fail us, my generation will never forgive them, Opinion by Greta Thunberg, Comment is Free, Guardian, Sep 23, 2019
• Greta Thunberg and 15 other children filed a complaint against five countries over the climate crisis by Dew Kann, World, CNN, Sep 23, 2019
• Former U.N. Secretary Christiana Figueres: ‘We Have a Conceptual Lag’ on Climate, Interview by David Wallace-Wells, Intelligencer, New York Magazine, Sep 23, 2019
• Pacific leaders urge the world not to accept the 'living nightmare' of climate change by Michael Walsh, ABC News (AU), Sep 23, 2019

Tue Sep 24, 2019

• Firefighters in Bolivia lose hope of taming blazes as burned area doubles by David Mercado, Reuters, Sep 22, 2019
• Airlines' CO2 emissions rising up to 70% faster than predicted by Gwyn Topham, Business, Guardian, Sep 20, 2019
• Trump mocks teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg by Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN, Sep 24, 2019
• UN Climate Summit: Dozens of Countries Commit to Cut Short-Lived Climate Pollutants by Phil McKenna, InsideClimate News, Sep 24, 2019
• FACTBOX: 12 global initiatives to beat back climate threats by Megan Rowling, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Sep 23, 2019
• Not convinced on the need for urgent climate action? Here’s what happens to our planet between 1.5°C and 2°C of global warming by Rachel Warren & Sally Brown, The Conversation UK, Sep 24, 2019
• Global Promises to Reduce CO₂ Are Falling Short of 1.5-Degree-C Warming Goal by Jean Chemnick, E&E News/Scientific American, Sep 24, 2019
• Climate change: Scientists to report on ocean 'emergency' caused by warming by Matt McGrath, Science & Environment, BBC News, Sep 24, 2019

Wed Sep 25, 2019

• The UN Climate Action Summit was a disappointment by Umair Irfan, Vox, Sep 24, 2019
• Australia is the runaway global leader in building new renewable energy by Matthew Stocks, Andrew Blakers & Ken Baldwin, The Conversation AU, Sep 25, 2019
• UN Climate Action Summit: Surprise guests and harsh words by Carla Bleiker, Deutsche Welle (DW), Sep 24, 2019
• ‘I would like people to panic’ – Top scientist unveils equation showing world in climate emergency by Joanna Roberts, Horizon (The EU Research & Innovation Magazine), Sep 24, 2019
• From Antarctica to the Oceans, Climate Change Damage Is About to Get a Lot Worse, IPCC Warns by Sabrina Shankman, InsideClimate News, Sep 25, 2019
• Greta Thunberg became a climate activist not in spite of her autism, but because of it, Opinion by Steve Silberman, First Person, Vox, Sep 24, 2019
• Meet the other Greta Thunbergs at the first-ever U.N. Youth Climate Summit by Rachel Ramirez & Paola Rosa-Aquino, Grist, Sep 23, 2019
• In-depth Q&A: The IPCC’s special report on the ocean and cryosphere by Simon Evans, Josh Gabbatiss & Robert McSweeney, Carbon Brief, Sep 25, 2019

Thu Sep 26, 2019

• Attacks on Greta Thunberg expose the stigma autistic girls face by Anna North, Identities, Vox, Sep 24, 2019
• At the UN, losing the race against time to fight climate change by Ashoka Mukpo, Mongabay, Sep 24, 2019
• A sense of climate crisis now haunts stories which aren’t even about the environment by Jenny Bavidge, The Conversation UK, Sep 24, 2019
• Goldman Sachs released a 34-page analysis of the impact of climate change. And the results are terrifying. by Yusuf Khan, Markets Insider, Sep 25, 2019
• World’s oceans are losing power to stall climate change by Jeff Tollefson, Nature, Sep 25, 2019
• To save the planet, we need faith, ethics, science and economics, Opinion by Thomas Reese. Signs of the Times, Religion News Service, Oct 25, 2019
• Live: School Strike 4 Climate kicks off around the country, RNZ, Sep 27, 2019
• Are we finally at a tipping point on climate action? by Akshat Rathi, Quartz, Sep 26, 2019

Fri Sep 27, 2019

• Arctic sea ice summer minimum in 2019 is ‘joint-second lowest’ on record by Robert McSweeney, Carbon Brief, Sep 25, 2019
• 130 banks worth $47 trillion adopt new UN-backed climate policies to shift their loan books away from fossil fuels by Matthew Green, Reuters/Business Insider, Sep 22, 2019
• Mont Blanc glacier in danger of collapse, experts warn by Angela Giuffrida , Environment, Guardian, Sep 25, 2019
• Fifth of world's calories threatened as climate scientists sound alarm over wheat by Thin Lei Win, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Sep 25, 2019

[On Vacation.]

Posted by John Hartz on Saturday, 28 September, 2019

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