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The world is getting “dangerously close” to running out of time to avert catastrophic climate change

The world is getting “dangerously close” to running out of time to avert catastrophic climate change, Cop26 President Alok Sharma has said. Mr Sharma – who is tasked with making a success of the upcoming climate talks in Glasgow – said failing to limit warming to 1.5C would be “catastrophic”.

In an interview with the Guardian, Mr Sharma said a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, due to be published on Monday, would be the “starkest warning yet” about what the future could hold. “You’re seeing on a daily basis what is happening across the world. Last year was the hottest on record, the last decade the hottest decade on record,” he said. He said Cop26 “has to be the moment we get this right”, adding: “We can’t afford to wait two years, five years, 10 years – this is the moment.”

 Telegraph 8th Aug 2021

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/

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Global average temperature rise of 1.5c likely to be reached 10 years early

 The planet is odds-on to hit 1.5C of global warming within 20 years, the world’s leading climate scientists will warn in a milestone report tomorrow. The paper, produced by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is the starkest warning yet about the speed and scale of warming. Experts said the report would paint a “devastating”
picture.

The document is predicted to trigger a “turning point” in the run-up to the Cop26 climate conference in Glasgow in November. Tomorrow’s report, produced by 200 scientists from 60 countries, is the first comprehensive assessment of the physical science of climate change since 2013. An interim report, published in 2018, said global warming was likely
to reach 1.5C between 2030 and 2052.

According to insiders who have seen the final document, the report brings this window forward by a decade to between 2021 and 2040. The report is expected to detail the risk of “tipping points”, in which climate change becomes hard to reverse. The melting of glaciers and ice sheets, for example, may create “feedback
loops” in which global warming spirals out of control. “That sensitivity means you can be too late,” Rivett-Carnac said.

“A lukewarm agreement [at Glasgow] that kicks the can down the road and solves some problems, has become, in a way, as much something to be avoided as not reaching the outcome you want.”

 Times 8th Aug 2021

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/rise-of-1-5c-likely-to-be-reached-ten-years-early-l99rx5cmm

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Whistleblower Exposes Sellafield Bullying – has Claim thrown out by Judge — RADIATION FREE LAKELAND

Many thanks to whistleblower Alison McDermott. Her brave actions in taking on Sellafield has exposed the decades long culture of bullying within the nuclear industry and within Sellafield.

Whistleblower Exposes Sellafield Bullying – has Claim thrown out by Judge — RADIATION FREE LAKELAND

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August 8 Energy News — geoharvey

Opinion: ¶ “Five Key Things To Watch For In The UN Climate Report” • Filled with detail and tracing multiple future scenarios, the IPCC report is likely to run hundreds or even thousands of pages. New research, computer modeling, and data collection will make this report the most comprehensive yet. Here are five key things […]

August 8 Energy News — geoharvey

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