Global ocean heat has hit a new record every single day for the last year

Global ocean surface temperatures started breaking daily records in mid-March last year, according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer, fueling concerns for marine life and extreme weather across the planet. [...] But he added that the records were unsurprising, given that ocean heat is …

More than two dozen Oregon lobbyists work for both sides on climate change, report finds

Researchers at the group, Pennsylvania-based F Minus, launched last summer, compiled a database that shows that more than 1,500 lobbyists across the country are working at the state level for the fossil fuels industry as well as for conservation groups, public health entities, social justice organizations and local governments trying to respond to environmental and health issues caused …

Critical Atlantic Ocean current system is showing early signs of collapse, prompting warning from scientists

A crucial system of ocean currents may already be on course to collapse, according to a new report, with alarming implications for sea level rise and global weather — leading temperatures to plunge dramatically in some regions and rise in others. [...] The currents carry heat and nutrients to different areas of the globe and play a vital role in …

‘Off the charts’: 2023 was hottest year ever recorded globally, US scientists confirm

Last year was the world’s hottest in records that stretch back to 1850, according to analyses released concurrently by Nasa and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) on Friday, with a record high in ocean temperatures and a new low in Antarctic sea ice extent. [...] The burning of fossil fuels and deforestation has driven the …

Revealed: more than 160 representatives with climate-denying track records got Cop28 access

Corporate Accountability, a transparency watchdog, has found that UN organizers greenlighted access to groups that have obstructed fossil fuel regulations and other climate action, giving them the same or greater access to the international negotiations as Indigenous communities, human rights groups and climate justice organizations. Organizations and individuals invited by country-delegations also have access to …

What sea level rise will look like in cities that have hosted climate summits

These blistering global temperatures are causing glaciers and ice sheets to melt at alarming rates, which adds a significant amount of water to Earth’s oceans. Even Antarctica, the most isolated continent on the planet, is seeing unprecedented melting events. The melting of some large glaciers is now potentially unavoidable and could pose devastating implications for sea level …

World facing ‘hellish’ 3C of climate heating, UN warns before Cop28

Temperature records have already been obliterated in 2023 and intensifying heatwaves, floods and droughts have taken lives and hit livelihoods across the globe, in response to a temperature rise of 1.4C to date. [...] Guterres said: “Present trends are racing our planet down a dead-end 3C temperature rise. This is a failure of leadership, a betrayal of …

‘It feels like I’m not crazy.’ Gardeners aren’t surprised as USDA updates key map

This week the map got its first update in more than a decade, and the outlook for many gardens looks warmer. The 2023 map is about 2.5 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the 2012 map across the contiguous U.S., says Chris Daly, director of the PRISM Climate Group at Oregon State University that jointly developed the map …

Fossil Fuel-Funded Think Tank Claims Electricity Costs $17 Per Gallon

The Texas Public Policy Foundation, a conservative organization funded at least in part by Chevron and ExxonMobil, recently published a paper condemning the production and purchase of electric vehicles on the basis that they’re socialist nightmare garbage or whatever. [...] A gallon of gasoline is directly subsidized in a number of ways. Some estimates indicate the American taxpayer …

Republicans welcome local benefits of climate law despite voting against it

The group of conservative lawmakers, including the House of Representatives members Nancy Mace, Clay Higgins and Marjorie Taylor Greene, have all recently praised the arrival of new renewable energy, battery or electric vehicle jobs in their districts even after voting against last year’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which was loaded with incentives for clean energy …