Emperor penguins suffered mass breeding failures in 2023 amid record low sea ice. By ⁦Gloria Dickie⁩ reuters.com/business/envir…

Oil, chemical industry lobbyists flood UN talks on cutting plastic pollution. By ⁦Valerie Volcovici⁩ & ⁦Gloria Dickie⁩ reuters.com/business/envir…

Health, not economics, should have been the focal point of climate research, reporting and policy, including in IPCC reports, from the start. Sadly it's still a huge gap, and we will all pay the price.

NEW: The world's most powerful countries are considering a novel climate proposal:

Impose a 2 percent climate tax on the world's richest 3,000 people—and give the money **directly** to people in climate-vulnerable countries heated.world/p/nobel-prize-…

'Our message is that this insanity cannot and must not continue... Otherwise, world leaders are de facto deciding to burden humanity for centuries to millennia' - Professor Julie Brigham-Grette, UMass Amherst

#ClimateEmergency

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EU green deal at ‘very high’ risk of being killed off, says Greens co-leader

Philippe Lamberts says far-right gains in June elections could mean deal to protect nature and biodiversity is scrapped

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”Svenskarna flyget fem gånger mer än det globala genomsnittet. Men nu vill regeringen att vi flyger ännu mer. Under måndagseftermiddagen skickades förslag om halverad flygskatt ut.” klimatgranskaren.se/skandalen-rege…

RECORD HEAT IN BANGKOK
Over 40 in the day ,over 30 all night
40.3 Klong Thoey Station and 41.4 Pathum Thani are the highest temperatures ever recorded in their climatic history.
43C in Northern Thailand at Thoen.
The heat will just get worse going into May.

Europe baked in ‘extreme heat stress’ pushing temperatures to record highs theguardian.com/environment/20…

'Parts of India are being seared under a heatwave with maximum temperatures ranging from 40°C to 46°C [104-115°F] in many areas. Amid the intense heat, a TV anchor recently fainted while reading heatwave updates live on air'

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Heavy floods in Shaoguan, Guangdong this afternoon!（2024-04-20）

”Jag är orolig för mina barn och eventuella barnbarns skull”, säger en av de sjungande mammorna som bar på halsduken, till Aftonbladet.
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Times of India uppmärksammade aktionen där Rebellmammor från hela Sverige idag lindade in riksdagen i en 4 km stickad röd halsduk, i protest mot regeringens klimatpolitik. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/europe/s…

Recommended listen: A podcast by the The Guardian spoke to 76-year-old Elisabeth Stern, part of a 2,400-strong group of senior Swiss women who won a landmark climate case last week in the European court for human rights.

🗣️ Hannah Moore Isabella Kaminski

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Rebellmammornas manifestation börjar nu. Samling först på Sergels torg i en ring av 4 km röd halsduk, stickade av 4 000 händer. 'Vi kan inte leva som vi har fyra jordklot. Det är att stjäla framtiden från våra barn'.

Scenes from the Dubai floods

How much of global warming is human-caused?

MORE THAN 100%

That’s right: according to natural factors, including the sun and natural cycles, the Earth should be slowly, gradually cooling right now. Instead, it’s warming.

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“The plastics industry releases about four times as many planet-warming chemicals as the airline industry.” thehill.com/policy/energy-…