How Climate Resilient Are the Largest Cities?

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Climate Risk and Adaptation in Global Cities  1. Executive Summary  This report analyzes the 72 of the world’s largest cities through the lens of AlphaGeo’s Climate Risk & Resilience Index (CRRI). It separates raw physical exposure from resilience-adjusted risk (RAJ) … Read more

Climate.gov was destroyed. Open data saved it

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Democracy “After losing their jobs at NOAA, Rebecca Lindsey, her sister and another colleague teamed up to rebuild a pivotal resource the Trump administration took offline.” Link: Trump dismantled a federal climate website. These women rebuilt it., by Jenae Barnes … Read more

The New Climate Math on Hurricanes

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Explore When Hurricane Helene slammed into Florida’s shoulder earlier this fall, it brought the largest storm surge ever recorded in the area. The storm had formed just four days earlier as a tropical depression, but when it made landfall, it … Read more

96% of climate policy since 1998 failed

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An international research team has unveiled the first comprehensive global evaluation of 1,500 climate policy measures from 41 countries across six continents, between 1998 and 2022. Published in the prestigious journal Science, this unprecedented study provides a detailed impact analysis … Read more

Our climate change debates are out of date

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One thing that became apparent during Donald Trump’s presidency was that Trump’s outlook on the issues facing the nation was permanently stuck at around 1990. His paranoia over Japanese trade practices, for example, persisted long after Japanese companies no longer … Read more

How Climate Scenarios Lost Touch with Reality

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By Roger Pielke Jr., Justin Ritchie A failure of self-correction in science has compromised climate science’s ability to provide plausible views of our collective future. The integrity of science depends on its capacity to provide an ever more reliable picture … Read more

Show HN: Find the most climate friendly meeting location

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Find the most emission friendly location for your next assembly. Just enter the locations people will be traveling from. MLC then calculates the location, where the combined aircraft emissions are minimised.Based on data from the European Emissions Agency. Open this … Read more

A Climate Love Story

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From Pixabay (Kranic17/535 images) The year is 2050. Things are unimaginably better than anyone in 2022 might have predicted. Such turnarounds are not without precedent. After all, the boom time in the 1950s came on the heels of the Great … Read more

Climate protection: CO2 turned into methanol

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For reasons of climate protection, carbon dioxide must not be released into the atmosphere. Wherever the formation of carbon dioxide cannot be prevented, it should be captured and converted into other substances. The best possible solution is creating substances that … Read more