Scientists Issue Dire Warning: Oceans Rising Twice as Fast, Even If Climate Goals Are Met. Even if the world meets its most optimistic climate goals, rising sea levels will likely intensify throughout the 21st century and beyond, reshaping coastlines and threatening hundreds of millions of lives. A new study published in Communications Earth & Environment warns that keeping global warming below 1.5°C, the aspirational target of the 2015 Paris Agreement, will not prevent significant and accelerating ocean encroachment.
Drawing on satellite data, paleo-climatic comparisons, and updated projections, the research paints a stark picture: even modest warming levels will trigger feedback loops in the planet’s ice sheets, propelling sea level rise beyond manageable limits. Oceans Rising Twice as Fast, With No Signs of Slowing Down Over the past three decades, the pace of sea level rise has doubled—and it’s expected to double again by the year 2100. If current warming trends persist, oceans could be rising by one centimeter per year within just a few generations. Climate change denial. Denial of the scientific consensus on climate change Climate change denial (also global warming denial) is a form of science denial characterized by rejecting, refusing to acknowledge, disputing, or fighting the scientific consensus on climate change.
Those promoting denial commonly use rhetorical tactics to give the appearance of a scientific controversy where there is none.[4] Climate change denial includes doubts about the extent to which climate change is caused by humans, its effects on nature and human society, and the potential of adaptation to global warming by human actions.[5][6][7]: 170–173 To a lesser extent, climate change denial can also be implicit when people accept the science but fail to reconcile it with their belief or action.[6] Several studies have analyzed these positions as forms of denialism,[8]: 691–698 pseudoscience,[9] or propaganda.[10]: 351 Terminology The term contrarian is more specific but less frequently used. Categories and tactics Using flawed studies. (69) How do we know climate change is caused by humans?
Climate Science Journals. Climate Science People. Climate Science Books. EM-DAT | The international disasters database. What's new CRED Crunch 70 - Disasters Year in Review 2022 Disasters in numbers 2022 First Scientific and Technical Advisory Group (STAG) CRED Crunch 69 - The interplay of drought-flood extreme events in Africa over the last twenty years (2002-2021) Read our latest CRED Crunch Human and economic impacts of natural disasters: can we trust the global data? EM-DAT: Disasters of the week Week 12-2023: March 20 - March 26 Natural disasters: Technological disasters: 2023-0185 Shipwreck with migrants; near Sfax,Tunisia 2023-0186 Bus accident; Udubo, Nigeria Welcome to the EM-DAT website In 1988, the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) launched the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT).
The main objective of the database is to serve the purposes of humanitarian action at national and international levels. EM-DAT contains essential core data on the occurrence and effects of over 22,000 mass disasters in the world from 1900 to the present day. Data access policy new public EM-DAT tool. America Misled: How the fossil fuel industry deliberately misled Americans about climate change | Center For Climate Change Communication. Over the past few decades, the fossil fuel industry has subjected the American public to a well-funded, well-orchestrated disinformation campaign about the reality and severity of human-caused climate change. The purpose of this web of denial has been to confuse the public and decision-makers in order to delay climate action and thereby protect fossil fuel business interests and defend libertarian, free-market conservative ideologies.
The fossil fuel industry’s denial and delay tactics come straight out of Big Tobacco’s playbook. As a result, the American public have been denied the right to be accurately informed about climate change, just as they were denied the right to be informed about the risks of smoking by the tobacco industry. This report explores the techniques used to mislead the American public about climate change, and outlines ways of inoculating against disinformation. Media coverage of America Misled.
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