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The Climate Crisis Should Have Bagged The 2020 Headlines Published January 1st, 2021 - 10:43 GMT (Shutterstock) This year, nature struck relentlessly with record-breaking and deadly weather and climate-related disasters. From storms in the Atlantic, wildfires in California, killer floods in Asia and Africa, melting of the Arctic and bushfires in Australia, 2020 was more than a disastrous year with the pandemic. If it were not for the global coronavirus pandemic that infected or killed mil...

Dubai: Every once in a while, scientists remind us about how climate change is altering the world in which we live. In 2020 we heard of icebergs breaking free, droughts in Africa, wildfires in Australia and floods in Asia. The problem is that ‘every once in a while’ is becoming a regular event. We hear stories of natural disasters more often now than we did two decades ago. Is there a reason for this? Why is there such a steady and rapid change in the climate? Are we responsible for this? A...

A record-breaking, ‘catastrophic year’ Natural disasters from hurricanes, wildfires, floods and drought made 2020 one of the most expensive, calamitous years in U.S., global history By SETH BORENSTEIN, Associated Press Published: December 29, 2020, 6:03am Share: Bruce McDougal hoses down vegetation while working to save his home from the Bond Fire burning though the Silverado community in Orange County, Calif., on Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Noah Berger) Nature str...

Nature struck relentlessly in 2020 with record-breaking and deadly weather- and climate-related disasters. With the most named storms in the Atlantic, the largest-ever area of California burned by wildfires, killer floods in Asia and Africa and a hot, melting Arctic, 2020 was more than a disastrous year with the pandemic. It was a year of disasters — and climate change from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas was a big factor, scientists said. The United States didn’t just set a record...

Govt must prioritise low-carbon buildings – UNEP  Temiloluwa O’Peters The United Nations Environment Programme has called on governments to prioritise low-carbon buildings in pandemic stimulus packages and updated climate pledges. UNEP’s annual Emissions Gap Report 2020 disclosed that emissions from the operation of buildings hit their highest-ever level in 2019, moving the sector further away from fulfilling its huge potential to slow climate change. The 2020 Global Status Report for Bu...

About this blog: Climate change, despite its outsized impact on the planet, is still an abstract concept to many of us. That needs to change. My hope is that readers of this blog will develop a better understanding of how our climate is evolving a...  (More) About this blog: Climate change, despite its outsized impact on the planet, is still an abstract concept to many of us. That needs to change. My hope is that readers of this blog will develop a better understanding of how our climate is e...

Rethinking stimulus: How Covid economic recovery can help battle climate change During the coronavirus pandemic, the worst public health crisis in a century, some people pointed to what appears to be a tiny silver lining for the planet: Global lockdown measures reduced climate-changing carbon dioxide emissions. Global greenhouse gas emissions plunged by roughly 7% from 2019 as a result of businesses closing and people traveling less by car and plane to mitigate the spread of the virus. The dip ...

The natural gas storage report from the EIA for the week ending December 11th indicated that the quantity of natural gas held in underground storage in the US had decreased by 122 billion cubic feet to 3,726 billion cubic feet by the end of the week, which left our gas supplies 284 billion cubic feet, or still 8.3% higher than the 3,442 billion cubic feet that were in storage on December 11th of last year, and 243 billion cubic feet, or 7.0% above the five-year average of 3,483 billion cubic fe...