UMass Amherst Professor Playing Key Role in International Launch of the 50x30 Coalition to Make Real Progress on Carbon Neutrality umass.edu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from umass.edu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The 50×30 coalition is an alliance between cryosphere and emissions research institutions, and governments that have accepted the scientific necessity to reduce emissions 50% by 2030; in order to prevent cascading and irreversible damage, on a planetary scale, from the impact of greenhouse gas emissions on the cryosphere.
Because of cryosphere, carbon neutrality by 2050 is not enough: the way we get there matters. Overshoot of the 1.5°C goal cannot be considered a viable or safe option, from either an economic or social standpoint. This is because much of the Earth’s polar and mountain regions – whether glaciers, snowpack, permafrost, sea ice, polar oceans and seas, or the great polar ice sheets – react directly to peaks in temperature and carbon dioxide emissions.
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When Dr Christopher Cornwall began his biological research career, three unanswered questions bothered him about how climate change might affect marine organisms.
The Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington Rutherford Discovery Fellow has now won this year’s Prime Minister’s MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist Prize for helping answer them.
Dr Cornwall, in the School of Biological Sciences, becomes the third Te Herenga Waka researcher to win the $200,000 award.
His success follows the awarding last year of the top Prime Minister’s Science Prize to a team from the University’s Antarctic Research Centre, along with many other prizes to University researchers during the past 12 years.
Maty Nikkhou-O Brien: What the lost year of Covid should have taught us nzherald.co.nz - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nzherald.co.nz Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
When a helicopter passes overhead, taking another group on a scenic flight further up the valley, everyone stops to stare. That noise would have been constant this time last year, as thousands of mainly overseas visitors were ferried from base to ice and back again.
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The ice in the deep crevasses shines blue, but it looks white on the surface. The whole town would have been booked out with visitors, the car park down in the valley straining with bright rented camper vans and tour buses. On New Year’s Day in 2020, a record 7137 people visited the valley, according to Department of Conservation track counter data.