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'Digital Earth' Could Help Predict Effects of Climate Change Scientists are building a digital model of the Earth that will act as an information system for better decision-making on development and environmental issues within the European Union. Mar. 9, 2021 A team of sci­en­tists and researchers from ETH Zurich University have cre­ated a high-pre­ci­sion vir­tual rep­re­sen­ta­tion of Earth to sim­u­late the effects of cli­mate change. Named Destination Earth, the so-called dig­i­tal twin of the planet will model the impacts of nat­ural and human activ­i­ties on the plane...

Average global tem­per­a­tures in 2020 were tied for the hottest on record, mark­ing the end of what has also been the warmest decade (2011 to 2020) ever recorded. According to data pub­lished by the Copernicus Climate Change Service, 2020 was 0.6 ºC warmer than the stan­dard 1981 to 2010 ref­er­ence point and 1.25 ºC above pre-indus­trial lev­els. It is no sur­prise that the last decade was the warmest on record, and is yet another reminder of the urgency of ambi­tious emis­sions reduc­tions to pre­vent adverse cli­mate impacts in the future. - Carlo Buontempo, direc­tor,...