One scientific fact about climate change every day

22/08/2020

▶️ When is your country's overshoot day? https://www.overshootday.org/newsroom/country-overshoot-days/
For the 🇺🇸 it was on March 14, 2020!

21/08/2020

🌳 "Strategies to stop deforestation and protect forests include: public policy and the enforcement of existing anti-logging laws; market-driven mechanisms, primarily eco-certification programs that inform consumers and affect purchasing decisions; and programs that enable wealthy nations and corporations to make payments to countries and communities for maintaining their forests."
▶️ Source: https://www.drawdown.org/solutions/forest-protection

19/08/2020

🐟 Source: http://www.fao.org/3/ca9229en/online/ca9229en.html -executive_summary

18/08/2020

🌱▶️ Source: https://www.ipcc.ch/srccl/chapter/summary-for-policymakers/

17/08/2020

🌊▶️ Source:https://sealevel.climatecentral.org/uploads/research/Global-Mapping-Choices-Report.pdf

17/08/2020

▶️ Source:https://committee.iso.org/files/live/sites/tc61/files/The%20Plastic%20Industry%20Berlin%20Aug%202016%20-%20Copy.pdf
❔Read more on polymers: https://theconversation.com/the-world-of-plastics-in-numbers-100291

08/08/2020

❔ Can we tolerate those who actively spread misinformation about climate change in order to delay action? Perhaps we first need to consider the fossil fuel companies that fund such foundations/organisations as enemies with antagonistic interests? The CO2 Coalition is just one example.
🧐 The CO2 Coalition co-signed "Letter to President Trump in support of campaign commitments to withdraw from the Paris Climate Treaty" in 2017.

07/08/2020

✅ Good news: "The world’s fleet of coal-fired power stations has got smaller for the first time on record, with more capacity retired in the first half of 2020 than the amount opened." Read more: https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-the-global-coal-fleet-shrank-for-first-time-on-record-in-2020
▶️ "Coal-fired power plants were the single largest contributor to the growth in global CO2 emissions..." Source:Report on G20 Coal subsidies,https://www.odi.org/sites/odi.org.uk/files/resource-documents/12744.pdf
▶️ "The coal mining industry is estimated to account for 11% of global methane emissions from human activities." Source: 'Global methane emissions from coal mining to continue growing even with declining coal production' in Journal of Cleaner Production, May 2020.

05/08/2020

▶️ The IPBES Report: https://ipbes.net/global-assessment
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04/08/2020

"While marine ecosystems have evolved within a certain coping range, and can adapt to conditions slightly outside that range, marine heatwaves manifest as extreme events that lead to ecosystem vulnerabilities. In a warmer climate we are more likely to experience these vulnerability-causing extremes"
🌊 Learn more about MHW here: http://www.marineheatwaves.org/all-about-mhws.html
▶️ Source: https://library.wmo.int/doc_num.php?explnum_id=10211&fbclid=IwAR3Sgo6SEDqJz5K4SQQ8amoy4ATpBNYkqobHpxX22O2N4zhTj01d0OJhqy8

03/08/2020

▶️ Read the IPCC Special Report here: https://www.ipcc.ch/srocc/chapter/summary-for-policymakers/
🧐 The EPA on Climate Change and Harmful Algal Blooms (HAB): https://www.epa.gov/nutrientpollution/climate-change-and-harmful-algal-blooms

03/08/2020

▶️ Read more here: https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/climate-change-in-the-american-mind-april-2020/11/
📖 And you, do you feel well informed about climate change?

03/08/2020

31/07/2020

🌞 Weekend reading: the NYT article on this unprecedented class-action: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/world/australia/lawsuit-climate-change-bonds.html
▶️ The UNEP Report on 'The status of climate change litigation' (2017): https://www.unenvironment.org/resources/publication/status-climate-change-litigation-global-review

29/07/2020

🦅 Short reading: https://www.massaudubon.org/our-conservation-work/climate-change/effects-of-climate-change/on-birds
▶️ Source: https://ipbes.net/global-assessment

28/07/2020

💧 Read more:https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/SYR_AR5_FINAL_full.pdf

28/07/2020

▶️ Source:https://downloads.globalchange.gov/usimpacts/pdfs/climate-impacts-report.pdf

26/07/2020

✈️ Read the EIB report here:https://www.eib.org/attachments/thematic/the_eib_climate_survey_2019_2020_en.pdf
▶️ More on slow travel: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233145432_Slow_travel_Issues_for_tourism_and_climate_change

25/07/2020

😀 After a week of interruption, we are back with many more facts and some exciting projects coming soon!
▶️ Learn more about climate modeling: https://www.carbonbrief.org/qa-how-do-climate-models-work

17/07/2020

▶️Sources: Drawdown Project: https://www.drawdown.org/solutions/coastal-wetland-restoration
IUCN Ecosystem Restoration: http://iucnrestorationdecade.org/

15/07/2020

▶️ Read more: https://ipbes.net/global-assessment

14/07/2020

😶“Bell curve shifts shown for 2009-2019 result from global warming of ~0.9°C relative to 1951-80. Thus 2°C warming relative to pre-industrial (1.7°Crelative to 1951-1980) will result in bell curve shifts and climate impacts about double those that have occurred already.”
▶️Source on Shifting Bell Curves:http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2020/20200706_ShiftingBellCurvesUpdated.pdf

13/07/2020

🧐 Nitrous oxide is the third most important long-lived greenhouse gas!
▶️ Trends in Atmospheric Nitrous Oxide: https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends_n2o/
▶️ Read more: https://library.wmo.int/doc_num.php?explnum_id=10211&fbclid=IwAR3Sgo6SEDqJz5K4SQQ8amoy4ATpBNYkqobHpxX22O2N4zhTj01d0OJhqy8

12/07/2020

▶️ Read more:https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/WGIIAR5-Chap12_FINAL.pdf
▶️🌱'What can we learn from Indigenous groups about safeguarding the environment?' https://www.euronews.com/living/2020/06/06/what-can-we-learn-from-indigenous-groups-about-how-to-respect-nature

11/07/2020

🌎 Today is World Population Day!
▶️ Read more: https://ipbes.net/global-assessment
👂🇫🇷 En 2050, 10 milliards d’humains se partageront les ressources de la planète… Est-ce tenable? Un podcast du MNHN avec Gilles Pison: https://www.mnhn.fr/fr/explorez/podcasts/que-nature-vive/sommes-nous-trop-nombreux-terre

10/07/2020

✅ "$1 trillion in annual health-care costs and lost productivity would be saved"
🍇"Scaling plant-rich diets globally is a challenge of communication and education as much as it is one of policy."
▶️ Take a look at the Drawdown technical summary: https://www.drawdown.org/solutions/plant-rich-diets/technical-summary

08/07/2020

▶️ Read the latest IPBES Report here: https://ipbes.net/global-assessment

07/07/2020

🔥▶️ Read the IPCC Special Report here: https://www.ipcc.ch/srccl/chapter/summary-for-policymakers/

06/07/2020

▶️ Take a look at the IPCC Special Report: https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/

05/07/2020

▶️ Read the full EIB survey here: https://www.eib.org/en/publications/the-eib-climate-survey-2019-2020

04/07/2020

▶️ A little bit of climate science history!
Wathch the Keeling curve animation made by Scripps 🧐 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z43FQCSg4Ow&feature=youtu.be

03/07/2020

🛍▶️“Globally, we produce roughly 310 million tons of plastic each year. Almost all of it is petro-plastic, made from fossil fuels. Experts, however, estimate that 90 percent of current plastics could be derived from plants instead.”
✅"A weighted average based on type of plastic and market share results in approximately 0.933 units of carbon dioxide-equivalent emissions per unit of bioplastic produced, compared to traditional plastics, which have direct emission of approximately 2.4."
⏩Source: https://www.drawdown.org/solutions/bioplastics/technical-summary

02/07/2020

‼️"Climate facts are not climate opinions"
"The CO2 Coalition’s use of Facebook’s op-ed loophole “fits right back into that strategy of trying to promulgate misinformation to the public in order to keep alive the lack of public concern over climate change, to stop meaningful action to address it,” "
✅Recommended: 'HEATED' a daily newsletter by Emily Atkin
https://heated.world/p/facebook-creates-fact-checking-exemption

A group with ties to the fossil fuel industry plans to use Facebook's op-ed loophole to spread climate misinformation.

01/07/2020

💡✅“The main threat to tree species in Europe has been identified as invasive or problematic species, impacting 38% of tree species, followed by deforestation and wood harvesting, and urban development (both affecting 20% of tree species). For threatened species, livestock farming, land abandonment, changes in forest and woodland management, and other ecosystem modifications such as fire are the major threats, impacting the survival of trees.”
▶️ Read the full IUCN Report here:https://portals.iucn.org/…/…/files/documents/RL-4-026-En.pdf

30/06/2020

⁉️ Last day of June 2020, the first half of 2020 is already over! International meetings on climate and biodiversity have been postponed (COP26 will take place in Glasgow in 2021, etc.).
What are we waiting for to take action act and make 2020 a year of climate action? The solutions already exist!

⏩ Read the IPCC Special Report here: https://www.ipcc.ch/srocc/chapter/summary-for-policymakers/
🧐 2.5 million km2 : that's about the total land area of Kazakhstan!!

29/06/2020

🌴Today is the International Day of the Tropics 🌴
🌎🌍🌏UN Ressources on the Tropics: https://www.un.org/en/observances/tropics-day
👉Read the State of the Tropics 2020 Report:https://www.jcu.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/1146292/SOTT-Report-2020-Web.pdf

28/06/2020

😢👉Read the recently published IUCN report on Gender-based violence and environment linkages:https://portals.iucn.org/library/sites/library/files/documents/2020-002-En.pdf

27/06/2020

👩‍💼✅ The IPCC AR5 science report has consulted the results of “multiple runs from over 40 different AOGCMs (atmosphere-ocean general circulation models) to provide the basis for their predictions.”

26/06/2020

✅"Theoretically, experts argue, biochar could sequester billions of tons of carbon dioxide every year."
👉 Learn more about Biochar production: https://www.drawdown.org/solutions/biochar-production

24/06/2020

🐠 Read the full IPBES report here: https://ipbes.net/global-assessment