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16/11/21
Author: 
Barry Saxifrage
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2021/11/16/analysis/methane-promises-fool-me-26-times

November 16th 2021

“No more blah, blah, blah. No more whatever the f*** they are doing inside there…” — Greta Thunberg at COP26 in Glasgow

14/11/21
Author: 
Alex Ballingall
Steven Guilbeault
Tue., Nov. 9, 2021
 

OTTAWA—Canada’s pledge to stop financing fossil fuel projects abroad doesn’t go far enough because it could still allow the government to support oil and gas production in other countries, environmentalists say.

12/11/21
Author: 
Animated Stats
Nov 2, 2021
Moving graphs of different nations' annual statistics on carbon production, solar energy, and wind energy - Gene McGuckin
 
A lot of energy history in a few minutes:
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpOTL-zR6C8 
 
but….a bright idea…SOLAR
 
12/11/21
Author: 
BBC
Youth climate activists made a human corridor at the start of the COP26 closing plenaries on Thursday

Nov 11, 2021

The COP26 climate summit in Glasgow is entering its final day, amid growing fears that the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5C is unlikely to be met.

UN Secretary General António Guterres bluntly told the Associated Press news agency that goal was on "life support".

He said the summit would probably not see governments make the pledges needed to cut CO2 emissions by enough.

11/11/21
Author: 
Rochelle Baker
Oceans don’t only provide a livelihood for fishers around the world, such as those pictured above in Ghana, but they also absorb a lion’s share of human-cased fossil fuel emissions. Photo by Seyiram Kweku / Unsplash

November 8th 2021

The world's oceans suck up a huge chunk of human-caused emissions, but their role in mitigation strategies and targets is largely absent from critical negotiations underway at the UN climate conference in Glasgow, Canadian scientist Anya Waite says.

A massive carbon sink, the oceans are doing much of the “heavy lifting,” sopping up as much as 40 per cent of our fossil fuel emissions over the past 200 years, said Waite, CEO of the Ocean Frontier Institute (OFI) at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia.

04/11/21
Author: 
Vanessa Nakate
Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate at the Youth4Climate summit in Milan in September. Photograph: Miguel Medina/AFP/Getty

Oct. 29, 2021

My country, Uganda, and much of Africa has been battered by climate-related disasters. Cop26 is a chance for the biggest polluters to set up a compensation fund

While walking with a friend through central Kampala last month, we saw a police truck go by, a body in the back.

03/11/21
Author: 
B. Michael
Delegates sit during the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, Britain, on Monday.Credit: YVES HERMAN/ REUTERS

Once again, they’re standing beside each other in a long row. With ties around their necks, excited but serious expressions on their 

Once again, they’re standing beside each other in a long row. With ties around their necks, excited but serious expressions on their faces and brows photogenically wrinkled with concern, they’re ready to save the world from the fiery furnace.

02/11/21
Author: 
William E. Rees
South LA from the air

October 29, 2021

Measured atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa Observatory. Note: red = the monthly mean values; black = the same, after correction for the average seasonal cycle.

Measured atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa Observatory. Note: red = the monthly mean values; black = the same, after correction for the average seasonal cycle.

01/11/21
Author: 
Primary Author: Mark Fischetti
Heat Wave New York - Global Jet/Flickr

Oct. 28, 2021

On October 31, world leaders will descend on Glasgow, Scotland, for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP 26, in a last-ditch effort to defuse the climate emergency by limiting global warming to less than 1.5°C. Reaching that level would still bring violent storms, deep flooding, gripping droughts, and problematic sea level rise, but it would avert even more severe consequences. Global temperature has risen by nearly 1.1°C since the industrial revolution.

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