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Associated Press science writer Seth Borenstein, covering climate change; email: sborenstein @ap .org Threads: Borenbears; Teach @ NYU/DC @NewsMediaGuild
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Climate change is going to make the world sicker, hungrier, poorer, gloomier and way more dangerous by 2040, according to a 3,675-page UN science report.
Here is a thread on some of what’s inside.
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Earth continues to bake on high. 2019 was 2nd hottest year on Earth, a fiery exclamation point to globe's hottest decade on record.
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SICKER: As the world warms, expect an increase in diseases, death from heat stress, cardiovascular illnesses, mosquito-borne diseases and more. 2/7
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POORER: World’s poorest people - even in rich nations - are hit hardest by climate change, especially in Africa, Latin America & South Asia 4/7
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MORE DANGEROUS: With a few more tenths of a degree of warming by 2100, weather extremes -flooding, drought, heat waves - increase fourfold. 6/7
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“All the risks are coming at us faster than we thought before,” said UN climate report co-author
@mkvaalst
.
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Science Says: Natural extreme winds & drought and heat from human-caused climate change "fatally collude" in devastating California fires. But experts say it's not forest mismanagement as
@realDonaldTrump
tweets.
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@dvergano
And there’s another test: Ask who disagrees with you on this who you respect. If they are legit they’ll tell you because they have confidence in their work.
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How about some good news: Sea turtles are lumbering back from brink of extinction. And people helped.
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When Congress returned after riot, one representative did more than vote or speechify, he helped clean up. Photos from
@andyharnik
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Nearly 63% of the world's coral is suffering from 'crazy' hot ocean water in a global bleaching event that is nearing record levels. World oceans have now set heat records 13 months in a row. One scientist: We're watching an ecosystem die in our lifetime
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Just a reminder. US is 2% of Earth. Australia is record hot. Earth Monday was 0.72 dF (0.4 dC) warmer than 1979-2000 average. Weather is not climate. Weather is fleeting, varies in locales. Climate is long-term, large area. Weather=mood; climate=personality.
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The unfolding of insurrection: Pelosi says Capitol insurrection was "a well-planned, organized group w/leadership" directed "to go get people" &
@RepMcGovern
tells AP “What I saw in front of me was home-grown fascism”
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1 word: Plastics; 4 more words: Too much piling up; Study: 9 billion tons of plastic made since 1950; 3/4 is waste;
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A whale of a mystery solved: How baleen whales went from 15 feet long to as much as 100 feet long so quickly.
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We were warned. In June '88 James Hansen said global warming was here & would worsen. It did. Earth got 1 dF hotter since; US 1.6 dF Fires doubled, ice lost. Details on how warming has hit hard locally & globally
#30YearsofWarming
Day 1 of series.
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hooray: THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL STOP YELLING IN ALL CAPS after 167 years.
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@PoliticalKathy
Meet some scientists:
@MichaelEMann
@DrKateMarvel
@KathieDello
@KHayhoe
@ClimateOfGavin
@valmasdel
@DrShepherd2013
@coralsncaves
@AndrewDessler
@DrAndreaDutton
@GreatLakesPeck
@JaneLubchenco
@wxjay
@clequere
@omgnasa
@Leinen4ocean
@rahmstorf
& James Hansen, formerly of NASA.
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Global CO2 pollution levels fell 17% last month, but are inching back up. If CO2 emissions return to pre-pandemic levels & rise “It’s like you have a bath filled with water & you’re turning off the tap for 10 seconds,” says
@clequere
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Here is the website (back online) where you could enter a city to find what climate will be like in 2080 based on another town's current climate. For Portland OR it is near Sacramento. For Portland ME, it's Baltimore. My story:
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Obama is now officially a parasite (it's an honor) as biologists name worm after POTUS;
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Scientists in Iceland turn heat-trapping carbon dioxide gas into harmless stone;
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Walking the walk: Climate scientists try to cut their own carbon footprints (from
@AP
) featuring
@coralsncaves
@KHayhoe
@MichaelEMann
@DrShepherd2013
@GlobalEcoGuy
& more
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@MichaelEMann
@CFigueres
@JacquelynGill
@ClimateOfGavin
@andersen_inger
@JFrancisClimate
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@helenafricker
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#globalwarming
- study
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Think the climate disasters of 2020 (like California wildfires)
are bad? Scientists
@coralsncaves
,
@WaleedCandC
@KathieDello
@GreatLakesPeck
say in future we'll look back and say how mild 2020 was compared to what came after.
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NASA loses biggest star; After yr in space
@StationCDRKelly
hangs up his spacesuit, retires
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From a galaxy far far away (13.4 billion light years) a record-shattering discovery.....
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Arctic sea ice shrinks to 2nd lowest on record; experts say ominous sign of global warming;
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Based on the atmospheric pressure, Harvey ties for the 18th strongest hurricane on landfall in the U.S. since 1851 and 9th strongest in TX.
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Stunning data/graphs in NOAA Arctic Report Card that shows numerous extremes, records & warming on overdrive:
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Science Says: Plastics pollution is huge problem. Around oceans, up to 8 billion plastic straws & 9 million tons a year of plastic waste. Researchers say banning straws as British PM floats is not enough;
#EarthDay2018
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NASA: Climate change is shifting Earth's polar wobble (diff mass balance from melting ice):
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Annual check up of 2016's climate; Lots of extremes, records; little normal. Scientists: Clear human caused signal;
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Reminder: Government scientists, officials can send news tips, documents etc to AP securely and confidentially:
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Good catch, but it's not even 1981. That's a non-painted external tank. Those didn't launch till STS-3 in 1982.
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AP explains the mind-bending science of gravitational waves, space-time & Einstein relativity that won Nobel prize;
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The science behind rare 4 rainbow photo; it's not really a quadruple rainbow, but its unusual
http://t.co/lcykASU7Ed
http://t.co/oMvUmK9hho
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Supercharged: How Hurricane Michael became a 155 mph monster. At 919 mb it is 3rd strongest storm to hit continental US. Really warm water, ideal wind pattern increased storm's winds 72% in 33 hours. Rapidly intensifying storms becoming more common.
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Longest living vertebrate is the Greenland shark, a denizen of the icy deep ~400 yrs;
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Up to 8 billion plastic straws dotting Earth oceans, coasts. So nations, cities are talking bans, but overall plastic pollution problem is so huge and straws are only a tiny part.
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New odd duck dinosaur looks like Dr. Seuss mashed together bits of other critters; duck bill, croc teeth, swan neck, penguin flappers, raptors claws; It walk like ostrich & swims.
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Piers Sellers who flew 3X into Earth orbit & spent his dying days trying to save Earth from global warming, died. .
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111 years ago today Mark Twain said this about
@AP
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@NewsMediaGuild
member making The AP work & carry light
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Federal officials refused to answer my questions on climate report in press conference about timing of report & why it contradicts President Trump? Other reports try again, they still dodge those questions. NOAA pr person not allowing experts to talk
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Study: Global warming may push 1 out of 13 species to extinction; This may be one of them:
http://t.co/W5HQeAgwrC
http://t.co/jsIQdPHo8T
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Scientists worry that people may be desensitized by drumbeat of heat records (11 in a row)
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From 1880-1986, Earth never averaged >61 degrees for a month; since then it's been 48 times;
http://t.co/VoCkjN94Bg
http://t.co/8lJL6Epw4X
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Plane lands at Rothera w/ 2 sick South Pole workers; Leg 1 of evacuation mission a success;
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Number of animals & plants in Americas will drop 15% by 2050 at current rate; 28% of Europe-only species now threatened. Big worries in UN biodiversity reports.
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Hopping with hope. After a nasty fungal disease outbreak hit Panama's frogs and toads, amphibians are coming back. Evolution saves the frogs and the day.
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I wrote about how dangerous and ineffective nuking hurricanes is 27 years ago. The physics hasn’t changed:
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Third time's the harm. NOAA, NASA say Earth breaks annual record for 3rd time in a row; fifth in last 12 years;
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This stings. Fed bee survey: Another rough winter (28% loss) for honeybees; Mites a big woe;
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Nature has gone nuts; Hurricanes, earthquake, wildfires; What's behind a rough few weeks for N. America;
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AP FactCheck: Clinton claims on Hurricane Mathew & climate a simplification but right, experts say; W/
@jpaceDC
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World spewed nearly 800 million tons more CO2 in 2013 than in 2012; led by China, US & India:
http://t.co/fs7GGoC87N
http://t.co/PwMX5FghYV
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Astronomers hear 2nd note of cosmos' disco soundtrack; Einstein's gravitational waves;
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In hot water: Marine hot spots of biodiversity getting hard hit by global warming, fishing, study says.
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New universe expansion measurements may send astrophysicists back to cosmic drawing board
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New study finds dirty air killing 4,000 people a day in China, blames coal; far wrose than US;
http://t.co/Oh0F4tPsjd
http://t.co/6a9AhSEdBV
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Hurricane Harvey is following the perfect recipe to be a monster storm; Warm water; calm winds aloft; slow speed;
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Dem climate plan _ scientists (including
@MichaelEMann
) say it got the science correct _ would end greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. By
@MatthewDalyWDC
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Scientists say they were pushed into defending science at
#sciencemarchdc
Here's
@MichaelEMann
comment:
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Seems that record-strong
#HurricaneDorian
's slow but potentially destructive dance with US coast will be cutting it so close that Florida's fate may come down to only a handful of miles.
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Ice shelf collapses in previously stable East Antarctica Size of New York City. First ever ice shelf collapse in East Antarctica.
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BREAKING: Daring South Pole rescue underway. Plane has left British Antarctic base for 1500 mile trip;
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From tiny to titan: This dinosaur goes from size of human baby to bigger than a bus:
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Photo by
@npisarenko
from Antarctica haunts me. 20 images posted, but this is THE one:
http://t.co/ef6GgjVQUM
http://t.co/wqtmORuoWU
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Eat like a Neanderthal: Have the woolly rhino with a side of moss & penicillin. Dental plaque details caveman menu:
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The biggest most destructive hurricanes happening 3X more often than century ago. Area of Total Destruction: A new way of looking at hurricane damage removing wealth, human factors shows this tripling of the baddest of storms.
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'Why? Why? Why?' Ukraine's Mariupol descends into despair. Only 2 international journalists are in besieged city. This is their heartbreaking story. Only on AP.
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Hurricane Andrew was a monster; Irma is likely to blow that out of the water; How Irma may be far more destructive:
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AMERICA’S RISING SEAS: In the next 30 years, the seas lapping along America’s coast will rise as much as they did in entire the 20th century, a new federal report says. But what does that mean? (1/10)
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Scientists who study how & why we lie find this year's campaign particularly disturbing:
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