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Winter downpours also made 20% wetter and will occur every three years without urgent carbon cuts, experts warn

Nous avons demandé à 380 climatologues de renom ce qu’ils pensaient de l’avenir… Ils sont terrifiés, mais déterminés à continuer à se battre. Exclusif : Une enquête menée auprès de centaines d’experts révèle une image terrifiante de l’avenir, mais ils préviennent que la lutte contre le changement climatique ne doit pas être abandonnée.

Human-caused climate crisis brought soaring temperatures across Asia, from Gaza to Delhi to Manila

Climate scientists have told the Guardian they expect catastrophic levels of global heating. Here’s what that would mean for the planet

Exclusive: Planet is headed for at least 2.5C of heating with disastrous results for humanity, poll of hundreds of scientists finds

Exclusive: Survey of hundreds of experts reveals harrowing picture of future, but they warn climate fight must not be abandoned

Scientists express concern over health impacts, with another study finding particles in arteries

Traduction - C’est une exclusivité : La réunion a eu lieu quelques jours après que BP a annoncé des bénéfices records, alors que les ménages devaient faire face à des factures d’énergie élevées.

Exclusive: Meeting took place days after BP reported record profits while households were squeezed by high energy bills

Total is 20% higher than thought and may have implications for collapse of globally important north Atlantic ocean currents The Greenland ice cap is losing an average of 30m tonnes of ice an hour due to the climate crisis, a study has revealed, which is 20% more than was previously thought. Some scientists are concerned that this additional source of freshwater pouring into the north Atlantic might mean a collapse of the ocean currents called the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (Amoc) is closer to being triggered, with severe consequences for humanity.

Oil cartel warns ‘pressure may reach a tipping point’ and that ‘politically motivated campaigns put our prosperity’ at risk

Exclusive: UAE’s Sultan Al Jaber says phase-out of coal, oil and gas would take world ‘back into caves’

World Meteorological Organization says 2023 will be hottest year on record, leaving ‘trail of devastation and despair’

Saudi Arabia is driving a huge global investment plan to create demand for its oil and gas in developing countries, an undercover investigation has revealed. Critics said the plan was designed to get countries “hooked on its harmful products”. Little was known about the oil demand sustainability programme (ODSP) but the investigation obtained detailed information on plans to drive up the use of fossil fuel-powered cars, buses and planes in Africa and elsewhere, as rich countries increasingly switch to clean energy.

World Meteorological Organization sees ‘no end in sight to the rising trend’, largely driven by fossil fuel burning

Michael Mann, de l’université de Pennsylvanie aux États-Unis, fait partie des climatologues les plus en vue depuis qu’il a publié, en 1999, le célèbre graphique en forme de crosse de hockey, qui montre comment les températures mondiales ont grimpé en flèche au cours du siècle dernier. Pour comprendre la situation difficile dans laquelle nous nous trouvons aujourd’hui, Michael Mann a remonté l’histoire du climat de la Terre afin d’avoir une vision plus claire de notre avenir potentiel. « Nous disposons d’une période de 4 milliards d’années dont nous pouvons tirer des enseignements », a-t-il déclaré dans une interview au Guardian.

The renowned US scientist’s new book examines 4bn years of climate history to conclude we are in a ‘fragile moment’ but there is still time to act

First complete ‘scientific health check’ shows most global systems beyond stable range in which modern civilisation emerged

Extreme weather is ‘smacking us in the face’ with worse to come, but a ‘tiny window’ of hope remains, say leading climate scientists

Heatwaves, wildfires and floods are just the ‘tip of the iceberg’, leading climate scientists say

Exclusive: Long list of ‘sensitive’ topics for petrostate include oil and gas production, emissions and Yemen war crimes

A collapse would bring catastrophic climate impacts but scientists disagree over the new analysis

Le pic de plutonium dans les sédiments des lacs canadiens marque l’aube d’une nouvelle ère où l’humanité domine la planète. Les scientifiques ont choisi le site qui représentera le début de l’ère de l’Anthropocène sur Terre. Il marquera la fin de 11 700 ans d’un environnement planétaire stable dans lequel l’ensemble de la civilisation humaine s’est développée et le début d’une nouvelle ère, dominée par les activités humaines. Le site est un lac d’effondrement situé au Canada. Il abrite des sédiments annuels présentant des pics clairs dus à l’impact colossal de l’humanité sur la planète à partir de 1950, du plutonium provenant des essais de la bombe à hydrogène aux particules issues de la combustion des combustibles fossiles qui ont arrosé le globe.

Plutonium spike in Canadian lake sediments marks dawn of new epoch in which humanity dominates planet

World Bank says subsidies costing as much as $23m a minute must be repurposed to fight climate crisis...

Ice-free summers inevitable even with sharp emissions cuts and likely to result in more extreme heatwaves and floods

World is on track for 2.7C and ‘phenomenal’ human suffering, scientists warn. Up to 1 billion people could choose to migrate to cooler places, the scientists said, although those areas remaining within the climate niche would still experience more frequent heatwaves and droughts. However, urgent action to lower carbon emissions and keep global temperature rise to 1.5C would cut the number of people pushed outside the climate niche by 80%, to 400 million.

Pools and well-watered gardens at least as damaging as climate emergency or population growth

Those with higher levels of PFAS in their blood had 40% lower chance of conceiving within a year of trying

Since 1992, the IPCC has highlighted rising greenhouse gases, marking their ‘widespread and unprecedented’ impacts by 2014