Today in climate change (30 August 2019)

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Please find below links to recent climate change news…

G7 can’t turn a blind eye to ecocide in the Amazon https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/25/g7-cant-turn-blind-eye-to-amazon-ecocide-forest-fires-indigenous-tribes?CMP=share_btn_tw

Fires intensifying climate change https://www.feedbackreigns.net/fires-intensifying-climate-change/

Book review: The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n15/francis-gooding/all-the-news-is-bad

Global Heat Waves Point to Intensifying Global Climate Crisis https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/global-heat-waves-point-intensifying-global-climate-crisis?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=sierramag&utm_medium=social

Humans have never lived on a planet this hot, and we’re totally unprepared for what’s to come https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/climate-crisis-goodell-survive-extreme-heat-875198/

We know the Arctic is melting – but it’s also on fire http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190822-why-is-the-arctic-on-fire?ocid=ww.social.link.twitter

Climate explained: how emissions trading schemes work and they can help us shift to a zero carbon future https://theconversation.com/climate-explained-how-emissions-trading-schemes-work-and-they-can-help-us-shift-to-a-zero-carbon-future-122325

Region stands out in the deep red of global warming https://www.piquenewsmagazine.com/whistler/region-stands-out-in-the-deep-red-of-global-warming/

‘100-year’ floods will happen every 1 to 30 years, according to new flood maps https://www.popsci.com/iceland-grieving-dead-glacier-climate-change/

City council changes mind on climate emergency https://indaily.com.au/news/local/2019/08/28/city-council-changes-mind-on-climate-emergency/

Taking on the Temperature https://medium.com/@kathybaughmanmcleod/taking-on-the-temperature-1d3788549745

Climate change melts 12.5bn billions tons of ice in Greenland fifty years earlier than predicted https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/08/28/climate-change-melts-billions-tons-ice-greenland-fifty-years/

Winter isn’t coming — get ready for a full-blown age of fire https://www.alternet.org/2019/08/winter-isnt-coming-get-ready-for-a-full-blown-age-of-fire/

Landsat Illustrates Five Decades of Change to Greenland Glaciers https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2908/landsat-illustrates-five-decades-of-change-to-greenland-glaciers/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Ireland among countries to bear brunt of flooding caused by climate change https://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/ireland-among-countries-to-bear-brunt-of-flooding-caused-by-climate-change-1.4000229

Over the past seven decades, the number of extreme heat days in Europe has steadily increased https://earther.gizmodo.com/europe-is-warming-even-faster-than-climate-models-predi-1837669154?IR=T

Oceans turning from friend to foe, warns landmark UN climate report https://phys.org/news/2019-08-oceans-friend-foe-landmark-climate.html

The air conditioning trap: how cold air is heating the world https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/29/the-air-conditioning-trap-how-cold-air-is-heating-the-world?CMP=share_btn_tw

Flooding in UK over the past 50 years is worst in Europe as climate change ‘increases the amount of rainfall’ https://inews.co.uk/news/environment/uk-flooding-news-latest-worst-europe-climate-change/

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I am a Principal at Water Technology Pty Ltd, an Australian-based coastal, environment and natural hazards company - see https://www.watertech.com.au/. I specialise in the community aspects of disaster risk reduction and emergency management. Samples of my research and projects can be accessed at https://works.bepress.com/neil_dufty/ Check out my latest book 'Disaster Education, Communication and Engagement' at https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1119569796/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i6 I am also a published fiction writer specialising in short stories and poems - see https://neilduftyfiction.com/

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