Today in climate change (12 May 2023)

Please find below links to recent climate change news…

World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency 2022 https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/72/12/1149/6764747

Political strategies for climate and environmental solutions https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-023-01109-5

How will climate change impact wildfires in Scotland? https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/23480493.will-climate-change-impact-wildfires-scotland/

April Mediterranean heatwave ‘almost impossible’ without climate crisis https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/05/april-mediterranean-heatwave-almost-impossible-without-climate-crisis

Solar Installation Growth Expected To Reach 700 GW By 2025 https://cleantechnica.com/2023/02/27/solar-installation-growth-expected-to-reach-700-gw-by-2025/

How will climate change affect Latin America? Scientists respond to IPCC report https://news.mongabay.com/2023/05/how-will-climate-change-affect-latin-america-scientists-respond-to-ipcc-report/

Thermal structure of proglacial lakes in Patagonia https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2016JF004084

As Torres Strait Islands face a ‘climate crisis’, there are calls for the government to ‘see for themselves’ https://www.sbs.com.au/language/nitv-radio/en/article/the-torres-strait-islands-are-at-the-forefront-of-the-climate-change-battle/3yie0fduv

Why making El Niño forecasts in the spring is especially anxiety-inducing https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/why-making-el-ni%C3%B1o-forecasts-spring-especially-anxiety-inducing

Extreme April heat in Spain, Portugal, Morocco & Algeria almost impossible without climate change https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/extreme-april-heat-in-spain-portugal-morocco-algeria-almost-impossible-without-climate-change/

IPCC data on coastal flood risk on BlueEarth https://www.deltares.nl/en/news/ipcc-data-on-coastal-flood-risk-on-blueearth

Exceptional stratospheric contribution to human fingerprints on atmospheric temperature https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2300758120

Quantifying the contribution of forcing and three prominent modes of variability to historical climate https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/19/943/2023/

Black summer bushfires may have caused rare ‘triple dip’ La Niña, study suggests https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/may/11/black-summer-bushfires-may-have-caused-rare-triple-dip-la-nina-study-suggests

Greenland glacier discovery shows sea level projections are too low https://www.axios.com/2023/05/09/northwest-greenland-petermann-glacier-sea-level

Climate Change Tracker https://climatechangetracker.org/

Record number of serious outdoor fires tackled in England in summer 2022 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/11/firefighters-in-england-called-to-record-number-of-serious-outdoor-blazes-last-summer

May 2023 ENSO update: El Niño knocking on the door https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/may-2023-enso-update-el-ni%C3%B1o-knocking-door

The UN Campaign for Individual Action https://www.un.org/actnow

Climate Central analysis shows that human-caused climate change made the record-breaking spring heat forecast in parts of the western U.S. and Canada up to 5 times more likely https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-shift-index-alert

Global Mean Sea Level rise rate https://sealevel.colorado.edu/

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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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