Today in climate change (6 October 2023)

Please find below links to recent climate change news…

Type of storm that drenched New York is up to 20% wetter due to climate crisis https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/02/new-york-city-flooding-rain-storm-climate-change

Can Florida’s Coast Survive Its Reliance on Development? https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01944363.2023.2249866

Faced with more frequent flooding and worse to come, the Philadelphia environmental justice community of Eastwick is grappling with difficult questions about its future https://e360.yale.edu/features/chronic-flooding-eastwick-philadelphia

A warming planet is creating a booming, and dangerous, disaster-restoration industry https://grist.org/accountability/a-warming-planet-is-creating-a-booming-and-dangerous-disaster-restoration-industry/

The loss of our glaciers over the 21st century: a future we can control https://www.thesciencebreaker.org/breaks/earth-space/the-loss-of-our-glaciers-over-the-21st-century-a-future-we-can-control

Too hard basket: why climate change is defeating our political system https://theconversation.com/too-hard-basket-why-climate-change-is-defeating-our-political-system-214382

DeBriefed 29 September 2023: Focus on carbon offsets; UK expands oil and gas; IEA’s path to 1.5C unpacked https://www.carbonbrief.org/debriefed-29-september-2023-focus-on-carbon-offsets-uk-expands-oil-and-gas-ieas-path-to-1-5c-unpacked/

How lessons from Earth’s past can help us save the planet https://www.kalw.org/show/your-call/2023-10-02/how-lessons-from-earths-past-can-help-us-save-the-planet

Annual Twin Cities Marathon canceled due to extreme heat https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/01/us/twin-cities-marathon-canceled-weather/index.html

Lessons from California on how to adapt to sea level rise https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2023/09/26/lessons-from-california-on-how-to-adapt-to-sea-level-rise

As the world warms, intense tropical cyclones are starting earlier, study finds https://phys.org/news/2023-09-world-intense-tropical-cyclones-earlier.html

Australia’s national area-average mean temperature was 2.43 °C warmer than the 1961–1990 average, the third-warmest on record (since 1910) for September http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/current/month/aus/summary.shtml

Japan experiences hottest September on record https://watchers.news/2023/10/03/japan-experiences-hottest-september-on-record/

The global costs of extreme weather that are attributable to climate change https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-41888-1

Climate change is narrowing and shifting prescribed fire windows in western United States https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-023-00993-1

Ice cores reveal Antarctica is warming twice as fast as global average https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-ice-cores-reveal-antarctica-is-warming-twice-as-fast-as-global-average/

Australia’s emissions must decline more steeply to reach climate commitment: OECD https://theconversation.com/australias-emissions-must-decline-more-steeply-to-reach-climate-commitment-oecd-214851

‘Absolutely perverse’: climate scheme could reward Australian coalmines while emissions rise https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/03/labor-coalmine-safeguard-mechanism-climate-scheme-emissions-benefits

Climate solutions are necessary. So we’re dedicating a week to highlight them https://www.npr.org/2023/10/02/1197590139/climate-change-solutions

Researchers call for urgent emissions cuts as Antarctic sea ice ‘drops off a cliff’ https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/499335/researchers-call-for-urgent-emissions-cuts-as-antarctic-sea-ice-drops-off-a-cliff

Are we making progress towards a net zero future? https://www.climateforesight.eu/articles/are-we-making-progress-towards-a-net-zero-future/

Apostolic Exhortation Laudate Deum of the Holy Father Francis to all people of good will on the climate crisis https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2023/10/04/231004a.html

New Zealand records hottest September on record https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/04/new-zealand-october-temperature-record-heat-september

Deep learning shows how global warming affects daily rainfall https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02803-2

Heat Islands https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-26588-4_36

Can AI help build climate resilience in the Caribbean? Let’s look at housing https://blogs.worldbank.org/sustainablecities/can-ai-help-build-climate-resilience-caribbean-lets-look-housing

Study Identifies Jet-Stream Pattern That Locks in Extreme Winter Cold, Wet Spells https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2023/10/04/study-identifies-jet-stream-pattern-that-locks-in-extreme-winter-cold-wet-spells/

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