Today in climate change (15 March 2024)

Please find below links to recent climate change news…

Much of America asks: Where did winter go? Spring starts early as US winter was warmest on record https://apnews.com/article/winter-warming-missing-climate-change-snow-e5e45c1d5eb9f168030e0fe90ac36ac8

Long weekend heatwave causes Moomba Parade cancellation and festival disruptions https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-09/music-festival-extreme-heat-bushfire-victoria-pitch-golden-plain/103568338

Great Lakes Ice Cover Hits New Lows https://e360.yale.edu/digest/great-lakes-ice-climate-change

Emergent constraints on carbon budgets as a function of global warming https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-46137-7

Heatwave pushes wind and solar to record highs, as renewables share reaches 70 pct of NEM https://reneweconomy.com.au/heatwave-pushes-wind-and-solar-to-record-highs-as-renewables-share-reaches-70-pct-of-nem/

Hobart endures hottest night in 112 years as severe heatwave hits south-eastern Australia https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/10/hobart-endures-hottest-night-in-112-years-as-severe-heatwave-hits-south-eastern-australia

Europe unprepared for rapidly growing climate risks, report finds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/10/europe-unprepared-for-climate-risks-eea-report

Study explores impacts of Arctic warming on daily weather patterns in the U.S. https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/study-explores-impacts-arctic-warming-daily-weather-patterns-us/

Record run of autumn hot weather for Sydney as waters simmer past cyclone threshold https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-13/nsw-sydney-water-warm-summer-temperatures-in-autumn/103576780

Is renewable energy cheaper than fossil fuels? https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/is-renewable-energy-cheaper-than

Renewables provide 52 pct of German power in 2023, as wind overtakes coal https://reneweconomy.com.au/renewables-provide-52-pct-of-german-power-in-2023-as-wind-overtakes-coal/

Why women are key to climate action https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/page/why-women-are-key-climate-action

East Africa must prepare for more extreme rainfall during the short rainy season – new study https://theconversation.com/east-africa-must-prepare-for-more-extreme-rainfall-during-the-short-rainy-season-new-study-218545

Climate change is forcing massive changes to how Australia protects endangered animals and plants from extinction https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2024-03-13/climate-change-bushfires-species-extinction-black-summer/103494254

Increasing frequency and lengthening season of western disturbances are linked to increasing strength and delayed northward migration of the subtropical jet https://wcd.copernicus.org/articles/5/345/2024/

Tennis anyone? Bad news for skiers as snow season could shrink by 78% this century https://theconversation.com/tennis-anyone-bad-news-for-skiers-as-snow-season-could-shrink-by-78-this-century-225581

Thousands of high temperature records broken across Africa https://watchers.news/2024/03/12/thousands-of-high-temperature-records-broken-across-africa/

Australian National Climate Risk Assessment: First pass assessment report https://www.dcceew.gov.au/climate-change/publications/ncra-first-pass-risk-assessment

There are growing fears of an alarming shift in Antarctic sea ice https://www.newscientist.com/article/2421376-there-are-growing-fears-of-an-alarming-shift-in-antarctic-sea-ice/

Climate change impacts in Bangladesh https://www.preventionweb.net/publication/climate-change-impacts-bangladesh

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