Today in climate change (14 February 2025)

Please find below links to recent climate change news…

Hottest January on record called ‘terrifying’ by climate scientists after defying expectations https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/hottest-january-record-global-warming-climate-change-b2693479.html

The puzzling and powerful polar vortex faces ‘big uncertainty’ as Earth warms https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/02/08/polar-vortex-climate-change-influence-weather/77897833007/

Top Scientist: We Can’t Adapt Our Way Out of This Climate Crisis https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2022/06/climate-scientist-katharine-hayhoe-crisis-adaptation-global-warming-impact/

An Arctic meltdown is accelerating global warming: How will we adapt? https://phys.org/news/2025-02-arctic-meltdown-global.html

A year above 1.5 °C signals that Earth is most probably within the 20-year period that will reach the Paris Agreement limit https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02246-9

Earth is already shooting through the 1.5°C global warming limit, two major studies show https://theconversation.com/earth-is-already-shooting-through-the-1-5-c-global-warming-limit-two-major-studies-show-249133

Australia formally misses UN climate deadline, only one country makes pledge close to 1.5°C https://reneweconomy.com.au/australia-formally-misses-un-climate-deadline-only-one-country-makes-pledge-close-to-1-5c/

Record January heat suggests La Niña may be losing its ability to keep global warming in check https://theconversation.com/record-january-heat-suggests-la-nina-may-be-losing-its-ability-to-keep-global-warming-in-check-249389

Atmospheric rivers in Antarctica https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-024-00638-7

Tesla slump and global shake-up could see EV prices as low as $20,000 https://thedriven.io/2025/02/10/tesla-slump-and-global-shake-up-could-see-ev-prices-as-low-as-20000/

China’s Disastrous Summer Floods Linked to Unusually Warm Spring in Tibet https://e360.yale.edu/digest/2024-china-floods-climate

‘We left pieces of our life behind’: Indigenous group flees drowning island https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz0lg9pedz1o

Record warm seas supercharging Australia’s weather from heatwaves to floods to cyclones https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-13/australia-warm-seas-fuelling-wild-weather-floods-cyclones/104928782

Climate change review reveals flooding trend https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr5304n1313o

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