Record breaking numbers of activists arrested on last year’s Extinction Rebellion demonstrations are being prosecuted, in one of the biggest crackdowns on protest in British legal history. The Home Secretary Priti Patel has described Extinction Rebellion activists as terrorists, and this view may be animating the unprecedented scale of the prosecutions.
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2020 was the warmest year for Europe
Data just released by the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (“Europe’s eyes on Earth”) show that globally, 2020 was very close to equalling the 2016 record for warmest year since records began, and that in Europe, temperatures were 1.6 degrees Centigrade above the 1980-2010 average — a record. In northern Siberia, the increase was dramaticContinue reading “2020 was the warmest year for Europe”
Net zero would stop warming within 20 years
On a planetary scale, it takes many years to reach a new temperature equilibrium after a change in CO2 levels. If and when we reach net zero carbon emissions, for how how many years will temperatures continue to rise? New answers (reported in the Guardian on 7-1-21) suggest that it may be as little asContinue reading “Net zero would stop warming within 20 years”
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Is the Government’s Green Industrial Plan good enough?
Friends of the Earth assess the 10 points of the UK government’s green industrial plan (18th November 2020)
Is the Paris Agreement strong enough to avert catastrophe?
The Guardian’s envirnment correspondent assesses the strength of the agreement five years on from its signing, at the moment (8 December 2020) when the signatories are meant to be upping their commitments to reduce their carbon emissions.
We could save the world if we tried —
but will we make the effort? A report from the authoritative organisation Climate Action Tracker finds that if we all reach net zero carbon by 2050, the temperature rise would be no more than 2.1 degrees.
Fossil fuels refuse to die!
A UN report finds that production plans for fossil fuels directly contradict commitments made under the Paris Climate Accord. See the Guardian article from 2-12-2020 covering this, including a shocking graph showing, in order of decreasing size, planned production, pledged production and production compatible with keeping below a 2 degree increase.
New warning from General Secretary of the UN
António Guterres says that “humanity is waging war on nature” in a stark message reported in the Guardian on 2-12-20.
Restoring wetlands can reduce climate change
as well as promoting biodiversity and preventing damaging flooding downstream– see the article documenting this in the online magazine The Conversation of 25-11-2020
