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No obituary for Earth: Scientists fight climate doom talk

Scientists say climate change is bad, and getting worse, but it is not game over for planet Earth or humanity.

No obituary for Earth: Scientists fight climate doom talk

Climate change is going to get worse, but as gloomy as the latest scientific reports are, including today’s from the United Nations, scientist after scientist stresses that curbing global warming is not hopeless. The science says it is not game over for planet Earth or humanity. University of Maine climate scientist Jacquelyn Gill noticed in 2018 fewer people telling her climate change isn’t real and more “people that we now call doomers that you know believe that nothing can be done.”

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60 Minutes climate change archive: What climate impacts

Rising seas, raging fires, more powerful hurricanes—as the climate changes, so do many facets of life. A look at how 60 Minutes has documented the transformation.

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The heat stays on: Earth hits 6th warmest year on record

Two U.S. science agencies say 2021 was the sixth hottest year on record globally, part of a long-term warming trend.

As spending bill stalls, Biden climate goals remain elusive

President Joe Biden faces a steep path to achieve his ambitious goal of slashing planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030.

60 Minutes climate change archive: What climate impacts

Rising seas, raging fires, more powerful hurricanes—as the climate changes, so do many facets of life. A look at how 60 Minutes has documented the transformation.

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Panel: Consider tinkering with oceans to suck up more carbon

The National Academy of Sciences says the world needs to look into making oceans suck up more carbon dioxide to fight climate change.

'Watered-down hope': Experts wanted more from climate pact

While world leaders hail the Glasgow climate pact as a good compromise that keeps a key temperature limit alive, scientists are much more skeptical.

Globe bounces back to nearly 2019 carbon pollution levels

Global carbon pollution this year has bounced back to almost 2019 levels, after a drop during pandemic lockdowns.

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UN chief urges 'rapid' emission cuts to curb climate change

The head of the United Nations is calling for “immediate, rapid and large-scale” cuts in greenhouse gas emissions to curb global warming.

Q&A: Ali gets the Ken Burns treatment in 4-part PBS film

The number of movies, documentaries and other entertainment vehicles made about Muhammad Ali would make it seem that there’s not much left to offer.

Could climate change make humans go extinct?

Humanity is feeling the effects of climate change around the world, but could climate change make humans go extinct?

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Are We Finally Ready to Tackle the Other Greenhouse Gas?

The smokestack of a ship might help us deal with spiking levels of methane.

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Global sizzling: July was hottest month on record, NOAA says

U.S. weather officials say Earth in July was the hottest month ever recorded.

Numbers explain how and why West bakes, burns and dries out

The US West is getting hit with a triple whammy of record heat, megadrought and wildfires — and just a handful of numbers explains the how and why of this wild and deadly weather.

Study: Northwest heat wave impossible without climate change

A quick scientific study finds that the recent deadly heat wave in the Pacific Northwest would be virtually impossible without climate change.

Summer swelter trend: West gets hotter days, East hot nights

An Associated Press analysis shows that the recent heat wave struck places that are warming up faster than other parts of the United States.

Pacific Northwest bakes under once in a millennium heat dome

The heat is being caused by a combination of a significant atmospheric blocking pattern on top of a human-caused climate changed world.

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Northwest "heat dome" shows the extreme impacts of climate change

The dangerous heat wave enveloping the Pacific Northwest is shattering weather records by such large margins that it is making even climate scientists uneasy. Why it matters: Infrastructure, including heating and cooling, is built according to expectations of a "normal" climate. Human-caused climate change is quickly redefining that normal, while dramatically raising the likelihood of events that simply have no precedent. Stay on top of the latest market trends and economic insights with Axios M

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Pacific Northwest bakes under once in a millennium heat dome

The heat is being caused by a combination of a significant atmospheric blocking pattern on top of a human-caused climate changed world.

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Pacific Northwest bakes under once in a millennium heat dome

The heat is being caused by a combination of a significant atmospheric blocking pattern on top of a human-caused climate changed world.

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Forecast: 40% chance Earth to be hotter than Paris goal soon

A new world weather agency forecast says it'll likely be so hot in the next five years that there's a 40% chance the globe will push past the temperature limit set by the Paris climate agreement.

America's new normal: A degree hotter than two decades ago

America's normal temperature is now a degree hotter than just 20 years ago.

Vaccinated faithful throng Jerusalem church for Holy Fire

Hundreds of Christian worshippers made use of Israel’s easing of coronavirus restrictions Saturday, packing a Jerusalem church revered as the site of Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection for an ancient fire ceremony a day before Orthodox Easter. The faithful gathered at The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, waiting for clergymen to emerge with the Holy Fire from the Edicule, a chamber built on the site where Christians believe Jesus was buried and rose from the dead after being crucified. As bells rang and the top clerics from different Orthodox denominations appeared, the worshippers scrambled to light their candles and pass the fire on.

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Nigeria gang leader behind school kidnapping shot by rivals

Auwalu Daudawa, whose gang abducted over 300 children, is killed while stealing cattle, officials say.

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As extreme weather increases, climate misinformation adapts

As the impact of climate change becomes more apparent, misinformation about it is shifting to focus more and more on extreme weather.

AP sources: Biden to pledge halving greenhouse gases by 2030

President Joe Biden will pledge to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions at least in half by 2030 as he convenes a virtual climate summit with 40 world leaders.

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Bye Alpha, Eta: Greek alphabet ditched for hurricane names

(NOAA via AP)With named storms coming earlier and more often in warmer waters, the Atlantic hurricane season is going through some changes with meteorologists ditching the Greek alphabet during busy years. The Greek alphabet had only been used twice in 2005 and nine times last year in a record-shattering hurricane season. AdMeanwhile, the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration is recalculating just what constitutes an average hurricane season. STARTING EARLIERMIT hurricane researcher Kerry Emanuel said “this whole idea of hurricane season should be revisited." So a warming world means the new normal is busy hurricane seasons just like the last 30 years.

Humans, not nature, are the cause of changes in Atlantic hurricane cycles, new study finds

"But I was wrong about the existence of an internal AMO oscillation when I coined the term 20 years ago," he said. To determine this, the researchers used state-of-the-art climate models to test two scenarios for pre-industrial times to look back over the past thousand years. "It means that we can more convincingly now conclude that the increases in Atlantic hurricane activity are tied to warming that is human-caused, not natural, in nature," explains Mann. And in recent decades, there is robust evidence that Atlantic hurricane seasons are getting worse. This has recently prompted the World Meteorological Organization to contemplate starting the Atlantic hurricane season earlier, on May 15th rather than June 1st.

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Humans, not nature, are the cause of changes in Atlantic hurricane cycles, new study finds

"But I was wrong about the existence of an internal AMO oscillation when I coined the term 20 years ago," he said. To determine this, the researchers used state-of-the-art climate models to test two scenarios for pre-industrial times to look back over the past thousand years. "It means that we can more convincingly now conclude that the increases in Atlantic hurricane activity are tied to warming that is human-caused, not natural, in nature," explains Mann. And in recent decades, there is robust evidence that Atlantic hurricane seasons are getting worse. This has recently prompted the World Meteorological Organization to contemplate starting the Atlantic hurricane season earlier, on May 15th rather than June 1st.

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U.S. must go ‘well beyond Paris commitments’ to avert catastrophic global warming, warns scientist

Scientist Michael Mann argued that the United States must go "well beyond those Paris commitments" as President Joe Biden rejoined the Paris Climate Agreement Friday. The move to reenter the Paris Climate Agreement was a departure from the Trump administration's climate policy. He formally notified the United Nations in 2019, and the U.S. left the Paris Agreement the following year after a waiting period. Homeland Security Advisor Liz Sherwood-Randall even underscored the danger of climate change during a White House press briefing on Thursday. Mann explained that climate change could be a factor contributing to the anguish in Texas amid freezing temperatures.

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Christopher Plummer got a third act worth singing about

FILE - Christopher Plummer arrives at the Oscars on March 4, 2018, in Los Angeles. Plummer, the dashing award-winning actor who played Captain von Trapp in the film The Sound of Music and at 82 became the oldest Academy Award winner in history, has died. Plummer, the dashing award-winning actor who played Captain von Trapp in the film The Sound of Music and at 82 became the oldest Academy Award winner in history, has died. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)It’s one of the great Hollywood ironies that Christopher Plummer didn’t like the film that made him a legend. Please.”Born in Toronto in 1929, Plummer was the great grandson of Canadian Prime Minister John Abbott and fell for the theater at a young age.

Oscar winner, ‘Sound of Music’ star Christopher Plummer dies

FILE - Christopher Plummer poses for a portrait on July 25, 2013, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Plummer, the dashing award-winning actor who played Captain von Trapp in the film The Sound of Music and at 82 became the oldest Academy Award winner in history, has died. Plummer died Friday morning at his home in Connecticut with his wife, Elaine Taylor, by his side, said Lou Pitt, his longtime friend and manager. The role catapulted Plummer to stardom, but he never took to leading men parts, despite his silver hair, good looks and ever-so-slight English accent. That choice that was officially validated in the best possible way for the film — a supporting Oscar nomination for Plummer, his third. Plummer married his third wife, dancer Taylor, in 1970, and credited her with helping him overcome a drinking problem.

Paul Crutzen, who shared Nobel for ozone work, has died

FILE - In this file photo dated December 10 1995, showing Dutch Professor Paul J. Crutzen, left, receiving the Nobel prize for chemistry from Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf, at the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden. According to a statement from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Germany, Dutch scientist Paul J. Crutzen, who won the Nobel Prize for chemistry for his work understanding the ozone hole, died Thursday Jan. 28, 2021, at the age of 87. (AP photo/Eric Roxfelt, FILE)BERLIN – Paul J. Crutzen, a Dutch scientist who won the Nobel Prize for chemistry for his work understanding the ozone hole and is credited with coining the term Anthropocene to describe the geological era shaped by mankind, has died. “Paul Crutzen was a pioneer in many ways,” Martin Stratmann, the president of the Max Planck Society, said in a statement. According to the Nobel Institute, Crutzen got a job as a programmer at Stockholm University's Department for Meteorology despite having no programming experience.

Are Biden's actions on climate change enough to make a difference?

Are Biden's actions on climate change enough to make a difference? President Biden has signed several executive orders aimed at combating climate change. But will his policies do enough? Climate scientist Michael Mann, author of "The New Climate War," joined CBSN's Tanya Rivero to discuss.

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Are Biden's actions on climate change enough to make a difference?

Are Biden's actions on climate change enough to make a difference? President Biden has signed several executive orders aimed at combating climate change. But will his policies do enough? Climate scientist Michael Mann, author of "The New Climate War," joins CBSN's Tanya Rivero to discuss.

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Hot again: 2020 sets yet another global temperature record

(AP Photo/Scott Sonner)Earth’s rising fever hit or neared record hot temperature levels in 2020, global weather groups reported Thursday. “We’re expecting it to get hotter and that’s exactly what happened.”NOAA said 2020 averaged 58.77 degrees (14.88 degrees Celsius), a few hundredths of a degree behind 2016. Japan’s weather agency put 2020 as warmer than 2016, but a separate calculation by Japanese scientists put 2020 as a close third behind 2016 and 2019. Earth has now warmed 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.2 degrees Fahrenheit) since pre-industrial times and is adding another 0.2 degrees Celsius (0.36 Fahrenheit) a decade. Schmidt said fewer cooling aerosols could be responsible for .09 to .18 degrees (.05 to .1 degrees Celsius) warming for the year.

The record-shattering 2020 hurricane season, explained

Like so many other aspects of 2020, the Atlantic hurricane season hurled one shocking event after another, pushing the limits of what meteorologists thought was possible. The 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season to date: pic.twitter.com/kY7nb3A1ea — Tomer Burg (@burgwx) November 17, 2020And there's still time for more storms. 2020 hurricane season! To date, the total ACE for the 2020 hurricane season is 178, nowhere near the record of 245 set in 2005. The 2020 Atlantic #hurricane season has now produced 178 ACE (Accumulated Cyclone Energy).

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Tarantino has deal for 2 books on films, including 1 his own

The Oscar-winning director has a two-book deal with Harper, beginning with a novelization of “Once Upon a Time ... In Hollywood” was released in 2019 and stars Leonardo DiCaprio as an actor and Brad Pitt as his stunt double. “In the ‘70s movie novelizations were the first adult books I grew up reading," Tarantino said in a statement Tuesday. “I see myself writing film books and starting to write theater, so I’ll still be creative. I just think I’ve given all I have to give to movies.”_____AP Film Writer Jake Coyle contributed to this report.

Celebration after game-winning hit made Rays' Phillips sick

Tampa Bay Rays right fielder Brett Phillips arrives for batting practice before Game 5 of the baseball World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers Sunday, Oct. 25, 2020, in Arlington, Texas. Hey, bases loaded, two outs and you’re down by one in the World Series. So, sure they regret it a little bit, but I by no means got upset.”CLOSED ROOFThere could be a lid on the rest of this World Series. It was the second time during the World Series that the retractable roof at the new $1.2 billion stadium was closed for a game. That homer came as part of his fifth three-hit game this postseason, already a MLB record, as were his 59 total bases.

The climate science behind this year's wildfires and powerful storms

In the 1980's, a NASA scientist named James Hansen discovered that climate change, driven by carbon emissions, was upon us. Are these disasters climate change? Hansen is the father of climate change science. Scott Pelley: Well, the president says about climate change, science doesn't know. There's about as much scientific consensus about human-caused climate change as there is about gravity.

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Climate scientists on Earth's two futures

For more than three decades, climate scientists have accurately forecast how carbon emissions would cause a global rise in temperatures. Hansen has been called the father of climate change science. Stopping climate change before irreversible effects have damaged the planet is possible, some scientists believe. Current projections create a more comprehensive look at how the climate responds to carbon dioxide, including how the ocean and plants can absorb some of the carbon humans have released into the atmosphere. According to the latest models, how much the planet will warm is mostly a function of how much carbon humans have burned up to now.

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State fire chief: "These are fires that nobody... ever dreamed of happening in California"

When California's state fire chief began his career more than 20 years ago, fires of 10 to 50,000 acres were a rare occurrence, but now they are a yearly event. "These are fires that nobody, when I started in this business, ever even dreamed of happening in California. "It dawned on me at one point that career fires are happening every single year. Right now, today, there are 10 fires in California that are 100,000 acres plus, and one that's 850,000 acres plus." "I'm afraid, without significant change in the moisture that we get from the atmosphere, we're going to continue to see this getting worse and worse and worse."

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Getting warmer: Trump concedes human role in climate change

President Donald Trump publicly acknowledged that humans bear some blame for climate change, but scientists say the president still isn't dealing with the reality of our primary role. The climate change exchange represented a rare microburst of policy discussion from Trump in a loud, nerve-abrading debate. And it ever so lightly nailed down the position of the Republican president on climate change. On Tuesday, after Trump nodded at a human role in climate change, Wallace asked him why he then had undone the Clean Power Plan. That was a legacy Obama administration climate change effort intended to move U.S. utilities away from the dirtiest fossil-fuel plants.

Warming shrinks Arctic Ocean ice to 2nd lowest on record

Ice in the Arctic Ocean melted to its second lowest level on record this summer, triggered by global warming along with natural forces, U.S. scientists reported Monday. The extent of ice-covered ocean at the North Pole and extending further south to Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Russia reached its summertime low of 1.4 million square miles (3.7 million square kilometers) last week before starting to grow again. Arctic sea ice reaches its low point in September and its high in March after the winter. This year's melt is second only to 2012, when the ice shrank to 1.3 million square miles (3.4 million square kilometers), according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, which has been keeping satellite records since 1979. In the 1980s, the ice cover was about 1 million square miles (2.7 million square kilometers) bigger than current summer levels.

Study: World carbon pollution falls 17% during pandemic peak

The world cut its daily carbon dioxide emissions by 17% at the peak of the pandemic shutdown last month, a new study found. The world cut its daily carbon dioxide emissions by 17% at the peak of the pandemic shutdown last month, a new study found. For a week in April, the United States cut its carbon dioxide levels by about one-third. The study was carried out by Global Carbon Project, a consortium of international scientists that produces the authoritative annual estimate of carbon dioxide emissions. By contrast, the study found that drastic reductions in air travel only accounted for 10% of the overall pollution drop.

"Above normal" 2020 Atlantic hurricane season on tap, researchers forecast

As the world battles the coronavirus crisis, researchers are warning of a potentially active Atlantic Ocean hurricane season, which kicks off June 1 through the end of November. For the 37th year in a row, Colorado State University (CSU) issued its hurricane season forecast Thursday and the numbers appear significantly above normal. One of the reasons for the above-average seasonal #hurricane forecast from CSU is due to the likely lack of #ElNino this summer/fall. The negative phase corresponds to cooler than normal "North" Atlantic Ocean waters. While warmer than normal Tropical Atlantic waters do not occur in every region, every year, they are becoming increasingly prominent.

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U.S. Supreme Court lets climate scientist's defamation claim proceed

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday allowed a prominent climate scientist to pursue a defamation lawsuit against a conservative magazine and a think tank that compared him to a convicted child molester. FILE PHOTO: The U.S. Supreme Court is seen in Washington, U.S., June 11, 2018. Criticism of Mann by conservative climate change skeptics increased after some of his private emails were leaked in 2009. Mann could be said to be the Jerry Sandusky of climate science, except for instead of molesting children, he has molested and tortured data, Simberg wrote. The appeals court ruled in favor of Mann in 2016 and in March of this year the District of Columbia Court of Appeals declined to rehear the case.

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Supreme Court allows libel suit by climate scientist who was compared to Jerry Sandusky

The case involves a hotly disputed question that has split lower courts: When can statements of opinion form the basis of a libel suit? Ordinarily, the high court has ruled, a person cant be sued for expressing an opinion. They argued that freedom of speech and the press requires shielding people who comment on matters of great public controversy, such as climate change. In the past, President Trump, among others, has called for making it easier to sue the press for libel. Climate change has staked a place at the very center of his nations public discourse, he added.

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