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Analyzing Big Earth Data: Progress, Challenges, Opportunities

by Tiffany C. Vance, Thomas Huang and Christopher Lynnes 9 November 20228 February 2023

Big Earth data are accumulating at a rapid rate with challenges for understanding and using the data, but new tools and applications are enabling analysis and enhancing usability by policy makers.

Protestors hold signs for climate action.
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Greenhouse Gases Must Begin to Fall by 2025, Says U.N. Climate Report

Jenessa Duncombe, Staff Writer by Jenessa Duncombe 4 April 202217 May 2023

Emissions rates are still growing every year, though that growth has slowed. The world needs to reach negative growth soon to prevent a potential 3.2°C rise by the end of the century.

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Climate Report Rebukes Overshoot Plans with “Irreversible Consequences”

Jenessa Duncombe, Staff Writer by Jenessa Duncombe 28 February 20221 June 2023

Many pathways to stopping climate change involve overshooting 1.5°C temporarily. The latest synthesis of 34,000 references says that’s a bad idea.

Aerial image of Madagascar.
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What Five Graphs from the U.N. Climate Report Reveal About Our Path to Halting Climate Change

Jenessa Duncombe, Staff Writer by Jenessa Duncombe 9 August 202110 November 2021

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s first assessment report since 2013 describes two illustrative scenarios that keep warming below 2°C—and several others that go wildly offtrack.

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Half of the IPCC Scenarios to Limit Warming Don’t Work

by Jordan Wilkerson 7 July 20211 June 2023

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change showcased 50 scenarios to limit global warming to 1.5°C above preindustrial temperatures. A new study finds that only half of those scenarios are realistic.

Imagen de una fábrica en un complejo industrial emitiendo gases.
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El debate sobre las proyecciones de emisiones energéticas de las Naciones Unidas

Kate Wheeling, freelance science writer by Kate Wheeling 9 March 202114 March 2023

Un nuevo estudio encuentra el factor económico que controla la divergencia entre las trayectorias de las emisiones en las evaluaciones climáticas y la realidad.

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The Debate over the United Nations’ Energy Emissions Projections

Kate Wheeling, freelance science writer by Kate Wheeling 18 December 20202 September 2022

A new study finds the economic factor driving the divergence between emissions trajectories in climate assessments and reality.

Hackathon participants at several locations collaborated on climate model analyses summer 2019.
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Hackathon Speeds Progress Toward Climate Model Collaboration

by W. Weijer, F. M. Hoffman, P. A. Ullrich, M. Wehner and Ji. Liu 23 December 201924 March 2023

Climate scientists collaborated in a nationwide event to analyze and compare archived Earth system model simulations and to generate input for the IPCC’s upcoming climate change report.

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Grim Report on Climate Change Impacts on Oceans and Cryosphere

by Randy Showstack 25 September 20193 April 2023

A new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states that bold actions can prevent significantly worse impacts.

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Climate Change Pressures Land and Food Resources, Report Warns

by Randy Showstack 8 August 201919 August 2022

There is a window of time to act now before threats increase further and solutions become less effective, a new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states.

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