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World Meteorological Organisation confirms 2023 as ‘hottest year’

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World Meteorological Organisation confirms 2023 as ‘hottest year’

A mother protects her child from heat while returning from the school in Visakhapatnam. File. Image for representation | Photo Credit: The Hindu In line with a host of observations by climate agencies in the preceding three months, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has officially confirmed 2023 to be the hottest year on record. The…

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Will Artificial Intelligence Save Humanity? US Tech Fest Offers Reality Check

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Will Artificial Intelligence Save Humanity? US Tech Fest Offers Reality Check

Austin, United States: Artificial intelligence aficionados are betting that the technology will help solve humanity’s biggest problems, from wars to global warming, but in practice, these may be unrealistic ambitions for now. “It’s not about asking AI ‘Hey, this is a sticky problem. What would you do?’ and AI is like, ‘well, you need to…

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90% Of Himalayas Will Face Year-Long Drought At 3 Degrees Warming: Study

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90% Of Himalayas Will Face Year-Long Drought At 3 Degrees Warming: Study

90% of the Himalayan ranges will face year-long drought at 3 degrees warming, a study claimed New Delhi: About 90 per cent of the Himalayan Region will experience drought lasting over a year if global warming increases by 3 degrees Celsius, according to new research. The findings, published in the journal Climatic Change, show that…

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Global warming’s patterns are more important than its levels | Explained

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Global warming’s patterns are more important than its levels | Explained

Many warming records were broken in 2023 along with climate disasters such as wildfires, cyclones, droughts, and floods. In this time, the focus of the public narrative – often with the participation of scientists – has often been on whether we crossed the ‘magical’ warming threshold of 1.5 degrees C. The best estimates, derived from…

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World breached 1.5° Celsius limit for entire year for first time: European climate agency

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World breached 1.5° Celsius limit for entire year for first time: European climate agency

Scientists attribute the exceptional warming to the combined effects of El Niño. File photo | Photo Credit: AP The world last month experienced the warmest January on record, with the global mean temperature for the past 12 months exceeding the 1.5° Celsius threshold, according to the European climate agency. However, this does not imply a…

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“220 Crore In India, Pak To Face Deadly Heat If…”: New Study

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“220 Crore In India, Pak To Face Deadly Heat If…”: New Study

Billions of people in the subcontinent are at risk of facing extreme heat for hours. New Delhi: Climate change by the turn of the Century could lead to global warming that could trigger heart attacks and heat strokes in some of the most populated areas of the world, including India and the Indus valley, new…

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Call for fossil fuel phase-out on global stocktake agenda: U.N. report

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Call for fossil fuel phase-out on global stocktake agenda: U.N. report

The global stocktake outcome may also include a call for a “global phase-out of unabated coal power generation by 2040 in a just manner” and tripling the capacity deployment of renewable and clean energy by 2030. File | Photo Credit: AP Calls to phase out unabated fossil fuels, reform subsidies on it and triple global…

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Pope challenges leaders at United Nations talks to slow global warming before it’s too late

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Pope challenges leaders at United Nations talks to slow global warming before it’s too late

Pope Francis challenged world leaders on October 4 to commit to binding targets to slow climate change before it’s too late, warning that God’s increasingly warming creation is fast reaching a “point of no return.” In an update to his landmark 2015 encyclical on the environment, Pope heightened the alarm about the “irreversible” harm to…

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Muscle, wood, coal, oil: what earlier energy transitions tell us about renewables

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Muscle, wood, coal, oil: what earlier energy transitions tell us about renewables

In 2022, the burning of fossil fuels provided 82% of the world’s energy. In 2000, it was 87%. Even as renewables have undergone tremendous growth, they’ve been offset by increased demand for energy. That’s why the United Nations earlier this month released a global stocktake – an assessment on how the world is going in weaning itself off these energy-dense but…

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