![]() He told a press conference that his ministry will put forward two legislative packages, one in April and the other before summer, that will come into effect by 2023 with a view to ensuring Germany gets back on track to meet its 2030 targets. Germany’s new climate minister Robert Habeck has announced plans to fix a “drastic deficit” in the country’s efforts to tackle climate change, adding that Germany had “significantly” missed its 2021 emissions target, Politico reports. In its coverage, BBC News notes that five million people live on Arctic permafrost and climate change is causing the Arctic to warm two-to-four times faster than the rest of the planet.įinally, the Guardian reports that last year was New Zealand’s hottest year on record, according to the country’s National Institute of Water and Aeronautic Research (NIWA). Reuters states that already “some roads are buckling and building foundations are cracking in northern Russia, Alaska, and Canada”. ![]() The piece notes that nearly 70% of the infrastructure in the permafrost areas of the Northern Hemisphere, including around 120,000 buildings and 25,000 miles of roads, are located in areas with high potential for thaw of near-surface permafrost by 2050. The Washington Post covers a series of six papers published in the journal Nature Reviews Earth & Environment demonstrating the impacts of the warming of the Arctic’s frozen permafrost. According to the Third Pole, women in the north Indian state of Bihar are becoming more vulnerable to violence and trafficking amid increased incidence of flooding linked to climate change. Meanwhile, Climate Home News reports on the impact of Typhoon Rai in the Philippines, which it says has reignited calls for “loss and damage” support for areas impacted by climate change, separate to humanitarian aid, to help communities recover and rebuild. You could say that we took the Earth’s temperature – and the Earth’s fever is getting worse.” The Independent has a piece on an annual forecast of CO2 levels by the Met Office, which is also examined in a Carbon Brief guest post. The Guardian has also published an opinion piece by one of the study’s authors, Dr John Abraham of the University of St Thomas in Minnesota, in which he states: “The information we used is absolutely crucial for understanding the planet. ![]() Chinese newswire Xinhua also has the story, noting that besides absorbing heat, oceans currently also absorb 20-30% of human carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, leading to ocean acidification. ![]() CNN adds that, according to the scientists behind the work, “oceans will continue warming for decades after fossil fuel emissions are slashed”, meaning that “even if countries make good on their pledges to reduce emissions soon…further ocean warming will continue and communities must prepare for the far-reaching consequences”. The piece notes that this warming is “being primarily driven by the human-caused climate crisis”. ![]() Among the impacts of these rising ocean temperatures are warmer waters that “supercharge storms, hurricanes and extreme rainfall” and “eats away” at the vast Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, according to the newspaper. It cites a new paper published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences that reveals a heat record for the top 2,000m of all oceans around the world, despite an ongoing La Niña climate event, which cools waters in the Pacific. The Guardian reports that last year saw the hottest ocean temperatures in recorded history, marking “the sixth consecutive year that this record has been broken”. ![]()
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