FOUND: 7 - What They Never Told You

2023 'virtually certain' to be warmest on record, say climate experts

New data shows last month smashed the October temperature record by 'a huge margin'

Evening Standard · Nov 8, 2023

Global warming will reach 1.5C threshold this decade

Climate change is accelerating and the world will cross the 1.5 degrees Celsius warming threshold this decade, according to research published

The Hindu · Nov 3, 2023

Carbon budget for 1.5°C will run out in six years at current emissions levels – new research

If humanity wants to have a 50-50 chance of limiting global warming to 1.5°C, we can only emit 250 another gigatonnes (billion metric tonnes) of CO₂. This effectively gives the world just six years to get to net zero, according to calculations in our new paper published in Nature Climate…

The Conversation · Oct 30, 2023

Slow route to net zero will worsen global climate crisis, IPCC chief warns

Even if the 2050 goal is still met, postponing action – as the UK has done – will cause more heat and damage

The Guardian - UK · Oct 2, 2023

Key dates in Jermaine Baker case

Jermaine Baker was shot during a Met Police operation that stopped a plot to snatch two prisoners from a van near Wood Green Crown Court in 2015.

The Independent UK · Sep 29, 2023

France records hottest September ever as warm weather persists

The month of September has been the hottest in mainland France since records began in 1900, the country's weather office has announced, as the late heatwave looks set to continue.

Radio France Internationale · Sep 29, 2023

Watchdog commissioner says Met sabotaged her career over investigations of racism

Exonerated of allegations of evidence suppression in case of firefighter Tasered by police, Jennifer Izekor criticises ‘siege mentality’ in British policing

The Guardian - UK · Sep 28, 2023

Was the freak 'medicane' storm that devastated Libya a glimpse of North Africa's future?

Storm Daniel landed on the Libyan coastal town of Toukrah in the early hours of September 10 and started moving east. Soon the wind was rising and heavy rain falling, forcing people to stay indoors. By afternoon the rain was clearly out of the ordinary.

The Conversation · Sep 21, 2023

We just blew past 1.5 degrees. Game over on climate? Not yet

July 2023 was the hottest month ever recorded. And now we know something even more alarming. This week, the European Space Agency announced the July heat pushed the global average temperatures 1.5℃ above the pre-industrial average.

The Conversation · Sep 13, 2023

The world’s biggest carbon capture facility is being built in Texas. Will it work?

The plant will inject 500,000 tons of carbon dioxide into the ground each year – but is it just greenwashing from big oil?

The Guardian - US · Sep 12, 2023