A home is surrounded by floodwaters from Hurricane Harvey in Spring, Texas. Photograph: David J. Phillip/AP

After months of intense hurricanes, heat waves, and droughts, a survey finds a record number of Americans worried about climate change...

Former Greens leader Christine Milne with her granddaughter Eleanor, August 2017. Photograph: Karen Brown/Karen Brown Photography

Australia’s white lemuroid possum became my symbol for habitat loss and global warming that will send one-third of species to extinction by mid-century...

A man walks through floodwaters from Hurricane Irma in Bonita Springs, Florida. PHOTOGRAPH BY MARK WILSON, GETTY

Climate change is battering coasts with storms and floods, but we still haven’t grappled with the risks of what’s to come...

Trump said the United States won't be bound by any of the treaty's obligations while he backs out of the Paris Agreement. The crowd outside the White House for the announcement wasn't pleased. Credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images

The U.S. backing out of its climate change commitments threatens to lock in prolonged and dangerous warming, raising the cost for future generations...

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In late 1992, 1,700 scientists from around the world issued a dire “warning to humanity”...

Introduction

The first three essays in this Hydra-Headed Meta-Delusion series explain massive delusions that affect the entire world and more particularly the USA. The first massive delusion is exposed as the world’s belief that through the Paris Accord it has addressed the most pressing and pervasive crisis humanity has yet faced, i.e., rapid and disastrous climate heating and runaway climate destabilization. The demonstration of the Tinkerbell-Effect points to the delusions that those who supposedly are working to stabilize climate suffer from. That group is not the political group administering the US political system that many are supposedly “resisting,” but the vast majority of the world who believe that we are moving toward climate stabilization. Evidence shows however that technological developments and current efforts to reduce or mitigate greenhouse gas pollutants are trivial compared to the dramatic and immediate reductions in fossil fuels required.

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China is looking to join the growing number of countries setting bans in place for vehicles that run on fossil fuels...

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The frozen continent may hide a column of red-hot magma straining toward the surface...

The shoreline in Miami, a low-lying city threatened by rising sea levels. (Joseph Michael Lopez/For The Washington Post)

Some of humanity’s most primordial stories involve flooding: The tales of Noah, and before that Gilgamesh, tell what happens when the water starts to rise and doesn’t stop...

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Conservatives probably can’t be persuaded on climate change. So now what?

One more round of “messaging” won’t do it...

“What we’re understanding is that the human body is actually very sensitive to heat, and that suggests pretty much everybody’s at risk,” said Camilo Mora, who led new research into the health risks from hot weather. Credit: Michael Brown/Getty Images

New research in health and climate change suggests people are more susceptible to heat-related death than once thought. ‘It’s not just the elderly. It’s everybody...

The graph is from paper #80.

A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below...

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The Texas city’s response to a powerful storm says much about polarized visions of the country and diverging attitudes toward cities, race, liberty and science...

The alternative US dome – which is marked with the hashtag #wearestillin – is the biggest pavilion at the climate talks. Photograph: Ronald Wittek/EPA

Donald Trump has pulled the US out of the Paris accord – but other Americans are standing with the world to help fight the ‘existential crisis’ of global warming...

“This notion of humanitarian visas, legal pathways, and temporary protection are policy options that we are encouraging states to use.” [Photo: andrej67/iStock]

New Zealand is considering creating a new visa for people fleeing environmental disasters brought on by climate change...

Yesterday The Leonardo Dicaprio Foundation unveiled an ambitious plan to protect and connect 50 percent of the world’s land area as part of a broader effort to curb global warming, stave off the global extinction crisis, and ensure food availability for the planet’s growing human population...

Blue tarps cover roof after roof in some neighborhoods, and more than half the residents of Puerto Rico remain without power seven weeks after the storm. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

The aftermath of the hurricane went from unreal to surreal as 3.4 million people tried to cope without power or water amid a slow government response...

Sandstorm at the lighthouse Rubjerg Knude in North Jutland, Denmark Photograph: Redphotographer/Getty Images/iStockphoto

A major new report states unequivocally that humans are changing the planet. Archaeology puts those changes into context – and explains why action is crucial...

Mario Sánchez Nevado

A cool — and frightening — illustration of rising temperatures and CO2 levels...

Children are seen during a climate march prior to the opening session of the COP23 UN Climate Change Conference 2017 in Bonn, Germany. (Reuters / Wolfgang Rattay)

If negotiators are going to meaningfully combat the climate crisis this week, they’ll need to forget about pleasing fossil-fuel corporations...

This year has been tumultuous for those grappling with climate change. Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Jose and Nate have devastated North America and the Caribbean. Parts of South America and South Asia has faced flooding chaos, while parts of Europe faced sweltering heat waves. Antarctic sea ice hit a record low while temperature records were set in Australia. The costs of unchecked climate change are once again clear to all...

‘Solutions exist; they just need to be urgently implemented.’ Photograph: Alamy

It is time to stop the dairy and meat giants from destroying the climate and shift our support to making our small farmers, herders and ranchers resilient...

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Some concerns about continued monitoring of sea ice by remote sensing were raised this week in Nature News an article in the (UK) Observer: Donald Trump accused of obstructing satellite research into climate change. The last headline is not really correct, but the underlying issues are real...

Views of San Francisco's skyline are smoke-filled on the morning of Oct. 9 as multiple wildfires burn in Mendocino and Sonoma counties. Credit: Amy Graff/SF Gate

As climate change fuels large wildfires, the pollution they're releasing is making Americans sick and undermining decades of progress in cleaning the air...

ExxonMobil knew about the risks of climate change in the 1970s, yet misled the public for decades, say Anglican clergy asking the church to stop investing in the oil and gas company. Photograph: Matt Brown/AP

Anglican clergy, including five bishops, broadcaster Richard Coles and Olivia Graham, call on the church to support the aims of the Paris climate agreement by divesting from fossil fuel companies...

Narciso Espiritu

What lurks in the Arctic’s thawing permafrost?

Syria’s surprise decision to sign the Paris climate agreement comes against the background of a brutal civil war. Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Syria’s decision means America will be the only country outside the landmark deal if it follows through with Donald Trump’s vow to leave...

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• Government scientists issue 477-page report on climate change
• Calls this the warmest period in modern civilization’s history

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Since the dawn of the industrial age, humans have been pumping increasing amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by burning coal, oil and gas...

Earth’s sea ice has shrunk dramatically in recent years. Photograph: David Goldman/AP

Republican-controlled Congress ordered destruction of vital sea-ice probe...

The La Tuna Canyon brush fire burned above Burbank, Calif., this year. The Trump administration on Friday released a report on climate change that left no doubt about its causes. Credit Robyn Beck/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration published a report Friday on climate change from its own scientists that left no doubt about its grim reality and its causes.

So now what?

Jerry Brown, the governor of California, underlined the importance of religious leaders’ involvement in climate change efforts. Credit Alessandra Tarantino/Associated Press

VATICAN CITY — Religious leaders need to tell congregations that global warming can affect not just the environment, but also the spread of diseases and other threats to human health, participants said at a Vatican conference on Saturday on climate change, an issue that has been a priority of Pope Francis...

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‘If we don’t stop the destruction of nature, nothing else will matter’...

Coal-fired power plant in Wyoming

Editor's Pick: There’s a huge gap between the Paris climate change goals and reality.

Current pledges are about a third of what’s needed...

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‘As the ice shelves crumble and the Twitter president threatens to pull out of the Paris accord’, Franzen reflects on the role of the writer in times of crisis...

“Parts of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appear to already be in substantial decline. If that continues, it’s not a matter of how much, but how fast sea level will rise,” climate physicist Carl-Friedrich Schleussner said. Credit: Jeremy Harbeck/NASA

Nearly all coal emissions need to stop by 2050 to avoid accelerating ice loss that could lead to 4 feet of sea level rise this century, scientists say...

Hurricane forecasters look closely at ocean temperatures. Sea surface temperatures above 78 degrees, shown here in yellow, orange and red, are sufficiently warm to fuel hurricanes. Credit: NOAA

The oceans hold the story of a planet warming as fossil fuels are burned. Here is what scientists have discovered, in four charts...

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You most likely have seen the news about the global warming aggravated weather like hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Marie or the horrible wildfires in northern California and the west coast. In this blog we have repeatedly provided good science informing that you that until we reverse our suicidal fossil fuel burning habits, global warming aggravated climate consequences (like what you are seeing almost everyday in the news,) will continue to increase in frequency, severity and scale...

Along the coast of East Antarctica, surface winds are projected to intensify this century due to warming caused by increasing atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations. Credit: NASA

The little-studied glacier in East Antarctica holds enough ice to raise global sea level by more than 11 feet...

Mobile homes in a flooded neighborhood in Bonita Springs, Florida, on Sept. 12, 2017. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg

Ten million Americans will be "substantially affected" by climate change by 2075, causing government disaster spending to jump, the Congressional Budget Office projected Thursday. But, instead of trying to cut carbon emissions, the federal government could make coastal residents bear more of the financial risks for living there, the office said...

Throughout the year, the global community has projected a sense of calm determination in response to the US president’s contempt...

How Shanghai would look with a rise of just 2C: the UN warned this week of a potential 3C scenario. Photograph: Nickolay Lamm/Courtesy Climate Central

An elevated level of climate change would lock in irreversible sea-level rises affecting hundreds of millions of people, Guardian data analysis shows...

‘Worth protecting?’ Scientists recently published the first large-scale study of the association between social dominance and people’s environmental attitudes. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo

Recent studies linking people’s views on social inequality to how they think and act on environmental issues could prove crucial to changing their behavior...

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The amount of scientific research and brainpower that goes into the National Climate Assessment is kind of astonishing. Scratch that. It’s really astonishing...

Successive droughts, like those seen in sub-Saharan Africa, could cause millions to migrate to Europe. Photograph: Peter Caton/Tearfund

Experts warn refugees could number tens of millions in the next decade, and call for a new legal framework to protect the most vulnerable...

A series of new studies on everything from errors in calculating sea temperatures to the Earth’s ability to adapt in assimilating carbon dioxide has sent climate scientists scrambling to readjust their predictions concerning climate change...

The Halley VI research centre, run by the British Antarctic Survey, will shut down between March and November 2018. Photograph: British Antarctic Survey/PA

Having changed location earlier this year to avoid being cut off, the Halley VI station will close again over fears that the ice shelf it stands on may break...

 A car passes among dark homes as people wait for electricity to be restored after Hurricane Maria passed through on Oct. 6, 2017 in Utuado, Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico experienced widespread damage, including to most of the electrical, gas, and water grid, as well as agriculture. Joe Raedle/Getty Images

National outrage has led to the cancellation of a suspicious $300 million contract doled out to a tiny Montana company that was oddly tasked with rebuilding large parts of Puerto Rico’s electric grid. A separate $200 million contract has faced little scrutiny, but may ultimately be even more scandalous for what it says about the effort to rebuild the island in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria...

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A group of children and young adults is suing President Donald Trump’s administration for denying their right to a livable environment, claiming that by not properly addressing climate concerns, the United States is taking away their right to a healthy future...

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The health of millions of people across the world is already being significantly harmed by climate change, a major new report finds...

A victim of a heat wave in Pakistan, in 2015. Credit Asianet-Pakistan/Barcroft Media, via Getty Images

Climate change has largely been defined as an environmental issue, with the worst effects decades or centuries away. But a sobering new report from a commission convened by the medical journal The Lancet, released Monday evening, could change that assessment...

Pakistani heatstroke victims at a government hospital in Karachi, June 2015. The report found a huge increase in the number of people over 65 who are exposed to extreme heat. Photograph: Asif Hassan/AFP/Getty Images

Heatwaves, pollution and disease are the main health issues linked to global warming but action to halt emissions would deliver huge benefits...

Hurricane Sandy, which made landfall in the New York City region on Oct. 29, 2012, plunged Manhattan, from Midtown south to the Financial District, into darkness for several days. While much of the region’s inundated infrastructure has been repaired, many of the plans to stormproof the city are still just that — plans. Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times

While much of New York City’s battered infrastructure has been repaired and even improved, most long-term resiliency measures are still years away...

Much of Red Hook flooded during Superstorm Sandy on Oct. 29, 2012. Nearly six feet of water submerged cars and the electricity went out. Credit: Alan Chin via The Bridge.

This growing Brooklyn neighborhood, flooded during Superstorm Sandy, is now confronting the threat of future storms and sea level rise...

Donald Trump speaking during a Cabinet meeting at the White House as Ryan Zinke, left, listens. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

So much of the news coverage about restoring power to Puerto Rico concerns a tiny town more than 3,000 miles away from the hurricane-hit island...

Smoke rises from a power plant in Bottrop, western Germany. Photograph: Patrik Stollarz/AFP/Getty Images

UN warns that drastic action is needed to meet climate targets set in the Paris agreement...

Army soldiers pass out food, provided by FEMA, to residents in a neighborhood without grid electricity or running water on Oct. 17, 2017, in San Isidro, Puerto Rico. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

The disaster-relief agency, under fire after Hurricane Maria, won’t release the plan, even as a comparable document for Hawaii remains public...

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The atmosphere is literally changing the food we eat, for the worse. And almost nobody is paying attention...