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Only 4% of TV news correctly connected Hurricane Beryl to climate change

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The 2024 hurricane season is here, and we’ve already had our first record-breaking hurricane in Beryl, which caused billions in damage and deaths in Texas, Grenada, Venezuela and nearby areas. These numbers are often ignored when it comes to the “cost” of carbon reduction. But if you watched the news, you likely didn’t hear about that.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

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Island states like the Maldives and Grenada argue that a 2 °C target, which is considered by many scientists to be the safe upper limit for warming, will still result in a high enough sea-level rise to wipe them from existence. No wonder so many of them have so much trouble with the largely Western plea that we all go on a carbon diet.