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

Baua Electric

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. Importantly, climate change helped this storm break these records and do so much damage. But we have to avoid this feeling.

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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

Green Car Congress

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. Leonardo da Vinci stated it best when he said, “Simplicity is the highest form of sophistication.”