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Government's climate plan ruled unlawful by High Court

Friday 3 May 2024 12:36, UK



The government's plan to meet climate targets and green the economy has been ruled unlawful by the High Court.

The campaigning groups that brought the case had argued it relied too much on risky technologies and glossed over the risk of missing targets.

Judge Clive Sheldon upheld four out of the five grounds in the legal challenge.

Today ministers agreed to publish a new report within 12 months to comply with the ruling, but said the overarching plan had not been criticised and will remain government policy.

Katie de Kauwe, lawyer for one of the groups Friends of the Earth, called it an "embarrassing defeat for the government and its reckless and inadequate climate plans".

https://news.sky.com/story/governments- ... t-13127958

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Oldest ever ice offers glimpse of Earth before the ice ages

Climate snapshots suggest carbon dioxide levels were surprisingly modest during ancient warm period

22 APR 2024

Samples of eerie blue glacial ice from Antarctica are a staggering 6 million years old, scientists announced last week, doubling the previous record for Earth’s oldest ice. The ice opens a new window on Earth’s ancient climate—one that isn’t exactly what scientists expected.

Bubbles in the ice trap air from the Pliocene epoch, a time before the ice ages when the planet was several degrees warmer than today and carbon dioxide (CO2) levels may have been just as high as they are now. But an initial analysis of the bubbles suggests CO2 levels were rather low in the late Pliocene and only sank slightly between 2.7 million and 1 million years ago as the Pliocene ended, the ice ages began, and Earth headed toward a dramatic climate shift that caused ice ages to grow longer and deeper.

The results are preliminary, stresses Ed Brook, a geochemist at Oregon State University (OSU) and leader of the U.S. Center for Oldest Ice Exploration (COLDEX), which presented the discovery last week here in multiple talks at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly. But if even a tiny drop in CO2 can kick off a major climate change, Brook adds, “you know, we probably care about that.”

https://www.science.org/content/article ... h-ice-ages



Credit: JULIA MARKS PETERSON

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Computer models show heat waves in north Pacific may be due to China reducing aerosols
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-north-pac ... osols.html
by Bob Yirka , Phys.org

A team of oceanographers and planetary scientists at the Ocean University of China, working with a pair of colleagues from the U.S. and one in Germany, has found via computer modeling, that recent heat waves in the north Pacific may be due to a large reduction in aerosols emitted by factories in China.

In their paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describes how they used several climate models and various factors that allowed them to find patterns that might be linked to the reduction of aerosols emitted into the atmosphere by China.

Over the past decade, the north Pacific has experienced multiple heat waves, leading to fish die-offs, toxic algae blooms and missing whales. Such heat waves have been generally attributed to global warming, but to date, no research has been able to pinpoint how global warming could cause such sudden and variable increases in a specific part of the planet.

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Venezuela may be first nation to lose all its glaciers

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Venezuela may be the first nation in modern history to lose all its glaciers after climate scientists downgraded its last one to an ice field.

The International Cryosphere Climate Initiative (ICCI), a scientific advocacy organisation, said on X that the South American nation's only remaining glacier - the Humboldt, or La Corona, in the Andes - had become "too small to be classed as a glacier", external.

Venezuela has lost at least six other glaciers in the last century.

With global average temperatures rising due to climate change, ice loss is increasing, helping to raise sea levels around the world.

"There has not been much ice cover on the last Venezuelan glacier since the 2000s", Dr Caroline Clason, a glaciologist at Durham University, told Newsround. "Now it's not being added to, so it has been reclassified as an ice field."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx8qv1nvdppo

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Just Stop Oil protesters in their 80s target Magna Carta

Friday 10 May 2024 13:54, UK

Two climate activists in their 80s have targeted the Magna Carta at the British Library.

Reverend Dr Sue Parfitt, 82, and Judy Bruce, an 85-year-old retired biology teacher, entered the library and tried to smash the glass case protecting the historic document using a lump hammer and chisel.

The pair, from the Just Stop Oil protest group, then held up a sign which stated: "The government is breaking the law".

They could be also be heard asking: "Is the government above the law?"

The Metropolitan Police said two people have been arrested on suspicion of criminal damage and are currently in custody.

https://news.sky.com/story/just-stop-oi ... a-13132732

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Damn just pour paint or something; please don't risk the artifacts

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Just Stop Oil protesters in their 80s target Magna Carta

Friday 10 May 2024 13:54, UK

Two climate activists in their 80s have targeted the Magna Carta at the British Library.

Reverend Dr Sue Parfitt, 82, and Judy Bruce, an 85-year-old retired biology teacher, entered the library and tried to smash the glass case protecting the historic document using a lump hammer and chisel.

The pair, from the Just Stop Oil protest group, then held up a sign which stated: "The government is breaking the law".

They could be also be heard asking: "Is the government above the law?"

The Metropolitan Police said two people have been arrested on suspicion of criminal damage and are currently in custody.

https://news.sky.com/story/just-stop-oi ... a-13132732

Is it time to use shatterless glass on these things so, they don't break in these situations.