‘A pair of massive bushfires in southeastern Australia has merged into a “megafire” engulfing some 2,300 square miles — a single blaze more than three times as large as any known fire in California.’

Source: Enormous ‘Megafire’ In Australia Engulfs 1.5 Million Acres | NPR

‘…The authors of a paper published Tuesday developed a more accurate way of calculating land elevation based on satellite readings, a standard way of estimating the effects of sea level rise over large areas, and found that the previous numbers were far too optimistic. The new research shows that some 150 million people are now living on land that will be below the high-tide line by midcentury.’

Source: Rising Seas Will Erase More Cities by 2050, New Research Shows | The New York Times

‘…It would cost $73 trillion to revamp power grids, transportation, manufacturing and other systems to run on wind, solar and hydro power, including enough storage capacity to keep the lights on overnight, Mark Jacobson said in a study published Friday in the journal One Earth. But that would be offset by annual savings of almost $11 trillion, the report found.’

Going 100% Green Will Pay For Itself in Seven Years, Study Finds | Bloomberg

‘2019 may go down in history as Year Zero of the climate apocalypse. The tsunami of extreme events has been so relentless that each is quickly forgotten in favour of its successor.’

Source: Natural disasters and extreme weather
2019 has been a year of climate disaster. Yet still our leaders procrastinate | The Guardian

Images from the impeachment rally at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland, California Tuesday night, one of hundreds of actions across the country

‘In the past decade ocean oxygen levels have taken a dive—an alarming trend that is linked to climate change, says Andreas Oschlies, an oceanographer at the Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel in Germany, whose team tracks ocean oxygen levels worldwide. “We were surprised by the intensity of the changes we saw, how rapidly oxygen is going down in the ocean and how large the effects on marine ecosystems are,” he says.’

Source: The Ocean Is Running Out of Breath, Scientists Warn | Scientific American

‘Immense amounts of methane are escaping from oil and gas sites nationwide, worsening global warming, even as the Trump administration weakens restrictions on offenders.’

Source: It’s a Vast, Invisible Climate Menace. We Made It Visible. | The New York Times

‘A New York state judge has handed Exxon Mobil an important victory in the civil case brought by the state’s attorney general that argued that the company had engaged in fraud through its statements about how it accounted for the costs of climate change regulation.’

Source: New York Loses Climate Change Fraud Case Against Exxon Mobil | The New York Times

‘…The study says 1.9  billion people and half of the world’s biodiversity hotspots could be negatively affected by the decline of natural water towers, which store water in winter and release it slowly over the summer.’

Source: 1.9 billion people at risk from mountain water shortages, study shows | The Guardian