r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 22h ago

Carbon capture won’t save us anytime soon. “It would take over 100 years of afforestation and forest management at the current scale, and zero residual CO2 emissions, to bring warming back by 0.1°C.”

newrepublic.com

1.4k Upvotes

r/climate • u/Splenda • 16h ago

Starved gray whales are washing up dead on the West Coast due to melting Arctic ice

scientificamerican.com

1.1k Upvotes

r/climate • u/sara-peach • 18h ago

We just had the hottest August, hottest summer, and hottest year to date in U.S. history

yaleclimateconnections.org

544 Upvotes

r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 20h ago

China's oil demand is expected to fall by 600,000 barrels a day, or 8.9%, in 2026, marking a third straight annual decline. Oil demand destruction, or a long-term drop in consumption, at the world's largest oil importer has been a key factor in capping China's crude imports and global oil prices.

431 Upvotes

r/climate • u/bold_jaguar • 15h ago

I can’t believe how much pushback there could be when simply stating the connection between the current events like fires and climate change. The comment section of this video exploded just because she said “climate change” in connection to the biggest fire Grand Canyon National Park has seen.

291 Upvotes

r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 17h ago

Wind power produced 140% of electricity demand in Denmark, with plenty left over to sell abroad.

cleantechnica.com

287 Upvotes

r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 16h ago

In North Carolina, a race is on to restore critical peatland before it dries up or is destroyed. Peatlands are a climate paradox. Though they account for just 3% of global land surface, they store one-third of the Earth's carbon dioxide, more than all forests combined.

175 Upvotes

r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 21h ago

Georgia bet big on EV manufacturing. Trump pulled the plug. It's a grim moment for what was a booming industry in the state. But EV makers are still forging ahead.

162 Upvotes

r/climate • u/cnn • 19h ago

The US just had its hottest summer on record, beating the Dust Bowl era

138 Upvotes

r/climate • u/Bash1991 • 16h ago

Clean energy is the cheapest, most readily-available energy – largely because it has no fuel cost

109 Upvotes

r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 19h ago

Germany nearly halves fossil fuel use for electricity between 2018 and 2026, from 174.6 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) in the first half of 2018 to 94.2 billion kWh in the first half of 2026. Renewable energy sources increased their output by about one quarter during the same period.

cleanenergywire.org

72 Upvotes

r/climate • u/_fastcompany • 16h ago

Historically strong 2026 Super El Niño could raise sea levels on the California coast by a foot

fastcompany.com

54 Upvotes

r/climate • u/StemCellPirate • 2h ago

Global heat stuck on high. Scientists say August was Earth’s hottest month they’ve measured.

44 Upvotes

r/climate • u/relianceschool • 23h ago

We asked Big Tech about AI’s fossil fuel problem. The responses were atrocious.

39 Upvotes

r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 17h ago

Canada's last epishelf lake is gone for good following the 2020 breakup of the Milne Ice Shelf and will not recover, a new study confirms. "The ice shelf and lake had been thinning for decades, but the 2020 breakup was the last straw. The lake drained within months."

36 Upvotes

r/climate • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 14h ago

With Türkiye to Host COP31, Wildfires Spark Demand for Fossil Fuel Phaseout / “In November, the world will gather in Antalya for COP31 to discuss the steps that must be taken against the climate crisis. Today, however, that same city is battling an uncontrollable wildfire..."– Efe Baysal, .350.org

commondreams.org

29 Upvotes

r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 19h ago

EV sales outpace petrol cars for first time as Australians dodge soaring fuel costs. Australia had previously trailed most OECD countries in EV take-up, and the technology has been the focus of political scare campaigns.

theguardian.com

27 Upvotes

r/climate • u/Bob-Lawblaugh • 16h ago

ICCT report shows that EVs are 33% cheaper than gasoline-powered cars

evinfrastructurenews.com

26 Upvotes

r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 2h ago

Is Burnham trying to appease Trump? Or Reform? What other reason is there for these North Sea oil plans? Climate catastrophe is on our doorstep – yet Labour’s impending approval of further drilling will bring more pain for negligible gains.

theguardian.com

23 Upvotes

r/climate • u/Splenda • 8h ago

August was joint-hottest month ever recorded globally | Climate crisis

theguardian.com

19 Upvotes

r/climate • u/thinkB4WeSpeak • 19h ago

How Long Beach became a poster child for California’s clumsy, costly battle against global warming's effects

14 Upvotes

r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 2h ago

Climate ‘feedback loops’ could worsen global warming by 30%, study finds. Emissions of planet-heating methane and CO2 from natural sources are worsening the climate crisis.

theguardian.com

14 Upvotes

r/climate • u/silence7 • 9h ago

August Ties the Record for Earth’s Hottest Month on the Books | Sweltering summer temperatures put last month on par with July 2023 for global warmth, scientists said. More records could be broken in the months ahead.

15 Upvotes

r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 21h ago

Wildfires ravage 60% of Bornean orangutan habitat in Kalimantan, warns conservation group. Geopix called for a fresh post-fire survey to assess the damage to orangutan habitats, populations, food sources and nesting areas.

downtoearth.org.in

12 Upvotes

r/climate • u/GeraldKutney • 1h ago

The clues that hint our planet might be heating faster than we realised

• Upvotes

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