Climate change is already destroying billions of lives and mankind is not doing enough to limit suffering, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned in a major report on Monday.
Governments must cut emissions dramatically, to stop runaway global warming, but they can function to reduce the suffering by adapting to conditions in a warmer world, the report states.
American and European investment firms said the report was a wake-up call to the huge risks climate change poses to the financial system and that most firms aren’t doing enough to adjust.
Timon McPhearson, an urban ecologist at New School in New York and one of 270 authors of the report, said that “it is the poor and marital that are most affected by climate change.”
As we emerge from the pandemic, we can imagine two trajectories that Indian science could take in the future. | @MenonBioPhysicshttps://t.co/59gdE4kLCe
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What also needs some introspection is whether India truly seized the moment where it could have been the most important key to vaccine supply worldwide – especially for lower-income countries struggling with the inequity of the situation. | @MitaliLivehttps://t.co/CrrnVNvZp3
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India marks National Science Day to commemorate the discovery of the Raman effect, but in doing so sidelines C.V. Raman's sexism in favour of scientific glory. | @1amnerdhttps://t.co/WLMdslIQeV
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The climate mitigation potential of Indian forests, by building more carbon sinks, is overestimated, finds a new study. | @sahanaghosh8https://t.co/zXfht0QCXg
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Read @cloudAnthro's full report here:https://t.co/444VrKcnxQ
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Like any aspect of culture, the Cloud's trajectory – and its ecological impacts – are not predetermined or unchangeable. Like any aspect of culture, they are mutable.https://t.co/444VrKcnxQ
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The Cloud is both cultural and technological. https://t.co/444VrKcnxQ
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Historian @NEnsmenger writes that a single desktop computer requires 240 kg of fossil fuels, 22 kg of chemicals and 1,500 kg of water to manufacture.https://t.co/444VrKcnxQ
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The refuse of the digital is ecologically transformative.https://t.co/444VrKcnxQ
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Because data centre noise is unregulated by political authorities, facilities can be built in close proximity to residential communities. https://t.co/444VrKcnxQ
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Unlike other industries, data centres are largely self-regulating: There is no sweeping federal agency to govern the siting and operation of new and existing facilities.https://t.co/444VrKcnxQ
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The acute and longitudinal physiological effects of industrial noise pollution are well-documented to include hearing loss, elevated stress hormones like cortisol, hypertension, and insomnia.https://t.co/444VrKcnxQ
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Data centres emit acoustic waste, what environmentalists call "noise pollution".https://t.co/444VrKcnxQ
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Over vast distances, the sonic exhaust of our digital lives reverberates: the minute vibrations of hard disks, the rumbling of air chillers, the cranking of diesel generators, the mechanical spinning of fans.https://t.co/444VrKcnxQ
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