The increased rate of global #warming has shocked even the experts. Global temperatures in 2023, 2024 and 2025 so far has shattered previous records, and not by a little. Scientists have long known that #greenhouse gas #emissions are driving global warming, but the recent spike is faster and larger than anyone expected. Something is accelerating climate change, and we don’t fully understand what it is.

source: app.wedonthavetime.org/posts/6…

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The World’s Most Urgent Scientific Question

https://wmo.int/news/media-centre/wmo-confirms-2024-warmest-year-record-about-155degc-above-pre-industrial-level There is no question more urgent than the one indicated by that red arrow in the graphic above.

^{We Don’t Have Time}

#Analysis: Clean #energy just put #China’s #CO2 #emissions into reverse for first time

source: carbonbrief.org/analysis-clean…

The analysis, based on official figures and commercial data, shows that China’s CO2 emissions have now been stable, or falling, for more than a year.

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Analysis: Clean energy just put China’s CO2 emissions into reverse for first time - Carbon Brief

For the first time, the growth in China’s clean power generation has caused the nation’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to fall despite rapid power demand growth.

^{Lauri Myllyvirta (Carbon Brief)}

#Europe records hottest #March as global heat stays above #1.5C

source: independent.co.uk/climate-chan…

Scientists and climate experts say the world is not on track to meet the #Paris #Agreement goal of limiting #warming to well below 2C, or ideally 1.5C, unless immediate and deep #emissions cuts are made.

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The environmental burden of the United States’ #bitcoin #mining #boom

Source: nature.com/articles/s41467-025…

From mid-2022 to mid-2023, the 34 mines consumed 32.3 terawatt-hours of #electricity — 33% more than Los Angeles—85% of which came from #fossil #fuels.

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The environmental burden of the United States’ bitcoin mining boom - Nature Communications

The paper maps air pollution from power plants supplying electricity to US Bitcoin mines. It finds that 1.9 million people in 2022-2023 breathed toxic amounts of Bitcoin mine attributable pollution, particularly around New York City and Houston.

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