Climate Breakdown

Hear the episode here: https://www.spreaker.com/user/14101666/episode-05-federal-extermination  Broken Planet Headlines 5 1.   Beginning with recent science, the UN's World Meteorological Association has released its annual State of the Global Climate report for 2020.  The report found that 2020 was tied for the hottest year on record with 2016 and 2019, despite the impact of the natural La Niña ocean cooling event.  The mean temperature for 2020 was found to be 1.2 degrees Celsius above that of the 1850-1900 period, a baseline also used by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change despite the fact that industrialism began around a century earlier.  The report also detailed severe flooding, droughts, wildfires and heatwaves across the world, exacerbating difficulties caused by the coronavirus pandemic.  Meanwhile the latest Global Energy Review from the International Energy Agency finds that CO2 emissions are likely to increase this year by 4.8%, the second highest

Hear the episode here: https://www.spreaker.com/user/14101666/episode-04-larrnell-oni-from-the-autisti Broken Planet Headlines 4 1.   Beginning with recent science, a study published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution calculates the so-called "deforestation footprint" of individual countries: adding their domestic deforestation to the deforestation impacts caused by imported goods.  It found that rich countries such as France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the UK all imported more than 90% of their deforestation footprints from abroad between 2001 and 2015, about half of which came from tropical forests.  Some of the main traded goods driving deforestation include soy, beef, palm oil and timber.  Residents of the wealthy G7 nations drove an average loss of 3.9 trees each in 2015, with the per capita deforestation footprints of G7 members Canada and the U.S. being the highest in the group.  This news comes as another report from the World Resources Institute found