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A wildfire in Spain and high temperatures elsewhere in Europe have claimed another six lives as the continent swelters in temperatures topping 40C.

(104f)

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https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/5357702-albedo-loss-global-warming/

a 2021 NASA study found that the excess of incoming sunlight over outgoing radiation, known as Earth’s energy imbalance, has doubled since 2005. Satellite data reported in this study shows our planet now reflects 1.7 percent less sunlight than 20 years ago, and the decline is speeding up, amplifying global warming.

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These are crimes against humanity; crimes on a planetary scale.

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For the first time (EVER), the May average exceeded 430 parts per million, reported scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Mauna Loa Observatory and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego. "Another year, another record," said Ralph Keeling, director of the Scripps CO2 Program. "It's sad."

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The world is on track for 2.5C-2.9C of global heating, which would almost certainly be beyond tipping points for the collapse of the Greenland and west Antarctic ice sheets. The melting of those ice sheets would lead to a “really dire” 12 metres of sea level rise. (12 meters = 39.7 feet)

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In 2024, two-thirds of sea level rise was caused by thermal expansion of liquid seawater, NASA found, despite the loss of glacial ice also still accelerating. Warmer water is less dense, so it takes up more room than cold water – and following Earth's record atmospheric heat, our oceans were the warmest they've been in three decades of records.