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City Warming

BBC News published an interesting interactive data visualisation showing the best case, medium-low, medium-high and worst case projected temperature increase scenarios for cities by 2100.

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KLM Urges Responsible Flying Decisions

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The CEO of KLM, the dutch national airline has urged for responsible decisions about flying due to the amount of CO2 emmitted by each flight taken by a customer.

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Information Is Beautiful have published a fantastic, informative and very important visualisation of the breakdown of the 51.8 Gigatonnes of CO2e emission we produce each year. The visualiastion also lays out the amount of reduction needed in each category to half the emissions by 2013 and reach net zero by 2050.

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Flight Carbon Calculator

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The Guardian have released a flight carbon calculator, allowing you to select your starting and destination airports to see how much kilograms of CO2 emmissions are released per passenger on that return flight. it also shows you how many countries emit less CO2 per person per year compared to that flight. Aviation is responsible for 2% of global emissions and are set to at least double by 2050 :-(

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Book Review: This Is Not A Drill - Extinction Rebellion

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This is the most important book you will read. It's a gut punch followed by a loving hug and sense of empowerment. Tell everyone, Act Now. Read this book, please! If you use this affiliate link to buy the book on Waterstones, the commission will go towards running FoundThisWeek.com (thanks!).

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Show Your Stripes

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Climate scientist at University of Reading Ed Hawkins has created the #ShowYourStripes datavis site, which generates an image of temperature increases for every country for the last 100 years or so. Each stripe averages the temperature over a year and is built from the Berkely Earth Temperature Dataset. (H/T to Mikael for sharing this)

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UK Electricity Supply

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Check out this fantastic interactive dataviz site showing how the UK transformed its energy supply towards renewable energy in the last decade.

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Climate & Biodiversity Emergency

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Following the release this week of a summary of a 1,500 page UN report detailing how humans are accelerating the extinction of up to one million plant and animal species, the Green Party in Ireland have successfully passed an amendment to declare a climate and biodiversity emergency in government. Ireland is the second country to do this, following the UK.

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Eco Passenger

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Eco Passenger is a handy website that allows you to compare the environmental impact of trips across mainland Europe. TL;DR; Take the train.

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Climate Change - The Facts

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This week Climate Change - The Facts with David Attenborough aired on BBC. The one hour documentary examines and explains the facts of climate change. The current effects, the causes, the predictions and the solutions are all presented. In order to halt climate change warming at 1.5 degrees, we need to halve CO2 emissions by 2030 and get to net zero emissions by 2050. The programme describes what needs to be done by governments, industries and by us individuals.

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