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Analyzing decades of heat data is different from asking about one hot spell in particular - and looking for answers about India's heat is harder than most anywhere else in the world. "The number of heat waves is directly in response to global warming", says Roxy Mathew Koll, a climate scientist at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology who has looked at 70 years of data. Climate Change Turned Up India's Heat. [Extracted from the article]

Higg announced a $50 million Series B round on Wednesday, with support from Titan Grove, investor and activist Tom Steyer's Galvanize Climate Solutions, Silversmith Capital Partners and Buckhill Capital. (Bloomberg) -- Higg Inc., a California-based startup, is collecting and standardizing supply chain sustainability data so that companies can reduce emissions faster. [Extracted from the article]

The same idea that solar energy savings can free up money for primary expenses can be applied widely. "Free Solo" Climber Alex Honnold Brings Solar to Places That Need It Most Alex Honnold, climber, co-star of "Explorer: The Last Tepui" and founder of the Honnold Foundation, stays up at night thinking about small solutions that improve lives. [Extracted from the article]

The global average temperature rise could pass the Paris Agreement's stretch goal of limiting warming to 1.5°C by the early 2030s, a mark that the authoritative UN climate science group declared all but dead last week. (Bloomberg) -- National climate goals made through mid-November - if met quickly - leave open the possibility that global warming could halt before it reaches 2°C, according to a new analysis that combines the pledges with the latest scientific research. [Extracted from the article]

The Cato Institute said the SEC proposals are already "well beyond [the agency's] authority and expertise" and "that alone is reason to abandon the course that the SEC has chosen." About 1,020 U.S. companies voluntarily disclosed their Scope 3 emissions last year, according to CDP, a nonprofit that operates the world's largest database of corporate emissions data. (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission issued a 500-plus-page proposed rule Monday that would mandate corporate disclosure of greenhouse gas emissions. [Extracted from the article]

Grantham's latest note puts Russia's invasion in the context of a large number of interacting, global long-term trends that may already be simmering to a boil. (Bloomberg) -- Russia's invasion of Ukraine has exacerbated already historic demands on the resources that enable global growth, Jeremy Grantham, co-founder of Boston-based asset manager GMO, wrote in a new commentary. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- The world's leading climate finance experts and economists warn of a "persistent misallocation of global capital" as too much money continues to pour into fossil fuels and too little is channeled to clean energy. What's clear is that there's no time to kick the can down the road, said Christa Clapp, a co-author of the new IPCC report's finance chapter. [Extracted from the article]

For the first time in an IPCC study focusing on these prevention methods, scientists looked at carbon-cutting from the demand side. Yet according to the new report, emissions have continued to drain the "carbon budget", an accounting tool scientists use to estimate how much time is left before temperature limits are likely to be breached. (Bloomberg) -- The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released its latest 3,000-page look at how humanity can avoid compounding catastrophe if nations take sufficient action to do so. [Extracted from the article]

Figueres is a founder of the Global Optimism Group and co-author of The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis. (Bloomberg) -- The Paris Agreement in 2015 established a 1.5° Celsius goal as a rallying point for every nation in the world, and the Costa Rican diplomat Christiana Figueres was one of its chief architects. [Extracted from the article]

Planet's Breakneck Warming Likely to Pass 1.5°C, UN Scientists Warn Emissions track wealth very closely, which is why, for example, the least developed countries put out just 0.4% of historical emissions from fossil-fuel use and 41% of the world's population emit less than 3 tons of CO2-equivalent a year, or roughly half the global average. The intensity of emissions, or the energy use per GDP, fell 2% in the last decade, but that gain was overwhelmed by increased GHG pollution. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- A major new climate assessment from United Nations-backed scientists will miss its scheduled publication on Monday, as disagreements over the future of fossil fuels and the role of carbon-removal technologies in efforts to fight warming temperatures pushed back the process of finalizing the report. Two weeks of virtual negotiations among nearly 200 countries and dozens of top climate scientists on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reached consensus Sunday. [Extracted from the article]

In June, an unprecedented heat wave over the western temperate U.S.-Canada border pushed temperatures into the triple digits and held them there for days. (Bloomberg) -- A heat wave in Antarctica earlier this month was so extreme that it may be the largest temperature increase above normal ever recorded, according to Robert Rohde, lead scientist at the nonprofit Berkeley Earth, who analyzed global records. [Extracted from the article]

"Right now, consumer industries account for almost half of global emissions, yet they receive only about 2% of venture capital funding - and most of that funding is later stage. Regeneration announces itself to the world today, having closed its first fund, which will provide early-stage finance to companies that say they are trying to clear waste out of consumer products and emissions from supply chains. Climate change is now generally understood by scientists to be a systemic problem in which individual decisions are too small, at any scale, to make an impact. [Extracted from the article]

The more bumpy the top of a forest is, the more air turbulence it creates, and the more heat is pushed away from the ground. (Bloomberg) -- Forests are a powerful, troubled ally in the struggle against climate change. [Extracted from the article]

More than half of the companies - including 20 of the GFANZ members - have no policies governing their oil-and-gas business. More than a third of the firms limit Arctic and oil-sands work, with fewer prohibitions on shale and ultra-deepwater oil. [Extracted from the article]

Humanity can adapt to elements of climate change with massive collaboration and finance, according to the second of four monumental United Nations science reports expected by October. The IPCC has published many influential reports, none more seminal than its 2018 work about what happens if the world fails to limit global heating to 1.5C. Its conclusion that nations must eliminate emissions by 2050 sparked the global rush to make net-zero plans. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports aren't beach reads, in either format or substance. [Extracted from the article]

According to Bridgewater Associates, the world's largest hedge fund, governments should provide subsidies for green technologies and infrastructure to address climate change. Bridgewater argues that these investments would have less of an inflationary impact than alternatives such as carbon taxes. The firm also suggests that carbon taxes can worsen income inequality. Bridgewater emphasizes the need for tools that reduce the cost of green energy and highlights the importance of government support for early-stage developments. They point to China's significant government spending on electric vehicles and solar as an example of successful government support. Bridgewater believes that financing the development of emission-reducing technology is feasible for western governments and is less likely to fuel inflation. They also note that innovation tends to be deflationary and that the development of cheaper green technologies will help contain inflationary impacts. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Dangerous, expensive disruptions to shipping and many of the world's roughly 3,700 ports are on the rise along with global temperatures. Although research on climate change's impacts on the shipping industry is scant, catastrophic events in recent years together tell a concerning story, the authors write. "Through these GHG emissions", the authors write, "the maritime shipping industry is contributing to changes in global climate that will ultimately harm [the industry] itself.". [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is a 14-mile-long triangle of land that sits 2,300 miles west of Chile, making it one of the most remote inhabited places on Earth. Among the world's most recognizable and celebrated cultural landmarks, the works are increasingly under threat from climate change - as is the way of life of the Rapa Nui people. Jane Downes, an archaeologist at Scotland's University of the Highlands and Islands who's worked at Rapa Nui sites since 2009, has seen first-hand how the wind and sea eat away at the moai and ahu. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Not only are humans not adapting fast enough to hazards created by climate change, many of the relatively limited dollars they are putting toward preparing for a warmer future are being misspent, according to the world's leading scientists. The term "maladaptation" runs throughout the report put out Monday by the United Nations-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - a notable shift from the last such report to evaluate human responses to climate change, released in 2014. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Last week, the White House hosted a meeting of scientists and other experts on the theme of climate delay: a rhetorical successor to outright denial of climate science, using tactics meant to stall action or dismiss clean technologies. U.S. Is Learning That Renewable Energy Is "Safer": Whitehouse "In America's national security and economic interests, we must free consumers from dangerous dependence on volatile oil and gas markets, by shifting to secure renewables", Whitehouse, a Democrat, tweeted yesterday. [Extracted from the article]

It all adds up to the stark warning delivered at the end of the report's introductory summary: Climate change threatens human and planetary health, and the window for us to limit its destruction is "rapidly closing." (Bloomberg) -- Released Monday, the latest report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability - is a doorstop of a publication that few people outside of the climate science and policy world will read. [Extracted from the article]

"We are so used to talking of climate change in the future tense", said Aditi Mukherji, principal researcher at the International Water Management Institute and co-chief author of the IPCC's chapter on water. (Bloomberg) -- The breakneck speed of global warming exceeds the pace of efforts to protect billions of vulnerable people, according to a new report released Monday by the world's top climate scientists. [Extracted from the article]

With attention fixed on the war raging in Ukraine just days after an invasion by Russia, there's a greater-than-normal risk that the latest report from the coalition of top scientists on the UN-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will go overlooked. This fact informs the physical limitation to climate adaptation and shapes the IPCC's guidance to reduce emissions as quickly as possible. [Extracted from the article]

Startup private equity firm Lightsmith Group raised $186 million for its first fund to invest in technology that could combat the effects of floods, droughts, storms and other climate disruptions. The fund's largest investor is the Green Climate Fund (GCF), a UN project created in 2010 to channel money to developing economies that face some of the highest risks from climate change and are least responsible for causing it. Other investors are ahead of the UN venture in receiving cash when the fund's deals pay out, according to a GCF funding proposal. [Extracted from the article]

Hurricane winds are defined as sustained winds of 74 miles per hour, so this winter storm will be close in its power. Climate-Fueled Nor'easter Forecast to "Bomb" U.S. East Coast (Bloomberg) -- The nor'easter about to tear up the U.S. East Coast with near-hurricane-force winds and fast-falling snow - as much as 10 inches of it in New York and more in Boston - is almost certain to intensify so rapidly that it will meet the definition of a bomb cyclone as it roars north. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Four prominent economists are imploring the White House to rethink a critical lever for policymaking that they call "insufficient to deliver the climate targets set in the Paris Agreement and by the Biden administration." Launched under the Obama administration, the social cost of carbon is a tool that economists use to build damage estimates into prices. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- A new analysis from McKinsey & Co. estimates that the investment, in new infrastructure and systems, needed to meet international climate goals could be $9.2 trillion a year annually through 2050. McKinsey's estimates are based on a scenario developed by the Network for Greening the Financial System, a group of dozens of central banks that swap research and potential climate policy solutions. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- The last eight years were the hottest in global records that date to 1880, with 2021 ranking as the sixth-hottest year, according to analyses of global weather station and ocean measurements released Thursday by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NASA, NOAA and Berkeley Earth are three of the five major research groups that conduct temperature analyses. Berkeley Earth, a nonprofit that looks at stations and ocean data, found last year to be virtually tied with 2015 and 2018 for the fifth-hottest year. [Extracted from the article]

It was enough to push 2021's average temperature down closer to 2018 and 2015, according to Hausfather's analysis of the Copernicus data. Additional global temperature data will be released from NASA, NOAA, the U.K. Met Office, and Berkeley Earth, which draw on records dating back to the 19th century. That finding comes from publicly available data analyzed by Zeke Hausfather, a climate scientist who posted his calculations on Twitter. [Extracted from the article]

Keywords: AGR; ALTNRG; ASIA; BUSINESS; CLIMATE; CMD; CONS; CONSS; COS; GEN; INDUSTRIES; MARKETS; NRG; SCIENCE; WORLD EN AGR ALTNRG ASIA BUSINESS CLIMATE CMD CONS CONSS COS GEN INDUSTRIES MARKETS NRG SCIENCE WORLD A new way to analyze how microbes live creates opportunity for breakthroughs in health and agriculture R54RWBDWRGG0 (Bloomberg) -- A cup of tea in 2006 changed genetic engineering forever. The discovery heralded a new era of genomics that is revolutionizing science and multiple industries and earned Doudna half the 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry. [Extracted from the article]

Keywords: ALLTOP; ALTNRG; BUSINESS; CLIMATE; CMD; CONS; COS; ELC; GEN; INDUSTRIES; NRG; RET; SCIENCE; UTI; WORLD; WWTOP; WWTOPAS; WWTOPEU EN ALLTOP ALTNRG BUSINESS CLIMATE CMD CONS COS ELC GEN INDUSTRIES NRG RET SCIENCE UTI WORLD WWTOP WWTOPAS WWTOPEU (Bloomberg) - Few things signal something's gone haywire on the planet quite like frozen land on fire. When frozen ground melts, it can destabilize the earth above it so much that the ground subsides or collapses, leaving behind a landscape of what scientists call thermokarst. [Extracted from the article]

The article suggests that years of declining investment and overseas competition are threatening to end America's supremacy in scientific innovation. After a half-century of unchallenged superiority in science and technology, the U.S. is losing ground to nations like China, South Korea and India. Experts have been warning for decades that U.S. science was heading for trouble. The government has steadily cut back on investing in research and development, and corporations have done the same. The quality of elementary and high school math and science education has plummeted. INSETS: SLOWING DOWN WHILE OTHERS SPEED UP;EUREKA!...BUT WHAT IS IT?.

Focuses on the threat posed to the U.S. by avian influenza. Declaration from the World Health Organization that millions of deaths from the flu are inevitable; Tactics that U.S. President George W. Bush might use in response to an epidemic; Explanation that all influenzas start in birds and only periodically mutate to infect humans; Reasons why this avian flu, H5N1, is so deadly; Indications that the H5N1 virus is spreading and has potential to become a pandemic.

The article focuses on issues related to the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Louisiana. Ray Nagin, the city's mayor, urged people to evacuate the city at an afternoon press conference with Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco less than 48 hours before the storm hit. Still, he did not make the evacuation mandatory. While Blanco has come under fire, Republicans and Democrats in Louisiana's congressional delegation have stood behind her.

The article focuses on U.S. Senator John Roberts. U.S. President George W. Bush, has selected Roberts as the nominee to take the place of retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Robert attended La Lumiere, a competitive Catholic boarding school. He was an excellent student and many teachers remember him as one of the clever and intelligent students. Later he attended Harvard Law School and also became the managing director of the journal Law Review.

The article discusses the problems faced by the motion picture industry due to peer-to-peer networking technology or file sharing in the U.S. Sacha Wunsch-Vincent of the OECD Information, Computer and Communications Policy division said that the increasing number of downloads of films are due to the technology. To a degree, digital-rights-management software, which ensures that only legally downloaded films can be viewed, can prevent illicit copying.

The article focuses on the political campaigns of Presidential candidate John Kerry and U.S. President George W. Bush in Lancaster, Ohio. The two campaigns are aiming their efforts primarily at their bases. Emphasis has been given on finding voters, registering them, keeping them excited about the race, making sure they get to the polls, even if doing so means loading them into a van and driving them there. The strategy of Bush relies far more heavily on volunteers as compared to Kerry.

Discusses the strategy of United States President George W. Bush in seeking re-election in the 2004 presidential election. Profile of Ed Gillespie, the Republican Party chairman; Eagerness of the Bush camp to stress Senator John Kerry's faults; Bush's plans for a new stump speech of upbeat messages.

The article discusses the competition that Google is facing in 2004. As fast as Google launches clever new features, like Google News and Froogle, Google's shopping search engine, its competitors launches clones like Microsoft's MSN Newsbot or Overture, Yahoo prize asset for product search. Overture specializes in search-driven advertising, also called paid search and it is one of the largest and fastest-growing businesses on the Internet. Google may be running more searches but its competitors are not far behind.

The article reports that Mikhail Khodorkovsky was arrested by armed Russian state security officials and the prosecutors froze 44% of Yukos stock worth some $13 billion. After the arrest of Khodorkovsky, Moscow stock market tumbled 11% in one of its biggest one-day declines since the debt crisis of 1998. President Vladimir Putin, assumed to be behind the arrest, backed the prosecution and refused to meet with Russia's outraged billionaire oligarchs. INSETS: Just Business as Usual;THE KREMLIN HARD-LINERS.

Focuses on the state of Saudi Arabia as of September 2003. Efforts of the government to track down members of the terrorist organization Al Qaeda; Concerns over the fact that many of the September 11 terrorists were Saudi residents; Military and police raids conducted in the region to arrest Al Qaeda suspects; Terrorist attacks in Saudi Arabia in May 2003; How the U.S. supports the Saudi's efforts to control terrorist funds; Efforts to end the teaching of intolerance. INSET: The Bush-Saudi Axis.

Focuses on innovations in the U.S. to cope with terrorist threats. Concerns of Americans about terrorism following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks; Rush of companies and laboratories to produce technologies; Safety precautions at air terminals; Efforts to improve medical defenses against bioterrorism; Issue of port security, including improved detection technologies.