New Climate Report Will Detail Grim Future of Hotter, Extreme Weather and Rising Seas

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August 06, 2021

Climate Change New Climate Report Will Detail Grim Future of Hotter, Extreme Weather and Rising Seas The first assessment from the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change in eight years will sound the alarm on soaring temperatures and other effects of unchecked carbon pollution By Jeff Tollefson,Nature magazine

Agriculture Climate Change Is Hitting Farmers Hard Insurance claims for crop losses are soaring By Avery Ellfeldt,E&E News

Artificial Intelligence The Computer Scientist Training AI to Think with Analogies Melanie Mitchell says digital minds will never truly be like ours until they can make analogies By John Pavlus,Quanta Magazine

Behavior Congress: Support Health Care Professionals in Preventing Gun Violence Back President Joe Biden's plan to invest $5 billion in programs proved to reduce shootings By Michael Dowling,Chethan Sathya,Joseph V. Sakran,Brenda Battle

Culture Science Book Talk, Episode 1: The Many Mysteries of Fish In Science Book Talk, a new four-part podcast miniseries, host Deboki Chakravarti acts as literary guide to two science books that share a beautiful and sometimes deeply resonant entanglement. In this week's show: Why Fish Don't Exist, by Lulu Miller, and The Book of Eels, by Patrik Svensson. By Deboki Chakravarti | 20:58

Neuroscience A New Idea That Could Help Us Understand Autism Some of the condition's most challenging traits might be explained by deficits in predictive skills By Pamela Feliciano

Vaccines Vaccine Mandates Are Lawful, Effective and Based on Rock-Solid Science Clear legal pathways exist to move the U.S. closer to herd immunity By Lawrence O. Gostin

Automobiles Biden Tightens Vehicle Emissions Standards A second policy aims to accelerate adoption of electric vehicles By Arianna Skibell,Adam Aton,E&E News

Animals Squirrels Use Gymnastics to Navigate Treetop Canopies Their acrobatic leaping skills could serve as inspiration for new robotics By Tess Joosse

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Space & Physics, Volume 4, Issue 4

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FROM THE ARCHIVE What's in a Half a Degree? 2 Very Different Future Climates A new IPCC report shows the impacts in the near future that can be avoided by limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius instead of 2 degrees C By Andrea Thompson | October 2018

QUOTE OF THE DAY "This report will make it absolutely clear what is the state of the science, and throw the ball back in the camp of the governments for action." Corinne Le Quéré, climate scientist at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK

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