Today @unep.org launches the #EmissionsGap Report.   The report lays out the urgent and stringent global cuts to greenhouse emissions needed to minimize the magnitude and duration of overshoot and return to 1.5°C.   Join us live online from @odi.global to learn more: www.youtube.com/unenvironmen...

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Have you ever seen a rock that is composed almost entirely of foraminifera? Now you have! From a Late Pleistocene (probably MIS 3/4) outcrop in western Kikaijima, Japan.

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What a thing to approve the Jackdaw oil field on the very day the UN's Emissions Gap Report says we're heading for 2.8C of warming, well off track to meet Paris Agreement goals.

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The Guardian's homepage right now... 1. "UK approves Jackdaw gasfield in North Sea" 2. World must cut emissions by 18% in four years ‘to find our way back’, UN says

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From the govt's press release: "The developer estimates that Jackdaw will create 27 new direct jobs and safeguard 273 existing jobs that would otherwise be lost." Odd that so much is made about this being good for jobs. Your nearest out-of-town supermarket likely generates more jobs.

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