Samantha Burgess
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22 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 14 Jan
Samantha Burgess’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The globe has warmed by about 1.4 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial level.
And if warming continues at the same average rate experienced over the last 15 years, then we will reach 1.5 degree level by the end of this decade.
2024 was the hottest year in the past 11 years of all set records.
Jeff Brady, NPR News.
Countries have agreed to try to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius to avoid more extreme storms, rainfall, and heat waves.
Samantha Burgess with the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts says the Earth has nearly reached that.
2024 was the hottest year in the past 11 years of all set records.
The primary driver for the hotter climate is rising concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, mostly from human activity such as burning fossil fuels.
Jeff Brady, NPR News.
There's been a big change in the gas utility industry.
Forty years ago, two-thirds of a typical bill went to gas.
Now, only a third does.
That's mostly because gas utility spending on construction has increased.
up 50% in 2023 to nearly $50 billion.
Natural gas is mostly methane, a powerful greenhouse gas.
Jeff Brady, NPR News.
Researchers examine data for the twenty most polluting countries, including China, the US, and India.
China now expects to reduce coal production more slowly than in a similar report in twenty twenty three.
The US has pulled back from its climate commitments under the Trump administration.
Derek Brakoff is senior scientist at the nonprofit research group Stockholm Environment Institute.
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