IPCC steps up warning on climate tipping points (Guardian)

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/23/climate-change-dangerous-thresholds-un-report

Climate scientists are increasingly concerned that global heating will trigger tipping points in Earth’s natural systems, which will lead to widespread and possibly irrevocable disaster, unless action is taken urgently.

The impacts are likely to be much closer than most people realise, a a draft report from the world’s leading climate scientists suggests, and will fundamentally reshape life in the coming decades even if greenhouse gas emissions are brought under some control.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is preparing a landmark report to be published in stages this summer and next year. Most of the report will not be published in time for consideration by policymakers at Cop26, the UN climate talks taking place in November in Glasgow.

Here Are America’s Top Methane Emitters. Some Will Surprise You. (NYT)

This article demonstrates the urgency to expand a regime of disclosure beyond public companies. In the absence of such measures, we are in effect “pushing the problem around” instead of addressing it.

Oil and gas giants are selling off their most-polluting operations to small private companies. Most manage to escape public scrutiny.