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Global warming could be in reverse by 2050 if we take action now – Chad Frischmann 07 August 2018 Project Drawdown's research director says the paradigm around global warming needs to change into one of possibility and opportunity. Image credit - Pxhere, licensed under CC0 We could get to the stage where atmospheric greenhouse gases are in decline – a point known as drawdown – and begin to reverse global warming before 2050, but it will require us adopting solutions at an aggressive rate, according to Chad Frischmann, vice-president and research director of Project Drawdown. Project Drawdown is a worldwide research and communications initiative with a plan to reverse global warming based on 100 existing and emerging solutions. An independent European arm, Drawdown Europe, has now been launched to galvanise the continent into action. What impact would it have if your 100 solutions to reverse global warming were adopted? ‘These existing technologies, when adopted as a set of...

A woman cools down in a water fountain as she beats the heat in Montreal on Monday, July 2, 2018.   THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes Climate change can be deadly if you live alone August 2, 2018 8.59am AEST Cities around the globe felt  record-breaking,   red-hot temperatures  this July: In the United States, Scotland, Ireland, Norway, Algeria, Georgia, Armenia, Russia, Oman and China, the thermostat reached all-time highs. In the Canadian province of Quebec, a weeklong heatwave was linked to 74 deaths, making it  the province’s second deadliest period of extreme heat since the summer of 2010 . At the peak of the heatwave, on Tuesday, July 3, 2018,  Montréal recorded its highest temperature in history  (36.6 C) and posted its most extreme midnight combination of heat and humidity. The stifling temperatures continued for most of the week. Quebecers felt the heat. By Wednesday of that week, Montréal ambulance services were so busy that people ...