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Currently in Chicago — November 8, 2023: 50% chance of rain on Wednesday
Plus, a quick preview of COP28 in Dubai.
Eric Holthaus & Katje Sabin
November 07, 2023
The weather, currently.
Overcast with a chance of rain
Tuesday night will be cloudy with a 50% chance of rain after midnight and lows in the upper 40s. Wednesday will continue more of the same: 50% chance of showers, overcast skies and highs in the upper-50s, with a low in the upper-40s as the chance of rain drops to 30% overnight. But we can look forward to clear skies for the end of the week.
Sharp-eyed Chicagoans may have noticed a pretty cool phenomenon going on in the skies on Tuesday. We had a beautiful hole-punch (or fallstreak) cloud appear overhead; here are images and an explanation.
What you need to know, currently.
A new fund will be established to pay for the “loss and damage” caused by climate change in poorer countries — but will be far weaker than hoped after a major setback this past weekend in Abu Dhabi. The disappointment is casting an increasingly worrying shadow over the upcoming COP28 climate conference in Dubai.
A last-minute objection by the US delegation to the consensus text forced a change in the funding mechanism that only “urged” rich countries to contribute to the new fund, but didn’t require them.
“It is a sombre day for climate justice, as rich countries turn their backs on vulnerable communities. [This] falls short of providing vulnerable communities with adequate assurance that their financial needs for coping with climate impacts and rebuilding their lives will be met.”
Still up for discussion in the run-up to Dubai: Whether or not world countries will agree to a binding “phase out” of fossil fuels globally, and the first official check-up or “stocktake” on how the world’s efforts at reducing climate change has progressed since 2015 in Paris. Spoiler alert: not well.
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