{
  "id": 18923436,
  "title": "We face multiple crises. Leaving climate change unchecked will make them worse",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/08/we-face-multiple-crises-leaving-climate-change-unchecked-will-make-18923436",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-08T11:03:30.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The National UAE",
    "slug": "the-national-uae",
    "url": "https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/energy/2026/11/08/we-face-multiple-crises-leaving-climate-change-unchecked-will-make-them-worse/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "February has seen a plethora of crises worldwide, with climate change slipping down the agenda. The annual UN climate conference in Antalya, Turkey, is opening to little international fanfare, overshadowed by a pandemic, two wars, two energy shocks, and the prospect of being eliminated by robot overlords. Fears surrounding high energy prices, inflation, the war with Iran, the surge in data centers, and the administration's hostile stance on immigration enforcement caused the Democrats to win a major victory in the US midterm elections. Artificial intelligence brings about incredible technological advancements, but voters in the US are concerned about data centers' insatiable thirst for electricity and water.\n\nThe rush to construct these data centers primarily relies on natural gas. A total of 47 measures on data centers were put to a vote across 10 states, with 46 of them losing. On climate change and green energy, the Democratic campaign was surprisingly muted. In the UK, the Green Party has plummeted in public opinion since briefly ranking second in March, while the far-right AfD Party in Germany, which did well in September's regional elections, opposes many German environmental policies and backs coal production, often dismissing climate change as harmless.\n\nLast month was the third in a row where worldwide temperatures breached the limit of a 1.5°C increase above pre-industrial levels, agreed to at the UN climate conference in Paris in 2015. Current government policies suggest warming of 1.9°C to 3.7°C by 2100, with no peak in greenhouse gas emissions yet achieved. The Middle East and North Africa can expect worse droughts, while the Atlantic Ocean's circulation could break down as soon as mid-century, leading to much colder European winters and parched crops in India. The knock-on effects of such cataclysms could include disruption of trade routes, mass migration, civil and international wars, breakdowns of food and energy supplies, and the spread of diseases and parasites. The crises of the 2020s would seem like mild warnings in comparison to what lies ahead.",
  "summary": "February has brought a major global crisis every two years in the 2020s, with the tedious inevitability of an unloved season. It is no surprise that a slower catastrophe, climate change, has dropped down the agenda. In contrast to Cop28 in Dubai in 2023, the annual UN climate conference in Antalya , Turkey, is opening to little international fanfare. A pandemic, two wars, two energy shocks and…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}