( Otherwords.org) – If you feel powerless, remember that the biggest change you can make is to support leaders who think our planet is actually worth saving. I don’t think I’m alone in feeling this way, but here goes: I can’t deal with climate change. I can’t read about it, I can’t watch documentaries on […]
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Climate Change
The Extreme Weather of Climate Emergency will Cost US $1 trillion in Ten Years
By Gary W. Yohe | – June marks the official start of hurricane season. If recent history is any guide, it will prove to be another destructive year thanks to the worsening impact of climate change. But beyond more intense hurricanes and explosive wildfires, the warming climate has been blamed for causing a sharp uptick […]
Youth Don’t want to be Scared by Climate Crisis: They Want Practical Solutions
By Dimitrinka Atanasova and Kjersti Fløttum | – Days after the British parliament declared a “climate emergency”, The Guardian announced that it would start using “stronger” language to discuss the environment. Its updated style guide states that “climate change” no longer accurately reflects the seriousness of the situation and journalists are advised to use “climate […]
No, Nuclear Power can’t Solve our Environmental Crisis
By Heidi Hutner and Erica Cirino | – Aeon | – In November 2018, the Woolsey Fire scorched nearly 100,000 acres of Los Angeles and Ventura counties, destroying forests, fields and more than 1,500 structures, and forcing the evacuation of nearly 300,000 people over 14 days. It burned so viciously that it seared a scar […]
Climate Crisis: ‘We’ve created a civilisation hell bent on destroying itself – I’m terrified’, writes Earth scientist
By James Dyke | – The coffee tasted bad. Acrid and with a sweet, sickly smell. The sort of coffee that results from overfilling the filter machine and then leaving the brew to stew on the hot plate for several hours. The sort of coffee I would drink continually during the day to keep whatever […]
Bye Bye Miami: New Estimates Double Expected Sea Level rise to 6′
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Sea level rise over the next 80 years may have been underestimated by the conservative Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), according Scientists Jonathan L. Bamber, Michael Oppenheimer, Robert E. Kopp, Willy P. Aspinall, and Roger M. Cooke writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. The IPCC […]
Our Climate Emergency was no Accident: Big Oil knew
(Otherwords.org )- As far back as 1982, fossil fuel executives knew they were trading a few decades of profits for the entire future of the planet. Years ago, tobacco companies discovered the link between their products and lung cancer. Did they warn their customers? No — they denied the link entirely, misleading the public for […]
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