With Emal Haidary | – Mazar-i-Sharif (Afghanistan) (AFP) – After his wheat crop failed and wells dried up, Ghulam Abbas sold his animals and joined thousands of other farmers migrating to cities as Afghanistan’s worst drought in living memory ravages the war-torn country. A huge shortfall in snow and rain across much of the country […]
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Drought
Man-Made Climate Change Will Give California Whiplash Between Drought, Floods
California’s recent severe drought may have only been a taste of things to come.
To stop Global Heating, Meat Taxes are Coming
By Matt Mace | edie.net | (Euractiv.com) – – Estimates suggest that meat and dairy demand will mean agriculture will emit 20 gigatonnes of emission per year by 2050, out of the annual limit of 23 needed to meet the Paris Agreement’s targets. Investors say that the implementation of the Paris Agreement will lead some […]
After CO2-fueled Disasters, Why won’t the U. of Michigan go Green?
Jonathan Morris | ( The Michigan Daily) | – – This month, two remarkable events occurred that passed mostly under the radar here on campus. First, to start off the month, the University of Michigan celebrated its bicentennial with an entire week of climate change-themed activities, called MC2: Michigan & The Climate Crisis. This event […]
AT&T and Verizon Need to Hang Up On Fossil Fuels
One text at a time, America’s largest telecommunications companies are fueling climate change.
Why no Eclipse Denialists? The Same Science predicts Global Heating
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Eminent physicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s tweet pointing out that there are no eclipse denialists the way there are dedicated climate change denialists went viral: Odd. No one is in denial of America’s Aug 21 total solar eclipse. Like Climate Change, methods & tools of science predict […]
GOP Jet-setters in Climate Denial: It is getting too Hot for your Plane to take Off
By Ethan Coffel | (The Conversation) | – – Hot weather has forced dozens of commercial flights to be canceled at airports in the Southwest this summer. This flight-disrupting heat is a warning sign. Climate change is projected to have far-reaching repercussions – including sea level rise inundating cities and shifting weather patterns causing long-term […]
If we don’t Dump Fossil Fuels *Now*, we’re Sticking our Kids with $530 Trillion in Debt
By James Dyke | (The Conversation) | – – By continuing to delay significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, we risk handing young people alive today a bill of up to US$535 trillion. This would be the cost of the “negative emissions” technologies required to remove CO₂ from the air in order to avoid dangerous […]
It’s going to Get a lot Hotter; how Hot depends on You
Richard B. Rood | (The Conversation) | – – Earth’s climate is changing rapidly. We know this from billions of observations, documented in thousands of journal papers and texts and summarized every few years by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The primary cause of that change is the release of carbon dioxide […]