Category: climate change
Climate Change Is Taking a Bigger Toll on Our Food, Water, and Land Than We Realized
A new United Nations report finds that some of the direst effects on the Earth’s land are already underway.
Source: Climate Change Is Taking a Bigger Toll on Our Food, Water, and Land Than We Realized – Mother Jones
New IPCC Report Warns of Vicious Cycle Between Soil Degradation and Climate Change
Greenpeace’s Diana Ruiz discusses the new IPCC Climate report, “Climate Change and Land,” which issues a dire warning about how climate change and destructive land use reinforce each other, leading to serious threats for human survival
Source: New IPCC Report Warns of Vicious Cycle Between Soil Degradation and Climate Change
In Just One Decade, Corporations Destroyed 50 Million Hectares of Forest
“These companies are destroying our children’s future by driving us towards climate and ecological collapse.”
Atmospheric carbon dioxide level hits all-time high
Seventh consecutive year of steep increases leads to the highest greenhouse gas concentration recorded in 61 years of observations
Keeping Global Warming Below 1.5°C May Still Be Possible With Immediate Action, New Study Shows
“It’s good news from a geophysical point of view,” says the lead researcher. “We are basically saying we can’t build anything now that emits fossil fuels.”
Source: Keeping Global Warming Below 1.5°C May Still Be Possible With Immediate Action, New Study Shows
Worst Mass Extinction Event in Earth’s History Was Caused by Global Warming Analogous to Current Climate Crisis
Gaworecki writes: New research by scientists at the United States’ University of Washington and Stanford University suggests that the most destructive mass extinction event in Earth’s ancient history was caused by global warming that left marine life unable to breathe.
Reliable tropical weather pattern to change in a warming climate — ScienceDaily
As human activities cause the Earth’s temperature to increase, reliable, well-studied weather patterns like the Madden-Julian Oscillation will change too, say researchers.
Source: Reliable tropical weather pattern to change in a warming climate — ScienceDaily
At Last, Divestment Is Hitting the Fossil Fuel Industry Where it Hurts | Portside
I remember well the first institution to announce it was divesting from fossil fuel. It was 2012 and I was on the second week of a gruelling tour across the US trying to spark a movement. Our roadshow had been playing to packed houses down the west coast, and we’d crossed the continent to Portland, Maine. As a raucous crowd jammed the biggest theatre in town, a physicist named Stephen Mulkey took the mic.
Source: At Last, Divestment Is Hitting the Fossil Fuel Industry Where it Hurts | Portside
Democrats Are Trying to Kneecap Ocasio-Cortez’s Climate Change Committee Before It’s Even a Thing
The biggest impediment to Democrats pushing bigger climate action could be…Democrats?
Source: Democrats Are Trying to Kneecap Ocasio-Cortez’s Climate Change Committee Before It’s Even a Thing
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