The United Kingdom on Tuesday provisionally recorded its hottest-ever temperature reading, with the mercury rising above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) for the first time. A temperature of 40.2 C was recorded at London Heathrow shortly before noon GMT, according to the Met Office weather service. The record-breaking day follows the UK's warmest-ever night,... Continue Reading →
For much of the past four decades, climate activists have been warning us that we’re approaching tipping points that will alter how Americans live - now we’re there CO2 levels for the past 800,000 years from NOAA - the human race appeared about 300,000 years ago There’s a new study out about climate change —... Continue Reading →
The Climate Emergency We Worried About is Here – Our “Normal” Climate is Dead
The Climate Clock melds art, science, technology, and grassroots organizing to get the world to #ActInTime. The project is centered on a simple tool: a clock that counts down the critical time window to reach zero emissions (our “Deadline”), while tracking our progress on key solution pathways (“Lifelines”). By showing us what we need to... Continue Reading →
Climate Clock
Humanity faces ‘collective suicide’ over climate crisis, warns UN chief
António Guterres issued a dire warning that the global warming limit of 1.5C agreed in the 2015 Paris climate accord was slipping further out of reach as more people around the world are hit by extreme floods, droughts, storms and wildfires. Video Source
‘Our world is on fire’: Prince Harry UN Speech IN FULL | Nelson Mandela Day
Prince Harry honored the late South African leader Nelson Mandela and called on leaders to take action to address climate change in his keynote speech at the U.N. General Assembly's annual celebration of Nelson Mandela International Day on Monday. “As we sit here today, our world is on fire again,” Harry said. “These historic weather... Continue Reading →
Better to read at source as links are enclosed there, they did not port over for some reason. Senator Joe Manchin reportedly told Democratic leaders Thursday evening that he won’t support an economic package that contains new spending on climate change. It’s a major blow to the climate — and to the Biden administration’s campaign... Continue Reading →
Advocates urge Biden to declare climate a national emergency, which would unlock powers
Bill McKibben: Record Heat Wave in Europe Is Latest Warning That Action on Climate Can’t Wait
DemocracyNow Interview: A scorching heat wave continues to fuel wildfires across southern Europe and parts of North Africa, resulting in hundreds of heat-related deaths and forcing thousands to evacuate their homes. The record-breaking temperatures come as Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia has effectively killed President Biden’s Build Back Better climate legislation after stringing Biden... Continue Reading →
The Oil Giant That Turned Green
This is the incredible story of how a nationalised oil and gas company, from the tiny nation of Denmark, became a renewable electricity powerhouse in just seven years - a move which earned them the no. 7 spot on the Harvard Business Review's "Top 20 Business Transformations" from 2009 - 2019. We'll discuss how they... Continue Reading →
tell our own stories…
“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different... Continue Reading →
It’s Humanity vs Extinction — And the Clock is Ticking Image Credit: Climate Reanalyzer How will the 2020s be remembered? We’re living through a time that I think history will recall as the Great Deafness. What do I mean by that? Take a hard look around the world. Beginning with the picture above. That’s the... Continue Reading →
We’re Sleepwalking Into the Age of Extinction
How Scientists Respond to Science Deniers
Official Title: How Scientists Respond to Science Deniers | Edge Of Knowledge | Ars Technica "We never landed on the moon." "Climate change is a hoax." "Vaccines are ineffective." Our culture feels riddled with anti-science sentiment and there's no one factor to blame or easy solution to address it. How did we get here and... Continue Reading →