Official Title: Oxford climate scientists: No doubt about climate change. . Leading Oxford climate scientists today insisted there can be no doubt that human-driven climate change is a fact and urgent action is needed, as the IPCC’s report is released showing emissions are driving up temperatures. Experts from across the university, including key authors and contributors... Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON, July 18 (Reuters) - Two U.S. Senate Democrats urged President Joe Biden on Monday to declare a climate emergency and use the Defense Production Act to ramp up production of a wide range of renewable energy products and systems including solar panels. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Jeff Merkley, speaking days after an effort to... Continue Reading →
U.S. Senate Democrats urge Biden to declare climate emergency
We hear more and more about net-zero objectives in the last few years. Since 126 countries signed the Paris agreement at COP 21 in 2015, climate change has strongly focused on international governments’ agendas. The further finalization of the agreement at COP 26 at the end of 2021 in Glasgow saw a further strengthening of... Continue Reading →
Circular economy integral to achieving climate change objectives, research suggests
A new analysis shows that people born later will experience vastly more severe weather events Babies born today will experience far more disruptions fueled by climate change than their parents or grandparents. In a study published recently in Science, Wim Thiery of Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium and his colleagues combined climate model projections under... Continue Reading →
How Climate Change Will Hit Younger Generations
“People do not understand the magnitude of what is going on,” says Katharine Hayhoe. This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The world cannot adapt its way out of the climate crisis, and counting on adaptation to limit damage is no substitute for urgently cutting greenhouse... Continue Reading →
Top Scientist: We Can’t Adapt Our Way Out of This Climate Crisis | MotherJones
Transforming news is critical to building a more equitable and sustainable world. The Solutions Journalism Network is leading a global shift in journalism, focused on what the news misses most often: how people are trying to solve problems and what we can learn from their successes or failures. Our mission is to transform journalism so... Continue Reading →
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The UN climate summit this November in Egypt represents a major opportunity to address the needs of vulnerable countries, especially related to adaptation, resilience and loss and damage. Vulnerable countries’ urgent needs are underscored by the recent work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which revealed the devastating climate impacts we are already... Continue Reading →
5 Pillars for success at COP27
Communicating the human causes of global warming increases public engagement
By Parrish Bergquist, Jennifer Marlon, Matthew Goldberg, Abel Gustafson, Seth Rosenthal and Anthony Leiserowitz Filed under: Beliefs & Attitudes Benxi Steel Industries. By Andreas Habich - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28345841 We are pleased to announce the publication of a new article, “Information about the human causes of global warming influences causal attribution, concern, and... Continue Reading →
(Downloadable Booklet, source link within content) Skeptical Science New Research for Week #30 2022 Posted on 28 July 2022 by Doug Bostrom, Marc Kodack 51% disgusted, 51% sad From our government and NGO publication section, the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and George Mason University's Center for Climate Change Communication release an update on attitudes about climate change... Continue Reading →
Climate Change in the American Mind
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"Helping people to experience themselves as living bodies on a living earth . . . is necessary in achieving any solution to the problems we all face . . . Only with the bodily experience of power and compassion will people have the courage and the desire and the ability to undertake what must be... Continue Reading →
Extreme Weather Is ‘New Normal’ Thanks To Decades Of Climate Inaction
“Extreme temperatures and extreme weather events like this are the new normal—a new normal that has been brought to us by decades of climate inaction,” says Chris Hayes. . Source . See also: The People Breaking The Simplest Rule Of Climate Change: Don’t Go Backwards ... also by Chris Hayes (note some of the comments from... Continue Reading →
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