Climate disasters started early in 2020—and kept on coming. The catastrophic fires in Australia in early 2020 were a holdover from 2019, but they were soon followed by flooding in Indonesia, a super cyclone hitting the coast of India and Bangladesh, and then more flooding, this time in Kenya and wide swaths of Central and West Africa. Next came the record-breaking fires in... Continue Reading →
“What world have I brought my child into?” the new mom pleaded. “What can I do to make sure my baby isn’t brought up in a world that’s being destroyed?” It was 2019, and climate researcher Katharine Hayhoe was at a church breakfast in Fairbanks, Alaska, when a young woman tapped on her shoulder and... Continue Reading →
Female scientists focus on a secret weapon to fight climate change: Moms
Climate crisis: Area of forest twice the size of UK cut down in just over a decade, WWF report reveals & ‘Nature is under siege’: Study finds insect population shrinking 1 to 2 percent each year & Unsure how to help reverse insect declines? Scientists suggest simple ways & Electric cars rise to record 54%... Continue Reading →
A few consolidated climate related articles of concern…
Michael E. Mann, Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science Director, Earth System Science Center Biographical Sketch: Dr. Michael E. Mann is Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State, with joint appointments in the Department of Geosciences and the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute (EESI). He is also director of the Penn State Earth System Science Center (ESSC). Dr. Mann received his undergraduate degrees in... Continue Reading →
Book: The New Climate War
Last month, I co-published an article with the newsletter Popular Information exposing six corporations that “talk green but spend dirty.” Like so many articles we’ve written before, the piece showed how corporate America markets itself as a friend to the climate while directly funding climate deniers. Our reporting didn’t change anything. The one company that responded —... Continue Reading →
Canceling election deniers isn’t enough…
Michael Mann is no stranger to the war against climate science. A climatologist at Pennsylvania State University who is currently studying the impact of climate change on extreme weather events, Mann is best known for the “hockey stick graph,” which he and his colleagues published in a 1998 scientific paper. The data visualization—featured prominently in... Continue Reading →
Climate Deniers Shift Tactics to ‘Inactivism’
Planned Obsolescence Sucks. Here’s Why It Still Exists.
Why (and how) Planned Obsolescence and Capitalism make terrible products. Continued at source...
Last year, a number of automakers announced or advanced ambitious plans to electrify heavy-duty big rigs, semi-trucks, box trucks, delivery vans and more. That article was one of GreenBiz's most popular stories throughout the year. And the demand and interest in this technology is only growing stronger. Given that trucks consume the vast majority of... Continue Reading →
Keep your eyes on these 9 electric truck and van companies in 2021
The World Needs You. Now.
NEW YORK, Jul 20 (IPS) - "We may all come on different ships, but we are in the same boat now," Martin Luther King Jr once said. His timeless wisdom rings truer than ever today for the many challenges the world is facing. COVID-19, continued armed conflicts and forced displacement, climate-change induced disasters, deep divides... Continue Reading →
we learned to listen…
"For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and... Continue Reading →
Greta Thunberg has called for action after NASA declared 2020 the hottest year on record. The 18-year-old environmental activist said the world is facing a 'climate emergency' and she called for people to 'be the change' and 'spread awareness'. Analysis by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York found that 2020 edged... Continue Reading →
