While continuing to fuel the climate emergency over the past decade, oil and gas majors relied on misleading messages rather than actually taking action to transition to clean energy, according to research released Wednesday. "This study confirms what observers have always known about Big Oil's climate pledges: They're all hot air." The peer-reviewed study, published... Continue Reading →
Latest IPCC climate report warns that rising greenhouse-gas emissions could soon outstrip the ability of many communities to adapt. The negative impacts of climate change are mounting far faster than scientists predicted less than a decade ago, according to the latest report from a United Nations climate panel. Many impacts are unavoidable and will hit... Continue Reading →
Climate change is hitting the planet faster than scientists originally thought
The old way of insuring against fires isn’t working anymore. Since 2016, more than 50,000 structures in California have been destroyed by wildfire. During fire season in the West, when the sky is dim with smoke and the sun’s an eerie red, you might find yourself breathing in tiny carbonized particles of what used to... Continue Reading →
People Deserve to Know Their Houses are Going to Burn
Take AIM at Climate Change
An upbeat invitation to "Take AIM at Climate Change" - with "AIM" standing for Adapt, Innovate, Mitigate. The lyrics are based on the latest science of Earth's changing climate, with the music a mix of rap and pop. Four verses connect changes in the Arctic and Antarctic to conditions around the planet, with choruses encouraging... Continue Reading →
Honest Government Ad | The Floods 🌊
The Australian Government has made an ad about this summer’s floods and it’s surprisingly honest and informative. 🇦🇺👽🌊 Commenter: I'm not even Australian but I can feel the pain behind the humour...you guys do an awesome job calling your leadership out, we need more people like you around the world. Source...
(REPOST) Earth, Wind and Fire – “That’s The Way of The World”
Definitely rings like a 'Climate Emergency' song which is based on our legacy, the children. SME (on behalf of Columbia); BMI - Broadcast Music Inc., LatinAutor - SonyATV, SOLAR Music Rights Management, LatinAutor - PeerMusic, Wise Music Group, UMPG Publishing, Abramus Digital, Sony ATV Publishing, LatinAutorPerf, CMRRA, LatinAutor, UNIAO BRASILEIRA DE EDITORAS DE MUSICA -... Continue Reading →
As floods follow fires, we need to hold our leaders’ feet to the flames – or, for that matter, to the water Environmentalists once saw abstraction as the biggest obstacle to climate action. How, they wondered, could one focus the public on the distant future? Today, we confront the opposite problem, with the very immediacy... Continue Reading →
Is battling back-to-back disasters distracting us from fighting the climate crisis?
Environmental lawsuits are nothing new but now lawyers are turning their attention to cases that address the loss of biodiversity. The Tagus estuary near Lisbon is Portugal’s largest wetland, a vital habitat and stopover for tens of thousands of migratory birds, including flamingos, black-tailed godwits and glossy ibis. It has also been earmarked as the... Continue Reading →
Legal eagles: how climate litigation is shaping ambitious cases for nature
U.S. Government Climate Resilience Toolkit | Learn about potential climate hazards so you can protect your vulnerable assets. | Watch our three-minute video to learn about the purpose and components of the Climate Resilience Toolkit, or scroll down to explore features of the site. Source...
Meet the Challenges of a Changing Climate
For Svitlana Krakovska, recent events have clarified the human, economic, and geopolitical catastrophe of fossil fuels. For Svitlana Krakovska, Ukraine’s leading climate scientist, it was meant to be the week where eight years of work culminated in a landmark U.N. report exposing the havoc the climate crisis is causing the world. But then the bombs... Continue Reading →
Fossil-Fueled War: Ukraine’s Top Climate Scientist Speaks Out
Even in a world increasingly battered by weather extremes, the summer 2021 heat wave in the Pacific Northwest stood out. For several days in late June, cities such as Vancouver, Portland and Seattle baked in record temperatures that killed hundreds of people. On June 29, Lytton, a village in British Columbia, set an all-time heat... Continue Reading →
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