The commercial race to get tourists to space is heating up between Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson and former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. On Sunday 11 July, Branson ascended 80 km to reach the edge of space in his piloted Virgin Galactic VSS Unity spaceplane. Bezos’ autonomous Blue Origin rocket is due to launch... Continue Reading →
Measurements over Canada's Mackenzie River Basin suggest that thawing permafrost is starting to free greenhouse gases long trapped in oil and gas deposits. Global warming may be unleashing new sources of heat-trapping methane from layers of oil and gas that have been buried deep beneath Arctic permafrost for millennia. As the Earth’s frozen crust thaws,... Continue Reading →
Methane Seeps Out as Arctic Permafrost Starts to Resemble Swiss Cheese
A crawl in several parts of Europe on Wednesday caused flooding caused by a gentle storm, with about six inches of rain falling in the region near Cologne and forests before the end began on Friday. There were also floods in Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland, but the worst affected were Germany, where the official... Continue Reading →
‘It Is All Connected’: Extreme Weather in the Age of Climate Change
“how restoring the water cycle can help stop climate change”
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Growing global meat consumption threatens to derail the Paris Agreement, but that hasn’t stopped the meat industry insisting it is part of the solution to climate change. In February last year, the head of a leading global meat industry body gave a “pep talk” to his colleagues at an Australian agriculture conference. “It’s a recurring... Continue Reading →
Investigation: How the Meat Industry is Climate-Washing its Polluting Business Model
One to 2 degrees Celsius of warming can do a lot of damage. Climate scientists have long warned that global warming would lead to extreme heat in many parts of the world. But the 120 degree Fahrenheit temperatures brought on by the heatwave in the Pacific Northwest in June were more in line with what... Continue Reading →
Is climate change happening faster than expected? A climate scientist explains.
Global decarbonisation : Lies, damn lies, and statistics?
Decarbonisation is the only way out of our climate emergency. The quicker we do it the less damage we will incur. But just about every mainstream agency and organisation around the world is advising policymakers not to move too quickly away from fossil fuels for fear of disrupting economies and societies. The real world statistics... Continue Reading →
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) declared a state of emergency Saturday over what she called "extraordinary flooding," which caused power outages, sewer backups and left dozens of drivers stranded. Driving the news: Flood watches were in place through Sunday, after up to 7 inches of rain fell in some parts of the state over the past... Continue Reading →
Michigan governor declares state of emergency over “extraordinary flooding”
Exxon Exposed: Greenpeace Tricks Top Lobbyists into Naming Senators They Use to Block Climate Action
Democratic Congressmember Ro Khanna, the chair of the House Oversight Subcommittee on the Environment, has announced plans to ask the CEOs of Exxon and other fossil fuel companies to testify before the committee about their role in blocking congressional action to address the climate emergency. Khanna made the request after Greenpeace UK released a video... Continue Reading →
Economies worldwide nearly ground to a halt over the 15 months of the coronavirus pandemic, leading to a startling drop in global greenhouse gas emissions. But the idle airplanes, boarded-up stores and quiet highways barely made a dent in the steady accumulation of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which scientists from the Scripps Institution of... Continue Reading →
Despite pandemic, carbon dioxide level in atmosphere hits record high
Posted on 22 September 2010 by Guest post by Alan Marshall from climatechangeanswers.org Update August 9, 2020: Please be aware that this article was published in 2010 and that its content is no longer considered accurate. As it still gets regularly linked to from other websites, we will not delete or "unpublish" it. Instead, here... Continue Reading →
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