This story by Michael Grunwald originally appeared in Canary Media and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. Feeding the world without frying the world would be a miraculous achievement. Somehow, we’d need to grow far more food with far less environmental impact... Continue Reading →
This spring, President Joe Biden gave a shot in the arm to solar and other clean-energy technologies with a couple of important executive actions. The move comes at a critical time, since Congress has yet to pass comprehensive legislation needed to help fight climate change. Fossil fuels still make up the largest share of electricity... Continue Reading →
Time for Solar Energy to Shine
[eDucate yOurself] What’s the Word? Climate Lingo Demystified
This is dated, yet sometimes we need refreshers The climate crisis is taking center stage, with deadly hurricanes, torrential rains, and wildfires blazing out of control, but it can be hard to grasp the jargon that accompanies a warming world. (“Carbon capture,” anyone?) In advance of November’s UN COP26 (see below), WhoWhatWhy has collected and... Continue Reading →
Summer started with an oppressive heat wave. Get used to it. Summer only just started, but much of the world is already experiencing brutal heat. In the last two weeks, extreme heat waves have struck many parts of the US, Europe and China, threatening lives, increasing the risk of wildfires, and testing the limits of... Continue Reading →
This could be the coolest summer of the rest of your life
Weather and climate experts cited in this month’s Yale Climate Connections video weigh in on the knowns, unknowns, and uncertainties involving the relationship of tornadoes and climate change. From academic researchers comes a shared view that tornado outbreaks, intensity, timing, and location are not easily resolved in climate models. But they generally agree that tornadoes... Continue Reading →
Grappling with scientific understanding of tornadoes and climate change
Is Climate Change Moving Faster Than We Thought? Featuring Michael Mann
New Study Shows the Climate is Changing Faster then Scientists Thought. Dr. Michael Mann | Bio: Distinguished Professor of Meteorology & Director, Earth System Science Center-Penn State University / Member-National Academy of Sciences & recipient of the Tyler Prize / Author of several books including, The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our... Continue Reading →
Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation & Vulnerability – Full video
Video of Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation & Vulnerability, the Working Group II contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report. Read the report: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/sixth-asse... Source
140bn metric tons of planet-heating gases could be unleashed if fossil fuel extraction plans get green light, analysis shows by Nina Lakhani in Colorado and Oliver Milman in New York The fate of the vast quantities of oil and gas lodged under the shale, mud and sandstone of American drilling fields will in large part... Continue Reading →
US fracking boom could tip world to edge of climate disaster
In a recent conversation with my colleague Magnus L.H. Haslebo the Co-Founder of the Resistance Group Guerilla and the former Head of Communications for the Danish political party, The Alternative, it became clear that while sociopathic corporations’ greed is destroying the planet, it’s the corrupt politicians who are paving the way. This post was previously published in... Continue Reading →
(REPOST) Ethically Bankrupt Politicians Are Killing The Planet
Honest Government Ad | Net Zero by 2050 (feat. Greta Thunberg)
The Government™ has made an ad about Net Zero by 2050 and it’s surprisingly honest and informative. Source...
IPCC Report Calls Out ‘Vested Interests’ Delaying Climate Action
The report also pointed the finger at journalists for providing false balance to “contrarian” voices in their coverage of the issue. The UN’s expert climate science organization has criticised the “vested interests” obstructing efforts to cut emissions for the first time this week. The world’s leading climate scientists warned of the “irreversible” impacts of global... Continue Reading →
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