Climate endgame: risk of human extinction ‘dangerously underexplored’ & Preventing Plant Extinction Caused by Climate Change & Humanity is on track to cause one million species to go extinct, according to UN report & ‘Dangerously underexplored’: Experts warn climate change could lead to extinction of humanity & Start considering the worst-case ‘mass extinction’ scenarios of... Continue Reading →
Banks’ financing of coal, oil, and gas was higher in 2021 than it was in 2016, the year after the Paris agreement was adopted Around the world, we’re witnessing the impacts of global heating: in the past week, airport runways have melted in the UK, wildfires have torched huge swathes of Europe, and more than... Continue Reading →
Looking for someone to blame for the extreme heat? Try Wall Street
Official Title: Why you need to worry about the ‘wet-bulb temperature’ from The Guardian Scientists think we need to pay attention to a measure of heat and humidity – and it’s edging closer to the limits of human survivability In March, April and May this year, India and its neighbours endured repeated heatwaves that exposed... Continue Reading →
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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 →
Climate Change: the impact of delay…
“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 →
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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 →
Hydrogen will be one of humanity's key weapons in the war against carbon dioxide emissions, but it must be treated with care. New reports show how fugitive hydrogen emissions can indirectly produce warming effects 11 times worse than those of CO2. Hydrogen can be used as a clean energy carrier, and running it through a... Continue Reading →
Hydrogen 11 times worse than CO2 for climate, says new report
World attention will focus on Egypt during the COP27 Conference in Sharm El-Sheikh in November, the culmination of years of work on environmental protection and action against climate change. The international community’s choice of Egypt as the venue for the 27th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP27)... Continue Reading →
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Indigenous tribes are leading the effort to bring back the bison — a victory not only for the sake of biodiversity, but for the entire ecosystem they nurture Miles of prairie stretched out across the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge in southern Oklahoma, acre after acre of brush, grasses and hearty vegetation creeping toward the low-range... Continue Reading →
Once nearly extinct, bison are now climate heroes
The worms devour pollutants in dairy wastewater and even prevent greenhouse gas emissions, making such a system a boon to water quality and a possible alternative to digesters. With 6,000 dairy cows, 5,000 beef cattle and thousands of tons of apples, potatoes and cherries produced annually, Royal Dairy in Royal City, Washington, uses hundreds of... Continue Reading →
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