A team of scientists at MIT have created a device that transforms brackish seawater into clean drinking water at the push of a button—and can be especially helpful for people living in seaside places like California who are dealing with climate change-fueled droughts. The new desalination device (a term used to describe a machine that... Continue Reading →
“Canada is warming, on average, at twice the global rate,” says a recent Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation (University of Waterloo) report. “Urgent action is required NOW to manage risk and avoid worsening impacts — and ultimately FATALITIES — resulting from rising heat.” The report which identifies Canada’s “red zones” should raise alarm bells for... Continue Reading →
Alarm Bells Over Canada’s Extreme Heat In Red Zones
IPCC ‘Survival Guide’. Hope or delusion?
The latest IPCC report suggests we can survive the 21st century by making unprecedented and totally radical changes in the next eight years. But even then we'll still need to suck billions of tons of CO2 back out of our atmosphere for decades. The IPCC reckon it can be done. But are they deluding themselves... Continue Reading →
The ties between anti-green politicians, climate denial groups and the backers of “hard” Brexit are extensive. (SEE CHART AT SITE) “Go for gas with all the vigour of a national war effort…” That was the take from Steve Baker on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Baker, the leading light of the backbench Net Zero Scrutiny Group... Continue Reading →
Mapped: How the Net Zero Backlash is Tied to Climate Denial – and Brexit
Full Title: The New 2022 IPCC climate report still grossly underestimates how bad climate change is going to get---and the IPCC says the future will be absolutely horrible! . The newly released 2022 IPCC climate change report is terrifying. But, unfortunately, the IPCC is still not disclosing that our climate future is about twice as... Continue Reading →
the IPCC says the future will be absolutely horrible!
A few are dated, however were mentioned yesterday, here-n-there and in the news... Earth Day 2022 | Mother Earth Message | New Earth Biden announces new climate actions on Earth Day | full video Earth Day: Climate crisis highlighted in stark Google images WATCH: Biden delivers Earth Day address Prove Me Wrong: Earth Day Edition... Continue Reading →
Potpourri of selected Earth Day 2022 ‘Climate News Videos’
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 →
Study Exposes Climate Claims by Big Oil as Corporate Propaganda
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
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...
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