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 →
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
Key Points U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres described renewables as "the peace plan of the 21st century." The former prime minister of Portugal called on "all financial actors to abandon fossil fuel finance" and invest in renewables instead. Guterres also highlighted the "crippling prices" currently being experienced by businesses and households, adding that the world... Continue Reading →
‘Delusional’: UN chief slams new fossil fuel funding and warns of climate chaos
Climate Deniers and the Language of Climate Obstruction
From narratives about fossil fuels as a solution to climate advocates as out of touch with reality, here’s how the fossil fuel industry and its allies are weaponizing words to delay climate action. . On a recent episode of the Fox Business show “Mornings with Maria,” American Petroleum Institute CEO and President, Mike Sommers, said... Continue Reading →
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
A team of researchers and environmental advocates are urging governments and Big Tech companies to do far more to stop rampant online disinformation campaigns, which they say aim to delay action on the climate crisis by intentionally dragging the issue into the culture wars now dominating Western politics. Failing to stop such campaigns, the groups... Continue Reading →
Online Disinformation Uses Culture Wars to Delay Climate Action, Study Says
Story Highlights The report shows a slight decrease in the global average country score on the SDG Index, mainly due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on SDG 1 (no poverty) and SDG 8 (decent work and economic growth) and poor performance on SDG 11 (sustainable cities and communities), SDG 12 (responsible consumption and... Continue Reading →
SDG Progress “Halted,” Partnerships Needed: SDSN Report
Scientists writing for the journal, Nature, have warned that the planet has crossed a series of climate ‘tipping points’. They call the risk an ‘existential threat to civilisation’, saying that ‘we are in a state of planetary emergency’. What are climate change tipping points and what effects do they have on the planet? Is it... Continue Reading →
What are Tipping Points in the Climate Crisis?
For many of us in the climate movement, 2022 was going to be the year the green energy transition would take off, building on the post-COP26 momentum and the promised build-back-better programs announced by governments worldwide. But this was not to be. Is the Green Energy Transition Stalling? In the Globe and Mail Report on... Continue Reading →
Has the Green Energy Transition Stalled?
As the latest IPCC report faults disinformation for delaying climate action, a newly released scorecard finds that the major social media platforms’ plans to handle climate disinformation remain murky. The first page of Menlo Park, California’s 2030 Climate Action Plan shows a map predicting which parts of the city will be underwater by the end... Continue Reading →
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