Landmark United in Science report informs Climate Action Summit - Science highlights key facts and figures about growing gap between targets and reality. WMO Press release "Global Climate in 2015-2019: Climate change accelerates": https://public.wmo.int/en/media/press... WMO Press release "Landmark United in Science report informs Climate Action Summit": https://public.wmo.int/en/media/press... UN Climate Action Summit 2019: https://public.wmo.int/en/un-climate-... World Meteorological... Continue Reading →
Thousands of scientists warn of ‘untold human suffering’ as they declare climate emergency More than 11,000 scientists from 153 countries on Tuesday officially declared a climate emergency and warned of “untold human suffering” if immediate bold action is not taken to stop the warming of the globe. In a paper published in BioScience, researchers at... Continue Reading →
2 must read Climate Emergency articles from Alternet…
In a rational world, the burning of Australia would be a historical turning point. After all, it’s exactly the kind of catastrophe climate scientists long warned us to expect if we didn’t take action to limit greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, a 2008 report commissioned by the Australian government predicted that global warming would cause... Continue Reading →
Australia Shows Us the Road to Hell
The goal of the Climate Emergency Campaign is to compel governments to adopt an emergency response to climate change and the broader ecological crisis. When the Climate Mobilization was founded at the People’s Climate March in 2014, there was no climate group publicly organizing around the need for WWII-scale emergency action on climate. We built... Continue Reading →
The Climate Mobilization – Climate Emergency Campaign
'You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words,' climate activist Greta Thunberg has told world leaders at the 2019 UN climate action summit in New York. In an emotionally charged speech, she accused them of ignoring the science behind the climate crisis, saying: 'We are in the beginning of a mass... Continue Reading →
Greta Thunberg to world leaders: ‘How dare you?
“Children’s bodies and immune systems are still developing, leaving them more susceptible to disease and environmental pollutants,” said Lancet Countdown executive director Nick Watts. “The damage done in early childhood lasts a lifetime. Without immediate action from all countries climate change will come to define the health of an entire generation.” You’d think we’d do everything... Continue Reading →
Failure to address climate crisis puts children at risk
The Last Decade Of Climate Change Will SCARE You
The last decade on climate change will scare you. John Iadarola breaks it down on The Damage Report. Continued at source...
It’s a cold Saturday morning in November, yet hundreds of people have descended on Beckton District Park in east London for a day of tree planting. Dozens of shovels stuck into the muddy earth are waiting to be grabbed by newcomers, while four cordoned-off areas are already full of volunteers measuring and digging holes, before... Continue Reading →
Families plant an urban forest to fight effects of pollution
THE THAW SPEEDS UP
The unexpectedly rapid collapse of ice-rich permafrost in the Arctic could pump billions of additional tons of methane and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year—a threat that has yet to be fully accounted for in climate models. Scientists are discovering destabilized landscapes where permafrost that once thawed a few inches a year can now... Continue Reading →
The climate crisis is a hot topic, in part because the global temperature has risen by more than 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit since 1906. But the impending emergency isn’t isolated to warming alone. Climate change is also bringing extreme weather, wildfires, rising sea levels, and devastation for sea animals. As a result, youth climate activists have... Continue Reading →
9 Climate Activists of Color You Should Know
We are in a climate emergency – it’s time to rebel
We are in a climate emergency - it's time to rebel | Rachael Treharne | TEDxBonnSquare We are finally waking up to the reality of climate breakdown, but accepting what this means - for us, for nature, and for people worldwide - is much harder. Extinction Rebellion is showing us a new path to tackling... Continue Reading →
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