Tag: climate crisis, global warming

Op/Ed: “Don’t Look Now” exactly captures reaction to climate crisis

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/29/climate-scientist-dont-look-up-madness I’m a climate scientist. Don’t Look Up captures the madness I see every day Peter Kalmus A film about a comet hurtling towards Earth and no one is doing anything about it? Sounds exactly like the climate crisis ‘The Earth system is breaking down now with breathtaking speed.’ Photograph: Niko Tavernise/Netflix/PA Wed 29 Dec 2021 … Continue reading Op/Ed: “Don’t Look Now” exactly captures reaction to climate crisis →

Greta Thunberg — how a climate crisis activist is made

http://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/12/27/greta-thunberg-state-climate-movement-roots-her-power-an-activist/? Greta Thunberg on the State of the Climate Movement ... and the roots of her power as an activist Interview by KK Ottesen DECEMBER 27, 2021 tudent and climate activist Greta Thunberg, 18, burst improbably onto the world stage in late 2018 when what began as a one-person school strike outside the Swedish parliament ended … Continue reading Greta Thunberg — how a climate crisis activist is made →

Surprising contributor to urban air pollution — people still burn wood

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/17/wood-burners-urban-air-pollution-cancer-risk-study Wood burners cause nearly half of urban air pollution cancer risk – study Exclusive: Wood smoke is a more important carcinogen than vehicle fumes, finds Athens analysis Scientists warn that as well as polluting the air outside, wood burners triple the level of harmful pollution inside homes. Photograph: Parmorama/Alamy Damian Carrington Environment editor @dpcarrington Fri 17 Dec … Continue reading Surprising contributor to urban air pollution — people still burn wood →

Crypto mining — fossil fuel’s next best hope

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/16/crypto-mining-oil-industry-waste-climate-crisis A ‘false solution’? How crypto mining became the oil industry’s new hope  Illustration: Kat Morris/The Guardian Climate experts warn that plans to repurpose waste gas is not a solution, but more like placing a Band-Aid over a gaping wound Leanna First-Arai Thu 16 Dec 2021 03.00 EST In January of 2019, Chase Lochmiller and … Continue reading Crypto mining — fossil fuel’s next best hope →

Polar glaciers melting very quickly and could raise seal levels by 18 inches or more within months

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/18/scientists-watch-giant-doomsday-glacier-in-antarctica-with-concern Scientists watch giant ‘doomsday’ glacier in Antarctica with concern Cracks and fissures stoke fears of breakup that could lead to half-metre rise in global sea levels – or more Satellite view of Antarctica with the Thwaites glacier marked in red. Photograph: UniversalImagesGroup/UIG/Getty Images John Vidal Sat 18 Dec 2021 03.00 EST Twenty years ago, an … Continue reading Polar glaciers melting very quickly and could raise seal levels by 18 inches or more within months →

Russia struggles to give up worst excesses of fossil fuel energy

https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-russias-death-valley-putins-pledge-to-become-carbon-neutral-rings-hollow-11638614426 In Russia’s ‘Death Valley,’ Putin’s Pledge to Become Carbon Neutral Rings Hollow Challenges facing plan reflect the conundrum faced by many countries as they transition to cleaner sources of energy By Ann M. Simmons | Photographs by Arthur Bondar for The Wall Street JournalDec. 4, 2021 5:40 am ET KISELYOVSK, Russia—In October, President Vladimir Putin pledged Russia would become carbon … Continue reading Russia struggles to give up worst excesses of fossil fuel energy →

End of the line for traditional green lawns?

http://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/03/climate/climate-change-biodiversity.html Meet an Ecologist Who Works for God (and Against Lawns) A Long Island couple say fighting climate change and protecting biodiversity starts at home. Or rather, right outside their suburban house. Bill Jacobs, founder of the St. Kateri Conservation Center, outside his house in Wading River, N.Y., on Long Island.  By Cara Buckley Photographs by Karsten … Continue reading End of the line for traditional green lawns? →

Here are the major consumers of oil sources from Amazon rainforest

https://www.nbcnews.com/investigations/crude-reality-one-us-state-consumes-half-oil-amazon-rainforest-rcna7284 Crude reality: One U.S. state consumes half the oil from the Amazon rainforest As oil companies carve up more of the rainforest, a new study says no place in the world uses more oil from beneath the Amazon than California. The lighter of an oil processing plant in the rainforest of Ecuador's Yasuni region.Carlos … Continue reading Here are the major consumers of oil sources from Amazon rainforest →

British Columbia floods killed many fish, particularly salmon

globalnews.ca/news/8403667/fish-mortality-bc-floods/ High fish mortality rates possible after record-breaking B.C. floods ByElizabeth McSheffrey  Global NewsPosted November 25, 2021 9:04 pm Renee Coghill of Hope Search and Rescue has already found 100 dead fish on dry land off the Coquihalla Highway in the aftermath of catastrophic floods in southern B.C. on Nov. 14 and 15, 2021. Courtesy: Renee Coghill … Continue reading British Columbia floods killed many fish, particularly salmon →

10 Ways to stay hopeful while confronting the climate crisis

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/18/ten-ways-confront-climate-crisis-without-losing-hope-rebecca-solnit-reconstruction-after-covid? Ten ways to confront the climate crisis without losing hope  Reconstruction after Covid: a new series of long reads It’s easy to despair at the climate crisis, or to decide it’s already too late – but it’s not. Here’s how to keep the fight aliveby Rebecca SolnitThu 18 Nov 2021 01.00 EST The world as … Continue reading 10 Ways to stay hopeful while confronting the climate crisis →

This is what a 1.5 degree C increase looks like

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/08/1052198840/1-5-degrees-warming-climate-change This is what the world looks like if we pass the crucial 1.5-degree C threshold November 8, 20215:15 AM ET by Lauren Sommer There's one number heard more than any other from the podiums at the United Nations climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland: 1.5 degrees Celsius. That's the global climate change goal world leaders … Continue reading This is what a 1.5 degree C increase looks like →