The New York Times Dec. 8, 2020 By Henry Fountain “There is no reason to think that in 30 years much of anything will be as it is today,” one of the editors of a new report on the Arctic climate said. The Arctic continued its unwavering shift toward a new climate in 2020, as […]
Read MorePortrait of a planet on the verge of climate catastrophe
The Guardian (UK) As the UN sits down for its annual climate conference this week, many experts believe we have passed the point of no return December 2, 2018 by Robin McKie On Sunday morning (December 2nd) hundreds of politicians, government officials and scientists will gather in the grandeur of the International Congress Centre in Katowice, […]
Read MoreClimate Change Is Central to California’s Wildfires
Conservative pundits who tout land management as the main issue fail to see the big picture Scientific American October 29, 2020 By Rebecca Miller, Katharine Mach, and Chris Field AS THE TOLL FROM CALIFORNIA’S WILDFIRES GROWS HIGHER YEAR AFTER YEAR, the state’s future appears fiery and hazy with smoke. For conservative columnists like Ben Shapiro, Niall […]
Read MorePope Francis’ 2015 War on Climate-denying Capitalists
World’s moral leaders are throwing down the gauntlet over destruction of Planet Earth By Paul B. Farrell Columnist for Marketwatch.com April 22, 2015 Headlines warn us. He’s throwing down the gauntlet. Forget “Prince of Peace.” It’s 2015. Pope Francis is igniting WW III. The big one. He knows capitalism’s already at war everywhere, destroying the […]
Read MoreGlobal Academies Warn of Warming
Science organizations from 11 countries, including the U.S., call for global action against the changing climate. The Los Angeles Times June 8, 2005 By Miguel Bustillo The National Academy of Sciences and 10 similar organizations from some of the world’s most powerful nations released a statement Tuesday calling for a stronger international response to global […]
Read MoreClimate “changing before our eyes,” declares World Meteorological Organization
Reuters News Service By Alister DoyleDOHA | Wed Nov 28, 2012, 6:30 am EST The fact that Arctic sea ice has melted this year to its lowest recorded level shows, along with other weather extremes, that “climate change is taking place before our eyes,” the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Wednesday. The first 10 […]
Read MoreFaith Leaders Need to Find Their Voice on Climate Change
Religious institutions need to set their moral compass on one of the great humanitarian issues of our time The Guardian (London), May 7th 2014 By Christiana Figueres SAVING THE EARTH AND ITS PEOPLES FROM DANGEROUS CLIMATE CHANGE is an economic, social and environmental issue – and a moral and ethical one too that goes to […]
Read MoreTop Scientists Warn of ‘ghastly future of mass extinction’ and Climate Disruption
Sobering new report says world is failing to grasp the extent of threats posed by biodiversity loss and the climate crisis The Guardian, January 13, 2021 By Phoebe Weston The planet is facing a “ghastly future of mass extinction, declining health and climate-disruption upheavals” that threaten human survival because of ignorance and inaction, according to […]
Read MoreThe Atlantic Hurricane Season Typically Brings About a Dozen Storms. This Year It Was 30
Of 2020’s Atlantic storms, 13 were hurricanes, six of them Category 3 or higher. Warmer ocean waters are fueling an increasing number of storms. The Climate News, December 24, 2020 By James Bruggers, Bob Berwyn For Darilyn Turner and her neighbors, living in the bottomlands along the banks of the Mississippi River south of New […]
Read MoreKatharine Hayhoe, a Climate Explainer Who Stays Above the Storm
The New York Times, Oct. 10, 2016 By John Schwartz LUBBOCK, Tex. — A member of Katharine Hayhoe’s church asked her a question after services a couple of weeks ago: “Do you feel our weather is getting more extreme?” Time was, the question might have been the start of an argument with Dr. Hayhoe, a […]
Read MoreI’m a Climate Scientist Who Believes in God. Hear Me Out.
Global warming will strike hardest against the very people we’re told to love: the poor and vulnerable. The New York TIMES October 31, 2019 I’m a climate scientist. I’m also an evangelical Christian. And I’m Canadian, which is why it took me so long to realize the first two things were supposed to be entirely […]
Read MoreClimate Change Is Happening Now – A Carbon Price Must Follow
The extreme weather events we are now seeing are what we have been warning of for 25 years, but the answer is plain to see November 30, 2012 WILL OUR SHORT ATTENTION SPAN BE THE END OF US? Just a month after the second “storm of a century” in two years, the media moves on […]
Read MoreClimate Change Will Cost Even More Than We Think
Economists greatly underestimate the price tag on harsher weather and higher seas. Why is that? October 23, 2019 By Naomi Oreskes and Nicholas Stern For some time now it has been clear that the effects of climate change are appearing faster than scientists anticipated. Now it turns out that there is another form of underestimation […]
Read MoreIt’s a Fact: Climate Change Made Hurricane Harvey More Deadly
2017 by Dr. Michael Mann What can we say about the role of climate change in the unprecedented disaster that is unfolding in Houston with Hurricane Harvey? There are certain climate change-related factors that we can, with great confidence, say worsened the flooding. Sea level rise attributable to climate change – some of which is […]
Read MoreFire on Planet Earth: 2020
December 4th, 2020 by Dr. James Hansen Reversing climate change is possible, sensible and necessary. A year ago, when I was in the middle of writing my new book Sophie’s Planet, I thought that I may have a hard time selling people on the fact that we must go back at least to mid-20th century climate […]
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