CO2

( Sustainability Times) – If the planet continues to warm at current rates, by the end of the century as many as 90% of marine species will be at risk of going extinct. This stark warning comes from a team of scientists who examined some 25,000 species, including fish, marine plants, bacteria and protozoans, which […]

Climate Crisis

U.S. House Members raise Objections to Manchin Deal fast-tracking Coal, Oil, Gas Projects

Minnesota Reformer

By Jacob Fischler | – ( Minnesota Reformer ) – More than 50 U.S. House members are objecting to a push to revise federal environmental permitting requirements for energy projects — part of a deal Democratic leaders struck with U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin III to win passage of their climate, health and taxes bill that […]

Climate Crisis

Why defusing ‘Carbon Bombs’ offers a promising new Agenda for tackling Climate Change

The Conversation

By Kjell Kühne, University of Leeds | – A carbon bomb is a fossil fuel extraction project, such as a coal mine, that can cause over a gigatonne of CO₂ emissions during its lifetime. That’s a billion tonnes – more than twice the UK’s annual emissions from a single project. In our latest research, my […]

Climate Crisis

How Timber Cities could provide Climate Saving Solution for growing urban Populations

Clean Energy Wire

By Edgar Meza | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – A large-scale transition to using wood for building construction in “timber cities” could avoid more than 100 billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions by the end of the century, about 10 percent of the remaining carbon budget for the 2°C climate target, according to […]

Climate Crisis

Germany gets 20% of its Electricity from the Sun: July marks third monthly Solar Power output Record

Clean Energy Wire

By Edgar Meza | – Referencing: Germany’s “PV Magazine”. Photovoltaic systems in Germany generated a new record level of electricity in the month July 2022, the pv magazine reported. Solar PV arrays produced 8.23 terawatt hours (TWh) of power, accounting for roughly one fifth of the country’s net electricity generation and also marking the third […]

Climate Crisis

Angry White Guys in Big-Ass Pickups: Climate Change and Fragile Masculinity

Tomdispatch

By Stan Cox | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – In the United States during 16 months in 2020 and 2021, vehicles rammed into groups of protesters at least 139 times, according to a Boston Globe analysis. Three victims died and at least 100 were injured. Consider that a new level of all-American barbarity, thanks to the […]

Climate Crisis

Why Britain’s 104°F (40°C) Heatwave was made many Times more Likely by Humans burning Fossil Fuels

The Conversation

By Ben Clark, University of Oxford; Friederike Otto, Imperial College London; and Luke Harrington, University of Waikato | – (The Conversation) – Every heatwave occurring today is made more likely and intense by human-caused climate change. Early estimates by the UK Met Office suggest that days over 40°C [104°F] have become ten times more likely […]

China

China’s crucial Role in decarbonising the global Steel Sector

China Dialogue

By Belinda Schäpe and Byford Tsang | – ( China Dialogue ) – What happens in China’s steel plants matters for the global climate. After power generation, the steel sector is the second largest contributor to China’s emissions, accounting for roughly 17% annually. China produces more than half of all global steel, and over 60% […]

Arctic

Greenland loses 6 Billion Tons of Ice in Three Days, harbinger of Unprecedented Coastal Flooding

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – CNN and The Independent reported this week on a massive ice melt in Greenland, with on the order of 6 billion tons of ice lost in three days. The melting was because of a heat wave at the top of the world, caused by our burning coal, gasoline and methane […]