Climate Change

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The world– you and I included– actually greatly increased the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, by 2.87 parts per million, raising the total to just about 410 ppm. So reports the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. This was a significant increase, the fourth largest during the past 60 […]

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ExxonMobil & 4 other Oil Giants Spent $1 bn on Greenwashing PR, $100 bn on New Fossil Fuels

AFP

“How can we accept that companies spending hundreds of millions lobbying against EU reaching the Paris agreement are still granted access to decision makers?

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How Youth Climate Strikers can and Must Keep up the Momentum

The Conversation

Well-established youth organisations can use their large networks and professional experience

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Icebergs Hiving off Chile’s Giant Grey Glacier at Alarming Rate

AFP

A United Nations study in 2018 found that 95 percent of Chile’s 24,100 glaciers had receded

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Millions of Children Globally Skipped School to Protest Elders’ Climate Denialism, Destruction of their Future

AFP

By AFP bureaux | – Montreal (AFP) – Classrooms in capitals from Bangkok to Berlin and Lagos to London emptied as organizers of the student strike called demonstrations in more than 100 countries. Students flooded into the streets across Europe, North and South America, and Asia carrying placards reading: “There is no planet B”, “You’re […]

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Why Critics of the Green New Deal are Just Plain Wrong

The Conversation

Carbon pricing isn’t the only game in town

Climate Change

Ocean Heatwaves already Devastating Marine Life, with Fisheries in Danger

Marlowe Hood

Paris (AFP) – Invisible to people but deadly to marine life, ocean heatwaves have damaged ecosystems across the globe and are poised to become even more destructive, according to the first study to measure worldwide impacts with a single yardstick. The number of marine heatwave days has increased by more than 50 percent since the […]

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Climate Crisis: Glacier Melt, Droughts, Floods require Indo-Pak Cooperation to Avoid Disaster

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By Omair Ahmad | – (The Third Pole) – With glacier retreat, permafrost melt, and extreme rainfall events, ICIMOD’s HIMAP report suggests that the countries of the Hindu Kush Himalayas have to start cooperating far more closely, or pay a huge price Water in the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region is going through large and […]

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Could the Climate Crisis End America’s Global Dominion?

Alfred W. McCoy

Humanity has just 12 years left to cut carbon emissions by a striking 45% or the world’s temperature would rise by at least 1.5 degrees Celsius