Sea Level

By Katja Frieler | (The Conversation) | – – At the Paris climate summit, delegates are deciding on a global goal for temperature rise. At the time of publication, the latest draft text calls for the world to “hold the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2℃ above pre-industrial levels and to […]

Climate Change

For Pacific Islanders, Paris Climate Summit is Life or Death

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Euronews & Scott B. Power | – – “Dozens of activists at the COP 21 summit in Paris have taken part in the so-called Run for your Life, a relay race from the Arctic across northern Europe to the French capital. Each person carries a story they’ve shared along the four-thousand kilometre relay. Euronews spoke […]

Acidification of Oceans

Exxon investigation: A warning shot for fossil fuel companies as climate lies unveiled

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The Tree | – – In the first concrete legal action against ExxonMobil’s web of climate lies, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has announced he will investigate whether the oil giant knowingly misled the public and investors about the dangers of climate change. Last month from InsideClimate News and the Los Angeles Times revealed […]

Acidification of Oceans

Climate Change to throw 100 mn. People into Poverty

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By Thalif Deen | (Inter Press Service) | – – UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – The UN’s heavily-hyped Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which were approved by more than 160 world leaders at a summit meeting in September, are an integral part of the world body’s post-2015 development agenda, including the eradication of hunger and poverty by […]

Climate Change

Study: Miami, New Orleans Can’t Be Saved From Rising Sea Levels

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GeoBeats News | – – “According to a recently published study, Miami, New Orleans, and a number of other US cities are already beyond the point of being saved from rising sea levels. As the world’s temperature continues to increase, the West Antarctic ice sheet is under threat, and carbon emissions are still being produced […]

Children

Parenting in Fear: Leaving a Climate Apocalypse to our Children

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Frida Berrigan | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – Madeline is in the swing, her face the picture of delight. “Mo, mo,” she cries and kicks her legs to show me that she wants me to push her higher and faster. I push, and push, and push with both hands. There is no thought in […]

Climate Change

Could we melt all the Ice in Antarctica if we Keep on Burning Fossil Fuels?

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By Andy Ridgwell | (The Conversation) | – – Here is a great “what-if”: if we (the human race) were to burn all available fossil fuels, could we melt the largest and most stable ice sheet on the planet – Antarctica? Could our collective industrial impacts on the planet possibly have that far a reach? […]

Acidification of Oceans

“We’re talking Survival”: Pacific Islanders call out Australia on Coal

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The Tree | – – Pacific Island nations have stepped up pressure on their reckless neighbours, warning Australia and New Zealand that their inadequate action on climate change will doom island states – especially if they continue to ignore the call for a moratorium on new coal and the call to keep warming below 1.5DegC. […]

Barack Obama

Obama’s Journey: Top 10 signs of Extreme Climate Change in Alaska and why it Should Scare Us

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – American corporate news has not devoted the hours to President Obama’s trip to Alaska that it deserves, focusing on the GOP clown car back in the lower 48 instead. I did a Lexis Nexis search under Arctic Summit (yes, there was one, which Obama attended) in […]