Climate Crisis

By Bethan Davies, Newcastle University | – (The Conversation) – The melting of one of North America’s largest icefields has accelerated and could soon reach an irreversible tipping point. That’s the conclusion of new research colleagues and I have published on the Juneau Icefield, which straddles the Alaska-Canada border near the Alaskan capital of Juneau. […]

Climate Crisis

Solar Power is about to Leave Nuclear and all other Energy Sources in the Dust

The Conversation

By Peter Martin, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University | – (The Conversation) – Opposition leader Peter Dutton might have been hoping for an endorsement from economists for his plan to take Australian nuclear. He shouldn’t expect one from The Economist. The Economist is a British weekly news magazine that has reported on […]

Climate Crisis

Startling Climate Change Impact: Hurricane Beryl’s Rapid intensification to Category 5 is Ominous

The Conversation

By Brian Tang, University at Albany, State University of New York | – (The Conversation) – Hurricane Beryl was the latest Atlantic storm to rapidly intensify, growing quickly from a tropical storm into the strongest June hurricane on record in the Atlantic. It hit the Grenadine Islands with 150 mph winds and a destructive storm […]

Climate Crisis

“Some Say the World will End in Fire:” Nukes and Carbon, Carbon and Nukes

Tom Engelhardt

( Tomdispatch.com ) – I’ve been writing about climate change for so many years now but, in truth, it was always something I read about and took in globally. It was happening out there, often in horrific ways, but not what I felt I was living through myself. (It’s true that, in past winters, Manhattan’s […]

Climate Crisis

Climate Emergency strikes Islam’s Holy Ritual, with nearly 600 dead of Heat stroke at 124.24° F. in Mecca

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – As the temperature in Mecca reached 125.24° F. (51.8° C.) on Tuesday, word leaked out that nearly 600 pilgrims had died of heat stroke and 2,000 have been hospitalized for treatment. A virtual clinic treated more thousands remotely. Some 324 of the dead were Egyptians,, while dozens were from Jordan. […]

Climate Crisis

Unprecedentedly Hot: Why we Need a National Climate Action Plan

Tomdispatch

By John J. Berger ( Tomdispatch.com ) – While April and May are usually the hottest months in many countries in Southeast Asia, hundreds of millions of people are now suffering in South Asia from an exceptionally intense heat wave that has killed hundreds. One expert has already called it the most extreme heat event […]

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A Baby born in April 2023 has never Experienced a Month that wasn’t the Hottest on Record

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – When a baby born on April 1, 2023 reached 14 months and became a toddler this month, it had never lived through a month that wasn’t the hottest on record. The National Atmospheric and Oceanic Agency has announced that May 2024 was the hottest May on record. But even more […]

Climate Crisis

Is Earth Really Getting too Hot for People to Survive? A Scientist Explains

The Conversation

By Scott Denning, Colorado State University | – My parents said the planet is getting too hot for people to live here. They called it climate change. What does that mean? – Joseph, age 12, Boise, Idaho Many countries have seen extremely hot weather lately, but in most of the inhabited world, it’s never going […]

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Losing our Cool: Climate Emergency’s Heat Waves Threaten America

Stan Cox

( Tomdispatch.com ) – The odds are that the entire continental United States will swelter through a hotter-than-normal summer this year. And no surprise there. It seems as if that’s been the forecast every spring for years now. But this summer promises to eclipse even the summer of 2023, which, in the Northern Hemisphere, was […]