Climate Crisis

Why spending $2 trillion on child care, health care and fighting climate change won’t make inflation any worse than it already is

By Michael Klein | – One of the main concerns raised by critics of President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan is that it will drive up inflation, which is already running at the fastest pace in four decades. The Senate is currently considering a roughly US$2 trillion bill passed by the House that would […]

Climate Crisis

A Rise of average world Temperatures by 2.3° C. (4.2° F.) will degrade the quality of life in every country on Earth

Alfred W. McCoy

By Alfred McCoy | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – When midnight strikes on New Year’s Day of 2050, there will be little cause for celebration. There will, of course, be the usual toasts with fine wines in the climate-controlled compounds of the wealthy few. But for most of humanity, it’ll just be another day of adversity […]

Agriculture

How Climate Change and extreme Weather may lead to Food Shortages and Escalating Prices

The Conversation

By Paul Ekins | – In a world with an increasing human population, climate change may have a serious impact on our ability to grow enough food. Research from as far back as 2007 found that around 30% of year-to-year fluctuations in tonnes of crops grown per hectare were due to changes in the climate. […]

Climate Crisis

Alarming Loss of Sea Ice diminishes the Arctic’s ability to cool the Global Climate

The Conversation

By Matthew Druckenmiller, Rick Thoman, and Twila Moon | – The Arctic has long been portrayed as a distant end-of-the-Earth place, disconnected from everyday common experience. But as the planet rapidly warms, what happens in this icy region, where temperatures are rising twice as fast as the rest of the globe, increasingly affects lives around […]

Climate Crisis

A Tour Guide to Hell on Earth, Small Town-Style: Climate Change, Up Close and Personal

Tomdispatch

By Jane Braxton Little | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Half a mile south of what’s left of the old Gold Rush-era town of Greenville, California, Highway 89 climbs steeply in a series of S-turns as familiar to me as my own backyard. From the top of that grade, I’ve sometimes seen bald eagles soaring […]

Climate Crisis

Arctic Ocean started getting warmer Decades earlier than we Thought

University of Cambridge Research

By Sarah Collins | – The Arctic Ocean has been getting warmer since the beginning of the 20th century – decades earlier than records suggest – due to warmer water flowing into the delicate polar ecosystem from the Atlantic Ocean. An international group of researchers reconstructed the recent history of ocean warming at the gateway […]

Climate Crisis

As last Coal Chimney Falls, Will Green Energy Issue in Scotland Break up the United Kingdom?

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Scotland’s first minister, Nicola Sturgeon of the Scottish National Party, pushed the button last week that brought down the country’s tallest structure, the chimney of the massive coal plant at Fife. The plant was decommissioned in 2016, as Scotland replaced coal with renewables for electricity generation, but the demolition was […]

Climate Crisis

Half of global Coal Companies continue to develop new Assets

China Dialogue

By Nora Sausmikat and Katrin Ganswindt | – ( China Dialogue —- Bonus Video added by Informed Comment: Al Jazeera English: “Bosnia’s most polluting power plant linked with cancer”

Climate Crisis

Climate activism has gone digital and disruptive, and it’s finally facing up to racism within the movement

The Conversation

By Nina Hall, Charles Lawrie and Sahar Priano | – To understand the agreement states reached at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow last month, it’s important to explore how climate activism has grown and changed since the Paris Agreement in 2015. Climate activists have played a pivotal role. They have kept the pressure on […]