Climate Crisis

The emergency is the “extent, severity, pace and closing window of opportunity to avoid potentially catastrophic outcomes”

Climate Crisis

2/3s of Himalayan Glaciers to Melt by 2100, Threatening Water for 2 Billion People

AFP

The Himalayan glaciers, which formed some 70 million years ago, are highly sensitive to changing temperatures.

Climate Change

Climate Emergency: Oceans Hotter than in Recorded History and Getting Hotter

AFP

Tampa, United States | AFP | – The world’s oceans are heating up at an accelerating pace as global warming threatens a diverse range of marine life and a major food supply for the planet, researchers said Thursday. The findings in the US journal Science, led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, debunk previous reports […]

Acidification of Oceans

Wall or Watchtower? The real Threat is invasive Climate Crisis, and our Shield is Science

Juan Cole

The man who ordered the construction of the nearly infinite Wall of China was that First Emperor …who likewise ordered the burning of all the books before him

Climate Crisis

The Climate Crisis: “There is no Time to Continue down this Road of Madness”

H. Patricia Hynes

The conference goals are “nowhere near ambitious enough to tackle” the climate emergency “at the scale we need to.”

Climate Crisis

No Cheetahs or Cool Breezes: The World our Carbon Dioxide is Bequeathing our Children

Tomdispatch

By Frida Berrigan | – (Tomdispatch.com) – “I don’t want to live in a world without cheetahs, Mom.” Seamus loves cheetahs and what’s not to love — unless you are a Thomson’s gazelle? Cheetahs are the fastest mammals on the planet, formidable predators, sleek, saucy looking, and they even have spots. My six-year-old boy can’t […]

Climate Crisis

Global Heating Boosts Hurricane Florence, as Climate Denialist Governors Urge 1.5 Million to Flee

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(Watchers.news) – The National Weather Service has issued hurricane and storm surge warnings for portions of the coasts of North and South Carolina on September 11, 2018, as extremely dangerous Hurricane “Florence” continues heading toward the East Coast U.S. Landfall is expected between northern South Carolina and North Carolina’s Outer Banks on September 13. Florence […]

Climate Crisis

Masses around Globe Rally against Climate Crisis & Gov’t Inaction, Defying Trump

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Environmental activists protested Saturday in 90 countries and 800 cities across the globe and the United States against inaction on the Climate Crisis in the run-up to a major climate conference in San Francisco organized by Gov. Jerry Brown for Wednesday in the wake of Trump’s violation of the Paris […]

Climate Crisis

Fossil Fuels Climate Crisis to Imperil Earth’s Ecosystems, Plants & Animals

AFP

Tampa (AFP) – The Earth’s forests, deserts, landscapes and vital ecosystems risk a “major transformation” in the next century due to climate change, international scientists warned on Thursday. Some of these changes are already under way in the southwestern United States, where massive wildfires are destroying pine forests and transforming swaths of territory into shrubland. […]