Tag: global warming
‘Era of global boiling’ has arrived, UN chief says
“The consequences are clear and they are tragic: children swept away by monsoon rains; families running from the flames; workers collapsing in scorching heat.”
Florida waters reach hot tub temperatures of 101.19 degrees Fahrenheit
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), this time of year normal south Florida water temperatures should be from 73 to 88 degrees Fahrenheit.
We’re having a violent meltdown
From the pole to the equator, the specter of violence looms.
WMO warns greenhouse gases and El Niño to push global temps...
"...WMO is sounding the alarm that we will breach the 1.5°C level on a temporary basis with increasing frequency.”
Ocean warming study so distressing, some scientists didn’t even want to...
Researchers examining the ocean off the east coast of North America found that the water's surface was 13.8°C, or 14.8°F, hotter than the average temperature between 1981 and 2011.
World’s glaciers at serious risk from climate crisis
“Significant loss of glaciers means that we are not only witnessing a change in landscape or a loss of natural resources, it means that we are actively complicit in robbing the future from our children.”
Paying for an overheating Earth
At a time when the major fossil-fuel companies are still raking in staggering profits off their oil and natural gas supplies, as that line straight out of my childhood went: There oughta be a law.
Greenland ice melt will raise global sea levels at least 10...
The scientists worry severe melting events, like the melting seen in 2012, could push eventual sea level rise closer to 30 inches.
Will 2022 mark the turning point in the climate crisis?
This year the international community might finally be getting serious about climate change.
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DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure
On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.
The US bombs kids so Palmer Luckey can have nice things
Because for every bomb the U.S. and Israel drop, a bunch of men in cushy offices profit off all the death.
‘You can’t live without us’: How Big Oil pivoted from climate-friendly messaging to normalize...
More than 1,500 independent advertising agencies and 4,000 individual creatives have signed Clean Creatives’ pledge to refuse future fossil fuel contracts.
Oil regulators found hundreds of wells violating Oklahoma rules. Then they ignored their findings.
Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking water pollution, the state chose not to act.
Thanks, MAGA, for exposing six corrosive myths that plague America—if we survive!
So kudos to today’s rightwing bellicosity for making clear the U.S. unilaterally wields deadly, rapacious power, whether sensible or stupid or gratuitous.