Tag: global warming
COVID-19 lockdowns will barely reduce global warming, new study finds
"This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to really change the direction of society. We do not have to go back to where we were, because times of crisis are also the time to change."
The fate of the Earth
Climate change, after all, looks to be nature’s slo-mo version of nuclear war.
11,000 scientists warn: Climate change isn’t just about temperature
A small group of scientists met at the world’s first climate conference in Geneva and raised the alarm about unnerving climate trends.
Meet Alexander von Humboldt, the first person to understand climate change...
As the world burns — and as kids sound the alarm — the original environmental scientist is worth revisiting.
Fossil fuel drilling could be contributing to climate change by heating...
Underground reserves of oil have existed for far longer than humans have exploited them – we know worryingly little about the consequences of emptying them.
“Empowering women and indigenous peoples” will help us more effectively combat...
Recognition and use of indigenous and local knowledge are "important for long-term sustainability."
June 2019 was the hottest on record: NOAA
Nine of the 10 warmest Junes have occurred since 2010.
Hey, psst, Prince Charles: Here are some graphs on global heating...
Everything Trump says about climate is wrong, and he is incorrigible.
US dismisses climate change at Arctic Council Summit: Pompeo says melting...
The U.S. objections come as the Arctic just experienced its five warmest years on record, and is warming at twice the rate of the rest of the world.
Carbon emissions reach record high worldwide in 2018
"[D]espite major growth in renewables, global emissions are still rising, demonstrating once again that more urgent action is needed on all fronts."
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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.
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.
‘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.
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.