Pilkey’s Call: Save The Beaches
Beaches move, and with rising sea levels they are moving faster. People try to slow or halt the process by dredging up sand or erecting imposing seawalls, but those are destructive and doomed efforts. To save the beaches, we must let beaches go where and how they want.
STOP SHELL’S ARCTIC DRILLING PLANS! NRDC Petition
Shell Oil is racing to sink its drills into the Arctic’s Chukchi Sea — and the Obama Administration has given them the green light. This comes despite the government’s own estimates that there’s a 75% chance of a major oil spill in the Arctic Ocean…
Obama’s Clean Power Plan Hailed as US’s Strongest Ever Climate Action
Hundreds of businesses have issued their support for Barack Obama’s clean power plan, billed as the strongest action ever on climate change by a US president. The rules, announced on Monday, are designed to cut emissions from power plants and have been strengthened in terms of the long-term ambition
Our Environmental Deficit is Now Beyond Nature’s Ability to Regenerate
The world enters ecological ‘overshoot’ this year on 13 August -marking the date when humanity exhausted nature’s budget for the year- six days earlier than last year.
Disastrous Sea Level Rise Is an Issue for Today’s Public – Not Next Millennium’s
The bottom line message scientists should deliver to policymakers is that we have a global crisis, an emergency that calls for global cooperation to reduce emissions as rapidly as practical.
Stagnant Summer Days on the Rise
Since climate change is expected to usher in more oppressive heat waves, the number of days with stagnant air will likely go up, which could mean more days with bad air quality, if nothing is done to combat pollution.
First Half of 2015 Hottest Six Months on Record – UN
From January to June 2015, the globally averaged temperature over land and ocean surfaces was the hottest for such period on record, the United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reported today, citing new highs across the planet in June, with heatwaves across South Asia, Europe and pockets of the United States.
Oceans Slowed Global Temperature Rise, Until Now
A new study of ocean temperature measurements shows that in recent years, extra heat from greenhouse gases has been trapped in the subsurface waters of the Pacific and Indian oceans, thus accounting for the slowdown in the global surface temperature increase observed during the past decade, researchers say.
How Can We Make People Care About Climate Change?
Norwegian psychologist Per Espen Stoknes has studied why so many people have remained unconcerned about climate change. In a Yale Environment 360 interview, he talks about the psychological barriers to public action on climate and how to overcome them.