The Earth is Heating Up
The entire planet is feeling the effects of a warming atmosphere and ocean, from Sudan to Siberia, and we are way passed denial or debate. Whether forest and brush fires, or droughts and water shortages, we are all in this together and we need to continue to take the steps needed now to get off of fossil fuels and move to renewables as fast as humanely possible. I think of action in terms of sober optimism and aggressive incrementalism…
Patagonia Films: Newtok – Losing ground to climate change, this Alaskan community resolves to save itself
To keep their culture and community intact, the 360 Yup’ik residents must relocate their entire village to stable ground upriver … In moving their village, they will become some of America’s first climate change refugees. This is a film of a village seeking justice in the face of climate disaster…
Climate crisis to shrink G7 economies twice as much as Covid-19, says research
The economies of rich countries will shrink by twice as much as they did in the Covid-19 crisis if they fail to tackle rising greenhouse gas emissions, according to research.
Miami’s chief heat officer calls for action on ‘silent killer’ in climate crisis
Miami’s new chief heat officer has called for greater federal and state action on the lethal threat posed by rising temperatures after becoming the first official in the US appointed to focus solely on heatwaves.
World will lose 10% of glacier ice even if it hits climate targets
A tenth of the world’s mountain glacier ice will have melted by the middle of this century even if humanity meets the goals of the Paris climate agreement…
US climate research outpost abandoned over fears it will fall into sea
Twice a day for the past half a century, a weather balloon to measure atmospheric conditions was released from a research station situated on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Faced with advancing seas that are set to devour it, the outpost has now been abandoned.
Sea-level rise is creating ‘ghost forests’ on an American coast
In coastal North Carolina, evidence of forest die-off is everywhere. Nearly every roadside ditch I pass is lined with dead or dying trees.
Greenland ice sheet on course to lose ice at fastest rate in 12,000 years, study finds
The Greenland ice sheet is on track to lose mass at about four times the fastest rate observed over the past 12,000 years.
Atlantic Ocean circulation at weakest in a millennium
The Atlantic Ocean circulation that underpins the Gulf Stream, the weather system that brings warm and mild weather to Europe, is at its weakest in more than a millennium, and climate breakdown is the probable cause…