The Real News: Michael Mann: We Are Even Closer To Climate Disaster Than IPCC Predicts

TheRealNews Published on Oct 9, 2018 

A new report from the world's leading body on climate change says we could see catastrophic global warming by 2030, and climate scientist Michael Mann says their predictions are too conservative

Everything to Know About Coal (in Under 3 Minutes)

Union of Concerned Scientists

Published on Jan 4, 2018

Coal has helped power the United States for decades—but thanks to automation and natural gas, it’s now on the way out. Given the many benefits of renewables, that’s not such a bad thing. Take action here: http://www.ucsusa.org/coal

NY Times: U.S. Report Says Humans Cause Climate Change, Contradicting Top Trump Officials

"WASHINGTON — Directly contradicting much of the Trump administration’s position on climate change, 13 federal agencies unveiled an exhaustive scientific report on Friday that says humans are the dominant cause of the global temperature rise that has created the warmest period in the history of civilization.

Over the past 115 years global average temperatures have increased 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit, leading to record-breaking weather events and temperature extremes, the report says. The global, long-term warming trend is “unambiguous,” it says, and there is “no convincing alternative explanation” that anything other than humans — the cars we drive, the power plants we operate, the forests we destroy — are to blame."

Nov, 2017

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Rolling Stone: What’s Another Way to Say ‘We’re F-cked’? One of the leading climate scientists of our time is warning of the horrifying possibility of 15-to-20 feet of sea-level rise

"If that sounds alarmist, watch this short video. In it, you’ll see a scientist named Richard Alley in a Skype discussion with students at Bard College, as well as with Eban Goodstein, director of the Graduate Programs in Sustainability at Bard. It would be just another nerdy Skype chat except Alley is talking frankly about something that few scientists have the courage to say in public: As bad as you think climate change might be in the coming decades, reality could be far worse. Within the lifetime of the students he’s talking with, Alley says, there’s some risk — small but not as small as you might hope — that the seas could rise as much as 15-to-20 feet."

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Rolling Stone: Welcome to the Age of Climate Migration

"In 2017, a string of climate disasters – six big hurricanes in the Atlantic, wildfires in the West, horrific mudslides, high-temperature records breaking all over the country – caused $306 billion in damage, killing more than 300 people. After Hurricane Maria, 300,000 Puerto Ricans fled to Florida, and disaster experts estimate that climate and weather events displaced more than 1 million Americans from their homes last year. 

The Pen: Australian school students are going on strike to speak out against climate threat

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"Hundreds of school students around the country are expected to take part in a strike on 28,29 and 30 November.
A prominent environment organisation, the Australian Youth Climate Coalition, is encouraging participation.
  
This is now becoming a nationwide movement,  as more young people around Australia get involved."

"They are deeply concerned about global warming, and what they see as the failure of politicians to date, to do enough about it. They want urgent action about what they say is a climate emergency."

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Devdiscourse: Climate change effecting blue economy of India say scientists

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"There would be a drop in productivity of marine species as there was a gradual damage being caused to the ecosystem and biodiversity, the Vice-Chancellor said.

Warming of the Indian Ocean at a fast pace owing to climate change poses a threat to the multi-million dollar blue economy of India, scientists said here Thursday. Climate change is affecting fisheries through change in stock productivity and its distribution, they said during the opening session of a 'Winter School on Climate Change in Marine Fisheries' being organised by the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute here.