Sunday, 23 June 2019
We’re All Responsible for Climate Change — and That’s a Good Thing: Medium
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| We're all responsible for climate change |
"....... That brings us to the issue of population growth.
In 2017, the American Institute of Biological Sciences published an
open letter signed by over 15,000 scientists, including Jane Goodall and
E.O. Wilson, titled “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Second
Notice.” It states, “We are jeopardizing our future by not reining in
our intense but geographically and demographically uneven material
consumption and by not perceiving continued rapid population growth
as a primary driver behind many ecological and even societal threats.”
It was the most scientists to ever co-sign a published journal article.
Saturday, 22 June 2019
Climate breakdown to trigger debate over which cities to protect from rising sea levels:The Independent
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"As disaster costs keep rising across the United States, a troubling new debate has become urgent: if there’s not enough money to protect every coastal community from the effects of human-caused global warming, how should we decide which ones to save first?
After three years of brutal flooding and hurricanes, there is growing consensus among policymakers and scientists that coastal areas will require significant spending to ride out future storms and rising sea levels — not in decades but now and in the very near future.
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Sea Level Rise Can No Longer Be Stopped, What Next? - with John Englander
Friday, 21 June 2019
Sea Level Rise Can No Longer Be Stopped, What Next? - with John Englander
Sea level rise can no longer be stopped, so it is urgent that we commence intelligent adaptation as a high priority, argues John Englander.
The Royal Institution
May 29 2019
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Canadian youth taking up the climate change fight
"When it comes to climate change, many Canadian youth are not leaving it up to politicians to solve the issue. A panel of young activists explains how they are taking up the fight themselves."
CBC NEWS June 19 2019
Old spy satellite images show just how fast ice is melting from the glaciers in the Himalayas: USA Today
"Picture 3 million Olympic-size swimming pools full of water.
That's how much ice melts from glaciers in the Himalayas each year, a new study suggests, and climate change is the primary cause.
Even
more concerning is that the ice melt has doubled in recent years:
Himalayan glaciers have been losing the equivalent of more than a foot
and half of ice each year since 2000 – which is double the amount of
melting that took place from 1975 to 2000.
“This
is the clearest picture yet of how fast Himalayan glaciers are melting
over this time interval and why,” said study lead author Joshua Maurer, a
Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth
Observatory.
Overall, the Asian mountain range, which includes Mount Everest, has been losing ice at a rate of about 1% a year since 2000.
Thursday, 20 June 2019
Clean energy found to be a 'pathway to prosperity’ for Northern Territory : The Guardian
That is the message from a report that makes the alternative case, suggesting embracing clean energy could dramatically expand the electricity, mining and mineral processing industries while reducing living costs."
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