1 Jan 2024

The Climate Movement Suffered A Slew Of Defeats And Setbacks In 2023

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As we begin a New Year in 2024, it’s a good time to look at what was accomplished in the fight against Climate Change. What happened and what did not happen when it came to healing our planet?

(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) While the climate movement achieved some victories this year, 2023 may ultimately be remembered mostly as a year of key failures and setbacks for environmentalist organizations and their favored policies promulgated by the Biden administration. The past 12 months saw the collapse of several […]

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5 Nov 2023

☂️ An astronaut proposes a climate insurance: A space parasol

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Is it surprising that an astronaut has opinions about Climate Change? In fact, he is speaking out about the time it will take between now and when serious planet-wide ACTION will finally be happening. For lack of a better words, he calls it a “time to transition to address climate change before it has sever consequences.” The real disappointment he shares with scientists and others is things are not happening quick enough. In other words, we might not do enough, soon enough.

The second surprising thing he proposes has to do with Space. To buy humanity time to transition to being full on and actively correcting our Climate, he proposes using a “Space Parasol”. Read on…

We have time to transition to address climate change before it has severe consequences. Not to say we can rest easy, the pace of transition needs to accelerate. But what if the transition is too slow, or the current climate models are incorrect and the temperature suddenly rises faster […]

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10 Aug 2023

Climate change may worsen spread of West Nile virus: What to know

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With warmer temperatures, come more mosquitos. Unfortunately mosquitos can spread the West Nile virus. This article explains the concern that Climate Change and warmer temperatures might increase the instances of West Nile Virus.

The West Nile virus is more commonly contracted in warmer climates, where hot and tropical temperatures allow the mosquitoes that carry it to thrive. Health experts are increasingly concerned that climate change could worsen the spread of the virus in less common places — and even bring it to […]

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22 Jun 2023

What People With Disabilities Know About Surviving Climate Disasters

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It has taken some years for those concerned by Climate Change to consider its affects are different depending on the people harmed by the change. But it has become all the more obvious that one size does not fit all peoples around the world. For the super-rich, they might just travel to another home that has a nicer climate. But for the other 99%, they cannot simply move to another location. To verify this fact, one could talk to anyone who has become a refugee due to severe weather.

A wheelchair user negotiates a washed-out highway in Flagler Beach, Florida, in the wake of Hurricane Matthew, in 2016. Those with disabilities have long been ignored in emergency planning, despite the higher risks they face. Extreme weather is making this gap more deadly. Gift As Typhoon Mawar bore down […]

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9 Jun 2023

Methane reduction holds key to averting climate catastrophe

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The sun sets behind pumpjacks in an oilfield. Methane concentrations in the atmosphere are now two and half times pre-industrial levels. Halting known sources, such as leaky oilwells, could slash projected emissions by half by 2030 Methane is 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide in heating up Earth […]

Most people who see a need to face the truth of Climate Change want to do something to stop it. They have paid attention to the phrase “Global Warming” years ago and rightfully so. But what is causing the problems the earth faces now? This article talks about Methane and how it is way more potent than carbon dioxide in heating the Earth.

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5 Sep 2022

Building off its predecessor, the Earth4All model, researchers explore what it would take to increase the wellbeing of humanity the rest of this century.

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Back in 1972, 50 years ago, MIT scientists studied and predicted the effects of “growth consumption”. Now cross-discipline researches are revisiting this Earth4All model in hopes to improve humanities efforts to improve Climate Change. “Tackling inequality is key to securing the public support needed to overhaul the global economy and reverse climate change, an update to the landmark 50-year-old computer simulation of environmental stress has found. Based on modelling by MIT scientists of a world destabilised by growing consumption.

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29 Aug 2022

Over a 1,000 dead in Pakistan flooding, monsoon season ‘climate catastrophe’

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Near mid-June Pakistan suffered over 1,000 deaths from widespread flooding. The country’s climate minister called the deadly monsoon season “a serious climate catastrophe.” Flash flooding from the heavy rains has washed away villages and crops as soldiers and rescue workers evacuated stranded victims of the flooding. Also the United States this past summer saw many areas experience severe flooding wiping out homes and businesses and displacing thousands.

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21 Aug 2022

Opinion: Climate change talk must turn to action and justice

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When it comes to Climate Change, it’s actions not words that count. That’s why the title of this article struck us to share it with our readers because all of us know how true it is that nothing happens when nothing happens. In fact, climate change has been happening as a result of doing things the way they have always been done. It appears that business as usual will have dire consequences, but what can be done now to change the outcomes? In hopes of starting some thinking, we share this opinion piece by Heather Hauser, for Austin American Statesman.

“Over the summer a lot of people talked to me about climate change instead of the other way around. They talked about the Great Salt Lake dry-up , about the Supreme Court justices deflating the EPA’s regulatory powers, about whether climate migration will ruin their real estate investments, about […]

All this means one thing to me: the climate crisis is now a public feeling. Finally, more Americans who have been sheltered from the earliest and worst climate impacts have formed what Lauren Berlant calls an “intimate public” around climate crisis. People are feeling something, they’re curious, they “sense that matters of survival are at stake” and that listening and telling are routes “out of the impasse and the struggle of the present.” They are talking.”

by Heather Hauser Austin American Statesman

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