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Mozambique Is Drowning. Nebraska Has Flooded. We Need a Green New Deal.
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The ocean has come for the coastal African nation of Mozambique. Tropical Cyclone Idai, a devastating storm that pummeled the country with fierce winds, was followed by a massive flood that has obliterated dams, swept away homes and bridges, erased roads, shuttered airports, and damaged 90 percent of the city of Beira, home to more than 500,000 people. There are bodies in the water and no one to collect them, making diseases like cholera an imminent threat.
More than 1,000 are confirmed dead, a number…
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Carbon Emissions Are Now 10x Higher Than When The Arctic Had Crocodiles And Palm Trees
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By about the time our great-grandchildren have children of their own, we humans will likely have broken a climate record that has stood unchallenged for 56 million years.
New research has found that humans are pumping nearly 10 times more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than what was emitted during Earth’s last major warming event, called the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM).
If carbon emissions continue to rise in the future, mathematical models predict that within the next few hundred years, we could be facing another PETM-like event.
In other words, in the near future, Earth could resemble its distant past: a time when the Arctic was free of ice, inhabited by crocodiles and dotted by palm trees.
“You and I won’t be here in 2159, but that’s only about four generations away,” warns palaeoclimate researcher Philip Gingerich from the University of Michigan.
“When you…
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“Global warming: Stop worrying and start panicking?”
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“… the race between climate dynamics and climate policy will be a close one ….”
Hans Joachim Schellenhuber.
“Global warming: Stop worrying and start panicking?”
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2008
Opening paragraph
“In their excellent Perspectives article in this issue (1), Ramanathan and Feng (R&F) sound a harsh wake-up call for those concerned about anthropogenic climate change: the authors maintain that the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of the past have already loaded the Earth System sufficiently to bring about disastrous global warming. In other words, the ultimate goal of climate protection policy, as stipulated by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (2), appears to be a delusion.”
[ open access ] https://www.pnas.org/content/105/38/14239
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“The climate scientist James Hansen has called two-degree warming “a prescription for long-term disaster.”
Robert Watson, a former director of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has argued that three-degree warming is the realistic…
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US ambassador to Canada tries to “both sides” climate science
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Kelly Craft began her tenure with an extremely cringeworthy interview.
During an interview with CBC, the new US ambassador to Canada, Kelly Craft, claimed she believes “both sides” of climate science.
Asked, “Do you believe in climate change?” Craft responded, “I believe there are scientists on both sides that are accurate.”
“Do you believe there is science that proves that man is not causing climate change?” the interviewer followed up.
“Well, I think that both sides have, you know, their own results from their studies, and I appreciate and respect both sides of the science,” Craft said.
CBC Politics✔@CBCPolitics
The new U.S. ambassador to Canada says when it comes to climate change she believes in “both sides of the science” http://cbc.ca/1.4366936
Climate science is not…
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Greenland’s ice sheet melt has ‘gone into overdrive’ and is now ‘off the charts’
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So Greenland’s ice sheets are apparently melting at an alarming rate compared to previous centuries. Buzz60
The icy realm of Greenland is getting hot under the collar.
The melting of Greenland’s massive ice sheet has now accelerated, scientists announced Wednesday, and shows no signs of slowing down, according to a new study.
“Melting of the Greenland ice sheet has gone into overdrive,” said Luke Trusel, a glaciologist at Rowan University and lead author of the study. “Greenland melt is adding to sea level more than any time during the last three and a half centuries, if not thousands of years,” he said.
Ice loss from Greenland is the single largest contributor to global sea-level rise, which is…
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Greenland’s ice sheet melt has ‘gone into overdrive’ and is now ‘off the charts’
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So Greenland’s ice sheets are apparently melting at an alarming rate compared to previous centuries. Buzz60
The icy realm of Greenland is getting hot under the collar.
The melting of Greenland’s massive ice sheet has now accelerated, scientists announced Wednesday, and shows no signs of slowing down, according to a new study.
“Melting of the Greenland ice sheet has gone into overdrive,” said Luke Trusel, a glaciologist at Rowan University and lead author of the study. “Greenland melt is adding to sea level more than any time during the last three and a half centuries, if not thousands of years,” he said.
Ice loss from Greenland is the single largest contributor to global sea-level rise, which is…
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California wildfires’ carbon emissions equal to a year of power pollution
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The analysis “shows just how bad catastrophic fires are for the environment and for the public’s health,” U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said.
/ Source: Associated Press
By Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — Wildfires in California in 2018 released the rough equivalent of about 68 million tons of heat-trapping carbon dioxide — about the same amount of carbon emissions as are produced in a year to provide electricity to the state, U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said Friday.
The carbon dioxide figure — based on data analyzed by the U.S. Geological Survey — is more than 15 percent of all emissions produced by California in a year, according to Zinke.
“We know that wildfires can be deadly and cost billions of dollars, but this analysis from the U.S. Geological Survey also shows just how bad catastrophic fires are for the environment and for the public’s health,” Zinke said in a statement.
This…
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Let these birds live. Stop Ontario’s war on Double-crested Cormorants
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Ontario introduces an open season cull on nesting birds.
Urgent – We need MASSIVE opposition. Ontario’s Conservative Premier, Doug
Ford is using Trumpian tactics, has put this in with several other
outrageous new laws so as to overwhelm the electorate and has quietly
introduced this proposal just before the holidays to avoid scrutiny.
Don’t let this happen! Complain about this loud and long and often, PLEASE.
It is a major disaster.
Please sign our petition.
And please continue reading.
Nowhere in North America are sport hunters permitted to shoot at close range
nesting migratory birds and their chicks while still in the nest, but that
is exactly what Ontario’s Conservative Premier Doug Ford is proposing for
Double-crested Cormorants and it needs to be stopped now.
Premier Doug Ford…
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California Wildfires: Where Is the Climate Change Outrage?
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Unprecedented droughts, fires and floods are not the “new normal”: Climate change gets nonlinearly worse from here on out. Like an avalanche, the physics of warming determines that a little more warming doesn’t create a little more extremeness, but a lot more. Until we reduce greenhouse gas warming, it gets a lot worse every year. Reducing emissions alone does not reverse warming until after 2300. To reduce warming, we must eliminate all greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, plus remove near 1,000 gigatons of already emitted greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, according to the new 1.5°C report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change.
Meanwhile, a third unprecedented wildfire in California has happened in the last 12 months…
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Exposing the Big Game 
