We have to switch the energy sources powering farms and food production from fossil fuels to renewables, while halting the deforestation that creates new farmland… How people grow food and the way
Tag: global warming
‘Frightening Milestone’: Scientists Sound Alarm Over Record Amount of Open, Iceless Sea in the Arctic |
Boundless Dying Trees
Global warming is ravaging forests throughout the world. “New studies show drought and heat waves will cause massive die-offs, killing most trees alive today.” (Source: We Need to Hear These Poor Trees Scream: Unchecked Global Warming Means Big Trouble for Forests, Inside Climate News, April 25, 2020) According to Bill Anderegg, a forest researcher at More
Source: Boundless Dying Trees - CounterPunch.org
‘Very Bad News’: Scientists Behind New Study Warn Warming Oceans ‘Contributing to Climate Breakdown’
New findings on human-caused global heating and ocean stability have “profound and troubling implications,” says co-author Michael Mann.
🥵Yep it was HOT out there today
🥵Yep it was HOT out there today…
So hot in fact, that the PRELIMINARY high temperature @DeathValleyNPS was 130°F. If verified, this will be the hottest temperature officially verified since July of 1913. For more info…https://t.co/qFXcIVoPig#DeathValley #Climate #CAwx pic.twitter.com/lAl8NQDCyp
— NWS Las Vegas (@NWSVegas) August 17, 2020
Warming Greenland ice sheet passes point of no return
Nearly 40 years of satellite data from Greenland shows that glaciers on the island have shrunk so much that even if global warming were to stop today, the ice sheet would continue shrinking.
The Criminology of Global Warming
Some – like Exxon since 1957 – have been aware that the world is facing global warming that has all the signs to render earth uninhabitable. At least with United Nations’ IPPC and NASA reporting on global warming, others have realised that we also face an unprecedented threat. Potentially, all of this is an issue More
Source: The Criminology of Global Warming - CounterPunch.org
The Next Election Is About the Next 10,000 Years
Dramatic climate action is critical because we’re about to cross tipping points that are not reversible. .. The upcoming election looks to be an apocalyptic turning point for our democracy—and our
Source: The Next Election Is About the Next 10,000 Years | Common Dreams Views
Global Warming and Ocean Acidification Accelerate
The global warming of the biosphere and its consequent acidification of the oceans is a complex of geophysical, biological and ecological, and sociological phenomena that are all accelerating. There is much that humanity could do to slow that acceleration, and to enact strategies for its own protection from Nature’s escalating assaults on civilization by the More
Source: Global Warming and Ocean Acidification Accelerate - CounterPunch.org
The Inertia Bugaboo
Planetary heat is turning skeptics into climate change worrywarts with record temperatures galore! But wait, the worst is yet to come. It’s guaranteed, as future heat is already locked and loaded into the vast climate system. It’s the inertia bugaboo. Today, we’re living with yesteryear’s carbon emissions from the turn of the century. Meantime, the More
Source: The Inertia Bugaboo - CounterPunch.org
