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Texas Climate News: TCN Digest: Reading some of the tea leaves left by mid-term voters Republican victories in Texas mean explicit, state-level climate action seems sure to be a continuing nonstarter. But the failure of a “red wave” to materialize nationally means Biden’s legislative achievements appear secure. 11.11.22
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Digital Journal: Are concerns about climate change in decline?
The report finds that since 2019 the world, in general, has become less concerned about climate change. Here, concern has dropped by 1.5 percent to 48.7 percent. It is of further concern that regions exposed to the highest levels of ecological threat are, on average, the least concerned with climate change. 11.13.22
The report finds that since 2019 the world, in general, has become less concerned about climate change. Here, concern has dropped by 1.5 percent to 48.7 percent. It is of further concern that regions exposed to the highest levels of ecological threat are, on average, the least concerned with climate change. 11.13.22
Modern Diplomacy: Sustainable food cold chains reduce waste, fight climate change These systems are critical to maintaining the quality, nutritional value and safety of food, especially as an estimated 14 per cent of all food produced for human consumption is lost before it even reaches consumers. 11.13.22
Clarion Ledger: Climate change impact on Mississippi: What Mississippians can expect 9.17.22
Briefly: Climate change likely worsened Pakistan floods: study 9.16.22
Dec 20, 2021: Washington Post: New Biden rule reducing climate emissions from cars and SUVs reverses major Trump rollback
The Environmental Protection Agency regulation finalized Monday marks the president’s single biggest step to fight global warming. But Congress has stymied his most ambitious electric vehicle plans.
The Environmental Protection Agency regulation finalized Monday marks the president’s single biggest step to fight global warming. But Congress has stymied his most ambitious electric vehicle plans.
Dec 15, 2021: Block Island Times: Electric vehicles and miles per gallon
Pure battery electric vehicles (EVs) do not consume gasoline or any other fossil fuel, at least not directly. However, they currently exist in a market where buyers might be cross-shopping between a gasoline model and an EV.
Pure battery electric vehicles (EVs) do not consume gasoline or any other fossil fuel, at least not directly. However, they currently exist in a market where buyers might be cross-shopping between a gasoline model and an EV.
Dec 13, 2021: Media Matters: Fox host criticizes those pointing out the potential link between the deadly Kentucky tornado and climate change
Recent research suggests there may be a link between rising global temperatures and the weather conditions that produce extreme tornado outbreaks, particularly during winter months in the Southeast U.S. But rather than acknowledge that this deadly and abnormal storm was likely made worse by climate change, Fox News has (predictably) already started dismissing the connection.
Recent research suggests there may be a link between rising global temperatures and the weather conditions that produce extreme tornado outbreaks, particularly during winter months in the Southeast U.S. But rather than acknowledge that this deadly and abnormal storm was likely made worse by climate change, Fox News has (predictably) already started dismissing the connection.
Oct 18, 2021: Eternity news: CALLING FOR BOLD ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE IS 'ABSOLUTELY A CHRISTIAN ISSUE'
“Well, the government has pushed everyone into a corner on the issue, haven’t they? So even religious people have to speak up,” she says. “You only have to go for a walk along the beach here to see the deterioration of the sand and the swelling seas,” Terri-Ann says. “You can see they haven’t looked after the earth.”
“Well, the government has pushed everyone into a corner on the issue, haven’t they? So even religious people have to speak up,” she says. “You only have to go for a walk along the beach here to see the deterioration of the sand and the swelling seas,” Terri-Ann says. “You can see they haven’t looked after the earth.”
“It is a sacred, divine thing to live in this earth – the earth created by God, created good – and God placed the image of God’s self into human beings and charged us with the care and keeping of this earth. If human beings are to continue to live and thrive and worship God on the earth, we need to respect the creation upon which we rely for everything that we have.” -Reverend Meredith Williams; Uniting Church minister in Wentworthville in western Sydney {10.17.21]
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Oct 16, 2021: Global Herald: Is colonialism to blame for the dire situation we face with climate change? | Inside Story
An exhibition looking at the legacy of colonialism – and the role it played in the birth of climate change – has opened in London. |
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Sept 30, 2021: Los Angeles Sentinel: Gov. Newsom’s New $15 Million Climate Change Program Includes Grants for Communities
California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a historic $15 billion climate change package. The initiative has funds in it to combat the state’s current environmental crisis as well as to help communities prepare for and prevent any disasters that may result from shifting weather patterns and changing global temperatures.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a historic $15 billion climate change package. The initiative has funds in it to combat the state’s current environmental crisis as well as to help communities prepare for and prevent any disasters that may result from shifting weather patterns and changing global temperatures.
Sept 4, 2021: Insider Advantage Georgia: Climate technology is hot, but venture capitalists must not lose sight of the importance of water.
The New York Times’ Kara Swisher predicted that “the world’s first trillionaire will be a greentech entrepreneur,” and that “the world’s first trillionaire will be a greentech entrepreneur.”
The New York Times’ Kara Swisher predicted that “the world’s first trillionaire will be a greentech entrepreneur,” and that “the world’s first trillionaire will be a greentech entrepreneur.”
I used to be a tree surgeon until, one day, I fell out of a patient.😎
Aug 19, 2021: CBC: Climate change anxiety affecting children, but parents acknowledging it can help: social worker
Snider said she doesn't know the right amount of awareness for children to have. She's concerned that the burden of climate change knowledge is going to be too much and it could damage children psychologically to know people are destroying the planet.
Snider said she doesn't know the right amount of awareness for children to have. She's concerned that the burden of climate change knowledge is going to be too much and it could damage children psychologically to know people are destroying the planet.
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According to NASA, the last century saw a 2.12 degree increase in average global surface temperature, with most of that increase coming in the last 40 years and with 2016 and 2020 tying as the hottest years ever recorded.
This deceptively slight uptick in temperature is having profound effects. According to that same body of NASA research, Greenland and Antarctica have combined to lose an average of 400 billion (yes, billion with a “b”) tons of ice annually in recent years. As a result, sea levels have risen 8 inches in the last century, nearly doubling the rate of the previous century, and the rate of sea level rise is increasing slightly but consistently each year.
“Climate change is not simply a fact. It is a crisis, and one of our own making.”
Many of our global sisters and brothers are at risk of losing not only their homes and their livelihoods but their very lives as severe weather events become routine. Climate change is not simply a fact. It is a crisis, and one of our own making.................A recent Pew Research Center study shows that, while 65% of all Americans believe our government isn’t doing enough to fight climate change, only 24% of evangelicals agree. A separate 2015 Pew Research Center study found that, while 50% of Americans then believed climate change was largely man-made, that view was shared by only 28% of evangelicals. Baptist News Global: Christians and climate change: A chance to take the Bible seriously 8.10.21
According to NASA, the last century saw a 2.12 degree increase in average global surface temperature, with most of that increase coming in the last 40 years and with 2016 and 2020 tying as the hottest years ever recorded.
This deceptively slight uptick in temperature is having profound effects. According to that same body of NASA research, Greenland and Antarctica have combined to lose an average of 400 billion (yes, billion with a “b”) tons of ice annually in recent years. As a result, sea levels have risen 8 inches in the last century, nearly doubling the rate of the previous century, and the rate of sea level rise is increasing slightly but consistently each year.
“Climate change is not simply a fact. It is a crisis, and one of our own making.”
Many of our global sisters and brothers are at risk of losing not only their homes and their livelihoods but their very lives as severe weather events become routine. Climate change is not simply a fact. It is a crisis, and one of our own making.................A recent Pew Research Center study shows that, while 65% of all Americans believe our government isn’t doing enough to fight climate change, only 24% of evangelicals agree. A separate 2015 Pew Research Center study found that, while 50% of Americans then believed climate change was largely man-made, that view was shared by only 28% of evangelicals. Baptist News Global: Christians and climate change: A chance to take the Bible seriously 8.10.21