by Amy Harder, in AXIOS – June 25, 2018 Climate change is intangible and complicated, which makes it an easy target for our era of fake news. Why it matters: Addressing climate change, whether through government or private action, requires acknowledging a problem exists. Misinformation about the science, including Read more…
Why Climate Change Isn’t Our Biggest Environmental Problem, and Why Technology Won’t Save Us by Richard Heinberg Published by Post Carbon Institute – August 17, 2017 Reposted with permission from Ecowatch. Our core ecological problem is not climate change. It is overshoot, of which global warming is a symptom. Overshoot Read more…
Three recent studies point to just how broad, bizarre, and potentially devastating climate change is to life on Earth. And we’ve only seen one degree Celsius of warming so far. Source: The Guardian Author: Jeremy Hance Date: Wednesday 5 April 2017 Climate change is rapidly becoming a crisis that defies Read more…
Source: The Conversation: Academic rigor, journalistic flair Date: April 5, 2017 Authors: Gretta Pecl: Deputy Associate Dean Research, ARC Future Fellow & Editor in Chief (Reviews in Fish Biology & Fisheries), University of Tasmania; Adriana Verges, Senior Lecturer in marine ecology, UNSW Ekaterina Popova: Senior Lecturer in marine ecology, UNSW; Read more…
We’re relatively less worried than we were in 2007 and our beliefs split sharply along political lines. By Robson Fletcher, CBC News – Posted: Mar 05, 2017 According to the latest evidence, Earth is hotter now than it has been in any of our lifetimes but Canadians are less concerned Read more…
Warm weather that arrives too soon can harm birds, trees — and people By Nicole Mortillaro, CBC News Posted: Mar 03, 2017 LINK TO ARTICLE HERE Mounting evidence suggests spring is occurring earlier as a result of climate change. While that may sound like good news, the truth is, it can Read more…
Whether doctor or meteorologist, when we fail to look at the systemic causes of the immediate problems in front of us, we are guilty of malpractice. By Richard J Jackson The Daily Climate LINK TO ARTICLE Editor’s note: This essay is adapted from a speech Dr. Richard Jackson gave at Read more…
By Brian Kahn at CLIMATE CENTRAL – Published: December 28th, 2016 This year is likely to remembered as a turning point for climate change. It’s the year the impacts of rising carbon pollution became impossible to ignore. The world is overheating and vast swaths of the planet have suffered the Read more…
January 2016 was warmer than normal and most of the province was drier than normal. This month, northern Ontario and the Far North were warmer than normal by 2 to 5 degrees Celsius. The largest variations were observed in the Moosonee area, where differences exceeded 5 degrees Celsius. Meanwhile, areas Read more…
Inside the Paris Climate Agreement: Hope or Hype? By Brian Tokar (Dec. 30, 2015) It has become a predictable pattern at the annual UN climate conferences for participants to describe the outcome in widely divergent ways. This was first apparent after the high-profile Copenhagen conference in 2009, when a four-page Read more…
Scorching. Balmy. Or, just plain mild. However you want to describe it, 2015 ended on an extraordinarily mild note. The month of December 2015 was by far the warmest December on record across virtually the entire province! How much warmer? The monthly average temperature in Ontario was five to ten Read more…
Source: Craig Welch, National Geographic, PUBLISHED Sat Dec 12 15:30:00 EST 2015 The world came together. More than 20 years after world leaders first tried hammering out an accord to tackle climate change, representatives of 195 nations on Saturday adopted a landmark agreement that seeks to scale back greenhouse gases Read more…
Source: By Haydn Watters, CBC News Posted: Dec 12, 2015 3:01 PM ET After lengthy overnight negotiations and two weeks of touch-and-go discussions, delegates at the UN climate talks in Paris have adopted a climate-change pact. The final text of the Paris Agreement — considered to be the world’s first universal climate agreement — is 31 pages long. While the plenary session Read more…
September 10, 2015 Written by: Anne Meador and John Zangas Source: DC Media Group – The repercussions of climate disruption are still not being acknowledged fully, warned climatologist Dr. James Hansen, addressing an audience of Baby Boomer and Greatest Generation climate activists on September 9. “We’ve now got an emergency,” Read more…
Source: Rolling Stone – August 5, 2015 The worst predicted impacts of climate change are starting to happen — and much faster than climate scientists expected By Eric Holthaus August 5, 2015 Historians may look to 2015 as the year when shit really started hitting the fan. Some Read more…
source: New York Times By SABRINA TAVERNISE JULY 13, 2015 Is climate change a serious threat to human health? Simple logic would suggest the answer is yes, a point that the Obama administration is using to build support for the president’s effort to make climate change a centerpiece of his Read more…
July 16, 2015 In 2014, the most essential indicators of Earth’s changing climate continued to reflect trends of a warming planet, with several markers such as rising land and ocean temperature, sea levels and greenhouse gases ─ setting new records. These key findings and others can be found in the Read more…
source: The Guardian The pope links the destruction of the environment with the exploitation of the poor. The world should pay attention Last modified on Friday 19 June 2015 00.00 BST Pope Francis’s encyclical on climate change, Laudato Si’, is the most astonishing and perhaps the most ambitious papal document Read more…
source: The Climate Group 18 June 2015 LONDON: Mark Kenber, CEO of The Climate Group, today welcomed the Pope’s encyclical on climate change, saying it would hugely build momentum to deliver a strong global climate deal at COP21 later this year. “Pope Francis, one of the most influential leaders in Read more…
Source: CBS News By Bianca Seidman June 9, 2015 Poison ivy, poison oak and poison sumac plants are becoming larger and stronger, a trend that’s been developing over recent years, according to researchers. That may be a combination of the plant’s nature to cause more severe reactions over time and Read more…