Science and Technology : New climate report warns of increasingly dire risks to U.S. and the Amazon Fires

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CLIMATE CRISIS MADE WORSE BY PRESIDENTIAL MIS-LEADERSHIP THROUGHOUT THIS CENTURY


https://popularresistance.org/climate-crisis-misleadership/
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance

 

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'We Are in a Climate Emergency, America': Anchorage Hits 90 Degrees for First Time in Recorded History
"This is unprecedented. I tease people that Anchorage is the coolest city in the country—and climatically that is true—but right now we are seeing record heat," said Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz

'We Are in a Climate Emergency, America': Anchorage Hits 90 Degrees for First Time in Recorded History

"This is unprecedented. I tease people that Anchorage is the coolest city in the country—and climatically that is true—but right now we are seeing record heat," said Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz

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Jake Johnson, staff writer

"The Anchorage International Airport has just reached 89 degrees. The all-time record high temperature for Anchorage has officially been broken," the Anchorage National Weather Service announced in a tweet late Thursday (Photo: Shutterstock)

 

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Greenhouse gas emissions
Tree planting 'has mind-blowing potential' to tackle climate crisis
Research shows a trillion trees could be planted to capture huge amount of carbon dioxide

Tree planting 'has mind-blowing potential' to tackle climate crisis

Research shows a trillion trees could be planted to capture huge amount of carbon dioxide

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Damian Carrington Environment editor


Redwood trees in Guerneville, California. Photograph: Gabrielle Lurie/The Guardian

 

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Huge swathes of the Arctic on fire, ‘unprecedented’ satellite images show

Earth’s boreal forests now burning at rate unseen in ‘at least 10,000 years’, scientists warn

Huge swathes of the Arctic on fire, satellite images show

Earth’s boreal forests now burning at rate unseen in ‘at least 10,000 years’, scientists warn

www.independent.co.uk

Harry Cockburn
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If We Want to Stop Climate Change, Now is a Moment of Reckoning for How We Use the Planet, Warns U.N. Report

If We Want to Stop Climate Change, Now is a Moment of Reckoning for How We Use the Planet, Warns U.N. Report

Land use, such as agriculture and logging, causes nearly a quarter of human induced greenhouse emissions, according to the IPCC

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Justin Worland
Time

 

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If We Want to Stop Climate Change, Now is a Moment of Reckoning for How We Use the Planet, Warns U.N. Report

If We Want to Stop Climate Change, Now is a Moment of Reckoning for How We Use the Planet, Warns U.N. Report

Land use, such as agriculture and logging, causes nearly a quarter of human induced greenhouse emissions, according to the IPCC

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Justin Worland
Time

I really don't think we can stop it. We may can slow down the pace. But I think that the damage has been done. It would take a very radical change in the way we live to stop it. But greed and power will prevail.

 

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I really don't think we can stop it. We may can slow down the pace. But I think that the damage has been done. It would take a very radical change in the way we live to stop it. But greed and power will prevail.

Exactly Fireman, in fact, entropy (second law of thermodynamics) is central to the problem of climate change.

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Alaska's sea ice has completely melted away

Alaska's sea ice has completely melted away

"I’m running out of adjectives to describe the scope of change we’re seeing."

mashable.com

In the continually warming Arctic, sea ice has completely melted around the Alaskan coast before, notably during 2017's melt season, but never this early. "It's cleared earlier than it has in any other year," said Thoman (Sea ice starts regrowing again in the fall, when temperatures drop.)

Arctic sea ice.
IMAGE: NOAA
BY MARK KAUFMAN

 

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Parts of South and Midwest grapple with dangerous heat wave

Parts of South and Midwest grapple with dangerous heat wave

Forecasters are warning about days of scorching, dangerous heat gripping a wide swath of the U.S. South and Midwest, where the heat index on Monday eclipsed 120 degrees (48.9 Celsius) in one town and climbed nearly that high in others. With temperatures around 100 degrees (37 Celsius) at midday and

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Some of the most oppressive conditions were in Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi and Oklahoma.
In Alabama, the temperature hit 100 degrees with a heat index of 106 degrees by mid-afternoon in Birmingham, the state's largest city.

JAY REEVES and JEFF MARTIN
Associated Press

 

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Climate change 'getting worse faster than we are mobilizing to solve it': Al Gore

Climate change 'getting worse faster than we are mobilizing to solve it': Al Gore

Former Vice President Al Gore called for unity and urgency in the American response to climate change, saying he was encouraged by growing climate activism around the world, but alarmed by what he said is the imminence of irreversible, continuing environmental damage. "There’s both bad news and

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ESTER WELLS
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