Extrapolations review: Star-studded climate change drama is both patronising and predictable

5 days, 18 hours ago

“An exclamation point on global warming”: Climate scientists warn 2024 was marked by broken records

Salon

The year 2024 is on track to be the hottest in recorded history, as humanity has officially exceeded the 1.5º C threshold established by the 2015 Paris climate accord. Dr. Peter Kalmus, a NASA climate scientist who emphasized his opinions are his own, noted that heating is accelerating “and is now substantially more rapid than it was a decade ago.” …

Climate Change Change Hurricane Moon 2024 Mann Scientists

1 week, 4 days ago

AP Week in Pictures

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Dec. 6 -12, 2024 Syrian …

1 week, 4 days ago

Doomer slang explained: The harm of social media’s perpetuation of impending doom

CNN

CNN — Get inspired by a weekly roundup on living well, made simple. “The research has been clear in that we’ve seen a tremendous uptick in depression and anxiety, especially in younger people and then coming out of Covid,” Hellman said. For instance, these individuals might say that “everything is doomed to fail” or that it’s “too late.” This pattern …

Social Media Climate Change Media Social Future Climate Hope

1 week, 6 days ago

Does talking about climate "tipping points" inspire action — or defeat?

Salon

Climate tipping points are a specter looming over our future — thresholds beyond which the Earth’s systems switch into new states, often abruptly and irreversibly. Kopp said that the emphasis on climate tipping points might have made sense as a call to action 20 years ago, when the consequences of climate change weren’t so obvious. “Most importantly, tipping points are …

Climate Change Global Warming Change Climate Scientific Paper Points

2 weeks, 4 days ago

Why do so many people ignore major threats like climate change?

Salon

Earlier last month, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service announced that Earth’s average temperature in 2024 had been on average 1.5 degrees C above pre-industrial levels. “For too long now, scientific and media communications have presented the subject of climate change in ways that have failed to trigger an adequate threat warning among readers and viewers, and have also …

Climate Change Change Climate Species Davidson Salon Santos

3 weeks, 2 days ago

The upside of climate pessimism

Salon

Hope is often said to be the best medicine, essential to getting people through difficult times. “The people that I know who are really seriously working on these issues and who are engaging in climate change activism,” Bloodhart said, stressing that this is her personal observation, “they have a little bit of hope, but they mostly are pretty pessimistic and …

Climate Change Research Climate Action Climate Change Action Defensive Climate Communication Outcomes

3 weeks, 5 days ago

Heatwave hotspots that should not exist are popping up across the world

India Today

The year 2023 has officially been recorded as the hottest year in history, with global temperatures averaging 2.12 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th-century average, surpassing the previous record set in 2016. Amid this unprecedented rise in temperatures, a new study reveals a concerning phenomenon: certain regions across the globe are experiencing extreme heat waves that exceed predictions made by climate …

Europe Heat Waves

4 weeks, 1 day ago

Letters to the Editor: Climate change is a global threat, but it isn’t the worst one. This is

LA Times

To the editor: Climate change is the biggest threat facing us? Soon, that list may include the leaders of North Korea and Iran — and who knows how many others as the nuclear genie multiplies throughout the world? It is long past time for thought leaders to wake up to the world’s most urgent threat and get a real conversation …

Climate Change Climate

1 month ago

‘Documentary filmmakers are troublemakers’: Filmmaker Sarvnik Kaur

New Indian Express

How does one show the adverse effects of climate change on-screen? For Sarvnik Kaur, director of the documentary Against The Tide, telling the story of climate change was through looking at the lives of two Koli fishermen in Mumbai. “I realized that climate change actually looks like social, financial, and familial pressure,” she says. “I wanted to make a film …

Climate Change Film Koli Sarvnik

1 month, 1 week ago

Boiling Point: Trump is coming for climate progress. Here we go again

LA Times

Then-President Trump and then-Paradise Mayor Jody Jones view damage from the Camp fire in Paradise, Calif., in November 2018. Unlike the first time around, when chaos reigned, Trump’s second administration might have a strong legal plan right out of the gate for undoing climate rules. Speaking of the Colorado, it turns out the Western drought from 2020 to 2022 — …

Climate Change Climate Environmental Administration California Biden Lat

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Extreme weather already forcing almost a third of travellers to change holiday plans

The Independent

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Extreme weather is causing travellers to rethink their holiday plans as many are actively avoiding destinations …

Travel Weather Report Cent Extreme Extreme Weather Travellers

“Human sacrifice”: Tucker Carlson says abortion is to blame for freak hurricanes

Salon

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson said on Monday that he believes climate change is caused by abortions, not burning fossil fuels. Speaking on a podcast with former Trump campaign strategist and fellow Trump ally Stephen Bannon, who was just released from prison, Carlson denied the scientific consensus that fossil fuel use is behind global heating, and that this in …

Trump Hurricanes Carlson

1 month, 3 weeks ago

Jeff VanderMeer painted a grotesque picture of climate change. Now he’s back for more

NPR

Jeff VanderMeer painted a grotesque picture of climate change. “I’ve never really been into the idea of ‘lore,’” said author Jeff VanderMeer in an interview. “It seems useful to try to avoid that categorization to some degree so that people can see novels for the totality of what they are.” In the original trilogy, the Southern Reach is the government …

Climate Change Change Fiction Climate Jeff Vandermeer Southern Reach Vandermeer

2 months, 1 week ago

How many more hurricanes will it take for us to wake up to the climate crisis?

The Independent

It took a dangerous category 3 hurricane in Florida to force climate change onto some, but not all, newspaper front pages. Climate change is genuine – there’s no denying that – but let’s be real about so-called “net zero”. “Based in 55 Tufton Street, Westminster, the GWPF is the UK’s leading climate science denial group,” reports DeSmog. Badenoch has previously …

Science Climate Change Record Florida Climate Net Badenoch

2 months, 1 week ago

How scientists pinpoint climate’s ‘telltale signs’ on Hurricanes Milton and Helene

Politico

Vecchi said all the “telltale signs” of climate change were present for both Helene and Milton: abnormally warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico that fueled the cyclones’ energy and rapid intensification from smaller tropical storms to massive hurricanes. I couldn’t believe it when I saw it.” The WWA’s analysis released on Friday estimated that climate change boosted Milton’s rainfall …

Climate Change Florida Global Warming Change Climate Flood Milton

2 months, 2 weeks ago

In the lead-up to the US presidential election, it turns out even natural disasters aren’t immune to politics

ABC

Hurricane Milton, a powerful Category 5 storm hitting Florida, has become more than a natural disaster — it is now a political flashpoint. A game of misinformation Former President Donald Trump has already started to politicise these two crises, Hurricanes Helene and Milton, spreading false claims that the Federal Emergency Management Agency is diverting disaster relief funds to support migrants …

Public Safety Florida Natural Disasters Political Trump Hurricane Hurricane Helene

2 months, 2 weeks ago

Opinion: Helene destroyed my hometown. I don’t want climate change stories of false hope

LA Times

Last week, as I boarded a plane from the Gulf Coast to NYC Climate Week, I checked the weather for updates on the disturbance that would become Hurricane Helene and called my partner to go over our evacuation plan. I told him I work on climate change, and he didn’t bat an eye: “Yeah, it’s getting biblical.” The hurricane didn’t …

Climate Change Climate North Carolina Carolina Western North Carolina Ive Friend

2 months, 3 weeks ago

Hurricane Helene brings climate change to forefront of the presidential campaign

The Independent

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The hurricane featured prominently in Tuesday's …

Georgia Energy Climate Change Change Climate Trump Hurricane

2 months, 3 weeks ago

Hey, presidential candidates, climate change would like a word

LA Times

It is Wednesday, Oct. 2. The Cedar fire killed 15 people and destroyed more than 2,500 structures in San Diego’s inland suburbs and rural communities; at the time, it was the largest California wildfire in 75 years. A fire season surpassing 1 million scorched acres of land that doesn’t feel like a big deal — that’s climate change. A hurricane …

Climate Change Change Climate Trump Hurricane California Donald Trump

2 months, 3 weeks ago

Trump sparks controversy for calling climate change a ‘scam’ as Hurricane Helene leaves trail of destruction

The Independent

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Please try again later {{ /verifyErrors }} Donald …

Climate Change Campaign Trump Pennsylvania Hurricane Harris Helene

2 months, 4 weeks ago

Climate 100: How to join our inaugural event celebrating the world’s leading environmentalists

The Independent

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Our inspiring speakers include former UK prime minister Theresa May; bestselling author John Vaillant; The Independent’s award-winning chief international …

Climate Independent 100 John Event Est Bst

3 months ago

Trump looms over Climate Week as UN returns

Politico

Amid the week’s confluence of closed-door meetings and public pronouncements about how countries and businesses plan to address global warming, supporters of Biden’s efforts intend to send their own message: The United States isn’t abandoning the climate cause, in large part because the Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act is pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into the transition to clean energy. …

Climate Change Change Climate Trump Electric Vehicles Leaders New York

3 months ago

EU warns deadly flooding and wildfires show climate breakdown is fast becoming the norm

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Devastating floods through much of …

Europe Climate

3 months, 1 week ago

Climate change is terrifying. These young people won’t give up fighting it.

LA Times

It’s Friday, Sept. 13. Their anxieties — and their commitment to solutions — inspired my colleagues to fan out across our beats to better understand how young people were grappling with climate change and extreme weather. While many will say that climate change is a “young person’s problem,” I spoke with a group of activists over the age of 60 …

Climate Change Global Warming Change Climate Young California Young People

3 months, 1 week ago

Climate disasters can elicit despair when they go viral. These activists found inspiration

LA Times

Imagine this: You receive a warning about a raging wildfire near your home. “I didn’t have a knack for,” Joshi said, but after four years, “I’ve kind of figured out how to do it.” Joshi, along with other activists and creators, joined “TikTok for Biden,” which was founded to oppose Trump administration policies ahead of the 2020 election. #genz #whitehouse …

Social Media Climate Change Media Social Change Climate Environmental

3 months, 1 week ago

Feeling climate anxiety? These books offer glimmers of hope — and much-needed wisdom

LA Times

I’ve been reflecting a lot lately on climate anxiety — and on the feelings of helplessness that have simmered in the hearts and minds of so many friends and colleagues. “The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here” by Hope Jahren : A slim but mighty read, this book is conversational, enlightening, …

Climate Change World Books Change Climate Environmental Hope

4 months ago

Boiling Point: Heat, fires, floods — extreme weather has affected 99% of Americans

LA Times

Welcome to Boiling Point. The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, known as Cal/OSHA, says it’s creating a new agricultural unit that will “significantly expand enforcement.” Climate change is altering conditions for desert plants, and scientists have for years projected that rising temperatures will make large portions of the Mojave Desert unsuitable for Joshua trees to survive by the …

Weather Climate Change Change Climate Water Heat California

4 months, 2 weeks ago

Climate scientists hope this new mapping tool helps drive the point home

LA Times

It’s Monday, Aug. 5. The new tool was built using modeling from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and other research groups and presents its findings under two scenarios: high emissions, a future in which we failed to meaningfully cut emissions and mostly let global warming continue unabated; or reduced emissions, which assumes we collectively took meaningful action to curb …

Climate Change Change Climate California Los Angeles Los Angeles

5 months ago

Nominate your unsung climate hero for The Independent’s inaugural Climate 100 List

The Independent

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The Independent has launched its first ever Climate 100 List to celebrate those taking urgent …

Climate Independent 100 List

5 months ago

Experts slam "lost opportunity" as disaster film "Twisters" fails to acknowledge climate change

Salon

Hollywood's latest weather disaster blockbuster, "Twisters", features plenty of extreme weather — yet it has a somewhat incongruous scorn for scientists who study the weather. Despite this attitude of smug superiority toward the scientific profession, "Twisters" doesn't once mention climate change, which may seem bizarre for a weather disaster film in 2024. Wehner said that the omission of climate change …

Science Weather Global Climate Change Film Global Warming Change

5 months ago

Humans caused climate change. Amid the suffering, now they must solve it

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Climate change is driving extreme weather By all accounts, …

Climate Change World Change Climate Heat Solutions Extreme Weather

5 months, 3 weeks ago

'Josh Kline: Climate Change' at MOCA drowns in good intentions

LA Times

In this grueling presidential election season, our chance to expand serious action against catastrophic climate change is hanging by a thread. Josh Kline, “Religious Fragility Meltdown,” 2023, mixed media These platitudinous sculptures made me wince, and not because of what they portend for a society that has so far largely fiddled as everything begins to burn. The tepid show’s largest …

Climate Change Climate Room Josh Kline Josh Kline Sculptures

5 months, 4 weeks ago

A second Trump term could slow the shift from fossil fuels as climate threats grow

NPR

A second Trump term could slow the shift from fossil fuels as climate threats grow toggle caption Ian Maule/AFP via Getty When Donald Trump held a town hall recently in Phoenix, 11 people were treated for heat exhaustion amid record 113-degree temperatures. “For companies with technologies that rely on government tax credits, yes, they should be very worried,” says Diana …

Global Energy Climate Change Global Warming Change Clean Energy Climate

6 months, 2 weeks ago

'Climate hell': Earth experiences 12 months of record-breaking heat

India Today

In a dire warning about the rapidly escalating climate crisis, the United Nations has sounded the alarm over a "shocking" new milestone - the planet has endured an unprecedented 12 consecutive months of record-breaking heat. Guterres placed much of the blame squarely on the fossil fuel industry, accusing "the Godfathers of climate chaos" of raking in record profits while deceiving …

Climate Change Record Climate Hell

6 months, 2 weeks ago

‘Godfathers of climate chaos’: UN chief calls for ban on fossil fuel ads

Al Jazeera

Each of the past 12 months ranked as the warmest on record in year-on-year comparisons, the European Union’s climate change monitoring service has said, as United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for a global ban on fossil fuel advertising. “We need an exit ramp off the highway to climate hell,” he said, adding: “The battle for 1.5 degrees will be …

Global World Fuel Barrett Guterres Wmo Fossil

6 months, 2 weeks ago

EU elections: How Russian trolls are meddling in the world’s second-biggest democratic vote

CNN

CNN — If you believe everything you read, it would seem the European Union wants to ban drivers from getting their old cars repaired, or that it plans to limit the flights people can take by implementing “carbon passports.” It might even impose Covid-style “climate lockdowns.” None of these things are true, but as 373 million eligible voters head to …

France Spain Media Climate Germany Disinformation False

6 months, 2 weeks ago

EU elections: How Russian trolls are meddling in the world’s second-biggest democratic vote

CNN

CNN — If you believe everything you read, it would seem the European Union wants to ban drivers from getting their old cars repaired, or that it plans to limit the flights people can take by implementing “carbon passports.” It might even impose Covid-style “climate lockdowns.” None of these things are true, but as 373 million eligible voters head to …

France Spain Media Russia Climate Germany Disinformation

7 months ago

The value of attributing extreme events to climate change | Explained

The Hindu

Just a couple of decades ago, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change argued that individual weather events could not be attributed to climate change. The science has since evolved, albeit with all its attendant uncertainties, and now we regularly hear of researchers having been able to attribute some individual extreme events to climate change. Economically developing countries, in particular …

Climate Change World Events Climate Data Scientists Extreme

7 months, 2 weeks ago

Poll finds fewer Americans are concerned about climate change

Salon

Even though humans are experiencing the hottest months in recorded human history, and scientists warn our species is living on "borrowed time," a recent poll found a notable dip in the number of people who view climate change as an urgent issue. Concern about the urgency of addressing climate change — characterizing it as "very serious" — has dropped among …

Social Media Climate Change Change Climate 2021

7 months, 2 weeks ago

Column: Here’s what Exxon’s CEO gets wrong about the climate crisis

LA Times

Oil and gas conglomerate Exxon Mobil could be a key player in global efforts to combat the climate crisis — if only governments would remove burdensome regulations and stop wasting money on inefficient clean energy incentives. I also shook my head in amazement as Woods suggested that a major barrier to slashing carbon pollution is that the world lacks “a …

Energy Climate Change Climate Tesla Texas California Oregon

8 months ago

Missing in the campaign heat

Hindustan Times

Asia earned the title of the second warmest region in 2023, with its mean temperature 0.91°C above the 1991-2020 reference period, according to the State of the Climate in Asia report released by the World Meteorological Organisation. While the report did not rank countries within the region, India was singled out for extreme weather events it faced last year, including …

Climate

8 months, 1 week ago

How to travel without it costing the earth: Sign up to The Independent’s Climate Conversations event

The Independent

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Hosted by senior climate correspondent Louise Boyle, our panel includes some of the leading names in slow travel. Joining …

Travel Slow Travel Climate Independent Mark Conversations Event

8 months, 2 weeks ago

4 Climate Fiction Books To Read Right Now

Huff Post

This story and interview originally appeared in HuffPost’s Books newsletter. One month after this report, Sarah Ruiz-Grossman released her debut novel, “A Fire So Wild,” adding to the vital voices in climate fiction, a literary genre marked by notable works such as Octavia E. Butler’s 1993 “Parable of the Sower.” As a former HuffPost reporter, this isn’t Ruiz-Grossman’s first foray …

Writing Fiction Climate Book Live Huffpost Question

8 months, 4 weeks ago

Storytellers can inspire climate action without killing hope

LA Times

Book Review We Loved It All: A Memory of Life By Lydia Millet W.W. Norton & Company: 272 pages, $27.99 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. “We Loved It All” is Lydia Millet’s “anti-memoir.” In previous interviews, Millet has rejected memoir in its traditional form …

Action Climate Environmental Loved Storytellers Inspire Hope Book We Loved It All

9 months ago

UN weather agency issues ‘red alert’ on climate change after record heat, ice-melt increases in 2023

Associated Press

GENEVA — The U.N. weather agency is sounding a “red alert” about global warming, citing record-smashing increases last year in greenhouse gases, land and water temperatures and melting of glaciers and sea ice, and is warning that the world’s efforts to reverse the trend have been inadequate. “Never have we been so close – albeit on a temporary basis at …

Climate Change Record Climate Ice Report Warming Wmo C

9 months ago

WA had its hottest summer ever, but climate change and heat-related health problems barely made the news

ABC

In early February of this year, when the Perth heat really got going, my partner was 28 weeks pregnant. "And if we are seeing discussion of climate change around the WA heatwaves, it's very infrequent and often in passing," she said. "We can say that, overall, the reporting of climate change and heatwaves for the month of February in Australia …

Weather Climate Change Summer Change Climate Heat Month

10 months ago

The untold story behind climate change: we've known about the crisis for a while

Hindustan Times

There is no particular moment in history when the threat of a changing climate moved from academics to public consciousness. The report made claims that “turned out to be correct”, Naomi Oreskes, professor of history of science at Harvard University, said during a podcast, “Scientists warned about climate change in 1965. The report found resonance just a few years later, …

Global Climate Change Global Warming Change Climate Report Mann

10 months, 1 week ago

Donald Tusk’s uphill battle to restore the rule of law in Poland

The Economist

Listen to this podcast Your browser does not support the <audio> element. D onald Tusk’s predecessors in the hard-right P i S party captured the state and compromised its checks and balances. A new NASA satellite which can map the tiniest of the earth’s particles is set to transform climate science. Runtime: 25 min Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify …

10 months, 3 weeks ago

Opinion: How throwing soup at the Mona Lisa can help fight climate change

LA Times

Protesters threw soup at the Mona Lisa on Sunday in the latest instance of deliberately shocking climate activism. With today’s political institutions largely focused on short-term desires over long-term planetary health, and global climate negotiations moving too slowly to meet the challenge, climate activists have been radically rethinking their tactics. Activist groups have long relied on a strategy known as …

Global Climate Change Change Climate Activists Climate Activism

10 months, 4 weeks ago

When Cinderella fights climate change | The growing shelf of green literature for children

The Hindu

In his book Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention, author Johann Hari puts forth the idea that our ability to focus deeply as a species is being systematically eroded, preventing us from taking collective action against climate change. “When you’re communicating something as bleak and horrible as climate disaster, humour helps soften the blow,” says the Pune-based illustrator. “The …

Climate Change Children World Books Change Climate Young

Extrapolations review: Star-studded climate change drama is both patronising and predictable

History of this topic

‘Extrapolations’ series review: A dull star-studded affair on the perils of climate change

‘Extrapolations’ is the climate change TV show we desperately need

The climate films shaping society

Discover Related