How many more hurricanes will it take for us to wake up to the climate crisis?
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 criticised the UK’s climate targets, calling them “arbitrary” in a 2022 interview. But it’s hard, once you’ve read it, to dislodge the spectre of “partial societal collapse” if we continue to pretend climate change isn’t an urgent threat to our way of life.

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Half of Britons too worried about cost of living to consider climate change
1 year, 3 months ago

Half of Britons too worried about cost of living to consider climate change

The Telegraph  

More than half of British people are too concerned about the cost of living to worry about climate change, a new poll suggests. ‘Nonsensical rabbit hole’ Mr Mackinlay said: “I am not at all surprised that polling shows the British public, now facing the reality of net zero costs, becoming lukewarm to the project. It’s little wonder the public are …

Editorial: 2022 brought more heat and pollution. We’re still careening toward climate disaster
1 year, 11 months ago

Editorial: 2022 brought more heat and pollution. We’re still careening toward climate disaster

LA Times  

New climate data show that 2022 was among the hottest years on record but that U.S. greenhouse gas emissions just keep rising. Another study showed the amount of heat being taken up by Earth’s oceans reached another record high last year. And it’s another stark reminder that despite some recent progress on climate policy, such as the passage of the …

Hurricanes are getting stronger. Blame the climate crisis
2 years, 4 months ago

Hurricanes are getting stronger. Blame the climate crisis

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. These results point to what climate scientists say is a trend in hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons — different names …

Climate crisis: The world has a long, hard climb to ‘net zero’
3 years, 1 month ago

Climate crisis: The world has a long, hard climb to ‘net zero’

Al Jazeera  

The findings in three major documents will guide the decisions of world leaders at COP26 in Glasgow in tackling runaway climate change. If the world emulates the European Union’s commitment to halving emissions by 2030 and eliminating them altogether by 2050, possibly extracting some CO2 from the atmosphere thereafter, global average temperatures by 2100 will be roughly 1.4C higher than …

Op-Ed: On the climate crisis, delay has become the new form of denial
3 years, 1 month ago

Op-Ed: On the climate crisis, delay has become the new form of denial

LA Times  

Whether it’s the apocalyptic wildfires that once again ravaged California and the West this summer, a heat dome over the Pacific Northwest that made parts of Canada feel like Phoenix on the Fourth of July or the devastating floods in my state of Pennsylvania after Hurricane Ida dumped months’ worth of rainfall in a few hours, it is clear that …

Earth day 2021: Climate scientists caution concept of net zero is a dangerous trap
3 years, 8 months ago

Earth day 2021: Climate scientists caution concept of net zero is a dangerous trap

Firstpost  

Sometimes realisation comes in a blinding flash. The current consensus is that if we deploy these and other so-called “carbon dioxide removal” techniques at the same time as reducing our burning of fossil fuels, we can more rapidly halt global warming. As models could easily churn out numbers that saw atmospheric carbon dioxide go as low as one wanted, ever …

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