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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 …

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1 year, 3 months ago

El Nino could doom Indonesia's rare tropical glaciers by 2026

The Hindu

Two of the world's few tropical glaciers in Indonesia are melting, their ice under threat to vanish by 2026 or sooner, as an El Nino weather pattern lengthens the dry season in the southeast Asian nation, its geophysics agency said on Wednesday. Indonesia, home to a third of the world's rainforest after Brazil and Congo, expects the dry season could …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Bucket-list trip or ‘doom tourism’? How climate crisis-induced phenomena became the latest travel trend

The Independent

Once upon a time, volcanic eruptions caused people to flee for their lives and get as far away as possible. Defined as travelling to places that are environmentally threatened in order to witness them before it’s “too late” and they’re gone, doom tourism stretches over the globe, from Antarctica to the melting glaciers in Patagonia, from the Great Barrier Reef …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Climate Change ‘Doom Loop’: How to reclaim the narrative of urgent climate action

Live Mint

The fight to battle climate change and global heating has always been one led by narrative. Despite decades of irrefutable scientific work that has shown the extent to which we are skirting with global disaster, the reality of climate change and its reason—our energy dependence on fossil fuels like oil, coal and gas—needed to overcome the denial and obfuscation of …

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1 year, 11 months ago

ROSS CLARK challenges the hysteria that surrounds climate change debates and argues they risk harm

Daily Mail

Fear is very easy to spread. Yet if you report on every extreme event and throw in the term ‘climate change’, you will very rapidly plant the idea that the world is in some freakish transformation. In his 2006 climate change film An Inconvenient Truth, former U.S. vice-president Al Gore asserted that the snows on Mount Kilimanjaro would be gone …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Doom isn’t inevitable: My top 10 climate lessons from 2022

LA Times

This is the Dec. 29, 2022, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. It’s not just California struggling to balance supply and demand as climate change screws around with weather patterns, solar and wind power replace fossil fuels and U.S. energy infrastructure gets older. Keep an eye on …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Facing extreme heat and drought, young Californians cope to beat climate anxiety and doom

LA Times

Youth climate activists, including members of Youth vs. Apocalypse, Youth Climate Strike Los Angeles and Fridays for Future Sacramento, hold a demonstration at the state Capitol on June 22. “Just seeing the effects of the climate crisis in real time, it’s even more scary,” said Bilal. “Climate anxiety might not constitute a mental illness, but the realities of climate change …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Volcanic eruptions may destroy ozone layer, doom Earth: Climate simulation stuns scientists

India Today

When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano near the remote Pacific archipelago exploded, shockwaves were felt across the world, tsunami was triggered and the ash severely damaged local areas. Extreme volcanic eruptions may destroy the Ozone layer, the shield that protects us from the deadly ultraviolet rays of the Sun, and significantly warm Earth's climate. The new climate simulation and its …

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2 years, 8 months ago

No obituary for Earth: Scientists fight climate doom talk

Associated Press

It’s not the end of the world. There’s no such thing as pass-fail when it comes to the climate crisis.” “It’s really, really, really hard to walk people back from that ledge,” Gill said. “Everybody knows it’s going to get worse,” said Woodwell Climate Research Center scientist Jennifer Francis. So I’m seeing people do things.” Pennsylvania State University climate scientist …

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2 years, 11 months ago

More bad news for flora, loss of animal biodiversity spells doom for some plants

Firstpost

Houston: Picture a mature, broad-branched tree like an oak, maple or fig. Using our trained model, we could estimate seed dispersal by every bird and mammal species – even rare or extinct species for which there isn’t any species-specific data on the seed dispersal process. Further, we estimate that if currently endangered seed disperser species such as bonobos, savanna elephants …

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