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“An exclamation point on global warming”: Climate scientists warn 2024 was marked by broken records
4 days, 19 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.” …

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Trump's win is a victory for the "petrostate" and a major loss for climate action, experts say
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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Trump's win is a victory for the "petrostate" and a major loss for climate action, experts say

Salon  

When the science journal Nature surveyed more than 2,000 scientists last month about the 2024 presidential election, 86 percent said they preferred Vice President Kamala Harris over former president Donald Trump. His proxies, like Tucker Carlson and JD Vance, have respectively blamed abortion for causing freak hurricanes or have dismissed climate science as “weird.” Last month, climate scientists told Salon …

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Climate change despair has never been higher — but experts say hope is still possible
2 months ago

Climate change despair has never been higher — but experts say hope is still possible

Salon  

Julie France is a 34-year-old Millennial in Denver, a high-altitude Colorado city theoretically safer than other places from one of the most conspicuous ravages of climate change: hurricanes, such as Helene and Milton, the pair of hurricanes responsible for recently battering the Southeastern United States. Lead researcher Dr. Eric Lewandowski, a psychiatry professor at Columbia University told Salon that “it's …

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JD Vance is wrong about climate science, experts say. It isn't "weird," it's overwhelmingly accurate
2 months, 2 weeks ago

JD Vance is wrong about climate science, experts say. It isn't "weird," it's overwhelmingly accurate

Salon  

During Tuesday night's vice presidential debate between Sen. JD Vance and Gov. Tim Walz, Vance dismissed climate change as "weird science," skeptically characterizing the scientific consensus about burning fossil fuels as "this idea that carbon emissions drive all the climate change." These included University of Pennsylvania climatologist Dr. Michael E. Mann, who wrote to Salon that he could not "stomach …

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The Hurricane Helene devastation in Asheville confirms we can't hide from climate change
2 months, 3 weeks ago

The Hurricane Helene devastation in Asheville confirms we can't hide from climate change

Salon  

People are still reeling from the devastation Hurricane Helene left behind, with some wondering why the storm was so intense. "Tragically, those who are least responsible for climate change are the ones most at risk: namely low income people in low income countries in the global south." "No where is 'safe' from climate change — but of course many people …

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Harris may have "won" the debate, but Americans "lost on fracking," climate experts say
3 months, 1 week ago

Harris may have "won" the debate, but Americans "lost on fracking," climate experts say

Salon  

Scientists overwhelmingly agree that as humans continue burning fossil fuels, our collective emissions of greenhouse gases are unnaturally warming the planet. Mann also noted Harris was correct when she said that Trump is directly tied to the far right policy agenda Project 2025, which among other things would defund renewable energy projects such as solar energy and purge scientists from …

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Kamala Harris will continue Biden's climate policies, say experts. But is that good enough?
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Kamala Harris will continue Biden's climate policies, say experts. But is that good enough?

Salon  

With President Biden's withdrawal from the 2024 presidential campaign, Vice President Kamala Harris has become his heir apparent and the near-certain Democratic nominee. Biden and Harris created "hundreds of thousands of new jobs," Schuster continued, "while Donald Trump continues to call climate change a 'hoax' and promises to. "Biden took every opportunity to expand fossil fuels, just as Trump did," …

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‘Scared as hell’: Climate scientists risk jobs, jail to save dying planet
6 months, 1 week ago

‘Scared as hell’: Climate scientists risk jobs, jail to save dying planet

Al Jazeera  

“I was scared as hell. Abramoff was jarred by the data: “I remember feeling the enormity of all of the Earth systems that were already being affected by climate change and how little time we had to avert more catastrophic effects.” Overwhelmed by the severity of the climate impacts and the resulting human suffering, Abramoff, who was completing her postdoctorate …

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How Wall Street enables the fossil fuel companies cooking our planet
6 months, 2 weeks ago

How Wall Street enables the fossil fuel companies cooking our planet

Salon  

Stevie O'Hanlon may not be a celebrity, but her organization makes a lot of headlines. "Many of the world’s largest banks, including the top banks on Wall Street, lend billions of dollars to fossil fuel companies, enabling the buildout of the deadly and destructive industry that is most responsible for the greenhouse gas emissions causing climate change." "The International Energy …

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77% of top climate scientists think 2.5°C of warming is coming—and they're horrified
7 months, 2 weeks ago

77% of top climate scientists think 2.5°C of warming is coming—and they're horrified

Raw Story  

Nearly 80% of top-level climate scientists expect that global temperatures will rise by at least 2.5°C by 2100, while only 6% thought the world would succeed in limiting global heating to 1.5°C above preindustrial levels, a survey published Wednesday by The Guardian revealed. "I expect a semi-dystopian future with substantial pain and suffering for the people of the Global South," …

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Is Earth Day greenwashed and obsolete? Some climate experts argue its core message has been diluted
8 months ago

Is Earth Day greenwashed and obsolete? Some climate experts argue its core message has been diluted

Salon  

"Thinking about the planet for a day is a bit bizarre," says Prof. Martin Siegert, a glaciology professor at the University of Exeter and former co-director of Imperial College London's Grantham Institute for Climate Change. Dr. Kevin Trenberth, a distinguished scholar at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, told Salon "There have been times when Earth Day has made a …

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"Nobody and nowhere will be safe": Experts say we can't hide from climate change
11 months, 1 week ago

"Nobody and nowhere will be safe": Experts say we can't hide from climate change

Salon  

In science fiction movies that imagine a climate catastrophe, characters are often driven to flee disastrous conditions and retreat to a safer place to live. Whether seeking the mysterious territory of Dryland in "Waterworld" or fleeing from all northern latitudes in "The Day After Tomorrow," pop culture foregrounds the notion that one can somehow "run away" from climate change. The …

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Is Biden taking climate change seriously? Here's why some experts want him to declare an emergency
1 year, 1 month ago

Is Biden taking climate change seriously? Here's why some experts want him to declare an emergency

Salon  

When it comes to climate change, everything is trending in the wrong direction. "Global heating is an emergency — the greatest emergency humanity currently faces, despite ongoing public apathy — so it's incredibly foolish that President Biden still hasn't declared a climate emergency," explained Dr. Peter Kalmus, a climate scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and an associate project scientist …

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Scientists use TikTok to explain, fight climate change
1 year, 9 months ago

Scientists use TikTok to explain, fight climate change

The Hindu  

With his moustache caked in icicles and frozen droplets, glaciologist Peter Neff shows his 220,000 TikTok followers a sample of old ice excavated from Antarctica's Allan Hills. "TikTok allows me to give people a lens through which they can embody the experience of being a climate scientist in Antarctica," Neff told AFP. "We have a responsibility to make sure that …

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Climate scientists are becoming climate activists as governments fail to heed warnings
2 years, 3 months ago

Climate scientists are becoming climate activists as governments fail to heed warnings

ABC  

On a May morning in Kaurna/Adelaide, Annie Bond and a colleague put on their lab coats. "We were wearing lab coats to identify ourselves as scientists — an easily recognisable symbol of a scientist, even though not all scientists wear lab coats," she says. "For climate scientists in particular, there's been a realisation that they not only have to do …

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