Beyond Magical Thinking: Time to Get Real on Climate Change – Yale Environment 360
The UN’s first climate conference took place in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro, and in the intervening decades we have had a series of global meetings and countless assessments and studies. Annual climate change conferences began in 1995 (in Berlin)…
Revealed: how the top issues voters care about are not getting aired in election campaign
Surveys consistently show that aged care, climate change and education are among voters’ top concerns this federal election. But you wouldn’t necessarily know it by watching politicians’ press conferences or reading some media coverage. A Guardian Australia analysis of election…
Guiding Light: Global warming and need for tyagaa (sacrifice) for a better environment – Free Press Journal
Everyone is speaking about environmental issues while experiencing this year as the hottest year. But nobody is willing to sacrifice, tyaaga. The diplomats fly in their private jets for conferences on global warming. A teenage girl screams in front of…
Milky Wayâs black hole seen at last!
Astronomers have succeeded in capturing the 1st direct image of our Milky Way’s black hole, a monster with the mass of 4 million suns!
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Leaders descend on Miami, ‘ground zero’ for climate change in America, to find solutions – NBC News
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Hundreds of scientists, policymakers, activists and business leaders are descending on South Florida this week to discuss how best to tackle the most pressing aspects of the climate crisis. The inaugural Aspen Ideas: Climate conference, a…
Large asteroid 7335 to pass safely May 27
Large asteroid 7335 (1989 JA) will safely pass our planet on May 27, 2022, coming closer than it will again for the next 200 years.
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Trump’s Climate Challenge To The GOP
Sin, punishment, redemption: as an ideology, environmentalism shares many features with organized religion. Falling after Easter this year, Earth Day, which was celebrated on April 22, focuses on the sin-and-punishment parts of the trilogy. Redemption comes later, toward the end…
John Kerry’s Global Ocean Conference Raises 400+ Commitments Worth $16 Billion to Protect Ocean Health
The seventh annual Our Ocean Conference concluded recently with the announcement a grand tally of 410 commitments to protect the the oceans and the living beings surrounding them—pledges worth $16.35 Billion. The conference, co-hosted by the Republic of Palau and the United States, was the first to be held in a small island developing state. […]
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Earth Day 2022: Investing In Poverty, Suffering, And Human Degradation
It is Earth Day 2022 — always falling on Lenin’s birthday, amusingly enough — the official theme of which this year is Invest In Our Planet™. As with every previous Earth Day, we will be bombarded with innumerable websites both infantile and…
Covid And Climate Change: Fact-Checking The Fact Checkers
Fact-checking is a growth industry. According to the latest annual fact-checking census compiled in October 2019 by Duke Reporters’ Lab, there are at least 210 fact-checking platforms currently working in 68 countries. This nearly quintuples the number offered by the…
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