Meteorologists targeted in climate misinfo surge

Issued on: 13/05/2023 – 04:42Modified: 13/05/2023 – 04:40 Paris (France) (AFP) – Once trusted faces on the news, meteorologists now brave threats, insults and slander online from conspiracy theorists and climate change deniers who accuse them of faking or even…

Australia being unable to afford greater environmental protection is a government myth that refuses to die | Euan Ritchie

Like trickle-down economics or goldfish memories only being three seconds long, there’s a myth that continues to haunt this nation, and, like a zombie, it refuses to die. This myth, and the damage it inflicts, has been aided and abetted…

Ron Johnson said climate change could be good for Wisconsin. Experts disagree. – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson again questioned whether climate change is as bad as researchers are saying — this time during a Senate Budget Committee hearing. The Wednesday afternoon hearing featured a number of climate change researchers, who talked about the…

The Climate Crisis Gives Sailing Ships a Second Wind – The New Yorker

Annals of a Warming Planet The Climate Crisis Gives Sailing Ships a Second Wind Cargo vessels are some of the dirtiest vehicles in existence. Can a centuries-old technology help to clean them up? By Pagan Kennedy April 27, 2023 Illustration…

Climate diplomacy is hopeless, says author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline

International climate diplomacy is hopeless, the author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline has said, as the film adaptation of the radical environmentalist book is released. As activists around the world take increasingly desperate actions against destructive projects, Andreas…

Oregon needs to cut more greenhouse gas emissions to reach climate goals, panel says – Oregon Public Broadcasting

Despite Oregon’s ambitious climate policies and programs to reduce nearly all the state’s greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, a new report says the state has yet to reach any benchmarks and needs to cut emissions faster to meet those goals….

‘I’m all for climate change’: Axel Springer CEO faces heat over leaked messages

The German CEO of Europe’s largest media publisher tried to use his flagship tabloid, Bild, to influence the outcome of Germany’s last election and fed the newspaper his personal views attacking climate change activism, Covid measures and the former chancellor…

Study: Catastrophic Climate Warnings Fail To Shift Attitudes

A simulation based on apocalyptic images designed to highlight “the disastrous effects of climate change” had the opposite impact on those who viewed it and failed to shift attitudes, a study from Singapore Management University details. The work was based…

Climate emergency is the biggest health crisis of our time. Bigger than Covid | Pascal Soriot

The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report is a grim, yet unsurprising, reminder of the catastrophic effect global heating is having on our planet. The message from leading climate scientists is clear: action is needed now. Not tomorrow, not…

New Sensor Can Tell Whether You Have Covid-19 or The Flu – And Do it Within 10 Seconds

Have a cough, sore throat and congestion? Any number of respiratory viruses could be responsible. Conventional tests can identify the culprits by relying on chemical reactions—but researchers now want to swap chemistry tests for electrical changes sensed by nanomaterials. They reported using a single-atom-thick nanomaterial to build a device that can simultaneously detect the presence […]

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