Why climate doomerism is wrong – Vox.com
We environmentalists spend our lives thinking about ways the world will end. There’s nowhere that I see doomer culture more vocal than on my home turf. With leading activists like Roger Hallam, co-founder of the popular climate protest movement Extinction…
UN climate change report: Catastrophic warming will claim lives without action – The Washington Post
The world is likely to pass a dangerous temperature threshold within the next 10 years, pushing the planet past the point of catastrophic warming — unless nations drastically transform their economies and immediately transition away from fossil fuels, according to…
The Secretive Dark Money Groups Behind The Natural Gas Bans
Last Tuesday, Rewiring America announced that it has hired Georgia politician Stacey Abrams to help the group “launch and scale a national awareness campaign and a network of large and small communities working to help Americans go electric.” In a press…
Global warming driving more extreme droughts and floods, NASA satellites show – USA TODAY
Twenty years of NASA’s global satellite data show just how much the extent, duration and severity of extreme droughts and floods have risen alongside warming global temperatures, a new study reveals. The study looked at the timing of such events…
Media Push Debunked Claim Climate Change Worsening Floods, Droughts
A recent article published by The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (PBS) claims that “floods and droughts are worsened by climate change.” Various lines of evidence and hard data falsify this claim. The article, originally by Isabella O’Malley, of the Associated…
Why rain on snow in the California mountains worries scientists
Rain-on-snow events have resulted in some of the nation’s most destructive and costly floods
How to use free satellite data to monitor natural disasters and environmental changes
Increasing availability of open-access data from government satellites have made it possible for everyone to gain insight into environmental changes underway
Climate activist Deanna ‘Violet’ Coco’s 15-month jail sentence quashed on appeal
A 15-month jail sentence imposed on a climate protester who blocked one lane on the Sydney Harbour Bridge with a truck has been quashed. Deanna “Violet” Coco, 32, was issued with a 12-month conditional release order on Wednesday after district…
Climate change is supercharging floods and droughts, new research shows – Grist
Droughts and floods are already intensifying as the world warms, putting solid observational data behind a trend scientists have long predicted and one that’s becoming increasingly visible to ordinary people. Over the past 20 years, there’s been a sharp increase…
California, Battered by Atmospheric Rivers, Faces a Big Melt This Spring – InsideClimate News
The latest atmospheric river surging into California probably won’t result in worst-case flooding, state water officials and scientists said Monday. But as global warming shifts the range of possibilities, this winter’s often record levels of snow and rain could set…
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