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Oregon climate change El Nino snowpack Cascades Coast weather – Statesman Journal

In a few decades, the Willamette Valley might feel like California, droughts and floods could be more commonplace and 100-degree days may be par for the course.   The next year could provide a preview of what’s to come. That’s according…

World still has a chance, with drastic action, to avoid worst effects of climate change – Chicago Sun-Times

It’s human nature to underplay critical and complex problems such as climate change. Perhaps recent temperature charges, droughts and storm strength are part of an ordinary long-term weather cycle. Maybe we just need to plant more trees. Maybe new technology…

No, Renewables Are Not The ‘Cheapest Form Of New Energy’

‘Renewables are the cheapest form of new energy.’ – Chris Bowen A return to typical Queensland summer conditions this month has seen large electricity consumers paid to use less and the electricity market operator (AEMO) scrambling to balance the grid…

‘They’ve taken away my freedom’: the truth about the UK state’s crackdown on ​protesters

Melissa is a down-to-earth, friendly woman in her 50s, and it seems that she has always met life with a certain amount of courage. She grew up on another continent, and after early motherhood, then divorce and a first career…

Climate change could force 1.2 billion to move by 2050. Is the world even remotely ready? – Mongabay.com

In a world beset by rising temperatures, devastating storms, and flash floods, climate migration and disaster displacement are quickly becoming the signal 21st century crisis. The vast majority of those worst affected are in the world’s poorest and fastest warming…

Mary Robinson: When it comes to global warming, we ignore half the world’s population at our peril – The Irish Times

Just a few days after the close of climate Cop27, we can describe the outcome as a contrast of light and shadows. The establishment of a special fund for “loss and damage” in response to the devastating effects of climate-related…

Saturn’s Rings Could Have Been Formed By a Missing Moon That Smashed Into Planet 160 Million Years Ago

Saturn’s rings and tilt could be the product of an ancient, missing moon, a new study suggests—and a “grazing encounter” may have smashed the moon to bits to form Saturn’s rings. Jennifer Chu | MIT News Swirling around the planet’s equator, the rings of Saturn are a dead giveaway that the planet is spinning at […]

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Countering Climate Change With “Greener” Economics – INSEAD Knowledge

“Spending more money” has long been seen as an equitable reward for the creation and accumulation of wealth. But, as I have argued in my work spanning more than six decades, how we make money is more important than how…

Guest post: The 50th anniversary of a remarkable global-warming prediction – Carbon Brief

Today marks the 50th anniversary of a remarkable research paper on global warming. Written by meteorologist John Sawyer, the paper – entitled “Man-made carbon dioxide and the greenhouse effect” – was published by the journal Nature in 1972. The paper…

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