Chicago’s climate superpower: How TOD can help address global warming – Streetsblog Chicago

Streetsblog has chronicled the role that our zoning and land use rules play in transit ridership, economic growth, and segregation. But the map above makes another point – Chicago’s land use policies have a major impact on our greenhouse gas…

Worldwide Record Cold Challenges Climate Rhetoric, Risks Lives By Complacency

I live in Bengaluru in southern India. This month, the city recorded the coldest temperature in 10 years for the month of November. So has been the case in my country’s capital New Delhi where extreme winters have become a…

What If the U.S. and China Really Cooperated on Climate Change? – CounterPunch

Photograph Source: U.S. Department of State – Public Domain As President Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping arrived on the resort island of Bali, Indonesia, for their November 14th “summit,” relations between their two countries were on a hair-raising…

Meteorologist: NASA’s Duplicitous Sea-Level Study Riddled With Errors

Phys.org reposted a press release from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), titled “Rising sea level could exceed estimates for US coasts, NASA study finds,” which claims climate change is causing larger than expected sea-level rise. This claim is not supported…

NASA predicted asteroid impact in Ontario, Canada

NASA predicted the asteroid impact in Ontario, Canada, with its Scout impact hazard assessment system. The goal of Scout is to track impact hazards to Earth.

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WaPo Tries To Wreck Thanksgiving Day With ‘Climate-Friendly’ Foods

As Americans brace for one of the most expensive Thanksgiving celebrations in years due to inflation, one Washington Post columnist lectured families on how to hold a “climate-friendly” feast. Washington Post food columnist Tamar Haspel’s ideal climate meal may be…

What “longtermism” gets wrong about climate change – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Corn affected by 2013 drought in Texas. Global warming is making summer droughts in Texas longer and more severe. USDA photo by Bob Nichols In his new book What We Owe the Future, William MacAskill outlines the case for what…

New Report On Electric Car Fires And Dangers Of Spontaneous Combustion

After hurricane Ian hit, there were multiple reports of flooded electric vehicles igniting and going up in flames. With or without a flood, exploding EVs aren’t as uncommon as you may think. We’re going to explain why flooded electric cars catch fire and why EV fires…

UN panel slams ‘greenwashing’ by banks, companies on climate change – People’s World

Environmental activists of Greenpeace and the “Koala Kollektiv” protest against the European Union greenwashing under the Euro sculpture in Frankfurt, Germany, Jan. 11, 2022. | Michael Probst / AP NEW YORK—The next time you see an oil company ad touting…

Bright, early galaxies surprise astronomers

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured two early galaxies that are much brighter than astronomers expected they would be. Read more.

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