Quantifying the human cost of global warming – Nature Sustainability
Abstract The costs of climate change are often estimated in monetary terms, but this raises ethical issues. Here we express them in terms of numbers of people left outside the ‘human climate niche’—defined as the historically highly conserved distribution of…
No, the UN is not using geoengineering and ‘chemtrails’ to change climate | Fact check – USA TODAY
The claim: Post implies the UN creates climate change using geoengineering and chemtrails An April 28 Instagram post (direct link, archived link) features a photo of world leaders at the United Nations 2021 Climate Change summit alongside a photo of…
Illinois dust storm pileup explained: Did climate change affect it? – USA TODAY
The National Weather Service office in Springfield, Illinois, issued a blowing-dust warning Monday for the first time ever after a blinding dust storm sprang up south of Springfield, Illinois, causing a deadly highway pileup. It may not be the last…
Gas leaf blower, mower bans spread in US to fight climate change – USA TODAY
DENVER – Your lawn may be the next climate change battleground. And parks. And playgrounds. Regulators and clean-air advocates are increasingly eyeing the pollution emitted by small gasoline engines used to power lawn mowers and leaf blowers as they seek to blunt…
UN climate change report raises alarm on sea ice, ocean heat, glaciers – USA TODAY
2022 was another year of disastrous and deadly weather and climate extremes around the world, fueled in part by human-caused climate change, the United Nations weather agency said Friday. Droughts, floods and heat waves affected people on every continent and…
Fact check: ‘Chemtrails’ aren’t real, aren’t related to climate change – USA TODAY
The claim: Chemtrails are intended to ‘protect us from climate change’ An April 3 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows a video of a blue sky with a white contrail streaking across it. “Blocking the sun…AGAIN to protect us from ‘climate…
Climate change news: Carbon dioxide, methane up again, NOAA says – USA TODAY
The steady drumbeat of emissions fueling global warming continued unabated in 2022, federal scientists announced this week. Levels of carbon dioxide and methane, the two greenhouse gases emitted by human activity that are the most significant contributors to climate change, continued their “historically…
Fact check: Antarctic ice sheet mass study shows global warming – USA TODAY
The claim: NASA Antarctic ice sheet study shows global warming is a ‘con’ A Jan. 31 Facebook post features a link to a 2015 NASA press release announcing research that concluded the Antarctic ice sheet gained ice between 1992 and 2008. …
Tornado outbreak expected in Deep South Friday
A tornado outbreak is possible in the Deep South on March 24, 2023. Residents should be alert for changing conditions and have a plan in advance of the storms.
The post Tornado outbreak expected in Deep South Friday first appeared on EarthSky.
‘Humanity is on thin ice:’ Major UN report says ‘urgent’ action is needed to combat climate change – USA TODAY
“Urgent” actions are needed to counter human-caused climate change, says a report released Monday by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. “Without urgent, effective, and equitable mitigation and adaptation actions, climate change increasingly threatens ecosystems, biodiversity, and the…
Recent Comments