Worldwide, between 2003 and 2013 – the period analyzed in the study – the average annual number of disasters caused by all types of natural hazards, including climate-related events, almost doubled since the 1980s. Cities Climate Change smallholder farmer UN MORE
Censorship on Climate Change. Denial Whatever you choose to call it – climate change or global warming – it’s a hot-button issue as divisive and discordant in its arena (e.g., Tagged: climate change , ecofriendly , G. MORE
Since the Industrial Revolution, carbon dioxide levels increased 38 percent because of humans, methane levels have increased 148 percent, nitrous oxide is up more than 15 percent and the list goes on and on. MORE
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Representatives of the more than 150 countries meeting in New York on April 22 for the symbolic signing of the Paris Agreement on climate change can justly celebrate a historic moment. Agricultural losses, vegetation change and species extinction will result, the World Bank warns. MORE
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commitments under the recent Paris climate agreement. But one message seems clear to me – we’d better get to work building a majority coalition that will support legislatively driven climate policy. Climate change also poses significant economic risks to the U.S. MORE
What is the connection between humans and temperature changes over time? MORE
A study published in the journal Ecography suggests emperor penguins may adapt better to the effects of climate change than researchers previously believed. Read More The post Study Finds Emperor Penguins Are Adapting to Climate Change appeared first on Ecorazzi. MORE
As I wrote, Nordhaus’s blunt piece — “ Why the Global Warming Skeptics Are Wrong ” – is worth reading because, like most mainstream climate economists, he is no climate hawk. A key reason for that, I believe, is a chronic low-balling of future temperature rise and hence future climate impacts and hence future climate damages by the mainstream economic profession. delete rant about economists ignoring more recent climate science]. MORE
A free, two week summer camp on climate change at the end of the summer, in Jordan. Workers in NGOs and civil society organizations, activists, young professionals, post-grads and researchers active in the fields of climate, gender and environment are urged to apply. MORE
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I write a lot about climate change on my other blog , and so I don’t really feel a strong need to touch on this topic very often here. But when you think about it, climate change might be more important to the people who read 10,000 Birds than a lot of other groups of people. People like to deny the reality of climate change, but it is real, and sea level rise is part of that. Climate change is the biggest threat to migratory birds this century. MORE
Nobel Prize-winning retired archbishop Desmond Tutu, long-time environmental advocate, just released a powerful video urging world leaders arriving in New York City for this year’s UN Climate Summit to “move beyond the fossil fuel era.”. We can stop climate change. MORE
Ronald Jumeau, an ambassador from Seychelles who works on climate and island issues, as he addressed attendees at the United Nations’ climate change convention this morning in Paris. Mark R. MORE
We should all welcome the carbon dividend proposal announced by the Climate Leadership Council today. One way we can put out the welcome mat is by reexamining our insistence on implementation of the Clean Power Plan as the Climate Leadership Council suggests. MORE
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The Onion : According to a United Nations climate report released last week, the world must cut its carbon emissions drastically by 2020 or face an increase in global temperature of 3.6 Here’s how global warming will affect daily life if major action is not taken: Ignoring dire UN reports on climate change will take twice as much effort. MORE
A quiet little technology blog called Upworthy just posted a pie chart that, despite the solid pedigree of its source data, is likely to provoke debate so heated it may accelerate climate change. Climate Climate Change Climate science MORE
A massive congregation of Pacific walruses are being forced to haul out on a beach in northwest Alaska, thanks to climate change. Read More The post 35,000 Walruses Forced Ashore Linked to Climate Change appeared first on Ecorazzi. MORE
Sometimes those of us who are very deeply immersed in climate communications become so focused on crafting messages that effectively convey certain complex issues, ideas, and policy measures that we forget some of the most fundamental communications rules. Climate & Energy MORE
According to a new report issued by the Climate Institute, global warming will underpin an estimated 50 percent drop in coffee production by 2050. Significantly altered micro-climates will affect both coffee quality and yield sizes. “It’s MORE
Louis Blumberg directs The Nature Conservancy’s California Climate Change Program. It’s easy sometimes to get frustrated about climate progress, even after the historic and ambitious Paris agreement in December. MORE
In many cases, he just immediately changed the subject rather than respond to the actual questions. One exception, where he actually did answer to the question asked of him, was the following exchange about climate change. Naturally, Trump also doesn't view climate change as a national security threat. HIATT: Last one: You think climate change is a real thing? Is there human-caused climate change? That's—that is climate change. MORE
While “personal solutions” have some effect, even the smallest things, but they will not really change anything unless we are, all together, prepared to change the system. But less than hundred years later the Vikings seem to have abandoned Greenland for climatic reasons. MORE
This year’s Conference of the Parties, known as COP21, may turn out to be the one that finally addresses the ravages of human caused climate change. years; and require heavy investments in infrastructure changes to renewable energy. to reverse the ravages of climate change? MORE
When climate changes, causing habitats to move, birds can get up and fly away to a new habitat, so really, they’ll be fine. I’ve been working on climate change lately (not causing it, but reading and writing about it) and birds have come up in a few places. MORE
For years, I have understood the causes and consequences of climate change – intellectually at least – yet something always nagged at me. Like so many other things that we take on faith or on professional credentials, sometimes talking about climate change felt more ritual than real. MORE
As people around the world celebrate the remarkable Paris Agreement to address climate change , there’s a genuine opportunity for countries to act on their financial pledges to help the world adapt to climate change – especially people in developing countries who are most vulnerable. MORE
As climate change alters habitats and disrupts ecosystems, where will animals move to survive? As part of that study, scientists modeled the distribution and habitat needs of 2,903 vertebrate species in the Western hemisphere against land use and projected climate patterns. MORE
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this week has generated a lot of questions about climate change. Does the polar vortex disprove the theory of climate change? However, it does highlight the important distinction between weather and climate. The impacts of climate change will be felt by everyone. MORE
Here’s a climate change impact you probably never considered: bison diets. As the climate warms, bison in North America are likely to shrink , as documented in research published by Joseph Craine and colleagues. Climate Change and the Future of Bison. MORE
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And he’s talking about climate change—a lot. But Francis is taking on climate change specifically, he’s talking about it in powerful new ways, and he’s going to great lengths to deliver his message far beyond the Catholic Church. Climate & Energy MORE
This parody soley reflects the opinions of the parody writer and performer, even if 97% of climate scientists are in consensus about them. MORE
“Can you imagine if all of us NASA people just sat around going ‘Ah, that’s too hard,’ every time some ginormous obstacle happened?”. MORE
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A study, published earlier this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , has linked a severe drought that helped fuel the Syrian conflict to climate change. MORE
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Censorship on Climate Change. Denial Whatever you choose to call it – climate change or global warming – it’s a hot-button issue as divisive and discordant in its arena (e.g., Tagged: climate change , ecofriendly , G.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 20, 2011
When climate changes, causing habitats to move, birds can get up and fly away to a new habitat, so really, they’ll be fine. I’ve been working on climate change lately (not causing it, but reading and writing about it) and birds have come up in a few places.
Conservancy Talk
JANUARY 9, 2014
this week has generated a lot of questions about climate change. Does the polar vortex disprove the theory of climate change? However, it does highlight the important distinction between weather and climate. The impacts of climate change will be felt by everyone.
Nature Conservancy - Science
AUGUST 19, 2016
As climate change alters habitats and disrupts ecosystems, where will animals move to survive? As part of that study, scientists modeled the distribution and habitat needs of 2,903 vertebrate species in the Western hemisphere against land use and projected climate patterns.
Environmental Economics
SEPTEMBER 13, 2016
What is the connection between humans and temperature changes over time?
Green (Living) Review
JUNE 26, 2014
Gaia Education are holding a free webinar on climate change solutions. Their next project is to launch a series of free webinars with the first one exploring Climate Change Solutions.
Conservancy Talk
APRIL 26, 2016
Representatives of the more than 150 countries meeting in New York on April 22 for the symbolic signing of the Paris Agreement on climate change can justly celebrate a historic moment. Agricultural losses, vegetation change and species extinction will result, the World Bank warns.
Conservancy Talk
FEBRUARY 11, 2016
commitments under the recent Paris climate agreement. But one message seems clear to me – we’d better get to work building a majority coalition that will support legislatively driven climate policy. Climate change also poses significant economic risks to the U.S.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 18, 2013
I write a lot about climate change on my other blog , and so I don’t really feel a strong need to touch on this topic very often here. But when you think about it, climate change might be more important to the people who read 10,000 Birds than a lot of other groups of people. People like to deny the reality of climate change, but it is real, and sea level rise is part of that. Climate change is the biggest threat to migratory birds this century.
Mother Jones
MARCH 22, 2016
In many cases, he just immediately changed the subject rather than respond to the actual questions. One exception, where he actually did answer to the question asked of him, was the following exchange about climate change. Naturally, Trump also doesn't view climate change as a national security threat. HIATT: Last one: You think climate change is a real thing? Is there human-caused climate change? That's—that is climate change.
Nature Conservancy - Science
MARCH 16, 2016
Here’s a climate change impact you probably never considered: bison diets. As the climate warms, bison in North America are likely to shrink , as documented in research published by Joseph Craine and colleagues. Climate Change and the Future of Bison.
Elephant Journal
AUGUST 23, 2016
“Can you imagine if all of us NASA people just sat around going ‘Ah, that’s too hard,’ every time some ginormous obstacle happened?”.
Green (Living) Review
JUNE 7, 2017
While “personal solutions” have some effect, even the smallest things, but they will not really change anything unless we are, all together, prepared to change the system. But less than hundred years later the Vikings seem to have abandoned Greenland for climatic reasons.
Environmental Economics
APRIL 6, 2016
Galveston, TX : All set to rebuild coastal levees with government funding the moment Congress gets around to admitting climate change is real. With zero chance of a carbon tax in the U.S.
Conservancy Talk
NOVEMBER 25, 2013
For years, I have understood the causes and consequences of climate change – intellectually at least – yet something always nagged at me. Like so many other things that we take on faith or on professional credentials, sometimes talking about climate change felt more ritual than real.
Conservancy Talk
FEBRUARY 5, 2016
Louis Blumberg directs The Nature Conservancy’s California Climate Change Program. It’s easy sometimes to get frustrated about climate progress, even after the historic and ambitious Paris agreement in December.
Nature Conservancy - Science
JANUARY 7, 2016
As people around the world celebrate the remarkable Paris Agreement to address climate change , there’s a genuine opportunity for countries to act on their financial pledges to help the world adapt to climate change – especially people in developing countries who are most vulnerable.
Conservancy Talk
FEBRUARY 8, 2017
We should all welcome the carbon dividend proposal announced by the Climate Leadership Council today. One way we can put out the welcome mat is by reexamining our insistence on implementation of the Clean Power Plan as the Climate Leadership Council suggests.
Sightline Daily
SEPTEMBER 27, 2015
And he’s talking about climate change—a lot. But Francis is taking on climate change specifically, he’s talking about it in powerful new ways, and he’s going to great lengths to deliver his message far beyond the Catholic Church. Climate & Energy
Conservancy Talk
JUNE 25, 2013
” With those words this afternoon, President Obama took an important step toward turning his pledges on climate change into reality. February’s State of the Union address put climate change back on the national agenda.
Sightline Daily
FEBRUARY 19, 2015
The clever folks over at Climate Denial Crock of the Week (that’s Peter Sinclair) and Skeptical Science (John Cook) were in San Fran back in December, interviewing scientists, when they had the brilliant idea to ask each one to give their best climate change “elevator pitch.”
Nature Conservancy - Science
JANUARY 8, 2015
In a New York Times op-ed piece this past Saturday, Naomi Oreskes articulates very well the implications of this communications problem for action on climate change. As a scientist, I must remind you that we cannot say for sure if humans are causing a global climate change catastrophe.
Environmental Economics
MARCH 14, 2012
As I wrote, Nordhaus’s blunt piece — “ Why the Global Warming Skeptics Are Wrong ” – is worth reading because, like most mainstream climate economists, he is no climate hawk. A key reason for that, I believe, is a chronic low-balling of future temperature rise and hence future climate impacts and hence future climate damages by the mainstream economic profession. delete rant about economists ignoring more recent climate science].
Elephant Journal
JANUARY 24, 2017
Enlightened Society Green Non New-Agey Spirituality Right Livelihood Yoga Z ADMIN Green Featured Today Z ADMIN Spirituality Featured Today asana climate change green niyama pranayama ScienceWe simply don’t have time to rely on governments or institutions to take actions on our behalf or to encourage everyone to.
Green Prophet
DECEMBER 18, 2012
A quiet little technology blog called Upworthy just posted a pie chart that, despite the solid pedigree of its source data, is likely to provoke debate so heated it may accelerate climate change. Climate Climate Change Climate science
Green Prophet
SEPTEMBER 22, 2014
Nobel Prize-winning retired archbishop Desmond Tutu, long-time environmental advocate, just released a powerful video urging world leaders arriving in New York City for this year’s UN Climate Summit to “move beyond the fossil fuel era.”. We can stop climate change.
Elephant Journal
OCTOBER 21, 2015
This parody soley reflects the opinions of the parody writer and performer, even if 97% of climate scientists are in consensus about them.
Mother Jones
JANUARY 11, 2013
Must Reads: America Under the Gun | How to Win Any Climate Change Argument | Sequestration, Explained | Best. → Environment , Politics , Science , The Climate Desk , Top Stories. New Federal Report: Climate Change Is Really, Really Scary. Skip to Navigation.
Elephant Journal
APRIL 28, 2015
Blog (always click 4 all blogs) Enlightened Society (Politics, Active Citizenship, Social Good) Green WAYLON: Today Only Catholic Church climate change eco encyclical environment global warming god health life politics Pope Francis the earth the pope“We need to care for the earth so that it may continue, as God willed, to be a source of life for the entire human family.” ~ Pope Francis.
Eccorazzi
OCTOBER 1, 2014
A massive congregation of Pacific walruses are being forced to haul out on a beach in northwest Alaska, thanks to climate change. Read More The post 35,000 Walruses Forced Ashore Linked to Climate Change appeared first on Ecorazzi.
Green Prophet
NOVEMBER 26, 2015
Worldwide, between 2003 and 2013 – the period analyzed in the study – the average annual number of disasters caused by all types of natural hazards, including climate-related events, almost doubled since the 1980s. Cities Climate Change smallholder farmer UN
Green Prophet
DECEMBER 3, 2015
This year’s Conference of the Parties, known as COP21, may turn out to be the one that finally addresses the ravages of human caused climate change. years; and require heavy investments in infrastructure changes to renewable energy. to reverse the ravages of climate change?
Sightline Daily
SEPTEMBER 10, 2014
Sometimes those of us who are very deeply immersed in climate communications become so focused on crafting messages that effectively convey certain complex issues, ideas, and policy measures that we forget some of the most fundamental communications rules. Climate & Energy
Elephant Journal
MARCH 18, 2013
Since the Industrial Revolution, carbon dioxide levels increased 38 percent because of humans, methane levels have increased 148 percent, nitrous oxide is up more than 15 percent and the list goes on and on.
Eccorazzi
JUNE 23, 2014
A study published in the journal Ecography suggests emperor penguins may adapt better to the effects of climate change than researchers previously believed. Read More The post Study Finds Emperor Penguins Are Adapting to Climate Change appeared first on Ecorazzi.
Sightline Daily
NOVEMBER 21, 2013
Photo Credit: zugaldia via Compfight cc Winston Churchill was “lucky” enough to live during a period of history when the enemies of freedom, justice, peace, and stability were recognizable villains with armies and mustaches.The existential threat posed by climate change is far more abstract.
Green Blog
MARCH 16, 2015
A study, published earlier this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , has linked a severe drought that helped fuel the Syrian conflict to climate change.
Green Prophet
JULY 28, 2012
A free, two week summer camp on climate change at the end of the summer, in Jordan. Workers in NGOs and civil society organizations, activists, young professionals, post-grads and researchers active in the fields of climate, gender and environment are urged to apply.
Green Prophet
JUNE 6, 2014
Holoscenes is a public art and performance installation that is a visual response to climate change. It’s performance art that viscerally connects the long-term patterns of climate change to our everyday lives.
Environmental Economics
NOVEMBER 15, 2013
The Onion : According to a United Nations climate report released last week, the world must cut its carbon emissions drastically by 2020 or face an increase in global temperature of 3.6 Here’s how global warming will affect daily life if major action is not taken: Ignoring dire UN reports on climate change will take twice as much effort.
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