Share List Hint: It’s not Joe Biden. About 45 percent of Americans assume man-made climate change won’t threaten their livelihoods during their lifetimes (most of them are wrong), and Biden certainly seems to count himself a member of that group. His 2050 target to cut emissions to zero might sound like a great talking point, … [Read more…]
Share List With powerfully influential figures like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez standing up to show support for the only planet we have, it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that climate change activism is heating up. When the number of protests increase, so do the number of arrests. That was the case outside of the New … [Read more…]
Share List A new report released by an Australian think tank has warned the public that we have perhaps less than three decades to reduce or eliminate carbon emissions enough to avert a catastrophe the likes of which has never happened before in human history. The worst part? It acknowledges that the reports the international … [Read more…]
Share List According to a recent poll done by NPR, teachers do not teach climate change. Their main reason? It’s not in my curriculum. And for those who do have it in their curriculum, it’s not until middle or high school Earth Science, which only 2 out of 50 states require to get a high … [Read more…]
Share List You know something’s wrong in the neighborhood when it’s come down to this. A lawsuit placed in 2015 against the Obama Administration still hasn’t made much ground, and it’s latest roadblock is the U.S. Supreme Court. The lawsuit lodged by 21 children argues that the U.S. government has known how dangerous fossil fuels … [Read more…]
Share List If you haven’t been paying attention to the extent of Arctic Sea ice over the last decade, then it’s time to start. Satellite measurements began in earnest in 1979, and 2018’s Arctic Sea ice extent in October was about 2.34 million square miles. That might sound like a lot of ice, but it … [Read more…]
Share List A lot of climate-change deniers will use that same old tired argument: “Listen, the climate has been changing ever since there was a climate to change. It’s bogus to think that humans have something to do with this.” Unfortunately, we either know of or have a pretty good idea of the forces at … [Read more…]
Share List According to the United Nations (U.N.), released in an annual report the number of hungry people (humans who face chronic food deprivation) has increased from 804 million (2016) to 821 million (2017). Populations in South America and Africa had the worst increase. Over the past three years, the number of hungry people has grown. … [Read more…]
Share List Climate change has been big in political and social venues of discussion over the last decade. But it is also a catch-all euphemism for a term called “global warming.” The term was changed because no one can seem to explain the 20-year “pause” I warming that we are currently experiencing on Earth. But … [Read more…]
Share List Global warming. Climate change. Although it goes by various names and takes different forms, global warming is a very real issue ubiquitous to all parts of the Earth. Originally, it was thought that global warming was the consistent heating of the Earth over time, as a result of pollution and greenhouse gasses. Although … [Read more…]