Tag: Climate Emergencies
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Problem : It’s getting hotter and we are too distracted to save ourselves
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NPR-Johannesburg’s water crisis is the latest blow to South Africa’s ‘world-class city’
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What if we had listened to President Kennedy in 1959 when he called the Potomac “the most polluted river West of The Nile?”
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Truly, if we tried, we couldn’t engineer a more ignobly exploitative and ignorant egress.
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And that will be the least of the challenges we face for our indifference and refusal to reverse course now.
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Meanwhile…“Mr. Trump — who has called climate change a “hoax,” “nonexistent” and “created by the Chinese” — rolled back more than 100 climate and environmental protections during his administration, while promoting the development of fossil fuels. He has claimed, falsely, that windmills cause cancer, that energy efficient buildings have no windows and that solar rooftops leave older people without air-conditioning in the summer.
www.nytimes.com/2024/02/16/climate/trump-clean-energy-fact-check.html
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But wait isn’t POTUS Biden to old to save the planet from Climate Change Emergency? Apparently not, quote from below: “In delaying the approval process for CP2, the White House is directing the Energy Department to consider all greenhouse gas emissions associated with the project — not just its construction. That could include emissions associated with drilling for and “transporting the fuel, a change would also affect other pending natural gas terminals. But that can only happen if President Biden is re-elected.
www.nytimes.com/2024/01/25/climate/a-huge-win-for-activists-puts-climate-on-the-2024-agenda.html
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“Project 2025, a conservative “battle plan” for the next Republican president, would stop attempts to cut the pollution that is heating the planet and encourage more emissions.”
www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/climate/republicans-climate-project2025.html
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“On Capitol Hill, Exxon and Mobil opposed the Clinton Adminstration’s efforts to gain Senate approval of the Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty to curb global warming that had won support by other oil companies like Royal Dutch/Shell Group and British Petroleum.”
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Let’s go down memory lane when pondering a Trump and Republican sweep in 2024…
www.nytimes.com/2014/11/11/us/politics/republicans-vow-to-fight-epa-and-approve-keystone-pipeline.html
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Do these perspectives help? The water will get higher sooner than they want it to, their house will become an underwater hazard, and the owners will get an insurance check if they are rich enough. Reallocating now isn’t a funny hypothetical, it’s the responsible decision for people in this situation to do.
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Wild fires in Chile and Floods in California
www.nytimes.com/2024/02/05/climate/california-floods-chile-wildfires-global-warming.html
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Now this too : bomb cyclones, terrible forces indeed impacting Southern California. Read it and learn so we can reverse the trend.
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Permafrost can imprison dangerous microbes for centuries. Will the Arctic thaw release them? | Science | AAAS
Permafrost can imprison dangerous microbes for centuries. Will the Arctic thaw release them? | Science | AAAS — Read on www.science.org/content/article/permafrost-can-imprison-dangerous-microbes-centuries-will-arctic-thaw-release-them
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1 Flood, Small Mud Damn, 12+ Wild Things — Isn’t Biodiversity Marvelous
We live at 1000 feet above sea level, but still the bottom of someone else’s elevation, and in a time of atmospheric rivers. Tuesday the floods. On Wednesday the water was already retreating so I donated a few mins of idleness to build a little mud dam. Here my dog is pointing to it. On…
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If a tree falls in the woods and no one hears it, did it still fall?
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/31/magazine/hannah-richie-interview.html Sadly, yes, and so goes the forest. I certainly appreciate the authors perspective but the outcomes that we collectively must achieve to end the anthropogenic climate emergency are not in place yet and actions are the only reports that . Granted, it is my Biophilia that makes advocating for other species and ecosystems personally…
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I guess somebody should phone Noah and let him know we’ll be needing another Ark
EU’s climate commissioner says there must be ‘deeper discussions with many other partners’ — Read on www.theguardian.com/environment/live/2023/dec/11/cop28-live-time-to-be-ambitious-says-president-as-summit-enters-final-days
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COP28 Lesson: Dr. King spoke often of tension at the heart of the universe between good and evil. Today after listening to updates on promises and actions at COP28…
…it is clear the new struggle of our time is here. We can say we’re for the ocean of the living in time to save it but if we put our investments and attention towards the ocean of the dead (fossil fuels) with unrealistic plans to pivot in time, the words don’t matter. To be…
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What if we had listened to Rachel Carson when she wrote The Sea Around us in 1951?
“For the globe as a whole, the ocean is the great regulator, the great stabilizer of temperatures…Without the ocean, our world would be visited by unthinkably harsh extremes of temperatures.” The kicker is so much of what Rachel Carson thought was influenced by Alexander Humboldt in 1800. Both were correct in their predictions and Big…
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Dear POTUS, actually we’re not very different countries, sure we both have great ambitions. Here’s a thought though, what if China 🇨🇳 and US 🇺🇸 work together on ending climate emergency because of our common interest to have a habitable planet?
www.nytimes.com/live/2023/11/15/world/biden-xi-apec-summit
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How close is California to that ephemeral line, well let’s start with groundwater depletion in a sacred place to TEH —the San Joaquin Valley
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Climate Emergency Tipping Point Nearly Reached in Cali Per Report
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Gee, great point NYT! We are on the brink of extinction. We all have a homeland in the balance here after all and Israel and Palestine have literally been fighting for as long as I have been alive. Perhaps we should fight the war that actually can be won.
www.nytimes.com/2023/10/23/climate/gaza-war-climate-change.html
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Hurricane🌀Otis
apple.news/A9QdDbgBYTsWFOnySX0ywUg ◽︎ Left the Pacific basin as a 70 mph Tropical Storm. ◽︎ Surged over Acapulco, Mexico as a Category 5 Hurricane after an 80 mph increase in 12 hour window.
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Amen, Mother Jones. Moreover, the Climate Change Emergencies we now face, just as before in our ancestors’ collapse, are largely the result of the same inequalities and failures to address in meaningful measure — the problems within our means, right now between us.
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Groundwater in US in as much trouble as humanity it seems — Time to Activate, become groundwater advocates.
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As Climate Emergencies continue to escalate rural communities are often the most burdened and least prepared to protect their residents — Headwaters Economics wants to help these communities reduce their exposure to these hazards!
Report The Amenity Trap: How high-amenity communities can avoid being loved to death More than ever, people are visiting and moving to places with — Read on headwaterseconomics.org/
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Straight out of the Lex Luther playbook
www.nytimes.com/2023/10/12/climate/fossil-fuels-arent-going-anywhere.html
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Flooding NYC Fall 2023 — And Just Like That The Day After Tomorrow Becomes Today
www.nytimes.com/live/2023/09/29/nyregion/nyc-rain-flash-flooding
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“Entire neighborhoods swept into the sea” 😢 — Catastrophic Flooding in Libya, 9/11/20023
www.nytimes.com/2023/09/12/world/middleeast/libya-floods.html
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More Deadly Floods — This Time in Brazil. Hold fast friends, we’ll care enough eventually.
www.nytimes.com/2023/09/06/world/americas/brazil-cyclone-floods-rio-grande-do-sol.html
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North Carolina Net Metering 101 – How To Meet Deadline – Southern Energy Management
Explore the ins and outs of net metering in North Carolina and understand Duke Energy’s changes to lock in savings before the Oct 1 deadline. — Read on southern-energy.com/north-carolina-net-metering-101/
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Duke Energy’s solar attack heads to court | Environmental Working Group
DURHAM, N.C. — Read on www.ewg.org/news-insights/news-release/2023/05/duke-energys-solar-attack-heads-court
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Heed it well. After the groundwater is gone all we have left gray water to survive on — bet these communities will care then.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/28/climate/groundwater-drying-climate-change.html
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So Critical! What If We Just Committed to Feed, Safely Hydrate, Protect, and Educate Every Climate Orphan in the Coming Decades—Having Deprived Them at the Very Least A Non-Toxic Environment Assuming They Make it to Adulthood —Don’t We Owe Them That, at Least? Not our problem either?
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Based on current trends, if we fail to rescue our planet and each other, we will actually long for the Summer of 2023
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Spot-on WBUR! There has been a lot of extreme weather lately. What’s the cause? | WBUR
Stories and commentaries that inform, challenge and occasionally amuse. — Read on www.wbur.org/npr/1195170374/there-has-been-a-lot-of-extreme-weather-lately-whats-the-cause
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Scary, still. We can even predict and prepare for these disasters. In fact their preponderance now due to our early failures could be a short term advantage. Today could be the moment in history we start to survive.
www.nytimes.com/live/2023/08/21/us/hurricane-hilary-california-mexico
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The Earth Has Repeatedly Declared A Climate Emergency; Which We Ignore. Biden Doing So Might Help, But Until Enough People Declare A True Emergency Exists And Change Course Our Legacy From Here On Out Will Be “Faced With Catastrophic Consequences, We Procrastinated.”
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First Resurgent Endemic Case of Malaria in Maryland in 40 Years Suspected
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Let TEH say it again: “This one Hurricane is expected to dump a years worth of rain in parts of SW-US”.
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Hurricanes Not Only Increasing in Frequency, They Are Also Increasing in Deadliness.
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Frequency of Extreme Weather Events Will Continue Along With Sequelae Of Increasing Market Inequalities in LDCs and HDCs.
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See Three Years Into Pandemic, Vaccine Boosters Should Come Before Variants But We Gave Up On Case Based Surveillance, So COVID-19 is Gaining Again.
apple.news/AVceGeeXeSlGIFk7dy3rVmw Otherwise stated. Why new variant is surging now and we are suddenly chasing again? Because we refused to learn and adapt. We built up all this great surveillance and response infrastructure and then threw it away like disposable masks and kit. The microbes already had the long-odds before the climate emergency — we are…
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Amazon Rainforest Defenders Summit 2023
www.hrw.org/news/2023/08/04/amazon-summit-commit-protect-rainforest-defenders
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PRO/AH/EDR> Japanese encephalitis & other – India (07): (AS) case surge, RFI
JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS & OTHER – INDIA (07): (ASSAM) CASE SURGE, REQUEST FOR INFORMATION A ProMED-mail post http://www.promedmail.org ProMED-mail is a program of the International Society for Infectious Diseases http://www.isid.org Date: Fri 4 Aug 2023 06:18 PM IST Source: Latestly [edited] https://www.latestly.com/agency-news/india-news-five-succumb-to-japanese-encephalitis-in-assam-5317520.html Five persons, including a minor, have died due to Japanese Encephalitis (JE) in Assam’s…
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PRO/SOAS> Dengue – Nepal (02): rise in cases
DENGUE – NEPAL (02): RISE IN CASES A ProMED-mail post http://www.promedmail.org ProMED-mail is a program of the International Society for Infectious Diseases http://www.isid.org Date: Tue 1 Aug 2023 Source: Online Khabar [edited] https://english.onlinekhabar.com/dengue-in-nepal.html According to the Epidemiology and Disease Control Division, the number of dengue cases in the country has surpassed 5500, with Sunsari district…
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The Great Arizona Water Grab – Reveal
A surprising group of investors is fueling a global scramble for water in the most unlikely of places – the Arizona desert. As wells run dry, there’s a race for profits. — Read on revealnews.org/podcast/the-great-arizona-water-grab/
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I know it’s hypocritical, I’m an Epidemiologist, averages are my daily bread.
But folks when it comes to climate science, it’s time to put the averages away. Don’t take it from TEH though: “Yes, humans are smarter, richer, healthier, and better educated, on average, than ever before in history. But “on average” is misleading: as the old joke goes, you can have your head in the refrigerator…
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The Science of Attribution to Me, Now
These days I think way too much about anthropogenic global warming emergencies and how much trouble my boys are in and all the animals and natural beauty and magical wellsprings of life at stake. I think about all the historical precedent, statistics, and scientific consensus we have right in front of us: map and compass…
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Notes from Angry Weather to Simmer On (written Dr. Fredricke Otto, Environmental Attribution Scientist, TEH has officially designated an EpiSaint)
The anthropogenic climate change to climate emergency continuum that is imperiling the majority so a few can be extremely wealthy is largely a communication crises. Consider if the threat is always global mean temperature is predicted to rise by a one, two, even three degrees in 30 years!!!!! Or we must completely change everything we…
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Climate Shift Index alert: Europe, July 2023 | Climate Central
Climate Central analysis shows that human-caused climate change made the record-breaking heat forecast across Europe up to 5 times more likely. — Read on www.climatecentral.org/climate-shift-index-alert-Europe-July-2023
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That’s what a hero looks like right there. Solidarity Greta Thunberg!
www.nytimes.com/2023/07/24/world/europe/greta-thunberg-fined-climate-sweden.html
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More Extreme weather and …“The price is being paid by those who always pay—people in developing countries” ~ Friederike Otto
www.nytimes.com/2023/07/21/world/asia/record-heat-wave-flooding-climate-change.html
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According to NYT Report — Middle East Heat Index Reaches Life Threatening 152F
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Everyone Should Wake Up Tomorrow And Decide Today I Dig Deep For My Kids. Here’s The Quote: The U.S. special envoy for climate change called the extreme heat “a threat to all of humankind.”
www.nytimes.com/2023/07/18/world/extreme-heat-wave-us-europe-asia.html
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Heart breaking toll in US-PA Floods July 2023
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“South Korea is only halfway through the 2023 Monsoon season and they have already exceeded their seasonal total expected flood volume.”
-BBC World Report from July 17th, 2023 Photo credits to NASA Earth Observatory and ESRI.
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Extreme Heat in Death Valley US-CA reached 129 F on July 15 2023
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Flooding in US-VT July 2023
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66170640 Photo credits to NASA Earth Observatory and ESRI.
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