Climate Change

The Terrifying Warning Lurking in the Earth’s Ancient Rock Record - Our climate models could be missing something big.

25/02/21
Author: 
Peter Brannen
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The Atlantic
Glaciers from the Vatnajökull ice cap, in Iceland

This is not a long article; it's a short book--but comprehensive, frightening, and fascinating. 

            -- Gene McGuckin 

Photo Illustrations by Brendan Pattengale | Maps by La Tigre

Images above: Glaciers from the Vatnajökull ice cap, in Iceland

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Texas Was Minutes from Months-Long Blackouts Grid Operator Admits

21/02/21
Author: 
Primary Author Compiled By Mitchell Beer
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The Energy Mix
power outage - mrapplegate/flickr

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

At least 47 people were dead, hundreds of thousands of homes were still without power, half of the state was under a boil water order, racialized communities were bearing the brunt, and the electricity system operator admitted it had only narrowly averted months-long blackouts as Texas began taking stock of a rolling disaster brought on by climate-driven severe weather and ideologically-driven grid deregulation.

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The Enormous Risk of Atmospheric Hacking

21/02/21
Author: 
Bill McKibben
Link: 
the New Yorker
Sweden may soon be the site for a test of geoengineering technology.Photograph by Markus Thomenius / Alamy

 

February 18, 2021

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A Bleak Future for Water

21/02/21
Author: 
Ray Levy Uyeda
Link: 
the Baffler
The Bethany Reservoir in Alameda County. | John Loo

February 20, 2021

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Capitalism
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Climate Disruption Killing Off BC Salmon, Says DFO

19/02/21
Author: 
Watershed Watch
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Watershed Watch
Salmon - Wilson Hui/Flickr
February 11th, 2021

(A recap of DFO’s annual State of the Salmon assessment)

Many factors contribute to the decline of wild salmon in B.C. Habitat destruction, harvest, and bad aquaculture practices are all negative impacts, but the effect global warming has on salmon populations will be widespread, long-lasting and irreversible without urgent action. 

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British Columbia
Canada
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Heating Arctic may be to blame for snowstorms in Texas, scientists argue

18/02/21
Author: 
Oliver Milman
Link: 
The Guardian
Kaleb Love, a municipal worker, breaks ice on a frozen fountain in Richardson, Texas, on Tuesday, as freezing temperatures grip the state. Photograph: LM Otero/AP

Feb. 17, 2021

The wintry weather that has battered the southern US and parts of Europe could be a counterintuitive effect of the climate crisis

Associating climate change, normally connected with roasting heat, with an unusual winter storm that has crippled swaths of Texas and brought freezing temperatures across the southern US can seem counterintuitive. But scientists say there is evidence that the rapid heating of the Arctic can help push frigid air from the north pole much further south, possibly to the US-Mexico border.

 

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Coming soon: A public database of global fossil fuel reserves

16/02/21
Author: 
Carl Meyer
Link: 
National Observer
Suncor refinery in Commerce City, Colo., in 2005. The registry is being spearheaded by the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative, an effort to focus more on what’s happening with the planet’s fossil fuel supply. Photo from Suncor

February 16th 2021

Energy experts are working to produce the world’s first public and complete database of fossil fuel reserves in the lead-up to this year’s UN climate summit.

The “Global Registry of Fossil Fuels” would fill a major gap in public knowledge, where only expensive or proprietary databases on fossil fuel reserves have existed before, or ones that are not detailed enough or are designed for industry use.

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Canada
Climate Change
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DSA’s Green New Deal Principles

15/02/21
Author: 
Democratic Socialists of America - Ecosocialists Working Group
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Democratic Socialists of America
DSA’s Green New Deal Principles

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Climate Change
Ecology/Environment
Green New Deal/LEAP
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USA
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3 False Solutions in Biden Climate Policy - Ethanol, Biogas, Carbon Banking

10/02/21
Author: 
Alexis Baden-Mayer
Link: 
Organic Consumers Association

February 2, 2021

On January 27, 2021, President Joe Biden signed his “Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad.” This historic action commited the U.S. to achieving “significant short-term global reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and net-zero global emissions by mid-century or before.”

 

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Green New Deal/LEAP
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Tree-Free Pulp Mills Kicked Off in Washington State

10/02/21
Author: 
Carl Meyer
Link: 
National Observer
Canopy executive director Nicole Rycroft stands next to straw bales at Columbia Pulp Mill in Washington. Rycroft photo

February 9th 2021

For Nicole Rycroft, the first modern, tree-free commercial-scale pulp mill in North America was a “lightbulb moment” about the climate crisis.

The new mill in eastern Washington state, called Columbia Pulp, runs entirely without woodchips.

Instead, it makes pulp, for paper products like tissues and food containers, out of some of the hundreds of millions of tonnes of wheat straw that is left over after farmers harvest their grain.

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Ecology/Environment
Forestry
USA
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