Climate Change

03/09/22
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Shah Meer Baloch in Islamabad
Displaced people wade through a flooded area in Peshawar, Pakistan. The country’s flooded southern Sindh province braced on Sunday for a fresh deluge. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Aug. 28, 2022

Flash flooding from ‘monster monsoon’ washes away villages and crops and leaves thousands homeless

A Pakistani minister has called the country’s deadly monsoon season “a serious climate catastrophe” and “a climate dystopia at our doorstep” as officials said deaths from widespread flooding in Pakistan had passed 1,000 since mid-June.

03/09/22
Author: 
Jake Johnson
People look at a coal-fired power plant in Peitz, Germany on October 29, 2021. (Photo: Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Sept. 1, 2022

"Fossil fuel subsidies are a roadblock to a more sustainable future," said the head of the International Energy Agency.

An analysis published this week found that government subsidies bolstering the production and consumption of coal, oil, and gas nearly doubled in 2021, even as climate scientists warned that fossil fuel development must be rapidly cut off if the international community is to have any hope of stopping runaway planetary warming.

31/08/22
Author: 
Sasha Abramsky
Rows of crops stand amid ongoing drought on August 26, 2022, near Bakersfield, California. MARIO TAMA / GETTY IMAGES

Aug. 31, 2022

The federal government’s recent announcement that it would impose significant cutbacks in water allocations to the seven states reliant on water from the drought-stricken Colorado River is the latest sign that climate change is ravaging global water systems.

31/08/22
Author: 
Tom Sandborn
B.C. NDP leadership candidate David Eby Is "frustrated" that climate activist Anjali Appadurai has entered the race because, by robbing him of his predicted coronation, it delays crowning the winner by months. PHOTO BY NICK PROCAYLO /PNG

Please read and act on the article below--and then pass it on. I've known Tom for a long time, and I know it was not easy for him to write it.

         Solidarity,

            Gene McGuckin

Aug. 31, 2022

Hi, all

30/08/22
Author: 
Lydia DePillis
Ben Jones illustration

Aug. 25, 2022

They underestimated the impact of global warming, and their preferred policy solution floundered in the United States.

Economists have been examining the impact of climate change for almost as long as it’s been known to science.

30/08/22
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Compiled by Mitchell Beer
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Aug. 7, 2022

Canada’s biggest fossil companies are lining up to dismiss the federal government’s new emissions cap for their sector as “very aggressive” and “almost unrealistic”, even as Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault hastens to offer them flexibility and an extended deadline to hit the long-awaited target.

30/08/22
Author: 
Damien Gayle
Scientists for Extinction Rebellion demonstrate outside the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy in London. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty Images

Aug. 29, 2022

An article in the Nature Climate Change journal argues that non-violent direct action taken by experts is effective

Scientists should commit acts of civil disobedience to show the public how seriously they regard the threat posed by the climate crisis, a group of leading scientists has argued.

“Civil disobedience by scientists has the potential to cut through the myriad complexities and confusion surrounding the climate crisis,” the researchers wrote in an article, published in the scientific journal Nature Climate Change on Monday.

30/08/22
Author: 
Damian Carrington
Canary Wharf, where HSBC, JPMorgan Chase and other global banking corporations have offices, is seen from Greenwich, southeast London. Photo by Nevalenx / Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Aug. 30, 2022

This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

U.S. and U.K. financial institutions have been among the leading investors in Russian “carbon bomb” fossil fuel projects, according to a new database of holdings from recent years.

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