Climate Change

18/03/20
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The Energy Mix
Carbon Concentration

March 15, 2020

The fight for climate action offers a “cautionary tale” for policy-makers looking to accelerate their efforts to #FlattenTheCurve on COVID-19—as well as on how to best stimulate the global economy in the pandemic’s aftermath, reports the New York Times.

18/03/20
Author: 
Robert Hunziker

MARCH 18, 2020

A recent landmark study of massive ice loss in Antarctica and Greenland fulfills the “worst case” prognosis, as outlined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It’s a nightmare come true, as the impact of global warming on the planet’s most significant/biggest masses of ice multiplied six-fold in only 30 years. It wasn’t supposed to happen so unexpectedly, so suddenly.

17/03/20
Author: 
Neela Banerjee
Dr. Aaron Bernstein has witnessed firsthand how climate change and public health are intertwined. Credit: Kris Snibbe/Harvard University

MAR 12, 2020

Air pollution makes people more vulnerable to respiratory infections; climate change brings people in closer contact with animals that can spread disease.

Doctors and public health researchers are getting an increasingly accurate and nuanced picture of the many ways climate change damages human health. 

12/03/20
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CBC Radio The Current

Mar 12, 2020

Writer and environmentalist Bill McKibben says the adaptations we make to fight the COVID-19 outbreak could hold valuable lessons elsewhere — in the efforts to mitigate climate change. 10:56

Listen here.

11/03/20
Author: 
Carl Meyer
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau enters the House of Commons from a hallway in West Block on Feb. 18, 2020. Photo by Kamara Morozuk

March 11th 2020

The Trudeau government should not use the oil-price crash and the economic downturn stemming from a public-health crisis as an excuse to back away from environmental commitments in the upcoming federal budget, warned a coalition of civil society leaders.

Speaking on Parliament Hill on Tuesday, representatives from Indigenous, labour, social justice and other organizations said now was not the time for Canada to shy away from tackling the climate emergency.

11/03/20
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Contributed by Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, November 15, 2019 (sent for review January 22, 2019; reviewed by J. David Tabara and Jessika E. Trancik)

PNAS February 4, 2020 117 (5) 2354-2365; first published January 21, 2020

11/03/20
Author: 
Jon Schwarz
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on March 2, 2020, in New York City. Stocks were up slightly in morning trading following a week that saw a massive sell-off due to fears over a new coronavirus. Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

March 6 2020

IF YOU’VE BEEN spending any time online or watching cable TV, you’ve gotten the message that humanity now faces two grave threats — a novel coronavirus and the crashing stock market — of roughly equal importance.

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