Global warming?

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Climate Changed
Scientists on the ground in the world’s forests are witnessing big changes as trees adapt (or not) to the world’s new climate

Forests are one of the most important ways our planet regulates its climate. It’s simple: Trees remove carbon from the atmosphere and store it. Older forests tend to store more carbon than younger ones, and a single big tree can…

As Greenland’s ice sheet melts, scientists want to know ‘how fast’

As Greenland’s ice sheet melts, scientists push to learn ‘how fast’
https://medium.com/@erinbiba_32960/climate-changed-5c6feba0ed3c

good for them o think
mindofthere own,nofollow the group

Qatar Says It Will Leave OPEC and Focus on Natural Gas

Qatar says it will leave OPEC and focus on natural gas

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The Persian Gulf state, a modest producer of oil, said it would leave the group in January after nearly six decades.
The New York Times • Read more »

Qatar pulls out of Opec to focus on gas production
Country to leave cartel in January 2019, but will take part in this week’s meeting

Qatar pulls out of Opec to focus on gas production

Marine biologist Catriona Clemmesen-Bockelmann feeds herring at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel, Germany. (Morris MacMatzen/Getty Images)

A Critic at Large
The Trouble with “Heart of Darkness”

Joseph Conrad was born a hundred and sixty-one years ago today. Is his novel a critique of colonialism, or an example of it?

By David Denby
imagine many counties in the wold will be
plenty of money to spend on militay tho huh
Kinshasa is drowning in waste
Every day almost 9,000 tons of garbage accumulate in Kinshasa. The Congolese capital does not have a functioning garbage collection system. Consequences for the health of the "Kinois" are catastrophic.

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Kinshasa is drowning in waste | DW | 03.12.2018

 

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6 months ago extreme wasent added into weather
plus one had to go into a specific GW/CC website for info
now
most media carry something daily

Climate Risk Index: 2017 broke records for extreme weather
Puerto Rico, Honduras and Myanmar have topped a 173-nation ranking of countries most affected by climate disasters. Extreme weather caused record damage in 2017, and developing nations bear the brunt, authors say.

Climate Risk Index: 2017 broke records for extreme weather | DW | 04.12.2018




just so you know
chemical pesticides unite for earths destruction



Today's Video
The fall and rise of the fearless fox.

Ryan Kellman/Adam Cole/NPR's Skunk Bear

When the population of Channel Islands foxes started to vanish in the '90s, no one knew why. Bringing them back from near-extinction has meant unraveling a mystery that can be traced back to a miraculous pesticide developed by the Allies in World War II. Watch the Skunk Bear team’sjourney to try to set things right.

 

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oh,like love

The radical tools that could save coral reefs

The radical tools that could save coral reefs

very informative

What is carbon trading and why do some people hate it?
California’s celebrated climate policy has earned some foes in unlikely places. Here’s why community advocates say we need to think about the hidden costs to carbon trading.

What is carbon trading and why do some people hate it?


Crunch time for the climate at the COP24 global warming conference
There's a lot at stake at the UN climate conference in Poland. Delegates will be scrambling to save the 2015 Paris climate agreement — and prevent the worst effects of a warming world.

we are a sad species no doubt

Dirty oil
A protester's hands covered in crude oil during a 2011 protest against Royal Dutch Shell after pipeline spills in Nigeria, in 2008 and 2009. Shell allegedly ignored advice to replace the outdated Trans Niger Pipeline, which ruptured and inundated villages in Ogoniland with thousands of barrels of oil. Anti-pipeline movements have been around for decades, and are joining up across the globe.

Crunch time for the climate at the COP24 global warming conference | DW | 03.12.2018

good on ya Arnie
top espected people like you and ATTENBOROUGH compaed to a downright selfish non human ceep

dont let the idiot influence the world

Arnold Schwarzenegger goes Yiddish on Donald Trump at COP24

Arnold Schwarzenegger goes Yiddish on Donald Trump at COP24

Philippine activists locked in deadly struggle for land rights
The brutal murder of agricultural labor activists in the Philippines has exposed bitter social divisions between rich landowners and poor farmers fueled by the government's promotion of violence. Ana P. Santos reports.

Philippine activists locked in deadly struggle for land rights | DW | 24.10.2018

— Calls renew for laws to protect wandering wolves: A famous wild wolf in Yellowstone National Park was shot and killed by a hunter as it wandered just outside the park last weekend, the New York Times reports. “A member of the Lamar Canyon pack in the national park’s northeast region, 926F was the daughter of 832F, an alpha female that had become a celebrity, famous for her hunting prowess and for her frequent appearances along the road traveled by tourists in the park’s Lamar Valley,” per the report. The killing wasn’t unlawful, but it has reupped calls for a “buffer around the park so wolves that live within the safe harbor of Yellowstone and that have little fear of humans cannot be shot if they wander beyond the park’s invisible boundary.”

A North Atlantic right whale appears at the surface of Cape Cod Bay off the coast of Plymouth, Mass. (Michael Dwyer/AP)

— Trump administration takes step toward testing for oil in the Atlantic: The Trump administration has approved five requests to allow companies to conduct seismic tests for offshore oil that could harm tens of thousands of dolphins, whales and other marine animals, The Post’s Darryl Fears reports. The National Marine Fisheries Service, a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, announced Friday that it issued final “incidental take” authorizations that allows the companies conducting the surveys to harm wildlife “if it’s unintentional,” Fears writes, adding multiple studies show “acoustic sound can harm and potentially kill animals.” “The decision is likely to further antagonize governors in states along the Eastern Seaboard who strongly oppose the administration’s proposal to expand federal oil and gas leases to the Atlantic,” he added.

 

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SICK PLANETThe Climate Apocalypse Is Now, and It’s Happening to You
BY ADAM ROGERS
Goodbye, Arctic. Hello, heat stroke and asthma attacks. New climate reports connect the dots between predictions and your life—today.

COURTROOM DRAMA

Pipeline Vandals Are Reinventing Climate Activism
BY DEAN KUIPERS
Angry about climate change, activists shut down an oil pipeline in Minnesota—and then tried to convince a jury that their illegal actions were necessary.

AUSSIE NEWS HA

Australia's crop production takes hammering as drought, frosts bite
Australia's winter crop looks worse than initially predicted after the driest September on record and significant frost damage.

Trial to get welfare recipients into farm work labelled a failure
The $27.5m Seasonal Work Incentives Trial has only found placements for 333 people in 18 months, falling far short of its 7,600 possible places.

Mining women in iron ore heartland see boost to their ranks
Women have been scarce on the ground at South Middleback Ranges but that is changing.

SunRice axes jobs at Deniliquin and Leeton mills due to Murray water allocation of zero at one location
Low water availability and high water prices has forced SunRice to cut at least 100 jobs.

Bushfire destroys pioneering Qld banana plantation
A bushfire rips through Rob and Krista Watkins' award-winning farm at Walkamin, west of Cairns, destroying its banana crop.

A wolf walking through the snow in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. (AP Photo/Yellowstone National Park)

 

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POLAND
determined to be the paom im the arse of the Eu curentky
ionic
whenthe world had muchsympathy for the countrys peoples in WW2,i still do pesonally

In this Nov. 21, 2018 photo smoke billows from chimney stacks of the heating and power plant in Bedzin, near Katowice, Poland. The COP 24 UN Climate Change Conference is taking place in Katowice. Negotiators from around the world are meeting for talks on curbing climate change. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)


— Meanwhile, in Poland's coal country: The United Nations’ annual climate change conference opened over the weekend in Katowice, “the heart of Poland’s coal country,” CNN reports. It’s a major flash point at the global summit, as coal is seen as playing a major role in the warming globe. “The country is the biggest producer of hard coal in the EU and coal power provides about 80% of Poland's electricity compared to an average of 30% among International Energy Agency member countries,” per the report. “But coal accounts for almost half of global energy-related CO2 emissions, and like other coal-dependent countries, Poland is trying to adapt to a world that needs to cut emissions to slow global warming.”

a biggest personal worry ever
esp e what BRAZILS honchos ae likely to do

Amazon Rainforest Deforestation Hits Highest Rate in 10 Years


Amazon Rainforest Deforestation Hits Highest Rate in 10 Years

A Coal Ash Spill Made These Workers Sick. Now, They're Fighting for Compensation.
After a big jury verdict, the Kingston workers now have to tie each illness to toxics in the coal ash. It has parallels to the 9/11 recovery crew cases.

A Coal Ash Spill Made These Workers Sick. Now, They're Fighting for Compensation.


noone will deny that David,one of the championsof the world
thank you fo taking the time and speaking out

David Attenborough: Global warming is 'our greatest threat'

Reuters
David Attenborough: Global warming is 'our greatest threat'
"Leaders of the world, you must lead," urged naturalist David Attenborough, who was given a "people's seat" at the two-week UN climate conference in Katowice, Poland, alongside two dozen heads of state and government.

David Attenborough: Global warming is 'our greatest threat'


LAUGH
3rd time theyve put this out there
said before theyre fascinated with there CC article
apart from there own style of conning you to buy a subsciption ha

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Global leaders at COP24, the U.N. climate conference being held this year in Katowice, Poland, have done away with pleasantries, skipping straight to thecollapse of civilizations. In his opening remarks, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres urged countries to reduce their 2010 emissions by 45 percent over the next decade and to aim for net-zero emissions by 2050. Guterres warned of the “catastrophic consequences” that would result if the world didn’t take climate change seriously.

U.N. Climate Summit, COP24, Warns of ‘Collapse of Our Civilizations’ | The Weather Channel

War of Words
Battle metaphors pit one group against another. Do they undermine our ability to take on climate change?

Can we save the world from climate change without declaring war?

repeat
why not

We broke down what climate change will do, region by region
Yeah, we read each chapter of the report so you don't have to.

By Grist staff on Nov 29, 2018

We broke down what climate change will do, region by region

clever,neccessay

How Satellites and Big Data Are Predicting the Behavior of Hurricanes and Other Natural Disasters
Leveraging machine learning could help diminish the damages of storms and wildfires

Read more: How Satellites and Big Data Are Predicting the Behavior of Hurricanes and Other Natural Disasters | Innovation | Smithsonian

wow huh

esp the dastratdly tick, ewww

Mosquitoes are traveling much further than previously thought
Mosquito-trapping balloons could help us understand one of the world's deadliest diseases.

The nightmarish Asian longhorned tick has invaded the U.S.—and it can reproduce without mating
It's in at least eight states already, and no one is sure how long it's been here.


thinking
the elephant race would have been so ashamed to have been associated with our human race

The Complicated History of the Human and Elephant Relationship
With the new exhibition, “Game Change,” Smithsonian Libraries delves into 150 years of hunting and conservation

Read more: The Complicated History of the Human and Elephant Relationship | At the Smithsonian | Smithsonian

The Complicated History of the Human and Elephant Relationship | At the Smithsonian | Smithsonian


Lonesome George the Giant Tortoise’s DNA Reveals Cancer-Fighting and Longevity Genes
The iconic reptile and last Pinta Island tortoise passed in 2012, but a new look at his DNA is helping researchers understand genetics

Read more: Lonesome George the Giant Tortoise's DNA Reveals Cancer-Fighting and Longevity Genes | Smart News | Smithsonian

Lonesome George the Giant Tortoise's DNA Reveals Cancer-Fighting and Longevity Genes | Smart News | Smithsonian

Thousands of Little-Known Plant Species Are at Risk of Extinction
When researchers used machine learning to evaluate 150,000 plant species, they found that 10 percent were likely to qualify for the IUCN Red List

Thousands of Little-Known Plant Species Are at Risk of Extinction | Smart News | Smithsonian

how intersting altho could be interfering with nature huh

Coral Larvae Cryogenically Frozen and Thawed for the First Time
Warming oceans are killing the world’s reefs, but scientists may have found a way to help them get out of hot water—by putting corals into a deep freeze

Read more: Coral Larvae Cryogenically Frozen and Thawed for the First Time | Science | Smithsonian

coral spores

Coral Larvae Cryogenically Frozen and Thawed for the First Time | Science | Smithsonian

 

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acht
wouldent worry about it,accept our fate haha

Can The Green New Deal Save Civilization From Climate Change Catastrophe?

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For those invested in civilization's survival, the last few years haven't offered much cause for optimism. Is that starting to change?

dont believe we deserve to be saved
said it almost daily ha

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OPINION
Artificial Intelligence Will Save Humanity, but Does Anyone Care?

On Earth and in space, from battling climate change to finding new colonies, A.I. is humankind’s best friend.
Human activity will almost certainly push global temperatures more than 2 degrees beyond pre-industrial levels. Even with aggressive action, some climate scientists are already suggesting it may be too late to reverse course. While there’s plenty of uncertainty in climate science, there’s no good reason to assume anything other than the worst possible outcome. And there’s a lot more certainty in human behavior. We’re short-sighted, fight-or-flight–driven animals. The threat of climate change is too slow, too distant, for the human brain to meaningfully react to it in the here and now.

Climate scientists will keep running studies and modeling solutions that could reduce carbon dioxide levels more aggressively. And we should do that. But even with the most optimistic science out there, we will likely end up with catastrophic consequences on the ground, including widespread war, famine and an onslaught of disease. We need a backup plan like never before.

Should Vegans Have the Same Protections as Religious People? A 'Landmark' Case Will Decide


real people
enjoy life all

Food

'Farming While Black': Cultivating food- and racial-justice in upstate New York

'Farming While Black': Cultivating food- and racial-justice in upstate New York





Warning for Seafood Lovers: Climate Change Could Crash These Important Fisheries
Atlantic and polar cod face a double whammy as the planet warms: rising ocean temperatures and acidification could cut reproduction by nearly two-thirds, study says.

Warning for Seafood Lovers: Climate Change Could Crash These Important Fisheries

Scallops Absorb Billions of Microplastics in Just 6 Hours


This year’s U.N. climate talks — brought to you by coal?

SHANNO

This year’s U.N. climate talks — brought to you by coal?

 

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The truth about ‘clean’ coal

Clean coal’s dirty secret: More pollution, not less

5 lessons from the latest devastating hurricane season
Let’s not forget them.




Greenland ice sheet melting at 'exceptional' rate
The disintegrating Greenland ice sheet is the leading cause of global sea level rise. And, according to a new study, it's melting faster than it ever has in recorded history.

Greenland ice sheet melting at 'exceptional' rate | DW | 05.12.2018


Marinating in plastics

Marinating in plastics

The increasing amount of plastic clogging the planet's oceans is a slow-moving environmental disaster, one which we know very little about. Why? Because 99 percent of that plastic is "basically missing."


The journey plastics take once they hit the ocean is largely a mystery. A host of new scientific investigations underway around the world aim to dissolve some of that mystery. Photo by Bojan Fürst
The Riddle of the Roaming Plastics
It is one of the modern world’s biggest mysteries—99 percent of the plastics that enter the ocean are missing.


The Riddle of the Roaming Plastics | Hakai Magazine

At COP24, climate consensus reigns. But what does that really mean?
For some people, acceptance of climate change comes down to belief. But for the majority of the nations gathering for COP24, it is a matter of scientific consensus, the product of a cumulative and rigorous body of research.

Who owns the view? North Dakotans tangle over proposed wind project.
Wind power is booming in North Dakota, even as industry growth cools in many states. But the mood here is shifting, as residents grapple with conflicting views of property rights.




And there are even more consequences: It’s causing Greenland’s ice sheet, the second largest ice mass on the planet, to melt at anunprecedented rate. As the ice sheet melts, the sea will rise, bringing more severe storms and flooding. So … there’s your weekly dose of bad CO2 news.

— Greta Moran


The Supreme Court dismisses an environmental challenge to border wall
By Greta Moran on Dec 5, 2018 at 6:02 am

The Supreme Court dismisses an environmental challenge to border wall

WHY AUSTRALIA WANTS YOU TO BUY ELECTRIC CARS

MINERAL MAD AUSTRALIA
because you have it, and the world will want it,so not entirely your fault


Why Australia Wants You to Buy Electric Cars

Otters, Polar Bears and Abraham Lincoln: The Best New Environmental Books of December

 

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GOOD LUCK

supposed to be a major Trumploke denier huh

Amazon indigenous groups and truckers ally to oppose Brazil’s Grainrail
by Sue Branford and Maurício Torres on 6 December 2018


Amazon indigenous groups and truckers ally to oppose Brazil’s Grainrail


if only we had a few politicians with sucha conviction
show me one

Climate change weighs heavily on Soren Toft, chief operating officer of the shipping giant Maersk. In an interview with CNN on Tuesday, he called it “one of the most significant issues facing the planet.”

That’s why Maersk just announced it aims to go carbon neutral by 2050. That means the company needs better, cleaner ships. Container ships use a tremendous amount of diesel and contribute 2 to 3 percent of global emissions. Maersk has already invested $1 billion in technology that can make its ships more energy efficient.

To hit that 2050 goal, the company said it needs to put green ships on the ocean as soon as 2030. Maersk says it’s leaning on its whole supply chain — from the folks who build engines to people who invent clean tech — to step up. “We can only do this when we work together,” Toft said. Maersk plans to encourage other shipping companies to go green, too, and wants to start figuring out how to reinvent the shipping wheel starting in early 2019.

— Zoya Teirstein

2018 Emissions on Pace to Hit ‘Record High’

Trump's EPA Wants to Build More Coal Plants as U.S. Consumption Falls to Lowest Level in 39 Years

apart from that,dont beieve thats the/a major issue
if they overdo it, the wold will OVERFISH OUR OCEANS is my concer


“If the world leaders gathering in Poland hope to address the climate crisis, they need to tackle overconsumption of meat and dairy, starting with what’s on their own plates.”
—Stephanie Feldstein, of the Center for Biological Diversity, responding to the meat-heavy menu on offer at the COP24 conference this week.

humanist compared to others

David Attenborough’s dire climate warning: ‘Our greatest threat in thousands of years’

David Attenborough’s dire climate warning: ‘Our greatest threat in thousands of years’
This Swedish teen is stealing the show at COP24

Sweden’s famous climate teen is not impressed by COP24

For decades, a German utility has been ripping out an ancient forest to unearth more coal. With little left to preserve, environmentalists are nevertheless fighting back.

How Satellites and Big Data Are Predicting the Behavior of Hurricanes and Other Natural Disasters | Innovation | Smithsonian

Dispatch
After the Woolsey Fire, Mudslides Threaten Malibu
When rain comes this week, loose dirt and rocks, with nothing to snag on, could pour downhill, following the same channels—the stream beds and draws—that pulled the fire up the mountain face.

By Dana Goodyear

France Suspends Gas Tax as Trump Falsely Blames Paris Agreement for Riots

 

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BETWEEN 2016 AND 2020, AUSTRALIAN-BASED MINERS WILL ALMOST TRIPLE ANNUAL PRODUCTION OF LITHIUM TO 188,000 METRIC TONS, ACCOUNTING FOR ABOUT HALF THE WORLD’S TOTAL SUPPLY.

THE LONGER-TERM OUTLOOK IS GOOD, WITH LITHIUM DEMAND SET TO TRIPLE BY 2025 AS SALES OF ELECTRIC VEHICLES GROW

5 FAST FORWARD
Why Australia Wants You to Buy Electric Cars

Long known for its coal and iron ore exports, Australia is investing in becoming the world’s leading lithium exporter.


everyone has a story to tell
esp if percieved disaster related

best of graphics shannon, bit more adv than your grade 10 was it uh

Greenland's Ice Melt Is in 'Overdrive,' With No Sign of Slowing
The ice sheet is adding more to sea level rise than any time in the last three and a half centuries, new research suggests. Could it be nearing a tipping point?

Greenland's Ice Melt Is in 'Overdrive,' With No Sign of Slowing

For Ugandan villagers, tradition and tourism help keep the peace with gorillas

For Ugandan villagers, tradition and tourism help keep the peace with gorillas

 

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your leader Trump,, the biggest joke of a humans lifetime


Build Trump’s Wall or Protect the Arctic? Down to 2 Aging Icebreakers, National Security Is at Risk
While the U.S. put off funding new icebreakers year after year, Russia built a fleet of more than 40 now at the ready as a melting Arctic opens new frontiers.

By Sabrina Shankman

Build Trump’s Wall or Protect the Arctic? Down to 2 Aging Icebreakers, National Security Is at Risk

anotherr thing you allowing to happen


BREAKING NEWS
The Trump administration plans a major rollback of protections for the sage grouse, potentially opening 9 million acres to oil drilling.
Thursday, December 6, 2018 12:02 PM EST
The earlier proposal to protect the bird, whose waning numbers have brought it close to endangerment, was put forth under the Interior Department in 2015 and set out to ban or sharply reduce oil and gas drilling in 10.7 million acres of its habitat.

Read More »

How did public land drilling rights become cheaper than a cup of coffee?
By Greta Moran on Dec 3, 2018

How did public land drilling rights become cheaper than a cup of coffee?



Trump wants to ramp up coal. Spain has found a way to quit it.

Trump wants to ramp up coal. Spain has found a way to quit it.

A US-China Investment War Is Quietly Emerging, and the Environment Will Be the Ultimate Casualty


See stirring landscapes and scenes, captured by photographers.

Will Green Growth Save Puerto Rico?

The people of Puerto Rico are facing severe austerity measures; a new study, Austerity Versus Green Growth for Puerto Rico, presents a way out of the debt spiral says Professor Robert Pollin

neer ending huh
how could that possiblybe for such an inncent thing as conservation


Five wildlife conservationists held by Iran could face the death penalty

Five wildlife conservationists held by Iran could face the death penalty

PHOTOGRAPH BY PIM VOLKERS



WINNERS' GALLERY

Wildlife


View striking moments featuring wildlife from around the world.

 

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KEEP OUt OF THE ARCTIC
KEEP OUT OF SPACE
HUMANKIND

Build Trump’s Wall or Protect the Arctic? Down to 2 Aging Icebreakers, National Security Is at

Build Trump’s Wall or Protect the Arctic? Down to 2 Aging Icebreakers, National Security Is at Risk

U.S. Starts Process to Open Arctic to Offshore Drilling, Despite Federal Lawsuit
Environmental groups are challenging President Trump’s move to revoke an Obama-era order that had put the same waters off-limits to oil and gas production.
Sabrina Shankman
BY SABRIN

U.S. Starts Process to Open Arctic to Offshore Drilling, Despite Federal Lawsuit

Greenland's Ice Melt Is in 'Overdrive,' With No Sign of Slowing
The ice sheet is adding more to sea level rise than any time in the last three and a half centuries, new research suggests. Could it be nearing a tipping point?

Greenland's Ice Melt Is in 'Overdrive,' With No Sign of Slowing

 

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Scientists Discover 'Most Diverse Coral Site' on Great Barrier Reef

Scientists Discover 'Most Diverse Coral Site' on Great Barrier Reef

Decades of Denial and Stalling Have Created a Climate Crunch

By David Suzuki (4 min. read)

In a 1965 speech to members, American Petroleum Institute president Frank Ikard outlined the findings of a report by then-president Lyndon Johnson’s Science Advisory Committee, based in part on research the institute conducted in the 1950s.

“The substance of the report is that there is still time to save the world's peoples from the catastrophic consequence of pollution, but time is running out,” Ikard said, adding, “One of the most important predictions of the report is that carbon dioxide is being added to the earth’s atmosphere by the burning of coal, oil, and natural gas at such a rate that by the year 2000 the heat balance will be so modified as possibly to cause marked changes in climate beyond local or even national efforts.” Read more.

Yet Another Benefit of Renewable Energy: It Uses Practically No Water Compared to Fossil Fuels

Decades of Denial and Stalling Have Created a Climate Crunch

By David Suzuki (4 min. read)

In a 1965 speech to members, American Petroleum Institute president Frank Ikard outlined the findings of a report by then-president Lyndon Johnson’s Science Advisory Committee, based in part on research the institute conducted in the 1950s.

“The substance of the report is that there is still time to save the world's peoples from the catastrophic consequence of pollution, but time is running out,” Ikard said, adding, “One of the most important predictions of the report is that carbon dioxide is being added to the earth’s atmosphere by the burning of coal, oil, and natural gas at such a rate that by the year 2000 the heat balance will be so modified as possibly to cause marked changes in climate beyond local or even national efforts.” Read more.

Yet Another Benefit of Renewable Energy: It Uses Practically No Water Compared to Fossil Fuels

Decades of Denial and Stalling Have Created a Climate Crunch

By David Suzuki (4 min. read)

In a 1965 speech to members, American Petroleum Institute president Frank Ikard outlined the findings of a report by then-president Lyndon Johnson’s Science Advisory Committee, based in part on research the institute conducted in the 1950s.

“The substance of the report is that there is still time to save the world's peoples from the catastrophic consequence of pollution, but time is running out,” Ikard said, adding, “One of the most important predictions of the report is that carbon dioxide is being added to the earth’s atmosphere by the burning of coal, oil, and natural gas at such a rate that by the year 2000 the heat balance will be so modified as possibly to cause marked changes in climate beyond local or even national efforts.” Read more.

Yet Another Benefit of Renewable Energy: It Uses Practically No Water Compared to Fossil Fuels

By Justin Mikulka (6 min. read)

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) recently highlighted a little-discussed benefit of using renewables like wind and solar to produce electricity: Unlike most power sources, they require “almost no water.”

This is remarkable because thermoelectric power generation is the leading use of water in America. (That said, only three percent of power generation's 133 billion gallons a day of water is considered “consumptive use,” as the U.S. Geological Survey says, “meaning it is lost to evaporation or blowdown during generation.”)

According to the latest U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) data from 2015, 41 percent of the water used in America is for power generation. The next highest use is irrigation for agriculture, accounting for 37 percent of U.S. water use (and close to two-thi

By Justin Mikulka (6 min. read)

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) recently highlighted a little-discussed benefit of using renewables like wind and solar to produce electricity: Unlike most power sources, they require “almost no water.”

This is remarkable because thermoelectric power generation is the leading use of water in America. (That said, only three percent of power generation's 133 billion gallons a day of water is considered “consumptive use,” as the U.S. Geological Survey says, “meaning it is lost to evaporation or blowdown during generation.”)

According to the latest U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) data from 2015, 41 percent of the water used in America is for power generation. The next highest use is irrigation for agriculture, accounting for 37 percent of U.S. water use (and close to two-thi

By Justin Mikulka (6 min. read)

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) recently highlighted a little-discussed benefit of using renewables like wind and solar to produce electricity: Unlike most power sources, they require “almost no water.”

This is remarkable because thermoelectric power generation is the leading use of water in America. (That said, only three percent of power generation's 133 billion gallons a day of water is considered “consumptive use,” as the U.S. Geological Survey says, “meaning it is lost to evaporation or blowdown during generation.”)

According to the latest U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) data from 2015, 41 percent of the water used in America is for power generation. The next highest use is irrigation for agriculture, accounting for 37 percent of U.S. water use (and close to two-thi

 

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WITH A GREEN NEW DEAL, HERE’S WHAT THE WORLD COULD LOOK LIKE FOR THE NEXT GENERATION

With a Green New Deal, Here’s What the World Could Look Like for the Next Generation

Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal Proposal Now Backed by 15 House Democrats

That green study you shared may have been funded by fossil fuels

PAOLA ROSA-AQUINO

thinking
getting thee,at leastwoking on it,unlike soms..

China is both the best and worst hope for clean energy

China is both the best and worst hope for clean energy

James M. Taylor is president of the pro-fossil fuel Spark of Freedom Foundation, a Senior Fellow with the Heartland Institute, and has been affiliated with the Cato Institute and the Federalist Society. This past week, he spoke at a climate science denier gathering on the fringe of the United Nations climate talks in Poland. The event called the idea of greenhouse gas-linked global warming the result of “climate totalitarianism” invented by “the socialist internationalist green movement.”


PR folk affected yetagain
no support even for there dead
pathetic treatment to citizens

Erika P. Rodriguez for NPR



Anguish is building in Lares, Puerto Rico, as the municipal cemetery remains closed after Hurricane Maria damaged nearly 1,800 tombs
Since the start of the year, more than 50 people have gotten permits to exhume the cadavers of their loved ones and take them away, according to figures provided by Puerto Rico's health department. Residents are furious that officials have yet to make any repairs. And the longer they've been kept out, the more desperate they've grown to get in.

"My father is in there. My grandmother is in there," one man said. "The town can't take this anymore."

Green Groups Sue to Get Giraffes on Endangered Species List

Norway to Ban Deforestation-Linked Palm Oil Biofuels in Historic Vote

A New Lawsuit Blames the Trump Administration for Ruining Oysters

In 2007, the Whiskey Creek Shellfish Hatchery in Tillamook, Oregon, lost 75 percent of its oyster larvae. The oyster farmers initially thought it was disease, but that didn’t explain the monumental loss. With help from scientists, they finally pieced together the culprit. (Mother Jones)

Norway to Ban Deforestation-Linked Palm Oil Biofuels in Historic Vote

 

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Americans have planted so much corn that it’s changing the weather

ERIC J. WALLACE

PETA Wants Us to Stop Using 'Anti-Animal Language'

PHOTOGRAPH BY THOMAS P. PESCHAK

ANIMALS

Best animal pictures of 2018


Even after more than 100 years of photographing the natural world for National Geographic, our wildlife photographers are still capturing animals in ways they’ve never been seen before.


always geartwarming when you hear of odinary peoople helping out animals/humans
they dont need/want wars

Australia's flying foxes—and the people trying to help them

Over the past few decades the expansion of urban food sources and development in the bats’ rural homes have made cities their main residence. A local photographer looks at the flying foxes that struggle to hang on in the city, and the humans who look after them.

Brazil’s New Environment Minister Is Bad News for the Amazon and the Climate

Listen to the Cosmic Sound of Sandstone Arches in Utah

Swampy Thing: The Giant New Salamander Species Discovered in Florida and Alabama

 

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industrialized nation
urgency required but patience neccessary perhaps
a least most are on the right moves

Climate protection: Germany falls farther behind
A decade ago, Germany was a pioneer in fighting climate change via the expansion of renewable energies. But now, like many G20 nations, its climate protection is stagnating as global emissions rise again.

Climate protection: Germany falls farther behind | DW | 10.12.2018


Five Myths About Climate Change
What’s happening isn’t natural — and almost all scientists agree
Washington Post

5 min read

maybbe a littttttttle to muchof..undetrodden,in this case ecc

Here’s a way to fight climate change: Empower women

Here’s a way to fight climate change: Empower women

The EPA airbrushed away 6 million cars to make your gas mileage worse

The EPA airbrushed away 6 million cars to make your gas mileage worse

Climate talks pause as battle over key science report looms
Four top oil-producing countries—the U.S., Russia, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait—refused during international climate talks over the weekend to endorse the findings of a landmark report on the global warming from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Climate talks pause as battle over key science report looms

Climate change caused the “Great Dying,” aka the planet’s worst extinction

Trump Administration Approves Harmful Seismic Blasting in Atlantic

The Bornean Orangutan Population Has Fallen by Nearly 150,000 in Just 16 Years

love scallops my favourite seafood mmmmm

Scallops Absorb Billions of Microplastics in Just 6 Hours

 

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likely like everyone else
talk sweetly,promises promises then get in and chang things slightly/majorly
no trust in any of them, goal is to get in

Bernie Sanders is the reason why a pro-coal senator is about to take over a powerful energy post

Bernie Sanders is the reason why a pro-coal senator is about to take over a powerful energy post

Why Aren't School Buses Electric? These Coloradans Are Sick of Diesel

Pantone’s color of the year might vanish from nature by 2040

Australia Cuts 80% of Plastic Bag Use in 3 Short Months

Global carbon emissions are on the rise, but don’t let that dash your hopes

GRETA MORAN

Beef Recall Expands as Salmonella Cases Quadruple in 2 Months
green food,simple life sustemamce
often harmed ny our chemicals huheven more importantly insects destroed by such
i was teribly guilty ea;ier in life
look of the item rather than common sense

Lettuce Recall Is a Wake Up Call for Food Safety

Invasive Tick Spreads to Ninth State, CDC Warns of 'New and Emerging Disease Threat'

5 Gifts to Help Wild Birds

 

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How foul air in India is putting people's lives in danger
Air pollution in India has reached dangerous levels, killing at least one out of every eight persons, according to a recent study. Experts are urging the government to act fast. Murali Krishnan reports.

Invisible India
Air quality had already deteriorated sharply ahead of the main celebration – as this picture of a cluster of temples in the Indian capital shows from a couple of days earlier. As winter approaches, air quality tends to worsen for various reasons, including the burning of crop residues outside the city and increased diesel emissions.

How foul air in India is putting people's lives in danger | DW | 11.12.2018

World's Largest Palm Oil Trader Ramps Up Zero-Deforestation Efforts


youngsters lead therre world
great,they have to

1,000+ Youth Activists Storm Capitol to Demand Green New Deal

Fossil fuel tax proposed to cover rising costs of wild weather


Fossil fuel tax proposed to cover rising costs of wild weather

NAIROBI, KENYA
Animal Orphanage
Housing over 20 animal and bird species, this Kenyan sanctuary is the oldest of its kind.
READ MORE →

He’s let thousands of insects bite and sting him—here’s what he’s learned
Justin Schmidt feels the burn so you don’t have to.

 

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unfortunately ecowatch has lost its way a little of late
desmog gist two of the better GW/CC websites
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DeSmog knows climate science denial.

Over more than a decade building our research database and publishing thousands of articles, we’ve shined a spotlight on the operatives and front groups peddling misinformation to delay climate action.

DeSmog started investigating the Koch Brothers long before they became a household name for their attacks on climate science. And we’ve been tracking dark money flowing from Donors Trust to deniers since the day they started hiding their dirty agenda from the public.

these 4 countries being the worls 'thorn in the side'

COP24: U.S. Joins Saudi Arabia, Russia and Kuwait in Blocking Crucial Climate Report


Climate policies put world on track for 3.3C warming - study

Climate policies put world on track for 3.3C warming - study


Atlantic Coast Pipeline construction halts as court reviews 4 endangered species

Atlantic Coast Pipeline construction halts as court reviews 4 endangered species

they neverwould
like Australiamineralsthe lifeline of thecountryseconomy,no matter hat


Smothered by smog, activists are urging Poland to reconsider coal

Smothered by smog, activists are urging Poland to reconsider coal
California’s battle against climate change is going up in smoke
By Rosa Furneaux on Dec 10, 2018
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California’s battle against climate change is going up in smoke


WATER like food always the major concern WW as bad hee

New EPA Rule Would Sabotage Clean Water Act

 

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Summer is coming...