In an exclusive interview, Kristalina Georgieva tells why global heating is as big a threat to economic stability as another financial crash Kristalina Georgieva is very keen to talk about the research one of her International Monetary Fund economists is doing. Surprisingly, this is not about any of the issues that have gripped the organisation […]
Month: November 2019
Alarmist PIK Refuted, New Published Papers Call Claim Mass Migration Is Climate-Related “Misleading”…”Simplistic”
PIK under fire: Concept of a climate-caused mass migration not tenable By Kalte Sonne (German text translated/edited by P Gosselin) We keep hearing again and again how climate change is one of the main causes of migration. But when you ask those affected whether the climate in their home country was the cause of flight, […]
Police discussed stopping Keystone XL protesters ‘by any means’
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. U.S. law enforcement officials preparing for fresh Keystone XL pipeline protests have privately discussed tactics to stop activists “by any means” and have labeled demonstrators potential “domestic terrorism” threats, records reveal. Internal government documents seen by […]
CO2 emission by coutry per capita – who is on 1st position?
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New Paper Presents Photo Evidence Affirming Equatorial Region Sea Levels Have FALLEN Since The 1600s
In a new paper (Mörner, 2019, expanding upon Mörner, 2017), photo evidence confirms sea levels in 5 studied equatorial regions have fallen by about 60 cm since the 17th century…and remained stable since the 1970s. Image(s) Source: Mörner, 2019 Image Source: Mörner, 2017 Another new study (Haryono et al., 2019) of sea level change in […]
Proposed EU-wide ‘climate law’ would set net-zero carbon target by 2050
Plan is part of ‘green new deal’ but campaigners say it is not enough to tackle climate crisis The first EU-wide “climate law” would enshrine a legally binding target of reaching net-zero carbon by 2050, and Europe’s greenhouse gas emissions would be halved by 2030, under a set of proposals being discussed by the incoming […]
Exxon knew — and so did coal
This story was originally published by HuffPost and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. “Exxon knew.” Thanks to the work of activists and journalists, those two words have rocked the politics of climate change in recent years, as investigations revealed the extent to which giants like ExxonMobil and Shell were aware […]
How the climate and nature crisis is changing the UK – photo essay
The climate crisis is affecting people and wildlife across the UK, and WWF is urging political parties to respond The UK is one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world. More than 1,000 British species are at risk of extinction. Polls have repeatedly shown that while the British public may be divided on Brexit, […]
Could we sequester CO2 from coal plants into giant rockets and then let them blast into space using the pressurized CO2?
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Our Greening Planet… German Science Magazine: Satellite Imagery Proves “World’s Vegetation Expanding Since Decades”
An “unusual greening of the planet,” reports German science magazine Wissenschaft. “A paradox.” Hat-tip: Die kalte Sonne Dem seltsamen Ergrünen der Welt auf der Spur Has been greening for 3 decades While it is widely reported how the world’s rainforests are being chopped down, Wissenschaft reports, “Vegetation on earth has been expanding for decades, satellite […]