September 24, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – The Beauford County, SC zoning board denied a plant to build a resort on a barrier island due to potential risk to the local environment. The development was proposed for an island in Bay Point, which is “zoned as a natural preserve” ...
Read More...September 23, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – A team of researchers has found that as Antarctica continues to lose ice to global warming, “much of it will be gone forever”. The team’s “simulations show that once the ice has melted, it does not regrow to its initial state even ...
Read More...September 22, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – Decades of climate crisis, including drought, wildfires, heatwaves, and tropical storms, are “already locked into the global ecosystem and cannot be reversed”. The only way to lessen extreme events in the future is to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions, and quickly. However, even ...
Read More...September 21, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – A new study from the University of Hawaii predicts up to 40% of Hawaii’s beaches could be lost to sea level rise by 2050. The researchers want a “government program to help transition shoreline property owners out of their doomed locations and ...
Read More...September 20, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – According to a new study, if greenhouse gas emissions continue at the current rate, “global sea levels could rise more than 15 inches (38 cm) by 2100”. My Comment – This is misleading. Reference to 15 inches should not be read as ...
Read More...September 18, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – According to a new Moody’s Investors Services report, sea level rise threatens coastal municipalities and those that invest in their bonds. “Over the next several decades, states and municipalities will need increased investment in adaptation and coordinated government responses will become essential ...
Read More...September 17, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – Climate change threatens more lives than the coronavirus, and we could mitigate it for less than we’ve already spent to fight the coronavirus. Countries have spent more than 20% of their GDP fighting the coronavirus. For a fraction of that price we ...
Read More...September 15, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – According to a U.S. report, the world has failed to meet any of the 20 Aichi biodiversity targets agreed upon in 2010 in Japan. The targets were set to help sustain ecosystems and biodiversity while slowing the destruction of wildlife. To read ...
Read More...September 15, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – Dr. David Legates, a known climate denier with a history of accepting funding from the fossil fuel industry, has been appointed to a leadership position at NOAA. This is particularly problematic as NOAA “leads the world in conducting climate science and communicating ...
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