November 27, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credit: Statista/CC BY-SA.Article Synopsis – “The world’s five largest publicly-owned oil and gas companies spend about $200 million a year on lobbying to control, delay or block binding climate policy.” There are currently 5 main tactics used to help sow climate change doubt, they are: 1) science ...
Read More...November 26, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credit: Frans Lanting/Nat Geo Image Collection.Article Synopsis – Scientific evidence is mounting that climate tipping points are more likely than once believed and could result in long-term, irreversible changes. The two most recent IPCC reports “suggest that tipping points could be exceeded even between 1 ...
Read More...November 25, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credit: NASA.Article Synopsis – Speaking at the International Climate Conference in Madrid, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned climate change could be reaching a “point of no return”. He also pointed to a lack of political will to make the necessary changes to avert the crisis. ...
Read More...November 23, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credit: Rose Marie Cromwell for The New York Times.Article Synopsis – For nearly three months, several neighborhoods in the upper Florida Keys have been flooded from unusually high tides caused by climate change and sea level rise. “Tides from the Carolinas to Florida, and from ...
Read More...November 22, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credit: WikiCommons/Tommaso.sansone91.Article Synopsis – Levels of nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas, are increasing in the atmosphere at rates faster than previously believed. nitrous oxide (also known as laughing gas) is “hundreds of times more potent than carbon dioxide and can stick around in the ...
Read More...November 21, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – Thousands of people around the world have pledged to stop flying in an attempt to decrease carbon emissions to help fight climate change. According to the European Commission, “a passenger on a return flight from London to New York generates as much ...
Read More...November 20, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credit: Rajeev Bhatt.Article Synopsis – Residents of the Sundarbans- islands off the coast of India in the Bay of Bengal- are being forced to migrate from their homes due to sea level rise. “Between 1969 and 2009, about 210 sq km of landmass has eroded ...
Read More...November 19, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credit: John Guillote via Associated Press.Article Synopsis – According to new research, the Arctic Ocean will be ice-free within the next fifty years if carbon emissions are not reduced. In these latest projections, the window for an ice-free Arctic Ocean is between September 2044 and no later than ...
Read More...November 18, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credit: Keith Srakocic/AP.Article Synopsis – Researcher suggests that in order to fully switch to renewable sources of energy, we must use existing pipeline infrastructure to store renewable gases. Electrolysis converts renewable energy to hydrogen gas, which can be stored in existing pipeline and storage facilities ...
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