Blogging the End of the World™
By Gareth Davies5 July 2017(The Daily Mail) – A heartbreaking photo of an orphaned baby rhino standing next to its dead mother after she was slaughtered by poachers for her horn has become the tragic symbol of a weekend rhino massacre in South Africa.The picture of the calf was posted online by anti-poaching campaigners in […]
By Damian Carrington 5 July 2017 (The Guardian) – Hopes that the world’s huge carbon emissions might not drive temperatures up to dangerous levels have been dashed by new research. The work shows that temperature rises measured over recent decades do not fully reflect the global warming already in the pipeline and that the ultimate […]
By Zeke Hausfather 30 June 2017 (CarbonBrief) – A new paper published in the Journal of Climate reveals that the lower part of the Earth’s atmosphere has warmed much faster since 1979 than scientists relying on satellite data had previously thought.Researchers from Remote Sensing Systems (RSS), based in California, have released a substantially revised version […]
5 July 2017 (United Nations) – With more than seven million children in West and Central Africa uprooted from their homes each year due to violence, poverty, and climate change, and projections that this number will continue to rise, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has called for greater efforts to ensure that migrant and […]
By Kathleen Maclay 29 June 2017 (Berkeley News) – The poorest third of U.S. counties will likely lose up to 20 percent of their incomes, and regions such as the Pacific Northwest and New England will gain economically over the Gulf and Southern states, if climate change continues unmitigated through the end of the century, […]
By Robbie Whelan 5 July 2017 CHIHUAHUA, Mexico (The Wall Street Journal) – On the morning of March 23, gunmen here fired eight shots into a cherry-red Renault Duster SUV, killing newspaper reporter Miroslava Breach as she waited outside her home to drive her 14-year-old son, Carlos, to school.A hand-painted sign at the scene said […]
By Alan Jude Ryland 5 July 2017 (Second Nexus) – New legislation allows anyone in Florida to challenge what’s taught in public schools. The measure, officially called Florida House Bill 989, went into effect Saturday. Representative Byron Donalds (R-Naples) introduced the bill in February. Governor Rick Scott signed it into law after it passed the […]
By Pallab Ghosh 2 July 2017 (BBC News) – Stephen Hawking says that US President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris climate agreement could lead to irreversible climate change. Prof Hawking said the action could put Earth onto a path that turns it into a hothouse planet like Venus.He also feared aggression […]
By Martin O’Leary and Adrian Luckman 28 June 2017(Project MIDAS) – In another sign that the iceberg calving is imminent, the soon-to-be-iceberg part of Larsen C Ice Shelf has tripled in speed to more than ten meters per day between 24th and 27th June 2017. The iceberg remains attached to the ice shelf, but its […]
Washington, DC, 19 June 2017 (Carnegie Institution For Science) – Solving the climate change problem means transitioning to an energy system that emits little or no greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. According to new work from a team of experts including Carnegie’s Ken Caldeira, achieving a near-zero-emissions energy system will depend on being able to […]
