Blogging the End of the World™
By Mark Poynting 4 July 2024 (BBC News) – Hurricane Beryl is wreaking havoc in parts of the Caribbean – and putting the role of climate change under the spotlight. With maximum sustained wind speeds of more than 160mph (257km/h), it became the earliest category five Atlantic hurricane in records going back around 100 years. […]
By Seth Borenstein 20 June 2024 WASHINGTON (AP) – Human-caused climate change dialed up the thermostat and turbocharged the odds of this month’s killer heat that has been baking the Southwestern United States, Mexico and Central America, a new flash study found. Sizzling daytime temperatures that triggered cases of heat stroke in parts of the United States were […]
By Jake Spring 26 June 2024 SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Record floods that killed over 170 people and displaced half a million in southern Brazil are a warning sign of more disasters to come throughout the Americas because of climate change, an official at the United Nations’ refugee agency said on Tuesday. Roughly 389,000 people, opens […]
By Damian Carrington 24 June 2024 (The Guardian) – The climate crisis is driving an exponential rise in the most extreme wildfires in key regions around the world, research has revealed. The wildfires can cause catastrophic loss of human life, property and wildlife and cause billions of dollars of damage. Scientists say this is climate […]
By William Gallus 26 June 2024 (The Conversation) – Spring 2024 was unnerving for people across large parts of the U.S. as tornado warnings and sirens sent them scrambling for safety. More than 1,100 tornadoes were reported through May − a preliminary number but nearly twice the 30-year average at that point and behind only 2011, when deadly […]
By Seth Borenstein 1 July 2024 (AP) – Hurricane Beryl’s explosive growth into an unprecedented early whopper of a storm shows the literal hot water the Atlantic and Caribbean are in right now and the kind of season ahead, experts said. Beryl smashed multiple records even before its major-hurricane-level winds approached land. The powerful storm is acting […]
29 June 2024 (The Juice Media) – The Government™ has made an ad about the existential threat that AI poses to humanity, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative. […] “So we don’t need to worry about AI harming humans?” “Oh no, you do. See, the killer-robots aren’t just to distract from BigTechbro billionaires gaining even […]
By Kyle Stokes and Torey Van Oot 25 June 2024 (Axios) – “Historic” flooding across the state will likely require a federal disaster declaration, Gov. Tim Walz said Monday. Threat level: Recent heavy rain, including a foot-and-a-half in southern Minnesota, has already closed roads, caused serious damage, and left some communities under feet of water. The latest: A breached […]
5 June 2024 (WMO) – There is an 80 percent likelihood that the annual average global temperature will temporarily exceed 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels for at least one of the next five years, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). This is a stark warning that we are getting ever closer […]
CHICAGO, 14 March 2024 (ALA) – The number of titles targeted for censorship surged 65 percent in 2023 compared to 2022, reaching the highest levels ever documented by the American Library Association (ALA). The new numbers released today show efforts to censor 4,240 unique book titles* in schools and libraries. This tops the previous high from 2022, […]
