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  • Snake Steak Could Be a Climate-Friendly Source of Protein

    03/14/2024 1:50:30 PM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 64 replies
    Scientific American ^ | March 14, 2024 | BY MEGHAN BARTELS
    Pythons turn their food into meat pretty efficiently, a study finds, making them an intriguing alternative to climate-unfriendly cows. Put aside your chicken cutlets and meatloaf and say hello to python curries and satay skewers. Some snake scientists think eating these reptiles—already customary or at least acceptable in parts of the world—might help lessen the damage our food choices have on the environment. With some eight billion people on the planet today, all of whom require protein to stay healthy, finding new sources of these nutrients is a crucial issue. But how do you get from the challenge of providing...
  • Bizarre Geoengineering Project Floated to Save the World From “Doomsday Glacier”

    03/10/2024 3:05:34 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 66 replies
    The New American ^ | March 9, 2024 | James Murphy
    An absurd geoengineering project involving placing a 62-mile curtain in front of an Antarctic glacier to stop warm-water currents from melting it is being proposed by scientists. The scientists are looking for $50 billion from the 29 nations who are signatories to the Antarctic Treaty, signed in 1959. The United States is an original signatory to the treaty, which states that “Antarctica shall be used for peaceful purposes only.” The glacier in question is known as Thwaites Glacier, a Great Britain-sized hunk of ice located in western Antarctica. It has been nicknamed the “Doomsday Glacier” by climate zealots because it...
  • Disadvantages of Coal: 10 Reasons Why Coal is Terrible for the Environment

    03/12/2024 6:36:31 PM PDT · by DallasBiff · 26 replies
    Green Coast ^ | 2/10/21 | Lisa Martin
    SNIP 2. Coal is actually radioactive Coal contains uranium and thorium, which are both radioactive elements. In coal’s natural form, they are not an issue as they occur in such trace quantities. However, when coal is burned, these radioactive components can concentrate to up to 10 times their original levels in some of its by-products, such as fly ash. Fly ash is produced by coal-based power plants and carries 100 times more radiation into the surrounding environment than a nuclear power plant that produces an equivalent amount of energy. People who live in the so-called “stack shadow”, or between half...
  • EXPLAINER: Why quitting coal is so hard

    03/12/2024 1:12:46 PM PDT · by DallasBiff · 35 replies
    AP ^ | 11/13/21 | Karl Ritter
    GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — In the run-up to the U.N. climate talks in Glasgow, host Britain announced one of its goals of the conference was to consign coal to history. TThat turned out to be easier said that done. Even saying it — in writing — became quite a challenge. Government negotiators in Glasgow wrote and rewrote a paragraph that spells out that fighting climate change requires the world to end coal power, along with fossil fuel subsidies. The wording on coal was weakened one last time just before the gavel came down after coal-dependent India insisted on replacing the...
  • US Great Lakes ice hits record low: What does that mean for the world’s largest freshwater system?

    03/09/2024 2:54:04 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 22 replies
    Euronews ^ | 09/03/2024
    The lakes hit their lowest ice cover in over 50 years last month, with experts warning that toxic algal blooms and lower fish stocks could follow.Biologists have been keeping tabs on a remote Lake Superior island's fragile wolf population every winter since 1958. But they had to cut this season's planned seven-week survey short after just a fortnight. The ski plane the Michigan Tech University researchers study the wolves from uses the frozen lake as a landing strip because there's nowhere to touch down on the island. But this weirdly warm winter left the Great Lakes nearly devoid of ice....
  • Biden's State of the Union comes at key moment for climate and energy policy

    03/07/2024 3:57:03 PM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 44 replies
    CBS “News” ^ | March 7, 2024 | By Tracy J. Wholf
    President Biden will touch on a wide range of issues and policy priorities in his State of the Union address Thursday night, and he will need to thread the needle on his track record of climate change legislation, environmental protection and energy policy. The stakes for climate change couldn't be higher than they are in the 2024 presidential election, and Mr. Biden and former President Donald Trump couldn't stand farther apart on the issue if they tried. While climate change may not be the most pressing concern for voters, research has found that the issue can influence the outcome of...
  • Heat record broken for ninth-straight month

    03/07/2024 7:59:13 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 49 replies
    The Hill ^ | 03/07/2024 | LAUREN IRWIN
    Last month was the planet’s warmest February on record and the ninth-straight month of record-breaking temperatures, according to data released Thursday. February was more than 1.7 degrees Celsius warmer than an average February in pre-industrial times, reported Copernicus, the European Union’s climate monitoring service. The average global surface air temperature during the month was 13.54 degrees Celsius — or about 56 degrees Fahrenheit — and beats the previous warmest February, which was recorded in 2016. The month was also part of a record-warm twelve-month period, according to the service, which reported that “the global-average temperature for the past twelve months...
  • Study: EVs release 1,850x more particle pollution than gas-powered cars

    03/06/2024 4:11:49 PM PST · by Ronaldus Magnus III · 55 replies
    Two years ago, an emissions data firm known as Emissions Analytics, published a study that revealed E.V.s emitted more pollution than gas-powered cars, and the type of pollution they emitted is the most common vehicle-related environmental contamination. The study flew relatively under the radar until a few days ago.
  • 'You are not alone': In community, young people find antidotes to climate anxiety

    03/06/2024 4:34:08 AM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 40 replies
    The National Catholic Reporter ^ | March 6, 2024 | BY HEIDI SCHLUMPF
    Mary Rittle says she experiences climate anxiety every single day. It may be a 55-degree January day in Chicago, when she notices that birds that should have migrated are still around. Or it could be after reading about how melting polar ice caps are endangering people around the world. Even her environmental activism can trigger anxiety because it reminds her of the urgent need for such work. "This overwhelming sense of worry and fear and helplessness is very easy to get caught up in," says Rittle, who is a freshman at Loyola University Chicago. "I sometimes feel like, what could...
  • UN climate chief’s blunt message: Fewer loopholes, way more cash to really halt climate change

    03/04/2024 6:13:31 AM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 33 replies
    The Associated Press | DNC ^ | March 2, 2024 | BY SETH BORENSTEIN (D-AP)
    To keep Earth from overheating too much, the nations of the world need to put fewer loopholes in climate agreements and far more money — trillions of dollars a year — into financial help for poor nations, the United Nations climate chief said Friday. In an unusual and blunt lecture at a university in Baku, Azerbaijan, the host city of upcoming international climate negotiations later this year, United Nations Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell called gains made in the past not nearly enough. Without the proper amount of cash, he said those could “quickly fizzle away into more empty...
  • Sea levels around NYC could surge up to 13 inches in 2030s due to climate change: state study

    03/04/2024 4:38:33 AM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 103 replies
    NY Post ^ | March 3, 2024 | By Carl Campanile
    Sea levels surrounding New York City are expected to rise at least 6 to 9 inches in the 2030s and potentially up to 13 inches in some areas due to climate change, according to state projections. The assessment done by the state Department of Environmental Conservations also claims that sea levels in the lower Hudson River could swell by 23 inches in the 2050s and up to 45 inches in the 2080s. The DEC posted its projections of sea levels in the New York State Register, based on studies of global climate models. The agency is required to periodically post...
  • How the world will end: Terrifying graphic reveals the gruesome fate of every planet when the Sun dies

    03/02/2024 5:08:19 AM PST · by Libloather · 44 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 3/02/24 | Wiliam Hunter
    From the AI apocalypse to a full-blown nuclear war, it seems that there is an almost endless list of things that might cause the end of the world. But, if those terrifying fates gest us, there is one doomsday event that Earth can't avoid. A terrifying graphic reveals how the Sun will grow into a vast 'red giant' star, becoming so large that it will be the end of the solar system as we know it. Although this might seem utterly petrifying, you don't need to start worrying just yet. Dr Edward Bloomer, senior astronomer at Royal Observatory Greenwich, said:...
  • There's a new 'Climate Reality Check' test — these 3 Oscar-nominated features passed

    03/02/2024 4:42:05 AM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 14 replies
    NPR ^ | March 1, 2024 | By Chloe Veltman
    Though it undoubtedly sends a strong feminist message, no one would describe Barbie as a movie about the impacts of human-caused climate change. Yet the topic sneaks in. "You are killing the planet with your glorification of rampant consumerism!" says Sasha, the teenage character played by Ariana Greenblatt, in her rant about the many ways in which Barbie is bad. It's because of this line that the pinkest and perkiest of summer blockbusters passed the new Climate Reality Check. It's a new test, directed at writers, producers and other entertainment industry creatives, that aims to measure the presence of climate...
  • Could drying the stratosphere help cool the planet?

    03/01/2024 4:28:22 AM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 46 replies
    Yes, but only to a small degree. While human-caused carbon dioxide emissions are by far the most important driver of climate change, water vapor is actually the most abundant greenhouse gas, and is responsible for about half of Earth's natural greenhouse effect – the one that keeps our planet habitable. Now, as scientists explore ways to address the impacts of climate change by removing excess heat-trapping carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and by reflecting sunshine back into space, one group of researchers has asked the question: Could removing some water vapor from the atmosphere also help mitigate climate change? This...
  • At Catholic Youth Climate Summit, cardinal recognizes importance of student leadership

    03/01/2024 4:09:34 AM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 6 replies
    National Catholic Reporter ^ | March 1, 2024 | BY STEPHANIE CLARY
    On an unseasonably warm and sunny February day in Chicago, about 100 high schoolers from Catholic schools across the archdiocese chose to spend their time gathered indoors for a summit on climate change and Catholicism. Joining them was Cardinal Blase Cupich, who spent the Sunday morning in conversation and prayer about what he called an "important issue." The third annual Catholic Youth Climate Summit was held Feb. 25 at St. Ignatius College Prep and Church of the Holy Family in Chicago. Now a joint effort of the Archdiocese of Chicago and Catholic Climate Covenant's youth mobilization program, the gathering started...
  • Biden calls climate change deniers ‘Neanderthals’ during border speech in Texas (only 6.90 years left)

    02/29/2024 11:57:12 PM PST · by Libloather · 59 replies
    NY Post ^ | 3/01/24 | Louis Casiano
    President Biden began his remarks during a Thursday visit to the southern border in Texas by addressing a devastating wildfire in the state’s panhandle and Oklahoma before calling climate change deniers “neanderthals.” Speaking in the border city of Brownsville, Biden first addressed the ongoing wildfire that has ravaged a portion of Texas and destroyed more than one million acres. “I’ve flown over a lot of these wildfires since I’ve been president,” Biden said. “Flown over more land burned to the ground. All the vegetation gone more than the entire state of Maryland in square footage.” “The idea there’s no such...
  • Top Climate Scientist: 'Global Warming Emergency' is a Lie

    02/28/2024 5:59:55 PM PST · by SaxxonWoods · 22 replies
    Slay News ^ | 2/28/20024 | Frank Bergman
    Declaring a climate emergency has a chilling effect on politics,” he tells Public. “It suggests there isn’t time for normal, necessary democratic process.” Climate activists may dismiss Hulme as a “climate denier,” but he agrees the planet is warming due to human activities and specifically says we should prepare for more heat waves. Moreover, Hulme’s credentials are undeniably impressive. He is a Professor at the University of Cambridge and founding Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research.
  • ‘Revolutionary’: EU Parliament votes to criminalise most serious cases of ecosystem destruction (2 years left)

    02/28/2024 6:31:49 AM PST · by DoodleBob · 13 replies
    EuroNews ^ | February 27, 2024 | Mette Mølgaard Henriksen
    The European Union has become the first international body to criminalise the most serious cases of environmental damage that are “comparable to ecocide”. Ecosystem destruction, including habitat loss and illegal logging, will be punished with tougher penalties and prison sentences under the EU’s updated environmental crime directive. In a vote in the European Parliament on Tuesday, EU lawmakers overwhelmingly backed the move with 499 votes in favour, 100 against and 23 abstentions. Member states now have two years to enshrine it in national law. Here’s what you need to know about the updated law, which experts are calling revolutionary. Environmental...
  • Job title of the future: Climate equity specialist

    02/28/2024 6:03:58 AM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 21 replies
    MIT Technology Review ^ | February 28, 2024 | By Avya Chaudhary
    These roles shape what climate justice looks like in an unequal world. Our world reflects a carbon divide, with the richest 10% of the population contributing half of net carbon emissions and the poorest 50% bearing the brunt of the climate crisis. So extreme is this climate inequality that marginalized communities are around five times more likely to be displaced by extreme disasters. This growing realization led Nancy M. Brown to pursue a career as a climate equity specialist. A lot of the communities Brown works with are wary about the implications of climate change. “We are trying to work...
  • Less support for climate actions that affect spending choices - EPA survey [Ireland]

    02/28/2024 12:25:38 AM PST · by Olog-hai · 4 replies
    RTÉ News ^ | Wednesday, 28 Feb 2024 07:51 | George Lee, Environment Correspondent
    Although Irish people have become increasingly worried about severe storms and extreme heat, they have become less supportive of climate actions that affect their spending choices, a new survey has found. According to a national survey by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), these choices include higher taxes on motor fuels (petrol) and the banning of fossil fuels for home heating. The survey also found that only 5% of people could distinguish the greenhouse gas effect from other environmental topics such as acid rain or the ozone layer. This is the second time the EPA has published such a detailed survey...