UN climate chief warns the world is 'playing with fire'
UN climate chief warns the world is 'playing with fire'
A senior United Nations official has warned the world is 'playing with fire' unless an agreement can be reached on climate change at an international summit.
Christiana Figueres, climate chief, said that 'science is telling us that time is running out' and an upcoming conference in Paris could be the last chance for a meaningful agreement.
Figueres is deep into preparations for trying to broker a landmark global climate deal with more than 190 nations in December.
During a recent speaking tour in his homeland of South Africa, the Creative Director of Starseed Gardens, Dan Schreiber shared insight into the theme of decolonization as a pathway to bring contemporary culture back into direct connection and experience of our own true nature.
http://upliftconnect.com/decolonizing-humanity/
Exxon's Oil Industry Peers Knew About Climate Dangers in the 1970s
The American Petroleum Institute together with the nation's largest oil companies ran a task force to monitor and share climate research between 1979 and 1983, indicating that the oil industry, not just Exxon alone, was aware of its possible impact on the world's climate far earlier than previously known.
Carbon emissions highest in 66 million years, since dinosaur age
The rate of carbon emissions is higher than at any time in fossil records stretching back 66 million years to the age of the dinosaurs, according to a study on Monday that sounds an alarm about risks to nature from man-made global warming.
Scientists wrote that the pace of emissions even eclipses the onset of the biggest-known natural surge in fossil records, 56 million years ago, that was perhaps driven by a release of frozen stores of greenhouse gases beneath the seabed.
That ancient release, which drove temperatures up by an estimated 5 degrees Celsius (9 Fahrenheit) and damaged marine life by making the oceans acidic, is often seen as a parallel to the risks from the current build-up of carbon in the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels.
"Given currently available records, the present anthropogenic carbon release rate is unprecedented during the past 66 million years," the scientists wrote in the journal Nature Geoscience. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-carbon-idUSKCN0WN1QR
Wie sich die globale Temperatur nach oben schraubt
Es beklagen sich ja regelmäßig Leser über die Darstellung der global gemittelten Temperatur als Anomalie zu einer bestimmten Referenzperiode. Besonders häuft sich die Kritik, wenn die weiter zurückliegende Periode 1951 bis 1980 verwendet wird, die ein Teil der US-Wissenschaft aus Gewohnheit bevorzugt.
Der Grund für die Kritik ist simpel, aber irreführend. Die als Bezugspunkte verwendeten Mittelpunkte aus dieser Zeit sind niedriger, der Temperaturanstieg erscheint größer. http://www.heise.de/tp/news/Klima-Wie-sich-die-globale-Temperatur-nach-oben-schraubt-3214140.html
By 2050 half the forms of life we know will be gone conservation biologist
Humanity should start saving nature and switch to 80 percent renewables by 2030, otherwise the Earth will keep losing species, and within 33 years around 800,000 forms of life will be gone, conservation biologist Reese Halter told RTs News with Ed.
Humans have changed the Earth so much that some scientists think we have entered a new geological age.
According to a report in the Science Magazine, the Earth is now in the anthropocene epoch. Millions of years from now our impact on Earth will be found in rocks just like we see fossils of plants and animals which lived years ago except this time scientists of the future will find radioactive elements from nuclear bombs and fossilized plastic. https://www.rt.com/op-edge/358053-earth-humans-geological-age-danger/
Scientists Frantically Copying Critical Climate Data as Energy Dept. Refuses to Release Names
The Department of Energy has refused to respond to the Trump transition team's chilling 74-question document seeking the names of anyone who has worked on climate change in the department. Climate scientists are also acting feverishly to preserve data after a senior Trump campaign adviser suggested eliminating funding for NASA's climate research programs.
Scientists are rushing to copy decades of critical climate information that could be altered or destroyed under a hostile Trump Administration. http://www.ecowatch.com/nasa-climate-scientists-trump-2146674752.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=94aabb0b18-MailChimp+Email+Blast&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-94aabb0b18-86077257
Who is the biggest climate change villain?
Here is an exclusive the Guardian has held back from its readers for 26 years. It is finally published on its pages today.
In 1991 the Shell oil company produced a half-hour film, Climate of Concern, for showing in schools and universities, that set out the dangers of climate change, apparently with unnerving accuracy. The Guardian calls the film prescient. http://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2017-02-28/who-was-the-biggest-climate-change-villain/
New Evidence Confirms Risk That Mideast May Become Uninhabitable
New evidence is deepening scientific fears, advanced few years ago, that the Middle East and North Africa risk becoming uninhabitable in a few decades, as accessible fresh water has fallen by two-thirds over the past 40 years. http://www.ipsnews.net/2017/03/new-evidence-confirms-risk-that-mideast-may-become-uninhabitable/
Der Chef der US-Umweltbehörde EPA Scott Pruitt hat sich jüngst in einem Fernsehinterview eindeutiger als Klimawandelleugner geoutet als in der Anhörung vor seiner Vereidigung. Gegenüber dem Sender CNBC äußerte Pruitt, dass er den durch Menschen verursachten Ausstoß von Kohlendioxid nicht als Hauptverursacher des Klimawandels ansehe. Damit widerspricht Pruitt den Aussagen seiner eigenen Behörde, auf deren Internetpräsenz es (noch) heißt: https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Klimawandel-leugnen-Klimaforschung-zusammenkuerzen-3652180.html