Weekly Climate Review Feb. 15, 2019, by the MacArthur Foundation: The honeymoon was short for the much anticipated Green New Deal introduced by Democratic phenom U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and co-sponsor Senator Ed Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts. At last Thursday’s launch, the joint House and Senate resolution to catalyze a just […]
Daily Archives: February 19, 2019
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The age of climate panic is here. Last summer, a heat wave baked the entire Northern Hemisphere, killing dozens from Quebec to Japan. Some of the most destructive wildfires in California history turned more than a million acres to ash, along the way melting the tires and the sneakers of those trying to escape […]
Experts warn that failure to act risks spike in global temperatures. Dramatic rises in atmospheric methane are threatening to derail plans to hold global temperature rises to 2C, scientists have warned. In a paper published this month by the American Geophysical Union, researchers say sharp rises in levels of methane […]