Tag: climate change
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Your Turn: Carbon pricing is important in efforts to combat greenhouse gas emissions
As climate change continues to loom over our world, many solutions are being explored and implemented in order to combat its life-threatening effects. However, it has been widely accepted that individual actions alone are not enough and if we really want a world safe from the “existential threat to humanity,” then our governments should ensure…
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Solutions: Glasgow Climate Conference brings more attention to climate change
By Huck Fairman With the Glasgow Climate Conference stretching over two weeks, the issue of climate change has been in the news. But much of the information about our planet and the necessary steps we need to take have been around for some time now. The Packet family of newspapers have printed a number of…
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SOLUTIONS 10/29: The costs of climate inaction
By Huck Fairman Senator Joe Manchin and a majority of Republicans have been opposing President Joe Biden’s and the Democrats’ funding for climate spending intended to head off the worst impacts of climate change. Abrahm Lustgarten, a writer for the non-profit news organization doing investigative journalism, ProPublica, has made an effort to clarify the costs…
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SOLUTIONS 10/8: Can we save ourselves, and how?
By Huck Fairman Reports on and opinions as to how we can save ourselves from the worsening climate crisis have been increasingly appearing in the media. The PBS News Hour and the New York Times have presented recent efforts that are underway and need to be widely adopted. An environmental meeting in Italy focused on…
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Solutions 10/1: We are warming faster
By Huck Fairman Scientists warn, as many readers know, that if we reach a 2-Celsius degree increase in temperature globally, we may not be able to reverse it and its devastating effects. Now a report in Nature Climate Change reveals that northeastern America is among the fastest warming regions in the northern hemisphere. It has…
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SOLUTIONS 9/24: Changes in Weather, Energy & Diet
By Huck Fairman Anyone paying attention to the news lately cannot have missed reports of environmental changes to our world and of our responses to those changes. Here, the focus will be on predicted weather, on Congressional efforts to reduce fossil fuel usage, and on new sources of food we need to adopt. First, climate…
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Opinion: Changing the Landscape project team publishes update on key accomplishments
Climate change and its consequences began to wash right up to our doorsteps this summer when Mother Nature brought severe storms, tornadoes and significant flooding to New Jersey, including the Princeton area. It made us all realize just how vital the responsible stewardship of our land and waters is to the future health of…
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Opinion: Reduce pollution by instituting a carbon fee
The climate crisis is upon us. We see the effects with devastating hurricanes, flooding, wildfires, rising seas and more. This is our last chance; we own this mess we are in. Everything depends on our climate and weather conditions, including our food supply, water conditions, the environment – plant and animal ranges have shifted, and…
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SOLUTIONS: Are Adults Failing Us?
By Huck Fairman The New York Times recently printed an Op-Ed piece by Greta Thunberg and colleagues from Mexico, Bangladesh and Kenya that amplified the “code red for humanity” declared by the United Nations’ secretary general. They wrote this piece because “climate change is the single greatest threat to our futures.” With this growing awareness,…