Tag: climate crisis
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SOLUTIONS: Professor provides assessment of where, environmentally, we are
By Huck Fairman With the election of President Joe Biden, who has stressed the need to deal with our environmental challenges, a number of observers have responded positively, while also warning that the world cannot afford to fall short in efforts to reduce and reverse global warming. Among them is Professor Michael Oppenheimer of Princeton…
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SOLUTIONS 7/3: The Coming Costs
By Huck Fairman Along with the spreading of the coronavirus, this country is facing a range of destructive changes from the climate crisis. And, not as widely recognized, the climate crisis is also resulting in escalating costs. NOAA warned last year that we faced 14 weather and climate calamities, each costing over $1 billion dollars…