Tag: global warming
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SOLUTIONS 3/11: What’s at stake? Everything!
By Huck Fairman The United Nations (UN) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) just issued its latest warning: “The scientific evidence is unequivocal: climate change is a threat to human well-being and the health of the planet,” said Hans-Otto Pörtner, a co-chair of working group 2 of the IPCC. “Any further delay in concerted global…
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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 8/14: Our String of Disasters
By Huck Fairman How bad is it? Three years ago, the NY Times reported, FEMA had been managing 27 “major disasters” around the country, with a staff of approximately 10,000. Recently the number of disasters has doubled, not counting the pandemic, but the FEMA staff has only increased by a third. Last week’s hurricane, Isaias,…
