climate change
World to Write Rulebook for Climate Action
Submitted by hungeski on Mon, 12/03/2018 - 11:13pm
The annual world climate talks take place in Katowice, Poland, this week and next. For this year the goal is to come up with a rulebook for implementing the Paris Climate Agreement.
A major goal of that agreement, made in December three years ago, is to keep global warming to 1.5°C (2.7°F) above preindustrial average. As of last year, the planet stood at 1.0°C (1.8°F) warmer.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world's top authority on the subject, produced a report for use at the meeting. The report focuses on the 1.5°C goal.
Effects of Warming
Effects of warming as we go from present to 1.5°C warmer, and then to 2.0°C, include ever higher risks to society. From the IPCC report:
B.1. Climate models project robust differences in regional climate characteristics between present-day and global warming of 1.5°C, and between 1.5°C and 2°C (3.6°F). These differences include increases in: mean temperature in most land and ocean regions (high confidence), hot extremes in most inhabited regions (high confidence), heavy precipitation in several regions (medium confidence), and the probability of drought and precipitation deficits in some regions (medium confidence).
B.3. Climate-related risks to health, livelihoods, food security, water supply, human security, and economic growth are projected to increase with global warming of 1.5°C and increase further with 2°C.
So far I'm counting exactly ONE climate change protester
Submitted by Cassiodorus on Tue, 11/20/2018 - 9:51amAnd here he is, everyone: Lee Camp, with his report on the California fires:
Never speaking the words “climate change” while whole towns literally go up in flames is like covering the drowning death of someone and never mentioning he was being waterboarded at the time. The real cause of these fires is at least half the story, if not more.
Climate and the Infernal Blue Wave: Straight Talk About Saving Humanity
Submitted by out of left field on Tue, 11/13/2018 - 10:32pmThe title of this blog entry is the same as that for an article by Carol Danserau posted at Counterpunch. Here's a link: Climate and the Infernal Blue Wave: Straight Talk About Saving Humanity
Or here's something they could protest --
Submitted by Cassiodorus on Fri, 11/09/2018 - 10:02pminaction on climate change!!
Geoengineering and Reality
Submitted by Cassiodorus on Wed, 10/24/2018 - 11:29amThe lead essay in Jacobin yesterday was "Against Geoengineering," and this piece is a critique of that essay. "Against Geoengineering" touches upon issues of climate change and of how a human society is to mitigate it.
Hot Air
Submitted by magiamma on Thu, 10/11/2018 - 5:00amSomething to keep in mind… The world’s population is on track to hit 8 billion in 2023, and almost 10 billion by 2050.
Hot Air
Submitted by magiamma on Thu, 10/04/2018 - 5:00amSomething to keep in mind… The Department of Defense uses 4,600,000,000 US gallons of fuel annually (2007). Carbon dioxide emissions are between 18.4 and 21.10 pounds per gallon of fuel depending on the type of fuel. The total US Military carbon emissions are ~828 billion pounds per year.
Trump administration on climate change: this is a thing now.
Submitted by Cassiodorus on Sat, 09/29/2018 - 2:51pmThis now appears in the online journal The Week -- its headline is amusing, though the content is also in the WaPo:
Hot Air
Submitted by magiamma on Thu, 09/27/2018 - 5:00amSomething to keep in mind… “If our world is totally unsustainable, how do we retreat from it sustainably?" James Lovelock