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Yale Climate Connections August 16, 2019
This week’s articles include:
‘What’s the best kind of car for the climate?’
What it means to be human in an age of climate change
Storytelling is fueling climate conversations at Appalachian State University
Architectural history offers clues […]
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Germany facing risk of increased water shortages
This article discusses why Germany faces an increased risk of water shortages. Germans have never had to worry much about water scarcity. But with rising global temperatures driving record heatwaves and prolonged droughts, demand for the precious resource is increasing.
In late June, 2019, an emergency warning app developed by Germany’s Office […]
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Arctic Ice Is Crashing, and That’s Bad News For Everyone
This Vice article discusses how bad it is that Arctic ice is melting. This fits in exactly with our expectations of long-term climate change.’
Over the next few days, Greenland is expected to roast as the weather system that fueled Europe’s second record-smashing heatwave of the summer marches […]
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Report: True cost of cheap food is health and climate crises, says commission
This The Guardian article discusses the true cost of cheap food is health and climate crises, says commission. Radical change needed to make UK food and farming system sustainable within 10 years. The commission’s report, which was welcomed by the environment secretary, Michael Gove, concluded […]
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Earth just had its hottest June on record, on track for warmest July
This article discusses the temperature of our planet in June 2019. Earth just had its hottest June on record, on track for warmest July.
Boosted by a historic heat wave in Europe and unusually warm conditions across the Arctic and Eurasia, the average temperature of the planet soared to its highest […]
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Yale Climate Connections, Week of July 12, 2019
This week’s stories include:
How climate change is making hurricanes more dangerous
How to prepare for a hurricane
Did climate change play a role in Western Europe’s June heat wave?
The military is interested in deploying renewable energy […]
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Report: Six shocking climate events that happened around the world this week
This Think Progress article discusses six shocking climate events that happened around the world during the first week of July 2019. Heat waves, melting glaciers, and wasp “super nests.” From an increase in the population of iguanas in Florida and super nests of wasps in Alabama, to world-class soccer […]
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Study: Sargassum: The biggest seaweed bloom in the world
This BBC article discusses the Sargassum, the biggest seaweed bloom in the world.
A floating mass of seaweed stretching from West Africa to the Gulf of Mexico is now the biggest seaweed bloom in the world, according to satellite observations.
The algal explosion in the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea […]
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How banks can save the world from climate change
This article discusses how banks can save the world. The UK’s Chartered Banker Institute – the oldest institute of bankers in the world – has played a leading role since 1875 in helping finance professionals to develop and demonstrate the traditional, in fact universal, principles of “good banking”: stewardship, […]
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How US climate deniers are working with far-right racists to hijack Brexit for Big Oil
This article discusses how US climate deniers are working with far-right racists to hijack Brexit for Big Oil.
New evidence reveals how a tightly concentrated global network of politicians and corporations with close ties to the Trump administration is working on behalf of powerful US fossil fuel interests in Britain […]
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