Earth Overshoot Day Shows We’re Devouring The Planet’s Resources Much Too Fast
Climate Change
from Algeria to the Arctic. But what’s the cause?
"The northern hemisphere is having a baking summer – and it’s not just down to climate change."
NPR
"Warmer weather means that barnacle geese fly faster to their breeding grounds, leaving them too tired to lay eggs right away. By the time they're ready, the babies have missed the best food."
California Farmers Fear Cow Killing Heat Wave | Farm Journal’s MILK Business
"Farmers in the Golden State are facing a heatwave very similar to the one that killed thousands of cows last year. California dairy farm..."
an epic TV news fail – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
"The recent heat wave, which broke records around the world, has been a staple of TV news. Yet over a two week period, only 1 of 127 segments on the topic mentioned climate change."
Scientists don’t want you to use air conditioning — here’s why
"Sure, we’re in the middle of a heat wave — but you may want to think twice before cranking up the AC."
"As the Earth warms and summers become increasingly hotter, we turn to pollutant air conditioners to cool down, furthering environmental damage."
"As many as 1,000 additional people each year along the Eastern U.S. could die from comp"Sure, we’re in the middle of a heat wave — but you may want to think twice before cranking up the%""lications due to higher levels of air pollution from increased air conditioning use, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison said in a new study published Tuesday in the journal PLOS Medicine."
"On top of that, the study found that about 13,000 people along the Eastern U.S. could die per year by 2050 from the hazardous particulate matter released into the air as a byproduct of burning fossil fuels, and there could be another 3,000 deaths from ozone exposure."
James Hansen wishes he wasn’t so right about global warming
"NASA’s top climate scientist in 1988, Hansen warned the world on a record hot June day 30 years ago that global warming was here and worsening. In a scientific study that came out a couple months later, he even forecast how warm it would get, depending on emissions of heat-trapping gases."
"The hotter world that Hansen envisioned in 1988 has pretty much come true so far, more or less. Three decades later, most climate scientists interviewed rave about the accuracy of Hansen’s predictions given the technology of the time."