Tag: climate change
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Action4Climate Video Contest Inspires 5 Day Filmmaking Journey
[Editor’s note: This video was submitted to the Action4Climate Video Competition. Vote for your favorite video today.] In just five short days, my Montgomery College sociology classmates and I made a video to promote awareness about climate change. Our inspirational professor, Dr. Leszek Sibilski, embedded this question in us: “How are you going to shape society?” [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovlCe516e6s[/embed] Unable to understand…
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Climate Change Will Make it Harder to Grow These 5 Foods
Last week’s release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change latest report gave many their first glimpse into how climate change might impact the foods they rely on for nutrition. The report took the spotlight away from extreme weather, exposing food and resource wars as other potential results of the world’s changing climate. If battles…
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Scientists Discover New Atmospheric Hole Reinforcing Ozone Depletion
Researchers have discovered a large opening in the Earth’s atmosphere that is enabling pollutants to rise into the stratosphere and destroy the ozone layer. [caption id="attachment_329642" align="alignnone" width="500"] Location and extent of low ozone concentrations and thus of the OH hole over the West Pacific. Graphic courtesy of Alfred Wegener Institute[/caption] The hole, which is in a…
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100+ Scientists and Economists Urge President Obama and Secretary Kerry to Reject Keystone XL
More than 100 leading scientists and economists are calling on the Obama Administration to deny the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline because it will trigger massive development of the world’s dirtiest oil, and escalate climate change. They include Nobel Prize winners in physics and economics, and lead authors of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel…
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Tech Industry can Ignite a Clean Energy Revolution
Connecting people across continents. Delivering breaking news. Enabling government transparency. Facilitating social revolutions. Stopping global warming? The Internet is capable of doing so much, but perhaps the idea that it can help rescue the planet from runaway global warming comes as a surprise to you. Every time we post a Facebook status to our friends,…