Tag: climate change
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Groundbreaking UN Report Warns Climate Change a Threat to Global Security and Mankind
While climate change reports are far from a new phenomenon, an international study released Monday morning should be enough to give any human being reason to act and/or demand action from legislators and the energy industry around them. For the first time, a United Nations panel has concluded that the list of widely known climate…
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How Ecological Farming Builds Resilience to Climate Change
Last week, I joined a panel at the Global Agribusiness Forum in São Paolo (Brazil) to talk about the impacts of climate change on agriculture and food production. You might be surprised that Greenpeace was at an agribusiness conference. The room was full of agri-business people, who are not the crowd we normally engage with; they are…
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How 11,000 Oil and Gas Wells Gave Utah Community More Ozone Pollution Than Los Angeles
Clearly, there’s no comparing the sparse population of Utah’s Uintah Basin and that of the mega-metropolis within the Los Angeles basin. So, how could both places possibly have similar volatile organic compounds (VOCs) levels? Despite an area population of barely 30,000, Uintah County is home to a combined 11,200 oil- and gas-producing wells. Over time, their presence led…
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How Scientists Are Moving Climate Change Conversation Forward
Last January, I wrote an op-ed for the New York Times—If You See Something, Say Something—about my feelings of duty as a climate scientist to engage with the public. I hoped it would help other scientists feel more comfortable speaking out to the public about the dangers of a world warmed by human emissions. [caption id=”attachment_328216″ align=”alignnone”…
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Florida Congressman Says Climate All-Nighter Was ‘Crass’ and ‘Strange’
With the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers projecting that Florida’s sea waters could rise by as many as 24 inches in the next four decades, you’d think Congress members in that state would give climate denial a rest. That’s not the case for at least one member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Republican Ron Desantis expressed doubt…