Thursday, January 24, 2019

Ecology and Pollution related links 012419



The monarch butterfly population in California has plummeted 86% in one year

Special Interest Money is Preventing Climate Change Legislation: American voters are largely in favor of developing clean energy solutions, but special interests are preventing them from having a voice.

The Years Project = Years of Living Dangerously

Climate Change: Rising sea levels threaten Panama's islands

What Land Will Be Underwater in 20 Years? Figuring It Out Could Be Lucrative 

Adaptation to the impacts of sea level rise in Egypt

The Earth is an open and closed system

Climate & the Carbon Cycle Earth is a closed system. Carbon is not gained or lost, it just cycles through the different spheres (Atmosphere; Hydrosphere

A warming Earth might eventually copy the greenhouse effect of Venus: Modelling finds the precious equilibrium between temperature and radiation breaks down beyond a certain point, spelling big trouble.

Climate: Securing a cleaner future

Challenges to belief systems in the context of climate change adaptation

Religious Identity, Beliefs, and Views about Climate Change

Special issue article: The social psychology of climate change.  Investigating the effects of knowledge and ideology on climate change beliefs

Mindfulness Increases the Belief in Climate Change: The Mediating Role of Connectedness With Nature

Against equality: Fundamentalism and climate change denial

How Fossil Fuel Money Made Climate Change Denial the Word of God

Bumblebee Has Officially Been Added To The Ever-Growing List Of Endangered Species

Trapped in the Horror Movie That is Climate Change

Anthropogenic Climate Change: The Size of Our Solutions Does Not Match the Size of Our Problems

Better Technology Isn’t The Solution To Ecological Collapse: We cannot innovate our way out of planetary disaster. We need to ditch our addiction to GDP growth

The Salt Marshes Can’t Save Us Now: Salt marshes are critical to sea and human life alike, but it’s getting harder for them to survive

Billionaires and Bacteria Are Racing to Save Us From Death by Fertilizer: Nitrogen fertilizer is a disaster. Abandoning it would be a bigger disaster. Now a dozen billionaires are funding an alternative.

A Clever Fix to the Biggest Climate Problem: The most dangerous greenhouse gasses come from your fridge. This technology eliminates them.

5 “Lazy” Ways to Reverse Global Warming

Oceans are warming even faster than previously thought: Recent observations show ocean heating in line with climate change models

Ocean Warming Is Accelerating Faster Than Thought, New Research Finds: Rising ocean temperatures can bleach corals, like these off of Papua New Guinea.

SPECIAL REPORT: Global Warming of 1.5 ºC.  An IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty.

We Already Have a Border Wall. It’s an Environmental Disaster.

Sunrise Movement building an army of young people to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs in the process.

She's Alive... Beautiful... Finite... Hurting... Worth Dying for.

National park visitors cut down protected Joshua trees during partial government shutdown

Trump Officially Nominates Former Coal Lobbyist Andrew Wheeler to Head EPA

The Big One Is Coming

Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change

Border wall's animal impact

Tree Resin Could Replace Oil and Gas in Household Products: Genetically engineered trees could supply the chemicals needed to make glue, paint, varnish and other household goods.

CO2 Removal May Be Our Last Chance

The Second Great American Extinction Event (1600s to 1900s)

What Does 100% Renewable Energy Really Mean?

How Climate Change Is Ruining Our Indoor Air: It would take an unreasonable amount of plants to balance rising CO2 levels being found at home, school, and work

Gilets Jaunes: la « contagion » a atteint 23 pays dans le Monde!! Le silence médiatique est assourdissant…

The Story of 2018 Was Climate Change: Future generations may ask why we were distracted by lesser matters.

Leaving IWC no guarantee Japan can resume whale hunts

Climate change leading to water shortage in Andes, Himalayas: Rapidly melting glaciers causing similar problems on two continents

Effects of global warming: The signs of global warming are everywhere, and are more complex than just climbing temperatures.

More glaciers in East Antarctica are waking up

Arctic Report Card tracks region’s environmental changes: Annual update improves understanding of changing climate, wildlife impacts

U.S. Carbon Emissions Surged in 2018 Even as Coal Plants Closed: Passenger planes at the Phoenix airport in July. Greenhouse gas emissions from airplanes and trucking increased sharply in 2018.

How Trump is redefining the EPA

With heatwaves like this, what sort of future do we have in store?

'A Disgrace': Bernie Sanders Takes Trump EPA Pick to Task for Claiming Climate Change Not 'Greatest Crisis' Facing Planet.  The acting EPA chief repeatedly downplayed the threat of the climate crisis and brushed aside scientific evidence during his Senate confirmation hearing

The women fighting a pipeline that could destroy precious wildlife: Activists fight to stop construction of the Bayou Bridge pipeline, which endangers an ecosystem that is one of the most important bird habitats in the western hemisphere

Even Davos Elite Warns Humanity Is 'Sleepwalking Into Catastrophe'

The West’s Great River Hits Its Limits: Will the Colorado Run Dry?  As the Southwest faces rapid growth and unrelenting drought, the Colorado River is in crisis, with too many demands on its diminishing flow. Now those who depend on the river must confront the hard reality that their supply of Colorado water may be cut off. (First in a series.)

Pentagon: Climate Change Is Real and a 'National Security Issue'.  The Pentagon released a Congressionally mandated report (pdf) that warns flooding, drought and wildfires and other effects of climate change puts U.S. military bases at risk.

U.S. Oil and Gas Industry Is Drilling Us Towards Climate Disaster

On Martin Luther King’s 90th birthday, a renewed commitment to climate justice

Bears in the Crosshairs: Inside Earthjustice’s case to decide the fate of Yellowstone’s iconic bears

Environmental issues in Wyoming

The Seafloor is Disappearing: Ocean waters are growing more acidic, eating away at the discarded skeletons that make up the seafloor

Why We Need to Leave Earth: …while making sure we don’t leave Earth behind.

On Noticing: I believe in the inherent good of looking longer

How Freezing Coral Sperm Could Save Our Reefs: Scientist Mary Hagedorn is racing to save marine life through cryobiology

Gov. J.B. Pritzker commits Illinois to climate change fight as study shows extreme weather convincing more people

'Despicable': Wells Fargo Bashed for Plans to Cash In on Global Climate Crisis

Prince William humbled to interview David Attenborough

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