Monday, August 10, 2020

Ecology and Pollution and Climate Change related links 081020


Climate Crisis at Forefront of 2020 Election

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smvX7GssnIE

 

New Analysis Details How Electrifying the US Economy by 2035 Could Create 25 Million Green Jobs: "We can achieve a just transition to a better world out of the wreckage of this economic crisis... The only thing standing in the way is political will."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/07/29/new-analysis-details-how-electrifying-us-economy-2035-could-create-25-million-green?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR3E80Sa5nEPUqqBjeTwdiwY07ESly6Qv8N3F72_WYOWwiO54DD3O6tF6VA

 

GLOBAL WARMING - SO WHAT?  A Library about Climate Change

http://www.globalwarming-sowhat.com/warm--cool-/

 

Lockdowns Spared Millions of Animals From Becoming Roadkill, Researchers Say: The number of wild animals killed by vehicle traffic was down as much as 45 percent in Maine and 21 percent in California, according to a U.C. Davis report.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/science/roadkill-coronavirus.html

 

Researchers discover record warming at the South Pole over the past 3 decades

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/06/29/climate-change-south-pole-has-warmed-three-times-global-rate/3279299001/

 

Coronavirus kills hospital ICU chief who 'selflessly' cared for patients during pandemic: "This is real," a medical school classmate said of Dr. Joseph Costa. "This was a 56-year-old healthy man. He knew how to be careful ... and he still passed away from this disease.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/coronavirus-kills-hospital-icu-chief-who-selflessly-cared-patients-during-n1235082?fbclid=IwAR0V83yTI6E3teEErS4uZmBtrfC8UxkXK9wTpea_cwFps6lwMmkZjmDzoQc

 

Amy Goodman Interviews Tom Steyer & Elizabeth Warren at South Carolina Environmental Justice Forum

https://www.democracynow.org/2020/2/26/amy_goodman_interviews_tom_steyer_elizabeth?fbclid=IwAR2j28lHOR7BB336IU-BpHdiBSRldhSnk1ymHWyxtAyZqI7zGTHGgoOzKiE

 

Why are scientists creating genetically modified mosquitoes?

https://news.yahoo.com/why-scientists-creating-genetically-modified-094501557.html

 

Global Methane Emissions Reach a Record High: Scientists expect emissions, driven by fossil fuels and agriculture, to continue rising rapidly.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/climate/methane-emissions-record.html

 

How Joe Biden’s surprisingly ambitious climate plan came together

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/how-joe-bidens-surprisingly-ambitious-climate-plan-came-together/2020/07/31/b73e78d0-cd11-11ea-91f1-28aca4d833a0_story.html?fbclid=IwAR23iTYWhumRPKa5hVwvL50busTUCwqhqJrPlJIWrxoj8Hizdsf4lH6IBvk

 

Work

https://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/536/work-issue-536

 

Letter from economists: to rebuild our world, we must end the carbon economy.  The carbon economy amplifies racial, social and economic inequities, creating a system that is fundamentally incompatible with a stable future

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/04/economists-letter-carbon-economy-climate-change-rebuild

 

UN: World could hit 1.5-degree warming threshold by 2024

https://apnews.com/40c53c57860109143a9ed44393dab3c3?fbclid=IwAR0JQ8wcWQJfZrkPtyziPmMWaeCUmSCq1YzFe74sITlpvZvr8Pn1JZvDbcE

 

Democratic Bill Banning Toxic Pesticides in US Applauded as 'Much-Needed' Step to Protect Kids and the Planet: "The Protect America's Children from Toxic Pesticides Act says what we all know to be true: that nerve agents have no place on our food, in our workplaces, and in our communities."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/08/04/democratic-bill-banning-toxic-pesticides-us-applauded-much-needed-step-protect-kids?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR0OXQxHZBhonie9EHeqEpbVj81DRnYeX3h3Z2wpJeLKYKrWbdxKQyYzw_Q

 

It’s Trump Jr. vs. Trump Sr. Over an Alaskan Mineral Mine: The move toward opening the Pebble Mine has surfaced a rare dispute between Donald Trump Jr. and his father’s administration.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/us/politics/pebble-mine-trump-alaska.html

 

CDC expects 2020 outbreak of rare, life-threatening condition affecting children

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/510471-cdc-expects-2020-outbreak-of-rare-life-threatening-condition-affecting?fbclid=IwAR0SFCoDlhmyx5_4ZPr8Anfut0DbMWxVcbz2MbwZ2Gy13D9o316G-puLAeU

 

Climate change may push polar bears to the brink of extinction within 100 years, study says

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/07/21/climate-change-polar-bears-extinction-study/5478109002/

 

Multi-national chemical firm Corteva closing manufacturing operation at New Plymouth site

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/122339248/multinational-chemical-firm-corteva-closing-manufacturing-operation-at-new-plymouth-site

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