Tuesday, June 14, 2022

Ecology and Pollution and Climate Change related links 061522

 

Why are We Subsidizing Our Own Extinction? - May 12, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlZ0XS8cUo8

 

Can a Trillion Tons of Excess CO2 Be Removed from the Atmosphere? Featuring Peter Fiekowsky - May 17, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APADTH9E_Rw

 

Can We Abandon Pollutive Fossil Fuels and Avoid an Energy Crisis?  When it comes to maintaining energy flows, there is a closing window to avert both climate catastrophe and economic peril.

https://www.populist.com/28.10.Heinberg.html

 

Beware of Fakers In Green Investing

https://www.populist.com/28.10.Lingo.html

 

Iowa in the Eye of a Storm Over the Future of Food

https://www.populist.com/28.10.ArtCullen.html

 

Lost in the Pandering, Posturing Weeds

https://www.populist.com/28.10.Guebert.html

 

Climate Emergency: India’s Unprecedented Heat Wave blights Wheat Crops, adding to Global Bread Shortages

https://www.juancole.com/2022/05/emergency-unprecedented-shortages.html

 

Rocket engine exhaust pollution extends high into Earth's atmosphere: Understanding rocket emissions in the atmosphere by modeling fluid dynamics of rocket exhaust gases

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/05/220517112210.htm?fbclid=IwAR3idu4crkjd0bUUkZlo5QwFJT1nZ5ZASuNmpWN2v0gzrmnmnbk-SivdIOc

 

In the Philippines, a Landmark Finding Moves Fossil Fuel Companies’ Climate Liability into the Realm of Human Rights: While not binding, the findings of the report by the country’s Commission on Human Rights has broad implications for other cases, experts say.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/15052022/philippines-fossil-fuels-climate-liability/

 

Study Identifies Outdoor Air Pollution as the ‘Largest Existential Threat to Human and Planetary Health’

Deaths from exposure to emissions from vehicles, smoke stacks and wildfires have increased by more than 50 percent this century, with poorer countries bearing the brunt of the impacts.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/17052022/outdoor-air-pollution-health/

 

Climate Migrants Lack a Clear Path to Asylum in the US: People displaced by climate change must show they face violence or persecution in their home countries to enter the U.S. legally. Advocates say it’s time to recognize climate as cause enough.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21052022/climate-migrants-seeking-asylum-in-the-us-lack-a-clear-path-to-refugee-status/

 

Lead Poisonings of Children in Baltimore Are Down, but Lead Contamination Still Poses a Major Threat, a New Report Says: The Abell Foundation study found that as many as 85,000 homes in the city had “dangerous” levels of lead, and that remediation could cost billions.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19052022/lead-contamination-report/

 

Coming this Summer: Spiking Electricity Bills Plus Blackouts.  Climate change and poor planning puts strain on the grid and consumers.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11052022/electricity-bills-blackouts/

 

In an emotional plea this week, members of Ukraine’s environmental community, many of whom fled their homes as bombs fell around them, urged world leaders to halt the flow of Russian fuel exports. Failing to do so only exacerbates the worsening climate crisis, they said, and continues to “fund Putin’s war machine” at the cost of thousands of Ukrainian lives.

https://insideclimatenews.org/todaysclimate/in-emotional-plea-ukrainians-urge-the-west-to-ban-russian-fuels/

 

Elon Musk Is the Newest Acolyte of the Right’s Critical Energy Theory Nonsense: Musk's rant about ESG aligns with a growing conservative movement to denounce sustainable investment as a left-wing plot.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166561/elon-musk-newest-acolyte-rights-critical-energy-theory-nonsense

 

Will Climate Change Make Earth Too Hot For Humans? - May 24, 2022 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GdUujRZQLc

 

These Data Nerds Think They’ve Found the Climate Silver Bullet: Nonvoting Environmentalists.  The Environmental Voter Project wants to turn infrequent voters who care about the environment into a force that can swing elections.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166589/environmental-voter-project-midterms

 

What if the Wind and Sunshine Really Belonged to All of Us?  Only by taking a more radical approach to renewables—one inspired by American history—can we build the constituency needed to make climate justice a reality.

https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/wind-sunshine-public-goods/

 

America’s Largest, Most Neglected Machine Could Be the Key to Radical Climate Activism: Most of us ignore the electrical grid, but it’s a crucial part of the transition to renewable energy capacity.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/national-grid-climate-activism/

 

The Many Moods: Rachel Carson’s sea.

https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/rachel-carson-sea-trilogy/

 

EU unveils plan for ‘largest ever ban’ on dangerous chemicals: Up to 12,000 substances could fall within the scope of the new ‘restrictions roadmap’

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/25/eu-unveils-plan-largest-ever-ban-on-dangerous-chemicals

 

The 2 Billion Year Old Nuclear Reactor That Exists In Africa

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/the-2-billion-year-old-nuclear-reactor-that-exists-in-africa/ar-AAXPT7s

 

Neurotoxicity Associated with Traumatic Brain Injury, Blast, Chemical, Heavy Metal and Quinoline Drug Exposure

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30982784/

 

Top Economist WARNS of collapse of American Civilization | The Weekend Show.  Top Economist Umair Haque chats with veteran broadcaster Anthony Davis about America’s Mass shooting crisis, American Exceptionalism, and why climate change is the number one issue facing humanity today. - 29 May 2022 · 1 hour, 12 minutes

https://pod.link/1612691018/episode/13520c04b0197781458b51e3cb36fc6c

 

American Forests Magazine: Explore articles and photographs that bring to life the reforestation movement

https://www.americanforests.org/american-forests-magazine/

 

“The Climate Wars Are Over” in Australia? Not Even Close.  The conservatives’ defeat is good news, but the incoming Labor Party’s policies show why climate activists can’t relax even under liberal governments.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166638/albanese-labor-australia-climate

 

DDT Is Still With Us, 50 Years Since It Was Banned: Scientists have found toxic levels of the chemical at large. And some groups are making the case to produce even more.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166645/ddt-still-us-50-years-since-banned-poison-elena-conis

 

Fossil Banks

https://www.fossilbanks.org/join-movement

 

Bank Track

https://www.banktrack.org/

 

Stop EACOP – East African Crude Oil Pipe Line

https://www.stopeacop.net/home

 

Stand Earth

https://www.stand.earth/

 

The Peace Poets

https://thepeacepoets.com/

 

Reclaim Finance

https://reclaimfinance.org/site/en/home/

 

Major Failure: TotalEnergies’ climate plan fails to reduce emissions

https://reclaimfinance.org/site/en/2022/03/24/major-failure-totalenergies-climate-plan-fails-to-reduce-emissions/#:~:text=View%20Larger%20Image-,Major%20Failure%3A%20TotalEnergies'%20climate%20plan%20fails%20to%20reduce%20emissions,General%20Meeting%20on%20May%2025th

 

GreenFaith

https://greenfaith.org/

 

Climate Safe Pensions: Together we can shift billions of hard-earned pension fund dollars from financing coal, oil and gas.

https://climatesafepensions.org/

 

Agatha downgraded but could redevelop in Caribbean, Gulf

https://apnews.com/article/floods-storms-caribbean-mexico-tropical-ac7b5e3592b945011799b9da0b980cb4

 

If Democrats Can’t Pass Climate Legislation in New York, We’re All Doomed: The Build Public Renewables Act would be the first bill to pass acting on New York’s ambitious climate goals. Will Democrats kill it again?

https://newrepublic.com/article/166663/democrats-build-public-renewables-act-new-york

 

Werner Herzog Tests Himself Against the Wilderness: “The Twilight World” is the summation of a lifelong obsession with chaos, hostility, and meaninglessness.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166369/werner-herzog-twilight-world-review-tests-wilderness

 

Is Climate Change Moving Faster Than We Thought? Featuring Michael Mann - Jun 3, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es2zp9ziKes

 

South Florida flooding - Jun 4, 2022 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_53fRKVUc8

 

The Republicans’ New Climate Plan Is Really an Old Plan for Destroying the Planet: Kevin McCarthy and Garrett Graves would like you to believe they’ve a six-point strategy for lowering emissions and fuel prices. Nope!

https://newrepublic.com/article/166686/republicans-new-climate-plan-really-old-plan-destroying-planet

 

Paying Our Debts

https://progressive.org/magazine/paying-our-debts-lueders/

 

The Southwest’s Drought and Fires Are a Window to Our Climate Change Future: In a Q&A with ProPublica, experts describe how a new climate reality threatens the Southwest, the fastest-growing region in the U.S.

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-southwests-drought-and-fires-are-a-window-to-our-climate-change-future

 

Important Signals

https://www.populist.com/28.11.Art%20Cullen%20Important%20Signals.html

 

America is staring down a summer of disasters

https://www.axios.com/2022/06/08/summer-weather-climate-change-heat-fires-hurricanes

 

Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago a Novel of Environmental Sensibility: Pasternak, author of Doctor Zhivago, was a Russian whose environmental sensibilities followed that of Chekhov and who would disdain Putin’s ecocide practices.

https://hollywoodprogressive.com/literature/doctor-zhivago

 

Forgotten Hero of American Urbanism: William H. Whyte: Whyte’s ability to use establishment connections to promote, what were then, radical urban policies is likely unprecedented in American urban history.

https://hollywoodprogressive.com/literature/forgotten-hero-of-american-urbanism

 

So Long, DDT. See You Around Soon.  The United States banned the incredibly toxic pesticide DDT in the early 1970s. But it never went away.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166069/ddt-ban-rachel-carson-silent-spring

 

Why Did Democrats and Solar Companies Just Kill a Climate Bill in New York?  The New York legislature failed to pass the Build Public Renewables Act before the session closed last week, despite a Democratic supermajority.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166708/democrats-solar-companies-just-kill-climate-bill-new-york

 

A European startup built a 400-square-foot concrete home with a 3D printer in 5 weeks — see inside

https://www.businessinsider.com/photos-european-startup-built-a-3d-printed-concrete-home-2022-6

 

'Extreme drought conditions' force Joshua Tree park to close trail so bighorn sheep can get water

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/experience/america/national-parks/2022/06/08/joshua-tree-park-closed-trail/7559967001/

 

Tipping Point: Fisheries on the Brink - A PBS NewsHour Special - Streamed 06/08/2022 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azYSOqg2ikQ

 

The White House Will “Partner” With Caribbean Countries on Climate Change—Just as Long as They Don’t Ask for Too Much Money: Smaller, cash-strapped countries are losing patience with America’s dithering on climate finance.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166745/white-house-will-partner-caribbean-countries-climate-changejust-long-dont-ask-much-money

 

Good news or bad? Climate change cuts insect numbers on farmlands

https://www.sparrow.science/good-news-or-bad-climate-change-cuts-insect-numbers-on-farmlands/

 

Climate change is increasingly viewed as a public health crisis

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/14/climate-change-is-increasingly-viewed-public-health-crisis/

 

A sighting reveals extinction and climate change in a single image

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/14/1104158719/woolly-mammoth-tusk-koyukuk-river-alaska

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