Sunday, October 9, 2022

Ecology and Pollution and Climate Change related links 100822

 

WION Climate Tracker | Historic drought in Horn of Africa raises famine threat - Aug 22, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwD9mH0irKc

 

WION Climate Tracker | Drought threatens war-scarred Iraq's national security - Aug 22, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFjB-I6xZaI

 

Dozens of high-water rescues are underway as the drought-parched Dallas area gets a summer’s worth of rain in a day

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/22/us/dallas-weather-flash-flood-warning/index.html

 

Valley activists, residents head to Sacramento to demand cleanup of contaminated Santa Susana Field Lab: Organizers said DTSC and CalEPA responsible for remediating contaminated sites across the state failed to hold polluters accountable, allowing them to walk away from cleaning toxic fields often located in low-income and working-class communities.

https://psr.org/valley-activists-residents-head-to-sacramento-to-demand-cleanup-of-contaminated-santa-susana-field-lab/

Did California give Boeing a pass on a major pollution cleanup?

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-08-11/did-california-give-boeing-a-pass-on-santa-susana-pollution-cleanup

 

Tennessee’s second-largest crude oil spill narrowly missed the state’s biggest aquifer

https://wpln.org/post/tennessees-second-largest-crude-oil-spill-narrowly-missed-the-states-biggest-aquifer/

 

What could we do to cool the Arctic, specifically?  Some forms of geoengineering could slow the Arctic's heating.

https://www.arctictoday.com/what-could-we-do-to-cool-the-arctic-specifically/

 

Fleeing climate change — the real environmental disaster | DW Documentary - May 1, 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl4Uv9_7KJE&list=RDCMUCW39zufHfsuGgpLviKh297Q&index=6

 

Methane gas leaks from the ground both naturally and from coal, oil, and gas extraction. New research shows that more of the gas in the atmosphere comes from the fossil fuel industry than previously thought.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/super-potent-methane-in-atmosphere-oil-gas-drilling-ice-cores

 

Trees across the U.S. face dire threats, new report shows - Aug 28, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDCK6FgJ8qQ

 

Made-in-America Electric Cars: Good in Theory but a Complicated Mess in Practice: Demanding E.V. parts be made domestically could slow down the energy transition—or, alternatively, fall afoul of free trade policies the United States has worked hard to enact.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167504/electric-cars-made-in-america

 

Greenland ice melt will raise sea levels by nearly a foot, study says - Aug 29, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ4udMtbXuY

 

How Fracking Billionaires, Ben Shapiro, and PragerU Built a Climate Crisis–Denial Empire: PragerU and the Daily Wire, two of the internet’s biggest spreaders of climate crisis denial, got seed money from two ultra-religious fracking brothers from Texas.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3p33j/fracking-farris-dan-wilks-prageru-climate-crisis-denial-shapiro

 

Climate Change Will Bring Pakistan's Deadly Floods To Your House - Aug 30, 2022

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

 

What is PP4FDR?  We are pushing for a more participatory community engagement process, facilitated by local organizations, to create a People's Plan for FDR Park that reflects the current needs and interests of South Philly communities, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, and in the face of a changing climate.

https://www.pp4fdr.org/

 

What’s happening to the Meadows?

https://www.savethemeadows.com/

 

Climate Change Remains Top Global Threat Across 19-Country Survey: People see UN favorably and believe ‘common values’ are more important for bringing nations together than ‘common problems’

https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2022/08/31/climate-change-remains-top-global-threat-across-19-country-survey/

 

Lakeside Vacation Towns Have a Controversial Poop Problem: Waterfront communities from Seeley Lake to Cape Cod are experiencing deep conflict over septic system updates. But if they do nothing, sewage and toxic algae will destroy the waters they cherish.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167571/vacation-towns-poop-septic-system

 

California heat wave sparks fears of power outages, fires

https://apnews.com/article/wildfires-california-los-angeles-gavin-newsom-fires-954d26847839b338159b6b8224bcb3ad

 

California urges energy conservation as heat wave hits

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-08-31/california-heat-wave-likely-to-spur-flex-alerts-for-energy-grid

 

"Zombie Ice": Greenland's Melting Glacier to Raise Sea Nearly 1 Foot, Double Previous Estimate - Sep 1, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWB9ON3QCwo

 

2021 saw record-high greenhouse gases, sea levels and ocean heat, new report shows: Climate change "shows no sign of slowing."

https://abcnews.go.com/International/2021-record-high-greenhouse-gases-sea-levels-ocean/story?id=89108285

 

Carbon should cost 3.6 times more than US price, study says

https://apnews.com/article/science-climate-and-environment-government-politics-4c1e8783694201355f88012079367f27?fbclid=IwAR2Q6KDm924slle8DgtYAVi50ZYwzKZHWCHX8hokc8aQrkBEVVEGiksZkiA

 

Let’s start in Ste. Genevieve County in eastern Missouri, where a proposed silica mine is triggering memories of toxic waste and pollution left behind from other, long-dead mining projects in a three-county stretch known as the Old Lead Belt, the Missouri Independent reported as part of an ongoing joint investigation with NPR’s Midwest Newsroom.

https://statesnewsroom.salsalabs.org/eveningwrap_environmentalconditions?wvpId=35444be8-8984-4331-8f25-52703c68cda8

 

The dirty "Net Zero" carbon myth (that everyone believes) - Sep 1, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaLGsZseL3w

 

When I Was a Boy, Back Before Earth Got Too Hot to Live On . . .: Great-Grandfather Simon reminisces about the olden days, when boys and girls fell in love without knowing what each other looked like naked.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/09/05/when-i-was-a-boy-back-before-earth-got-too-hot-to-live-on

 

Canada might be getting a 1,000 kph vacuum-tube train

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/fluxjet-transpod-canada-hyperloop/index.html

 

Analysis shows 2021 fossil fuel subsidies nearly doubled globally to $697B

https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2022/08/31/global-fossil-fuel-subsidies-nearly-doubled-2021-IEA-OECD/7171661961068/

 

Mississippi’s Dry Run for Eco-Apartheid: The water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, was thoroughly preventable. And it’s a vision of a disastrous future.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167648/mississippis-dry-run-eco-apartheid

 

Diet for a Hotter Climate: Five Plants That Could Help Feed the World: As the planet warms, these five drought-tolerant and highly nutritious crops offer hope for greater resiliency

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/diet-for-a-hotter-climate-five-plants-that-could-help-feed-the-world

 

How to Make A Difference Amid Extreme Floods and Droughts on a Human-Heated Planet

Some tips for seeking sanity and impact amid nonstop waves of dire events and hot headlines

https://revkin.bulletin.com/facing-epic-floods-and-droughts-on-a-human-heated-planet-get-beyond-the-climate-blame-game/

 

Climate change increasing chance of 'mega storm' in California, scientists say - Sep 6, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeoKFK3Ej_0

 

What Will Earth Look Like When These 6 Tipping Points Hit? - Sep 6, 2022

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

 

Pakistan looks 'like a sea' after floods, PM says, as 18 more die

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/eighteen-die-pakistans-unprecedented-floods-taking-toll-1343-2022-09-07/

 

Wake up call for humanity: Q&A with climate expert on IPCC report

https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/wake-call-humanity-qa-climate-expert-ipcc-report

 

Historic Fire Lookout Towers Are Burning Down in Today’s Megafires: One of the country’s oldest fire lookouts was destroyed last year in the largest wildfire in California’s history. What else is being lost?

https://newrepublic.com/article/167662/fire-suppression-lookout-towers

 

Reject this dirty side deal. - Sep 8, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Itk0J1IQjuk

 

Inside Climate News, September 10, 2022

https://us2.campaign-archive.com/?e=043b9aaaae&u=7c733794100bcc7e083a163f0&id=824b5527a9

 

Drifting Toward Disaster: the (Second) Rio Grande: A century of enterprise brought the Rio Grande to its brink. Now authorities are “praying for a hurricane” as reservoirs dwindle and populations boom on both sides of the Mexico-Texas border.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/05092022/rio-grande-texas-water-crisis/

 

Q&A: How White Flight and Environmental Injustice Led to the Jackson, Mississippi Water Crisis

Heather McTeer Toney, the former regional EPA administrator, talks about the factors—climate change among them—that led to the water-system failure in Mississippi’s capital city.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09092022/jackson-mississippi-water-crisis-white-flight-environmental-injustice/

 

A Houston Firm Says It’s Opening a Billion-Dollar Chemical Recycling Plant in a Small Pennsylvania Town. How Does It Work?  Gov. Wolf touted jobs and less plastic pollution when the plans were announced in April, but a professor from Carnegie Mellon who’s studied the technology says it can lead to “sustainability fraud.”

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/06092022/chemical-advanced-recycling-plastics-pennsylvania/

 

Remember That Coal Surge Last Year? Yeah, It’s Over.  Renewables are now about 25 percent of U.S. electricity generation, leapfrogging coal.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/08092022/inside-clean-energy-renewables-coal/

 

Extreme Heat Poses an Emerging Threat to Food Crops: Excessive heat directly harms bees and the plants they pollinate, but can also trigger cascading effects with potentially devastating impacts on pollination and crop yields that scientists are just beginning to study.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09092022/extreme-heat-food-pollinators/

 

Rural Pennsylvanians Set to Vote for GOP Candidates Who Support the Natural Gas Industry: Four years after a Pulitzer Prize-winning book detailed air and water poisoning from local drilling, many shrug off concerns that the industry poses a health threat.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07092022/rural-pennsylvania-natural-gas-fracking-2022-midterms/

 

Chilean Voters Reject a New Constitution That Would Have Provided Groundbreaking Protections for the Rights of Nature: On Sunday, Chileans chose not to replace the constitution adopted during the Pinochet dictatorship with one reflecting a more Indigenous worldview that would protect natural cycles, ecosystems and biodiversity.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04092022/chile-constitution-rights-of-nature/

 

The Working-Class Loggers Who Saved an Old-Growth Forest: Often cast as villains in the Northwest’s environmental battles, timber workers have a connection to the forest that goes far beyond jobs.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/timber-wars-workers-northwest-old-growth-forests-working-class-environmentalism

 

Rising seas could swallow millions of U.S. acres within decades: New research finds an estimated 25,000 properties in Louisiana could slip below tidal boundary lines by 2050. Florida, Texas and North Carolina also face profound economic risks.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/09/08/sea-level-rise-climate-central/

 

A bisexual goose raising a family with two black swans isn’t as strange as it sounds: Plus other fun facts from The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week.

https://www.popsci.com/science/bisexual-geese-and-swans-in-throuple/

 

Resurrecting the Tasmanian Tiger Is a Dumb Project: Naturally, Peter Thiel is an investor in the company that came up with the idea.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167645/resurrecting-tasmanian-tiger-dumb-project

 

The mission of the New Mexico Acequia Association is to protect water and our acequias, to grow healthy food for our families and communities, and to honor our cultural heritage.

https://lasacequias.org/

 

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s New Climate Theory Is Absurd. It’s Also Very Smart.  The new Republican strategy on climate change is to admit it’s happening but argue that it’s good, actually. Voters may find that optimism compelling.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167724/marjorie-taylor-greenes-new-climate-theory-absurd-its-also-smart

 

A human ‘fat gene’ dramatically boosts rice and potato yields

https://preview.mailerlite.io/emails/webview/20593/66341345504003667

 

Last Century’s Approach to Journalism Is Useless in a Climate Crisis: If media outlets can’t find a better way of delivering bad news, people will tune out.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167106/mainstream-media-climate-change-journalism-hotline

 

Stronger & Wetter: Michael Mann on How Climate Change Makes Storms Worse & Why We Must Cut Emissions – Sep 19, 2022

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

 

Climate Forward New York - Started streaming Sep 20, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7AOWcnmfbY

 

Puerto Rico Can Blame Its Total Blackout on Predatory Companies and Poor Decisions in Washington

Hurricane Fiona hit the island as only a Category 1 storm. But thanks to bad management, the electrical grid immediately collapsed.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167787/puerto-rico-fiona-blackout

 

ZIMBRUL - Bison in Southern Carpathians - Emmanuel Rondeau - Nov 21, 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1ml2M9kO2U&t=143s

 

Showing the heart of rewilding in Europe

https://europesnewwild.com/

 

John Kerry Refuses to Feel “Guilty” for Climate Change: The U.S. climate envoy seemed to come unglued this week when Farhana Yamin, a veteran environmental lawyer and climate negotiator, asked him about funding for nations recovering from climate catastrophe.

https://newrepublic.com/?blinkaction=donate!fund_tnr_subscribers&utm_term=donate_1&utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

New York Attorney General Files Civil Suit Against Donald Trump, 3 Of His Kids: The former president's business practices have been under investigation in his home state for years.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-lawsuit-new-york-letitia-james_n_632b2515e4b0cd3ec26403dc

 

Those wishing to assist should send donations to:

VVA Puerto Rico State Council

Calle Pentagrama #35 Munoz Rivera

Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00969

For questions, contact Jorge Pedroza, State Council President

pedrozajorge68@gmail.com

787-638-3062

 

States Take on PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ With Bans, Lawsuits

https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2022/09/22/states-take-on-pfas-forever-chemicals-with-bans-lawsuits

 

Fact Check-NASA did not announce that climate change is only driven by variations to Earth’s orbital position relative to the sun

https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-nasa-climate/fact-check-nasa-did-not-announce-that-climate-change-is-only-driven-by-variations-to-earths-orbital-position-relative-to-the-sun-idUSL1N2YO23I

 

Fact check: NASA says modern climate change caused by human activity, not solar orbital cycles

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/07/26/fact-check-nasa-says-modern-climate-change-fossil-fuels/10032564002/

 

Is the Sun causing global warming?

https://climate.nasa.gov/faq/14/is-the-sun-causing-global-warming/

 

Wildfires are burning away snow in the American West: A new study finds wildfires are burning more high elevation areas and dramatically impacting the West’s snowpack as a result.

https://www.popsci.com/environment/wildfire-snow-west/

 

Yellowstone Volcano Is FINALLY Waking Up And CRACKED Open The Earth! - Sep 27, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJJ3TuuZel8

 

The War Over Public Water in Pennsylvania: Residents are uniting across political lines to battle corporations attempting to privatize their water systems.

https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/pennsylvania-water-privatization/

 

A Dead Sea: The history of one of North America’s most polluted bodies of water.

https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/traci-brynne-voyles-salton-sea/

 

Does the Climate Bill Throw Environmental Justice Under the Bus?  And three more questions about the biggest climate legislation in US history.

https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/environmental-justice-inflation-reduction-act/

 

This Tiny Fish Holds Together Ecosystems and Cultures—It’s Also Under Threat: The Sitka Tribe of Alaska is fighting to protect the Pacific herring, challenging the idea of what it means to manage a fishery sustainably.

https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/herring-sitka-alaska/

 

The Climate Crisis Is Changing Our Concept of Home: Climate journalist and author Madeline Ostrander on finding stability on a burning planet.

https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/madeline-ostrander-interview/

 

Pakistan’s Floods Are a Wind From the West: The devastating natural disaster could be just an early glimpse of the consequences of industrialization in the Global North.

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/pakistan-floods/

 

Hurricane Ian Exposes Ron DeSantis’s Faux Environmentalism: There’s a world of difference between acknowledging that climate change is real and doing anything to stop it.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167904/hurricane-ian-exposes-ron-desantiss-faux-environmentalism

 

Hurricane Ian Heads Toward South Carolina After Severely Damaging Florida - Sep 29, 2022

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

 

ALAN GUEBERT: Forty billion green reasons to go green

https://wcfcourier.com/opinion/columnists/alan-guebert-forty-billion-green-reasons-to-go-green/article_e255e574-d499-5654-93e9-d27f2aa9e234.html

 

Opinion: Will salmon finally win this year?

https://www.denverpost.com/2022/08/02/opinion-will-salmon-finally-win-this-year/

 

Living in the Shadow of Armageddon

https://www.populist.com/28.15.Kalet.html

 

Climate Change Threatens the Most Iconic US Landscapes: Joshua trees are disappearing, glaciers are melting, wetlands are flooding. Can the threat to our parks — and the wonder they inspire — lead to action?

https://www.populist.com/28.15.Hassen.html

 

Hard Choices for the Colorado River: Seven Western states who rely on the drought-parched river must devise a plan to reduce their water usage or face limits imposed upon them.

https://www.populist.com/28.16.Squillace.html

 

Electric Vehicles Far Cleaner Than Gas

https://www.populist.com/28.16.Lingo.html

 

Dark Money’s Assault on Our Planet

https://www.populist.com/28.16.Young.html

 

The Colorado River has come alive even as it ebbs

https://www.aspendailynews.com/opinion/the-colorado-river-has-come-alive-even-as-it-ebbs/article_a6db3f32-1841-11ed-936d-c73e1827f9df.html

 

I Wish John Fetterman Would Talk About Climate Change Again: The charismatic everyman Senate candidate from Pennsylvania might actually broaden his lead over Dr. Oz by talking about global warming. Even better, he might convert new voters to the cause.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167912/john-fetterman-dr-oz-climate-change

 

We’re Not Close to Anywhere, Just So Much Data Noise

https://www.populist.com/28.17.ArtCullen.html

 

“Forever” chemicals used in Ohio oil, gas wells

https://psr.org/forever-chemicals-used-in-ohio-oil-gas-wells/

 

GENE LYONS: 'Privatization of the commons' pits anglers against moguls

https://www.meridianstar.com/opinion/columns/gene-lyons-privatization-of-the-commons-pits-anglers-against-moguls/article_c4aa286d-900b-59c8-a80a-4fcc54a4509c.html

 

A Tiny Pennsylvania Town of 700 People Declared War on the Fracking Industry in 2014. They’re Finally Getting Their Day in Court.  Grant Township has become the poster child for democracy and home rule. Its own state is fighting against it.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167163/grant-township-fracking-home-rule

 

JESSE JACKSON: Water Crisis in Jackson Reflects Vicious Neglect

https://www.washingtoninformer.com/jesse-jackson-water-crisis-in-jackson-reflects-vicious-neglect/

 

What They Discovered Frozen In Ice Shocked The Whole World! - Oct 3, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkKTjgtAw1c

 

How climate change is likely to worsen inflation: “If we ignore it and don’t do anything about climate change, it will become a staggering cost. And it will have a huge impact not only on grocery bills, but many other aspects of our ordinary lives,” said Suzi Kerr, chief economist at the Environmental Defense Fund.

https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/climate-change/3673368-how-climate-change-is-likely-to-worsen-inflation/

 

Thousands of members of the Army National Guard deliver supplies to Hurricane Ian survivors

https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2022/10/03/thousands-of-members-of-the-army-national-guard-deliver-supplies-to-hurricane-ian-survivors/

 

U.S. death toll from Hurricane Ian crosses the 100-mark - Oct 4, 2022

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

 

Orca vs. shark: Rare drone footage shows killer whales mauling great whites

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/10/06/orcas-hunt-kill-great-white-shark/

 

Snow and cold may be lacking this winter in Philly and the Poconos, early outlooks say: The Tonga undersea volcano is a wild card, among others. And have these seasonal outlooks ever been wrong?

https://www.inquirer.com/weather/snow-philadelphia-winter-weather-forecast-20221006.html

 

Energy crisis: Conservatives 'extraordinarily complacent' - Oct 7, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0e7ScOQQ74

 

Energy Transition Taking Off—or Hitting a Wall?  With the Inflation Reduction Act, the federal government is illogically encouraging the increasing use of fossil fuels—in order to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels.

https://www.laprogressive.com/the-environment/energy-transition-taking-off

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