Global Warming

Environment Water levels at lakes in East Africa are rising alarmingly fast, flooding homes and farmland and displacing people. It is an unanticipated consequence of global warming – and it is being repeated around the globe By Graham Lawton Thousands of people have lost their homes near Lake Baringo, Kenya James Wakibia/SOPA Images/LightRocket…

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By Leonard Hyman & William Tilles - Jan 25, 2023, 1:00 PM CST The story in Science underlines the risk issues for both the fossil fuel companies and their investors. This report provides more ammunition for those who believe that the fossil fuel companies knew, didn’t tell us, and even…

A new study shows that pesticides are a key contributor to climate change, from their manufacturing, transportation, and application, all the way to their degradation and disposal. That’s according to researchers at the Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA), who say that while pesticides have been critical tools in agricultural…

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CLIMATE SCIENCE In 2022, Earth set new records for warming Temperatures continued to rise at an alarming pace in 2022, which became the fifth- or sixth-hottest year in modern history, U.S. and European science agencies reported last week. Earth’s average recorded surface temperatures were some 1.2°C warmer than preindustrial times.…

As damaging as it was for more than 32 trillion gallons of rain and snow to fall on California since Christmas, a worst-case global warming scenario could juice up similar future downpours by one-third by the middle of this century, a new study says. The strongest of California’s storms from…

UN chief Antonio Guterres compared the actions of oil firms to those of tobacco companies that hid the harmful effects of cigarettes — © AFP JAM STA ROSA Laurent THOMET UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres skewered oil firms on Wednesday for having “peddled the big lie” about their role in global…

Scientists from the University of California-Irvine have warned of an impending disaster for our oceans caused by global warming. The researchers analyzed data from over three-dozen different climate models and found they predicted serious problems with the deep water circulation pattern of the ocean. The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and the…