Global Warming

I have been personally concerned about how existing U.S. laws that were intended to support environmental protection and racial equality could be undone by the Supreme Court. The increasingly used "major questions doctrine" threatens to erode protections that have been baked into lawmaking books for decades, leaving the future landscape…

LONDON: Scotland has become the first country in the world to ban the use of the anesthetic desflurane due to its harmful impact on the environment, Anadolu Agency (AA) reported. “Desflurane, used as an anesthetic during the surgery, has a global warming potential 2,500 times greater than carbon dioxide,“ the…

The oceans help to limit global warming by soaking up carbon dioxide emissions. But scientists have discovered that intense warming in the future could lessen that ability, leading to even more severe warming. The discovery comes from a study led by The University of Texas at Austin in which researchers…

Last September, researchers in the UK launched a high-altitude weather balloon that released a few hundred grams of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere, a potential scientific first in the solar geoengineering field, MIT Technology Review has learned. Solar geoengineering is the theory that humans can ease global warming by deliberately…

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…

For our climate envoy, ‘saving the planet’ requires a massive hero complex, a few egotists, and a lot of tax dollars...Read More