Senator calls out Fossil Fuel Funding in U.S. Politics

2019, Climate Change, Communication, Energy, Policy, USALeave a comment

What happens in climate pollution does affect a global scale. Top Contributors, 2017-2018 https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?Ind=E ‘Extreme’ fossil fuel investments have surged under Donald Trump, report reveals https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/28/extreme-fossil-fuel-investments-have-surged-under-donald-trump-report-reveals Senator Whitehouse on Twitter https://twitter.com/SenWhitehouse/status/1083448349661908992 Source www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0ZWKirKNo0a Teaser by Jackson Douglas https://unsplash.com/photos/L3HrRyVyINo

China vs U.S. Rising Global Greenhouse Emissions in 2018

2018, 2019, China, Climate Change, Economy, Emissions Reduction, Energy, Global, Policy, USALeave a comment

A brief outline of CO2 emissions, based on global trends, with a focus on China by Zeke Hausfather (Berkeley) and U.S. CO2 emissions by Trevor Houser (Rhodium Group), as well as an outline on reductions by Drew Shindell about various emissions, including SLCP’s (Short Lived Climate Pollutants). Sources: Global release of greenhouse gases has increased…

Robert Costanza: Wellbeing Economy needs to be Primary Goal

2018, Adaptation, Biosphere, Climate Change, Economy, Policy, SolutionsLeave a comment

Robert Costanza (Australian National University), speaks about planetary boundaries and ecological economy at the Club of Rome 50th Anniversary Meeting in Rome, October 2018. Watch the full panel via https://www.facebook.com/clubofrome/videos/1885081848213161/ and https://50thclubofrome.com Parts of the talks slides can be viewed here in more detail http://www.idakub.com/academics/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/2016_Costanza_SDGs-EcoEco.pdf and at http://www.robertcostanza.com/research-projects/ Modelling and measuring sustainable wellbeing in connection…

Johan Rockström: Potential irreversible Planet thresholds for a disastrous Future

2018, Adaptation, Biosphere, Climate Change, Climate Feedbacks, Economy, Emissions Reduction, Policy, SolutionsLeave a comment

Johan Rockström (Stockholm Resilience Centre), talks about planetary boundaries and tipping points, “Living in the Anthropocene”, at the Club of Rome 50th Anniversary Meeting in Rome, October 2018. https://www.pik-potsdam.de/news/in-short/new-report-updates-201climits-of-growth201d-pik-experts-speak-at-club-of-rome-anniversary-conference And briefly outlines the report, “Transformation is feasible – How to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals within Planetary Boundaries” https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/research-news/2018-10-17-a-smarter-scenario.html Source https://www.facebook.com/clubofrome/videos/321777088377685/ and https://50thclubofrome.com Johan Rockström…

Actual Expert: We won’t have an Ice Age again!

2018, Adaptation, Anthropocene, Climate Change, Climate Feedbacks, Communication, Deglaciation, Holocene, IPCC, Policy, Science TalkLeave a comment

Hans Joachim Schellnhuber (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research), speaks October 2018 at the 50th Anniversary Summit of the Club of Rome, Aurelio Peccei Lecture, in Rome. The talk is titled, “Climate, Complexity, Conversion”. The talk briefly discusses the 2018 landmark study, “Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene” https://www.pnas.org/content/115/33/8252 , delves into societies…

Aliens? Part of Meteor transmits Earth Message

2018, Climate Change, Communication, Emissions Reduction, Films, Global, ScienceLeave a comment

NASA just confirmed that asteroid Oumuamua broke apart, and a smaller meteorite was injected into Earth orbit! Remains found at the impact site near San Francisco included a small capsule. The capsule, or device continuously transmits the following message, oddly enough obtained from Earth. Watch the full talk from Stefan Rahmstorf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io3FI-PLCXA Meteor footage https://twitter.com/amsmeteors/status/1075709900330811393…

Prefab Housing Bolsters Climate Change Prevention Efforts Significantly

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Despite valiant efforts by environmentally-conscious individuals worldwide, both the impacts and costs of global warming are expected to be far more severe than expected according to an assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which was released in October this year in South Korea. With the past decade being riddled with an increasing number of forest…