Dan Fredinburg, a Google executive and co-founder of SaveTheIce.org, died April 25, in an avalanche, triggered by the Nepal earthquake. His tragic death comes after warnings that climate change makes risks of climbing Mount Everest even greater. It is unknown how much climate change contributed to the avalanche or the earthquake, but the frequency of deadly…
An Apology Letter to Future Generations. To DIRECTLY Fight the Destruction and Stand For Trees go to:https://standfortrees.org/en/ WATCH NEXT Climate Change Rap
The Vancouver Sun interviewed Gavin Schmidt (April 17 2015, by Gerry Bellett) Q: So if we could make one smart decision what should it be? A: We have to have a price on carbon because right now it’s still free to put carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. So if you put a price on carbon…
The President travels to the Florida Everglades for Earth Day and speaks about the impacts of climate change, April 22, 2015. Release (14 mins) President Obama Visits the Everglades https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DF3yrq-EeQ Protecting the one planet we got. Is, what we have to do for the next generation. – Barack Obama Earth Day 2015
Climate change is real, so why the controversy and debate? Learn to make sense of the science and to respond to climate change denial in Denial101x, a MOOC from UQx and edX. Denial101x isn’t just a climate MOOC; it’s a MOOC about how people think about climate change.
A reservoir of abiotic methane has been discovered in the Arctic Ocean. This means that there is more of the greenhouse gas trapped under the seabed than previously thought. News: A reservoir of abiotic methane has been discovered in the Arctic Ocean https://cage.uit.no/news/new-source-methane-discovered-arctic-ocean/ Study: Abiotic methane from ultraslow-spreading ridges can charge Arctic gas hydrates http://geology.geoscienceworld.org/content/early/2015/03/27/G36440.1.full.pdf+html?ijkey=tNRcKxKHNcG5s&keytype=ref&siteid=gsgeology…
Recent studies link radioactive compounds to fracking. This was first made public back in 2010, with the conclusion ‘Fracking’ Mobilizes Uranium in Marcellus Shale. Now a new study aimed to better understand cumulative effects of natural occurrences and new anthropogenic pathways, through fracking-drilling. Indoor radon levels in Pennsylvania have been slowly rising since 2004, around the…
Be a part of the biggest grass-roots event in history by planting a tree on EARTH DAY, APRIL 22ND, 2015 as a “give back” to Earth. This event is being hosted by The Master Shift, Forest Nation, The White Feather Foundation and the Earth Day Network as well as thousands of contributing organizations from around…
ARCTIC-WISE: Bridging Northern Knowledges of Change Subsea Permafrost and the Methane Cycle on the Siberian Continental Shelf: Predictive Modelling for Climate Change David Archer, Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago Tuesday, March 10, 2015, 5-6:30 pm A numerical model called SpongeBOB is used to simulate the hydrology and methane cycle on the Siberian continental shelf. Lowered…
Climate is changing as humans put more and more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. With CO2 levels today around 400ppm, we are clearly committed to far more climate change, both in the near term, and well beyond our children’s future. A key question is how that change will occur. Abrupt climate changes are those that…
Naomi Oreskes, author of Merchants of Doubt, Peter Sinclair talked to her in December, 2014, in San Francisco.
Naomi Oreskes is an American historian of science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. In 2010 she co-authored Merchants of Doubt which describes how the tobacco industry wrote the handbook on using doubt to delay legislative action against the harms of tobacco. The same book also chronicles how the same…