Hurricane Florence may Stress Test Brunswick Nuclear Power Plant

2018, Clean Tech, Energy, Extreme Weather, Flood, Impacts, Nuclear Energy, Precipitation, Storms, USA1 Comment

The Brunswick nuclear power plant is a couple of miles near Wilmington, at the Ocean. With model forecasting Hurricane Florence to potentially making landfall near the site. Sources “Are Coastal Nuclear Power Plants Ready for Sea-Level Rise?” https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/are-coastal-nuclear-power-plants-ready-for-sea-level-rise/ Brunswick Nuclear Generating Station https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunswick_Nuclear_Generating_Station

Climate Change is an Existential Threat to Civilisation

2018, Climate Change, Communication, Emissions Reduction, Global, IPCC, Policy, Science TalkLeave a comment

#EnvironmentNaturalResourceSecurity Climate One, Climate Change and the Threat to Civilization with Michael Mann (2018) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WiiP2KTRXg Veerabhadran Ramanathan: Climate change morphing into an existential problem (2017) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmmFwfF8Gig World Economic Forum: Humanity’s most existential risks are getting worse. Here’s a major reason why https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/01/humanity-s-most-existential-risks-are-getting-worse-heres-why UN Secretary-General António Guterres, Climate change: An ‘existential threat’ to humanity, UN chief…

John McCain: Climate Change Most Critical Issue of our Future (2003)

2003, 2018, Climate Change, CO2 Sequestration, Communication, Emissions Reduction, Policy, USA1 Comment

Senator John McCain introduces legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (January 8, 2003, at Capitol Hill). Witnesses testified about proposals to limit greenhouse gas emissions, global climate change, and regulations that would create mandatory limits on all sectors of the economy. https://www.c-span.org/video/?174514-1/global-warming Mr. LIEBERMAN. Mr. President, I rise today to join my friend and colleague,…

The Coming Disruption of the Carbon Bubble

2018, Adaptation, Climate Change, Communication, Emissions Reduction, Energy, Global, Policy, SolutionsLeave a comment

In order to avert the most serious climate scenarios, governments and people around the world need to phase out fossil fuel emissions, coal, gas, and switch to clean energy and electric transportation. This video presents some recent discussions and fundamental obstacles. Speakers include Lester Brown (Earth Policy Institute), Hans Joachim Schellnhuber (Potsdam Climate Impact Research),…

CLIMATE SCIENTIST: We Need Disruptive Change

2018, Climate Change, Communication, Emissions Reduction, Energy, Global, Policy, SolutionsLeave a comment

Excerpt of a May 4th 2018 discussion, Anthropocene Lecture, in Berlin, with Bruno Latour (Philosopher) and Hans Joachim Schellnhuber (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research), watch the full talk at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-n_44M2nLw Bruno Latour https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_LatourHans Joachim Schellnhuber https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Joachim_Schellnhuber Film and production: Dusan SolomunModerated by Bernd M. Scherer Further information https://www.hkw.de/en/programm/projekte/2017/anthropocene_lectures/anthropocene_lectures_start.php

Sea Level Rise is a Hockey Stick

2018, Adaptation, Climate Change, Communication, Sea Level Rise, Solutions, USALeave a comment

Larry Goldzband (Bay Area Conservation), Jim White (INSTAAR), Tiffany Troxler (Florida International University), and citizen scientists discuss sea level rise today and for the future. We’re planning for 4-7 feet (+2 meters) of sea level rise by the end of the century, which is about twice as much as was projected just some years ago.…

We’ve reached a point where we have a crisis, an emergency

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David Spratt (Breakthrough Institute), speaks 2014 at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology about climate change, myths, and realities. His latest 2018 report “What Lies Beneath” with a foreword by Hans Joachim Schellnhuber can be read here https://www.breakthroughonline.org.au/publicationshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0Qm3o9vD5k For more visit http://www.climatecodered.org/2018/08/take-unprecedented-action-or-bear.html “We’ve reached a point where we have a crisis, anemergency, but people don’t…

EXPERT Dangerous Climate Change IS Already Arriving

2018, Climate Change, Communication, Electric Car, Emissions Reduction, Energy, Jet Stream / Polar Vortex, Policy, SolutionsLeave a comment

Mike Mann (Penn State), Kim Cobb (Georgia Tech), Michael Brune (Sierra Club), Andrew Freedman (Axios), connect the dots on our current summer weather and climate. CBS News https://www.cbsnews.com/news/carbon-in-soil-dirt-making-climate-change-worse-study-says NBC News https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news-netcast/video/nightly-news-full-broadcast-august-7th-1294277187944 Democracy Now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Hh-jREctTo

Hothouse Earth Researchers explain Climate Threshold

2018, Climate Change, Communication, Drought, Emissions Reduction, Extreme Weather, Heat wave, Impacts, IPCC, Policy, Solutions, Storms, WildfireLeave a comment

Earth Could Spiral Into A ‘Hothouse’ State Even If We Reduce CO2 Emissions, Warns New Report https://www.inquisitr.com/5019576/earth-could-spiral-into-a-hothouse-state-even-if-we-reduce-co2-emissions-warns-new-report Read the study paper http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/07/31/1810141115 The Climate State of the Holocene and Anthropocene (Rates of Change) https://climatestate.com/2018/08/08/the-climate-state-of-the-holocene-and-anthropocene-rates-of-change Sources RT: Climate Change academic Professor Katherine Richardson on Paris Agreement surviving Trump’s America https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw2JoKRFTjc Channel 4 News: Climate change: How…