#climate change #extreme weather"
NEWS
"Allotments to the rescue
#food #agriculture #farming #sustainible #climate change #chemical fertilizer #pesticide
08/03/2019
#coal #climate change #Germany
#plastic #waste trade #Basel Convention
Temperature in Chicago plunged to -22° (F
"It's official, Chicago Is colder than parts of the arctic, Yukon, and Mars. Ok, this is quite a misleading headline. As the story goes on the explain... the temperature in Chicago plunged to -22° (F) by 6 a.m. on Wednesday. By comparison, it's 13° - or 35° warmer - in Murmansk, Russia, which is north of the Arctic Circle. It...
1.26 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/23/climate/plants-co2-climate-change.html
Ocean ecosystems danger- noise!
"the New York Times reports on an entirely different threat to ocean ecosystems - noise. Increasing ship traffic, sonar and seismic air gun blasts now planned for offshore drilling may be disrupting migration, reproduction and even the chatter of the seas' creatures. It's a particular concern because as part of the Trump administration's plans to...
Ocean cleanup" designed to remove plastics could accidentally destroy a crucial eco-system
#plastic #ocean #ecosystem #Ocean Cleanup
"Climate Action Barometer: 12 Charts Explain Where We Are Today, and Where We Need to be in 2020
Countries committed under the Paris Agreement to a broad goal of limiting global temperature rise to under 2°C, ideally 1.5°C. The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) makes it clear that half a degree of warming makes a huge difference, and 1.5°C is the safer target.
"I don't know if you caught up on the story from a week or so ago - about a group of large fossil fuel and plastics companies coming together to pump $1bn dollars into stopping plastic waste getting into the sea? Anyway it transpires many of those same companies are investing billions in new plants to produce plastic. It highlights...