The Earth is warming at an astounding speed, equivalent to absorbing 907 times the USA’s annual energy use, far faster than biological species can adapt
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Archive | Climate Change
Climate crisis
Heatwaves are longer and more frequent, worldwide
New study provides ‘unequivocal indicators’ that global warming is not just underway but speeding up. Scientists insist ‘the time for inaction is over.’
Global heating
Despite pandemic, CO2 hits new record
Greenhouse gas in atmosphere continues accelerating, reaching the highest concentration ever recorded in May 2020.
New Study
Deadly combinations of heat and humidity increasing worldwide
‘Previous studies projected that this would happen several decades from now, but this shows it’s happening right now’
New study
3.5 billion people may face ‘unlivable’ heat in 50 years
Every degree of global warming will push a billion people out of the human survival zone
Biodiversity under pressure
Rising heat may crash entire ecosystems
New studies show global warming is raising the risk of sudden, near total collapse of the wild populations that sustain human society.
Our Viral Future
Covid-19: Will Big Oil emerge more powerful than ever?
Oil companies face severe problems now, but in the long run the industry giants may be bigger and even more dangerous to life on Earth.
Climate Apartheid
Global warming is driving increased inequality
The gap between the world’s richest and poorest countries is 25 percent larger than it would have been without climate change
Disaster capitalism
‘Venture philanthropists’ seek climate change profits in Myanmar
The last remaining underexploited economy in southeast Asia offers new opportunities for capital accumulation with a green veneer
Our burning Earth
By 2100, heat stress may affect over 1.2 billion people a year
Study highlights combined effects of extreme heat and humidity, which are especially dangerous to human health
Global climate report
Confirmed: 2015 to 2019 were the five hottest years on record
Meteorologists agree that temperatures will continue to rise, and record years like 2019 are becoming the new baseline
C&C Forum
An ecosocialist case for CO2 removal technology
David Schwartzman argues that we can’t prevent catastrophic climate change without negative carbon emission technologies
Many leaks unreported
In northeastern BC, over 10% of oil and gas wells are leaking methane
There is no monitoring program for abandoned wells, so they can leak for a long time before emissions are detected and repaired.
Mass Extinctions
A third or more of all species could be gone by 2070
Even if Paris goals are met, climate change could wipe out 20% of species by 2070. If warming is greater, far more will die.
Earth is burning
Capitalist roots of the environment crisis
What’s behind the breakdown of the relationship between human society and the natural world on which we depend?
Real action needed
Record climate disasters hit Africa … and worse is coming
Nnimmo Bassey: Africa will face calamitous roasting unless radical social and ecological transformation starts soon
Profits versus planet
Climate change, emissions, and the fat tail risk
Existing emission policies will not harm oil and gas profits. They also won’t stop global warming from rising to globally destructive levels
A continent on fire
Dystopia in the land of Oz: A climate change story
Australia’s out-of-control bushfires dramatically confirm the need for a government that doesn’t serve the interests of multi-national corporations
Climate crisis
2020 is hot, and it’s going to get much hotter
Emissions are rising. Each decade is warmer than the last. The oceans are heating up. Australia is burning. And that’s just January.
Reading in a new decade
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, January 2020
Mining in late capitalism; Green New Deal; The Pentagon and climate change; Big Oil vs democracy; Climate justice; Nature in Canada; History of human labor