by Deborah Phelan | May 23, 2023 | Climate Change, COP28
In a letter addressed to the UN secretary general, the European Commission President and the President of the United States, 133 MEPs, senators and representatives express their “profound concern that current rules governing the United Nations Framework Convention on...
by Deborah Phelan | May 20, 2023 | Climate Change
One of the things which really spooked me this past week was reading Bill McKibben’s article in The Crucial Years “Maybe we should have called this planet ‘Ocean’. McKibben reports that scientists are shocked by the terrifying fact that temperatures in...
by Deborah Phelan | May 10, 2023 | Climate Change
The UN’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) last week issued a warning that a likely El Niño this summer could result in drastically elevated temperatures breaking previous heat records. Estimates suggest a 60% chance of El Niño arriving by the end of June,...
by Deborah Phelan | May 9, 2023 | Climate Change
As the US debt ceiling crisis barrels towards a June 1 deadline, President Biden meets today with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, whose budget-cutting plan would gut the climate-related sections of the IRA through the Limit, Save, Grow Act. The impact of the...
by Deborah Phelan | May 9, 2023 | Climate Change, Drought, Famine
In stunning reporting last week, Inside Climate News cited studies that claim climate change is responsible for famine conditions currently impacting 100 thousand in East Africa. Some 23 million people living in the Horn of Africa countries of Ethiopia, Somalia, and...
