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...
by Deborah Phelan | Jun 13, 2021 | Climate Change, Drought, Extreme Weather
It’s a volatile combination in California; the wind, the fire season, and the historic drought. In the San Francisco Bay Area, for the past six weeks or so, the wind picks up every afternoon; there have already been two red flag alerts months before the fire...
by Deborah Phelan | Jun 12, 2021 | 2050, Climate Change, Drought, Geoengineering
A Republican congressman yesterday suggested altering the moon’s orbit might be a solution to climate change, asking the US Forest Service if this was something they could accomplish. “I was informed by the immediate past director of NASA that they’ve...
by Deborah Phelan | Apr 12, 2018 | 2050, Climate Change, Climate Justice, Disaster Risk Reduction, Displacement and Migration, Drought, DRR, Extreme Weather, mitigation, Take Action, TIme Capsule
The Paris text was a political fix in which grand words masked inadequate deeds. The voluntary national emission reduction commitments since Paris now put the world on a path of 3.4°C of warming by 2100, and more than 5°C if high-end risks including carbon-cycle...
by Deborah Phelan | Apr 3, 2018 | 2050, Climate Change, Displacement and Migration, Drought, Extreme Weather, TIme Capsule, Water, Youth and Climate Change
You live in a coastal region where impacts from sea level rise are already evident. Your life or the life of someone you know has already been disrupted due to serious water stressors — either flood, fires, or droughts. Your access to clean drinking water is...
by Deborah Phelan | Nov 20, 2017 | Climate Change, Drought, Global Health, Water
“The Dharma informs us, however, that craving, aversion, and delusion within the human mind are the root causes of vast human suffering … Climate change is perhaps humanity’s greatest teacher yet about how these mental forces, when unchecked in ourselves...
