by Deborah Phelan | Apr 23, 2023 | Climate Change, Disaster Risk Reduction, Displacement and Migration, Extreme Weather, Food Security, mitigation
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) just released its latest annual report the State of the Global Climate 2022, revealing the impact of greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) on the land, the ocean, and the atmosphere, painting a dire picture of droughts, floods and...
by Deborah Phelan | Aug 25, 2022 | Climate Change, Displacement and Migration, Extreme Weather
When midnight strikes on New Year’s Day of 2050, there will be little cause for celebration. There will, of course, be the usual toasts with fine wines in the climate-controlled compounds of the wealthy few. But for most of humanity, it’ll just be another day of...
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 | May 31, 2018 | 2050, Climate Change, Extreme Weather, Food Security, TIme Capsule, Youth and Climate Change
I was reached out to by a young Indigenous leader who wanted to meet with me. We did so, and we had a deep and substantive talk for several hours. The one thing that has stayed with me about that conversation was when we discussed what could be coming down the road as...
by Deborah Phelan | Apr 24, 2018 | 2050, Climate Change, Displacement and Migration, Extreme Weather, TIme Capsule, Water, Youth and Climate Change
Earth Day 2018 marked the 20 year anniversary of climatologist Michael Mann’s “hockey stick” chart, which detailed the pattern of unprecedented warming in the later part of the 20th century and attributed it to the impact of fossil-fuel-driven...
by Deborah Phelan | Apr 18, 2018 | 2050, Climate Change, Disaster Risk Reduction, Extreme Weather, Food Security, TIme Capsule
A well known gay rights attorney and environmental activist burned himself to death last week to call attention to the assault of fossil fuels on the viability of sustainable life on Planet Earth. “Pollution ravages our planet, oozing inhabitability via air, soil,...
