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 13, 2021 | Climate Change
A report issued by the IEA last month lays out a framework for countries to reach Net Zero emissions by 2050, noting that the pledges to date fall significantly short of the goal of maintaining a temperature rise of 1.5 degrees. “Our Roadmap shows the priority actions...
by Deborah Phelan | Jun 12, 2018 | 2050, Climate Change, TIme Capsule, Water, Youth and Climate Change
The reason they make sounds at all is basically because glaciers contain bubbles, which make sounds. We mentioned that a glacier is a big body of ice, and the number of bubbles in one is just enormous—there are billions of bubbles inside. In contrast, when you have an...
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...
