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 | 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 | Apr 22, 2023 | Climate Change, Geoengineering
Africa’s climate negotiators are being pressured to shield their countries from a looming global heating endgame by utilizing interventions like solar geoengineering , a process that either shields sun rays or redirects sunlight away from the planet. In a New York...
