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Stay Informed
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CACOR's weekly newsletter
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Welcome to Stay Informed, CACOR's weekly newsletter.
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Archived Articles Revisited:
This is your weekly personal list of three random articles extracted from our website archives. These links are unique to you and are more than one year old. The intention is to deliver a sense of what was considered a priority on that date compared with today's latest articles and presentations. You are encouraged to share these links with your social media and other networks.
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Speaker: Paul Koch Topic: The Story of Easter Island––A Metaphor for Our Planet. Time: May 31, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: After reading Jared Diamond’s famous book Collapse “how societies choose to fail or succeed”, which contains a full chapter on Easter Island, Paul became interested in exploring Easter Island for himself. So in 2007 the Koch family spent a …
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You are invited to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Speaker: Darrel Rowledge Topic: Saving humanity — from itself: the case for a paradigm change. Time: Jun 7, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82726197290?pwd=aEJNWmdXSWozT0MyT1k3QkEzUGk0Zz09 Meeting ID: 827 2619 7290 Passcode: 978778 Summary: Everywhere we look, we find that humanity’s problems are caused by humans. Every thread we pull leads inevitably back …
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Ordinary Heroes: The Writer of Escaping the Progress Trap – Daniel O’Leary “Ordinary Heroes” is a series of interviews about ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Some people wiser than me claim that to live a life that is truly lived, a life that is beyond existing, a person must find their one gift, their one great talent and give it …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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The 'hard truths' of our climate failures Why it's time to start thinking beyond 1.5 degrees Celsius Illustrated | Getty Images DEVIKA RAO MAY 18, 2023 Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare via Email The world is perilously close to breaching the 1.5 degrees Celsius warming threshold enshrined in the 2015 U.N. Paris Climate Agreement. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said there is a 66% chance …
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Categories: Articles, Trending
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If we get climate change wrong, it basically doesn't matter what else we get right. There are other issues that we can come back and fix later. We can't do that with climate change. Ben Batros, a lawyer, is the director of legal strategy at the Center for Climate Crime Analysis, a small NGO that targets climate-harmful activities. …
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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"Lucy Easthope, who has worked on major emergencies since 9/11, says that small interventions can make a significant difference. By Sam Knight May 15, 2023 In another time, or another place, Lucy Easthope says, she would have been a fortune-teller—a woman of opaque origin and beliefs, who travelled from campfire to town square, speaking of calamities that had come to pass …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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Humans have caused major climate changes to happen already, and we have set in motion more changes still. However, if we stopped emitting greenhouse gases today, the rise in global temperatures would begin to flatten within a few years. Temperatures would then plateau but remain well-elevated for many, many centuries. There is a time lag between what we do and …
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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We must: prioritize climate solutions across sectors, aligning efforts with climate science; prioritize across time; focus on key regions; maximize co-benefits for nature and human well-being; minimize barriers to deploying solutions at scale. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSvQYMH3FJw Learn more about Project Drawdown.
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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As rapporteur, Jane Dougan (coordinator of interdisciplinary programs in the Arboretum at U Guelph) summed up the session by saying that there was agreement that a new vision was needed: to live appropriately within our time and place. This would require boldness, bravery, courage, integrity, resilience, the ability to imagine new horizons, and the ability to recognize the very real …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Proceedings, CACOR Writers
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Key indicators of how humans are changing the Earth: Sea level, species, carbon dioxide, sea ice, population, daily temperature extremes, annual climate change performance by country, air pollution, temperature records, climate change indicators, top ten emitters, historic emissions, electric vehicles.
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The Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) has a new program that provides a financial incentive for allowing it to remotely adjust your thermostat at times. The goal is to throttle back at times of peak demand. Households with an eligible smart thermostat operating a central air or heat pump system can opt into the program, where, during times of peak …
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Just Have a Think The energy transition solutions of the 21st Century will take many forms, with a complex mix of different power producers. Moving energy across ever greater distances will overcome much of the intermittency of renewables like wind and solar. The way we will achieve that is via truly mind boggling high voltage direct current transmission systems. The …
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Limiting global warming to 1.5°C would save billions of people from dangerously hot climate. If climate change continues as it has so far, more than one-fifth of the global population could be exposed to dangerously hot temperatures by the end of the century, according to a new study involving the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). According to the …
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US forests are failing to keep up with climate change, finds study. When it comes to saving the planet from the ravages of climate change, protecting forests is a high priority for almost everyone. At the current rate of warming, though, forests may not be able to adapt fast enough to stay healthy, according to a study out Monday in …
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Numerous global reforestation efforts are underway, but research suggests getting long-term benefits is harder than it looks, and some projects can do more harm than good. The race is on to plant trees. The World Economic Forum launched a 1 trillion trees initiative in 2020. The Bonn Challenge aims to restore 865 million acres of deforested landscapes by 2030. Individual countries …
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Global warming in the pipeline. ABSTRACT Improved knowledge of glacial-to-interglacial global temperature change implies that fast-feedback equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) is 1.2 ± 0.3 °C (2 σ) per W/m². Consistent analysis of temperature over the full Cenozoic era––including “slow” feedbacks by ice sheets and trace gases––supports this ECS and implies that CO2 was about 300 parts per million (ppm) in …
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Climate change is a global problem that has been the focus of attention for decades. While some people deny the existence of climate change, others have become what is known as “climate doomers.” These people are convinced that climate change cannot be stopped, leading to the collapse of human society. However, their defeatist attitude can be as dangerous as climate …
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Antarctic alarm bells: Observations reveal deep ocean currents are slowing earlier than predicted. Antarctica sets the stage for the world's greatest waterfall. The action takes place beneath the surface of the ocean. Here, trillions of tonnes of cold, dense, oxygen-rich water cascade off the continental shelf and sink to great depths. This Antarctic bottom water then spreads north along the …
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Why the climate crisis is making our insects run for the hills. Around the world, different species are shifting their habitats upwards, with potentially catastrophic results for our ecosystems. In the Alps and Apennines of southern Europe, nearly all the longhorn beetles are moving uphill, and way up at the peaks, the isolation of a brown butterfly with orange-tipped wings …
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The flat-pack water heater that fights climate change. Many people around the world don't have easy access to hot water, but an engineer in Scotland has designed a simple portable device that heats water using just the power of the Sun. He believes it could reduce emissions and improve the quality of life for millions of people. Link to | …
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