Humans Face a “Ghastly Future” Unless Extraordinary Action Is Taken Soon on Sustainability Without immediate and drastic intervention, humans face a “ghastly future” — including declining health, climate devastation, tens of millions of environmental migrants and more pandemics — in the next several decades, according to an international team of 17 prominent scientists. “Humanity is […]
Greenland is melting and the Arctic is burning
Greenland is melting faster [even] than expected We knew climate change was melting Greenland’s glaciers, but new data shows things are even worse than we thought. Many scientists believe that given a 2C temperature rise, all the Greenland ice will melt. If that were to happen, global sea levels would rise 7.2 m (24 ft), from Greenland alone. […]
To be able to monitor exact air pollution from every power plant in the world can mean impact
Earlier this month brought a mind-blowing announcement in the world of power plants and pollution. In a nutshell: A nonprofit artificial intelligence firm called WattTime is going to use satellite imagery to precisely track the air pollution (including carbon emissions) coming out of every single power plant in the world, in real time. And it’s going to […]
Keeling curve
Why hasn’t a drop in CO2 emissions caused atmospheric levels to decline? A reasonable question. See Scripps’ answer and also scroll down to see Robert del Rosso’s reply. see entry …
greenland ice grows
Good news for a change! Greenland ice sheet measured as growing