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5 Ways You Can Help Fight Climate Change

Green Living Guy

As the planet heats up, severe weather events become more frequent and powerful, sea levels rise, food crops suffer from extended droughts, and many animal and plant species face extinction. It’s difficult to envision what we, as individuals, can do to address an issue of this magnitude and severity.

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Nobody is listening to climate scientists. What if they went on strike?

Grist

It’s been a wild start to 2022: Omicron cases are surging around the world, the oceans are hotter than ever , and a group of climate scientists are suggesting that the world’s leading global warming experts stop doing science. They’ve courted the media and practically begged policymakers to cut the use of coal, oil, and gas.

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Does talking about climate ‘tipping points’ inspire action — or defeat?

Grist

The framing is intended to draw attention to the radical changes that global warming might bring. Bob Kopp, a co-author of the paper who researches climate change and sea level rise at Rutgers University, said that talking about tipping points, as scary as they are, might not inspire people to do something about climate change.

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Jordan Peterson’s New Online School Will Be Rife with Climate Crisis Deniers

DeSmogBlog

Canadian conservative newspaper columnist Rex Murphy, who has referred to global warming as an “anti-Western ideology,” is also on board, with a course “on poetry and Paradise Lost.” These arguments are being termed “the new climate denial” by watchdog organizations such as the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH).

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You Can't Say You Haven't Been Warned

Green Market Oracle

The world's leading scientific organizations have also repeatedly warned us about climate change. A half century ago climate models accurately predicted global warming. A brief review of climate science shows us that we have known about the dangers of a warming planet since the 1950s. These warnings are not new.

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Technofossils: How future archeologists will study our everyday objects

Grist

But over the last 70 years little more than moments in the 300,000-year history of Homo sapiens the amount of stuff weve added to the planet has erupted in volume, surpassing living organisms in both mass and diversity. Q: You mentioned sea level rise. youve got at least 50,000 landfills along coastlines.

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A conservative think tank just sent 8,000 teachers a new climate denial ‘textbook

Grist

This shift has forced fossil fuel companies — and the organizations they fund — to alter their tactics to avoid regulation. The institute’s last big mailout was in 2017 when it sent out 350,000 copies of its “Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming.”