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If we – meaning the entire world – can't reduce greenhouse gas emissions, brace yourself for extreme droughts, more wildfires, flooding, food shortages and more heat-related illnesses and deaths.
Record high temperatures far exceed record lows – a trend of the climate crisis
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/22/us/cl...ows/index.html
One would think lions and tigers are used to hot weather. Probably so – but this past week has been much hotter than normal for two-thirds of the United States.
Sheba the lion dies from sweltering heat in North Carolina, wild cat sanctuary says
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/st...233020452.html
"Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice," wrote Robert Frost in 1920. Nearly a century later, it appears the world will end in carbon dioxide emissions and global warming unless emissions can be drastically reduced – and we don't have much time left.
Climate change: 12 years to save the planet? Make that 18 months.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48964736
Today, Paris had a high of 108.7°, Germany reached 106.7°, Belgium recorded 103.8° and the Netherlands had a high of 107.1°. All of those are record highs. In England, the temperature reached 100.6°, the second-highest temperature ever recorded and a record for the month of July.
Paris records all-time high temperature as deadly heat wave grips Europe
https://www.accuweather.com/en/weath...rsday/70008874
A 66-year-old Belgian woman has become the latest heat-related fatality. Temperatures in Belgium reached 104° today.
Europe's heat wave is about to bake the Arctic
Concerns grow regarding sea ice and Greenland's ice sheet.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weath...t-bake-arctic/
Globally, last month was the hottest June ever recorded. This month will be the hottest July on record. Would anyone care to make predictions for August and September? This is from Business Insider:
At least 20 people have died from Europe's extreme heat. The Arctic caught on fire. This is what climate change looks like.
https://www.businessinsider.com/summ...-change-2019-7
Final data will be released in four days. The four hottest years on record are 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018. This year is likely to be the second-hottest year on record, which will mean the five hottest years have been the last five years. "The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, causing it to scorch everyone with its fire. Everyone was burned by this blast of heat....." – Revelation 16:8-9, New Living Translation
Record heat waves might have made July the hottest month ever recorded
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/01/world...ntl/index.html
June 2019 was the hottest June on record. And then came July.......
July 2019 was Earth's hottest month on record
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/to...ord/ar-AAFQQah
Alaska had 95 consecutive days of above average temperatures this year (April 26 to July 29). July was Alaska's hottest month on record. Almost every major city had record high temperatures. On July 4, Anchorage had a high of 90°. The expanse of ice in Alaska in July was the smallest on record. The water in Alaska's streams and rivers has also reached record high temperatures, in the low 80s. Excessive heat worldwide is killing people, fish and animals. At least insects are still thriving.
The water is so hot in Alaska it's killing large numbers of salmon
https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/08/16/us/...rnd/index.html
Melting ice and rising sea levels could displace two billion people by 2100 and many island nations could be underwater.
Scientists bid farewell to the first Icelandic glacier lost to climate change. If more melt, it can be disastrous.
https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/08/18/hea...rnd/index.html
Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs says Donald Trump, who "blithely disregards scientific findings about climate change," should be held accountable for failing to protect the public. He writes, "Trump and his minions are the loyal servants of the fossil-fuel industry which fills Republican Party campaign coffers."
Opinion: Trump's failure to fight climate change is a crime against humanity
https://www-m.cnn.com/2018/10/18/opi...chs/index.html
One of the issues discussed during this past weekend's G-6 summit was climate change. It should have been a G-7 discussion but Trump chose to be absent. Donald Trump loves money almost as much as he loves Donad Trump and he's not about to let the United States spend any money to combat climate change. And anyway, Trump knows climate change is a hoax, no matter how many thousands of scientific studies say otherwise, no matter how many hundreds of people die from excessive heat, no matter how many glaciers and icebergs melt and no matter how many thousands of high-temperature records have been set in the last decade. Wecome to Trumpworld.
On climate, Trump says he won't lose nation's wealth to 'dreams and windmills'
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ls/2118191001/
The greenhouse gas that contributes most to global warming is carbon dioxide. Methane is a close second. We have a President who believes global warming is a "hoax" – so why should he care about greenhouse gas emissions?
EPA to roll back regulations on methane, a potent greenhouse gas
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/e-...gas/ar-AAGuC9u
I'm thinking that if we saved all the billions of shipping cartons used by Amazon since 1994 and taped them together, we could make enough giant sunshades to keep the earth from getting any warmer.
Nearly 1,000 Amazon employees plan a walkout September 20 to protest climate change
The collective known as "Amazon Employees For Climate Justice" will walk out in protest of what they say is their company's inaction on climate change.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/09/busin...out/index.html
The five hottest years ever recorded are 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. Arctic sea ice is melting, Antarctic sea ice is melting, ocean temperatures are rising – and the number of global-warming deniers is shrinking.
Sea levels are projected to rise 3 feet within 80 years, according to a new UN report. Hundreds of millions of people could be displaced.
https://www.businessinsider.com/sea-...report-2019-9/
Here is an analysis of a new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It echoes the findings of the UN report cited above.
New report: Global warming and its impact on earth's oceans and cryosphere
https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/...and-cryosphere
"Look, I don't care about all the thousands of scientific studies showing earth's temperatures are steadily increasing, okay? Melting glaciers, rising sea levels, droughts, wildfires – those things are all hoaxes, okay? They're not happening. How many nations do we have in the world? Two hundred? Three hundred? If they all want to stay in that phony Paris climate accord, that's up to them – but the United States will not take part. Now let's get our coal miners back to work!"
US begins formal withdrawal from Paris climate accord
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/04/polit...ent/index.html
While Donald Trump sticks his orange fingers in his orange ears and chants "Nah nah nah nah nah, I can't hear you," the rest of us should heed the dire warning of these scientists.
11,000 scientists warn of 'untold suffering' caused by climate change
https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/11/05/wor...rnd/index.html
Over the next 80 years, melting sea ice and steadily warming ocean temperatures could cause sea levels to rise by 12 feet. Many coastal cities worldwide will be permanently flooded. Donald Trump's great-grandchildren will get to their jobs by swimming or canoeing and, just as Trump does now, they'll probably continue to insist climate change is a hoax.
Disturbing before-and-after images show what major US cities could look like in 2100 should the worst climate-change predictions come true
https://www.businessinsider.com/befo...ar-2100-2017-6
Greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise by around 1.5% per year. The worst polluters are the United States and China. Unless emissions can be reduced dramatically worldwide, we will have stronger storms, longer heat waves, severe droughts, rising seas and diminished food supplies – and our President takes no action because he believes global warming is a "hoax." Wow. (See also: "Russia hoax" and "impeachment hoax.")
'Bleak' United Nations report finds world heading to climate catastrophes
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/to...hes/ar-BBXldJn