The top 10 global weather and climate change events of 2021
Jan 11, 2022 · The top 10 global weather and climate change events of 2021. The most extreme heat wave in modern history, a record four $20 billion-plus weather disasters, and the hottest month on record globally highlighted a remarkable year in weather and climate. A pyrocumulonimbus cloud – a thunderstorm cloud created by the intense heat from a massive ...
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Coming to grips with pros and cons of more nuclear power
Dec 16, 2021 · The false promise of nuclear power in an age of climate change (Robert Jay Lifton and Naomi Oreskes, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists).; Why small modular nuclear reactors won’t help counter the climate crisis (Environmental Working Group).; Small modular nuclear reactors are mostly bad policy (Michael Barnard, Clean Technica).; One main argument in favor of nuclear power is that we’ll ...
Don’t get fooled: Electric vehicles really are better for the climate
Nov 6, 2022 · Verdict: electric cars are already better for the climate than gas-fueled vehicles — but there’s room for improvement. The transportation sector accounts for about 27% of total U.S. climate-warming pollution, making it the largest contributor to the nation’s emissions. Cleaning up passenger cars is therefore vital to addressing climate ...
Death Valley, California, breaks the all-time world heat record for …
Jul 12, 2021 · If verified, the 130 degrees Fahrenheit (54.4°C) reading at the Furnace Creek Visitor's Center on Friday, July 9, 2021, would be Earth's highest reliably measured temperature.
How climate change is making hurricanes more dangerous
Jul 8, 2019 · Generally, the increase in rainfall follows the Clausius-Clapeyron equation, which dictates that for every one degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) increase, the atmosphere can hold 7% more moisture. This increase in moisture and rainfall does not fall uniformly; in tropical cyclones this effect is boosted.
Pros and cons: Promise, pitfalls of natural gas
Jul 7, 2016 · Natural gas is relatively cheap. The cost of natural gas in March of this year fell to its lowest levels since 1998 – to $1.57 per million Btu according to “Henry Hub” spot prices. However, in recent months spot prices have been rising. EIA reported the Henry Hub spot price at $2.93 per million Btu as of June 29.
UN report: The world’s farms stretched to ‘a breaking point’
by Dana Nuccitelli January 19, 2022. Almost 10% of the 8 billion people on earth are already undernourished with 3 billion lacking healthy diets, and the land and water resources farmers rely on stressed to “a breaking point.”. And by 2050 there will be 2 billion more mouths to feed, warns a new report from the United Nations Food and ...
What the latest science says about Antarctica and sea-level rise
Feb 23, 2022 · If the Earth’s temperature were to rise to 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 F) above pre-industrial levels, a third of Antarctica’s ice shelves could become destabilized and would be at risk of collapse, according to an April 2021 paper in Geophysical Research Letters. About 193,000 square miles (500,000 square kilometers) of these ice shelves — an ...
What is ‘climate justice’? - Yale Climate Connections
Jul 29, 2020 · 1) Climate justice begins with recognizing key groups are differently affected by climate change. From the United Nations and the IPCC to the NAACP, many organizations are connecting the dots between civil rights and climate change. As a UN blog describes it: “The impacts of climate change will not be borne equally or fairly, between rich and ...