“Did you hear about what the WMO discussed today,” my friend asks me over the phone during one of our late-night conversations. I suppose my silence caught his attention as he began to roughly explain how national leaders had come together in Switzerland to discuss global warming. Immediately, I stopped him and said, “oh, you’re …
Earth is warming, and we know why. Light is reflected and absorbed by clouds, air, oceans, ice and land. Greenhouse gases are released and adsorbed by organic and inorganic sources. Both exchanges depend on a variety of factors such as temperature, ocean acidity, the amount of vegetation and — yes — the burning of fossil …
Anyone, who isn’t, either, in denial, or prioritizing a specific personal/ political agenda and/ or, self – interest, should be able to realize, and recognize, Climate Change, is a real, clear and present danger, and must be addressed, if we are to handle these challenges, risks, and ramifications, in a well – considered, timely manner! …
The health effects of climate change will be unevenly distributed and children will be among those especially harmed, according to a new report from the medical journal The Lancet. The report compared human health consequences under two scenarios: one in which the world meets the commitments laid out in the Paris Agreement and reins in …
Wind turbines, solar panels and electric vehicles are spreading far more quickly around the world than many experts had predicted. But this rapid growth in clean energy isn’t yet fast enough to slash humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions and get global warming under control. That’s the conclusion of the International Energy Agency, which on Tuesday published …
Greenhouse gases are gases that produce the “greenhouse” effect in the Earth’s atmosphere and therefore trap heat that would otherwise be released to outer space. Some of the most prevalent greenhouse gases are chlorofluorocarbons, water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide. The three main types of man-made greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide, methane and …
Wine, which is among the most sensitive and nuanced of agricultural products, demonstrates how climate change is transforming traditions and practices that may be centuries old. Around the wine-growing world, smart producers have contemplated and experimented with adaptations, not only to hotter summers, but also to warmer winters, droughts and the sort of unexpected, sometimes …
Hollywood has produced quite a few fictionalized depictions of dramatic climate change. Scores of people die after Manhattan freezes in 2004’s “The Day After Tomorrow.” In “Geostorm,” released in 2017, the weather goes haywire after satellites malfunction. Realistic scenarios, though, have been less frequent. Yet Sunday’s episode of “Big Little Lies,” the HBO show about …