by faster | Jan 4, 2021 | Blog
SOURCE: AP DATE: January 4, 2020 SNIP: The amount of baked-in global warming, from carbon pollution already in the air, is enough to blow past international agreed upon goals to limit climate change, a new study finds. For decades, scientists have talked about...
by faster | Dec 15, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: New Scientist DATE: December 15, 2020 SNIP: Global carbon emissions may have warmed Earth by 18 per cent more than previously thought, raising the prospect of the world having less time than expected to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement and avoid...
by faster | Dec 7, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: The Independent DATE: December 7, 2020 SNIP: November 2020 has been the world’s warmest since records began, and this year is on track to become the hottest year overall, according to the European Union’s climate monitoring service Copernicus. Europe...
by faster | Sep 10, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: Live Science and Science DATE: September 10, 2020 SNIP: Sixty-six million years ago, after a massive asteroid hit Earth with the explosive energy of roughly 1 billion nuclear bombs, a shroud of ash, dust and vaporized rock covered the sky and slowly rained...
by faster | May 29, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: May 29, 2020 SNIP: When Ken Pimlott began fighting US wildfires at the age of 17, they seemed to him to be a brutal but manageable natural phenomenon. “We had periodic [fire] sieges in the 80s, but there were breaks in between,” said...