Oct 15, 2018
Huge reduction in meat-eating ‘essential’ to avoid climate breakdown
Major study also finds huge changes to farming are needed to avoid destroying Earth’s ability to feed its population
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Huge reduction in meat-eating ‘essential’ to avoid climate breakdown
Major study also finds huge changes to farming are needed to avoid destroying Earth’s ability to feed its population
And so I did this piece, it was the front of the Week in Review section of the Times, called Yelling "Fire" on a Hot Planet, and it was the first time ... So, 1988 to 2006, that was the first time I interviewed a social scientist about climate change. First time. And Helen Ingram at UC Irvine, who was in that arena of social and political science, she said to me, and there's a quote in that story, you know, things that people vote on are things that are "soon, salient, and certain."
Andrew Revkin on “Why is this Happening”, August 14, 2018
A pipeline spilled more than 8,000 gallons of jet fuel into the St. Marys River in Decatur, a town about 100 miles from Indianapolis.
Suburbs vs slums: Stark dividing line between rich and poor in the world's most unequal cities is laid bare in aerial images
The US has a 2.5 billion-pound surplus of meat. Let’s try to visualize that.
You thought the US cheese surplus was huge? Get a load of the excess meat.
Observed Slowdown in Tropical Cyclone Motion May Portend More Harvey-Like Rainstorms
To check their math, the researchers ran historic climate data from 2004 to 2015 and compared it to their model predictions for 2010 to 2039. The five-year overlap period verified the model’s accuracy. It also showed that every western state where wildfire was expected to at least double by 2039 had already blown past that threshold, suggesting that even the most drastic forecasts for wildfire in the West have probably underestimated the destruction to come.
https://www.outsideonline.com/2289216/20-years-wildfires-will-be-six-times-larger
China’s War on Pollution Will Change the World
Sent to me by a student after an in-class activity we did on climate change policy.