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26/09: Det nordøstlige USA og klimakrisen
Allerede i dag er sommertemperaturene langs den nordamerikanske østkyst steget meget, og med den fortsatte globale opvarmning vil det få alvorlige konsekvenser
Drivhusgassen metan er meget i medierne i øjeblikket, og det er der en god grund til. Metan-niveauet i atmosfæren stiger kraftigt
20/09: Klimakrisen, professor James Hansen og fremtiden
Aerosoler og skyer spiller en stor rolle i den globale opvarmning, men hvor stor har været usikkert. Det er ved at ændre sig - og det lover ikke godt
18/09: Luftforureningen fra de omfattende naturbrande
Den menneskeskabte globale opvarmning accelerer, og det samme gør antallet af naturbrande derfor. Røgen herfra er farlig at indånde
14/09: Klimakrisen, professor Guy McPherson og fremtiden
Oftere og oftere siger klimaforskerne i forbindelse med nye videnskabelig rapporter, at klimakrisen accelererer hurtigere, end de havde forestillet sig
Daglige CO2-niveau 24. september:
415,50
Nyt Fokus inspirerer, kvalificerer og provokerer til nytænkning og debat om bæredygtig omstilling. Tidsskriftet belyser problemernes årsager og sætter fokus på visioner, mål og tiltag til en reel bæredygtig udvikling.
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25/09-2021: The Guardian
‘I really see the value of friendship. Apart from the climate, almost nothing else matters’
23/09-2021: The Conversation
Have climate change predictions matched reality? Podcast
How scientists are improving their understanding of the connection between extremes and climate change – and what’s to come. Listen to The Conversation Weekly
22/09-2021: Nature
Young people’s climate anxiety revealed in landmark survey
Children worldwide worry about the future and feel let down by governments, a huge study on attitudes towards climate change has found
17/09-2021: The Intercept
OIL COMPANY OFFICIAL OVERSEEING CRACKDOWN ON PIPELINE RESISTANCE CUT TEETH AT AMAZON AND EXXON
In the small world of corporate security, officials like Enbridge’s Troy Kirby take counterinsurgency practices from one megacompany to another
13/09-2021: The Guardian
Rain fell on Greenland’s ice sheet for the first time ever known. Alarms should ring
Climate scientists believe that if Greenland continues to rapidly melt, tens of millions of people around the world could face yearly flooding and displacement by 2030
10/09-2021: The Guardian
Indigenous warrior women take fight to save ancestral lands to Brazilian capital
Jair Bolsonaro is backing a legal move to open up large tracts of indigenous territory to commercial exploitation that tribal members call an ‘extermination effort’
09/09-2021: The Guardian
Earth’s tipping points could be closer than we think. Our current plans won’t work
Climate policies commit us to a calamitous 2.9C of global heating, but catastrophic changes can occur at even 1.5C or 2C
04/09-2021: The Intercept
LINE 3 AND A WEEK OF CLIMATE CATASTROPHE
Alleen Brown and Tara Houska discuss the Line 3 pipeline protests in Minnesota
02/09-2021: The Intercept
HURRICANE IDA MAKES A MOCKERY OF BIG OIL’S PHILANTHROPY
During Hurricane Ida, energy companies briefly paused efforts to claim credit for combating the problems they’ve caused
ECOCIDE is mass damage and destruction of ecosystems – severe harm to nature which is widespread or long-term.
ECOCIDE, committed repeatedly over decades, has created the climate and ecological emergency that we now face.
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BURNING WOOD AWARD går i år til Ørsted!
Ørsted søger på den ene side at fremstå som et firma lavet af vindmøller og på den anden side deltager i ødelæggelsen af naturparker i Estland og Letland og globale biodiversitetshotspots i det sydøstlige Amerika.
The World Meteorological Organization has published a new report on Climate Indicators and Sustainable Development: Demonstrating the Interconnections. Its release coincides with the United Nations General Assembly annual session and the opening on 22 September of the SDG Action Zone, which is dedicated to accelerating action on the SDGs.
16/09-2021: The Guardian
Facebook steps up fight against climate misinformation – but critics say effort falls short
New efforts will let vast amounts of false material slip through the cracks, according to climate advocates
14/08-2021: The Guardian
Facebook is obstructing our work on disinformation. Other researchers could be next
The company’s hostility to academic scrutiny limits our ability to understand how the platform amplifies political falsehoods
18/02-2021: The Conversation
Feel like breaking up with Facebook? Maybe it’s time for a social media spring clean
If you're fed up with Facebook, there are many options to step away, from taking a deactivation break, to a digital spring clean of how the platform accesses your data, to a full divorce
The latest on COVID-19 vaccine on The Conversation