The Environmentalist

28/03/2024

The Biden administration has restored rules to protect imperiled plants and animals that had been rolled back back under former President Donald Trump.

09/02/2024

An important verdict for a great scientist against unserious and dangerous attacks.

The researcher had sued two writers and their publishers for libel and slander over comments about his work. The jury found “spite” and “deliberate intent to harm.”

21/10/2023

New website link: https://www.the-environmentalist-magazine.org/. This is because our website, the-environmentalist.org, has been stolen by a bad actor residing in Washington State. He has set up a fake website and is redirecting it to a scam site We're sorry for the inconvenience. Please use the new URL: https://www.the-environmentalist-magazine.org/

26/07/2023

Warming could push the Atlantic past a "Tipping Point" this century. If it does, if the current that carries warm water from the Gulf of Mexico to the UK collapses, the weather will change dramatically, and not for the better.

Breaking News: Currents in the Atlantic could slow sharply by century’s end, new research shows, affecting weather patterns across the globe. https://nyti.ms/3Qk8vGO

24/07/2023

Michael Mann, distinguished professor and director of Penn Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media, joins "CBS Mornings" to discuss the record-breaking heat and extreme weather and why he believes it isn't too late to slow the human impacts on climate change.

17/02/2023

https://www.reuters.com/graphics/GLOBAL-ENVIRONMENT/INSECT-APOCALYPSE/egpbykdxjvq/

The most diverse group of organisms on the planet are in trouble and the consequences could be dire.

26/12/2022

From William Shatner:

Please spend 3 minutes reading this note from William Shatner, the actor from Star Trek:
“Last year, I had a life-changing experience at 90 years old. I went to space, after decades of playing an iconic science-fiction character who was exploring the universe. I thought I would experience a deep connection with the immensity around us, a deep call for endless exploration.
"I was absolutely wrong. The strongest feeling, that dominated everything else by far, was the deepest grief that I had ever experienced.
"I understood, in the clearest possible way, that we were living on a tiny oasis of life, surrounded by an immensity of death. I didn’t see infinite possibilities of worlds to explore, of adventures to have, or living creatures to connect with. I saw the deepest darkness I could have ever imagined, contrasting so starkly with the welcoming warmth of our nurturing home planet.
"This was an immensely powerful awakening for me. It filled me with sadness. I realized that we had spent decades, if not centuries, being obsessed with looking away, with looking outside. I did my share in popularizing the idea that space was the final frontier. But I had to get to space to understand that Earth is and will stay our only home. And that we have been ravaging it, relentlessly, making it uninhabitable."
-- William Shatner, actor

06/12/2022

Want to save the planet? Focus on wild cats. Wild cats play vital roles in almost all the environments where they occur. For that reason, aiding their recovery can also help to achieve quantifiable progress on many of our planet’s urgent environmental goals.

Cats aren't just cool. They're also crucial for biodiversity.

30/10/2022

climate summit: window for avoiding catastrophe is closing fast

The effects of global heating could soon reach a tipping point, but scientists fear that the meeting in Egypt will become bogged down in recriminations

21/08/2022

Every year, farmers in France’s central region of Auvergne repeat the same process. During summer and fall, their cows graze in pastures, eating to their hearts’ content. It’s only during this time that farmers can produce salers, a highly regulated semihard cheese with the same buttery depth as a well-aged cheddar.
That seasonal cycle remained uninterrupted for over 2,000 years until last week, when salers became the latest casualty of severe heat waves wreaking havoc across Europe, where human-caused climate change has intensified temperatures. France’s severe drought shut down the cheese production that had continued through two world wars, collapsed monarchies and the fall of the Roman Empire. https://wapo.st/3QNUqhS

Every year, farmers in France’s central region of Auvergne repeat the same process. During summer and fall, their cows graze in pastures, eating to their hearts’ content. It’s only during this time that farmers can produce salers, a highly regulated semihard cheese with the same buttery depth as a well-aged cheddar.

That seasonal cycle remained uninterrupted for over 2,000 years until last week, when salers became the latest casualty of severe heat waves wreaking havoc across Europe, where human-caused climate change has intensified temperatures. France’s severe drought shut down the cheese production that had continued through two world wars, collapsed monarchies and the fall of the Roman Empire. https://wapo.st/3QNUqhS

07/08/2022

The Senate passed legislation on Sunday that would make the most significant federal investment in history to counter climate change and lower the cost of prescription drugs, as Democrats banded together to push through major pieces of President Biden’s domestic agenda over unified Republican opposition.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/07/us/politics/vote-a-rama-slogs-on-as-the-senate-moves-to-pass-a-long-sought-spending-package.html?smid=url-share

The vote was a major victory for President Biden and Democrats, who are battling to maintain their slim House and Senate majorities in November’s midterm congressional elections.

30/07/2022

The audacious PR plot that spread climate change doubt - BBC News
Thirty years ago, a bold plan was hatched to persuade people that climate change was not a problem.
https://www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-62225696.amp

Thirty years ago, a bold plan was hatched to persuade people that climate change was not a problem.

29/07/2022

How the Schumer-Manchin climate bill might impact you and change the U.S. The package, if passed, will transform huge sectors of the U.S. economy and affect millions of Americans.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2022/07/28/manchin-schumer-climate-deal/?fbclid=IwAR3PyTSWM2gNg3q5wOeu4XMMdXV0W6Qwbr0EgS5a3hFk5Sv9XiS8RArUFKI

The package, if smaller than Democrats’ initial ambitions, would transform huge sectors of the U.S. economy and affect millions of Americans.

21/07/2022

In summer 2022, heatwaves around the world felled records and fueled wildfires as temperatures climbed above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit). https://go.nasa.gov/3IEln4Q

20/03/2022

It’s 70 degrees warmer than normal in eastern Antarctica. Scientists are flabbergasted.
"This event is completely unprecedented and upended our expectations about the Antarctic climate system," one expert said.

"This event is completely unprecedented and upended our expectations about the Antarctic climate system," one expert said.

27/02/2022

The Best Climate Science You’ve Never Heard Of

By Mark Hertsgaard, Saleemul Huq and Michael E. Mann (note: this is the original full version of our recent Washington Post op-ed, based on a recent press briefing involving the authors, sponsored by Scientific American and Covering Climate Now) One of the biggest obstacles to avoiding global climat...

18/01/2022

A Slaughter of Wolves Like This Hasn’t Been Seen in a Century.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/17/opinion/wolves-endangered-yellowstone.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&fbclid=IwAR3-Pf6VjCZ94Lcn-iAnu7hwYnvwFzTMiHSH9Eq_4xkQUuExKnk9vuP8908

Wolves have thrived since returning to the Northern Rockies. Now they face relentless assault by hunters and trappers.

04/01/2022

The Environmentalist recommends: "The Next Civil War." The future doesn't have to be this, but it's how it will happen if we don't stop it now (if we can). Please read this book: https://www.amazon.com/Next-Civil-War-Dispatches-American-ebook/dp/B09843T71V

The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future

30/12/2021

8 ominous climate milestones reached in 2021
Signs of accelerating global warming abounded this year.

Signs of accelerating global warming abounded this year.

17/12/2021

Crucial Antarctic ice shelf could fail within five years.

Scientists have discovered a series of worrying weaknesses in the ice shelf holding back one of Antarctica’s most dangerous glaciers, suggesting that this important buttress against sea level rise could shatter within the next three to five years.

Until recently, the ice shelf was seen as the most stable part of Thwaites Glacier, a Florida-sized frozen expanse that already contributes about 4 percent of annual global sea level rise. Because of this brace, the eastern portion of Thwaites flowed more slowly than the rest of the notorious “doomsday glacier.” https://wapo.st/3dNONPn

15/12/2021

Study: Winter tornadoes get more powerful as world warms.

A new study says winter tornadoes are likely to be stronger and stay on the ground longer as the world warms.

09/10/2021

The American Bumblebee Has Vanished From Eight States

In two decades, the insect's population has declined by nearly 90 percent due to a combination of threats, including habitat loss, pesticides and diseases

25/09/2021

Scientists are not scaremongers but it's time to feel afraid about climate change. READ THIS.

36 days to Cop26: In November 2019, the New York Times published an article with the deliberately provocative headline, “How scientists got climate change so wrong”.

23/09/2021

The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet. By Michael E. Mann

If you are looking to develop your subject knowledge, refresh your climate change lessons or encourage students passionate about the climate crisis… I strongly recommend you BUY THIS BOOK! I finish…

02/09/2021

8/31/2021- The Barometer https://tinyurl.com/tf3mzr97

02/09/2021

NYC flooding. Broadway station.

02/09/2021

Water cascades onto a New York City subway train as remnants of Hurricane Ida bring flooding rain to the Northeast.

11/08/2021

"The IPCC Sixth Assessment Report" from :

Top level post for all IPCC AR6 posts.

10/08/2021

IPCC report shows ‘possible loss of entire countries within the century’

Pacific island nations are already being battered by king tides, catastrophic cyclones and sustained droughts

10/08/2021

'Code red for humanity': UN report gives stark warning on climate change, says wild weather events will worsen.

Hundreds of top scientists released a devastating report Monday on the danger that human-caused climate change poses to the world.