The economic losses from 2010 -2019, according to Aon’s Weather, Climate & Catastrophe Insight: 2019 Annual Report (pdf), hit nearly $3 trillion. That’s up from 1.8 trillion recorded between 2000 and 2009.
Category: Climate Change
Climate Change Poses Real Threats
I had to laugh when I saw this. I love PBS and I understand the horrors that climate change poses, but …. The melting of the Greenland ice sheet threatens to plunge our coastal cities under water, and we’re talking …
Trees Sequester CO2 for Long Periods of Time
At the end of their lives, most trees re-release the CO2 they’ve absorbed back into the atmosphere, whether they decay naturally or are consumed in fire.
All Hail the Rain in Australia!
Heavy rains have caused flash floods in large parts of fire-ravaged Australia, but they’re the answer to many people’s prayers nonetheless. Climate change isn’t a pretty thing, but when relief comes from one of its disasters (what would formerly have …
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Each of the Past Six Years Were Among the Six Hottest in Recorded History–But What Does That Mean?
Given that 2019 was the second-hottest year since temperature records were first taken in 1880, we have the fact that each of the past six years were among the six hottest out of 140. Of course, we still have people …
Americans Slow on the Uptake
Many Americans report feeling like they’re on a merry-go-round, today wondering how something so odd and terrible could be possible, tomorrow learning why, but the following day scratching their heads again.
Climate Change Denial
Here’s Bill Nye the Science Guy talking about climate change denial, generally. Separately, here’s an excerpt from an article on how one might deal with denialists:
Examining Climate Change Denial
As shown here, when it comes to climate change denial, the leading three counties are the U.S., the U.K., and Australia (in that order). We might have guessed that it’s a coincidence that each of the three is English-speaking, until …
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11,000 Scientists: We Face a “Climate Emergency”
From this article: “Scientists have a moral obligation to clearly warn humanity of any catastrophic threat and to ‘tell it like it is,’” a group of scientists wrote in a letter published in BioScience Tuesday. “On the basis of this obligation and the …
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Predicting the Climate Future
Here’s a cheery article that offers five climate-related mega-predictions for the coming decade. Though it’s insightful at a certain level, most what the author presents is essentially guaranteed to happen. Climate denial ends, followed by the mobilization of capital to …
