a blog about the changing world we live in
A LIKELY DOOMSDAY SCENARIO is presented by Emily Atkin in the article “The Blood-Dimmed Tide” for the New Republic (September 16, 2019). “It’s the year 2100. Many of the world’s major powers have spent the last several decades focusing on themselves. Borders have closed. International investments in education and technology have declined. [Read more] “by 2100, earth passed the safe threshold of warming mark”
THE NEW YORKER focused on Greta Thunberg today, publishing an article and a featured cartoon. The article is titled “Greta Thunberg Is the Anti-Trump” and was written by Masha Gessen: “She is young and he is old. She is honest and he is a habitual liar. [Read more] “the anti-trump and the weight of the world”
CLIMATE ACTIVISTS BLOCK TRAFFIC in downtown Washington, DC, with dozens of arrests in response. “Dozens of climate activists were arrested after they blocked major intersections in Washington, DC, early Monday morning in a show of protest ahead of this week’s United Nation’s climate summit in New York City. [Read more] “the “shut down dc” protest effectively shut down dc for hours”
CLIMATE ACTIVIST GRETA THUNBERG recently joined Naomi Klein for a conversation on the climate emergency. Klein is a well-published author, senior correspondent at The Intercept, and the inaugural Gloria Steinem endowed chair of media, culture, and feminist studies at Rutgers University. Thunberg hasn’t graduated from high school yet she is credited with raising global awareness of the risks posed by global warming and climate change and politicians to task for their lack of action on the climate crisis. [Read more] “greta thunberg and the school strike for the climate”
HURRICANE SEASON IS ALMOST HERE! Dorian has come and gone, fortunately leaving Alabama mostly unscarred. Others will follow. I live in the relatively (formerly?) moderate clime of the Pacific Northwest. Ou climate has also changed: We now have massive thunder and lightning storms—which used to be a relatively novel experience—and we are in the fifth year of drought that doesn’t get much attention because it’s mild compared to, say, California. [Read more] “is global climate change creating more hurricanes?”
DROUGHT IN INDIA is changing the way marriages are arranged: Men seeking wives are paying large fees to traffickers while wives seeking husbands are being made promises and getting duped into marriages. According to the article “No Water, No Wife: How Climate Change is Linked to Trafficking” (Freedom United, August 5, 2019), wells and other sources of water have dried up, forcing people to walk miles for water in India. [Read more] “is India becoming the land of bachelors?”
FROM THE ARTICLE “A New Map is the Best View Yet of How Fast Antarctica is Shedding Ice” by Maria Temming for Science News (August 5, 2019): “A new map based on satellite radar data reveals the velocity of ice flow across Antarctica from areas of high elevation to the coasts. [Read more] “a driver of global sea level rise”
MOST OF THE ARTICLES HERE on the GCC – Global Climate Change blog are portals to other articles. I am certainly not an expert in any field that even remotely touches on the various sciences that address climate. Readers will find enough material from each article to serve as a teaser and introduction to the original article on another website. [Read more] “introduction to gcc – global climate change”