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David Jessop is a consultant to the Caribbean Council and can be contacted atdavid.jessop@caribbean-council.org. Previous columns can be found at http://www.caribbean-council.orgIn the last few days new evidence has been published suggesting that scientists are now 99 percent certain that human activity is causing global warming.
As if to validate this, temperatures in parts of Northern Europe spiked this week at 44.9 C (113F), breaking records and confirming changing patterns that have brought extreme weather and higher temperatures often for sustained periods to regions of Africa, the Americas, the Arctic and many other parts of the world. Continue reading
The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption is a work of investigative journalism by Dahr Jamail, conducted during the period April 2016 to July 2017 on the front lines of human-caused climate disruption. Having lived in Alaska for ten years (1996-2006), Jamail had witnessed the dramatic impact of global warming on the glaciers there.
Jamail’s original aim was to alert readers about “the urgency of our planetary crisis through firsthand accounts of what is happening to the glaciers, forest, wildlife, coral reefs, and oceans, alongside data provided by leading scientists who study them.” His reporting took him to climate disruption hot spots in Alaska, California, Florida, and Montana in the United States; Palau in the Western Pacific Ocean; Great Barrier Reef, Australia; and the Amazon Forest in Manaus, Brazil. His grief at what was happening to nature made him realize that “only…
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The damage suffered by Houston, Tampa and Miami is not an anomaly. It is the beginning of the end.
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ow many times will we rebuild Florida’s cities, Houston, coastal New Jersey, New Orleans and other population centers ravaged by storms lethally intensified by global warming? At what point, surveying the devastation and knowing more is inevitable, will we walk away, leaving behind vast coastal dead zones?
Will we retreat even further into magical thinking to cope with the fury we have unleashed from the natural world? Or will we respond rationally and radically alter our relationship to this earth that gives us life? Continue reading
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March temperatures continue global heat streak for a record 11 months
WASHINGTON, United States, Friday April 22, 2016 – It will come as no surprise to Trinidadians, currently under a hot weather watch, that the world’s record monthly heat streak has now reached 11 months in a row — a record in itself.According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), March’s average global temperature of 54.9 degrees (12.7 Celsius) was not only the hottest March ever, but is a continuation of a record escalation of temperatures that started last May.
NOAA climate scientist Jessica Blunden says that the 11 consecutive heat records surpass the previous record holder: a streak of 10 in 1944. Continue reading
Photo: Children walk down Sixth Avenue wearing t-shirts thanks to 60 degree weather on Dec. 10, 2015 in New York City. (Photo: Andrew Burton—Getty Images)
Let’s talk about December 2015. In the interests of brevity—and so you can get away from this screen and outside where the weather, odds have it, is probably flipping gorgeous right now—I’d like to step through a brief montage of recent examples from around the nuzzlingly warm eastern U.S. and get to the point:
This warmth is due to several things, including global warming.
Some recent coverage has muddied this point, so let’s help with the clean-up. Continue reading
For the people of Kiribati, climate change isn’t something to be debated, denied or legislated against — it’s an everyday reality. The low-lying Pacific island nation may soon be underwater, thanks to rising sea levels. In a personal conversation with TED Curator Chris Anderson, Kiribati President Anote Tong discusses his country’s present climate catastrophe and its imperiled future. “In order to deal with climate change, there’s got to be sacrifice. There’s got to be commitment,” he says. “We’ve got to tell people that the world has changed.”
Filmed October 2015 at Mission Blue II
People sign the Earth Pledge – June 1992
UN Conference on Environment and Development
Photo Credit: UNCED
Which countries are doing the most to stop dangerous global warming?
In November, nearly 200 countries meet in Paris for UN talks to agree a new climate deal. Find out how pledges compare in The Guardian’s in-depth analysis of 13 key countries and blocs: EU, Japan, Russia, US, Canada, Australia, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Mexico, and Morocco.
~ “Which countries are doing the most to stop dangerous global warming?” The Guardian, October 2015.
USA– ‘Decades ahead of his time’: history catches up with visionary Jimmy Carter
A new film rejects the popular narrative and recasts the former president, 96, as hugely prescient thinker, particularly on climate change
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