The world’s top 5 warmest years on record have occurred since 2014 — and it’s certain that 2019 will be added to this list as well. As Axios reports (see for interactive map above): Such trends are indicative of long-term global warming due to human activities such as burning fossil fuels for energy and transportation, cutting … Read more
Axios recently reported that “17 countries use more than 80% of their available water supplies every year, meaning droughts or increased water demand for agriculture and growing cities could leave them at risk of crisis, according to the World Resources Institute.” Last year, the nearly 4 million people who live in Cape Town, South Africa … Read more
According to a new United Nations climate report release last week, agricultural practices and people’s diets will need to change as rising temperatures diminish the earth’s ability to absorb dangerous emissions. UN panel calls for changes to farming, diets to stave off climate change: The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released on … Read more
No, it wasn’t just your imagination. July Was the Hottest Month Ever Recorded, UN Says: July 2019 may have been the single hottest month in recorded history, preliminary data from the World Meteorological Organization shows. Global average temperatures from July 1 to July 29, 2019, met and possibly even surpassed the previous record for the … Read more
Musical accompaniment, the Tragically Hip: “New Orleans is sinking man and I don’t wanna swim.” The inflection point in the George W. Bush administration was not his disastrous Iraq War, but his administration’s apparent indifference and clusterfuck handling of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina “When The Levees Broke” (Parts I & II and Parts III & … Read more