Subjects Archives: Climate Change

Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou recently declared a state of emergency in the capital, Montevideo, due to water shortages.

State Farm recently announced that it is halting new insurance policies for homeowners in the state of California, where the agency is currently the top insurance provider, due to rising “catastrophe exposure” coupled with inflating construction costs.

Temperatures over Europe have warmed significantly over the 1991-2021 period, at an average rate of about +0.5 °C per decade, making it the fastest warming region of all the WMO Regions

Wildfires are tearing through the Canadian province of Alberta, the heart of Canada’s lucrative oil and gas industry.

A review of Daniel Goldhaber’s film adaptation of Swedish author Andreas Malm’s polarizing book ‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline’.

Under current climate change policies, billions will face life-threatening heat. But a global network of heat officers are tackling the problem in their own cities.

China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions grew 4% in the first quarter of 2023, reaching a record high for the first three months of the year.

During La Nina events, sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific are lower than the long-term average, causing cooler global temperatures and vice-versa for El Nino.

Workers’ Liberty organises a monthly Marxist ecology reading group. This month they discussed a chapter on “Entropy and ecological economics” from ‘Marxism and Ecological Economics’ by Paul Burkett.

We are, right now, living in a dangerously warmed climate.

Historically, blood-shedding has often been associated with heroic acts of valour. However, menstruation is not praised and cherished in the same way. Rather, menstruation is shrouded in secrecy, stigma, and stress, despite being a natural physiological process that occurs in a quarter of the global population.

Noam Chomsky lays out the coming apocalypse without taking direct action to quell the climate crisis.

As thousands prepare to surround parliament to demand climate action, Feyzi Ismail explains the scale of the crisis and the strategy the movement needs.

The U.S. corporate-controlled media are concealing the climate crisis’s severity and breadth.

One of the central insights emerging from research on degrowth and climate mitigation is that universal public services are crucial to a just and effective transition.

If one were only to read the headlines over the last two years, it might seem as if the U.S. military is late to the problem of climate change. However, as a large emitter of greenhouse gasses (51 million metric tons of CO2 equivalents in 2019 alone), the U.S. military has been researching, anticipating, and planning for the effects of climate change for decades.

SUMMER has well and truly set in all over India. Monthly average temperatures in February have been the hottest since 1901.

As the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report tells us, there is still a chance to keep warming at no more than the 1.5°C target, but tipping points to climate catastrophes much worse than we are witnessing now will kick in if this target is breached. It is now crystal clear that ongoing wars, in particular the Ukraine war, create huge obstacles to the global cooperation necessary for any chance of meeting the 1.5°C warming target. Following the lead of China’s peace plan, we should support the call for an immediate ceasefire in the Ukraine war, and for all parties involved to negotiate.

After scoring half a million from oil and gas interests, New York’s Democratic governor wants to allow utilities to burn fossil fuels for decades longer than currently permitted.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) synthesis report recently landed with an authoritative thump, giving voice to hundreds of scientists endeavouring to understand the unfolding calamity of global heating.