Climate Change:How Skewed Are We... Really? Climate Change content curation, commentary and a soupcon of comedy
Climate Change Round Up Nov 12, 2016
Only 12 percent of students had a teacher who thought climate change was real and believed humans were largely to blame. "North Carolina State University biologists states: ""Our findings suggest convincing teachers that climate change is real, but not necessarily human caused, may have profound impacts on students
A huge magmatic lake has been discovered, 15 kilometers below a dormant volcano in Bolivia, South America. The body of water, which is dissolved into partially molten rock at a temperature of almost 1,000 degrees Celsius, is the equivalent to what is found in some of the world's giant freshwater lakes, such as Lake Superior.
India will also focus on sustainable lifestyle issues, which found a place in the Paris agreement after Prime Minister Narendra Modi pushed for its inclusion
Morocco and France’s global climate champions, Hakima El Haite and Laurence Tubiana, launched the Global Climate Action Agenda here on Tuesday. As a successor to the Lima-Paris Action Agenda in 2013, the Global Action Agenda allows non-governmental players, such as civil society organizations, private companies, cities, regions and investors, and their initiatives to play a bigger role.
6 NASA DOUBLE SHOT
Climate change does not care about the law of the land in the U.S. It cares about the laws of physics. Trump can change laws in the U.S. He can’t change them in the atmosphere.
4 A new study concludes warm climate is more sensitive to changes in CO2 “The only way out is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible,” Tobias Friedrich from the International Pacific Research Center (IPRC) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa http://bit.ly/2eWdIAt
focus shifts to China to take on the role as global leader in taking action.
Zou Ji, deputy director of the National Centre for Climate Change Strategy said that if Trump abandons efforts to implement the Paris agreement, "China's influence and voice are likely to increase in global climate governance, which will then spill over into other areas of global governance and increase China's global standing, power and leadership."
Trump will be terrible, but it’s not just about Trump. It’s about you, too. there’s a lot each of us can do in our own lives. Yes, we’ll need systemic change to preserve a habitable planet for future generations, but that change begins with small steps in our own daily lives—and Trump can’t keep you from starting that today.
