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  • Phillies and Braves are experiencing climate change firsthand, and it may affect their play

    03/28/2024 4:41:07 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 51 replies
    The Philadelphia Inquier ^ | March 27, 2024 | by Anthony R. Wood
    The Phillies and the Atlanta Braves reputedly are among the elite teams of major-league baseball, but if the quality of play at Citizens Bank Park during their season-opening series doesn’t quite measure up to expectations, go gentle on the booing. These players are experiencing a form of abrupt climate change, says Struan Coleman, a sports medicine specialist who practices in New York and Philly. When the Phillies left Clearwater, Fla., after their final spring training game Monday, the high was 83 degrees, and daily highs since the team began playing their practice games in Florida on Feb. 25 have averaged...
  • Global Warming Is Influencing Global Timekeeping

    03/27/2024 2:10:36 PM PDT · by DallasBiff · 28 replies
    UC San Diego ^ | 3/27/24 | Robert Monroe
    A problem is coming for global timekeeping, according to a paper published in the March 27, 2024 issue of Nature by Duncan Agnew, a geophysicist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, and global warming is influencing when that problem might arrive. Worldwide coordination of timekeeping is how all smartphones and computers can keep the same time. This timekeeping includes, every so often, an extra second, called a leap second, which makes a particular minute last for 61 seconds. Anyone who has forgotten the change to or from daylight saving time and found themselves an hour early (or...
  • Climate: The Movie - The Cold Truth

    03/26/2024 10:59:11 AM PDT · by ScaniaBoy · 17 replies
    Free Your Mind Documentaries ^ | 21 March, 2024 | Martin Durkin
    Climate: The Movie (The Cold Truth) - Martin Durkin . This film exposes the climate alarm as an invented scare without any basis in science. It shows that mainstream studies and official data do not support the claim that we are witnessing an increase in extreme weather events – hurricanes, droughts, heatwaves, wildfires and all the rest. It emphatically counters the claim that current temperatures and levels of atmospheric CO2 are unusually and worryingly high. On the contrary, it is very clearly the case, as can be seen in all mainstream studies, that, compared to the last half billion years...
  • Offshore Wind Now Costs More Than Double the Original Estimates in New York

    03/26/2024 9:26:31 AM PDT · by george76 · 22 replies
    IER ^ | MARCH 12, 2024
    Despite Biden’s belief that renewable energy such as wind and solar are the cheapest forms of electricity, New Yorkers are about to receive higher bills for offshore wind that will raise their rates by more than twice what was originally agreed to in earlier canceled contracts. New York’s solicitations to cover the higher cost for offshore wind is also being used in other Northeastern states, allowing wind developers to rebid for higher prices and receive new contracts. Offshore wind is much more expensive than most other forms of electricity and these states are committing their residents to markedly higher rates...
  • ‘The Planet Is Going Bankrupt’: Human Survival Depends On Managing Climate Risk

    03/25/2024 7:46:10 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 49 replies
    Forbes ^ | March 25, 2024 | By Nina Seega
    2023 has been a record-breaking year in terms of temperature rise, ocean warming, wildfires and pretty much every other weather event the world over. Various climate attribution reports show that climate change had a guiding hand in making these events more frequent and more intense. Yet, the climate modelling used to plan for and finance adaptation to a warmer world has failed to keep up. This disconnect between models and the likely future that awaits us is deeply problematic. The first European climate risk assessment from the European Environment Agency, published in March, shows Europe has heated up faster than...
  • In a surprise vote, major European climate protection plan shelved following farmer protests

    03/25/2024 7:39:16 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 20 replies
    The Associated Press ^ | March 25, 2024 | BY RAF CASERT
    BRUSSELS (AP) — A major European Union plan to fight climate change and better protect nature in the 27-nation bloc has been indefinitely postponed Monday, underscoring how farmers’ protests sweeping the continent influence politics ahead of the June EU parliamentary elections. The member states were supposed to give final approval to the bill on Monday following months of proceedings through the EU’s institutional maze. But what was supposed to be a mere rubber stamp has now been possibly shelved forever. “(The plan) is in a very difficult position at the moment and with the upcoming European elections, it won’t be...
  • Sen John Kennedy destroys Olympic skier Gus Schumacher after Democrats invited him as 'expert witness' on climate change - and quotes his old tweets

    03/25/2024 4:27:55 AM PDT · by Libloather · 41 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 3/25/24 | Dominic Yeatman
    Senate Democrats were left red-faced at a hearing on climate change as their 'expert witness' proved to be anything but when faced by veteran senator John Kennedy. Budget Chairman Sheldon Whitehouse invited Olympic skier Gus Schumacher to give his perspective as the committee considered the impact of climate change on the recreation industry. But it was all downhill for the 23-year-old as he struggled to answer basic questions and could not remember his tweets claiming the war on drugs was designed to jail black people, and calling for the police to be abolished. The excruciating exchange continued with Schumacher insisting...
  • Warming Climate, More Pollen, and Worse Allergies

    03/24/2024 8:45:27 PM PDT · by DallasBiff · 10 replies
    Fox 54 Huntsville AL ^ | 3/22/24 | Emily Owen, Climate Central
    Climate change contributes to earlier, longer, and worse allergy seasons for millions in the U.S. that suffer from season allergies -- including 19% of children. HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — The first leaves and blooms of spring are arriving days to weeks early in the large parts of the southern and central U.S., according to the USA National Phenology Network. That's bad news for people with seasonal allergies -- about one-quarter of adults and one-in-five children in the U.S. Earlier springs, longer pollen seasons, and worse seasonal allergies are all linked to our warming climate
  • April’s eclipse will mean interruptions in solar (and wind) power generation, which could strain electrical grids

    03/24/2024 6:46:07 PM PDT · by DoodleBob · 32 replies
    The Conversation ^ | March 8, 2024 | Vahe Peroomian
    During the most recent total solar eclipse visible in the U.S., on Aug. 21, 2017, the skies darkened as the Moon crossed in front of the Sun. It blocked out all sunlight – except for that from a golden ring visible around the Moon’s shape, called the corona. Not surprisingly, solar power generation across North America plummeted for several hours, from the first moment the Moon began to obscure the Sun to when the Sun’s disk was clear again. On April 8, 2024, another total solar eclipse will track across the U.S., causing perhaps an even greater loss of solar...
  • "Climate The Movie: The Cold Truth"

    03/22/2024 12:37:27 PM PDT · by devere · 27 replies
    CO2 Coalition ^ | April 22, 2024 | Director Martin Durkin and Producer Tom Nelson
    1 hour 19 minutes free movie
  • Easter eggs costs rise as climate change hits crops

    03/22/2024 6:03:19 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 41 replies
    BBC News ^ | March 22, 2024 | By Justin Rowlatt
    You may have noticed that Easter eggs are more expensive this year. But did you know that climate change is one of the reasons? Most chocolate is made from cocoa grown in West Africa, but a humid heatwave has blasted the crops and massively cut yields. Experts say that human-induced climate change has made the extreme heat 10 times more likely. Which? found some popular eggs have risen in price by 50% or more. The shortage of cocoa resulting from the heatwave has seen prices soar to almost $8,500 (£6,700) a tonne this week. Cocoa trees are particularly vulnerable to...
  • Climate cafés open worldwide to help 'ease the anxiety' of global 'crisis'

    03/22/2024 5:53:50 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 29 replies
    FOX News ^ | March 22, 2024 | By Lindsay Kornick
    "Climate cafés" have been popping up worldwide over the past few years to help people deal with their global warming anxiety, according to a recent New York Times report. The article "Can Climate Cafes Help Ease the Anxiety of Planetary Crisis?" documented a new phenomenon of groups meeting, whether publicly or privately, to "discuss their grief, fears, anxiety and other emotions about the climate crisis." One organization, Climate Psychology Alliance North America, claimed to the NYT that it has trained 350 people to run climate cafés in the U.S. and Canada with 300 people on the "climate-aware therapist directory." "The...
  • Warming climate threatens rodent population that feeds Arctic foxes

    03/22/2024 4:42:39 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 24 replies
    CBS News Local ^ | March 22, 2024 | By Molly McCrea
    PALO ALTO -- The Arctic fox is a natural beauty but this captivating creature with its playful nature and distinctive look is under threat. Experts say Arctic foxes need to hunt rodents to survive long winters and climate change is thinning the rodent population. "If we get warmer and more unstable climate, where you can get snow melt and you get icing on the ground, that is going to affect how well the rodents can survive," explained conservation biologist Kristine Ulvund with the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research. Stanford professor of biology Elizabeth Hadley, who has studied biodiversity for decades,...
  • Food prices could increase further due to climate change's effect on inflation around the world: Study

    03/22/2024 4:34:53 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 43 replies
    ABC News | Disney ^ | March 21, 2024 | ByJulia Jacobo and Daniel Peck
    The strain that rising global temperatures could have on on the agriculture industry and inflation around the world will likely cause food prices to increase even more, according to new research. Changes in average monthly temperatures have the strongest and most consistent correlation to productivity and inflation figures, according to a paper published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment on Thursday. Researchers at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany looked at historical food prices in different categories of food goods across countries around the world to explore how fluctuations in different climatic conditions have historically impacted...
  • EV Startup Fisker Halts Production To Raise Emergency Funds Amid Cash Crunch From Low Demand

    03/21/2024 6:28:12 PM PDT · by george76 · 36 replies
    Daily Wire ^ | Mar 20, 2024 | Ryan Saavedra
    The startup electric car company Fisker said this week that it is halting the production of its vehicles to raise $150 million in emergency funds as it grapples with a cash crunch spurred by a low demand for electric vehicles. The California-based company, which says its mission is to “create the world’s most emotional and sustainable electric vehicles,” has barely produced over a thousand electric vehicles worldwide for the year. “The company has approximately 4,700 vehicles in its currently inventory, carried over from 2023 and including 2024 production,” the company said. “While it has not completed an NRV analysis for...
  • Editorial: Hold the applause. Biden’s new EV rules don’t go fast enough for the climate crisis

    03/20/2024 3:50:41 PM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 26 replies
    The Los Angeles Times ^ | March 20, 2024 | BY THE TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD
    It may be tempting to look at new rules finalized Wednesday by the Biden administration boosting sales of electric vehicles as a big step toward slashing climate-changing pollution. But the Environmental Protection Agency rules are more an incremental move, too weak and slow to respond appropriately to the gravity of the unfolding environmental crisis. And that’s a shame, because with a divided Congress, administrative action is the only way for the federal government to do big things such as protect the public from climate change and pollution. Speed matters, after all, in preventing catastrophic climate impacts, and the longer we...
  • Climate Migrants in Rural India Have Hysterectomies to Survive, Report Says

    03/19/2024 7:58:44 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 10 replies
    Drought is driving poor Indian women into exploitative sugar cane work in the central state of Maharashtra, with many of the migrant labourers opting to undergo unnecessary hysterectomies to work even harder, research showed on Feb 7. Years of failed monsoons, extreme heat and droughts have led residents of Beed, a district in the top sugar-producing state to leave and become day labourers on plantations, said the report by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), a London-based think-tank. The research found more than half of the Beed women who had gone to work on sugar plantations had undergone...
  • UN weather agency issues ‘red alert’ on climate change after record heat, ice-melt increases in 2023

    03/19/2024 6:43:04 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 35 replies
    The Associated Press | DNC ^ | March 19, 2024 | BY JAMEY KEATEN AND SETH BORENSTEIN
    GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. weather agency is sounding a “red alert” about global warming, citing record-smashing increases last year in greenhouse gases, land and water temperatures and melting of glaciers and sea ice, and warning that the world’s efforts to reverse the trend have been inadequate. The World Meteorological Organization, in a “State of the Global Climate” report released Tuesday, ratcheted up concerns that a much-vaunted climate goal is increasingly in jeopardy: That the world can unite to limit planetary warming to no more than 1.5 degrees. “Earth’s issuing a distress call,” U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said. “The latest...
  • Climate protesters lose legal battle over right to cause damage

    03/18/2024 11:08:20 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 6 replies
    The Telegraph UK ^ | March 18, 2024 | By Charles Hymas
    Eco-activists’ claims that they have a right to cause damage as part of their protests have been rejected by Court of Appeal judges. Victoria Prentis, the Attorney General, asked the Court to rule on whether eco-protesters could use a defence of “lawful excuse” to cause criminal damage to banks, businesses and private property and avoid conviction at trial. It follows the acquittal of a protester from a climate action group known as Burning Pink who threw paint at the offices of Greenpeace, Amnesty International, Christian Aid, Friends of the Earth, plus the Conservative, Labour, Lib Dem and Green parties, causing...
  • A New Surge in Power Use Is Threatening U.S. Climate Goals

    03/18/2024 6:16:10 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 57 replies
    The Seattle Times ^ | March 17, 2024 | By Brad Plumer |The New York Times
    Something unusual is happening in America. Demand for electricity, which has stayed largely flat for two decades, has begun to surge. Over the past year, electric utilities have nearly doubled their forecasts of how much additional power they’ll need by 2028 as they confront an unexpected explosion in the number of data centers, an abrupt resurgence in manufacturing driven by new federal laws, and millions of electric vehicles being plugged in. Many power companies were already struggling to keep the lights on, especially during extreme weather, and say the strain on the grid will only increase. Peak demand in the...