The UN Refugee Agency reports: Research indicates that the Earth’s climate is changing at a rate that has exceeded most scientific forecasts. Some families and communities have already started to suffer from disasters and the consequences of climate change, which has forced them to leave their homes in search of a new beginning. UNHCR recognizes […]
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Climate Change and Disaster Displacement
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Climate Change Refugees Seeking Asylum
A United Nations panel has ruled refugees fleeing the effects of the climate crisis cannot be forced to return home by their adoptive countries: [CNN Report: Climate refugees cannot be sent back home, United Nations rules in landmark decision] Factual background 2.1 The author claims that the effects of climate change and sea level rise […]
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Netherlands Double Whammy
Molly Quell reports: Blowing in the Wind: Why the Netherlands Is Sinking Over the centuries, windmills built to drain peatland for agriculture have been causing the ground to steadily sink. This subsidence means that in a low-lying nation famous for engineering its way around rising seas, the ground is also sinking lower, creating huge problems […]
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Sea Level Rise and Real Estate in Florida
The Tampa Bay Times reports: Your Florida coastal home could lose 15% of its value by 2030 due to sea rise Increasing sea rise is going to water down the value of some of the most coveted and expensive real estate in Florida, and insurance rates will go up too. That’s the conclusion of […]
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Bark Beetles Killing Sequoias
The Guardian Reports: Beetles and fire kill dozens of ‘indestructible’ giant sequoia trees Deadly interaction between insects, drought and fire damage have forced California’s park officials to trigger climate crisis plans intended for the 2050s ‘This is not how sequoias die. It’s supposed to stand for another 500 years’ Giant sequoia trees, the largest living […]
Bittle at the Baffler on Floods and Sea Level Impacts in the USA
Bittle at the Baffler on flood and sea level impacts in the USA: “a neighborhood that feels more like an unclaimed frontier than a subdivision in one of the nation’s fastest-growing metropolitan areas. Dogs run free across acres of empty land, the sound of a falling acorn echoes for blocks” “Funded by the federal government, […]
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Climate Crisis Update
Florida town dealing with sea level rise “Our risk is undeniable. The modelers get it. The mortgage institutions get it. Insurance gets it.” https://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/2019/12/27/a-south-florida-towns-pioneering-plan-to-fund-retreat-from-sea-rise/ sea level rise and storm surge “every 10cm of sea level rise increases the frequency of a given coastal flood by a factor of three.” “This means that 10cm of sea […]
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Sea Level Rise in New Jersey
A report by Rutgers University documents the greater than average rise in sea level along the New Jersey shore. Not only is the sea level rising, but the land is also sinking. Among the report’s findings: Sea levels rose an average of 1.5 feet along the New Jersey coast from 1911 to 2019, compared with […]
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The Hemp Myth, Carbon Sinks and the Environment
by Daniel Brouse and Sidd Mukherjee Q: Is hemp a good solution for carbon sequestration (carbon sinks) and/or beneficial to the environment? A: No, not really. In general, hemp only acts as a carbon sink while it is growing and left unharvested. The harvesting usually negates any net-negative carbon sink. (ie more CO2 is released […]
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Thawing Permafrost
In an article by Harvard, entitled “No Laughing Matter”, the impact of thawing permafrost is examined: About a quarter of the Northern Hemisphere is covered in permafrost. Now, it turns out these permanently frozen beds of soil, rock, and sediment are actually not so permanent: They’re thawing at an increasing rate. Human-induced climate change is […]