Compiled by Dick Bennett https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/02/omni-climate-memo-mondays-166-february.html
This week on Yale Climate Connections
January 29 – February 2, 2024
Organizers aim to improve the South’s climate resilience
Social justice advocate Lea Campbell… pivoted to environmental issues in 2016 as a series of major storms and other crises rocked the state. Now, her work to build mutual aid and other community networks is one example of the ways Southerners are working to improve the region’s resilience in the face of disaster. Keep reading. [Q: is the South facing disaster or catastrophe or chaos by cc?? Is there an emergency? –D]
More stories featured this weekShould climate change keep you from having kids?
Cartoons: ‘I’m actually looking forward to doing our taxes’
Will La Niña return this fall? The tea leaves are unusually strong
How YouTube’s climate deniers turned into climate doomers
Electric vehicles use half the energy of gas-powered vehicles
This week’s radio episodes
‘Everything was messed up’: NYC’s day cares grapple with flooding
Many municipal fire departments aren’t prepared for climate change
Heat from treated wastewater can warm homes
Smartphone app can help you track your climate actions
High schoolers build solar car that can go 70 miles an hour
Martin Hart-Landsberg. “The Climate Crisis: Corporations Are Gambling with Our Lives.” Reports from the Economic Front on February 7, 2024. (More by Reports from the Economic Front). Climate Change, Imperialism, Inequality, StrategyGlobalNewswire. Mronline.org (2-15-24).
The World Meteorological Organization has declared 2023 “the warmest year on record, by a huge margin.” Annual global carbon emissions also hit a new high, surpassing the previous record set in 2022. We have to act now before critical thresholds or tipping points are crossed, and that means rapidly phasing out the use of fossil fuels. And yet, the U.S. government continues to green light the exploration, production, and use of fossil fuels, even while simultaneously voicing support for an international agreement to phase out fossil fuels at the recently completed COP 28 in Dubai. What gives? And what can we do about it? MORE click on title