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Climate Change Has Exposed the Decline of the American Empire
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Can Nuclear Fusion Put the Brakes on Climate Change?
The doubters weren’t simply killjoys—they were imaginative thinkers who had devoted decades of their lives to fusion research. It wouldn’t be easy to make H.T.S. into a magnet of sufficient size. And the powerful magnetic field created by H.T.S. was sure to have consequences, which hadn’t been fully studied. There was every reason in the history of experimental science to expect surprises. And funding for fusion projects was already tight; another idea might draw money away from projects that many
EU-Prüfer, CAP (in)action on Climate Change – EURACTIV.com
Diese Woche hat EURACTIV mit Jindrich Dolezal vom Europäischen Rechnungshof über ihren jüngsten Bericht gesprochen, in dem die EU-Agrarfinanzierung für den Klimaschutz in Höhe von insgesamt 100 Mrd .
The Millennials Not Having Babies Because of Climate Change
Miley Cyrus vowed not to have a baby on a “piece-of-shit planet.” Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez mused in an Instagram video about whether it’s still okay to have children. Polls suggest that a third or more of Americans younger than 45 either don’t have children or expect to have fewer than they might otherwise because they are worried about climate change. Millennials and Gen Z are not the first generations to face the potential of imminent, catastrophic, irreversible change to the
How to Talk About Climate Change Across the Political Divide
In 2005, Katharine Hayhoe, a Canadian climate scientist and evangelical Christian, moved from South Bend, Indiana, to Lubbock, Texas, a flat expanse of arid grassland that sits at the edge of the Permian Basin, and is one of the largest oil and gas fields in the world. Her husband had been offered a position as a linguistics professor at Texas Tech and a job as a pastor at a small local church. The opportunity was too enticing to decline, so
Can We Find a New Way to Tell the Story of Climate Change?
Early one morning in January, 2017, a group of environmental activists in their twenties piled into a rental van and drove from Midtown Manhattan to Albany. For weeks, they’d been planning a sit-in at the state capitol, to demand the passage of significant climate legislation. Inside, everything goes smoothly: the protesters walk past an unsuspecting security guard and, as practiced, link hands and sit down. Daniel Sherrell, one of the action’s organizers, describes the uncanny feeling of making himself heard
World’s scientists say disastrous climate change is here – POLITICO
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The long-feared era of disastrous climate change has arrived.
For the first time, the planet’s top scientists said in a monumental report released on Monday they have definitively linked greenhouse gas emissions to the type of disasters driven by a warmer climate that have touched every corner of the globe this year: Extreme rainfall in Germany and China, brutal droughts in the western U.S., a record cyclone in the Philippines and compound events
Tokyo Olympics: Where Did ‘Synchronized Swimming’ Go?”
If you’ve been watching the Olympics, you may have noticed that synchronized swimming has a new name. In July 2017, the International Swimming Federation, or FINA, announced that the sport would be called “artistic swimming,” effective immediately. Not everyone was a fan—to put it mildly.
“‘Artistic Swimming’ sounds like something society ladies did with their bosom friends at garden parties or after tea in the early 20th century,” wrote Jessica Lewis, one of more than 11,000 people from 88 countries
Did Last Summer’s Black Lives Matters Protests Change Anything?
On June 1st last year, a week after George Floyd was murdered, more than three hundred fires blazed across Philadelphia, according to police. In the previous days, there had been reports of two hundred commercial burglaries—otherwise known as looting—and more than a hundred and fifty acts of vandalism. Four hundred people had been arrested, and the
„Gemeinsam können wir eine Kraft werden“: Haitianer suchen nach einem Attentat nach Veränderung Change
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Lehrer und religiöse Führer, Anwälte und Bauern, sie sind Veteranen der Krise, die dachten, sie hätten in den letzten Jahren alles gesehen, und sie sahen empört zu, wie die Demokratie, für die sie kämpften, weggeschnitten und ausgeweidet wurde die Uhr von Präsident Jovenel Moïse.
Dann schlugen die Bewaffneten zu, und ein Land, das zuvor trieblos gewesen war, fühlte sich jetzt steuerlos an.
Mr. Moïse ist tot, in seinem eigenen Schlafzimmer ermordet, und die wenigen im Land verbliebenen