A new record high for the winter months in the UK (Reuters). Temperatures in London reached the equivalent of 70F as wildfires were being battled in both England and Scotland.
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A comprehensive report on the role of concrete in today’s world and how it affects the environment (The Guardian). This is the key section of a series of reports being issued over “Guardian concrete week.” It truly brings home the importance and sheer scale of an activity that, like burning fossil fuels, brings tremendous benefits to mankind but can end up on balance as a curse if carried too far. There are still a lot of massive sea walls waiting to be built as the polar ice sheets melt.
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A new study of the disruptive effects of chemical waste has been published. “What most concerns the researchers is the rate at which new chemicals are being introduced and used and which eventually wind up in natural ecosystems, which is so high that there is no way to test their impact. We may be flushing chemicals into the ocean right now that could potentially kill off most if not all marine animals, and not even know it.” This problem may have little direct impact on the world’s climate, but some of the end results are similar to those of climate change. The fundamental cause of the problem, too much industrial development, and too fast, is quite the same as for certain other major problems, and they will all need to be resolved at the same time, in a common way.
https://phys.org/news/2019-02-humans-chemical.html
https://phys.org/news/2019-02-humans-chemical.html
–Here is a link to a shortened version of the full report:
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The growth of palm oil production is also a major threat to biodiversity, and climate change as well. This article from The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) explains many of the facts and issues that are involved, with emphasis on the point that making a switch to alternative vegetable oils is not a viable solution. The solutions that are available require organized efforts and definitely need to be pursued without further delay.
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A review of David Wallace-Wells’ new book, The Uninhabitable Earth, from The Guardian. The author of this book (which I have also read) does a good job of describing what life on Earth would be like under what is known as a “worst-case scenario,” if global temperatures climb well past the 2C target that was set in Paris. That makes it a good update of a similar type of work by Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future On A Hotter Planet, published in 2008, which was given considerable attention at the time and is still being read. The new work is full of references to scientific studies, and the author was given considerable direct assistance by prominent scientists through interviews and script reviews. That makes the book worthwhile for purposes of risk assessment, whether or not you are comfortable with his own personal outlook that tends toward the gloomy side. There is much more to the full content.
–Here is what Wallace-Wells himself said about the book for the Los Angeles Times:
–And here he is in a five-minute television interview:
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