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Melting Glacier Study Could Establish Legal Liability for Climate Polluters
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Melting Glacier Study Could Establish Legal Liability for Climate Polluters

Climate Emergency, Climate Justice, Oceans

Melting Glacier Study Could Establish Legal Liability for Climate Polluters

By cCc|2021-02-07T02:35:11-05:00February 7th, 2021|Climate Emergency, Climate Justice, Oceans|

New research shows global warming caused by human activity is [...]

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Does Vertical Farming Actually Work?
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Does Vertical Farming Actually Work?

Agriculture, Climate Emergency, Food, Ideas

Does Vertical Farming Actually Work?

By cCc|2021-02-04T21:12:32-05:00February 5th, 2021|Agriculture, Climate Emergency, Food, Ideas|

In the outskirts of Newark, New Jersey, tucked between a [...]

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How We Grow Food Could Determine Whether 28,000 Species Can Survive
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How We Grow Food Could Determine Whether 28,000 Species Can Survive

Agriculture, Animals, Climate Emergency, Extinction, Food

How We Grow Food Could Determine Whether 28,000 Species Can Survive

By cCc|2021-02-04T18:20:35-05:00February 5th, 2021|Agriculture, Animals, Climate Emergency, Extinction, Food|

The way food is grown around the world threatens 24,000 [...]

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“Missing” Words Matter

The IPCC’s Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C – Summary for Policymakers, states in section TS.2 Pg. 33 that:

…to achieve the goal of reaching “2050 net zero” and limit a dangerous overshoot of 1.5°C we need to reduce net anthropogenic (human caused) CO2 emissions by about 45% from 2010 levels by 2030, reaching net zero by 2050.

Did you see what happened? Politicians have conveniently chosen to skip the part that stresses the urgent need to “reduce CO2 emissions by about 45% from 2010 levels by 2030…”

This is a huge omission and manipulation of the meaning in the IPCC report. It minimizes the need for urgent and immediate action which is so vital to protecting us from an uncontrolled overshoot of 1.5°C. It’s not, choose your preference A or B, 2030 or 2050; those concepts and dates go together – it’s a linear relationship. A reduction in emissions by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030 is on the path to B…”2050 net zero”…that’s how you get there. - Source