climate change

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  5/7/2021
  

  Warming is Clearly Visible in New US ‘Climate Normal’ Datasets

  by Russ Schumacher and Becky Bolinger

  Meteorologists and climatologists are already starting to incorporate these new normals into our work. But when you hear the term “normal,” keep in mind that it reflects a 30-year snapshot and represents a different reality today than it did 30, 60 or 100 years ago.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/8/2021
  

  Melting Glaciers Have Exposed Frozen Relics of World War I

  Melting glaciers have allowed access to a mountain barracks used by Austro-Hungarian soldiers fighting the "White War" in the Italian Alps. 

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• 5/9/20201
  

  Climate, Catastrophe, and Faith

  by Philip Jenkins

  Temporary climate catastrophes have been an understudied contributor to changes in religious doctrine and practice throughout history. These episodes may preview spiritual and communal upheavals as climate change progresses.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/7/2021
  

  Our Greatest Libraries are Melting Away

  by David Farrier

  Ice core samples from the Greenland shelf are a physical archive of the long sweep of human history, and demonstrate the connections of humanity's past and future. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  4/7/2021
  

  Your Weather Forecast Update: Warmer Climate Will Be The New 'Normal'

  The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has released its ten-year updates to its "normal" temperature standards. Based on 30 years of data, higher temperatures are indeed "the new normal."

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• 2/18/2021
  

  The Texas Weather and Power Catastrophe

  by HNN Staff

  The combination of severe winter storms and persistent cold and a deregulated energy supply system without compulsion to invest in winterization has left Texans without power, heat or drinking water for days. Senator Ted Cruz appears to have decamped to Cancun while politicians blame wind and solar power for frozen natural gas refineries.

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• SOURCE: LA Progressive
  12/2/2020
  

  "A Life on Our Planet" Provides Environmental Hope

  by Walter G. Moss

  Although the recent Netflix documentary on the global environment describes a grim present, it explains a path forward that is simple (if the political will can be found). 

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  11/12/2020
  

  A Convergence of Calamities: The War Refugee Crisis will be Dwarfed by Climate

  by Nick Turse

  The crisis of people displaced by war is set to be compounded by the accelerating problems of desertification, drought, flooding and famine brought on by climate change. 

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• SOURCE: BBC
  9/23/2020
  

  Are We Living at the "Hinge of History"?

  Journalist Richard Fisher examines the argument that the present--this moment--is the most important juncture in human history because human capacity to affect the planet outstrips human wisdom to direct that capacity.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  8/26/2020
  

  Why Hurricane Katrina Was Not a Natural Disaster

  by Nicholas Lemann

  Fifteen years ago, New Orleans was nearly destroyed. A new book by Tulane historian Andy Horowitz suggests that the cause was decades of bad policy—and that nothing has changed.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  8/4/2020
  

  How Understanding the History of Hurricanes Can Help Us Prepare for the Next Big One

  by Eric Jay Dolin

  We, as a society, can decide how best to respond to the continued barrage that is sure to come from the greatest storms on earth, thereby lessening their impact.

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• 7/12/2020
  

  Humanity is an Endangered Species. Can We Do What it Takes to Save Ourselves?

  by Lawrence Wittner

  The dire crises facing humanity--climate change, pandemic disease, widespread pollution, and nuclear weapons, to name a few--demand that we reject a fatalistic sense of impotence and the legacies of nationalism that prevent cooperative solutions. 

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• SOURCE: Tropics of Meta
  7/1/2020
  

  Underwater: Global Warming to Flood the Former Ports of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

  by Daniel B. Domingues da Silva

  How will the inundation of historic seaports as climate change progresses affect historical memory of the Atlantic slave trade? 

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• SOURCE: ABC (Australia)
  5/25/2020
  

  Australia Heading Into New 'Fire Age', Warns Global Fire Historian

  Thirty years ago, Stephen J. Pyne wrote the definitive history of fire in Australia and has just released an updated version of his book, Still Burning Bush.

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• SOURCE: West Virginia Public Broadcasting
  5/15/2020
  

  What History Tells Us About Building Climate Coalitions

  Author Matto Mildenberger has examined how politics have shaped decades of climate policy in his new book, "Carbon Captured: How Business and Labor Control Climate Politics."

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  4/28/2020
  

  The Beginning of the End for Oil?

  by Michael T. Klare

  If there is a silver lining to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is that it creates the conditions necessary to do what we have known was necessessary for decades: drastically curtail fossil fuel consumption.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/26/2020
  

  How Past Crises Changed America’s Public Schools — ‘And so too Will COVID-19’

  by Ann Marie Ryan and Charles Tocci

  While this certainly feels unprecedented, the history of American public schooling shows us it's not.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/21/2020
  

  50 Years Later, Earth Day’s Unsolved Problem: How to Build a More Sustainable World

  The first celebration called for people to change their relationship with the planet. After a half-century, we’re still figuring out what that means.

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• 4/21/2020
  

  After 50 years of Earth Day, Will we Have 100?

  by Kimberlee Hurley

  This fiftieth celebration of Earth Day should serve as a celebration of the work that has been done. However, it should also serve as a wake-up call for the work that still needs to be done.

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• 4/21/2020
  

  50th Anniversary of Earth Day, Occasion for Hope and Action

  by Fred Zilian

  Organized by Denis Hayes, the first Earth Day was celebrated in ceremonies at some two thousand colleges and universities, ten thousand primary and secondary schools, and hundreds of communities across the U.S.