Vermont poised to become first US state to charge big oil for climate damage
Vermont is poised to pass a groundbreaking measure forcing major polluting companies to help pay for damages caused by the climate crisis, in a move being closely watched by other states including New York and California. Modeled after the Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund program, which forces companies to pay for toxic waste cleanup, the climate superfund bill would […]
Belfast Endorses Global Treaty to Promote Climate-Friendly Food Systems
Northern Ireland’s capital city, Belfast, has joined five other UK councils and major world major cities such as Amsterdam and Los Angeles in signing on to a campaign to curb climate change by curbing humanity’s appetite for meat, vegconomist reported. The global Plant Based Treaty calls for the cessation of land use change and ecosystem […]
Climate Crisis Could Cost $38 Trillion a Year by 2050; Prevention Much Cheaper
Damage to farming, infrastructure, productivity, and health from climate change will cost an estimated $38 trillion per year by mid-century, according to a German government-backed study, Riham Alkousaa reported for Reuters. Yet less than a sixth of that amount is all it would cost to limit global warming to within 2 degrees Celsius (3.6F) of […]
Deaths From Climate Change Numbered in Tens of Thousands in 2023
Tens of thousands of people died in climate-change-influenced weather events around the world last year, according to a review of data, Samantha Harrington reported in Yale Climate Connections. By 2030, such deaths could hit 250,000 annually, the World Health Organization says. Featured in the article is nine-year-old Carter Vigh, who lived in British Columbia, where […]
Interior Dept’s New Land Management Rule a ‘Seismic Shift’ Toward Conservation
After decades of prioritizing oil and gas drilling, hardrock mining, and livestock grazing on public lands across the country, the federal government will auction off “restoration leases” and “mitigation leases” to entities with plans to restore or conserve the lands, Maxine Joselow reported in the Washington Post, as a new far-reaching rule from the Interior […]
Earth’s record hot streak might be a sign of a new climate e
According to Washington Post (4/29/24) reporter Sarah Kaplan, for nearly a week at the beginning of April, the temperature in Bamako hovered above 110 degrees Fahrenheit. The cost of ice spiked to 10 times its normal price; an overtaxed electrical grid sputtered and shut down. With much of the majority-Muslim country fasting for the holy […]
Climate Diet “Beefs Off” at V-COP Conference
Climate Diet CEO Jane DeMarines joined Plant-based Chef Erin DeMarines for Dr. Sailesh Rao’s Quarterly V-COP conferences on climate on April 28th by Zoom. (Rao is CEO of Climate Healers, Phoenix). The two DeMarines’ teamed up first laying-out disturbing climate records being set (see below) while the younger DeMarines addressed solutions available to all of […]
