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Bert Ernste • NL | BR Jul 2, 2025

Political cowardice hindering Europe’s climate efforts, says EU’s green chief (The Guardian)

Effects of crisis are becoming increasingly obvious but not translating into proper action.

Political cowardice is hindering European efforts to face up to the effects of the climate crisis, even as the continent is pummelled by a record-breaking heatwave.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/02/political-cowardice-hindering-europe-climate-efforts-eu-green-chief-teresa-ribera

#extreme_weather #climate_scepticism #climate_crisis #climate_change #global_warming #eu #european_union #green_politics

Political cowardice hindering Europe’s climate efforts, says EU’s green chief

Teresa Ribera says effects of crisis are becoming increasingly obvious but not translating into proper action

The Guardian

Bert Ernste • NL | BR Apr 27, 2025

A silent majority of the world’s people wants stronger climate action. It’s time to wake up. (The Guardian)

About 89% of the public want their governments to do more to tackle the climate crisis – but don’t know they’re the majority.

We believe the current mismatch between public will and government action amounts to a deficit in democracy.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2025/apr/23/climate-action-public-support

#climate #climate_change #climate_crisis #extreme_weather #media #news #journalism #journalist #democracy

A silent majority of the world’s people wants stronger climate action. It’s time to wake up

About 89% of the public want their governments to do more to tackle the climate crisis – but don’t know they’re the majority

The Guardian

Hacker News Oct 13, 2024

DARPA Thinks Walls of Oysters Could Protect Shores Against Hurricanes
https://www.wired.com/story/darpa-thinks-walls-of-oysters-could-protect-shores-against-hurricanes/
#ycombinator #science #environment #hurricanes #weather #extreme_weather #darpa

Darpa Thinks Walls of Oysters Could Protect Shores Against Hurricanes

The US defense research agency is funding three universities to engineer reef structures that will be colonized by corals and bivalves and absorb the power of future storms.

WIRED

Hacker News Jul 3, 2024

Hurricane Beryl Isn't a Freak Storm–It's the Nightmare Meteorologists Predicted
https://www.wired.com/story/hurricane-beryl-category-5-storm-extreme-weather-summer-2024/
#ycombinator #science #climate_change #weather #hurricanes #extreme_weather

Hurricane Beryl Isn’t a Freak Storm—It’s the Exact Nightmare Meteorologists Predicted

A hot ocean provides the energy hurricanes need to grow—and can limit the cooling that happens in their wake, making it likelier that the storms that follow will be powerful ones.

WIRED

Bert Ernste • NL | BR Jan 6, 2024

An odd silence - at the end of humanity’s hottest year…yet (The Crucial Years)

Because the most important thing that happened this year was the heat.

And yet you really wouldn’t know it from reading the wrap-ups of the year’s news now appearing on one website after another.

In geological terms, we’re warming at hellish pace.

https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/an-odd-silence

#climate #climate_change #climate_crisis #heatwaves #extreme_weather #flooding #fossil_fuel #co2 #media #news #news_cycle #journalism

An odd silence

at the end of humanity's hottest year...yet

The Crucial Years

Bert Ernste • NL | BR Dec 29, 2023

World will look back at 2023 as year humanity exposed its inability to tackle climate crisis, scientists say (The Guardian)

“Not only did governments fail to stem global warming, the rate of global warming actually accelerated.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/29/world-will-look-back-at-2023-as-year-humanity-exposed-its-inability-to-tackle-climate-crisis

#climate #climate_change #climate_crisis #energy #energy_transition #carbon_footprint #global_warming #fossil_fuel #extreme_weather #storms #floodings #flash_floods #forest_fires #wildfires #heat_waves #cop28

World will look back at 2023 as year humanity exposed its inability to tackle climate crisis, scientists say

Disastrous events included flash flooding in Africa and wildfires in Europe and North America

The Guardian

Hacker News Sep 28, 2023

Switzerland has lost 10% of its glaciers in the last two years
https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/09/28/dramatic-acceleration-switzerland-has-lost-10-of-its-glaciers-in-the-last-two-years
#ycombinator #glaciers #Switzerland #Extreme_weather #Snow #Mountain #Alps

Switzerland has lost 10% of its glaciers in 2 years, research reveals

Glaciers across the entire country were affected, with those in southern and eastern Switzerland melting almost as much this year as in the record year of 2022.

euronews

Bert Ernste • NL | BR Sep 20, 2023

The media needs to cover the climate crisis as seriously as it covered Covid (The Guardian)

With the planet on fire, more and better news coverage is itself an essential climate solution.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/20/climate-crisis-media-coverage-covid

#climate #climate_change #climate_crisis #fossil_fuels #co2 #air_pollution #global_warming #extreme_weather #forest_fires #flooding #health #propaganda #fake_news #disinformation #capitalism #industrial_capitalism #media #news #news_media #journalist #journalism #Covering_Climate_Now