No religious group topped one-third of respondents agreeing climate change is a crisis. American Jews were the most likely to say so at 32 per cent, followed by 31 per cent of Hispanic Catholics, 22 per cent of white mainline Protestants, 20 per cent of white Catholics, 19 per cent of Black Protestants and 16 per cent of Hispanic Protestants who say there’s a climate crisi
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Earth just set another heat record — by the largest margin yet.
The average temperature in September was "absolutely gobsmackingly bananas."
#Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
https://grist.org/extreme-heat/earth-another-heat-record-largest-margin-september/
United States SARS2+ & Influenza Update: 10/2/2023
Wastewater surveillance datapoints are heading upward again. If you aren't wearing a respirator indoors, please do so immediately to protect yourself.
SARS2+ Deaths: 1,146,687 (+1,331)
Scientists are now reporting on the "greening" of Antarctica. And that's NOT a good thing...
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As Antarctica is mostly covered in ice and snow, there previously hasn't been much space left for plants to grow. There are no trees or shrubs, and the plants that do exist are limited to a few islands and along the western Antarctic Peninsula.
However, as global temperatures continue to rise and ice in Antarctica continues to melt, researchers have found that plants on the continent are growing more quickly.
Comparing the results with surveys from the previous 50 years, they found that the sites had not only become more densely populated by the plants, but that they had also grown faster each year as the climate got warmer.
The results were staggering, with the Antarctic hair grass growing as much in 2009-2019 as it had in the entire 50 years from 1960 from 2009.
The Antarctic pearlwort moved even faster, growing five times more in the same periods.
Peter Convey, at the British Antarctic Survey, touched on the impact of accelerated growth as he told New Scientist: “The most novel feature of this is not the idea that something is growing faster. It’s that we think we’re starting to see what is almost like a step change or a tipping point.”
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You and I no longer live in the natural world into which we were born. It's already very different, and the pace of change is accelerating.
FULL ARTICLE -- https://www.unilad.com/news/world-news/antarctica-flowers-spread-climate-change-828134-20230922
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Arkansas child dies of rare brain-eating amoeba after playing at country club
But the body also warns that evidence suggests the geographical areas where Naegleria fowleri is typically found – lakes in Texas and Florida – are expanding northwards as a result of climate change. Since 2010, cases have been confirmed in Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Indiana, Maryland and northern California.
“Climate change may be a contributing factor”
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Climate change kills 250,000 people every year, experts say
One in four deaths can be attributed to preventable environmental causes, according to statistics read at a meeting kicking off New York Climate Week
https://www.jpost.com/environment-and-climate-change/article-759708
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