The Soaring Cost of Climate Change
A report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) highlights the increasing economic losses from weather, climate, and water-related extremes, which have risen from $184 billion in the 70s to nearly $1.5 trillion in the last decade. However, the actual losses are likely much higher, with an estimated 63% going unreported.
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Earth has it's hottest year on record
The past 12 months have been the hottest ever recorded, according to an analysis released Thursday from the nonprofit organization Climate Central.
The researchers analyzed global average temperatures from November 2022 through October and found they were about 1.32 degrees Celsius — or 2.4 degrees Fahrenheit — above preindustrial averages.
“This is the hottest temperature our planet has experienced in something like 125,000 years,” Andrew Pershing, the organization’s vice president for science, said at a news conference.
Many scientists, including Pershing, expect next year to set new records as the influence of El Niño makes a stronger impact.
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‘Loss and Damage’ Deal Struck To Help Countries Worst Hit by Climate Crisis
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New Delhi To Restrict Use of Vehicles To Curb Air Pollution
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Extremism has caused tribalism to become the norm.
And that’s a bit of the frustration now: we can’t figure out how to change what we’ve become, because so much of it is beyond our control or seems to be. So, what can people of faith, morality, and conscience do? How can we change something that feels so impossibly permanent?
What we can do, is to fight this schism in the close and small spaces of our individual stories and in the communities that we do have the ability to alter, in the circles of influence where our voices carry.
We can each remember the two weapons we always have in the fight against tribalism: proximity and agency. We have availability and we have who we show up as in those opportunities.
May we do all we can to make sure we haven’t wasted the losses and the lessons of this disaster.
...long terms costs often aren't recognized.
ReplyDeleteThat's true. I now wonder how many drugs I take were ever tested on women. Just something else to think about.
DeleteBarbara, Life for our grandsons will be so much different than it has been for us! Climate change, mass migration, shifts in world powers, new diseases, increasing water, air, power and food issues...it just goes on and on. Sometimes it is good to be old... Take Care, Big Daddy Dave
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