Candida auris is a deadly fungus that is spreading around the world. It is difficult to detect and treat, as it is resistant to most antifungal drugs. Scientists suspect climate change may have helped it evolve and adapt to warmer temperatures, making it more infectious and dangerous.
A recent #BBC Culture editorial cited an article I wrote about #climate fiction back in 2015, then criticized the genre's alleged failure to inspire action on #ClimateChange...
...Without interviewing a single cli-fi author to determine their intent in #writing those #books.
Here's why I #AmWriting#CliFi, and what I think it actually achieves.
Installed a hot water recovery unit today. The inbound water to my hot water tank gets warmed up by almost 20 degrees at ambient temperature. It’ll be even hotter during showers.
The hot water flowing through the stack is what heats it up.
For years, the huge Koch brothers’ energy conglomerate had been working hard to ensure that the GOP would not veer from climate denialism. When they heard of this deviation, they launched a juggernaut to restore orthodoxy: bribery, intimidation, lobbying, astroturfing, all the devices available to unaccountable concentrated economic power. It worked, quickly and effectively.
Mona is a biologist researching the effects of #ClimateChange on Greenlandic communities. She joined @ScientistRebellion Denmark at #BefriJorden yesterday: "I cannot continue reading about collapsing #ecosystems anymore, while doing nothing."
An ominous heating event is unfolding in the oceans: Average sea surface temperatures have soared to record highs
To call what’s happening in the oceans right now an anomaly is a bit of an understatement. Since March, average sea surface temperatures have been climbing to record highs, as shown in the dark line in the graph… “It’s above-average temperatures nearly everywhere”
Here I explain 14 years ago that drought in the Mediterranean results from our fossil CO2 emissions, in a lecture in Malaga (Spain). That was well-established robust science even back then in 2009. Nobody should be surprised by it now.
"To combat global warming, we could inject sulphuric aerosols into the upper atmosphere to reflect sunlight back into space. This idea is called solar geoengineering, also known as solar radiation management (SRM) and that’s the topic of this video. We’re going to talk about how it works, the pros and cons, and the uncertainties. And especially how we should proceed. Because solar geoengineering is much less a question of 'can we' than 'should we'?"
Anthropogenic #climate change has, together with the intensive use and destruction of natural #ecosystems through #agriculture, #fishing and industry, sparked an unprecedented loss of biodiversity that continues to worsen. In this regard, the climate crisis and biodiversity crisis are often viewed as two separate catastrophes. An international team of researchers calls for adopting a new perspective.