PEOPLE IN SUNDARBANS MOST SUSCEPTIBLE TO CLIMATE CHANGE

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DOWN TO EARTH | AK GHOSH | AUGUST 3 2015

The phenomenon of “climate change” has undoubtedly become one of the major concerns for the global community in the 21^stcentury. Scientific evidence has proved beyond doubt the role of human beings in triggering unprecedented changes in the environment, beginning post-Industrial Revolution in the west. While the prolonged debate on climate crisis and how to combat it with mitigation and adaptation measures continue, so does the ever-increasing emission of greenhouse gases (GHG), especially carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Countries with a long history of colonial exploitation in the southern…continue reading

REVEALED: GATES FOUNDATION’S $1.4BN IN FOSSIL FUEL INVESTMENTS

FROM NEWSPAPERS | MARCH 19 2015 Damian Carrington Karl Mathiesen

The charity run by Bill and Melinda Gates, who say the threat of climate change is so serious that immediate action is needed, held at least $1.4bn (£1bn) of investments in the world’s biggest fossil fuel companies, according to a Guardian analysis of the charity’s most recent tax filing in 2013. The companies include BP, responsible for the…continue reading

In Green Talk

Climate science in real world

By Sunita Narain

Climate sceptics, who had torn apart IPCC’s last report, are still trying for ways to manipulate public opinion. They know that public perception is not based on hard science or its many nuances. It can be influenced by getting a single message out however distorted it may be. So even before the report was released, there was a selective leak that the report has found a “pause”—the world is not warming as fast as predicted earlier. This word was quickly circulated, media picked up the buzz and they hoped opinion would be formed.[…]Read more

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In Graffiti

A sad millennium

Climate change, global warming are not figments of doomsayers’ imagination, they are realities which if not taken into account would hasten the end of human civilization. No matter whose life time it occurs in we are responsible for it. We are yet to bring down emission levels to “sustainable levels”. The catastrophes witnessed in Asia and North America, the Tsunami’s and Phallin are all natures way of warning us of worse tragedies. […]Read more

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Climate migration is a solution, not desperation

It is a potent image: desperate refugees fleeing environmental apocalypse, crossing boundaries to save their very lives. But this notion is flawed, said geographer David Thomas of the University of Oxford at the Planet Under Pressure meeting in London last week. Rather than seeing environmental migration as bad, we need to see it as part of the solution to environmental change. Read more