Skip to main content

Home/ World Futures Fall 2021/ Group items tagged Climatechange

Rss Feed Group items tagged

jamesm9860

Climate coalition calls for Ikea to 'abandon dirty ships' by 2030 - FreightWaves - 0 views

  •  
    Describes pressure on retailers (primarily the mega retailers) to reduce emissions from shipping efforts. Target/goal is ZERO emissions by 2030.
lizardelam

Billionaires in space: Is this Bezos, Musk and Branson's fulfillment of a dream, or out... - 1 views

  •  
    "To their fans, the promise of expanding our reach beyond this planet is thrilling. For critics, the money poured into private vanity projects is unforgivable when there is so much to be done right here on Earth. This race has only deepened the divide between those who love to see the very rich launch into space and those who wish they would never come back."
lizardelam

AR6 Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis - IPCC - 0 views

  •  
    The thirteen chapters of the Working Group I report provide an assessment of the current evidence on the physical science of climate change, knowledge evaluation gained from observations, reanalyses, paleoclimate archives and climate model simulations, as well as physical, chemical and biological climate processes. (1300 pages?)
lizardelam

Science and Scientists Held in High Esteem Across Global Publics | Pew Research Center - 0 views

  •  
    The Pew Research Center survey finds that publics offer mixed views about the use of robots to automate jobs. Across the 20 publics, a median of 48% say such automation has mostly been a good thing, while 42% say it has been a bad thing.
lizardelam

Prince William chides billionaire space race after Blue Origin flight - 2 views

  •  
    "We've seen everyone trying to get space tourism going ... we need some of the world's greatest brains and minds fixed on trying to repair this planet, not trying to find the next place to go and live." Is it ethical to spend all this money on the future of space when we could be fixing the earth? Short sighted if you ask me and we may need an escape plan...
jamesm9860

https://calhoun.nps.edu/bitstream/handle/10945/64884/20Mar_Sullivan_Michael.pdf?sequenc... - 2 views

  •  
    Interesting thesis about climate change and ports. The paper discusses the importance of ports to world trade and national security (specificallyf or the US). The US military has recently become more of an expeditionary force rather than occupational, subsequently ports are becoming more important. However, impending climate change threatens the port operations and infrastructure that need to be understood.
jamesm9860

Taking Action on Climate: How Maritime Trade Can Play its Part - TechNative - 0 views

  •  
    The growth of the shipping industry and its corresponding carbon emissions. If he shipping industry were its own country, it would be th 6th largest producer of carbon emissions. It calls on investments from private sector to governments for the maritime industry to meet its 2050 net 0 carbon emission target
jamesm9860

This is how climate change is impacting the ocean | World Economic Forum - 0 views

  •  
    Article talks about the rising sea levels if climate change goes unchecked. It touches on everything from eliminating certain species to ruining many coastal cities around the world. Mentions that there is still time to recover from the current path with the right measures.
laurentarin

Soil erosion: Why fertile earth is being degraded and lost - 0 views

  •  
    "The dirt beneath our feet is getting poorer and on many farms worldwide, there is less and less of it." "This article is part of a new multimedia series Follow the Food by BBC Future and BBC World News. Follow the Food investigates how agriculture is responding to the profound challenges of climate change, environmental degradation and a rapidly growing global population. Our food supply chains are increasingly globalised, with crops grown on one continent to be consumed on another. The challenges to farming also span the world."
1 - 11 of 11
Showing 20 items per page