Links tagged “wacky”
- In the Philippines, a Landmark Finding Moves Fossil Fuel Companies’ Climate Liability into the Realm of Human Rights
- STUDY: ‘Climate change is leading to loss of sleep worldwide’ – Sleep ‘may be degraded by warmer temperatures’
If temperatures continue to surge, the effects could slash between 50 and 58 hours of sleep per person each year by the end of the century, according to the study, published on Friday in One Earth. The impacts will be substantially larger for residents of lower-income countries, as well as older adults and women, the authors determined. “Our results indicate that sleep — an essential restorative process integral for human health and productivity — may be degraded by warmer temperatures,” first author Kelton Minor, of the University of Copenhagen, said in a statement.
- Comedy Gold: How To Cope With Your ‘Climate Anxiety’
- CLAIM: ‘Covid & climate change push many older women into prostitution’Paper: Covid has combined with climate change to wrought another dimension of grimness – older women, some even grandmothers, being pushed into prostitution. ...
“It was difficult to find minor girls during the lockdown as they were locked in their homes so traffickers moved their attention to older women who were in need of money to keep the sex trade going." ... “We are still in the process of realising the complete impact that COVID-19 brought in this region already battling climate change effects,” Social activist Pampa Ghosh said.
Several areas in the Sundarbans have been washed away due to the rise in water levels, displacing a large number of people who were then forced to migrate due to financial insecurity and vulnerabilities.
- Now, will you support the Green New Deal?! STUDY: ‘More people may be hospitalized with low sodium levels due to climate change’
"A new study has found that more people become hospitalized due to hyponatremia in temperatures above 15 degrees Celcius.
With climate change expected to increase temperatures across the world, the study predicts that an increase of 2 degrees Celsius could increase cases of hyponatremia by 13.9%"
- EU officials trained to meditate to fight ‘climate crisis’ – Try ‘deep listening’ & ‘inner transitions’ – Practice ‘applied mindfulness’ to overcome climate ‘despair’
UK Guardian: The courses incorporate woodland walks near Brussels and meditation sessions, including one that invites participants to feel empathy for trees and animals to boost “environmental compassion”. ... Overcome personal despair that little can be done.
Now advocates of “applied mindfulness” believe it could accelerate consensus-building between climate decision-makers. A recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) highlighted the need for “inner transitions” and the potential of meditation to encourage lower-carbon lifestyles. ... It has drawn criticism that it has become a “religion of the self”, with one critic warning of “McMindfulness." .... It calls urgently for policy attention to “the neglected inner dimension of the climate crisis” and argues for “the importance of mindfulness and compassion practices in restoring the conscious connection fundamental to human and planetary health”. ...
Former UN climate chief Figueres: "I chalk up a lot of the Paris accord to deep listening.”
- COVID/Climate Merging: Modeling study claims: ‘Climate Change Will Make Pandemics Like COVID More Likely’
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"Climate change is creating a new age of infectious dangers." Climate Change Could Spark Future Pandemics - "The research, published in Nature, uses modeling to map how climate change could shift the geographic ranges of 3,100 mammals species and the viruses they carry by 2070. ... The findings suggest that climate change could “easily become the dominant [human] driver” of cross-species virus transmission by 2070, the authors say."
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Marc Morano: "They want to keep both climate and COVID fears humming along to push their so-called solutions, so what better way than to merge the two issues!? Worried about COVID-19, then support the UN Paris climate pact, the Green New Deal, carbon taxes, etc. or else you are a gramma killer!"
- Claim: ‘Climate change’ could ’cause languages to die’ – ‘May affect linguistic diversity’ – ‘A leading driver of language loss’
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World Economic Forum: Could climate change cause languages to die? "An increase in climate-change related natural disasters may affect linguistic diversity."
Babbel Mag: "Climate change is also endangering the survival of many of the world’s most at-risk linguistic populations. As these communities get displaced due to rising sea levels and climatic changes that disrupt their agricultural and fishing industries, it becomes inevitably more difficult for small languages to remain viable as its speakers scatter around the globe and are forced to assimilate to local cultures."
- Al Roker Frets to Obama That Ukraine Is Distracting From Climate Agenda
NBC’s Today All Day streaming channel, Roker fretted: “...climate is one of those things that gets pushed down when things happen. For example, now we’ve got Ukraine and there’s talk about, ‘Let’s ramp up production of fossil fuels because, you know, inflation, higher gas prices.’ Do you worry that that’s gonna push back the initiative?”
Obama desperately tried to connect the two issues: "Well, interestingly, when we see what’s happened with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it argues for us redoubling our efforts to wean ourselves off fossil fuels."
- WaPo claims: ‘Climate change is wrecking septic tanks’ – ‘Backed-up pipes, stinky yards’
Washington Post: "As climate change intensifies, septic failures are emerging as a vexing issue for local governments. For decades, flushing a toilet and making wastewater disappear was a convenience that didn't warrant a second thought. No longer."
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HSBC suspended a senior executive for downplaying risks of climate change to investors & warning about ‘nut jobs’ promoting climate fears
HSBC: Stuart Kirk perfectly reasonable comments: “Who cares if Miami is six metres underwater in 100 years? Amsterdam has been six metres underwater for ages, and that’s a really nice place. We will cope with it,” he said.
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‘This claim is demonstrably false’: Scientists rebut NOAA sea-level projections – Reality Check: ‘Tide gauges clearly do not’ project acceleration of sea-level
"All data from tide gauges in areas where land is not rising or sinking show instead a steady linear and unchanging sea level rate of rise near 4 inches/century, with variations due to gravitational factors. It is true that where the land is sinking as it is in the Tidewater area of Virginia and the Mississippi Delta region, sea levels will appear to rise faster but no changes in CO2 emissions would change that."
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WHO’s pandemic treaty is ‘a ratification and approval of everything the world has experienced over the past two years’
The real significance of the Pandemic Treaty is that its passage is a ratification and approval of everything the world has experienced over the past two years during COVID-19. ... Terrified by this surge of deaths and the psychological terror campaigns deployed by governments on their own people, populations across the western world proceeded to impose an ever-darker swathe of illiberal mandates including forced masking and digital vaccine passes for everyday activities. Young children, who were at virtually no risk from the virus, lost years of primary education, and many were forced to wear masks for hours each day.
By signing onto the Pandemic Treaty, our leaders are signaling their approval for all this—and more—to be done again.
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The WHO Changes Guidelines to Favor Lockdowns
The requirement that a country’s pandemic strategy must aim to curb viral transmission is a major change from the current guidance.
"All countries to have an explicit evidence-based strategy agreed at the highest level of government to curb COVID-19 transmission."
