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In 1896, the first paper on greenhouse effect and carbon dioxide was published, where Svante Arrhenius counted carbon doubling in the atmosphere leading to a 5-6 degree warming. 1909 John Henry Poynting named the phenomenon described by Arrhenius as a greenhouse effect. 1938 Guy Stewart Callendar recalculated Arrhenius’s greenhouse effect theory. He found evidence andContinue reading “A Short History of Climate Change”

Jessica Bateman writes for the BBC about young people living in Skopje in North Macedonia, where pollution levels are so high that they all want to leave. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200701-skopje-north-macedonia-the-most-polluted-city-in-europe

Annie Leonard writes in The Nation The fossil fuel industry is in trouble and has a sneaky idea for saving itself: It wants to produce lots more plastic. Many people don’t realize it, but almost all plastic is made from fossil fuels. So the same oil and gas companies whose products have overheated the planetContinue reading “Want to Slow the Climate Crisis? Don’t Use Single-Use Plastics.”

An Australian perspective on the crisis state of the world by Crispin Hull writing in the Canberra Times: Just as the bushfire crisis was a flaw-exposing dress rehearsal that helped Australia deal with the COVID-19 crisis, the COVID-19 crisis should itself be a dress rehearsal for possibly worse things to come. And the most recentContinue reading “Coronavirus is just a dress rehearsal for what is likely coming next”

Den lilla ryska staden Nikel, som ligger bara några mil från norska Kirkenes, håller på att tömmas på folk. Detta då stadens nickelfabrik ska läggas ner, en fabrik som gjort staden till en av de giftigaste platserna i hela Arktis. Vår korrespondent Jesper Lindau reste dit för att prata med de  kvarvarande byborna.  – Situationen är mycket allvarlig.Continue reading “Ryska Nikel riskerar att bli giftig spökstad”