it's a sin to not care for the planet God gave us.

‘I could taste it in my mouth’: As wildfire and football seasons collide, climate change is threatening the game
Christopher Kamrani

There were victories on the first full Saturday of the 2021 college football season, and then there were triumphs. One, really. It was in the Bay Area, where the guys in navy blue and vanilla cream and shiny silver helmets permitted themselves to go nuts inside California Memorial Stadium. The visiting Nevada Wolf Pack bested the Cal Bears, a team many believe has a shot at winning the Pac-12 North division this season. But of all the college football programs across the country who slogged through the summer in preparation for this opening salvo, no team had to endure what this Wolf Pack crew did.

On some days leading up to Nevada’s 22-17 win in Berkeley last Saturday, the Wolf Pack were padded up, helmets strapped, ready to hit one another in practice, but not in their spotless football cleats. No, they had their basketball shoes laced up. There was nowhere else to practice in Reno but inside a gymnasium, where the floor echoed of squeaks like a basketball game was underway.

“We did exactly what we always do, just modified,” Nevada coach Jay Norvell explained. “We did every individual drill. We did every screen drill. We did every blocking drill. We slowed it down, we modified it to the surface we were on and the circumstances we were in.”

The Wolf Pack faced an unprecedented ...

https://theathletic.com/2815584/2021/09 ... -the-game/

Sorry - behind a paywall and am looking for a way around it.

but numerous other articles here

https://www.google.com/search?q=climate ... e&ie=UTF-8

Global warming will get progressively worse and cannot be stopped over the next 30 years, a major UN report has concluded, because the world's nations delayed so long in curbing emissions. A hotter future is now essentially locked in.

A Hotter Future Is Certain, Climate Panel Warns. But How Hot Is Up to Us.
Some devastating impacts of global warming are now unavoidable, a major new scientific report finds. But there is still a short window to stop things from getting even worse.
By Brad Plumer and Henry Fountain

Nations have delayed curbing their fossil-fuel emissions for so long that they can no longer stop global warming from intensifying over the next 30 years, though there is still a short window to prevent the most harrowing future, a major new United Nations scientific report has concluded.

Humans have already heated the planet by roughly 1.1 degrees Celsius, or 2 degrees Fahrenheit, since the 19th century, largely by burning coal, oil and gas for energy. And the consequences can be felt across the globe: This summer alone, blistering heat waves have killed hundreds of people in the United States and Canada, floods have devastated Germany and China, and wildfires have raged out of control in Siberia, Turkey and Greece.

But that’s only the beginning, according to ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/09/clim ... cc-un.html

1/10th ~ portion of the world's mature giant sequoias that were killed in a single fire last year

Melting of polar ice shifting Earth itself, not just sea levels
by Clea Simon

The melting of polar ice is not only shifting the levels of our oceans, it is changing the planet Earth itself. Newly minted Ph.D. Sophie Coulson and her colleagues explained in a recent paper in Geophysical Research Letters that, as glacial ice from Greenland, Antarctica, and the Arctic Islands melts, Earth's crust beneath these land masses warps, an impact that can be measured hundreds and perhaps thousands of miles away.

"Scientists have done a lot of work directly beneath ice sheets and glaciers," said Coulson, who did her work in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and received her doctorate in May from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. "So they knew that it would define the region where the glaciers are, but they hadn't realized that it was global in scale."

By analyzing satellite data on melt from 2003 to 2018 and studying changes in Earth's crust, Coulson and her colleagues were able to measure the shifting of the crust horizontally. Their research, which was highlighted in Nature, found that ...

https://phys.org/news/2021-09-polar-ice ... h-sea.html

'30 years of blah blah blah': Greta Thunberg questions Italy climate talks
Stephen Jewkes and Giulio Piovaccari

Greta Thunberg and fellow youth campaigners struck a skeptical tone for this week's climate talks in Italy, saying much has been promised but little done to tackle global warming in almost three decades since the landmark Earth Summit.

Fears that climate change is worsening grew after a UN report in August warned the situation was dangerously close to spiraling out of control, with the world certain to face further disruptions for generations to come.

"Thirty years of blah, blah, blah," Thunberg told the opening session of a Youth4Climate event on Tuesday.

Thousands of young activists have converged on Milan this week with some 400, from about 190 countries, due to engage with policymakers to hammer out proposals for possible solutions.

"So-called leaders have cherry picked young people to meetings like this to pretend they are listening to us, but they are not listening," Thunberg said.

"There is no planet B ... Change is not only possible but necessary, but not if we go on like we have until today."

The youth activists, who fought to get climate change to the top of the global agenda years after leaders at the 1992 Rio Summit in Brazil pledged to tackle environmental problems, are being challenged to ...

https://www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-envi ... -1.5603373

A Crucial System of Ocean Currents Is Faltering, Research Suggests
A slowdown in the network, which influences weather far and wide, could spell trouble. “We’re poking a beast,” one expert said. “But we don’t really know the reaction we’ll cause.”
Heather Murphy

The water in the Atlantic is constantly circulating in a complex pattern that influences weather on several continents. And climate scientists have been asking a crucial question: Whether this vast system, which includes the Gulf Stream, is slowing down because of climate change.

If it were to change significantly, the consequences could be dire, potentially including faster sea level rise along parts of the United States East Coast and Europe, stronger hurricanes barreling into the Southeastern United States, reduced rainfall across parts of Africa and changes in tropical monsoon systems.

Now, scientists have detected the early warning signs that this critical ocean system is at risk, according to ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/05/us/g ... lapse.html

#36 has been known for a while.

A massive oil spill in the Pacific Ocean has reached the Southern California coast

More than 120,000 gallons of oil that spilled into the Pacific Ocean has reached the Southern California coastline, closing parts of the beach as officials warn residents to stay away from the slick.

Federal, state and local agencies are racing to determine the cause of the spill, which is at least 13 square miles in size, and mitigate its impacts.

"The ramifications will extend further than the visible oil and odor that our residents are dealing with at the moment. The impact to the environment is irreversible," Orange County Supervisor Katrina Foley said in a statement on Saturday.

More-----> https://www.npr.org/2021/10/03/10428468 ... fornia-coa

Air pollution in Africa responsible for 1.1 million deaths in 2019: study
Tom Yun

A new study says that air pollution was responsible for 1.1 million deaths in Africa in 2019 while costing billions of dollars in GDP for African countries.

The study was led by researchers based in Massachusetts and involved researchers from Kenya and Rwanda affiliated with the UN Environment Programme. The authors published their findings this month in The Lancet Planetary Health.

The researchers looked at ...

https://www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-envi ... -1.5617660

25% of all critical infrastructure in the US is at risk of failure due to flooding, new report finds
By Drew Kann and Ella Nilsen



As a massive investment to repair roads and adapt to climate change faces an uncertain fate in Congress, a new report finds much of the country's infrastructure is already at risk of being shut down by flooding. And as the planet heats up, the threat is expected to grow.

Today, one-in-four pieces of all critical infrastructure in the US — including police and fire stations, hospitals, airports and wastewater treatment facilities — face substantial risk of being rendered inoperable by flooding, according to a new report released today by the First Street Foundation, a nonprofit research and technology group that assesses the threat posed by flooding across the country.
The report also found nearly 2 million miles of road — 23% of US roadways — are already at risk of becoming impassable due to flooding.

To provide what First Street says is the fullest picture to date of community-level flood vulnerability, the researchers examined five categories across the Lower 48 and the District of Columbia: Critical infrastructure; social infrastructure, including museums, government buildings and schools; roads; commercial properties; and residential properties.

Gulf Coast and Appalachia especially vulnerable to flooding

In some areas of the United States, nearly all properties, roads and critical infrastructure — such as hospitals and power stations — are vulnerable to failure due to flooding. These vulnerabilities will get worse as ...

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/11/weat ... index.html

#41

... while running out of drinking water.

Decaying oil tanker off Yemen could disrupt clean water supply for 9 million people

(CNN)The "increasingly likely" possibility of a massive oil spill from a decaying tanker stranded in the Red Sea could disrupt supplies of clean water to the equivalent of more than 9 million people, according to a new study.

The FSO Safer tanker -- which contains 1.1 million barrels of oil, or more than four times the amount spilled in 1989 by the Exxon Valdez 2 -- has been "deserted" off Yemen's coast since 2015 and continues to deteriorate.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/12/middleea ... Stories%29

What Will Climate Change Feel Like? New Tool Provides Granular Estimates
The interactive maps were designed to help people prepare for how hot and dry their area will get
Eric Roston



An initiative called Probable Futures hopes its interactive maps showing how fast the Earth could heat will lead citizens and countries to ask questions about how climate change is transforming their world — a first step in grappling with adaptation and the prevention of ever-worsening conditions.

Spencer Glendon, the 52-year-old founder of Probable Futures and a senior fellow at the Woodwell Climate Research Center in Massachusetts, was investment manager Wellington Management’s research director. He’s always been drawn to issues that could transform financial markets if only people paid attention.

The modern economy is built on a simple and, until recently, correct assumption, that the global climate is stable. The smartest way to treat the Earth’s climate in any risk assessment — dating back to the origin of risk assessments — was to ignore it. But a changing climate can no longer be ignored, and professionals of every stripe are missing tools to ...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... -estimates

At least 85 percent of the world’s population has been affected by human-induced climate change, new study shows
Researchers used machine learning to analyze more than 100,000 studies of weather events and found four-fifths of the world’s land area has suffered impacts linked to global warming
By Annabelle Timsit and Sarah Kaplan

At least 85 percent of the global population has experienced weather events made worse by climate change, according to research published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change.

After using machine learning to analyze and map more than 100,000 studies of events that could be linked to global warming, researchers paired the analysis with a well-established data set of temperature and precipitation shifts caused by fossil fuel use and other sources of carbon emissions.

These combined findings — which focused on events such as crop failures, floods and heat waves — allowed scientists to make a solid link between escalating extremes and human activities. They concluded that global warming has affected 80 percent of the world’s land area.

“We have a huge evidence base now that documents how climate change is affecting our societies and our ecosystems,” said lead author Max Callaghan, a researcher at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change in Germany.

The study provides hard numbers to back up the lived experiences of people from New York City to South Sudan. “Climate change,” Callaghan said, “is visible and noticeable almost everywhere in the world.”

Humans have pushed the climate into ‘unprecedented’ territory, landmark U.N. report finds

The findings come amid a major push to get ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate- ... e-impacts/

Some Keys roads will flood by 2025 due to sea rise. Fixing them could cost $750 million
Alex Harris - Miami Herald (TNS)

As the staggering price tag of elevating roads in the Florida Keys comes into focus, where exactly all that cash will come from remains unclear.

Consultants tasked with figuring out which roads should be elevated above rising seas first (and how much that might cost) have estimated that raising 155 miles of Monroe County roads could cost $1.8 billion. And those are just the roads at risk by 2045. The county maintains 311 miles of road — not including U.S. 1, the main road that is also known as the Overseas Highway, or city roads in places like Key West and Marathon.

At a presentation to the county commission on Wednesday, consultants said about $750 million of those projects may be needed in just the next four years.

Emilio Corrales, a project manager at consulting firm HDR, said his team identified 28 project areas, including one on Big Coppitt Key, where roads could be flooded with more than 6 inches of water during ...

https://denvergazette.com/ap/lifestyles ... 58e5e.html

The experts have known this was coming for years, perhaps a couple of decades. I've never understood why (other than $$$) they let the building of businesses and homes continue. It may be a lost cause because it's only going to get worse. Time to pack it up and move inland, although Florida may eventually be a gonner too. Especially the coastal areas.

Water, water everyehere and not a drop to drink is definitely on the way.

The thing you have to remember is that the first duty of a politician is to get reelected. Everything follows from that. Don't do anything to upset the voters - just kick the can down the road because by the time the stuff hits the fan it'll be somebody else's problem.

Only catch is, 2025 isn't very far away and the people who will be impacted and the politicians responsible, will still be around. [In fairness to the current crop of pols, this has been going on for years if not decades so they inherited the problem as opposed to creating it. Doesn't mean that fixing it will be any the less painful (and it may well end a lot of careers) but it will have to be done.]

Humanity on brink of 'downward slope' as Harvard's modern-day Darwin sends grim warning
THE WHOLE of human history stands on the brink of a "downward spiral" unless drastic measures are taken to preserve the planet's biodiversity, a world-renowned naturalist has warned.
By SEBASTIAN KETTLEY

Edward O. Wilson, the Harvard environmentalist and sociobiologist who has been hailed the "Darwin of the 21st century", has called on the world to unite and tackle the climate crisis. Speaking just days before the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, the 92-year-old said he is positive the international community can work together on the issue. Towards this goal, he said the United Nations needs to tackle climate change head-on, while at the same time implementing measures to preserve plant and animal species.

Dr Wilson told Reuters: "This is the most communal endeavour with a clear definable goal that humanity has ever had and we need to get the kind of cooperation and ethical harmony and planning in order to make it work," Wilson told Reuters in an interview outside Boston on Oct. 21.

"Otherwise, the slope of human history will always be downward."

Five years ago, the naturalist unveiled his ambitious Half Earth Project.

The initiative called for ...

https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/ ... extinction