Officials in northwestern Quebec have ordered residents of two villages near the Ontario border to leave their homes as a wildfire continues to spread in the area. Residents of the villages of Val-Paradis and Beaucanton, home to around 340 people, were given an hour and a half to evacuate on Friday night due to the approach of a nearby fire. Since Thursday, more than 6,000 people have been ordered to leave their homes in northwestern Quebec due to heavy smoke from the fires. There are more than 110 fires burning in the province and 25 are considered out of control.
Athelstan Frederick Spilhaus (November 25, 1911 – March 30, 1998) was a South African-American geophysicist and oceanographer. Among other accomplishments, Spilhaus is credited with proposing the establishment of Sea Grant Colleges at a meeting of the American Fisheries Society in 1963 as a parallel to the successful land-grant university system, which he claimed was “one of the best investments this nation ever made. The same kind of imagination and foresight should be applied to the exploration of the sea.”
Shutting down fossil fuels will have negligible financial impact on ‘vast majority’, study finds. Scaling down fossil fuels would have hardly any financial impact on the vast majority of people, new research reveals. Oil and gas companies are the single biggest driver of global heating.
But opponents of the renewable transition often claim that cutting down fossil fuel production will be hugely expensive - and hit ordinary people in the pocket. New research sends this argument up in smoke. According to a study published in Joule journal this week, the clean transition will have a marginal financial impact on ordinary people while impacting only the super rich. The ‘losers’ of the clean energy transition are the super-wealthy - and what they stand to lose is still just a fraction of their overall wealth.
It's getting warmer, ice is melting, sea's are rising, things are changing.
Climate Change has my full attention. This Tumblr mostly goes about the changing climate, but also about e.g. the Eiffel tower in Paris, France.
I believe that science can do a lot to help us to mitigate the worst impacts of climate change and other enviromental problems.
I realize that politician and big companies will do nothing to solve the problems untill activist citizens and shareholders force them to do something. It needs activist in all forms and ways to protect our Earth and future from disaster.
