Scientists have now turned on a giant vacuum which can suck 36,000 tonnes of CO2 out of the air every year and store it deep in the volcanic rocks beneath Iceland.
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Cognitive biases are among the most important factors that prevent people from changing their minds. Climate change deniers and climate activists often tend to accept only information that confirms their respective opinions on the matter. However, opinion dynamics are also influenced by a factor that the researchers call "ambiguity noise." Unlike biases, ambiguity noise is variable, depends on many random factors, and leads to inconsistent judgment.
by WorldTribune Staff, May 13, 2024 Contract With Our Readers A British climate “scientist” suggested a pandemic with a “very high fatality rate” could be responsible for “culling the human population” enough to slow climate change. The statement was made in a post on X by professor Bill McGuire, who was previously a member of […]
To the editor: Your article on new scientific interventions to address global climate issues opens with the questionable claim that direct air capture to sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide represents perhaps one of "the world's best hopes for combating climate change." And yet you quickly point out that it would take 1 million facilities like the initial plant now operating in San Joaquin County to make a meaningful impact on global carbon levels. Is that a viable strategy? We will need to...
This case is pivotal, given the urgency experts have highlighted for reducing emissions and mitigating global warming.
From its effect on polling and political mobilisation to how voters perceive power structures, the changing environment has far-reaching repercussions.
A climate change panel has been formed by the Department of Agriculture amid La Niña’s expected damage to the agriculture sector.
Protesters who vandalise our heritage make climate change a divisive issue. But when it comes to the environment, we all win or we all lose, says Frances Lasok When we are under pressure, our hands start shaking and our mind goes blank. That’s because when we’re scared our bodies flood with the chemicals necessary to []
Roxanne Scott, independent journalist working on a series with the NY Amsterdam News about climate change in Southeast Queens, talks about how St. Albans in Southeast Queens, a majority-Black neighborhood where residents have long complained of neglected infrastructure and services, is dealing with a pest exacerbated by climate change: mosquitos.
The natural growth of this aquatic grass is increasingly threatened by climate change and environmental degradation.
Senators yesterday lauded the Department of Agriculture creation of a climate change panel amid La Niña’s expected damage to the agriculture sector.