98% of scientists believe climate change is happening and 95% believe it is caused by humans. The same forms of pollution (fossil fuels) that are causing climate change are also polluting our air, our water and damaging our health. We all win when we limit unnecessary pollution on the planet we live on.
Climate Change is Happening
Is the planet warming? Try to deny this video from NASA.
NASA Tracks Decline in thick Sea Ice in the Arctic
A 1 minute video that explains the difference between climate and weather.
What do actual climate scientists believe?
Climate and Carbon 101
Some climate change background from Bill Nye (The Science Guy)
Understand the carbon cycle before humans and after.
Carbon dioxide back 800,000 years
No Time to Waste
Is Earth past it’s Tipping Point?
Have human beings pushed the planet into a new geological era? Welcome to the Anthropocene.
What are the Effects of Climate Change?
Could the extreme weather in 2011 be related to Climate Change?
Climate refugees are already a major issue.
Rising sea levels are a major risk to everyone on earth.
Hello and thank you for an excellent website. So-called environmentally induced migration is multi-level problem. According to Essam El-Hinnawi definition form 1985 environmental refugees as those people who have been forced to leave their traditional habitat, temporarily or permanently, because of a marked environmental disruption (natural or triggered by people) that jeopardised their existence and/or seriously affected the quality of their life. The fundamental distinction between `environmental migrants` and `environmental refugees` is a standpoint of contemporsry studies in EDPs.
According to Bogumil Terminski it seems reasonable to distinguish the general category of environmental migrants from the more specific (subordinate to it) category of environmental refugees.
Environmental migrants, therefore, are persons making a short-lived, cyclical, or longerterm change of residence, of a voluntary or forced character, due to specific environmental factors. Environmental refugees form a specific type of environmental migrant.
Environmental refugees, therefore, are persons compelled to spontaneous, short-lived, cyclical, or longer-term changes of residence due to sudden or gradually worsening changes in environmental factors important to their living, which may be of either a short-term or an irreversible character.
We need to get rid of the silo thinking in our decoiisn making/budgeting and take a more wholistic view of major issues such as transportation. We cannot view public transit and assess the value/cost of their services without considering the whole transportation infrastructure. We subsidize road construction to no end but do not consider how more extensive and cheaper (perhaps even free) public transport may obviate the need for much road construction. Likewise, those who benefit need to pay. Large trucks do thousands of times more damage to roads than do cars but trucking companies do not bear the related cost. This indirect subsidization adversely affects efficient market resource utilization in this case to the detriment of trains who pay their own rail costs. There is no way that trains should not be used more for large shipments and heavy traffic flow between fixed locations. It must be cheaper, better for the environment and certainly safer.