Melting ice is exposing hidden landscapes in the Canadian Arctic that haven’t been seen in more than 40,000 years, new research published in Nature Communications reveals.
Wednesday, January 30th, 2019
Stephan: Yet another proof, there are so many, that you and I don't matter. Your kids don't matter. Nothing but profit matters, so the uber-rich can keep their wealth and increase it even more. The wellbeing and health of ordinary Americans is not a consideration worth attention to Trump and the Republicans. Why is that so hard for many Americans to understand?
While EPA has decided against a drinking water limit, the draft chemical plan does include a decision to list those two chemicals as hazardous under the Superfund law.
The Trump administration will not set a drinking water limit for two toxic chemicals that are contaminating millions of Americans’ tap water, two sources familiar with the forthcoming decision told POLITICO. (emphasis added)
The expected move is yet another sign of the administration’s reluctance to aggressively deal with the chemicals, which have been used for decades in products such as Teflon-coated cookware and military firefighting foam and are present in the bloodstreams of an estimated 98 percent of Americans. And it comes less than a year after the White House and the Environmental Protection Agency faced criticism for delaying publication of a health study on the chemicals, which a White House aide had warned could trigger a “public relations nightmare.”
EPA’s decision means the chemicals will remain unregulated under the Safe Drinking Water Act, according to sources familiar with a still-unreleased draft […]
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2019
NEELA BANERJEE, - Inside Climate News
Stephan: I wrote about this at length a year ago, see
War, Climate Change, and Migration. Now others are beginning to catch up. Consider just the first paragraph of this report and you can see how the Trump administration has consciously and deliberately castrated all sensible government planning. "As the movement of refugees strains countries worldwide and becomes fuel for political clashes in the United States, the Trump administration has eliminated guidelines that the government once gave to American diplomats about how to plan for the impact of climate change on migration and global security."
What do you think the world will be like when there are, as is projected, 740 million people on the move around the world because of climate change Personally, I think the number will be closer to 1.5 billion, and that the U.S. will have three great internal migrations: away from the coasts, because of too much water; out of the southwest because of heat and lack of water; and, out of the central states because of catastrophic weather events. No preparation at all is being made for these huge population movements.
Climate change refugees
As the movement of refugees strains countries worldwide and becomes fuel for political clashes in the United States, the Trump administration has eliminated guidelines that the government once gave to American diplomats about how to plan for the impact of climate change on migration and global security.
In a report released Thursday, the Government Accountability Office recommended the State Department restore the guidelines so U.S. diplomats are prepared for major population shifts that could destabilize a country or region.
“Without clear guidance, State may miss opportunities to identify and address issues related to climate change as a potential driver of migration,” the report said.
In the report, the GAO, an auditing and analysis arm of Congress, sought to assess the U.S. government’s shifting response to human migration driven by climate change. It highlighted the impact of President Donald Trump’s decision in March 2017 to revoke an Obama-era executive order and presidential memorandum that called on federal agencies to weigh the effects of climate change on international development decisions.
The GAO found that […]
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2019
Lewis Raven Wallace, - Environmental Health News
Stephan: In the south climate change migration has already started and, of course, it is the poor who are impacted the most. But that is just the beginning. Millions of us will be moving as climate change alters American society profoundly.
NEW BERN, NORTH CAROLINA — Tyechia Buck and her 12-year-old son camped out on the second floor of her townhouse during last September’s Hurricane Florence—at least at first. The storm surge Wednesday night was so big it flowed over the banks of the Neuse River before the rain even started here. The town slowly disappeared underwater, starting at the Trent Court housing projects, a small collection of brown brick townhouses.
By 11 o’clock Thursday morning she realized she’d made a mistake not evacuating: waves were lapping up against the building next to hers.
“I went out my back door and didn’t look back,” she said.
Since then she and her son have been staying wherever: with family, in and out of shelters, in a hotel, and finally back at the apartment in Trent Court. When she came back home, she said, “I turned my key, opened my door, and busted out crying.” Her refrigerator was on its side, floating. Everything on the first floor of her two-story public housing unit was destroyed by more than four feet of floodwater.
Buck said […]
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