Climate Change

It is abundantly clear that climate change is not a future event; it is happening now, and it affects our lives, and our health. In a new report from The Yale Center on Climate Change and Health, Fellow Laura Bozzi and Robert Dubrow tracked 19 indicators on climate change and health in Connecticut across four broad categories — temperature, extreme events, infectious diseases, and air quality — and found disturbing trends in each.

At the annual UN General Assembly, President Xi of China pledged that his nation would peak its carbon emissions before 2030 and hit net zero emissions by 2060, without revealing how the nation plans to reach those goals. Joe Aldy, an economist and Professor of Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School, joins Host Steve Curwood of Living on Earth to discuss what this step by the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter means for international climate policy in the context of the failed climate leadership by the Trump Administration.

On October 20, Nick Jensen provided testimony before the California State Assembly on the connections between plants, climate change and wildfire. You can watch his testimony starting at timecode 01:02:46 in the video below. He spoke for more than 45 minutes.

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Under the hood, Facebook — the sixth most visited website, according to Alexa — is basically a bunch of data centers. Those data centers use up loads of energy, consuming up to 50 times the energy of a typical commercial office building of the same size, the US Department of Energy says. In fact, they account for more than 95% of the energy that Facebook consumes. Urvi Parekh’s job is to make sure the energy they use is clean.

From The New York Times:

Puerto Rico reversed its reopening last week after seeing a surge of new COVID-19 cases.

The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission adopted a Climate and Ocean Change Policy in July on a unanimous vote, making them the first state fish and wildlife commission in the nation to adopt such a measure. Tavis Forrester, a Research Wildlife Biologist with the department, was the team member representing research on the team that developed the climate change policy.