Climate Change News

Denial of climate change is no longer an option. It's effects are becoming all too obvious. Even some companies are starting to react. So is Russia over rights to the "Northwest Passage" as the ice melts.

Saturday, July 06, 2019


Mother Jones (07/06/2019)
The Nation’s Largest Commercial Insurance Company Has Ditched Covering Coal"Chubb will no longer underwrite the construction of new coal-fired power plants, according to the policy. It will also stop investing in companies that generate more than 30% of their revenues from coal mining or production, as well as phase out existing coverage for mining and utility companies that exceed the 30% threshold."

Arctic Today
Russia and Canada may lose their legal claim to Arctic seaways as ice melts "At a hearing held by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, Michael McDevitt, a retired rear admiral with the U.S. Navy, asked whether Russian claims to the Arctic were “in consonance with the Law of the Sea, "

BBC News
Is the Arctic set to become a main shipping route?"For shipping firms transporting goods from China or Japan to Europe or the east coast of the US, the passage would cut thousands of miles off journeys that currently go via the Panama or Suez canals... Russia is trying to boost its northern economy, with plans to invest millions of dollars over the next few years to build nuclear-powered ice-breakers and develop port infrastructure along the Northern Sea Route."

So not only is global climate change a problem for crops, cities and severe weather damage but so too could result in international confrontations. Several reasons why we should confront global warming head on. OR.. we can continue to ignore the problem as though it doesn't exist.

Here's my response to the naysayers
Let us suppose we are completely wrong. Why would anyone think drilling holes in our land, oceans and tunneling underground stripping our limited resources polluting them all be a better idea? Think of Earth as a living being. Like germs in our gut only a certain amount is tolerable before it becomes too sick to host the bacteria which depend on it.

Face it. We're living in a fishbowl. In the big scheme of things Earth (our fishbowl) will continue on indefinitely should it become uninhabitable like the billions of other planets. I think we should be very concerned. considering we are the only biological species we've been able to find throughout the entire universe. If these aren't reasons enough to be concerned with 'climate change' there's nothing more can be said.