#Dry California tourist town to guests: ‘Please conserve’

#Dry California tourist town to guests: ‘Please conserve’

“#Dry California tourist town to guests: ‘Please conserve’” MENDOCINO, Calif. — Tourists flock by the thousands to the coastal town of Mendocino for its Victorian homes and cliff trails, but visitors this summer are also finding public portable toilets and signs on picket fences pleading: “Severe drought. Please conserve water.” Hotels have closed their lobby…

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#Scientists’ joy, frustration in making U.N. climate report

#Scientists’ joy, frustration in making U.N. climate report

“#Scientists’ joy, frustration in making U.N. climate report” GENEVA, Aug 10 – After spending hundreds of hours in virtual meetings to complete this week’s major UN climate report, scientists Piers Forster and Joeri Rogelj celebrated in a way their peers could not: by hugging. Britain-based Forster had been weary of the isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic and invited his co-author…

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#Massive wildfire on Greek island of Evia devours forests

#Massive wildfire on Greek island of Evia devours forests

“#Massive wildfire on Greek island of Evia devours forests” AVGARIA, Greece, Aug 10 – Residents mounted a round-the-clock watch on Tuesday to try to save their homes from wildfires ravaging the Greek island of Evia as the government defended its handling of the crisis. Greek fire crews, backed by foreign firefighters and volunteers, battled flare-ups…

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#Geoengineering marks scientific gains in U.N. report on dire climate future

#Geoengineering marks scientific gains in U.N. report on dire climate future

“#Geoengineering marks scientific gains in U.N. report on dire climate future” Aug 10 – Geoengineering science is advancing, but the question remains – should we use it? The UN climate report released Monday presents a major leap forward in predicting how geoengineering to limit global warming might affect the planet, although scientists said the greatest hurdle remains…

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#Don’t buy the latest climate-change alarmism

#Don’t buy the latest climate-change alarmism

“#Don’t buy the latest climate-change alarmism” The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change just released its latest climate report, and reactions from politicians and media pundits could not have been more predictable. Fitting the apocalyptic narrative many have spun lately, the always-breathless Guardian literally summarized this scientific report as finding mankind “guilty as hell” of “climate crimes of humanity.” (Needless to say,…

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#Anna Sacks, aka ‘Trashwalker,’ is a trash-diving influencer

#Anna Sacks, aka ‘Trashwalker,’ is a trash-diving influencer

“#Anna Sacks, aka ‘Trashwalker,’ is a trash-diving influencer” She’s airing corporate America’s trash online. A New York City influencer is exposing the country’s decadent excesses by exhuming mountains of perfectly salvageable food and other goods from garbage cans in the Big Apple. Clips of her damning dumpster dives are amassing millions of views on TikTok…

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#Hurricane season to be busier than 1st thought

#Hurricane season to be busier than 1st thought

“#Hurricane season to be busier than 1st thought” After a record start, followed by a near-silent July, the Atlantic hurricane season looks like it will be busier than meteorologists predicted a few months ago. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Wednesday updated its outlook for the 2021 Atlantic season, slightly increasing the number of named storms…

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