sea level rise

Property insurance titan begs for action on climate change, calling failure ‘an existential threat’

A new Insurance company report   reveals that a major insurer of properties is calling for action on Climate Change, highlighting the instability of being able to insure claims in a rapidly destabilizing environment:   While the natural catastrophes of last year did not reach the same magnitude as the record–setting levels of 2017, it was …

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Geo-engineering Ancient Lakes – off setting sea level rise and Mega storms

Today, I saw something I have been waiting 5 years to see from this article in Science Magazine: Study says large-scale solar and wind installations in Sahara and Sahel could supply all of Earth’s electricity needs and then some: Extensive renewables development there would raise local nighttime temperatures while increasing rainfall and growth of vegetation, …

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Despite Trump administration complaints, Kid’s climate lawsuit will proceed, #EarthGuardians

  This is GOOD NEWS:   A federal appeals court Wednesday rejected the Trump administration’s attempt to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a group of kids who want to force the government to do more to fight climate change. The San Francisco-based Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled that it would be premature …

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Louisiana preparing for evacuation of up to 59,000 residents in near future

From Bloomberg News’ Christopher Flavelle:   Louisiana is finalizing a plan to move thousands of people from areas threatened by the rising Gulf of Mexico, effectively declaring uninhabitable a coastal area larger than Delaware. A draft of the plan, the most aggressive response to climate-linked flooding in the U.S., calls for prohibitions on building new …

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