OMNI CLIMATE
MEMO MONDAYS, #185, JULY 1, 2024. Compiled by Dick Bennett
Two new orgs trying
to engage with the public: YCC and ICN
UAF Arctic Research
Yale Climate Connection
“Dangerously high temperatures plague the southern U.S.”
This week, 52 million people in the
southern U.S. are experiencing a heat wave made 400% more likely by climate
change, according to
Climate Central. And talking about it is an effective way to improve your
friends and family members’ understanding of the connection between climate
change and heat waves, new research from our colleagues at the Yale Program on
Climate Communication suggests. Even just talking about heat — without saying
the words “climate change” — can significantly change beliefs, the researchers
found.
These resources can help you plan how
to protect yourself, your family, and your home during a heat wave. Forward
them to people who live in the region that may be affected by this event.
·
How to spot the
symptoms of heat stroke and heat exhaustion
·
How to stay cool
in hot weather
·
Common medications
may increase the dangers of heat wave
What
else you can do to help
Climate change is making extreme weather more frequent and
intense. One of the most important things you can do to help solve climate
change is to talk
about it in person and on social media. Talking about climate
change during extreme weather events is particularly effective. The following
post can help you feel like an expert when you talk to your friends and family.
Save the graphic below to share tips via social media, text, or email. Heat waves and
climate change: Is there a connection?
[
YCC seems locked
into an ideology of individual adaptations.
As I watch the temp rise year after year and Republican gov
inaction continues, I have decided to advocate not only for free educ. and
health care for all but free swimming for all at the necessarily enlarged public
pools. Warming could be as large and destructive
as WWII, requiring gov mobilization of similar scope, yes? –D]
RESISTANCE: REVEALING THE TRUTH
“Most Americans had never
heard of it.” Inside Climate News <memberships@insideclimatenews.org>
Dear reader,
More
than 1 million gallons of oil spilled into the Kalamazoo River in July 2010,
triggering the most expensive cleanup in U.S. history. The work dragged along
for years.
Most
Americans had never heard of it – until Inside Climate News released The
Dilbit Disaster,
offering an expansive look at the catastrophe and its aftermath. We won the
2013 Pulitzer Prize in national reporting for the investigation.
This
groundbreaking report is just one of many award-winning investigations from our
team of journalists:
Exxon:
The Road Not Taken –
Our team revealed how Exxon worked at the forefront of climate misinformation,
denying the science its own researchers had confirmed. Finalist for
the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
Harvesting
Peril – We
examined how the Farm Bureau’s climate agenda is failing its farmers. Winner
of the 2019 Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism
You
can click here to read all of our investigations.
You
deserve the truth about climate change, energy and the environment. At Inside
Climate News, we’re finding it.
Sincerely, The Inside Climate News team
UAF, FULBRIGHT COLLEGE RESEARCH CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE
ARCTIC June 27, 2024. CONGRATULATIONS.
UAF’s Dr. Peter S. Ungar, recently awarded the Omni Center's climate
change fellowship, sent me an illustrated “comic” strip narrative of his
and related research for K-12 kids. Here
is the link, you’ll enjoy it. Among the
hundred facts of the research I learned the word “ Fennoscandia” and gained a stronger
identification with fellow herbivores--reindeer and lemmings! Please view and share.
Peter
S. Ungar, PhD
Distinguished
Professor of Anthropology
Director
of Environmental Dynamics
University
of Arkansas
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