Climate Care Mission
The Climate Team is one of our newest missions works which concentrates on the climate changes that are affecting our communities. We routinely have projects such as pollinator gardens and looking into ways to help in redirecting our thinking and behaviors to help heal mother earth.
Climate Care Articles
There are positive advancements in climate action. This is a report on a legal organization that is working to reverse harmful government actions affecting climate change. Earthjustice’s Clean Energy Program based in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Washington, DC, and the Boston area, is using the law to accelerate the transition to…
Algae Blooms Melting Greenland Greenland’s ice sheet is melting, and its disappearance is accelerated thanks to huge blooms of algae newly growing on top of it. With the Arctic warming four times faster than the global average, Greenland, the world’s largest island, is now losing hundreds of billions of tons of ice each year. The…
Last week I attended a Zoom meeting sponsored by Faith In Place. The speaker was Dr. Steve Vavrus, the Wisconsin state climatologist. (I didn’t know we had one.) He reviewed facts that we have previously discussed in this space and made clear statements of other facts and their implications for the future. I will list…
This month I have for you a letter written in 2023 by Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the UN: My dear great-great-granddaughter, I wish I could be with you as you open this letter in the year 2100. My mind is flooded with curiosity about your life, your hopes and dreams, and what kind of world…
Today I have some information from Woods Hole Oceanic Institution. It may seem surprising, but the climate change/warming we have been experiencing may be leading us into a new ice age. This is how it can happen. The Gulf Stream, the current which circulates in the north Atlantic Ocean, carries warm, salty surface water from…
I recently read a couple of articles from the Union of Concerned Scientists’ magazine. Following are some excerpts: “Last year, coal’s share of the US electricity mix hit a new low; just 15 percent, down from 50 percent a quarter-century ago. It’s no surprise why. As a source of electricity, coal is more expensive than…
I AM SHOCKED! After writing these notes on climate change for quite a long time, I am shocked at how severe the climate disasters have become, and how quickly. I suppose I shouldn’t be, because scientists have been warning us for forty years, and more recently the computer climate models have said that the change…
The Union of Concerned Scientists has published a report on disinformation campaigns designed to obstruct scientific progress on the issue threatening all of us and our children – CLIMATE CHANGE. As they explain, “When disinformation spreads and takes hold, it has the power to shape the public dialogue and set the context in which vitally…
We don’t like to find more bad news about our stewardship of the natural world, but it just keeps coming; Global sea levels rose 35 percent more than expected last year, climbing by 0.23 inches according to NASA satellite data. Melting ice sheets and glaciers, and methane releases from melting permafrost partially account for this,…
Day after day we hear announcements of federal programs being cancelled and people being fired who do research and administer benefits to people and places in need. It is no different with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The new EPA director, Lee Zeldin, announced in March that he will cancel 31 environmental regulations. More…