The plan strengthened climate education at Catholic schools across much of the state and prompted a series of local energy audits and efficiency improvements at churches and schools. It also provided a template for climate action among Catholics nationwide.
"Slowly, we are starting to make our way and to get this information out," said Varlamoff, who has since retired. "We are exchanging best practices. There are so many Catholic scientists who desperately want to work for caring for creation. We are just moving forward with people who believe as we do."

Five Years After Speaking Out on Climate Change, Pope Francis Sounds an Urgent Alarm | InsideClimate News
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/06082020/climate-change-pope-francis

Deforestation is one of the most intractable and yet most potent drivers of environmental crisis. It is also among the four out of nine planetary boundaries that civilisation was already at high risk of crossing five years ago according to research published in the journal Science.
Other boundaries we were on the brink of breaching at that time included the rate at which species were going extinct, levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, and the flow of nitrogen and phosphorus into the environment due to industrial agriculture. The further we breach these and other planetary boundaries, the greater the risk of irreversibly driving the Earth into a less hospitable state for humanity.

https://medium.com/...end-deforestation-to-avert-pandemic-climate-and-societal-collapse-98eb40646eab

Out-of-control wildfires north of the Arctic Circle have released more dangerous greenhouse gases in two months than all of the fires last year combined, scientists have said.
The latest data from the European Union’s Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service reveals the appalling extent of the fires in the Siberian Arctic, which are releasing huge amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere.

Climate crisis: Out-of-control wildfires in Arctic circle released more CO2 in two months than whole of 2019 | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/...t/siberia-wildfires-article-circle-co2-climate-crisis-a9658101.html

V první polovině letošního roku došlo k rapidnímu propadu produkce energie z uhelných elektráren. Může za to mírná zima, větrný únor i klesající poptávka po elektřině v dobách karanténních opatření po celé Evropě. Poprvé v historii Německo vygenerovalo z uhelných elektráren méně energie než Polsko, které má zároveň na svědomí stejný objem uhelné energie jako zbylých 25 členských států EU dohromady. Uvádí to nejnovější report nezávislého think thanku Ember.
V prvním pololetí vyrobily evropské obnovitelné zdroje více energie než fosilní paliva - Euro.cz
https://www.euro.cz/...pololeti-vyrobily-evropske-obnovitelne-zdroje-vice-energie-nez-fosilni-paliva

A nejaky dobry zpravy... Zahajeni tezby dolu Carmichael se dari stale blokovat. Btw kdyby se realizovaly plany spolecnosti Adani, tak mnozstvi vytezenyho uhli je takovy, ze je de facto nemozny naplnit Parizskou dohodu. Aneb jeden z prikladu, kdy se korporace chova jako sebevrazednej psychopat.

Stop Adani
10 years ago Adani bought a licence to build Australia’s biggest coal mine. Adani planned to start production in 2014 and ramp up to 60 million tonnes of coal every year. 10 years later Adani haven’t dug a single lump of coal, they have no public or private finance and have been shunned by over 75 major companies. What’s been stopping Adani? People power!
Let’s keep fighting until we stop Adani’s coal mine for good.

- The last fully intact ice shelf in the Canadian Arctic has collapsed, losing more than 40% of its area in just two days at the end of July, researchers said on Thursday.

Canada's last fully intact Arctic ice shelf collapses - Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-canada-idUSKCN2523JH

TADEAS: asi to zaradili na seznam.cz do feedu clanku

https://www.irozhlas.cz/veda-technologie/veda/bruno-latour-koronavirus-filozof_2007041826_pj Filozof Latour: Koronakrize může být z hlediska oddanosti nekonečnému pokroku užitečným cvičením

hlasujte nebo se jen inspirujte adaptacnimi projekty na zmeny klimatu: https://www.adapterraawards.cz/hlasovani

Overlapping disasters (nema URL, z newsletteru NY times)

If you’re looking for something to read during this summer of coronavirus and you tend toward the macabre, here’s a suggestion: Sign up for the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s daily operations briefing, released via email around 9:30 Eastern time most mornings, and count the number of ongoing disasters.


Wednesday morning’s edition included Hurricane Isaias, which had just plowed up the East Coast, knocking out power for millions of households across a dozen states; wildfires in California and Nevada; the risk of “severe thunderstorms” in the Central Plains; parts of Texas still waiting for damage assessments from Hurricane Hanna last weekend; and, of course, Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, which has killed 155,204 Americans, according to the agency’s latest count.

As Henry Fountain and I wrote this week, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/climate/hurricane-isaias-apple-fire-climate.html this is what living with climate change will look like: Not just an epic, Katrina- or Sandy-scale catastrophe every few years (though probably that, too), but a relentless grind of overlapping disasters, major and minor. The number of disasters that FEMA is handling is about twice what it was three years ago, before Hurricane Harvey struck Texas, and that doesn’t include its pandemic response. Disaster preparation and recovery have blurred into a single frenzied motion, never ending but also never quite succeeding.