[MCN] It's a small (coal-polluted) world, after all

[Lance Olsen]

 <https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-12/soet-ias122019.php> <https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-12/soet-ias122019.php> <https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-12/soet-ias122019.php>News Release 20-Dec-2019
It's a small (coal-polluted) world, after all
SOCIETY OF ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY
 <https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-12/soet-ias122019.php> <https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-12/soet-ias122019.php>A study published in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry underscores that the release of pollutants in one region can have implications beyond its borders; emphasizing the dire need for global collaboration on environmental issues. 
 <https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-12/soet-ias122019.php> <https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-12/soet-ias122019.php> The study suggests that coal-burning activities in the Asia-Pacific region have influenced environmental conditions in the United States Pacific Northwest.
JOURNAL
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
Full release https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-12/soet-ias122019.php <https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-12/soet-ias122019.php>
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Greta Thunberg boils the basics down to just 5 words: “… and it will get worse”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhQVustYV24 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhQVustYV24>


Climate scientists had made the same point; e.g., ….


Camilo Mora: “ ….  our choices for deadly heat are now between more of it or a lot more of it.”
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1161/circoutcomes.117.004233 <https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1161/circoutcomes.117.004233>

Michael Mann: ““A new normal makes it sound like we have arrived in a new position, and that's where we're going to be. But if we continue to burn fossil fuels ... we are going to ... get worse and worse droughts, and heat waves, and super storms, and floods, and wildfires.”
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/climate-change-is-making-wildfires-more-extreme-heres-how <https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/climate-change-is-making-wildfires-more-extreme-heres-how>

Kate Marvel: “The whole idea that everything’s going to work out isn’t really helpful because it isn’t going to work out ” said Kate Marvel a climate scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Climate change is going to worsen to a point where millions of lives, homes, and species are put at risk she said. 
https://newrepublic.com/article/151608/case-against-climate-pessimism <https://newrepublic.com/article/151608/case-against-climate-pessimism>

My own view: <<https://mountainjournal.org/why-rising-temps-mean-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it>>

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