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This year we’ve rebuilt 280 schools in Mosul, #Iraq, allowing over 12,000 students to return to the classroom. https://t.co/NNff2GhP43 https://twitter.com/UNICEF/status/1063359807078436866

Insurance giant IAG has warned a failure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions could result in a world that is "pretty much uninsurable" - https://www.afr.com/business/insurance/climate-change-on-track-to-make-world-uninsurable-iag-20181115-h17xu5

This thread is to congratulate Prof. Steve Keen for having his co-authored paper accepted by the Journal of Ecological Economics, and to thank him for the attached preprint. The correct role of energy in production has been absent from conventional economic theory for centuries. https://twitter.com/Limits2Growth/status/1062830456650022912

Glyphosate perturbs the gut microbiota of honey bees - http://www.pnas.org/content/115/41/10305

Analysis: Efforts to curb carbon emissions from coal will likely fail (Coal Demand in Asia Keeps Growing) - https://www.axios.com/coal-power-carbon-emissions-asia-6e1ba3c4-89a4-4503-932f-d860ee89b655.html

The financial journalist Bethany McLean and the investor and hedge-fund manager Jim Chanos tell The New Yorker’s Eliza Griswold that something in the fracking math doesn’t add up. | https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/after-the-2008-financial-crisis-the-economy-was-fracked-up

The Earth is in a death spiral. It will take radical action to save us | https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/14/earth-death-spiral-radical-action-climate-breakdown

Rapid population growth and poor infrastructure have put two out of three cities in Africa at "extreme risk" of the threats posed by climate change, according to a new analysis
https://t.co/UENscAbP82 https://t.co/2eKo8WdoOx https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1062649476131774464

"Economics is mainly helpful after ethics and physics have set the terms of what should and can be done. Not before."

From Chicken Sh*t Economics byJonathan Foley

Earth fast losing its soil cover - https://businessmirror.com.ph/earth-fast-losing-its-soil-cover/

Big Oil claims it's doing its part to combat climate change. A new study finds it's not even close. | https://nordic.businessinsider.com/big-oil-claims-its-doing-its-part-on-climate-change-its-not-even-close-2018-11?utm_source=reddit.com&r=UK&IR=T

"Even if anthropogenic warming were constrained to less than 2 °C above pre-industrial, the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets will continue to lose mass this century, with rates similar to those observed over the past decade. " | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0305-8

Full steam ahead! The number of window air conditioning units in use could more than triple by 2050, a new report suggests. That could have big impact on climate.
https://t.co/CHkyDnlVw6 https://twitter.com/insideclimate/status/1062311615150911488

Reclaiming the roads. Learn more about cities banning cars: https://t.co/h22GAH6pwX #environment https://t.co/PiFLYwKbnu https://twitter.com/Davos/status/1061974394426146816

Scientists develop see-through film that rejects 70% of incoming solar heat. The material could be used to coat windows and save on air-conditioning costs. The film is able to remain highly transparent below 32°C/89°F. - http://news.mit.edu/2018/see-through-film-rejects-incoming-solar-heat-1108

How the Koch Brothers Are Killing Public Transit Projects Around the Country - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/climate/koch-brothers-public-transit.html

'Remarkable' decline in fertility rates. Half of all countries now have rates below the replacement level. The global fertility rate has halved since 1950. - https://www.bbc.com/news/health-46118103

Nature on the brink: Why the global loss of wildlife is a threat to human survival - https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/episode-414-george-soros-as-the-bogeyman-bohemian-rhapsody-losing-wildlife-salt-fat-acid-heat-and-more-1.4889039/nature-on-the-brink-why-the-global-loss-of-wildlife-is-a-threat-to-human-survival-1.4889045

Feeding a population of 9 billion in 2050 will require much more food than previously calculated, as people on average become taller and heavier. An average adult in 2014 was 14% heavier, about 1.3% taller and needed 6.1% more energy than in 1975. | https://geminiresearchnews.com/2018/11/bigger-people-will-need-more-food/

For the first time, plastic microfibers have been discovered in wild animals’ stool, from South American fur seals. Researchers found 67% of the samples showed a remarkable abundance of microfibers - https://www.morrisanimalfoundation.org/article/plastic-microfibers-found-first-time-wild-animals-stool-south-american-fur-seals