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New survey finds a growing climate consensus among meteorologists by John Abraham (Climate Consensus - 97%, Guardian) attracted the most comments of the articles posted on SkS during the past week. Global food production threatens to overwhelm efforts to combat climate change by Pep Canadell & Hanqin Tian (The Conversation) drew the second highest number.
Water levels may swell up to 80 per cent and could result in flooding as severe as 1998 disaster when the worst El Nino in history killed thousands and affected 220 million across 24 provinces, says flood control official
China’s Yangtze River to face catastrophic spring floods as near record El Nino strikes, South China Morning Post, Apr 1, 2016
Hat tip to I Heart Climate Scientists
As it turns out, the faith community may have a marked advantage when it comes to dealing with global warming. According to University of British Columbia social psychologist and author Ara Norenzayan, religion primes cooperation. In his work, Norenzayan has found religious societies to be more cooperative than non-religious societies — particularly where a group's survival is threatened.
“Participation in religion seems to make people more likely to suppress self-interest in favor of group norms,” Norenzayan told me. He believes religion may have underwritten the growth of large societies by encouraging cooperation and preventing the exploitation of scarce resources, like water.
Why Faith Communities Might Be Our Best Hope for Fighting Climate Change by James Deaton, Sojouners, Mar 30, 2016
Robin Andrews included Making Sense of Climate Science Denial in her IFLS article, Ten Awesome Science Courses You Can Take Online For FREE.
How to inoculate people against Donald Trump's fact bending claims by John Cook & Margaret Crane originally published in The Conversation US was republished in The Examiner and Independent Australia.
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