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Climate disasters create a real cost burden for Floridians
During President Biden’s trip to Florida this weekend to survey the damage from hurricane Idalia, he said with storms and wildfires raging globally, it difficult to deny the climate crisis. In the area hit by...
A Surprising Debut Novel. The Way Of Birds. Etherial Music
Chuck Collins – Alter To An Erupting Sun Altar to an Erupting Sun is a near-future story of one community facing climate disruption in the critical decade ahead. Rae Kelliher is a veteran environmental activist...
Why are so many humans religious? Why do we daydream, imagine, and hope? Philosophers, theologians, social scientists, and historians have offered explanations for centuries, but their accounts often ignore or even avoid human evolution. Evolutionary...
Sea-level rise threatens several Tampa Bay area communities: report
A new report on sea-level rise by the Union of Concerned Scientists concludes that several Tampa Bay communities will see more and more sunny-day flooding over the next few decades; we also hear from two of...
People’s Climate March in Tampa Saturday
On Saturday there are at least three local marches in the Tampa Bay area in solidarity with the People’s Climate March in Washington, D.C. In Sarasota, St. Petersburg and Tampa people will gather to draw attention...
St. Pete mayor worries how Trump will impact preparations for climate change
How will a Donald Trump administration impact the resources that local communities need to deal with the effects of climate change? That issue came up Friday morning during a panel discussion on climate at the BLUE...
Senate candidate Patrick Murphy concerned about climate change and wealth gap
A member of Congress running for Florida’s U.S. Senate seat says the disappearing middle class and climate change are two issues that need to be solved quickly; Democrat Patrick Murphy spoke Friday afternoon at the Suncoast Tiger...
St. Pete will consider pulling fossil fuel investments from pension funds
St. Petersburg will end all bond investments in fossil fuel companies within two years and now City Council is considering whether to pull its investments in carbon polluting industries from its much larger pension funds...
Fracking opponents will bring their protest to Florida legislators
This session the Florida Legislature is considering bills to regulate fracking. This week the Senate Environmental Protection and Conservation Committee advanced a bill that prohibits local governments from banning the controversial oil and natural gas drilling...
Women Discuss Climate Change Through The Lens Of Their Lives
There has been a lot of talk about the recent COP 21 agreement in Paris, where almost 200 countries came together and agreed to cut emissions and the global temperature to under 2 degrees Celsius....
National Geographic devotes full issue to climate change
Climate change could be the most important challenge of the 21st Century; our guests on MidPoint contributed to the current issue of National Geographic magazine that’s all about the climate. It comes out weeks before major international climate talks...
People’s Climate March in Tampa
A new website shows the effects of sea-level rise on U.S. cities based on current projections side-by-side with the reduced effects that would happen with drastic reductions in carbon emissions. It’s based on information published...
