Students will be creating connected spaces for communities facing #naturaldisasters through U.S. Cellular & JASON Learning's Connected Storm Sanctuary Design Thinking Mission. Learn more about this free #STEM learning activity here:
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The #Trumpadministration has a new strategy for deflecting concerns about the warming planet. #Trump officials are minimizing warnings from scientists by arguing they are exaggerated and based on the worst-case scenario. They say the National Climate Assessment (NCA) - an expansive federal government report on the dangers of climate change in the US - considers only the highest possible levels of greenhouse gas emissions. Trump said he did not believe #climatechange would have economic consequences for the US.

Global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations appear to be the highest they have been in 3m years, and continued carbon growth is likely lead to carbon levels not seen in tens of millions of years. If humans greatly reduce the greenhouse gases spewing into the atmosphere, continuing warming will still pose wide-ranging dangers.


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Trump officials argue climate change warnings based on ‘worst-case scenario'
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/01/trump-officials-argue-climate-change-warnings-based-on-worst-case-scenario

Thirteen U.S. government agencies have just issued an alarming new report predicting that #globalwarming, if allowed to continue unabated, will shrink the #Americaneconomy by 10% by 2100, amid environmental impacts that are, if anything, even more dire. The White House tried to bury the report by releasing it during the holiday weekend, and President Donald #Trump announced he didn’t 'believe it.' But its conclusions are inescapable.

The top of the world is now warming at twice the average global rate. You’ve likely seen the graphs and stats: Last winter, maximum sea-ice cover narrowly missed being the smallest ever recorded — a dubious honor that goes to the winter of 2016-17. The changes that warming is bringing to the Arctic affect much more than a couple of exotic whale species; they are transforming the region’s lands as well as waters. For creatures as various as majestic caribou, diminutive seabirds and humans here and around the world, the results are dire.


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Trump says climate change isn’t real. He should come to Utqiagvik in Alaska
https://www.politico.eu/article/cop-24-donald-trump-says-climate-change-isnt-real-utqiagvik-in-alaska/

Next week will see thousands of people arrive in Katowice, #Poland, for the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on #ClimateChange, otherwise known as #COP24. Taking place between December 2 and 14, a lot is riding on the summit.

The Paris Agreement, reached at #COP21 in 2015, will loom large over events at Katowice. According to the United Nations, COP24 is important because this year marks the deadline agreed by signatories of the Paris Agreement to adopt a "work program for the implementation" of the commitments they made in 2015. Other commitments made in Paris include increasing financing for climate action and the development of 'national climate plans' by 2020.


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COP24: Why a climate change summit taking place in Poland is so important
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/30/cop24-why-a-climate-change-summit-in-poland-is-so-important.html

The #CampFire was one of the deadliest wildfires in #California state history. Perhaps most worrisome is what lies in the state’s future, when the smoke has finally cleared to reveal a very different real-estate landscape.
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/the-latest-on-the-california-wildfires-relief-efforts-real-estate-and-home-looting
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