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MCC Daily Tribune

Green Tip: Sustainability and Climate Change

Carbon Brief is a UK-based website covering the latest developments in climate science, climate policy, and energy policy. Carbon Brief has mapped every extreme-weather attribution study published to February 2021 (to the best of their knowledge).  These studies have the power to link the abstract concept of climate change with personal and tangible experiences of weather. This is around 350 peer-reviewed studies looking at weather extremes – heatwaves, droughts, flooding, and hurricanes—that is mounting evidence that human activity is raising the risk of some types of extreme weather—especially heat-related events.

Mapped:  How Climate Change Affects Extreme Weather Around the World

The map on the Carbon Brief page shows 405 extreme weather events and trends that have had attribution studies. You can select different types of extreme weather, and whether the published study showed a link to human-caused climate change, no link, or inconclusive evidence. When you click on a symbol on the map, you see more information, including a quote from the original paper that summarizes the findings and a link to the online version.

What Can I Do?

According to UN ActNow, everyone can help limit climate change.  Here are some steps to take:

Save energy at home – lower your heating and cooling, switch to LED light bulbs, buy energy-efficient appliances, wash laundry with cold water

Drive less – walk, bike, take public transportation or carpool if you can; group, schedule, and map out errands to be more efficient

Eat more vegetables - Eating more vegetables and fruits and less meat and dairy can significantly lower your environmental impact. Producing plant-based foods generally results in fewer greenhouse gas emissions and requires less energy, land, and water.

Throw away less food – plan meals to avoid waste, label food in refrigerators so it is used before it goes bad -- When you throw food away, you're also wasting the resources and energy that were used to grow, produce, package, and transport it; and when food rots in a landfill, it produces methane, a powerful greenhouse gas.

Reduce, reuse, repair, and recycle - buy fewer things, shop second-hand, repair what you can, recycle correctly

Ann Penwarden
Sustainability Steering Committee
02/08/2022