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Record Montana temperatures may impact drought, predicted by climate models
“It’s not surprising given what we know about future climatic changes.
We’ve always often talked about those changes in terms of increased temperatures in our winters and our summers as a thing and phenomenon that’s going to happen in the far and distant future.
But in reality, that time is now and we’re starting to experience those [climate] changes firsthand.” – State Climatologist Kelsey Jensco
By: Geneva Zoltek
UM climate expert, Dr. Steve Running: COP26 effects could ripple across Montana
“I keep thinking how much easier this would have been 20 years ago,” said Steve Running, a retired University of Montana forestry professor whose work on the International Panel on Climate Change helped “lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change” when it won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.
Today’s TED Talk – Dear world leaders, these are our climate demands
Investing in green energy, holding large corporations accountable for their pollution, stopping pipeline and oil extraction initiatives — these are non-negotiable actions to protect the planet, but they are still just the bare minimum, say climate activists Xiye Bastida and Shiv Soin. In conversation with radio researcher Latif Nasser, Bastida and Soin share their list of six crucial climate demands for world leaders — and discuss how we all can get involved.
Climate change fuels a water rights conflict built on over a century of broken promises
The simple way to think about this crisis: There’s no longer enough water to go around to meet the needs of farmers and Native American populations as well as fish and birds.
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