Today marks FIVE DAYS until the launch of our campaign to get as many people as possible to pledge to Make Climate A Class.
Last week, we asked you how fearful you were about climate change, how optimistic you were about solving climate change by 2030, and if you had learned about climate change in school.
The results? 96% of people were afraid of the effects of Climate Change, 86% of which indicated their fear as a “10” (the most fearful). Our readers were, on average, mildly optimistic about solving climate change by 2030, at a 6 out of 10.
But what was most surprising was that 43% of our readers had never learned about climate change in school, yet 98% of them believed it should be taught in school.
The consensus? Pledge to Make Climate A Class and solve Climate Change by 2030 so that we can fight to eliminate climate change ignorance and alleviate our fears.
Texas: the Climate Crisis in Action
Texas recently experienced a state-wide failure of its energy system. This failure was largely caused by the infrastructure at the various energy generating plants in Texas freezing and becoming non operational. Some wind turbines did freeze over and prevent them from operating properly, and some have claimed that this was the main cause of the outages and points to a flaw in green energy.
However, wind turbines can be winterized to prevent them from freezing over; this is common in many northern regions. Furthermore, according to ABC News, “Some wind turbine generators were iced, but nearly twice as much power was wiped out at natural gas and coal plants.”
Additionally, according to CBS News, some scientists have claimed that warming global temperatures may actually have been the cause of the recent, abnormal cold snap that affected many in the United States. The thought behind this is that warming temperatures in the arctic (which is warming at three times the average rate of the rest of the world) can weaken the jet stream and thus cause the Arctic’s cold air to leave its normal location and move south.
