Contemporary climate change involves rising global temperatures and
significant shifts in Earth's weather patterns. Climate change is driven
by emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide
and methane. Emissions come mostly from burning fossil fuels (coal, oil
and natural gas), and also from agriculture, forest loss, cement
production and steel making. Climate change causes sea level rise,
glacial retreat and desertification, and intensifies heat waves,
wildfires and tropical storms. These effects of climate change endanger
food security, freshwater access and global health. Climate change can
be limited by using low-carbon energy sources such as wind and solar
energy, forestation, and shifts in agriculture. Adaptations such as
coastline protection cannot by themselves avert the risk of severe,
pervasive and irreversible impacts. Limiting global warming in line with
the goals of the Paris Agreement requires reaching net-zero emissions by
2050.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1517:
According to one account, Martin Luther posted his Ninety-five
Theses onto the door of All Saints' Church in Wittenberg, present-day
Germany, marking the beginning of the Protestant Reformation.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety-five_Theses>
1941:
Approximately 400 workers completed the 60-foot (18 m) busts of
U.S. presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt,
and Abraham Lincoln at Mount Rushmore in South Dakota.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Rushmore>
1984:
Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by two of
her own Sikh bodyguards, sparking riots that resulted in the deaths of
thousands of Sikhs.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Indira_Gandhi>
2015:
Shortly after takeoff, Metrojet Flight 9268 exploded and then
crashed into the Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 people on board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrojet_Flight_9268>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
bunny boiler:
(slang, humorous, derogatory) A person who acts (or may supposedly act)
obsessively or even dangerously towards another person with whom they
were previously, or wish to be, in a relationship.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bunny_boiler>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song,
nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou
kiss, Though winning near the goal — yet, do not grieve; She cannot
fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she
be fair!
--John Keats
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Keats>