May 1, 2019
How many millions of people will be forced to leave their homes by 2050? This documentary looks at the so-called hotspots of climate change in the Sahel zone, Indonesia and the Russian Tundra.
Lake Chad in the Sahel zone has already shrunk by 90 percent since the 1960s due to the increasing heat. About 40 million people will be forced to migrate to places where there is enough rainfall. Migration has always existed as a strategy to adapt to a changing environment. But the number of those forced to migrate solely because of climate change has increased dramatically since the 1990s. It is a double injustice: after becoming rich at the expense of the rest of the world, the industrialized countries are now polluting the atmosphere with their emissions and bringing a second misfortune to the inhabitants of the poorer regions. One of them is Mohammed Ibrahim: as Lake Chad got hotter and drier, he decided to go where the temperatures were less extreme and there was still a little water, trekking with his wife, children and 70 camels from Niger to Chad and then further south. The journey lasted several years and many members of his herd died of thirst. Now he and his family are living in a refugee camp: they only have seven camels left. Mohammed is one of many who have left their homelands in the Sahel – not because of conflict and crises, but because of the high temperatures. He’s a real climate refugee.
May 25, 2020
Recently the World Meteorological Organization published their 5 year update: “The Global Climate in 2015 – 2019”, comparing this period with the previous 5 year period and historical records. Clearly, key climate change elements including greenhouse gas levels, atmospheric and ocean temperatures, Greenland, Antarctica, and alpine glacier ice mass loss, heatwaves, droughts, wildfires and extreme events including tropical cyclones, floods, tornadoes, etc. are rapidly worsening. I chat on the main findings of this report by focusing on the figures, both in this video and the next. Stay safe in our virus pandemic.
May 25, 2020
Recently the World Meteorological Organization published their 5 year update: “The Global Climate in 2015 – 2019”, comparing this period with the previous 5 year period and historical records. Clearly, key climate change elements including greenhouse gas levels, atmospheric and ocean temperatures, Greenland, Antarctica, and alpine glacier ice mass loss, heatwaves, droughts, wildfires and extreme events including tropical cyclones, floods, tornadoes, etc. are rapidly worsening. I chat on the main findings of this report by focusing on the figures, both in this video and the last. Stay safe in our virus pandemic.
Read more: https://public.wmo.int/en/media/press…
World Meteorological Organization: https://public.wmo.int/en
as well as report: WMO Statement on the State of the Global Climate in 2019 (PDF)
CBS This Morning
Apr 30, 2020
The Houston Food Bank in Texas is the largest in the U.S., and it has seen demand spike after the coronavirus pandemic put many Americans out of work. While they estimate giving out 80 million pounds of food in a normal year, CEO Brian Greene says they now average close to a million pounds per day, and are still not meeting the need. Janet Shamlian visits the food bank to see how severe demand has gotten.
May 22, 2020
In the United States another 2.4 million people have filed for unemployment benefits in the past week.
More than 38 million Americans have lost their jobs since the coronavirus pandemic struck in March.
Previously affluent middle-class Americans are now queuing for handouts at food banks, as America experiences the worst downturn since the 1930s and the Great Depression.
Huw Edwards presents BBC News at Ten reporting from North America Correspondent Nick Bryant in New York.
May 25, 2020
US president Donald Trump marked the Memorial Day weekend with visits to Arlington National Cemetery, Fort McHenry and his Trump National Golf Club. Trump delivered a speech at Fort McHenry thanking those serving in the military as the country battles the ‘invisible enemy’, Covid-19. The president also returned to the golf course for the first time since early March on the same weekend US coronavirus deaths closed in on 100,000 Trump spends Memorial Day weekend golfing and insulting female politicians
Al Jazeera English
May 25, 2020
The plight of Rohingya refugees is one filled with testimonies of brutal violence. Al Jazeera’s Senior Correspondent Mohammed Jamjoom encountered “the most horrific descriptions of atrocities” while covering the crisis for more than three years. “No other story has had as much of an impact on me as this one has,” he said. In this episode of Between Us, Jamjoom shares his experience reporting on the crisis.
FRANCE 24 English
May 25, 2020
Brazil now has the second-biggest caseload in the world, after the United States. It has registered more than 22,000 deaths. Anthony Pereira, director of the King’s College Brazil Institute, was our guest.
Cambridge Forum will present a Zoom webinar.
on Living Without Working.
Zoom details of this program will follow but mark your calendars.
International economist Daniel Susskind joins us from Balliol College, Oxford to talk about his latest book, A WORLD WITHOUT WORK: Technology, Automation and How We Should Respond. Susskind was a policy adviser for the prime minister’s strategy unit and a senior adviser in the Cabinet office of the British government.
You are invited to a Zoom webinar.
When: May 29, 2020 02:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Topic: Cambridge Forum presents ‘LIVING WITHOUT WORKING”
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May 12, 2020
Glenn Kelman, Redfin CEO, joins ‘Power Lunch’ to discuss the state of the vacation home market and where he sees it headed as the coronavirus pandemic continues.
May 15, 2020
Steven Davis, University of Chicago Booth School, joins ‘Power Lunch’ to discuss the study which found many of the jobs lost during the economy’s self-reduced recession may never come back.