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Climate Change Killing Cocoa
From The Guardian: A searing heatwave that struck west Africa in February was made 4C hotter and 10 times more likely by human-caused global heating, a study has found.
The heat affected millions of people but the number of early deaths or cases of illness are unknown, due to a lack of reporting.
Farmers in Ivory Coast said in February that the high temperatures and lack of rain were damaging their crops. In March, major cocoa plants there and in Ghana stopped or reduced processing because they could not afford to buy the beans, Reuters reported. The price of cocoa beans has risen to an unprecedented high of more than $8,000 a tonne, more than three times the price in March 2020.
Globally, this February was the hottest February ever recorded, the ninth month in a row that such a record has been broken. Carbon emissions, which continue to rise, and the return of the El Niño phenomenon have driven the high temperatures.
Take the Train But Only on the East Coast Corridor
From the New York Times: I took a train across America and ended up emitting more planet-warming emissions, not less.
…A nonstop flight from New York to San Francisco emits, on average, about 840 pounds of carbon dioxide per economy class passenger, according to Google…
