Hawai’i Today
Explore with us the current events, both global and local, that impact life in Hawai’i Today. “In depth” analysis of the challenges and potential solutions are addressed, with a focus on activating community solutions that will nurture and sustain a lifestyle unique to all who live in Hawai’i.
La Niña Is Back; what that may or may not mean for Hawaii
After a months-long tug-of-war and relative atmospheric balance between El Niño and La Niña, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday that La Niña is the winner, has returned to Hawaii, and is expected to stick around through the winter and into next year. El Niño and La Niña reflect the two end points […]
It’s Not All Bad News in the Fight to Slow Global Warming
Clean energy technologies such as wind turbines, solar panels and electric vehicles are advancing so rapidly that the global use of fossil fuels is now expected to peak by the mid-2020s and then start declining, the world’s leading energy agency said Tuesday. But there’s a catch: The transition away from coal, oil and natural gas […]
Fossil Fuels Rule & Ruin
The Paris Agreement is a legally binding international treaty on Climate Change, adopted by 196 Countries and ratified at COP 21 in Paris on 12 December 2015. Fast forward COP 26 (Nov. 2021), and these same participating countries are now returning to the table to do the hard work of determining how individual countries, and groups […]
A Climate Experiment Gone Wrong
The world has already heated up by around 1.2C, on average, since the preindustrial era, pushing humanity beyond almost all historical boundaries. Cranking up the temperature of the entire globe this much within little more than a century is, in fact, extraordinary, with the oceans alone absorbing the heat equivalent of five Hiroshima atomic bombs dropping into […]