UMKC Kangaroos Fear Climate Change

More deets on city college concern and a recent teachable moment . . .

  “I could foresee in the upcoming decades [the Midwest] not being able to have insurance for things like hail damage [or] wind damage from these severe storms,” said the president of the UMKC Environmental Student Council (ESC) . . .   Kansas City will see more warming trends, like the August and September heat waves, and more extreme storms and tornadoes. 

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

The worst impacts of climate change are inevitable according to a United Nations report, what does this mean for our future at UMKC?

A September 2026 United Nations report stated its goal to keep average temperatures under 1.5 degrees Celsius in warming can no longer be attained with the current rate of climate change. The 1.5 degree Celsius mark was one of two numbers proposed by the United Nations under the Paris Climate Accords in 2015 to...