Sally Ann Ranney
“It always seems
impossible
until it is done.”
– Nelson Mandela
Sally Ranney’s presentation at the Explorer’s Club NYC – September 19, 2022
“What Happens in the Arctic, Doesn’t Stay in the Arctic”
Sally at the Arctic Circle Assembly Oct 2021 with the Climate Clock. The Climate Clock counts down the critical time window to reach zero emissions. Learn more here.
COP 26 at Glasgow, Scotland. The Global Choices team make the case for a 10-year moratorium to protect the Central Arctic Ocean Ice. Emma Wilkinson, Inge Relph and Sally Ranney.
Illuminate Magazine – November 3, 2021 Glasgow, Scotland at the UNFCCC. Sally Ranney in an interview by Anne Therese Gennari.
Xiye Bastida, Jerome Foster, Alexandria Villaseñor, Jojo Mehta, Mike Robinson, Sally Ranney and Matthew Shribman discuss global climate and ecological crisis at COP26 in Glasgow Scotland.
Climate Week 2021 Activities
Together We Rise
All of us alive today will determine the future of life on this planet. What we do or fail to do will affect generations to come. Will we have been Good Ancestors?
This is the moment to embrace collaboration, compassion and community – the inherent qualities of female leadership which have been missing at decision-making tables worldwide. All can embody these qualities to create the changes needed, with the urgency the crisis demands.
Please join our three globally recognized youth activist leaders: co-hosts, Xiye Bastida, Jerome Foster II, Alexandria Villaseñor and other extraordinary presenters and performers for an intergenerational and illuminating evening.
Hear from these men and women global climate leaders: activists, journalists, scientists, indigenous leaders, business champions, farmers and innovators. They will share what they are doing, what you can do and how leadership that embraces these feminine qualities holds a powerful key to solve the climate crisis.
Inspired by the recent collection of essays in All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions to the Climate Crisis, the event will celebrate and amplify the unique voices and approaches of women leading the climate movement and men who recognize and manifest that powerful and practical difference.
The science is clear; we must rapidly and radically take action to save the planet for future generations. We have the solutions. Discover, re-ignite and add your passion to solving the climate crisis.
The only way we rise is together.
Earth Day 2021 Activities
To to Earth Day 2021 LIVE to watch the video.
Need to Know
Surface temperatures in Siberia heat up to a mind-boggling 118 degrees
It’s not just the Western region of the US that’s sweltering right now. Siberia in Russia is baking, and satellites are bearing witness to a brutal heat wave above the Arctic Circle. Copernicus Sentinel-3A and Sentinel-3B satellites captured a snapshot of land surface temperatures on June 20, and it was hot.
According to NASA, “Land surface temperature is how hot the ‘surface’ of the Earth would feel to the touch in a particular location.” The Sentinel image shows a peak ground temperature of 118 degrees Fahrenheit (48 degrees Celsius) near Verkhojansk, a small town usually known for its extreme cold temperatures.
The World Meteorological Organization has been tracking the rise in temperatures around the world. “The most dramatic change is in the Arctic, which is warming more than twice as fast as the global average,” the agency said Monday in a statement aimed at raising awareness of the urgency to act on the climate crisis.
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Amanda Kooser | June 22, 2021
The Arctic is warming four times faster than the rest of the world.
Researchers have long known the world warms faster in the far north, because of a phenomenon known as Arctic amplification. The drivers of amplification include increased solar heating, as dark ocean water replaces reflective sea ice, along with occasional intrusions of tropical heat, carried to the Arctic by “atmospheric rivers,” narrow parades of dense clouds that drag water vapor northward.
Jacob’s co-authors include researchers who oversee several influential global temperature records, and they noted the faster Arctic warming as they prepared to release the global temperature average for 2020. NASA’s internal peer reviewer challenged the higher figure, suggesting the scientific literature didn’t support it. But the researchers have found the four times ratio holds in record sets from both NASA (3.9) and the United Kingdom’s Met Office (4.1), and they hope to soon include the Berkeley Earth record. (Their work also has company: In July, a team at the Finnish Meteorological Institute posted a preprint also arguing for the four times figure.)
Science | PAUL VOOSEN | December 14, 2021
Photo: HRAUN/ISTOCK
Tiny Atlantic island takes giant leap towards protecting world's oceans
UK overseas territory Tristan da Cunha’s new marine protected area will be fourth largest sanctuary of its kind.
A community of 250 people on one of the most remote inhabited islands on Earth has made a significant contribution to marine wildlife conservation by banning bottom-trawling fishing, deep-sea mining and other harmful activities from its waters.
The government of Tristan da Cunha, a volcanic archipelago in the south Atlantic and part of the UK’s overseas territories, has announced that almost 700,000 sq km of its waters will become a marine protected area (MPA), the fourth largest such sanctuary in the world.
In doing so, the community will safeguard the area’s wealth of wildlife, including sevengill sharks, the globally threatened yellow-nosed albatross and Atlantic petrel, rockhopper penguins and other birds that live there, and help the UK government achieve its target of protecting 30% of the world’s oceans by 2030.
The Guardian | Karen McVeigh | November 13, 2020
Learn More About Sally Ranney
Climate Change Solution Strategist
Wildlife & Biodiversity Activist