Amazon threatened to fire climate activists, says employee group

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A group of Amazon.com workers who pushed the organization to battle environmental change say Amazon has taken steps to terminate some of them in the event that they keep on standing up against their boss' interior issues.
Two were compromised with end, a representative for Amazon Employees for Climate Justice stated, and a sum of four were told in gatherings that they were infringing upon the organization's strategies on laborers addressing the press and via web-based networking media. Maren Costa, a client experience fashioner, was undermined with end in the wake of addressing the Washington Post, as indicated by an announcement from the gathering. "This isn't an ideal opportunity to shoot the delivery people," Costa said in the discharge. "This isn't an ideal opportunity to quietness the individuals who are standing up."
Jaci Anderson, an Amazon representative, said that the organization's outside interchanges strategy isn't new. Representatives are "urged to work inside their groups," and may recommend "upgrades to how we work through those inner channels."
The tech business has been annoyed by representative activism in the recent years. After Google laborers raised worries about offering on military agreements, the Alphabet Inc. search mammoth pulled out of a US Defense Department ramble program and chose not to offer on an agreement to assemble cloud administrations for the Pentagon. Workers at Microsoft and Salesforce.com constrained officials about their organizations' dealings with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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Melting ice sheets may cause 'climate chaos' in a few decades: Study

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Billions of tonnes of meltwater flowing into the world's oceans from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets could boost extreme weather and destabilise regional climate within a matter of decades, researchers said Wednesday.

These melting giants, especially the one atop Greenland, are poised to further weaken the ocean currents that move cold water south along the Atlantic Ocean floor while pushing tropical waters northward closer to the surface, they reported in the journal Nature.
Known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), this liquid conveyor belt plays a crucial role in Earth's climate system and helps ensures the relative warmth of the Northern Hemisphere.

"According to our models, this meltwater will cause significant disruptions to ocean currents and change levels of warming around the world," said lead author Nicholas Golledge, an associate professor at the Antarctic Research Centre of New Zealand's Victoria University of Wellington.
The Antarctic ice sheet's loss of mass, meanwhile, traps warmer water below the surface, eroding glaciers from underneath in a vicious circle of accelerated melting that contributes to sea level rise.


 Most studies on ice sheets have focused on how quickly they might shrink due to global warming, and how much global temperatures can rise before their disintegration -- whether over centuries or millenia -- becomes inevitable, a threshold known as a "tipping point."