This means unions and the climate movement need to be bold and step up the pressure on all parties for serious climate action. by Pip Hinman Planet EarthThe Earth is entering the sixth mass extinction event in its history. Originally published: Green Left by Pip Hinman Climate scientists now believe their predictions about the rate […]
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Is Joe Biden Ready for the Urgency of the Climate Crisis?
During his campaign, president-elect Joe Biden declared climate change the “number one issue facing humanity” and vowed a national transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy that he said would create millions of new jobs. Now the question is – will he follow through?The last Democratic president, Barack Obama, had a mixed environmental record. He […]
Read MoreThe president’s propaganda on climate doesn’t square with the science
By Chad Hanson | Feb 18 2020Donald Trump would like the American public to believe that he now thinks climate change is real. That should come as no surprise: Republican leaders have recently changed their messaging given recent polls showing that an increasing number of millennial Republicans want their party to take real action to […]
Read MoreWhy Keeping Mature Forests Intact Is Key to the Climate Fight
Preserving mature forests can play a vital role in removing CO2 from the atmosphere, says policy scientist William Moomaw. In an e360 interview, he talks about the importance of existing forests and why the push to cut them for fuel to generate electricity is misguided.By Fen Montaigne • October 15, 2019William Moomaw has had a distinguished career as […]
Read MoreClimate Change is Happening Right Now!
The Climate Crisis is Setting the State on Fire ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. After freak lightning strikes torched Northern California but before the inferno of Labor Day weekend had begun, a friend called to talk, like you do when the world is turning to crap and nothing is stable […]
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Jack Miles, a Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur “genius” award-winning author, was a contributor to the University of California’s “Bending the Curve” report on climate stability. His forthcoming book is “God in the Koran” (Alfred A. Knopf 2018). According to former U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres, we have only three years left in which to “bend […]
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by Elizabeth WeilSept. 9, 2020Gabe Huck, a member of the San Benito Monterey Cal Fire crew, fights the Creek Fire in Shaver Lake, California, on Sunday. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Photo) ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published.Two weeks ago, after […]
Read MoreIs Covid-19 the Silver Bullet For a Stable Climate?
Brad ZarnettMar 11 · We always knew that climate change was going to be painful… The air over China before and after the country went into lockdown in an attempt to contain the Covid-19 Coronavirus. Something changed recently when I saw a map comparing the air over China before and after the country went into […]
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The 2018 Report of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projected that “curtailing warming to 1.5°C, a safe level to stabilize the climate, will require an unprecedented transformation of every sector of the global economy over the next 12 years.” We are now in the last decade we have to make this transformation. It […]
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