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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Climate Crises and Air Travel
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 […]
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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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