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THE BLOG
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Australian Conservative Media Promotes Misinformation Campaign About Cause Of Wildfires, Claiming It’s From Arsonists Not Climate Change
Since October, more than one hundred wildfires have consumed sixteen million acres across Australia, an area the size of Denmark.
Madrid Climate Conference Fails To Achieve Even Modest Results
The COP 25, Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, met in Madrid from December 2 through 15 to hammer out new agreements for compliance with the goals set forth in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement.
Since 1970 North America Has Lost Three Billion Birds Or 29 Percent From Climate Change, Loss Of Habitat, Pesticides And Insect Declines
The journal, Science, just published an alarming study that there has been a decline of 29 percent, or 3 billion birds in the United States and Canada since 1970. Experts who have studied bird populations for years were astounded by the new study.
World Meteorological Organization’s Report Underscores Urgency Of Reducing Emissions But September UN Climate Summit Resulted In Little Progress By the World’s Nations
The United Nations Climate Change Summit held in New York September 21 through 23 began with hopes for commitments by the world’s biggest polluters of dangerous greenhouse gas emissions, including China, the US and India, to announce sharp reductions in emissions to keep global warming below the dangerous threshold of 1.5 C. But the Summit ended with disappointments.
UN Climate Action Summit Ends With Disappointments and Inaction By Industrialized Countries to Reduce Emission But New Commitments by Others
The UN Climate Action Summit took place in New York City from September 21st to 23rd against a backdrop of massive youth climate strikes around the world, a hoped-for announcement by large industrialized nations of further reductions of greenhouse gas emissions and a planet that is warming at an alarming rate, even exceeding the projections of recent climate studies.
Youth Climate Activists Stage Largest Environmental Protest in History
In 156 countries, 4 million young climate activists walked out of school to tell the world that the Climate Crisis is destroying the planet and their future and its time to stop talking and start implementing real changes to avoid the worst disasters of a heating world.
The United Nations Climate Action Summit Convenes Amidst a Spirit of Urgency to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The UN Climate Action Summit is convening over a three-day-period, September 21st – September 23rd.
Climate Change is Creating More Powerful Hurricanes Like Dorian
On September 1, 2019 Hurricane Dorian slammed the Bahamas with its devastating category five, 185 mph winds, 225 gusts and 23-foot storm surge. Its first target was the chain of small Abaco Cays.
Greta Thunberg And Other Youth Climate Activists Speak Before The U S Congressional Select Committee On The Climate Crisis
Greta Thunberg, 16-year-old Swedish climate activist, joined other youth leaders in the US climate movement to speak to the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis on Wednesday morning.
It Used To Be Glacier National Park
Glacier National Park, Montana. At St. Mary’s on the east side of Glacier National Park we started up the Going-to-the-Sun-Road, that winds for fifty miles through steep, rugged terrain and ends on the west side of the park at West Glacier.
Natural Gas Is Not A Clean Burning Renewable Fuel
Natural gas is not a bridge to a clean, renewable economy. Its a dead end to a dangerously high level of carbon in the atmosphere.
The US Conference of Mayors Votes to Support Policies to Reduce Climate Change and Sharply Rebukes the Trump White House for its Failures
Honolulu, Hawaii – The US Conference of Mayors, representing 1,408 cities across the country, met in Honolulu last week and expressed broad support for local and national measures to address the dangers from the Climate Crisis.
Small Island Countries in the World’s Oceans are Threatened by Rising Seas
Eleuthera, Bahamas – Throughout the world’s vast oceans, small island countries from the Bahamas, 48 miles off the east coast of Florida, to Samoa in the South Pacific, face an existential threat from sea level rise caused by the Climate Crisis.
U.N. Climate Conference Convened in Poland Against a Backdrop of Dire Warnings of Runaway Climate Change
During the year 2018, the nations of the world were on track to emit a record 37.1 gigatons of dangerous green house gases, equal in weight to 100,000 Empire State Buildings.
Republicans Open Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to Dangers of Oil Drilling
A little known provision of the December 2017 Republican tax bill opened the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to the dangers of oil and gas drilling.
Governor DeSantis Announces Policies to Protect Florida’s Environment but Fails to Address Climate Change as the Root Cause
Newly elected Governor Ron DeSantis recently issued an executive order to address the many serious environmental problems that directly threaten Florida.
And a Child Shall Lead Them – Mitch McConnell and the Green New Deal
Mitch McConnell, powerful Senate majority leader and fearless Washington brawler, ran out of his D.C. senate office in a total panic when a group of rosy cheeked school children from his home state of Kentucky showed up to ask him about climate change and the Green New Deal.
A Green New Deal Is What’s Urgently Needed
When congresswoman, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts, rolled out the Green New Deal, they made a bold proposal to transform the U.S. economy over the next few decades by promoting renewable energy technology and industry, energy efficiency in new and existing buildings, an infrastructure bill that addresses climate change, zero emissions vehicles and an overhauled clean and affordable public transportation system.