Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Ecology and Pollution related links 092519



Trump’s big leap backward on climate

Trump went golfing as Hurricane Dorian threatens US

Doctors don't care about the politics of climate change. We focus on the facts: Declaring a climate health emergency is essential in preparing our sector for the future

Recycling rubble to save mountains, rivers and beaches

Maine First U.S. State to Ban Styrofoam Containers

Brazil’s Bolsonaro: “It’s Too Much Land For So Few Indians”

Greta Thunberg Says 'Haters' Attacking Her Asperger's Have 'Nowhere Left to Go'

Nobody puts Greta Thunberg in the corner

Brazil’s Bolsonaro: “It’s Too Much Land For So Few Indians”

Literal Sh*t Storm: Warnings of Major Manure Threat as Hurricane Dorian Barrels Toward North Carolina Factory Farms.  "The heavy rainfall could flood poorly located factory farms, spreading untold tons of hog, chicken, and turkey waste along the coastal plain."

The White House just put out a statement from an admiral in defense of Trump’s hurricane claims

Live commentary: How to solve the climate crisis

Bernie Sanders: Abortion Helps Curb Population Growth to Combat Climate Change

Exposing Why The News Won’t Talk About Climate Change

Entomophagy

Biden Fund-Raiser Draws Climate Change Protesters

White House Official Says It Was Trump Himself Who Altered the Hurricane Dorian Map With a Sharpie

On Setting Vehicle Efficiency, California Will Win

Farmers Pay More Attention to Organic, Resilient Ag: The numbers are in and speak for themselves

USDA Secretary Perdue is Just Part of a Loathsome Administration

'We All Owe Al Gore An Apology': More People See Climate Change In Record Flooding

Taxpayers are funding the Trump White House's misinformation campaign

‘An Ever-Tightening Gordian Knot’: A report finds the fate of spent nuclear fuel in the U.S. hopelessly tangled and calls for a radical “reset.”

We watched all 7 hours of the climate town hall so you didn’t have to

NOAA disavows National Weather Service tweet that contradicted Trump

NOAA Officials Backed Trump’s False Dorian Claims Under Threat of Firing, Sources Say

Climate activists struggle to convince Dems that green isn’t just for whites

Amazon Fires Will Have Global Consequences. The UN Must Act.

Sharpie-gate isn’t just silly – it’s worrisome

Nord Stream 2: Energy Security For Europe Or Prelude To Russian Aggression In The Baltic?

Commerce Chief threatened firings at NOAA after Trump’s Dorian tweets, sources say

W5: What happens when the permafrost thaws?

Cocos Island - The mysterious island in the Pacific

Daniel Christian Wahl: “I have a passion for building bridges between diverse stakeholders, perspectives, disciplines, and worldviews. I bring innovation, creativity, and whole systems design to enterprises, projects, and educational programmes that foster effective collaboration in the transition towards a thriving and innovative culture of sustainability, resilience, and wellbeing. I look forward to collaborating with you.”

Pink Floyd legend Roger Waters labels Boris Johnson a ‘sociopath’

Bill Gates Donates $15 Million to Campaign Pushing GMOs on Small Farmers Around the World

Undocumented elephant ivory trade ‘thriving’ in Massachusetts: Humane Society

Trump had deal with Scotland airport that sent flight crews to his resort

Puerto Rico: Hurricane Maria relief officials arrested, accused of bribery and fraud

Clampdown on Housing Rights Activists in Bolsonaro’s Brazil: The far-right president’s violent, discriminatory rhetoric has unleashed a rise in attacks on marginalized populations.

Fighting Asthma with Compost: The Baltimore Compost Collective wants Baltimore to adopt curbside composting, to address the city’s air pollution problem.

The Government Should Write Everyone a Check—Paid for by a Carbon Tax: A carbon tax and dividend could curb greenhouse gas emissions while improving quality of life for many.

Don’t Tax Carbon—Just Stop Digging It Up: Carbon taxes are regressive and ineffective, failing to provide the transformative change we need.

Some Economists Say Carbon Taxes Are a Silver Bullet. The Reality Is More Complicated.  A carbon tax isn’t a bad idea, but by itself could be politically dangerous.

Expert: "Humanity headed for suicide destroying the Amazon"

Brazilian Official Who Fought to Protect the Amazon ‘Assassinated’ in Front of His Family: Maxciel Pereira dos Santos was shot twice in the head on Friday while riding a motorbike through the Amazon.

Health facts aren’t enough.  Should persuasion become a priority?

Trump Administration Officially Revokes Obama-Era Clean Water Protections

Greta Thunberg Wins Major GQ 'Men of the Year' Award: The prolific teenage environmentalist will receive the Game Changer Of The Year Award - which GQ has created especially for her

Let's talk about the Bahamas and talking points....

HURRICANES AND THE CLIMATE CRISIS: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: The bottom line: warmer temperatures create a greater chance of more intense storms.

WHY PROTECTING THE AMAZON IS CRITICAL TO SOLVING THE CLIMATE CRISIS.  The world has spent weeks watching fires ravage the Amazon Rainforest, and along with it, our chances of meeting the Paris Agreement’s goals. What’s more, scientists predict that this critical ecosystem is nearing an irreversible tipping point: a decline from lush rainforest to dry savanna.

QUIZ: WHAT KIND OF CLIMATE ACTIVIST ARE YOU?  You know the climate crisis is devastating the Earth. And you want to know what you can do. Take the quiz to learn how you can make a difference and get involved on November 20-21.

BACK TO SCHOOL: WE CAN’T LET DENIERS SCRAP CLIMATE SCIENCE EDUCATION.  We need consistent and comprehensive climate change curriculums to be taught in schools so that kids know the truth about our warming planet and can be well-prepared for their future.

THE CLIMATE DENIAL MACHINE: HOW THE FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY BLOCKS CLIMATE ACTION.  It takes a lot to defy common sense on a global scale, all to benefit one industry. But for decades, fossil fuel interests have done just that, running a sophisticated and sprawling network of well-funded think tanks and front groups with one goal: Stop any real climate action, no matter the cost to billions.

LEARN HOW TO BECOME A CLIMATE REALITY LEADER

Greenpeace activists suspend themselves from Houston's Fred Hartman Bridge to protest fossil fuel: The demonstration comes hours before the third Democratic 2020 presidential primary debate Thursday night at Texas Southern University.

Climate crisis is greatest ever threat to human rights, UN warns

Pompeo’s whopper: Team Trump is the most science-friendly in history

Red Cross Commits Initial $2M to Help Bahamas, Helps Evacuees Coming to U.S.

Britannia Unchained: the free-market book that defines Boris Johnson’s new cabinet: The libertarian tract’s policies and co-authors - Dominic Raab, Priti Patel, Liz Truss - are at the heart of the new government.

Trump opens protected Alaskan Arctic refuge to oil drillers: The Bureau of Land Management will offer leases to the 1.6m-acre coastal plain which is home to threatened polar bears

Fracked Gas Well Blowout in Louisiana Likely to Burn for the Next Month

2020 Democrats are getting more confrontational with the fossil fuel industry: It shows just how much the party has moved on energy and climate change.

Research Highlight: Loss of Arctic's Reflective Sea Ice Will Advance Global Warming by 25 Years
Fast mitigation may still avoid complete loss of sea ice

108 degrees in Paris: Europe is shattering heat records this week: Paris reported its highest temperature ever this week as Europe’s second major heat wave of the summer continues.

'People are dying': how the climate crisis has sparked an exodus to the US: As part of the Running Dry series, the Guardian looks at how drought and famine are forcing Guatemalan families to choose between starvation and migration

Ethiopia 'breaks' tree-planting record to tackle climate change

Met Office: UK's 10 hottest years on record occurred since 2002.  Data also shows that none of Britain’s coldest years have happened since 1963

'Low chance' Siberia wildfires will be brought under control: Greenpeace fire expert

Indonesia sends thousands of security personnel to combat forest fires

In Pakistan's warming mountains, farmers fish for a new living

The Arctic Is on Fire, and It Might Be Creating a Vicious Climate 'Feedback Loop': The worst Arctic wildfire season in recent history is releasing unprecedented emissions that feed into climate change, creating the conditions for more fires.

How Climate Change Could Trigger the Next Global Financial Crisis: The Federal Reserve should act aggressively to reduce that risk, a leading economic historian argues.

Climate change made Europe’s 2019 record heatwave up to ‘100 times more likely’

6 Greenwashing Schemes That Show Corporations Will Never Lead on Climate: More and more companies are setting public goals for reducing their greenhouse gas emissions. History shows they can’t be trusted.

National Parks Conservation Association: We're protecting and enhancing America's National Park System for present and future generations.

Exposed

The Last Wild One

Candid Cameras

After the Fire

JOIN THE CLIMATE STRIKES THIS SEPTEMBER

Businesses are taking the Climate Strike seriously

Trump will target California to roll back standards for car emissions

Greta to Senate: ‘You’re not trying hard enough’

Lush to close 250 stores to protest climate change with Greta Thunberg

‘Listen to the scientists’: Greta Thunberg urges Congress to take action.  Teen climate activists attend a hearing to address the climate crisis and its traumatic effect on the younger generation

Trump's Trade Wars Fuel Amazon Forest Fires: Brazil is now the top exporter of soybeans to China – and that is leading to the rainforest being burned down at an extraordinary rate.

Beat the heat

Letters to the Editor: Apocalypse Approaching, etc.

Saving Our Earth: Big Oil Has Been Avoiding Climate Change Responsibility for Decades. Why Hasn’t the Government Been Helping Small Farmers Prepare?

Austerity-Obsessed Europe Could Combat Climate Change Without Raising Taxes
Trump in denial of climate change: We’ve never had a commander-in-chief committed to making a clear and present danger to our security or so divorced from the reality.

It's 2019, and the media is still downplaying climate change's role in catastrophic weather events

Politics and Local Weather Broadcasters

Hurricane Dorian: DeSantis & Trump haven’t curbed CO2 emissions & should resign. DeSantis should resign the governorship and just go home.

Mind Your Pollinators

Climate Colonialism: The Picture of Dorian’s Graves

Dana Milbank: Donald and the Black Sharpie

Trump EPA OKs ‘Emergency’ Use of Bee-Killing Pesticide on 13.9 Million Acres

Taking It Back: Ileana Cabra’s songs for a revolution.

Isra Hirsi Is 16, Unbothered, and Saving the Planet: As the co-founder of the U.S. Youth Climate Strike and the daughter of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, Isra Hirsi is grappling with harassment, safety threats, tokenization, and privilege on a national scale years before she's even allowed to vote.

Losing Ground: Re-thinking soil as a renewal resource

Freshwater Threats: Freshwater habitats face a multitude of threats, but it's not too late to save these environments.

Spotty zebra in Kenya Maasai Mara reserve

Environmentalists Couldn’t Stop the Slaughter at Idaho’s Annual Coyote and Wolf Derby: At the end of the four-day affair, 30 coyote corpses had been hung from hooks in a warehouse, despite the efforts of activists to stop what they call a "culture of death."

Inspired by Greta Thunberg, worldwide protest demands climate action

From A Russian: Our Planet is So Small that We Must Live in Peace.  Traveling to Yakutsk in Far East Russia

California to Trump: ‘We’ll see you in court’ – We want to breathe!

NEWS THAT MATTERS TO YOU

Tipping Point: Bill McKibben On A Planet In Peril

A Shrinking World

A Pale Blue Dot

“One Nation, Indivisible” features excerpts from The Sun’s archives that speak to the current political moment.

Why is Greta Thunberg so triggering for certain men?  How can a 16-year-old girl in plaits, dedicated to trying to save the planet, inspire such incandescent rage?

Where Is the Cavalry?

The Amazon’s forest fires are a global peril – but so are Canada’s

Trump deepens legal war against California, automakers

The California War Is About EVs: The auto industry goes rogue in pursuit of electric vehicle credits from Trump

A Cruel Parody of Antitrust Enforcement: The Justice Department is roughing up Mr. Trump’s political enemies and threatening the environment.

The Trump Administration Is Playing Dirty With Automakers: A questionable crackdown on companies that already meet stringent emissions standards.

Maasai warrior hopes to see end to Chinese obsession with rhino horn, ivory: Daniel Ole Sambu, a conservationist from the Big Life Foundation, talks about the impact of the Chinese demand for wildlife products, and why his Kenyan culture is turning its back on the teenage tradition of lion-killing

FOX News Panel: Liberals Are “Worshipping the Environment” Instead of God

Climate warnings are up across the board - Washington Post

Tropical Storm Karen forms, watch issued for Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands

Call PA House Commerce Committee to VOTE NO on pro-fracking bill HB1102!

Greta Thunberg marches in front of White House with American students over climate change crisis: The 16-year-old activist is in US ahead of this month’s UN climate summit in New York City

'Sociopathic Disregard for Our Future': Trump EPA Set to Gut Restrictions on Planet-Warming Methane Emissions": At a time when the federal government's job should be to help localities and states move faster toward cleaner energy and a cleaner economy, the government is walking off the field."

Let's talk about Greta....

Much talk, and a little action, at the UN climate summit: Politicians and business leaders announced new steps to fight climate change. But much remains to be done

Climate capitalists have serious money in climate-friendly investments: Climate issue: Many expect serious returns

Planet Inc—climate change and the risks to business: Our weekly podcast on the markets, the economy and the world of business

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