Sunday, August 11, 2019

Ecology and Pollution related links 081119



Sorting through the 2020 candidates on climate

The false promise of nuclear power

Protecting gray seals – when does success become excess

Gov. Wolf announces millions in funding to fix environmental hazards in Philly schools

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

Trust In Scientists Is Rising, Poll Finds

Changing Mongolia: HOW HUMAN MIGRATION, BOOMING MINES AND CLIMATE CHANGE ARE AFFECTING THE COUNTRY.

Greenland's ice sheet just lost 11 billion tons of ice -- in one day

July Was the Hottest Month in Human History: The climate disaster isn’t coming. It’s here.

Pacific Island Nations Declare Climate Crisis, Fear Being Uninhabitable by 2030

Mekong River at its lowest in 100 years, threatening food supply: A combination of drought and controversial upstream water politics is setting up Southeast Asia for potential disaster.

Less than 10% of questions were about climate change at CNN's two-night debate in Detroit: Out of 242 total questions from CNN's moderators, just 23 focused on the climate crisis

New Interior Department senior adviser Christian Palich is a climate denier and former coal group president

83 Environmental Rules Being Rolled Back Under Trump

The Damage Done by Trump’s Department of the Interior: Under Ryan Zinke, the Secretary of the Interior, it’s a sell-off from sea to shining sea.

Scientists Say the Trump Administration Is Censoring Their Climate Research: Former Interior Department scientists testified that Trump officials removed mentions of human-caused climate change.

Conflicts of interest taint Trump's environmental picks: Top 7 examples

Trump signs executive order to roll back Obama-era climate actions, power plant emissions rule

Beto O'Rourke: Trump is an open, avowed racist

United Nations offers hope in the fight against climate change: The organisation's secretary general Antonio Guterres has declared war on the issue, stating that the status quo is suicide. 

Climate Emergency: Jaw-dropping visuals out of Greenland.

The Green New Deal Is This Generation’s Moon Shot: Sending humans to the moon was a choice. Saving the earth is a necessity.

Texas Bans Pipeline Protests

Greenwashing the White House

This Louisiana Parish Allowed a Quarter of Its Sheriff’s Deputies To Work Security for a Pipeline: Water protectors say the swamp was swarming with uniformed police working for the company.

HOW INDIGENOUS PEOPLES WON A LANDMARK VICTORY PROTECTING THE AMAZON FROM OIL DRILLING

WAR ON NATURE: CLIMATE CATASTROPHE? Greenhouse Gas Concentrations in Atmosphere Are Accelerating

Life, Liberty and a Stable Climate: These Kids Are Arguing for a New Constitutional Right: After a June hearing, the youth suing the government await news on whether their case will proceed to trial.

We can all make a difference on climate change.  The American Humanist Association has launched our national effort to empower nontheists.  Humanist Environmental Response Effort (HERE) for Climate connects humanists with actionable ways to combat climate change.  HERE for Climate encourages local, immediate action that will make a difference–even when our federal government may not. The time for humanists to act is now, before it is too late.

Climate Justice: The Minnesota Model for Building a Better Future for Us All

What the Hmong Farmers Can Teach Us about Climate Resilience

Do We Really Need a Green New Deal?

Project Sweetie Pie: A North Minneapolis Model for Ensuring Food Security

A Deep Love for the Common Ground

The Heart of Climate Justice: Creating the Energy Infrastructure We Want to See

Climate Justice Prescription: Whatever You Do, It Will Have an Impact

What’s Really behind Evangelicals’ Climate Denial?

Top Scientist Quits USDA, Says Trump Admin Tried to Bury Study Linking Climate and Nutrition

57 Dead, 18,000 Hospitalized in Japan Heat Wave

Houston-Area Chemical Plant Erupts Again, Shows Stronger Protections Are Needed: Statement of Adrian Shelley, Director, Public Citizen’s Texas Office

Paris Agreement Vote is Modest Step Forward Amid a Growing Climate Change Catastrophe: Statement of David Arkush, Managing Director of Public Citizen’s Climate Program

Network News Diminishes Urgency, Severity of Climate Change: Very Few Segments Call Climate Change a ‘Crisis’ or an ‘Emergency’

HARVARD LAW SCHOOL DEBUTS PROGRAM THAT TRAINS STUDENTS TO FIGHT FOR ANIMAL RIGHTS: Led by animal-rights experts, the ivy league’s new Animal Law & Policy Clinic will focus on issues affecting farmed animals, wildlife, and animals in captivity with the aim of creating lasting legal change for all life forms.

EPA dropped salmon protection after Trump met with Alaska governor

Christopher D. Cook: Author, award-winning journalist, consultant

Sir Martin Rees: Earth in its final century?

Climate Clash: Malcolm Roberts vs Brian Cox

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