Is This a 'Diesel
Car Charging Station' for Electric Cars?
Is this really a "diesel car charging station"? The electric
car industry is much larger than a single photograph.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/diesel-car-charging-station/
No, that’s not a
van towing a diesel generator to charge an electric car
Instagram post
misleads about lithium mining and Tesla cars
Are Child Miners
Exploited to Manufacture Electric Car Batteries?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/child-miners-electric-cars-work/
Does Viral Photo
Show a 'Toxic' Lithium Extraction Field?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/photo-lithium-extraction-mines/
Electric Vehicle
Myths
https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/electric-vehicle-myths
Is it true that
Al Gore’s mansion uses significantly more energy than the typical home?
https://www.factcheck.org/2009/06/al-gores-mansion/
“The day Al Gore
was born there were 130,000 glaciers on Earth. Today, only 130,000 remain.”
Did a 1977 'Time'
Story Offer Tips on 'How to Survive the Coming Ice Age'? While a number of media outlets reported on
some briefly-lived scientific fears over global cooling in the 1970s, viral
images purporting to show a cover story on the topic are doctored.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-coming-ice-age/
Plymouth Rock
pictures don’t prove sea levels are the same as 1620
No, two photos
don’t reveal sea levels, don’t prove climate change is a ‘hoax’
Bad-faith actors
spreading lies about climate change, warns WMO
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41151019.html
Earth’s health
failing in seven out of eight key measures, say scientists: Groundbreaking
analysis of safety and justice hopes to inform next generation of
sustainability policy
State Farm has
stopped accepting homeowner insurance applications in California
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/28/1178648989/state-farm-home-insurance-california-wildfires-inflation
Eight Billion
People in the World Is a Crisis, Not an Achievement: More people will not solve
the problem of too many people
The Congo Basin is under threat – here’s why we need to act now
https://wildaid.org/the-congo-basin-is-under-threat-heres-why-we-need-to-act-now/
The evolution of
deception
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.201032
Institute for
Energy Research
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Energy_Research
Melting Himalayan
glaciers pose serious dangers to humans, report finds – June 20, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKpP2LZgDQU
El Niño has
officially begun. UN says phenomenon likely to threaten lives, break
temperature records
Should We Bring
Species Back From Extinction? A
scientist helping to bring back the woolly mammoth debates two Stanford
professors who argue that we are unprepared to “play God” by resurrecting
species.
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/de-extinction-debate/
The Supreme Court
Has Done Us Dirty on the Clean Water Act: The recent ruling in Sackett v. EPA
drastically weakens the Clean Water Act.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/supreme-court-clean-water-act/
TWN 12 BONN
CLIMATE NEWS UPDATE 21 JUNE 2023 PUBLISHED BY THIRD WORLD NETWORK Bonn
climate talks foreshadow difficult negotiations in Dubai later this year
https://www.twn.my/title2/climate/news/Bonn24/TWN%20update%2012.pdf
Forest Fires:
Causes and Solutions
https://www.populist.com/29.11.Lingo.html
Nearly 62,000
people died from record-breaking heat in Europe last summer. It’s a lesson for
the US, too
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/10/world/deadly-europe-heatwave-2022-climate/index.html
Florida in hot
water as ocean temperatures rise along with the humidity
https://apnews.com/article/florida-ocean-heat-climate-coral-record-bfc3010460eb077fc14d53a6f768931d
Fallout from
Humanity: Increasingly, with the never-ending burning of fossil fuels, Ground
Zero is no longer a single city of any sort, but this planet itself.
https://www.laprogressive.com/climate-change-2/fallout-from-humanity
Here comes El
Niño: Warming Pacific Ocean waters periodically unleash extreme weather around
the globe. Climate change may make it worse.
https://theweek.com/science/1024481/here-comes-el-nino
Letters to the Editor:
A Modest Proposal for Marshalling Water Resources; A waste of editorial space;
Push for an End to Nuclear War; Better to Have Excess Than to Abandon
Transgender Youth; The Devil Wears MAGA; and FBI Must Search Bedminster.
https://www.populist.com/29.12.Letters.html
Plastic Recycling
Is A Gigantic Fraud
https://www.populist.com/29.12.Lingo.html
Boondoggle on the
Colorado River
https://www.populist.com/29.12.Wockner.html
Opinion | Sorry,
you can't use the air today
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/08/wildfire-air-quality-kids-breathe-satire/
Education and
Climate in MAGAland: The goal is to render future electorates incapable of
seeing through rightist propaganda—a kind of thought control to impose
ideological limits on society.
https://www.laprogressive.com/social-justice/education-in-magaland
Extreme Weather
Today Will Be Normal Weather Tomorrow: An extreme El Niño summer today is a
normal summer later on if we continue to burn fossil energy at unsustainable
rates.
https://www.laprogressive.com/climate-change-2/extreme-weather-today-will-be-the-norm-tomorrow
Biden Betrays
Youth With Willow Project—and Breaks His Own Promise: We need a youth movement
more powerful than the fossil fuel industry. Why Sunrise Movement organizers
are fighting to end the fossil fuel era.
How the Willow
Project Threatens Alaska Bird Breeding Paradise: Of all places in the world to
destroy, let’s not make the birds’ honeymoon haven one of them.
https://www.laprogressive.com/animal-rights-2/willow-project
Europe’s Sizzling
Summer: A Heatwave Like Never Before
https://scitechdaily.com/europes-sizzling-summer-a-heatwave-like-never-before/
Warnings issued
for more than 100 million across the U.S.: Temperatures will be “potentially
deadly,” the National Weather Service warned in a bulletin.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/live-blog/heat-wave-warnings-across-us-live-updates-rcna94490
Hollywood Has a
Climate Problem: A warming planet has changed our everyday reality, so why are
screenwriters ignoring it?
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2023/06/hollywood-scripts-climate-change-plot-screenwriting/
What if a “State
of Emergency” Isn’t Enough? Our crises
require more than a never-ending series of duct-tape fixes.
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2023/06/state-of-emergency-keyword-mother-tongue/
Tightly Packed
Poultry and Pig Farms Could Be Incubating the Next Deadly Flu: No one wants
this kind of viral mash-up.
I Already Forgot
that the Hottest Day in 100,000 Years Was 12 Days Ago
https://www.michaelmoore.com/p/i-already-forgot-that-the-hottest
California’s
Death Valley sizzles as brutal heat wave continues
Five dead, two
children missing after flash floods in Bucks County: “Our commitment to finding
the two children will still be unwavering,” said Upper Makefield Fire Chief Tim
Brewer.
South Korea flood
death toll rises to 40, Yoon blames botched responses
Tourists flock to
Death Valley hoping to experience heat record
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-66229286
Stacy Malkan on
the Merchants of Poison
https://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/news/200/stacy-malkan-on-the-merchants-of-poison/
Report Exposes
the Pesticide Industry Playbook
https://www.cornucopia.org/2023/07/pesticide-industry-playbook/
In This Simmering
Summer Biden Needs to Cry Out “Climate Change”: Our present climate crisis is
every bit as serious and attention-deserving as the Ukrainian War and NATO’s
role in supporting Ukrainians.
https://www.laprogressive.com/climate-change-2/biden-needs-to-cry-out-climate-change
Nuking Us All:
The forever dangers of small modular reactors
https://www.laprogressive.com/war-and-peace/nuking-us-all
Chinese President
Xi Jinping on Wednesday rejected a push by John Kerry, President Biden's
climate envoy, for a joint commitment to accelerate action to fight climate
change.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/19/world/asia/xi-china-climate-kerry.html
There is no
longer a debate of what causes the now every day extreme weather, it is a
matter of how we stop it.
https://www.ran.org/issue/climate/
Rescuers recover
27 bodies in India landslide, many still missing: Dozens are still unaccounted
for since the landslide hit Irshalwadi village in Maharashtra on Wednesday
night in Raigadh district.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/23/rescuers-recover-27-dead-in-western-india-landslide
A Reckoning in
North Birmingham as EPA Studies the ‘Cumulative Impacts’ of Pollution and
Racism
With the EPA
review ongoing at the 35th Avenue Superfund site, the Southern Environmental
Law Center on Friday threatened new federal litigation against Bluestone Coke
for alleged wastewater pollution.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16072023/birmingham-superfund-bluestone-cumulative-impact/
The World Is
Reeling From Record Heat and Flooding. Scientists Say It’s the Cost of Climate
Inaction
A record-hot
June, followed by a disaster-packed July has climate scientists “shocked” by
just how extreme the extreme weather has been, including some ocean waters
feeling like “a hot tub.”
Adults in the
Room Failed Us on Fossil Fuel Divestments: The people who run everything don’t
have a realistic plan to address climate change at all, and even 2030 may be
too late for aggressive goal setting.
https://www.laprogressive.com/climate-change-2/fossil-fuel-divestments
Climate Change
Denialism Flourishes at LA’s City Hall: There is no monitoring of environmental
conditions, including those specifically identified in project-specific
Environmental Impact Reports.
https://www.laprogressive.com/los-angeles-2/climate-change-denialism
Will Climate
Change Turn The Day After Tomorrow Into A Documentary? – July 27, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCgJOWlGsF8
California’s
Central Coast Has Plunged Already Marginalized Indigenous Farmworkers Into
Crisis
Cascading climate
disasters and unjust labor and immigration policies leave undocumented farm
laborers without a safety net.
In an Ominous
Sign for COP28, G20 Nations Once Again Failed to Reach a Deal to Phase Down
Fossil Fuels. Another proposal that
would commit the coalition’s members to triple their renewable energy
development by 2030 also failed to pass amid opposition from Saudi Arabia,
China and Russia.
This Summer’s
Heatwaves Would Have Been ‘Almost Impossible’ Without Human-Caused Warming, a
New Analysis Shows. The deadly
temperatures that scorched parts of North America, Europe and Asia in early
July will be common in a few decades unless greenhouse gas emissions are cut
fast.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25072023/heat-waves-attribution-climate-change/
Heat Waves and
the Sweep of History: This burning summer is taking us out of human time.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/heat-waves-and-the-sweep-of-history
The Perils of
Highly Processed Food: For millennia, human beings have engineered what they
eat. Have we finally gone too far?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/07/31/ultra-processed-people-chris-van-tulleken-book-review
How A Utility
Giant Tried (and Failed) to Build a Pipeline Under Brooklyn: Brooklyn residents
didn’t learn about the new pipeline project from National Grid until two years
into its construction. They were able to stop it anyways.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/fracking-brooklyn-new-york-pipeline-environmental-justice-pollution
Yes in Our
Backyards: It’s time progressives like me learned to love the green building
boom.
The Green
Movement’s Best Weapon Has Become a Problem: How environmental laws are used to
kill climate-friendly development.
What “Electrify
Everything” Actually Looks Like. Get
ready for a US building spree not seen in generations.
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2023/04/electrify-everything-scope-data/
The Little City
That Could: For Chelsea, Massachusetts, a new microgrid means energy
resilience.
Where Climate
Action Has Gone Mainstream: An interview with Katrín Jakobsdóttir, prime
minister of Iceland.
https://progressive.org/magazine/where-climate-action-has-gone-mainstream-nichols/
The Deep Cycle
and Climate Change as an Existential Threat: How the Pentagon became the
world’s largest single greenhouse gas emitter and why it’s not too late to
break the link between national security and fossil fuel consumption.
https://progressive.org/magazine/book-excerpt-deep-cycle-climate-change-existential-threat-crawford/
Vox Populist: Is
Your Lush Lawn Killing Mother Nature? There’s
nothing ‘green’ about the deluge of pesticides—and endless rivers of water—we
use to keep our yards uniformly verdant.
https://progressive.org/magazine/vox-populist-lush-lawn-killing-mother-nature-hightower/
Climate change is
pushing young people in Honduras to leave farming and migrate
Come along as we
connect the dots between climate, migration and the far-right
https://www.npr.org/2022/10/03/1125746902/climate-change-migration-far-right-political-extremism
July keeps
sizzling as Phoenix hits another 110-degree day and wildfires spread in
California
4 things to know as full enforcement of incandescent bulb
ban begins
I’d like to talk
to you about why it’s time to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable... –
August 3, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeSiS66nmh0
What Boiling
Oceans Will Do to Life on Land: “We knew this would happen, but the difference
is that we thought it would be a little bit later.”
https://newrepublic.com/post/174818/boiling-oceans-will-life-land
Wyoming, long
known as a top coal producing state, makes a big move into wind energy
Floods around
Chinese capital kill at least 20, leave 27 missing as thousands evacuated
https://apnews.com/article/china-flooding-beijing-283180dc23fe5379381318617716db31
Stat of the Week:
$100 billion. That’s how much lost
productivity due to heat exposure reportedly cost the U.S. economy in 2020.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/31/climate/heat-labor-productivity-climate.html
How Florida's
insurance crisis is haunting Ron DeSantis' campaign. The average price of homeowners’ insurance
has more than doubled.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/floridas-insurance-crisis-haunting-ron-desantis-campaign/story
Me First: America
19th, the Planet Last. On this
sweltering planet of ours, Donald Trump and his Trumpublicans should indeed be
considered up-close-and-personal versions of American extremism.
https://www.laprogressive.com/climate-change-2/me-first
Is Climate Change
Really Worse Than Anything We Imagined? – August 4, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g620Z94b2aY
Judge Agrees with
FSEEE: Forest Service Retardant Use Violates Clean Water Act
Mature and Old
Growth Forests
https://www.fs.usda.gov/managing-land/old-growth-forests
The Shifting
Baseline Syndrome and Generational Amnesia in Heritage Studies
https://www.mdpi.com/2571-9408/5/3/105/pdf
The shifting
baseline syndrome as a connective concept for more informed and just responses
to global environmental change
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/pan3.10473
World's oceans
warming at alarming rate, scientists say – August 4, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLTr2VmjErs
"We
Completely Underestimate How Bad Things Are Going To Get" – August 6, 2023
Crammed with
tourists, Alaska’s capital wonders what will happen as its magnificent glacier
recedes
Texas Power
Prices to Surge 800% on Sunday Amid Searing Heat
The Man Who
Literally Wrote the Book on Extreme Heat: Jeff Goodell’s new book, “The Heat
Will Kill You First,” could not have come at a more appropriate—and
frightening—time.
https://newrepublic.com/article/174824/man-literally-wrote-book-extreme-heat
Climate Change
Denial and Republican Head-in-the-Sandism: Why are the Republicans not learning
from history? Why are so many of them stuck in the muds of climate-change
denial?
https://www.laprogressive.com/climate-change-2/climate-change-denial
Medicine Residue
is Everywhere in Our Rivers and Lakes — and Fish Are Behaving Strangely: We
have a new major environmental problem on our hands.
https://www.populist.com/29.13.Ross.html
A Little Hope
Amid the Haze
https://www.populist.com/29.13.Art%20Cullen.html
Supreme Court’s
Recent Clean Water Ruling Makes Everything Murkier
https://www.populist.com/29.13.Guebert.html
Biden Finally
Restoring Species Protections
https://www.populist.com/29.13.Lingo.html
Restoring the
Land Can Feel a Lot Like Fun
https://www.populist.com/29.13.Knight.html
A Record 15
Billion-Dollar Disasters Have Hit US So Far This Year: NOAA. The tally could rise with the Atlantic
hurricane season set to pick up.
Reducing Air
Pollution Could Play 'Major Role' in Fighting Antimicrobial Resistance: Study. For the first time, researchers have linked
air pollution with antibiotic-resistant microbes.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/antimicrobial-resistance
Sanders Aims to
Convince Fox News Readers Climate Action 'Is a Moral Responsibility'. "Either we maintain the status quo and
continue to see more heatwaves, drought, floods, and extreme weather
disturbances or we move away from fossil fuels and do our best to make sure
that the planet we leave our kids and future generations is healthy and
habitable."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-sanders-fox-news-climate
Study Warns
Burning Fossil Fuels 'Anywhere in the World' Is Destructive to Antarctica. Slashing greenhouse gas emissions is
"our best hope of preserving Antarctica," said the lead author of a
new study.
What Florida’s Corals Look Like After Catastrophic
Bleaching: What’s alarming about this year’s bleaching event is just how
quickly the corals died.
https://newrepublic.com/article/174641/photos-floridas-corals-look-like-catastrophic-bleaching
Intense gov't
footage shows what triggered glacial outburst in Alaska: The dramatic change
led to extreme flooding.
https://mashable.com/article/glacier-outburst-mendenhall-alaska
Hear What’s
Happening to the Colorado River From a Photojournalist Who Has Spent His Entire
Life Alongside It. In the latest episode
of “There’s More to That,” learn about the Western waterway that affects the
lives of everyone in the United States
US scientists
repeat fusion ignition breakthrough for 2nd time
Confirmed deaths
from Maui wildfires climb to 36, county officials say
This Summer,
Don’t Spread Your Carbon
https://www.populist.com/29.14.McMillen.html
Climate Change
Delay is Climate Change Denial
https://www.populist.com/29.14.Guebert.html
Surviving Record
Heat
https://www.populist.com/29.14.Conway.html
Maui County
raises death toll to 55
The Nuclear
Debate
https://www.populist.com/29.14.Kalet.html
Climate
Reparations Won’t Kill Us, but the Heat Will
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/7/20/climate_reparations_wont_kill_us_but
Number of Maui
wildfire deaths rises to 80: Live updates
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/08/11/maui-hawaii-fire-live-updates/70573053007/
Death toll from
Maui fire climbs to 93, becoming deadliest in modern U.S. history
As death toll
from Maui wildfire reaches 93, effort to find and identify the dead is just
beginning
https://apnews.com/article/maui-hawaii-lahaina-deadliest-wildfire-fb2ebf6cd39c149a582b82eed6ac3930
Hawaii churches
offer prayers for the dead and the missing after devastating Maui wildfires
https://apnews.com/article/maui-hawaii-lahaina-deadliest-wildfire-fb2ebf6cd39c149a582b82eed6ac3930
Climate Change:
Bernie Once Again Tells It Like It Is. Like
the best political leaders, Sen. Sanders sees not only the abyss our country
(and the world) faces, but a way out.
https://www.laprogressive.com/climate-change-2/bernie-once-again-tells-it-like-it-is
Death toll from
mudslide in China's Xian rises to 21
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/death-toll-mudslide-chinas-xian-rises-four-2023-08-13/
A new gray wolf
pack is found 200 miles south of California's nearest-known pack
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/12/1193604095/new-gray-wolf-pack-california
The Clean Energy
Future Is Arriving Faster Than You Think: The United States is pivoting away
from fossil fuels and toward wind, solar and other renewable energy, even in
areas dominated by the oil and gas industries.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/12/climate/clean-energy-us-fossil-fuels.html
From Maui to
Ohio, It’s a Wildfire of Immense Intensity.
Episode 297: Rumble with Michael Moore
https://www.michaelmoore.com/p/from-maui-to-ohio-its-a-wildfire
A state judge in
Montana's Lewis and Clark County on Monday ruled in favor of a group of teens
and young adults who had alleged the state's fossil fuel–based energy system
and provisions in its Environmental Policy Act violated their right under the
state's constitution to a "clean and healthful environment."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/08/14/youths-win-montana-climate-trial/
Maui County
releases identities of 2 victims; raises death toll to 106
The Hubris of
Plutocrats: They can't escape the heat that's coming.
https://www.laprogressive.com/climate-change-2/the-hubris-of-plutocrats
Walking in an
Oven World: You know the facts. July 2023 was the hottest month on record —
ever — since we humans started keeping track of the temperature.
https://www.laprogressive.com/climate-change-2/walking-in-an-oven-world
The EPA is
rejecting calls for tougher regulation of big livestock farms. It’s promising
more study
https://apnews.com/article/biden-epa-livestock-farm-pollution-water-dbf12f71d40b7a7eab8e99c9caa2620a
It’s Not The
Humidity – It’s The Heat
https://www.populist.com/29.15.Lingo.html
Hot Enough For
You? Just Wait!
https://www.populist.com/29.15.McMillen.html
Biden Admin Tried
to Block Landmark Climate Lawsuit as July Heat Scorched US: Biden officials
asserted that “there is no constitutional right to a stable climate system.”
What the Fossil
Fuel Industry Doesn't Want You To Know | Al Gore | TED – August 8, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgZC6da4mco
Anxious About the
Climate?There’s a Solution: Mental health challenges are rising alongside
temperatures. Research suggests that taking action can help.
https://www.populist.com/29.15.Gutierrez.html
5 tropical
systems line up as Atlantic hurricane season springs to life: One prompts
tropical storm watches and warnings in South Texas, with heavy rain likely and
flooding possible
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/08/21/atlantic-hurricane-season-tropical-systems/
Yakutat youth
participate in marine debris cleanup: They’re part of a federally funded
project managed by the city and the Yakutat Tlingit Tribe
https://alaskabeacon.com/2023/06/03/yakutat-youth-participate-in-marine-debris-cleanup/
Planet Ocean:
tides are changing
Research Vessel
Falkor
https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/technology/vessels/falkor/falkor.html
Tropical Storm
Hilary moves on from California, leaving a trail of damage and debris
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/21/1195032403/hilary-california-flooding-storm-monday
Worldwide fascism
is being accelerated by the one thing few people want to talk about
https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/accelerating-fascism/
Why Did We Come,
Dither, and Die? 96% of all ocean life,
fish big and small and everything that swims, will be gone as well. There’s
nothing we can do to save them.
https://www.laprogressive.com/climate-change-2/why-did-we-come-dither-and-die
The Great Salt
Lake Is Becoming Too Salty to Support Life: From brine flies to brine shrimp to eared grebes to pronghorn and
buffalo, the lake supports an exquisite ecosystem whose collapse is literally making
people sick.
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/dust-great-salt-lake/
Turtle Island
Restoration Network
The EPA removes
federal protections for most of the country's wetlands
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/29/1196654382/epa-wetlands-waterways-supreme-court
SPAWN Joins Statewide Effort to Restore Habitat for
Western Monarchs | Turtle Island Restoration Network
Critical Habitat Protection Proposed for Green Sea
Turtles - Center for Biological Diversity
It's Everyone's
Problem When Coca-Cola Fails at Its Sustainability Goals: Beneath the veneer of
seemingly good-faith attempts to clean up its operations, lurks a commitment to
a take-no-prisoners approach to the bottom line.
https://www.laprogressive.com/the-environment/coca-cola-fails
LA’s Land Use
Policies Aggravate Climate Crisis: Apparently, City Hall doesn’t realize that
their regular infrastructure and land use land use practices adversely impact
the environment.
https://www.laprogressive.com/homelessness/aggravate-climate-crisis
Cataclysmic
Wildfires Killing Off Earth’s Biodiversity: Cataclysmic wildfires—intensified
by human-caused climate change—are not just an American phenomenon. They impact
human life, trees, and the built environment.
https://www.laprogressive.com/climate-change-2/cataclysmic-wildfires
Concerned Women
Over 60 Demand Urgent Climate Action by Pasadena City Hall: They spoke of the
dangers from excessive heat caused by climate change on the elderly and, in
particular, on senior women.
https://www.laprogressive.com/climate-change-2/demand-urgent-climate-action
Wasted Water: The
Impacts of Fracking’s Water Use from Pennsylvania to Colorado
One death
reported after storms leave thousands stranded at Burning Man Festival
https://www.npr.org/2023/09/02/1197441202/burning-man-festival-rains-floods-stranded-nevada
This Will Be My
Most Disliked Video On YouTube | Climate Change – August 31, 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpvd9FensT8
This summer broke
the world record for the highest temperature officially recorded
https://apnews.com/article/un-hottest-summer-climate-change-b7c7936070952da781af01288607b1f1
Biden
administration cancels remaining oil and gas leases in Alaska’s Arctic Refuge
Mexico’s Supreme
Court decriminalizes abortion nationwide: The court’s sweeping decision comes
amid a trend in Latin America of loosening restrictions on abortion, even as
access has been limited in parts of the United States.
Researchers in
China have found evidence suggesting that 930,000 years ago, the ancestors of
modern humans suffered a massive population crash. They point to a drastic
change to the climate that occurred around that time as the cause. The New York
Times:
Historic bison
release fully supported by Glacier National Park
https://whitefishpilot.com/news/2023/jul/05/historic-bison-release-fully-supported-glacier-nat/
If you build it,
they will come: EV momentum ‘not going away’ https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insights/podcasts/crude/230508-bisset-electric-vehicles-renewable-energy-policy-regulation-oil
The Progressive
Way to Save Cities From Superstorms; So far, America’s plan seems to consist of
walling off wealthy neighborhoods with hulking gray fortifications and leaving
lower-income areas out to dry. It doesn’t have to be like this.
https://newrepublic.com/article/174664/progressive-way-save-cities-superstorms
Leave a Trace: As
environmentalists, we need to leave this wounded planet better than we found it
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2023-2-summer/editor-s-desk/leave-a-trace-ecological-repair
Ben Jealous in
Conversation With Chris Hill: The Sierra Club executive director gets ready to
visit the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2023-2-summer/top/ben-jealous-conversation-chris-hill
Future Forests of
America: Across the American West, forests are failing to regenerate after
high-intensity wildfires, but that doesn't have to mean they're gone for good
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2023-2-summer/feature/future-forests-america-regeneration
What's to Be Done
About the Wild Horse Herds of the American West? They're tearing up rangeland and riparian
areas—and also our ideas about wildness
Bringing Back
Monarchs One Ranch at a Time: Ole Schell is helping to revive a once epic
population of monarchs
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2023-2-summer/treehugger/bringing-back-monarchs-one-ranch-time
It's Time to
Electrify Transportation and Make It Equitable: This changemaker is working to
make a cleaner transit future possible for kids
Planes, Trains,
and Decarbonization: Is a future without air travel possible?
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2023-2-summer/feature/planes-trains-and-decarbonization
The Trouble With
Algorithmic Ethics: Effective altruism, the latest intellectual craze, has no
room for wolves or mountain climbing
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/trouble-algorithmic-ethics-effective-altruism
Drops of Hope
Along the Colorado River: After 174 years, the Navajo Nation is still trying to
regain access
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2-summer/feature/drops-hope-colorado-river-navajo-nation
In Search of the
Tarantula "Mate-Gration": Researchers dig for the secrets of
arachnids in Colorado
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2023-2-summer/field-trip/search-tarantula-mate-gration
In Corpus
Christi, Texas, Environmentalists Are Fighting a Slate of Proposed Desalination
Plants
The city says it
needs extra water. But it's for fossil fuel and plastic corporations—not people
Can Eating
Seaweed Help the Climate Crisis? Here’s
what the science says.
None of us can
afford to ignore today’s ecological emergencies resulting from humanity’s
profound failure to plan ahead as our population continues to soar. https://populationconnection.org/article/presidents-note-september-2023/
Aging in the U.S.
and in Peer Nations
https://populationconnection.org/magazine/september-2023/
The Atlantic
Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) plays a key role in climate
regulation, moving warm water from the tropics into the North Atlantic Ocean,
and moving cold water south. Scientists have known that the AMOC is slowing
(which is happening due to an influx of freshwater from ice melt) ever since
detailed measurements began in 2004. A
complete collapse of the AMOC would have disastrous consequences, causing
extreme temperature drops in Europe, faster warming in the tropics, and rapid
sea level rise on the northeast coast of North America, among other impacts.
https://populationconnection.org/article/in-the-news-september-2023/
Aging Populations
and Great Power Politics: The Problem Is for the Elites, Not the Masses
https://populationconnection.org/article/aging-populations-and-great-power-politics/
EPA: Climate law
will cut carbon emissions up to 43 percent
Humanity on the
Brink: Genomic Research Unearths Startling Decline in Human Ancestor
Populations
Catastrophic
Libya flood kills thousands, desperate relatives search for survivors
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/huge-death-toll-libyan-storm-expected-climb-2023-09-13/
US Foreign Policy
Has an Extinction Agenda: As the world loses time to act, US elites are working
to dominate the remains of a ruined planet.
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/climate-change-foreign-policy/
California sues
oil companies over climate change, seeking billions and claiming decades of
deception
ExxonMobil,
Shell, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and BP knew risks and ignored them, Newsom says
Thousands without
power and 1 dead after Atlantic storm Lee pummels New England and Maritime
Canada
https://apnews.com/article/hurricane-lee-maine-new-england-canada-feed749d5e31b0286d943424e202f007
“Forever
Chemicals” Data from EPA Shows Widespread Contamination But is “Most Certainly”
an Underestimate of PFAS Contaminating Tap Water
The Supreme Court
Gets Clean Water Supremely Wrong: The Supreme Court got the facts, the law, and
the policy wrong in its recent ruling attacking wetland protections under the
Clean Water Act.
https://www.nrdc.org/bio/jon-devine/supreme-court-gets-clean-water-supremely-wrong
EPA: Neonics
Likely Driving 200+ Species Toward Extinction.
U.S. EPA's unprecedented findings confirm that widespread neonic
pesticide use threatens critical pollinators, other wildlife, and whole
ecosystems.
https://www.nrdc.org/bio/lucas-rhoads/epa-neonics-likely-driving-200-species-toward-extinction
Agencies Propose
Rollbacks of Endangered Species Act Rollbacks
https://www.nrdc.org/press-releases/agencies-propose-rollbacks-endangered-species-act-rollbacks
The creation of
the American Climate Corps will mobilize young people... – September 20, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWBAu1uexI4
COP 101: AN
INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE NEGOTIATIONS
https://www.climaterealityproject.org/blog/cop-101-introduction-international-climate-negotiations
OLDER ADULTS ARE
UNIQUELY IMPACTED BY THE CLIMATE CRISIS. HERE’S WH
BIG OIL IS TRYING
TO SELL A FALSE NARRATIVE ABOUT ITS SUSTAINABILITY
SUPPORT FARMERS
AND A MORE RESILIENT FOOD SYSTEM
https://www.climaterealityproject.org/act/2023-farm-bill
Land Protection
is back in a big way in Pennsylvania!
https://mailchi.mp/tpl/common-ground-december-issue-zm4wz838zo-13560081?e=deb90f8a10
Riverwatch
September 22, 2023. Delaware Riverkeeper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_Gmy7Rhwd0
Follow Tropical
Storm Ophelia's path as it tracks up East Coast: Latest forecast path
How My Tiny Plot
Produced 5,000 Pounds of Food Without Using Manure: Vegan Farming. Veganic agriculture is the food revolution
for the modern world.
https://www.laprogressive.com/food-policy/vegan-farming
Russia's LNG
Expansion a Dangerous Assault on the Climate.
Russia plans to triple LNG export capacity from 35 to 100 million tons
per year. There is no excuse for Western governments not defusing Russia's gas
expansion.
https://www.laprogressive.com/climate-change-2/russias-lng-expansion
The Day the
Planet Started to Win
https://jimhightower.substack.com/p/the-day-the-planet-started-to-win#details
Letters: Apocalypse
is Now; Shade the Sun; Don’t Let Trump Get Away With It; Donald Trump vs. the
United States; Trump’s Mug Shot; Policies Matter; Democracy Can Stand
Differences of Opinion; and Try That, Again and Again
https://populist.com/29.17.Letters.html
Hog and Chicken
‘Farms’ Might Move Into the City
https://populist.com/29.17.McMillen.html
My Electric Car
Adventure
https://populist.com/29.17.Lingo.html
Are We the Last
Generation — or the First Sustainable One? | Hannah Ritchie | TED – September
25, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl3VVrggKz4
Private Profits,
Public Risks: How Buyout Firms Fund Drilling on Public Lands - Public Citizen
Inbox
https://www.citizen.org/article/private-profits-public-risks/
After Local
Activism and Public Citizen Lawsuit, Nopetro Energy Cancels LNG Export Facility
- Public Citizen
Fifteen Years
after Great Recession, Activists Call on AIG to Prevent Financial Meltdown
Caused by Climate Change | Common Dreams
New York
Socialists Won Big On Climate. How Did It Happen? We don’t have to settle for neoliberal
half-measures.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/new-york-build-public-renewables-socialists-climate
Don’t Panic | By Dash Lewis | Issue 570 | The Sun
Magazine
https://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/570/dont-panic
Strong El Niño
expected to drive record-breaking global surface temperatures and trigger
climate crises in 2023–2024
https://phys.org/news/2023-09-strong-el-nio-record-breaking-global.html
Observations On
Ice
https://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/570/observations-on-ice
Quiet, Please: Gordon
Hempton On The Search For Silence In A Noisy World
https://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/572/quiet-please-issue-572
Mass death of
Amazonian dolphins prompts fears for vulnerable species: Rising temperatures
could be passing tolerance threshold for endangered animals as Lake Tefé
reaches 39C
How Climate
Change Has Shaped Life on Earth for Millennia; A new history should show how
closely civilization and the environment are linked—and urge us to respond to
today’s crisis.
https://newrepublic.com/article/172434/climate-change-shaped-life-earth-millennia
Hot Enough For
You? After this summer, no one can deny
our climate crisis.
https://newrepublic.com/article/175333/hot-enough-you
Conservatives
Can't Stop Waging War on Schools: Fifteen years ago, Kate Sheppard reported on
the propaganda within the most-used government textbook in America. Now,
right-wing fearmongering has once again reared its head in Florida schools.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/florida-textbooks-curriculum-misinformation-global-warming
Celebrating the
Endangered Species Act at 50
The Endangered
Species Act at 50 & What’s Next for Wildlife
Copper Mine or
Sacred Land: The Fight for Oak Flat
The Cascade Red
Fox’s Fate in Washington State
https://www.nwf.org/Home/Magazines/National-Wildlife/2023/Fall/Conservation/Cascade-Red-Fox
Connecting the
Florida Wildlife Corridor
https://www.nwf.org/Magazines/National-Wildlife/2023/Fall/Conservation/Florida-Wildlife-Corridor
The Truth About
Human Population Decline | Jennifer D. Sciubba | TED – October 3, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PImDVT8fb-I
Biden and Wall
Street: Curb Fossil Fuels or Expect Resistance.
Now is the time to keep building momentum and bringing a lot more
pressure to bear, because we’ve hardly won yet.
https://www.laprogressive.com/the-environment/curb-fossil-fuels
‘Significant
victory’: US agrees to pay nearly $50M to Guam for former Navy landfill’s
cleanup
https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2023-09-26/guam-ordot-dump-cleanup-lawsuit-11495268.html
About 1,000 birds
killed after colliding into McCormick Place Lakeside Center in one ‘tragic,’
deadly night
The alarming
death toll is just part of a larger danger facing migrating birds.
‘Do Your Job,
EPA’: Stories From the Frontlines of Coal Ash - Earthjustice
https://earthjustice.org/feature/coal-ash-stories-epa-hearing
Here's What to
Expect From the Supreme Court This Term - Earthjustice
Meet the Texas
Bird that is a Bulwark for Biodiversity - Earthjustice
https://earthjustice.org/article/meet-the-texas-bird-that-is-a-bulwark-for-biodiversity
What’s Holding Us
Back from a Clean Energy Transition? We Don’t Have Enough Power Lines. -
Earthjustice
The Cultivator -
Summer 2023 - Cornucopia Institute
https://www.cornucopia.org/2023/07/the-cultivator-summer-2023/
More than 2,000
people killed as earthquake strikes western Afghanistan
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/07/world/afghanistan-herat-earthquake-devastation-intl-hnk/index.html
3D printing a
100-home community in Texas, and someday on the moon | 60 Minutes - CBS News
EPA REJECTS PART
OF U.S. STEEL’S AIR QUALITY PERMIT FOR THE CLAIRTON COKE WORKS
Pennsylvania is
Perfect for New American Climate Corps Program.
Years of joint advocacy move major green infrastructure economic
opportunities for young people forward
https://www.pennfuture.org/News-Pennsylvania-is-Perfect-for-New-American-Climate-Corps-Program
Electric Vehicles
in PA: Costs, Ownership, Public Policy | Building Green
https://www.bctv.org/video/electric-vehicles-in-pa-costs-ownership-public-policy-building-green/
You Voice, Your
Neighborhood: Why Local Government Matters for Our Environment and Our Right to
Vote -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQxRCqgZAeM
Renaming Erie’s
“Summer of Soot and Sewage” to the Summer of Community Climate Solutions
The truth behind
how to reduce your energy use and still live well. In theory, it’s possible to live well while
using energy at a rate of just 2000 watts – a quarter of the average for people
in the US. Our environment reporter took on the challenge. Here’s what he
discovered
Evicted into the
Climate Crisis: What it’s like to be evicted during a hurricane.
https://progressive.org/magazine/evicted-into-the-climate-crisis-decastro-20231012/
Comment: Triage
and Transformation Strategies
for
the Climate Emergency. Advocates for
real climate solutions recognize that we now must practice triage—saving what
we can.
https://progressive.org/magazine/triage-and-transformation-strategies-%E2%80%A8helvarg-20231002/
21 species
removed from endangered list due to extinction, U.S. wildlife officials say
UK police charge
climate activist Greta Thunberg after protest
Climate change
making Atlantic hurricanes twice as likely to strengthen from weak to major
intensity in 24 hours. A study showed
warmer waters are serving as fuel for hurricanes to intensify.
Why Healthy
Forests Mean Fewer Pandemics: COVID-19, SARS, and Ebola were transmitted to
humans from wild animals living in tropical forests. Destroying their habitats
is killing us.
https://populist.com/29.18.Loki.html
Eco-Activists Are
Getting Murdered
https://populist.com/29.18.Lingo.html
Save the Earth
Before It’s Too Late
https://populist.com/29.18.McMillen.html
America
Mysteriously Hit a Deadly Climate Tipping Point & No One Knows Why. It’s so dramatic & so shocking that
scientists — typically not prone to hyperbole — published in the journal
BioScience: “Life on planet Earth is under siege. We are now in an uncharted
territory...”
https://hartmannreport.com/p/america-mysteriously-hit-a-deadly-061
160 Million
Pounds of Undisclosed Chemicals Could be PFAS; Groups Call for Ban on PFAS Use
in Oil and Gas Wells
https://psr.org/new-report-documents-fracking-in-pennsylvania-gas-wells-with-pfas/
The Real Reason
America Has Turned Its Back On Wind Power Energy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgjOp_1QsOo
Scorched Earth,
Wildfires, and Raging Floods … Is Geoengineering Our Climate the Answer?
https://populist.com/29.18.Kingsbury.html
Libya’s Climate
Disaster Shows we Can’t afford Erratic leaders Like Trump and Haftar any More
https://www.juancole.com/2023/09/climate-disaster-erratic.html
Climate is the
Fight of Our Lifetime. Our Federal Budget Should Reflect That. More than half of discretionary spending goes
to the military. Only a tiny fraction addresses the most urgent threat to our
security.
https://populist.com/29.18.Koshgarian.html
Clinging to Hope
at the Gates of Climate Hell
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/9/21/clinging_to_hope_at_the_gates
Further Comment:
The Case for Climate Reparations
in
the United States
https://progressive.org/magazine/the-case-for-climate-reparations-salazar-20231006/
Middle America:
Love in the Time of Climate Crisis. We
need to turn toward the recognition, as painful as it is, of our place in the
world, and our looming potential extinction, to face what we’ve done, and still
can do, to save ourselves and our home.
https://progressive.org/magazine/love-in-the-time-of-climate-crisis-conniff-10242023/
Youth Lead the
Way on Addressing the Climate Crisis. With
the slow pace of international negotiations, climate litigation is an
increasingly important tool.
Minnesota Emerges
as a Leader
in Climate Action. All electricity in the state will be
carbon-free by 2040.
https://progressive.org/magazine/minnesota-emerges-as-a-leader-in-climate-action-lahm-20231018/
Book Review: The
Liberation of Water. “Unbottled: The
Fight Against Plastic Water and for Water Justice” delves into environmental
degradation and clean water access.
https://progressive.org/magazine/the-liberation-of-water-brant-20230925/
Book Reviews:
Teaching by Example. A triptych of new
offerings released this spring to inform and inspire climate activists,
especially young adult readers.
https://progressive.org/magazine/teaching-by-example-stockwell-20230927/
After Oil. Chevron’s refinery in Richmond, Calif., is a
major polluter. Can the activists trying to shut it down convince its 3,000
workers they’re on the same side?
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/refinery-richmond-climate-change/
Suing for a
livable planet: Young people are filing lawsuits for climate damage — and some
are even winning.
https://coloradonewsline.com/2023/10/06/suing-for-a-livable-planet/
Selling like
Hotcakes: 1 mn EVs sold in US during Past Year — which is Why UAW Workers
deserve Green New Deal
https://www.juancole.com/2023/09/selling-hotcakes-deserve.html
Goats Can Be a
Forest’s Best Friend
https://populist.com/29.19.Marston.html
Alabama in
billion-dollar showdown with EPA
‘It won’t go back
to normal’: What this year’s heat waves mean for life in the coming years. Record temperatures are here to stay, and
society needs to do more to curb them and adapt, best-selling author says
Water at tip of
Florida hits hot tub level and…
‘We are afraid:’
Earth’s vital signs are now in ‘uncharted territory,’ climate scientists warn
Renewable energy
use is rising, but so is extreme weather, as 2023 has seen
Science Update:
Earth's Energy Imbalance – November 1, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LurMnL76pMc
UN chief urges
world to 'stop the madness' of climate change
https://phys.org/news/2023-10-chief-urges-world-madness-climate.html
Caught in the
Climate War. Canada is trying to remove
Zain Haq from the country—something that could set a dangerous precedent.
https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/zain-haq-deportation-canada-climate/
Magma Close to
Surface in Iceland: Eruption Within Hours Or Days: A Geologic Review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD6qjf-jcn4
Crossings, Ben
Goldfarb (Norton). Roads are the subject of this perceptive book by an
environmental journalist. Roads kill more creatures than any other
“environmental ill”; they also bisect migration routes, pollute with noise, and
help to facilitate deforestation. Road ecology—a specialty that Goldfarb lauds
as “a field whose radical premise asserted that it was possible to perceive our
built world through nonhuman eyes”—seeks to understand these dynamics and to
propose solutions that actively consider animal lives.
An American
Disease. Anders Carlson-Wee on Dumpster
Diving in a Culture of Waste
https://www.thesunmagazine.org/news/an-american-disease
Icelandic Town Awaits Eruption and Possible Scenarios
Discussed by Geologist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cj1roa856Q
6 looming climate tipping points that imperil our
planet. A UN report details the
thresholds we may be close to crossing
https://theweek.com/environment/climate-tipping-points-un-report
Winter Storm Warning criteria for US revamped by National
Weather Service. Previously, the
criteria used for issuing those watches and warnings were established by each
of the 122 NWS offices for their respective jurisdictions.
https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/winter-storm-warning-criteria-nws-new
Climate Action Tracker
https://climateactiontracker.org/
The Fifth National Climate Assessment is the US
Government’s preeminent report on climate change impacts, risks, and responses.
It is a congressionally mandated interagency effort that provides the
scientific foundation to support informed decision-making across the United
States.
https://nca2023.globalchange.gov/
Wheatley explosion could be 'tip of the iceberg' in
Ontario given number of abandoned wells: expert
Explosion sent 7 people to hospital, reduced buildings to
rubble
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/wheatley-explosion-gas-wells-1.6161023
Massive Southern Tier Gas Drilling Spree Proposed; 6,500
Land Leases Sought for Plan to Extract Methane and Store CO2
The Gassing Of Satartia.
A CO2 pipeline in Mississippi ruptured last year, sickening dozens of
people. What does it forecast for the massive proposed buildout of pipelines
across the U.S.?
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gassing-satartia-mississippi-co2-pipeline_n_60ddea9fe4b0ddef8b0ddc8f
Plastics Are Poisoning Both Our Bodies and Our
Politics. The petrochemical industry is
obstructing a global treaty to reduce plastic pollution.
https://newrepublic.com/post/176971/plastics-poisoning-bodies-politics
How Iceland deals with volcanic activity. Scientists are closely monitoring seismic
activity as threat of eruption looms
https://theweek.com/science/how-iceland-deals-with-volcanic-activity
Storms, Rising Seas and Salty Drinking Water Threaten
Lower Louisiana. Where the Mississippi
River ends, the compounding threats of drought and climate change put pressure
on communities that feel forgotten
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/15/us/louisiana-saltwater-climate.html
"Out of control" wildfires are ravaging
Brazil's wildlife-rich Pantanal wetlands
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/brazil-wildfires-pantanal-wetlands-2023-animal-deaths/
World’s top influencer wants climate action
https://populist.com/29.20.Lingo.html
Are Beavers Always the Answer? Not Really
https://populist.com/29.20.Williams.html
‘The American Buffalo’: An Interview with Ken Burns. Through Indigenous stories, the PBS
documentarian delves into the decline of the buffalo, colonialism, and
conservation.
Instead of Utility Greed – How About Some Energy Sanity?
https://jimhightower.substack.com/p/instead-of-utility-greed-how-about#details
International Energy Agency Paints False Rosy Future
https://populist.com/29.21.Lingo.html
If Gaza is a Conflict Over Oil Money investments, Norway
Points to a Near Future Where Petroleum is Worthless
https://populist.com/29.21.Cole.html
The Unheard Voice of the Global South
https://populist.com/29.21.Gunasekaran.html
'Missing' blob of water predicted to be in the Atlantic
finally found. The newly discovered
water mass, called the Atlantic Equatorial Water, stretches from Brazil to West
Africa.
The importance of this year’s UN climate change summit
There’s no shortage of reasons to be alarmed by climate
change these days. This year is almost certain to be the hottest in recorded
history. Extreme weather is wreaking havoc around the globe. Fossil fuel
production and emissions are still rising, and world leaders are not moving
fast enough.
The Morality of Having Kids in a Burning, Drowning
World. Two recent books, “The
Quickening” and “The Parenthood Dilemma,” consider the ethics of procreation in
the age of man-made climate change.
Where's Winter? A Season of Change in the Northeast |
Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC)
How can we stop burning fossil fuels if we still need
everything else they make?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYWLpdGgJe4
13 miles down and 1000 degrees! Hot enough for you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g95Moz2Ub_0
One of the world’s largest icebergs drifting beyond
Antarctic waters after it was grounded for 3 decades
The most and least environmentally friendly countries of
2023. Which nations are making strides,
and which are missing the mark?
https://theweek.com/feature/briefing/1017804/most-and-least-environmentally-friendly-countries
Scientists have their eyes on 2 supervolcanoes. 'The probability of a catastrophic eruption
is low but not nil'
https://theweek.com/environment/supervolcanoes-campi-flegrei-long-valley-caldera-eruptions
COP28: Another Rigged Game for the Fossil Fuel
Industry? The wealthiest & most
powerful people, companies, & countries are working to frustrate efforts to
salvage a livable planet for us, our children, and our grandchildren. We can’t
let them prevail…
https://hartmannreport.com/p/cop28-another-rigged-game-for-the
US Navy seeks to raise allowed number of accidental whale
collisions
US Military Says National Security Depends on ‘Forever
Chemicals’
First plane using only sustainable fuel flies across
Atlantic
A Giant Inland Sea is Now A Desert, And a Warning for
Humanity
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/28/opinion/climate-uzbekistan-water-aral.html
EPA calls lead pipes ‘liability,’ urges Baltimore
residents to conduct checks
https://www.wbal.com/epa-calls-lead-pipes-liability-urges-baltimore-residents-to-conduct-checks/
Philly DSA December General Meeting 12/02/23
https://www.phillydsa.org/gm_dec23
A Hightower
Lowdown Update: Diane Wilson vs. Formosa Plastics
https://jimhightower.substack.com/p/a-hightower-lowdown-update-diane
'Carbon taxes are all pain with no gain'. Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
https://theweek.com/politics/carbon-taxes-trump-authoritarian-china-economy
Earth will soon cross a scary climate change threshold.
What happens next? 2023 may overshoot
the Paris Agreement target of 1.5C for the first time. How will that impact
climate negotiations?
https://www.vox.com/23969523/climate-change-cop28-paris-1-5-c-uae-2023-record-warm
US oil and gas production set to break record in 2023
despite UN climate goals. United States
projected to extract 12.9m barrels of crude oil as countries at Cop28 to push
for agreed fossil fuels ‘phaseout’
Out of Control “Super Pigs” Threaten to Invade the US |
Vantage with Palki Sharma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVjiT1-WkUY
Climate Change Drives New Cases of Malaria, Complicating
Efforts to Fight the Disease. The number
of malaria cases rose again in 2022, propelled by flooding and warmer weather
in areas once free of the illness.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/health/malaria-climate-change.html
Biden Administration to Require Replacing of Lead Pipes
Within 10 Years. The proposed E.P.A.
rules may be offset by $15 billion to help reduce lead in water, which is
linked to brain damage. But enacting the plan could cost twice that much.
https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/template/oakv3
24 Hours of Reality: On the Ground at COP 28 – November
30, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMq6m4uIlGU&t=72s
Retiring Soon? Think Twice Before You Move to These
Traditional Retirement Hot Spots
https://katiecouric.com/health/where-to-retire-to-avoid-extreme-heat-climate-change/
Couple Plants 2 Million Trees in 20 Years to Turn
Destroyed Forest Back Into a Wildlife Haven
Study explores
whether basic human water needs can be met while protecting surface and
groundwater ecosystems
https://phys.org/news/2023-11-explores-basic-human-met-surface.html
Extreme rainfall
increases exponentially with global warming: Study
https://phys.org/news/2023-11-extreme-rainfall-exponentially-global.html
Reconsidering the
American Fridge. Sure, it’s big enough
to fit your Thanksgiving turkey—but that makes it a magnet for food waste too.
https://newrepublic.com/post/177096/reconsidering-american-fridge
Climate protest:
More than 100 arrested at world's largest coal port
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-67539759
Biden’s EPA
launches crackdown on planet-warming methane.
The action came amid a series of international and oil industry pledges
during the U.N. climate summit to address the potent greenhouse gas.
Climate scientist
reflects on year of disastrous weather, and what's to come
https://phys.org/news/2023-11-climate-scientist-year-disastrous-weather.html
Don't Pave
Paradise. A West Virginia community
rallied to stave off the destruction of Cacapon Resort State Park by private
developers. Will it last?
https://inthesetimes.com/article/west-virginia-state-park-private-development
An Urgent
Witness, Not a Passive Bystander, to Climate Catastrophe. Conversations with Jane Hirshfield, poet of
the present moment.
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/jane-hirshfield-poetry-climate-catastrophe/
Increasing frozen
food temperature by 3°C could enhance global food chain sustainability, say
experts
https://phys.org/news/2023-12-frozen-food-temperature-3c-global.html
How Did Humans
Discover Climate Change? | Flashback with Palki Sharma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDc_YtKCaTI
Master of the
Universe. Ed Reynolds is saving Earth
one asteroid at a time.
https://magazine.gwu.edu/master-universe
As EPA Considers
Final Clean Vehicle Rules, Activists Raise Their Voices to Sing for Cleaner
Cars in Holiday Caroling
Mother Trees:
Wisdom of the Forest
https://populist.com/29.22.Lingo.html
Lake Mead Water
Levels Hit a Rare Milestone
https://www.newsweek.com/lake-mead-water-levels-hit-rare-milestone-1850786
A new 66
million-year history of carbon dioxide offers little comfort for today
https://phys.org/news/2023-12-million-year-history-carbon-dioxide-comfort.html
Tennessee
tornadoes leave at least 6 dead, dozens hurt and more than 35,000 without power
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/09/weather/tennessee-tornado-storm-deaths-sunday/index.html
Frequent
Questions on the Phasedown of Hydrofluorocarbons
https://www.epa.gov/climate-hfcs-reduction/frequent-questions-phasedown-hydrofluorocarbons
Explore PopEd
Webinars
https://populationeducation.org/teacher-workshops/upcoming-and-on-demand-webinars/
CONNECTING THE
DOTS BETWEEN CLIMATE AND HEALTH
https://mailchi.mp/46c758d28da2/frontline-perspectives-on-cop28-6285312?e=a74f878c5d
A global
biodiversity tipping point as first marine fish extinction declared
https://phys.org/news/2023-12-global-biodiversity-marine-fish-extinction.html
'Groundbreaking'
Legal Action Demands EPA Finally Ban Glyphosate. "EPA lacks a legal human health
assessment of glyphosate to support its current use," said a lawyer for
the Center for Food Safety.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/glyphosate-epa
Welcome to the
extinction capital of the world. Our
planet faces a mass extinction. I visited ground zero.
Delivering
large-scale solutions to climate and environmental problems worldwide.
The Global Fossil
Fuel Divestment movement just surged past a major movement milestone: 1600+
institutional commitments, with $40.6 TRILLION in assets.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tssKrcVtvtwc3JQ-DKOY8rRMg8CmUWrzcAs6z_j2OZE/edit?pli=1
Sargasso Sea
around Bermuda is now at its hottest, most acidic and oxygen-starved than at
any point in recorded history. The
Sargasso Sea in the Atlantic Ocean is now at least 30% more acidic and 1.8
degrees Fahrenheit warmer than it was 40 years ago — and climate change is to
blame.
Former EPA
official says agency fails to protect public from toxic pesticides. Karen McCormack says regulators at
environmental agency are discouraged from speaking up about dangerous chemicals
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/15/epa-failing-public-health-pesticides-chemicals
What Would It
Mean to Treat Animals Fairly? Each year,
billions of animals die for human ends. In two new books, Martha Nussbaum and
Peter Singer insist that we stop the suffering.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/what-would-it-mean-to-treat-animals-fairly
After Weeks of Warnings,
Iceland Volcano Erupts in Plumes of Fire.
While Monday’s eruption was not unexpected, it was larger than
volcanologists had been predicting and took place not far from an evacuated
town and a power plant.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/18/world/europe/iceland-volcano-eruption-earthquakes.html
Hawai‘i Land
Trust purchases 642 acres at Mahukona, forever protecting important cultural
site on Big Island’s Kohala Coast
Chart: The US
installed more solar in 2023 than ever before.
The industry saw 55% growth over 2022, according to forecasts — but
headwinds threaten to temper the momentum in the years ahead.
Continued
Decrease in Mortality Brings Natural Increase Closer to Pre-Pandemic Levels
https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2023/12/state-population-estimates.html
Don’t Just Bury
the CO2 Pipelines; Bury Their Very Idea
https://populist.com/29.22.Guebert.html
Plastic Pollution
is an Existential Threat to Humans
https://populist.com/29.22.Joseph.html
Human-Caused
Climate Change Cost US $67 Billion, Produced Hottest 12 Months for 125,000
years
https://populist.com/29.22.Cole.html
Worries from a
Major Auto Dealer About All Electric Cars
https://nader.org/2023/11/13/worries-from-a-major-auto-dealer-about-all-electric-cars/
Farewell to Two
Radicals with a Common Goal – Changing the West
https://populist.com/29.22.Atencio.html
CLEAN WATER?
WE’VE GOT A MUSSEL FOR THAT. A
partnership between the City and a number of organizations is working to filter
Philly’s waterways the way nature intended
https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/clean-water-weve-got-a-mussel-for-that/
The Man Saved a
Bear Cub, then Her Mom Did Something Unbelievable
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A60YIOjSoqE
VIDEO: WRAP UP
COP 28 WITH AL GORE
https://www.climaterealityproject.org/video-wrap-cop-28-al-gore
THE WORLD CHANGED
AT COP 28
https://www.climaterealityproject.org/blog/world-changed-cop-28
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