Climate Change

The strong growth is the second consecutive year of increasing emissions

Grassroots at COP24 Demand end of Coal as Poland Lobbies for It

Crops will be destroyed not just by flooding and rain but also by droughts. Yet this urgency is not reflected in the actions of governments

Climate Change

Earth’s Failing Climate Grade: 2x Extreme Weather Events, 100x Animal Extinctions

Marlowe Hood

As COP24 Opens in Poland

Denialism

Big Oil Infiltrates, Undermines UN Climate Talks

AFP

A lack of conflict-of-interest protection at UN allowed Big Carbon to push for continued fossil fuel use despite climate emergency.

Climate Change

The Last Generation: 2018 and 3 Previous Years are 4 Hottest on Record

Nina Larson

“we are the first generation to fully understand climate change and the last generation to be able to do something about it”

Climate Change

Climate Crisis: Wildfire Smoke is Becoming Nationwide Health Threat

The Conversation

By Richard E. Peltier | – (The Conversation) – The impacts of recent forest fires in California reach well beyond the burned areas. Smoke from the Camp Fire created hazardous air quality conditions in San Francisco, more than 170 miles to the southwest – but it didn’t stop there. Cross-country winds carried it across the […]

Climate Change

Trump’s Climate Denial could Cost US $500 bn. a Year

Kerry Sheridan

Climate change is expected to cause growing losses to American infrastructure and property and impede the rate of economic growth

Climate Change

3 Charts: What Trump doesn’t Want you to Know about the Climate Emergency

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Trump administration dropped the 1,000-page second volume of a congressionally-mandated study of the impact of the climate crisis on the United States late on Friday of Thanksgiving weekend in order to bury it. This sort of move is designed to make sure the report is not headline news on […]

Climate Change

On Thanksgiving, We must confront our Climate Emergency as the Pilgrims did Theirs

Juan Cole

Revised for 2018 By Juan Cole | — The popular story about Thanksgiving is an environmental parable that we would do well to remember today. It was a harvest festival in 1621, participated in by the 50 (out of 100) survivors at Plymouth Plantation and 90 Native Americans. Some of these latter, such as Squanto, […]