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Bernie Sanders calls out executives amid claims that Exxon Mobil projected zero emissions reductions by 2040 - Newsweek (Dec 20, 2019) |
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Dec 20, 2019 · Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders pledged to hold fossil fuel executives accountable in response to climate scientists sounding the alarm over ExxonMobil's projection of zero overall reduction in industrial emissions through 2040.\"Here's a prediction: we are going to win, pass a Green New Deal, and criminally prosecute the fossil fuel executives who destroyed the planet,\" Sanders said, in a Wednesday tweet responding to an article published by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists\u2014keepers of the Doomsday Clock.Authored by climate scientists who have written for the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the Bulletin article outlines how ExxonMobil ... Read more ...
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Greta Thunberg responds to Brazilian president's 'brat' comment with new Twitter bio - Newsweek (Dec 11, 2019) |
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Dec 11, 2019 · Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg has clapped back at Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro for calling her a \"brat\" by making the far-right leader's insult her new Twitter bio.Bolsonaro's disparaging comments toward the 16-year-old Swedish environmental activist came during a press conference on Tuesday. The Brazilian leader appeared frustrated with Thunberg's condemnation of a rise in anti-indigenous violence in the Amazon.\"Greta's been saying Indians have died because they were defending the Amazon,\" Bolsonaro told reporters. \"It's amazing how much space the press gives this kind of pirralha.\"\"Pirralha\" is a Portuguese word that is often translated to \"brat\" or ... Read more ...
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What will mobilize the youth vote in 2020? Not impeachment—climate change - Newsweek (Dec 05, 2019) |
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Dec 05, 2019 · Sitting in a Washington, D.C., bistro a week ago, I asked the newly minted 18-year-old I'd come to visit what the word was on her progressive campus about the impeachment inquiry. \"Well, everyone knows it's happening, obviously,\" she said. \"But\u2014no one's really talking about it.\"Ok, so, what is everyone talking about? The Democratic candidates for president? Not exactly.\"It's like choosing between children,\" she said. \"There's so much bickering, and it's so petty\u2014like, these aren't the things that should be holding our attention.\"What does matter? Without a moment's hesitation, she declared\u2014\"Climate.\"And it makes sense: From devastating floods in Venice to ... | By Nadira Hira Read more ...
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Climate Change Is Good - Newsweek (Nov 25, 2019) |
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Nov 25, 2019 · If humankind rises to the challenge and reverses the carbon emissions, our lives in 30 years will be OK. Let us look at Greta Thunberg on a Friday in the future after the climate crisis.Thunberg lives in a cool apartment retrofitted for climate change with deep insulation, as well as its own solar air-conditioning and heating systems. It has a green wall of plants and a balcony where she can grow a few vegetables. Machines automatically recycle or compost waste. Across the developed world, political parties that prioritize the fight against climate change have been in power for decades. Since these administrations have banned exhaust-emitting cars from cities, Thunberg drives an ... | By Tom Van Laer Read more ...
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Climategate is a decade old. All it exposed is the bad faith of climate deniers - Newsweek (Nov 15, 2019) |
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Nov 15, 2019 · Russia, Wikileaks and stolen emails. You could be forgiven for thinking I'm talking about the now well-established conspiracy to steal the U.S. presidential election of 2016, a scandal that has since been branded Russiagate. Instead, I'm talking about the fake scandal in November 2009 that would come to be known as Climategate, and which arguably served as a training ground, a test run, for the more recent hacking of our presidential election.
Ten years ago, hackers with links to Russia and Wikileaks broke into an email server in the U.K., and released stolen emails in a massive, carefully orchestrated disinformation campaign designed to impact the upcoming Copenhagen Climate ... | By Michael Mann Read more ...
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Defying Trump, governors who represent over half the US population pledge to uphold Paris climate agreement - Newsweek (Nov 06, 2019) |
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Nov 06, 2019 · A group of two dozen state governors, mostly Democratic but also including Republicans, pledged to uphold the Paris climate agreement despite the Trump administration's withdrawal from it.
The State Department announced on Monday that the formal process of pulling out from the historic international agreement on tackling climate change is now underway and will be completed exactly one year later, which is the day after the 2020 election.
President Donald Trump has argued that the Paris agreement, which includes separate emission-reduction targets for each country with a collective goal of keeping global temperature rises down, is unfair to the U.S. and said he would only ... Read more ...
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Canadian youths suing government, alleging role in climate change crisis violates human rights - Newsweek (Oct 25, 2019) |
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Oct 25, 2019 · A lawsuit is expected to be filed on Friday by 15 Canadian youths who claim they have suffered "specific, individualized injuries due to climate change" and that Ottawa's role in perpetuating the crisis violates their fundamental rights.
The group is also claiming the government's contribution to high levels of greenhouse gases and climate change infringes on their right to equality, since young people are disproportionately affected by long-term effects of a deteriorating climate.
In an unusual move, the intent to file the lawsuit was announced Wednesday by the David Suzuki Foundation, which is backing the teens by supporting the case's legal framework and acting as a ... Read more ...
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Dakota Access Pipeline protester turns self in after DNA found on cigarette at construction site - Newsweek (Oct 21, 2019) |
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Oct 21, 2019 · DNA evidence on a cigarette butt found at the scene of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) riot of 2016 has led a South Dakota man to turn himself into authorities, according to The Bismarck Tribune.Lawrence Malcolm Jr., who appeared in court via video from the Burleigh Morton Detention Center, was charged with felony criminal mischief and misdemeanor engaging in a riot.Evidence gathered after the DAPL protest was sent to the North Dakota State Crime Lab. Analysts scored a hit on Malcolm's DNA, which was already on file following a previous arrest, according to the Billings Gazette.After the charges were filed against Malcolm in September 2019, his attorney Bruce Nestor asked the ... Read more ...
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2020 Olympic marathon relocation demonstrates how climate change is affecting sports - Newsweek (Oct 17, 2019) |
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Oct 17, 2019 · The IOC noted that temperatures in Sapporo, the new location for the races, are expected to be around 75 to 77 degrees Fahrenheit in summer 2020, far below temperatures over 86 degrees, which are projected for Tokyo. The organizers had already shifted the start time of the marathons slightly earlier due to concerns about high temperatures.
Climate change, and associated temperature increases, is regularly highlighted as an existential threat that will force a series of alterations in the way people around the world live, cause mass displacement and cost trillions of dollars in economic damages. It will also affect cultural staples like sporting events, as climate shifts can ... Read more ...
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Climate change and a really old grid: why the U.S. can expect more power outages like California's - Newsweek (Oct 10, 2019) |
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Oct 10, 2019 · Experts say that climate change, an aging power grid and an ever-growing demand for electricity will create bigger and more frequent outages across in the nation in coming years. In fact, they have already begun.
To be sure, the planned outages by Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) in Northern California this week were a proactive measure meant to protect more than 800,000 residents from wildfire risks during a period of strong winds. The power should be back on by Thursday, but could take a few more days, according to PG&E.
"The extremes get more intense," Paul Pastelok, a senior meteorologist for AccuWeather, told Newsweek. Wet areas get wetter and dry areas get ... Read more ...
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Climate change could be hurtling earth back to the future, raising sea levels by 65 feet - Newsweek (Oct 03, 2019) |
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Oct 03, 2019 · We know that our planet has experienced warmer periods in the past, during the Pliocene geological epoch around three million years ago.Our research, published today, shows that up to one third of Antarctica's ice sheet melted during this period, causing sea levels to rise by as much as 20 metres (65 feet) above present levels in coming centuries.We were able to measure past changes in sea level by drilling cores at a site in New Zealand, known as the Whanganui Basin, which contains shallow marine sediments of arguably the highest resolution in the world.Using a new method we developed to predict the water level from the size of sand particles moved by waves, we constructed a record ... | By Georgia Rose Grant and Timothy Naish Read more ...
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Climate change could lead to more conflict between species as they adapt and move, increasing extinctions - Newsweek (Oct 02, 2019) |
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Oct 02, 2019 · Climate change poses an existential threat to many animal species on the planet. Now, research suggests that species are going to come into conflict with one another as they genetically adapt or migrate to more suitable habitats.This finding could mean that scientists have been underestimating how global climate change will affect biodiversity and the number of extinctions that will occur, according to a study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.The authors of the study from the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Canada and the University of Montpellier in France explained that for species to survive climate change, they will have to ... Read more ...
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By striking for the climate, we're striking against poverty and racism too - Newsweek (Sep 25, 2019) |
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Sep 25, 2019 · For over a year now, young people worldwide have been regularly walking out of school to demand bold action on climate change. Today and for the following week— from September 20 through 27—people of all ages are joining them for a massive global climate strike to demand that we take action on one of the growing crises of our time.
As leaders of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival—a growing mobilization of people on the frontlines of our crisis of systemic poverty in the U.S.—we wholeheartedly support the call for an intergenerational climate strike in solidarity with this youth movement. We recognize the implications of the climate crisis and are ... | By Revs William Barber and Liz Theoharis Read more ...
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What do evangelical Christians really think about climate change? - Newsweek (Sep 20, 2019) |
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Sep 20, 2019 · #peoplesclimate #peoplesclimatemarchnyc #peoplesclimatemarch #evangelical #evangelicalsforclateaction
A post shared by @ gale127 on Sep 25, 2014 at 4:58pm PDT
KW: I think that's an interesting way to put it: that there is a social risk. This is not just a set of beliefs that you are holding as an individual. Oftentimes, it's a set of a set of beliefs that you're holding, and practising in a community. Whether that's in a church community or beyond.
I think there were certainly leaders in the evangelical community who I wrote about in Between God and Green who had some very real backlash from the power brokers on the evangelical right.
Robin makes a good point ... Read more ...
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