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In covering climate risks despite less extreme warming path, Washington Post washes over the most significant: The Seas Will Rise

January 7th, 2023 · Comments Off on In covering climate risks despite less extreme warming path, Washington Post washes over the most significant: The Seas Will Rise

In seeking to understand climate risks, modeling of worst-case “business as usual” paths put the world on a path to 5C (five degrees celsius) / 9F (nine degrees fahrenheit), or more, warming within the lifetimes of people on earth today. Well, their lifetimes if they survived the enormity of climate catastrophes and disruptions that warming […]

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Tags: climate change · climate crisis · climate disruption · Sea Level Rise · Washington Post

#ActOnClimate: Talk about the #ClimateCrisis

September 20th, 2022 · Comments Off on #ActOnClimate: Talk about the #ClimateCrisis

When it comes to climate action, the focus is all too often on physical actions (put solar on roof, eat less meat, and so on). These actions are, quite legitimately, examples of what we all can and should be doing but aren’t necessarily the most critical individual action. After voting (at all levels and opportunities) […]

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Tags: ActOnClimate · climate change · climate crisis · Public Opinion

With Climate Hawk White House, Whitehouse to give last #TimeToWakeUp speech

January 27th, 2021 · Comments Off on With Climate Hawk White House, Whitehouse to give last #TimeToWakeUp speech

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) is a true Climate Hawk and has one of the few national-level politicians with an extended record of forcefully speaking about the urgent necessity for serious climate action. One element of this record will close out later today with an impressive record: 279 #TimeToWakeUp speeches to draw attention to the climate […]

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Tags: ActOnClimate · climate change · climate crisis · climate hawk · Climate Hawks

Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) returns to governance

January 20th, 2021 · Comments Off on Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) returns to governance

Amid the momentous events of today, President Biden has plans to exhaust his hand signing executive orders (see note below re broken link. note: that is a broken link) to reverse some of Donald Trump’s worse excesses and to start the process of righting the ailing Ship of State. Among these is an item that […]

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Tags: analysis · BidenHarrisAdministration · climate change · climate crisis

Climate Hawk announces in Iowa Senate race

August 26th, 2019 · Comments Off on Climate Hawk announces in Iowa Senate race

A “Climate hawk is [someone] … who work[s] for aggressive steps regarding climate change and clean energy.” Such as, Jay Inslee is a climate Hawk. A Climate Hawk is also a way to describe someone who comes to understanding climate change implications and the necessity for action through a national security lens. A Climate Hawk understands that […]

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Tags: 2020 Elections · catastrophic climate change · climate change · climate crisis · climate hawk · Climate Hawks · Energy · Iowa

Going to war to pollute more …

June 17th, 2019 · Comments Off on Going to war to pollute more …

Many aware of climate change science and the (mounting) risks of climate catastrophe have long analogized the situation to World War II mobilization — in expressing the scale of the challenge, that the United States (and humanity) has the ability to rise to a challenge of such scale, and the level of existential threat that […]

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Tags: climate crisis · climate delayers · climate disruption · tar sands

A #ClimateDebate would matter (Lessons from Texas)

June 6th, 2019 · 2 Comments

Tom Perez and the DNC staff have truly stepped into it … explicitly rejecting hosting a climate debate and threatening Democratic Party presidential candidates ready to participate in one hosted by some other organization. By pegging the climate crisis as yet another ‘single issue’, Perez and his team are demonstrating a fundamental failure to understand […]

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Tags: 2020 Democratic Presidential Primary · 2020 Presidential Election · ActOnClimate · climate change · climate crisis