Henry has steps that people can take (MiPart) to help with climate change. Henry Lizotte has a wonderful family with a mom, dad, and sister that he loves to play games with. He especially likes it When he gets to make up the game. He plans to be a politician one day. He was inspired... Continue Reading →
What Will Earth Look Like When These 6 Tipping Points Hit?
A “tipping point” is when a system, with just a small amount of additional energy, is pushed from one stable state to another suddenly and dramatically. This can be a chair falling backwards. Or it can be a major earth system collapsing. The IPCC recently identified 15 potential climate-related tipping points that scientists have grown... Continue Reading →
Amsterdam Climate Week: Opening Panel Discussion - Noam Chomsky - Alicia Fall - John D. Liu The inaugural Amsterdam Climate Week - ACW will run from the 12th - 18th of September and is an opportunity for people to come together to collaborate and initiate projects to tackle climate change. Less talking and more doing!... Continue Reading →
Amsterdam Climate Week
"We are not living here by choice. Everything we own is underwater," says a rescued villager near Mehar, the latest city to be flooded in Pakistan due to record rainfall and the overflowing Indus River. Navy volunteers have raced out on lifeboats to deliver aid and ferry people in need of medical care back to... Continue Reading →
‘This is climate carnage’: UN chief visits Pakistan’s flood-ravaged provinces
Official Title: How Bad Is It? And what does that question even mean? I got a phone call last night, from a person I admire as much as anyone I know; she’s spent her life working, with great effectiveness, for a wide variety of progressive causes. I turn to her for guidance on dozens of questions.... Continue Reading →
MUST READ CLIMATE ARTICLE BY BILL MCKIBBEN…
“Attack Philanthropy”: Right-Wing Billionaire Fueled Climate Denial & Conservative Judges, Schools
New revelations about the secretive right-wing billionaire Barre Seid, who donated $1.6 billion to a conservative nonprofit run by Leonard Leo, known as Donald Trump’s “Supreme Court whisperer,” show he has also used his massive fortune to undermine climate science, fight Medicaid expansion and remake the higher education system in a conservative mold. We speak... Continue Reading →
This is a re-post from the Thinking is Power website maintained by Melanie Trecek-King where she regularly writes about many aspects of critical thinking in an effort to provide accessible and engaging critical thinking information to the general public. Please see this overview to find links to other reposts from Thinking is Power. And why most of what you... Continue Reading →
Science: What it is, how it works, and why it matters
Michael Mann on How to Win the Climate War and Avoid the Disaster
"The more society drifts from the truth, the more they will hate those that speak it." - George Orwell “It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” - Mark Twain YouTube Commenter - Angela Psaltou Video Source
With extreme heat waves in Europe, Asia, the United States and beyond, it’s clear climate change is making summers more dangerous and deadly. Urban areas are feeling the worst effects; a phenomenon known as the urban heat island effect. 2022 saw high temperatures in Kansas, Spain, Portugal, England (especially London), and India. But even within... Continue Reading →
As Heat Waves Worsen, THIS Policy Predicts Where People Will Die
We need to ground climate discourse in the present, not the future. . Remember when Donald Trump called climate change a hoax, suggesting it was invented by the Chinese to gain a trade advantage over the West? That was in 2016. By 2019, Trump claimed (equally falsely) that his administration was addressing climate change. Climate... Continue Reading →
How to Fight Climate “Delay”—Denial’s Hipper, More Dangerous Cousin
We won't—if we're honest—be able to tell them that we didn't know what was coming. “There’s no way to describe what’s unfolding before our eyes other than to say that the world is simply burning up—things are bad, but we can take action and avoid an even worse disaster, so there’s always hope.” “I wonder... Continue Reading →
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