Malcolm Turnbull, the 29th Prime Minister of Australia, joins the show this week to discuss the growing threat of misinformation to liberal democracy, the role Rupert Murdoch and News Corp are playing to exacerbate the problem, the obstacles to international cooperation on reducing emissions, and his hopes for what can be accomplished in 2021 to... Continue Reading →
Emma Murphy | US Correspondent Since 1970, populations of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians plummeted by an average of 69 percent. ITV News US Correspondent Emma Murphy reports Flying over the Amazon you go for hours seeing only pristine forest and, at times, can wonder just how serious its challenges are. And then you... Continue Reading →
The Amazon is ‘close to a point of no return’ – a reality that impacts us all
The world's farms produce only a handful of varieties of bananas, avocados, coffee and other foods – leaving them more vulnerable to the climate breakdown The climate breakdown is already threatening many of our favorite foods. In Asia, rice fields are being flooded with saltwater; cyclones have wiped out vanilla crops in Madagascar; in Central... Continue Reading →
Our food system isn’t ready for the climate crisis
The US House Oversight and Reform Committee kicked off its investigation of the fossil fuel industry’s decades-long climate change disinformation campaign last fall by inviting top executives from BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell to testify about their role and subpoenaing their companies for internal documents. The committee followed up that hearing — during which the executives... Continue Reading →
It’s Time for Charles Koch to Testify About His Climate Change Disinformation Campaign
In recent decades, worrisome rises in drought, heat waves, and air pollution have stressed agriculture. . Crops don’t like drought, extreme heat, extreme cold, flooding, and air pollution. While reducing the ill effects of extreme cold on agriculture in recent decades, the warming climate is increasing impacts of drought, extreme heat, and air pollution. These... Continue Reading →
Hey! Climate Week Participants – NYC/Amsterdam (& Voters) | Please Listen Carefully)
Let's do a refresh, in addition to the topics and discussions you are having at your Climate Week sessions. Here are two videos from MSNBC year 2020 from both Marianne Williamson and Bernie Sanders. Switch the words if you will from running for President to those running for Senate and Congress as well as local... Continue Reading →
Kids can help with Climate Change | Henry Lizotte | TEDxHeritageSchool
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 →
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