DemocracyNow Interview: A scorching heat wave continues to fuel wildfires across southern Europe and parts of North Africa, resulting in hundreds of heat-related deaths and forcing thousands to evacuate their homes. The record-breaking temperatures come as Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia has effectively killed President Biden’s Build Back Better climate legislation after stringing Biden... Continue Reading →
It’s Humanity vs Extinction — And the Clock is Ticking Image Credit: Climate Reanalyzer How will the 2020s be remembered? We’re living through a time that I think history will recall as the Great Deafness. What do I mean by that? Take a hard look around the world. Beginning with the picture above. That’s the... Continue Reading →
We’re Sleepwalking Into the Age of Extinction
At this point, the ideal climate bill is out of the picture. Here are two ways to make sense of Democrats’ next move. Sign up for The Weekly Planet, Robinson Meyer’s newsletter about living through climate change, here. Welcome, all. We are gathered here today to mourn Build Back Better, President Joe Biden’s overstuffed and... Continue Reading →
Whatever This Is, It Won’t Be Build Back Better
The climate apocalypse is coming. To prepare for it, we need to admit that we can’t prevent it. . “There is infinite hope,” Kafka tells us, “only not for us.” This is a fittingly mystical epigram from a writer whose characters strive for ostensibly reachable goals and, tragically or amusingly, never manage to get any... Continue Reading →
What If We Stopped Pretending?
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It appears to be of no concern to the Supreme Court’s 6-3 ultraconservative majority how children are collateral damage in its monumental rulings to close the 2021-22 term. First, the conservatives struck down New York’s requirement for gun owners to prove why they should be allowed to pack heat in public. The ruling ignored, among... Continue Reading →
Children Will Suffer the Consequences of the Supreme Court’s Rampage
Greenhouse gas has undergone rapid acceleration and scientists say it may be due to atmospheric changes . Methane is four times more sensitive to global warming than previously thought, a new study shows. The result helps to explain the rapid growth in methane in recent years and suggests that, if left unchecked, methane related warming... Continue Reading →
Methane much more sensitive to global heating than previously thought – study
Key Points U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres described renewables as "the peace plan of the 21st century." The former prime minister of Portugal called on "all financial actors to abandon fossil fuel finance" and invest in renewables instead. Guterres also highlighted the "crippling prices" currently being experienced by businesses and households, adding that the world... Continue Reading →
‘Delusional’: UN chief slams new fossil fuel funding and warns of climate chaos
Climate Deniers and the Language of Climate Obstruction
From narratives about fossil fuels as a solution to climate advocates as out of touch with reality, here’s how the fossil fuel industry and its allies are weaponizing words to delay climate action. . On a recent episode of the Fox Business show “Mornings with Maria,” American Petroleum Institute CEO and President, Mike Sommers, said... Continue Reading →
A team of researchers and environmental advocates are urging governments and Big Tech companies to do far more to stop rampant online disinformation campaigns, which they say aim to delay action on the climate crisis by intentionally dragging the issue into the culture wars now dominating Western politics. Failing to stop such campaigns, the groups... Continue Reading →
Online Disinformation Uses Culture Wars to Delay Climate Action, Study Says
Scientists writing for the journal, Nature, have warned that the planet has crossed a series of climate ‘tipping points’. They call the risk an ‘existential threat to civilisation’, saying that ‘we are in a state of planetary emergency’. What are climate change tipping points and what effects do they have on the planet? Is it... Continue Reading →
