RS Automotive has run a gas station in Takoma Park, Maryland, for 60 years. The business is still there, but it’s not a gas station anymore, at least not technically. It’s now the first in the U.S. to ditch oil, installing four electric vehicle chargers in place of the former gas pumps. continued at source...
Arctic Sea Ice Reaches 2019 Minimum Extent…
Arctic sea ice likely reached its 2019 minimum extent of 1.60 million square miles (4.15 million square kilometers) on Sept. 18, tied for second lowest summertime extent in the satellite record, according to NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center. The Arctic sea ice cap is an expanse of frozen seawater floating on... Continue Reading →
Climate Emergency Related 2020 Videos…
Climate Crisis related Youtube Videos added almost daily to this playlist.
Scores of world leaders gathered in New York on Monday for the U.N. Climate Action Summit, but the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitters announced few new measures to address the climate crisis. President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence briefly attended the summit but left after just 14 minutes. At the beginning of the summit,... Continue Reading →
Youth & Indigenous Activists Take Center Stage at United Nations Climate Action Summit
Link and PDF to site | PDF is a Climate101 Lesson and site is very informative. Our mission is to advance strong policy and action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, promote clean energy, and strengthen resilience to climate impacts. A key objective is a national market-based program to reduce emissions cost-effectively. We believe a sound climate... Continue Reading →
Center for Climate and Energy Solutions…
these are values that need to prevail across all cultures of the world
Clearly, we need to focus more strong on all intrinsic values.
Believers in a market economy are dismayed by radical voices arguing that capitalism is incompatible with effective climate action. But unless capitalism's defenders start supporting more ambitious targets and policies to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by mid-century, they should not be surprised if an increasing number of people agree. This year, the evidence that global... Continue Reading →
Is capitalism incompatible with effective climate change action?
New analysis finds parts of the U.S. have already warmed close to critical 2-degree level
For years, scientists have warned that we need to stop the planet from warming an additional two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels to avoid catastrophic problems. But a new analysis by The Washington Post finds many major areas across the U.S. have already reached that mark. The Post’s Chris Mooney joins Amna Nawaz to discuss... Continue Reading →
Resolution submitted to United States to declare a Climate Emergency
Resolution submitted to United States to declare a Climate Emergency by Senator Bernie Sanders and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez CONCURRENT RESOLUTION Expressing the sense of Congress that there is a climate emergency which demands a massive-scale mobilization to halt, reverse, and address its consequences and causes.Continued...
millions of Americans exposed to ‘Off-the-Chart’
Climate scientist Michael Mann discusses the increasing frequency and severity of heat waves, just as the US, Europe, and India are experiencing this Summer
As the BBC notes, almost from the first moment that people realized that the human-caused climate crisis is real, there’s been an effort to determine how quickly action needed to be taken to stave off the worst outcomes. Could we wait 50 years? What about 30? What about 20? The answers are no, no, and no. Recent studies... Continue Reading →
