​Climate Crisis Politics
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​​​"Global Warming"​

• 7/5/21: "The scientists fighting to save the ocean’s most important carbon capture system" WaPo
• 6/30/21: "The Food System’s Carbon Footprint Has Been Vastly Underestimated"
• 6/7/21: "Despite pandemic, carbon dioxide level in atmosphere hits record high" WaPo
• 5/21/21:" Study Warns That Arctic Has Been Warming 3 Times Faster Than Rest of Earth"
• 5/4/21: "Hawaii declares a climate emergency"
• 4/27/21: "Climate change has been altering Earth's axis for at least 30 years"
• 4/13/21: "World's wealthiest 'at heart of climate problem"
• 3/22/21: "Seafloor Trawl Fishing May Release as Much Carbon as Air Travel"
• 3/17/21: "Why a powerful planet-warming gas is surging in Earth's atmosphere" (CH4)
• 3/8/21: "China's Five-Year Plan 'Underwhelming' on Climate"
• 3/4/21: "In the Atlantic Ocean, Subtle Shifts Hint at Dramatic Dangers" NYT
• 2/16/21: "A Glimpse of America’s Future: Climate Change Means Trouble for Power Grids" NYT
• 2/15/21: "What Exactly Is the Polar Vortex?"
• 2/9/21: "Did the Climate Crisis Enable the Coronavirus Pandemic?"
• 2/3/21: 'The Terrifying Warning Lurking in the Earth’s Ancient Rock Record: Our climate models could be missing something big." Atlantic Monthly March 2021
• 1/25/21: "Earth Has Lost 28 Trillion Tons of Ice since the Mid-1990s" Scientific American 
• 1/12/21: "The carbon skyscraper: A new way of picturing rapid, human-caused climate change"
• 12/11/20: Where We Stand on Climate, McKibben in the New Yorker
• 12/21/20: Five Climate Change Lessons From 2020 UCS
• 12/15/20: Menacing Methane – An Analysis
• The good, bad, and ugly from the UN's stark climate report 12/20
• 11/13/20: "Are We Really Past the Point of No Return on Climate? Scientists Respond To Controversial New Study"
• 10/19/20: Driver of the largest mass extinction in the history of the Earth identified​
• 10/19/20: Study finds Arctic verging on permafrost collapse
• 10/14/20: The number of global methane hot spots has soared this year despite the economic slowdown
• 9/20/20: NYT: "How Climate Migration Will Reshape America"
• 9/15/20: "New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States"
• 9/2/20: NYT "Earth is overheating. Millions are already feeling the pain."
• 8/7/20: "Earth is overheating. Millions are already feeling the pain." NYT
• 7/14/20: "Methane levels have hit a scary record high, new studies say" 
• 7/13/20: "Earth Could Hit Critical Climate Threshold in Next Five Years"
• 7/14/20: "Global Methane Emissions Reach a Record High" NYT
• 7/10/20: "Coronavirus pandemic prompts record drop in global emissions, study finds"
• 7/10/20: "Worrisome Signs Emerge for 1.5-Degree-C Climate Target"
• 7/7/20: "The Arctic Is on Fire and Warming Twice as Fast as the Rest of the Earth"
• 6/24/20: Clouds may explain why climate models are predicting a warmer future
• 6/21/20. WaPo: Hottest Arctic temperature record probably set with 100-degree reading in Siberia
• 6/18/20: World has six months to avert climate crisis, says energy expert 
• 6/8/20: WaPo: Earth’s carbon dioxide levels hit record high, despite coronavirus-related emissions drop
• 6/4/20: NYT "‘Like Trash in a Landfill’: Carbon Dioxide Keeps Piling Up in the Atmosphere"
• 4/27/20: US Oil and Gas Methane Emissions Are 15 Percent Higher Than We Thought
• Emissions are way down.  No, that's not All Good News for the Environment
• 10 Myths about climate change that need debunking.  
• Climate Models Are Running Red Hot, and Scientists Don’t Know Why
• The only uncertainty is how long we last 2/15/20
• 2019 Capped the World's Hottest Decade in History (WaPo 1/15/20)
• Why Boiling Methane in Arctic Seas Should Scare the Crap out of us
• The Arctic may have crossed key threshold WaPo 12/12/19
• Nature-Tipping points-too risky to bet against 11/28/19
• Carbon Dioxide Reaches Highest Recorded Levels In Human History 11/30/19
• In bleak report UN says drastic climate action needed now 11/26/19
• The USA is more responsible for climate change than any country 3/18/19
• The Three Most Important Graphs in Climate Change 6/3/19
• The 1000 year ouch 2/19/19
• Global leaders are facing one of the scariest years of climate change yet, 11/9/19
• Soil in the Arctic Is Now Releasing More Carbon Dioxide Than 189 Countries 10/23/19
• World Scientists Call for Global System Change to Address Climate Emergency 11/12/19
• The Climate Emergency Has Already Begun as Earth Systems Collapse 12/7/19
• How Scientists Got Climate Change So Wrong
• Seven Points You need to Know About Climate Change
• In 2039, How Will the US Military Fight a Climate Crisis Reality?
• Scientists from around the world declare climate emergency
• ‘Untold human suffering’: 11,000 scientists from across world unite to declare global climate emergency
• A New Study Pinpoints With Incredible Specificity the Places Most at Risk on a Warming Planet
• LAT Editorials on Climate, 3 parts, 9/15/19
• Global heating made Hurricane Dorian bigger, wetter – and more deadly 9/4/19
• Human influence on the seasonal cycle of tropospheric temperature 7/28/18
• Climate Disaster Looms as Earth Burns Up 8/26/19
• Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate Change 8/19/19
• The Arctic Permafrost is Melting and that Affects Us All. Sept 2019 NG
• There is time to avoid the worst of climate change 8/5/19
• 4 climate tipping points the planet is facing 8/2/19
• Climate scientists drive stake through heart of skeptics' argument
• We've Exceeded 415ppm of Carbon Dioxide for the First Time Since the Pliocene (RSN 5/13/19)
• This graphic explains why 2 degrees of global warming will be way worse than 1
• Opinion The World Solved the Ozone Problem. It Can Solve Climate Change NYT OpEd
• Changes in Earth’s Orbit Likely Kickstarted One of the Hottest Periods in History
• Damage to the ozone layer and climate change forming feedback loop
• Climate change is destroying a barrier that protects the US East Coast
• How Humans Derailed the Earth
• Climate Crisis- North Pole Temp is 50 F Above Normal
• New Report Warns Planet May Be Warming Twice as Fast as Expected
• We Are Destroying Our Life Support System
• 'The Very High Costs of Climate Risk
• Glacier Retreat, NYT
• McKibben on IPCC Report
• Climate Refugees 10/2018
• PNAS: Earth Sciences and the Anthropocene
• The Uninhabitable Earth, 2017
• World no way near preventing warming beyond 1.5C
• Feedback Loops are Driving Runaway global warming
• Red Hot Planet, WaPo, seven maps, 2018
• Planet at Risk of Heading Towards Apocalyptic, Irreversible ‘Hothouse Earth’ State
• After a 3 year lull, CO2 emissions are peaking again. 
• CO2 levels increasing in the atmosphere despite decline in emissions, NYT
• CO2 highest in 800,000 years
• 20,000 scientists warn humanity on climate change. 
• We have set the climate back 12 million years
• McKibben "Winning Slowly is the Same as Losing"​
• Bill Moyers Interviews Bill McKibben
• UN Study Says Climate is Warming
• NYRB on climate change
• Study Settle Issue on CO2 and previous warm periods.
• ​​WaPo: "we have three years to get climate change under control"
• Hopes of Mild Climate Change Dashed in Light of New Research
• NASA- 2016: the hottest year on record (graphic tiff)​​
• Scientists Warn World Will Miss a Window to Act on Climate​

• Global Warming’s Terrifying New Chemistry
• Bill McKibben Turns up the Heat

Divestment, Carbon Tax & Cap n' Trade​ & the Green New Deal

• 6/21/21: Petition - "Tell CalPERS and CalSTRS to Divest!"
• 5/21/21: "It’s Time to Bust the Myth That Endless Economic Growth Is Good for Us"
• 4/8/21: "‘Wall Street is a primary villain’ in climate crisis, analysis shows"
  3/20/21: "How Electric Utilities' Climate Pledges Are Falling Short" 
• 3/19/21: "Study finds renewable stocks posted vastly better returns than fossil fuels in past decade"
• 3/9/21: "Big U.S. Banks May Curb Lending to Fossil Fuel Companies" Scientific American
• 3/4/21: "One of America’s biggest pension funds is backing a bolder climate policy. Other investors should get on board" Fortune
• 2/22/21: "Why Texas Republicans Fear the Green New Deal" Naomi Klein, Opinion, NYT
• 2/3/21: "Fossil fuels will lead us to extinction: BLACKROCK STILL HEAVILY INVESTS IN COAL, OIL, AND GAS
• 2/6/21: "Is Carbon Capture The New Biofuels?" Forbes
• 2/5/21: "Melting Glacier Study Could Establish Legal Liability for Climate Polluters"
• 2/3/21: "U.S. Could Reach Net-Zero Emissions by 2050 With More Benefits Than Costs"     
• 1/26/21: "BlackRock Chief Pushes a Big New Climate Goal for the Corporate World"
• 1/26/21: "Enormously Big Deal: Fed creates climate committee" 
• 1/7/21: "Chomsky and Pollin: A Global Green New Deal Is the Only Way to Avert Disaster"
• 12/10/20: NY Pension Fund Will Divest From Fossil Fuels
• 12/1/20: Bank of America Promises It Won't Fund Arctic Drilling
• 11/25/20: New Yorker, McKibben, "Climate Crisis: the banks"
• 11/20/20: Can California’s Cap and Trade Actually Address Environmental Justice?
• 11/3/20: Money manager calls for climate Marshall Plan
• 10/30/20: :"In 'Road Map for a More Sustainable Future,' NY Regulator Tells Banks to Consider Climate Risks in Planning"
• 10/29/20: "How 'Net-Zero' Targets Disguise Climate Inaction"
• 9/25/20: "What’s the Future of the Carbon Tax?"
• Markets are flying blind on climate change 9/16/20
• Global investors develop net zero investing framework
• 8/24/20: "Major investment firm dumps Exxon, Chevron and Rio Tinto stock"
• A simpler, more useful way to tax carbon 8/17/20
• "Hasan and AOC Discuss The Green New Deal" YouTube
• 8/2/20: "Steel And Chemical Companies Are Preparing To Decarbonize, But They Want Governments To Commit"
• 8/1/20: "Carbon Pricing: Correcting Climate Change's Market Failure"
• 6/20/20 Modeling the Climate Crisis Action Plan
• 6/20: Congressional Climate Crisis Action Plan Would Decarbonize US and add 58 trillion in benefits by 2050.pdf, (Forbes) 
• 6/15/20: We Need a Green New Deal to Confront the Economic Crash and Climate Crisis
• Guardian 6/1/20 Covid-19 has given us the chance to build a low-carbon future 
• The world wasn't ready for a Green New Deal in 2009. Today, it may be
• 4/24/20: Here’s what a coronavirus-like response to the climate crisis would look like
• The Drawdown Project: Climate Solutions (PDF report)
• The Short List Of Climate Actions That Will Work 9/29/19
• The fastest way to cut carbon emissions is a ‘fee’ and a dividend, top leaders say 2/13/20 WaPo
• Cap and trade isn't cutting it LAT
• What Wall St. wants- A way to price carbon
• Towards a circular economy, Piketty
• From linear to circular—Accelerating a proven concept
• What’s ‘Fair’ When It Comes to Carbon Emissions?12/4/19
• How to Cut US carbon emissions by 40% in 10 years (a carbon tax)
• Voters like taxing carbon as long as you don’t say ‘carbon tax’
• Carbon pricing is the way to rectify runaway climate change
• The Green New Deal explained
• The Green New Deal would create nearly 30 million jobs
• Ocasio-Cortez says we need a WW2 plan
• Landowners Are Earning Millions for Carbon Cuts That May Not Occur
• Companies See Climate Change Hitting Their Bottom Lines in the Next 5 Years
• Carbon tax v capntrade, which is better? (Guardian 2013)
• The Problem With Putting a price on carbon
• Carbon Tax?  States considering
• Making Carbon Pricing Work for Citizens
• The Story of cap 'n trade (video)
• The Future Of Cap n trade in CA
• California Gov - a climate bill full of giveaways to polluters
• What to do? 
• Exxon and all agree re carbon tax
• Republican Elders Call for New National Carbon Tax
• California has an ambitious plan to tackle climate change
• Exxon Mobil Is Now Lobbying for a Carbon Tax
• Cap and Trade CA and the US

Ice Melt, Sea Level Rise and Ocean Acidification

• 6/3/21: "Earth's cryosphere loses enough ice to cover Lake Superior every year"
• 5/24/21: "World’s Largest Iceberg Breaks off From Antarctica"
• 5/5/21: "‘Uncertainty is not our friend’: Scientists are still struggling to understand the sea level risks posed by Antarctica" WaPo
• 5/5/21: "Emissions Cuts Could Drop the Impact of Melting Ice on Oceans by Half" NYT
• 4/30/21: "Antarctic ‘doomsday glacier’ may be melting faster than was thought", Guardian
• 1/25/21: "Earth is now losing 1.2 trillion tons of ice each year. And it’s going to get worse." WaPo
• YouTube: Atlas Pro on Sea Level Rise, 20 mins
• 10/19/20: Study finds Arctic verging on permafrost collapse
• Melting Antarctic ice will raise sea level by 2.5 metres – even if Paris climate goals are met, study finds
• 9/20/20: "Charleston aims to force fossil fuel companies to pay $2bn to combat climate crisis"
• 9/14/20: "Two major Antarctic glaciers are tearing loose from their restraints, scientists say" WaPo
• 8/17/20: "'Canary in the Coal Mine': Greenland Ice Has Shrunk Beyond Return, Study Finds"
• 6/3/20: High Temperatures Set Off Major Greenland Ice Melt—Again
• New Study Shows Global Warming Intensifying Extreme Rainstorms Over North America
• Oceans Likely to Heat up at Seven Times Their Current Rate, New Study Finds 
• Climate change is turning parts of Antarctica green, say scientists 
• NYT May 14/20 ‘It Could Happen Anytime’: Scientists Warn of Alaska Tsunami Threat
• 5/8/20 Sea levels could rise more than a metre by 2100, experts say 
• Ocean temperatures hit record high as rate of heating accelerates 1/13/20
• Greenland ice loss has septupled WaPo
• Arctic Report Card 2019
• What We Do in The Next 5 Years Will Affect Sea Levels For Several Centuries
• Melting Ice Could Unleash Hazardous Waste From Cold War
• Major Climate Report Warns of Severe Damage to the World's Oceans 9/26/19
• New Report on Ocean Oxygen Loss Gives
• These 20 Companies Caused More Than One-Fifth of Ocean Acidification Since 1965
• "Ghost Forests" inland as sea level rises in US.  NYT 10/8/19
• Landmark UN report warns sea levels will rise faster than projected by 2100
• UN draft climate report warns oceans rising  8/29/19
• Iceland PM Ice is Leaving NYT 8/17/19
• Alaska's Sea Ice Has Completely Melted Away
• Historic Greenland Melt Is a “Glimpse of the Future” 8/2/19
• Glacial melting in Antarctica may become irreversible 7/9/19
• Seawalls to protect US against rising oceans could cost $416bn by 2040
• Arctic Is Thawing So Fast Scientists Are Losing Their Measuring Tools
• ​Oceans Might Lose Ability to Absorb Carbon
• Greenland is Falling Apart, April 2019
• Tracking melting Ice w new NASA satellite
• LAT Ocean Acidification 
• Flooding From Sea Level Rise Threatens Over 300,000 US Coastal Homes
• NASA animation on Antarctic glacial melt (mp4)
• BBC: Arctic's irreversible warming

• NYT: Interactive web article on Greenland ice melting. 
• WaPo: New Science Shows Sea Levels Rising Much faster than we thought​​

COPs  and IPCC and global roles

• 6/2/21: "The G7 countries promised to go green, then poured money into fossil fuels instead"
• 2/3/21: "Court convicts French state for failure to address climate crisis"
• 9/27/20: "World leaders pledge to halt Earth’s destruction ahead of UN summit"
• 9/24/20: "Vanessa Nakate: America Needs to Lead on Climate Change"
• "Trace" emerges as a real time way to measure greenhouse gad emissions, promoted by Al Gore.
• Amid pandemic, UN cancels global climate conference
• COP25 climate summit ends in staggering failure of leadership
• COP25 Midway Webinar 12/9/19
• COP25 Dec 5 update
• Paris Agreement Targets Need to Be 5 Times Stronger to Actually Work
• IPCC 1.5 degree report has a silver lining 10/10/19
• IPCC Report on Climate Change and the Oceans and the Cryosphere. 9/25/19
• Climate change - do more now or risk catastrophe: IEA
• Planet has only until 2030 to stem catastrophic climate change
• Landmark UN report warns sea levels will rise faster than projected by 2100
• Countries must triple climate emission cut targets to limit global heating to 2C
• The U.S. left a hole in leadership on climate. China is filling it.
• IPCC 8/8/19 Report on the Land and Climate Change
• Climate Negotiation in Katowice COP24
• IPCC October 2018 Report! NYT
• Half US Spending Power Remains on Paris COP21 Accord​

• World Can Reach Net Zero by 2060
• Paris_Agreement_Toolkit-Edit
• The Slow Violence of Climate Change (COP21)
• WB-IFC on COP21 successes

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