​Climate Crisis Politics
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​​​"Global Warming"

• 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

Fossil Fuels

• 4/22/20 Quantifying methane emissions from the largest oil-producing basin in the United States from space
• 6/21/20 Even the oil giants can now foresee the end of the gasoline age 
• Energy firms urged to mothball coal plants as cost of solar tumbles (6/2/20) Guardian
• 4/9/20: Will the Coronavirus Kill the Oil Industry?
• 4/8/20: Oil Companies Are Collapsing
• First oil prices went negative. Now the shale oil industry is going to shut down 
• March 31: Trump’s Fuel Efficiency Reduction Would Be Largest Anti-Climate Rollback Ever
• World’s banks have given $2.7 trillion to fossil fuels since Paris Agreement
• New York’s Last Coal-Fired Power Plant Is Closing 3/20/20
• Bill McKibben on the death of fossil fuels (3/10/20) 
• How JPMorgan Chase Became the Doomsday Bank'
• Top DNC Committee Is Packed With Fossil Fuel and Bank Lobbyists
• Fossil Fuel Subsidies Must End
• Fossil Fuels Are to Blame for Soaring Methane Levels 2/19/20
• Goldman Sachs Announces It Will Stop Financing Arctic Oil
• Goldman Sachs will no longer fund drilling in Arctic refuge sacred to First Nations
• With Passage of NAFTA 2 US supporting fossil fuels in Mexico 1/19/20
• United States Spend Ten Times More On Fossil Fuel Subsidies Than Education
• Natural Gas Boom Fizzles as a US glut sinks prices
• The Permian natural gas problem is growing LAT 12/25/19
• Since Paris Agreement, companies have sunk millions into fossil fuels
• Freight Rail and Climate Denial
• It’s a Vast, Invisible Climate Menace. We Made It Visible NYT 11/8/19
• Chevron plans write down natural gas slump
• Shifting the sustainability focus from the individual to the corporation 10/21/19
• Dangerous levels of warming locked in by planned jump in fossil fuels output 11/20/19
• Super-Emitters’ In California Release A Third Of The State’s Methane
• The 20 Firms Behind a Third of All Carbon Emissions
• The Greatest Scam in History 11/10/19
• Divestment Works - and one huge bank can lead the way. 10/15/19
• Money Is the Oxygen on Which the Fire of Global Warming Burns
• Fossil fuel knocks the wind out of renewable energy movement in Ohio
• Ohio just passed the worst energy bill of the 21st century
• The dark money protecting the ‘worst energy policy in the country’
• Cost Of Decarbonizing U.S. Power Grid Put At $4.5 Trillion (6/27/19, Forbes)
• Engineering Catastrophe - why we should not geoengineer the planet
• Renewable Energy Costs Take Another Tumble
• Natural Gas is not a "Middle Ground"
• Judge Restores Obama drilling ban in the Arctic
• The fracking industry’s flaring problem may be worse than we thought
• China is stopping 103 coal power projects as part of its move toward more renewable energy
• China continues to build coal plants despite resolve to stop
• The Next Financial Crisis Lurks Underground (NYT Opinion)
• 3 Big myths about natural gas and climate change.
• Lawsuit v EPA for fracking waste in the Gulf of Mexico

• New York City Just declared war on the oil industry
• Exxon knew about global warming in 1981, then paid millions for denial
• 8 Fossil Fuel Giants Pollute as much as the whole US
• Trudeau to work with Trump on KXL tar sands
• Fossil Fuels Forever (M. Klare)​
• CEO annual income could fund solar jobs in coal country
• As Peat Bogs Burn NYT​​

Biological Impacts

• 6/26/20 The threatened tribe Satellite images show how a lust for gold is damaging Brazil’s remote Amazon
• Will climate change push these amphibians to the brink? 
• Climate change is playing havoc with Mexico’s monarch butterfly migration 1/5/20 WaPo
• The faces of extinction we lost in 2019
• Geographers find tipping point in deforestation
• Climate Crisis Threatens a Third of Plant Species, Endangering Food Supply
• Climate Change Threatens the World's Food Supply UN Warns
• Almost a quarter of eucalyptus trees found to be threatened with extinction
• This Report Shows How Climate Change Will Affect Every Child
• The Answer to Climate-killing cow farts might come from the sea
• California will lose 389 bird species to climate change (Audubon Report, 10/30/19)
• Indigenous farming practices failing as climate change disrupts seasons
• Fires in the Amazon could be part of a doomsday scenario 8/22/19
• Don't burn trees to fight climate change, McKibben
• World Forest Wildlife Decline 53% since 1970
• EU plans to plant 3 billion trees and massively expand organic farming (New Scientist 5/20/20) 
• Massive reforestation is key to averting a climate catastrophe 
• Tree planting and climate crisis (Gua 7/4/19)
• The trouble with trees as a climate crisis solution
• Planting Trees Won’t Stop Climate Change 5/25/20 Slate
• Almost 600 Plant Species Have Become Extinct in the Last 250 Years
• Record-Breaking Heat in Alaska Wreaks Havoc on Communities and Ecosystems
• Humans are causing the extinction of up to 1 million species
• Bill McKibben and Elizabeth Kolbert on the UN Extinction Report 
• 5 Major Crops in the Crosshairs of Climate Change, NPR
• Antarctic Ancient Moss Beds dying from climate change
• Climate Change and Human Hunger
• Pole reversals and the Ice Age
• Deforestation and climate change and extinct bird species
• Trees are our best defense against climate change​
• Climate Change is wiping out parasites, critical to ecosystems
• NG amphibian death C AM
• Warning of 'ecological Armageddon''
• The climate crisis is already here
• Tropical Deforestation and Climate

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

• 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

Sea Level Rise and Ocean Acidification

• 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

• 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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