Safe Climate Campaign

S*x in the Beehive? Not so fast in a world. Demand to fight the crisis. http://ow.ly/q8z350zMUs8

EPA staff warned that mileage rollbacks had flaws. Trump officials ignored them.

We are sensing a pattern:

✔️ disrespect for science

✔️ ignorance toward public health officials

✔️disregard for our environment

✔️ tendency to be

Yep, must be Administrator Andrew Wheeler and President Donald J. Trump’s rollback. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/epa-staff-warned-that-mileage-rollbacks-had-flaws-trump-officials-ignored-them/2020/05/19/242056ba-960f-11ea-91d7-cf4423d47683_story.html

washingtonpost.com ‘Factually inaccurate text has still not been corrected,’ EPA staff cautioned, according to new documents

The Compost by My Couch: How (and Why) I Started an Odorless Bin at Home

What a clever idea: Composting in your....living room. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/climate/new-york-coronavirus-composting.html

nytimes.com New York City has suspended its composting program because of the coronavirus. Here’s an alternative that’s easy, clean and good for the climate.

Carbon-Neutral California Would Save 14,000 Lives a Year, UCLA Study Says

A carbon-neutral California? Sounds impossible. But here's why--and what we save. And demand to fight the crisis. http://ow.ly/kU8j50zz5pT

nbclosangeles.com The air quality Californians are enjoying during the stay-at-home order could one day be the status quo, if the state follows the instructions of a UCLA study published Monday. The study, published in the journal Nature Sustainability, offers a road map to state and local policymakers for California...

Global warming pushes April temperatures into record territory, as 2020 heads for disquieting milestone

Yes, the air was clean but it was the WARMEST April on record. Need we say more? Demand to fight . http://ow.ly/la0b50zxKZC

washingtonpost.com Thanks in large part to climate change, April tied as the warmest such month on record. This increases confidence that 2020 will set a new annual heat record.

Global warming pushes April temperatures into record territory, as 2020 heads for disquieting milestone

Yes, the air was clean, but it was the WARMEST April on record. Need we say more? Demand to fight . http://ow.ly/OFtS50zxKGx

washingtonpost.com Thanks in large part to climate change, April tied as the warmest such month on record. This increases confidence that 2020 will set a new annual heat record.

Cli-fi movies: A guide for socially-distanced viewers » Yale Climate Connections

Can't decide on tonight's movie? Here's a collection of -Fi to scare the living daylights out of you about crisis--or make you laugh: Apocalypse, disaster, dystopia, psychodrama, comedy. Right here. cars fight . http://ow.ly/4AJk50zzJO4

yaleclimateconnections.org Discover how people across the country are reacting to the reality of climate change.

These extraordinary satellite photos give just a hint of the extent to which humans have transformed the planet

STUNNING pix from up on high: Satellite shots show what we've done to the Earth. Demand to fight . ow.ly/Jx0A50zmORc

fastcompany.com From parking lots to copper mines, Overview collects aerial photographs that show our impact on the planet.

Opinion | Don’t let those animal comeback photos fool you. Nature is still under siege.

The bottom line from the sweet pix? "These feel-good moments mean little in the larger scheme of things. Our environment is changing...but mostly for the worse." We still have the crisis. Demand to fight . http://ow.ly/KPXT50zmuO2

washingtonpost.com Spare the sentiment. It's time to get angry about saving the earth.

State of the Air | American Lung Association

The just released its 21st annual report. Learn about the air quality where you live and the steps you can take to make air cleaner and healthier at http://ow.ly/4BwW50zllcj. Demand to fight . http://ow.ly/sQ4B50zllci

stateoftheair.org American Lung Association State of the Air 2020. How healthy is your air? Learn how where you live measures up when it comes to air pollution, smog and soot from the annual report that the American Lung Association released on air pollution across the U.S.

Race, Pollution and the Coronavirus

More pollution=more deaths. There's a lesson here for the fight against the crisis. Demand to fight . ow.ly/BxH650zan5q

nytimes.com Also this week: How to be ready for overlapping disasters

Trump’s New Auto Rollback Is an Economic Disaster

The Trump admin’s OWN analysis shows that his rollback will threaten jobs, cost families at the pump, and hurt public health and the environment. Clearly, Donald J. Trump is .
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theatlantic.com According to the administration’s own math, the pollution rules could eliminate jobs, discourage driving, and inflict billions in damage.

Wildlife Collapse From Climate Change Is Predicted to Hit Suddenly and Sooner

The slippery slope is looking more like a cliff, and we are right at the edge. This decade, coming at you: the collapse of animal species. Demand to fight . http://ow.ly/1RYu50zfgvt

nytimes.com Scientists found a “cliff edge” instead of the slippery slope they expected.

Coronavirus doubters follow climate denial playbook » Yale Climate Connections

Sound familiar? Deny, deny, deny, whether or crisis. Demand to fight . http://ow.ly/n0oz50ze3je

yaleclimateconnections.org Whether denying coronavirus or climate change, many deploy the same unfounded strategies and messages.

Analysis | America was unprepared for a major crisis. Again.

We had 2-month warning of the . "....with change, you need a 20-to-30-year ramping up." A fascinating look at how unprepared the US was for the by . Demand to fight . http://ow.ly/j1Me50z5GlZ

washingtonpost.com Inadequate planning, uneven leadership, lack of agility and bureaucratic inertia compound problems when disasters hit, say veterans of past national crises.

The World Must Not Forget Climate Change | by Dirk Messner & Nick Nuttall

The lesson of in the fight against the crisis? Go big, go now! Demand to fight . ow.ly/QlvV50yZXW7

project-syndicate.org The COVID-19 pandemic underlines the fact that we are all in this together: no country is immune from major global threats. And the same solidarity between countries and peoples is needed to address the even greater risk of climate change.

Opinion | Climate Progress Stalls Again, Thanks to Trump’s New Auto Rules

The auto rules rollback by kneecaps the biggest single step any nation has taken to fight . Point by point, here's our op-ed examining its Orwellian logic. Demand to fight the crisis. http://ow.ly/xFlE50z2DMV

nytimes.com He’s walking back a major effort to slow global warming.

England could face droughts in 20 years due to climate breakdown - report

Moist, green England. Not in the future, thanks to the crisis? Demand to fight . http://ow.ly/173850yVtrM

theguardian.com Auditor general forecasts drought in 20 years as demand rises and climate crisis reduces supply

A Cartoonist Explains Climate Change

The crisis as a .... cartoon? Yep. Take a look. And Demand to fight . http://ow.ly/I0a850yVtPZ

nexusmedianews.com Are we screwed? The answer is complicated. This comic strip explains why.

Scientists just discovered a massive new vulnerability in the Antarctic ice sheet

This vulnerable glacier could bring 5 feet of sea level rise. Here's how. crisis. Demand to fight . http://ow.ly/b2uE50yUoIa

washingtonpost.com Denman Glacier is retreating into the deepest undersea valley in all of Antarctica. Over 4 feet of sea level rise are at stake.

What’s Become of the Arctic

Biking along Alaska's shores? Another sign of the crisis. Demand to fight . https://www.cjr.org/special_report/whats-become-of-arctic.php

cjr.org What’s Become of the Arctic Alaska is heating up twice as fast as the rest of the country. Will journalists find a way to tell the whole story? By Tom Kizzia March 23, 2020 a Shareon Twitter b Shareon Facebook Emailthis story Bjørn Olson Over the past two summers, Bjørn Olson rode a fat-tire bik...

Bob Marshall: The long delay in facing climate change's inevitability

Just what I was looking for: a two-minute read answering the crisis deniers, point by point. Demand to fight . http://ow.ly/ECQk50ySt7S

nola.com Reporting to Louisianians about the existential threat climate change presents to our state’s coast often has me recalling one of Winston Churchill’s famous sayings: “You can always count on Americans

Ice shapes economy, identity of Lake Superior’s coastal towns. But it’s disappearing: ‘Culture is defined by how the world around us looks — and now that’s changing’

Lake Superior is the coldest, deepest, and largest of the Great Lakes. It is also warming faster than any lake on the planet but one. Demand to fight . http://ow.ly/2WXR50yPkBI

chicagotribune.com Lake Superior is one of the fastest warming lakes in the world, which poses a threat to coastal towns that rely on winter tourism.

'The rich are to blame for climate change'

Who pollutes the most? The top 10% of earners consumed 20 times more energy than the lowest 10th percentile of earners. Demand to fight . http://ow.ly/igBq50yPg0j

bbc.com The Leeds University study looked at 86 countries and came to broadly the same conclusions about the rich.

Polar ice caps melting six times faster than in 1990s

Losses of ice from Greenland and Antarctica are tracking the worst-case climate scenario, scientists warn.
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theguardian.com Losses of ice from Greenland and Antarctica are tracking the worst-case climate scenario, scientists warn

The koala population faces an immediate threat of extinction after the Australia bushfires, new report finds.

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American Climate Video: Al Cathey Had Seen Hurricanes, but Nothing Like Michael

Mayor Cathey found 80% of his city destroyed as he walked what had become a giant debris field,..Scientists say hurricanes draw their energy from oceans that are now warmer than they have been for 125,000 years,
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Demand

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04032020/american-climate-video-hurricane-michael-mexico-beach-mayor-al-cathey

insideclimatenews.org The mayor of Mexico Beach remembers wondering whether his town could find the energy to recover.

Safe Climate Campaign on Twitter

Polar bears are the animal icons of the crisis. These pictures tell us why. Magnificent creatures. Protect them. Fight with .
http://ow.ly/Jneb50yxSjY pic.twitter.com/1tk6DIzw6X

twitter.com “Polar bears are the animal icons of the crisis. These pictures tell us why. Magnificent creatures. Protect them. Fight with . https://t.co/3SsWjVQj0W”

Safe Climate Campaign on Twitter

A warming is changing the food we eat, the wine we drink, and the price of fruit and vegetables in the supermarket.

Fight ; switch to !
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twitter.com “A warming is changing the food we eat, the wine we drink, and the price of fruit and vegetables in the supermarket. Fight ; switch to ! https://t.co/47QDpH8nBY”

Breathing Polluted Air Shortens People’s Lives by an Average of 3 Years, a New Study Finds

The study estimated that air pollution led to 8.8 million premature deaths. That translates to an average shortening of people's lives by 2.9 years, the study concluded.


Fight air pollution; demand ! Live longer!

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insideclimatenews.org Pollution, primarily from fossil fuels, was linked to more premature deaths than smoking, HIV/AIDS, malaria and even war, the researchers found.

New cars producing more carbon dioxide than older models

SUV hell has spread to the UK! Demand for bigger cars drives increase in greenhouse gas emissions.


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theguardian.com Demand for bigger, heavier cars drives increase in greenhouse gas emissions

Better rat control in cities starts by changing human behavior

RATS!
change is shortening winter that limits rat reproduction. That plus globalization...could result in rodents on a scale humans have not experienced since the Middle Ages.


Protect & prevent rats; demand
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/better-rat-control-in-cities-starts-by-changing-human-behavior/2020/02/28/e646b898-5815-11ea-9b35-def5a027d470_story.html

washingtonpost.com Common approaches to managing rodents often fail to address the most important factor contributing to infestations: Our prolific waste of food.

A warming is changing the food we eat, the wine we drink, and the price of fruit and vegetables in the supermarket.

Fight ; switch to !
http://ow.ly/5DUw50yAKlP

How India's women farmers are taking the lead on climate change

The grandmothers of Janakpur village in northern India ...are reshaping farming in the community in an effort to deal with change – and remaking relationships between men and women as a result.
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csmonitor.com Globally, women's leadership in agriculture is increasingly being recognized as essential to tackling climate change. In India, women are changing farming and relationships in their communities.