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1/26/20
Could the Climate Crisis Be “The Good News of Damnation”?
by Lawrence Wittner
There is no other solution to the onrushing climate catastrophe than for people and nations to forget their tribal animosities and start behaving as part of a world society. The climate crisis, like the prospect of nuclear annihilation, really is “the good news of damnation.” And we can only overcome it by working together.
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SOURCE: LA Progressive
1/9/20
What Australia’s Fires Should Teach the USA: Be Alarmist!
by Walter G. Moss
Most importantly in this 2020 election year, the Australian tragedy tells us we should vote out all the human-caused climate-change deniers and minimizers.
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1/5/20
A History of Climate Change Science and Denialism
by David Carlin
Climate science is not a new discipline and the scientific consensus on climate change is far older than many people think.
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11/17/19
Which Would You Prefer―Nuclear War or Climate Catastrophe?
by Lawrence Wittner
A satirical examination of the threats facing the world.
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11/17/19
The Runway for Global Warming: The Suez Canal's 150th Anniversary
by On Barak
The largest infrastructural project of the nineteenth century annexed the Middle East into the fossil-fuels complex. Reexamining its history is indispensable for decarbonization today.
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SOURCE: NY Times
10/23/19
Climate Change Will Cost Us Even More Than We Think
by Naomi Oreskes and Nicholas Stern
Economists greatly underestimate the price tag on harsher weather and higher seas. Why is that?
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9/29/19
Climate Change: A Worldwide Catastrophe In The Making
by Alon Ben-Meir
The United Nations Climate Action Summit revealed how far presidents and prime ministers are willing to go avoid the terrible consequences of global warming.
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SOURCE: Time
9/23/19
How Understanding the History of the Earth's Climate Can Offer Hope Amid Crisis
by John Brooke, Michael Bevis and Steve Rissing
Our planet’s relationship to carbon dioxide has changed drastically before; it can change again.
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9/22/19
Does Our Climate Crisis Make the 2020 Election Our Most Crucial One Ever?
by Walter G. Moss
Youth activism like the kind currently being globally displayed also encourages us, but it also reminds us how tough the struggle ahead will be.
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SOURCE: Informed Comment
8/31/19
As Hurricane Dorian Threatens Florida, Gov. DeSantis & Trump—Who Haven't Curbed CO2 Emissions—Should Resign
by Juan Cole
If you don’t recognize the cause of a problem, you can’t fix the problem.
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9/1/19
The Fight against Climate Change Must Become the New Abolitionism
by Erik Curren
Why has it taken so long for the climate movement to accomplish so little? And, since the clock is ticking to curb runaway global heating, how can we do better in the future?
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8/25/19
Winter Isn’t Coming. Prepare for the Pyrocene.
by Steve Pyne
What does a full-blown fire age look like? We’re about to find out.
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SOURCE: New Yorker
Accessed 3/26/19
How the Little Ice Age Changed History
Starting in the fourteenth century, cooling temperatures disrupted our economic and social structures—and may have given rise to the modern world.
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SOURCE: The Santa Fe New Mexican
12-15-2018
Cultural sites at risk from climate change
by Richard Moe
Climate change threatens much of our history, especially the history embodied in our “cultural sites,” the ruins and remnants of the first Americans passed down through multiple generations to the Native Americans of today.
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SOURCE: Daniel Pipes Blog
11-17-2018
Daniel Pipes warns that droughts in the Middle East are driving immigration
"Tens and hundreds of millions of people will want to leave the Middle East and Africa; where will they want to go to? Mostly to the West: especially Europe, the United States, Canada, and Australia."
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10-11-18
After Reading the Newest Climate Report this Is What You Should Do
by Walter G. Moss
Vote Democratic. The GOP just doesn’t seem to want to come to terms with this threat to the planet.
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10-9-18
Capitalism’s Final Solution Is Nothing Less than Complete Ecological Collapse
by Ed Simon
Unfettered, unregulated, capricious, vampiric capitalism has brought us to the brink.
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SOURCE: National Security Archive
9/24/18
Presidents from Reagan to Obama ultimately recognized the importance of science and high-level international cooperation in addressing climate change
Contrary to the popular impression documents show that Republican presidents have pushed for the US to be an environmental leader.
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9/9/18
Wildfire’s New Normal Looks a Lot Like the Old Normal with a Software Update
by Stephen J. Pyne
It would help if partisans stopped using wildfires to advance some other agenda.
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8-1-18
People Are Extending Fire Seasons More than Climate Change Is
by Stephen J. Pyne
That’s one of the lessons of the fire that ravaged Yellowstone 30 years ago.
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