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SOURCE: The Guardian
2/27/2023
We Can't Leave Climate out of History
by Peter Frankopan
Emerging "climate archives" of precise data about weather patterns can illuminate ways that the environment impacted human history.
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12/18/2022
Will the United States Accept Responsibility to Lead with a New Marshall Plan for Climate?
by James Thornton Harris
Although the United States has refused to accept the principle that it owes global reparations for past damage to the atmosphere, could reframing the issue as one of global leadership, instead of punishment, appeal to the nation's better instincts?
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SOURCE: L.A. Progressive
8/14/2022
The Inflation Reduction Act is a Legislative Victory and a Vindication of Patient Pragmatism
by Walter G. Moss
While compromise and negotiation are difficult, they have proven necessary for salvaging a large chunk of the Biden domestic agenda, including action on climate change.
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SOURCE: L.A. Progressive
7/23/2022
Can Fiction Like "The Ministry For the Future" Guide Real Action on Climate?
by Walter G. Moss
Kim Stanley Robinson's 2020 novel has impressed readers from Bill McKibben to Barack Obama – does it model a better approach to the global climate crisis?
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
3/24/2022
America *IS* Exceptional. It's Not a Good Thing
by Aviva Chomsky
The climate emergency requires Americans to reject the nation's exceptional consumption of resources and hoarding of wealth in favor of a political economy that enables a global good life for all within the limits of the planet.
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
10/14/2021
There's One Way to Save the Planet from Climate Armageddon
by Michael Klare
The only solution to the climate crisis is US-China agreement to eliminate fossil fuel use and boycott trade with nations that refuse to follow suit.
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SOURCE: New York Times
10/7/2021
The Planet Isn't Doomed. That's Why We Can and Must Act
by Dagomar Degroot
Climate "doomism" is a dangerous fatalism about our planet that justifies our political failure to take the necessary actions to slow climate change.
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SOURCE: NPR
4/7/2021
Your Weather Forecast Update: Warmer Climate Will Be The New 'Normal'
The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has released its ten-year updates to its "normal" temperature standards. Based on 30 years of data, higher temperatures are indeed "the new normal."
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
3/18/2021
The Sports Pages of Death
by Tom Engelhardt
The developing effort to control and contain the COVID pandemic raise the question of why governments and industry are not doing more to avoid the worst case scenarios of climate change.
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6/21/2020
Viral Consequences
by David Marks
The indifferent response of the Trump administration to the COVID-19 pandemic and the repressive police response to protests are a signal that we need a political and social transformation to address the ongoing global climate crisis.
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SOURCE: New York Times
4/27/2020
Overlooked No More: Eunice Foote, Climate Scientist Lost to History
Eunice Foote’s ingenious experiment more than 150 years ago yielded a remarkable discovery that could have helped shape modern climate science had she not been overshadowed.
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3/22/2020
Our Stories Will Carry Us to the Future. Can They Save Us Now?
by David Farrier
To avert a climate disaster, science is essential, but we also need stories. We know ourselves first and foremost in the tales we tell.
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11/25/2019
Trump's Official Withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement Mirrors George W. Bush's Exit from Kyoto Protocol
by Mark Detlor
The United States has a long history of being hesitent to match other western nation's commitment to the climate.
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
12-23-14
Everything’s Coming Together While Everything Falls Apart
by Rebecca Solnit
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