TIMELINE CONTINUED 2020

"I am moderately hopeful that we can get out of this mess -- but only by changes in behavior. We have been irresponsible in technology. We've been greedy for short term goals and profits.  Now, we must change."  — Carl Sagan

DECEMBER  2020
The White House will keep challenging the Pentagon on the threat of climate change until it gets an answer it likes
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/trump-climate-change-national-security-panel/

If Aridification Choked the Southwest for Thousands of Years, What Does The Future Hold?
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25112020/paleoclimate-data-Colorado-River-Basin-caves-droughts

How climate change could spark the next home mortgage disaster
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/30/climate-change-mortgage-housing-environment-433721

Water Scarcity in Palestinian Territories Puts Farming at Risk 
https://www.circleofblue.org/2020/wef/hotspots-h2o-water-scarcity-in-palestinian-territories-puts-farming-at-risk/

Climate change is often hidden in the way we are shown temperature data - Shifting climate baselines conceal warming that occurred in the past; our new ‘normals’ differ strongly from normals decades ago
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/11/29/climate-normals-hide-global-warming/

Global warming likely to increase disease risk for animals worldwide
https://www.radio.com/wbt/news/global-warming-likely-to-increase-disease-risk-for-animals

12/1/20 ————— The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season was a record-smasher – and it’s raising more concerns about climate change
https://theconversation.com/the-2020-atlantic-hurricane-season-was-a-record-smasher-and-its-raising-more-concerns-about-climate-change-150495

12/1/20 ————— To End Impunity for 'Deliberate Destruction' of Planet, International Lawyers Drafting Plan to Criminalize Ecocide
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/11/30/end-impunity-deliberate-destruction-planet-international-lawyers-drafting-plan

12/1/20 ————— Average winter temperatures in Northeast have warmed by up to 4.8 degrees since 1970, new research shows
https://www.mcall.com/news/pennsylvania/mc-nws-pa-winter-temperatures-20201130-zvuwioqybfhx7g5ndudpsemmmi-story.html

12/1/20 ————--'Everything depends on the corn': As crops wither, the Hopi fear for their way of life
https://www.azcentral.com/in-depth/news/local/arizona-environment/2020/11/30/hopi-tribe-withering-corn-crops-show-impact-climate-change/5931561002/

12/2/20 ————— The year the West was burning: How the 2020 wildfire season got so extreme
https://theconversation.com/the-year-the-west-was-burning-how-the-2020-wildfire-season-got-so-extreme-148804

12/2/20 ————— U.S. Drought Monitor: November 25, 2020
https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Friends of the Earth vs. Shell: 'Historic Moment' as Climate Movement Takes on Big Oil at The Hague
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/12/01/friends-earth-vs-shell-historic-moment-climate-movement-takes-big-oil-hague

12/2/20 ————— If Aridification Choked the Southwest for Thousands of Years, What Does The Future Hold?
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25112020/paleoclimate-data-Colorado-River-Basin-caves-droughts

12/2/20 ————— Arctic Getting Greener is Cause for Concern
https://weather.com/science/environment/video/arctic-getting-greener-is-cause-for-concern?cm_ven=hp-slot-3

12/2/20 ————— Phew! Record-smashing 2020 Atlantic hurricane season is officially over
https://earthsky.org/earth/record-smashing-2020-atlantic-hurricane-season-official-end?utm_source=EarthSky+News&utm_campaign=decfd343bc-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_02_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c643945d79-decfd343bc-395109277

12/2/20 ————— UN Report: Despite Falling Energy Demand, Governments Set on Increasing Fossil Fuel Production
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01122020/un-fossil-fuel-coronavirus-report

12/2/20 ————— Biden plan to end U.S. fossil fuel subsidies faces big challenges
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-biden-fossilfuel-subsidies/biden-plan-to-end-u-s-fossil-fuel-subsidies-faces-big-challenges-idUSKBN28B4T2

12/2/20 ————— Saving forests to fight climate change will cost $393 billion annually
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2261277-saving-forests-to-fight-climate-change-will-cost-393-billion-annually/

12/2/20 ————— Why Do We Wage Decades-Long Futile Wars in the Middle East but Refuse to Declare War on the Looming Climate Crisis?
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/12/02/why-do-we-wage-decades-long-futile-wars-middle-east-refuse-declare-war-looming

12/3/20 ————— Humanity Faces Climate “Suicide” Without US Rejoining Paris Agreement
https://truthout.org/articles/humanity-faces-climate-suicide-without-us-rejoining-paris-agreement/

12/3/20 ————--Eisenhower's Ghost Haunts Biden's Foreign Policy Team
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/12/02/eisenhowers-ghost-haunts-bidens-foreign-policy-team

12/3/20 ————--'An Acknowledgment of the Next Generation': New Zealand Declares Climate Emergency - “It is up to us to make sure we demonstrate a plan for action, and a reason for hope," said Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/12/02/acknowledgment-next-generation-new-zealand-declares-climate-emergency

12/3/20 ————--Slow and Steady Just Won't Do: Why Biden Must Move Fast—and Go Big—on Climate - Time for ambitious climate action in the United States and abroad is now. 
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/12/02/slow-and-steady-just-wont-do-why-biden-must-move-fast-and-go-big-climate

12/3/20 ————--Who Cares Who the Secretary of Agriculture Is? - If we can't get a wholly transformative USDA secretary, rural America and all who have a stake in a democratic food system should at least demand a legitimate reformer.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/12/02/who-cares-who-secretary-agriculture

12/3/20 ————--The glaciers of the Greenland Ice Sheet are running away
https://news.mongabay.com/2020/12/the-glaciers-of-the-greenland-ice-sheet-are-running-away/

12/3/20 ————--Mass lake drainage in Alaskan tundra another sign of climate change: researchers
https://globalnews.ca/news/7496909/alaska-lake-drainage-climate-change/

12/4/20 ————— Campaigners Put Forth 'Cabinet Climate Test' for President-Elect Biden
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/12/03/campaigners-put-forth-cabinet-climate-test-president-elect-biden

12/4/20 ————— Wind fans wildfire in California canyons, residents flee
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/03/californians-flee-as-strong-winds-push-fire-through-canyons-.html

12/4/20 ————— The Long-Lasting Mental Health Effects of Wildfires
https://www.outsideonline.com/2419314/wildfire-survivors-mental-health-trauma

12/4/20 ————— Rights of Nature Debate Reaches New Heights - A bill was just proposed in Missouri to ban Rights of Nature litigation, the American Petroleum Institute just filed a brief to oppose local Rights of Nature laws, as the Democratic Party shows interest in the concept.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/12/03/rights-nature-debate-reaches-new-heights

12/4/20 ————— Hotter Planet Already Poses Fatal Risks, Health Experts Warn
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/02/climate/climate-change-health-risks.html

12/4/20 ————— Washington winters are rapidly warming up and feeling more Southern
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/12/03/washington-warming-winters-snow/

12/4/20 ————— Major Companies Call on Biden to Act on Climate Change
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/major-companies-call-on-biden-to-act-on-climate-change/

12/5/20 ————— Experts calculate future ice loss and the extent to which Greenland and the Antarctic will contribute to sea-level rise
https://www.sonnenseite.com/en/science/experts-calculate-future-ice-loss-and-the-extent-to-which-greenland-and-the-antarctic-will-contribute-to-sea-level-rise/

12/5/20 ————— The scariest thing about global warming (and Covid-19) - “Shifting baselines syndrome” means we could quickly get used to climate chaos.
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/7/7/21311027/covid-19-climate-change-global-warming-shifting-baselines

12/5/20 ————--'Few Things Matter More to Humans': UN Report Says We Must Protect and Restore Biodiversity of World's Soil - “If things carry on as they are, the outlook is bleak, unquestionably. But I think it's not too late to introduce measures now.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/12/04/few-things-matter-more-humans-un-report-says-we-must-protect-and-restore

12/5/20 ————— The Number of Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells Is on The Verge of Exploding. What Happens Now?
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/12/the-number-of-abandoned-oil-and-gas-wells-is-on-the-verge-of-exploding-what-happens-now/

12/6/20 ————— Polar-ward climate zones shift and consequent tipping points
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2020/12/polar-ward-climate-zones-shift-and-consequent-tipping-points.html

12/6/20 ————--From Alaska to California, the climate is off-kilter in the West
https://grist.org/climate/from-alaska-to-california-the-climate-is-off-kilter-in-the-west/?platform=hootsuite

12/6/20 ————--In Case You Missed It: A Summary of the Latest Climate Science Information (and Its Security Implications)
https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/12/united-nations-and-other-agencies-collectively-present-a-summary-of-the-latest-climate-science-information/

12/6/20 ————--New Report from Military Leaders Urges Brazil to Make Climate Change and Counter-Deforestation a “Security Priority”
https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/11/release-new-report-from-military-leaders-urges-brazil-to-make-climate-change-and-counter-deforestation-a-security-priority/

12/6/20 ————--Using tricked-out drones, scientists are watching vegetation boom in the far north. Their findings could have big implications for the whole planet.
https://www.wired.com/story/beautiful-yet-unnerving-photos-of-the-arctic-getting-greener/

12/6/20 ————--When Climate disarmer Strikes, It’s renewable Energy That keeps The lights On
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/renewables-clean-energy-climate-disasters_n_5fad67d1c5b6cae94043c56b

12/6/20 ————— How To Fix a Food System That’ Not Designed To Feed People
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/food-system-industrial-agriculture-environment_n_5fad6d57c5b6d647a39cf1be

12/7/20 ————— Another Month on a Warming Planet: Record-Hot November
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/07/climate/climate-change-hottest-november.html

12/7/20 ————— Southern California wildfire burning out of control — and will for days to come
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/southern-california-wildfire-burning-out-control-will-days-come-n1249907

12/7/20 ————— The Social Life of Forests
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/02/magazine/tree-communication-mycorrhiza.html?utm_source=EarthSky+News&utm_campaign=6d9d5a8506-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_02_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c643945d79-6d9d5a8506-395109277

12/7/20 ————— Federal Workers Are Forced to Invest in Fossil Fuels. A New Bill Would End That.
https://truthout.org/articles/federal-workers-are-forced-to-invest-in-fossil-fuels-a-new-bill-would-end-that/

12/7/20 ————--'It’s an unusual setup': Kerry's climate job scrambles Biden's org chart
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/07/john-kerry-biden-climate-envoy-443385

12/8/20 ————— The world’s ocean is bearing the brunt of a changing climate. Explore its past and future in our new series
https://theconversation.com/the-worlds-ocean-is-bearing-the-brunt-of-a-changing-climate-explore-its-past-and-future-in-our-new-series-151548

12/8/20 ————— The Atlantic: The driving force behind ocean circulation and our taste for cod
https://theconversation.com/the-atlantic-the-driving-force-behind-ocean-circulation-and-our-taste-for-cod-146534

12/8/20 ————— Peatlands keep a lot of carbon out of Earth’s atmosphere, but that could end with warming and development
https://theconversation.com/peatlands-keep-a-lot-of-carbon-out-of-earths-atmosphere-but-that-could-end-with-warming-and-development-151364

12/8/20 ————— To Turn Fear to Action, We Must Confront the Emotions of the Climate Emergency
https://truthout.org/articles/to-turn-fear-to-action-we-must-confront-the-emotions-of-the-climate-emergency/

12/8/20 ————— 'The Future We Are Looking At': Wall Street to Begin Betting on Water Scarcity - “If nothing else does it, this should make you passionate about climate change.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/12/07/future-we-are-looking-wall-street-begin-betting-water-scarcity

12/8/20 ————— How Climate Change Is Ushering in a New Pandemic Era - A warming world is expanding the range of deadly diseases and risking an explosion of new zoonotic pathogens from the likes of bats, mosquitoes, and ticks
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/climate-change-risks-infectious-diseases-covid-19-ebola-dengue-1098923/

12/8/20 ————— Warning bells jingle for December climate - The Christmas month starts with exceptional heat across major parts of the Arctic.
https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/climate-crisis/2020/12/warning-bells-jingle-december-climate

12/8/20 ————— Why Winter Wildfires May Get Worse - Climate change exacerbates hot, dry weather and could drive changes to the fire-fueling Santa Ana winds
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-winter-wildfires-may-get-worse/

12/8/20 ————— Our global fire crisis is the sign of a dying biosphere. But we can take action - The unprecedented fires aren’t just caused by the climate crisis. Land use –especially real estate and animal husbandry – have a lot to answer for
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/08/our-global-fire-crisis-is-the-sign-of-a-dying-biosphere-but-we-can-take-action

12/8/20 ————— Earth just notched its warmest November, as 2020 closes in on record for hottest year
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/12/07/warmest-november-hottest-year/

12/9/20 ————— The revenge of the blob - Presidents Obama and Trump kept the nation’s foreign policy establishment at arm’s length. President-elect Biden has warmly embraced it.
https://www.vox.com/22153765/joe-biden-foreign-policy-team-revenge-blob

12/9/20 ————--'Methane Misinformation': Report Details Broken Climate Pledges of Oil and Gas Giants - “No amount of spin changes the fact that the oil and gas extraction is wreaking havoc on our communities and our climate.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/12/08/methane-misinformation-report-details-broken-climate-pledges-oil-and-gas-giants

12/9/20 ————— Annual Report Card Marks Another Disastrous Year for the Arctic - Persistent and accelerating warming in the region is affecting local communities and ecosystems, as well as the rest of the global climate system.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/08122020/annual-report-card-marks-another-disastrous-year-for-the-arctic/

12/9/20 ————— California’s ancient redwoods face new challenge from wildfires, warming climate
https://www.opb.org/article/2020/12/08/california-redwoods-climate-change-wildfires/

12/10/20 ————— Climate Change Should Be Our Priority in the Post-Pandemic Era
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/12/09/climate-change-should-be-our-priority-post-pandemic-era

12/10/20 ————— In the End We Will All Pay for the Cowardice of the Liberal Class
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/12/09/end-we-will-all-pay-cowardice-liberal-class

12/10/20 ————— Anthropocene: Human-Made Materials Now Weigh as Much as All Living Biomass, Say Scientists
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/12/09/anthropocene-human-made-materials-now-weigh-much-all-living-biomass-say-scientists

12/10/20 ————— Rogue icebergs the size of Somerset may determine the fate of the planet
https://www.palatinate.org.uk/rogue-icebergs-the-size-of-somerset-may-determine-the-fate-of-the-planet/

12/10/20 ————— Less snow is the new normal.  That’s trouble for farmers
https://www.eastoregonian.com/news/local/less-snow-is-the-new-norm-that-s-trouble-for-farmers/article_9910311c-3a32-11eb-a276-3bad0878f807.html

12/10/20 ————— Societies Confront the Fallout from Rapid Environmental Change
https://www.circleofblue.org/2020/world/the-year-in-water-2020/

12/10/20 ————— Wall Street Vultures Are Ready to Get Rich From Water Scarcity
https://newrepublic.com/article/160484/wall-street-vultures-ready-get-rich-off-water-scarcity

12/10/20 ————— Eco 'Sabotage': Trump EPA Issues Last-Minute Rule to Make Action on Climate and Pollution Harder for Biden
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/12/09/eco-sabotage-trump-epa-issues-last-minute-rule-make-action-climate-and-pollution

12/11/20 ————— 5 years after Paris: How countries’ climate policies match up to their promises, and who’s aiming for net zero emission
https://theconversation.com/5-years-after-paris-how-countries-climate-policies-match-up-to-their-promises-and-whos-aiming-for-net-zero-emissions-151722

12/11/20 ————— 3 countries that financed a global coal boom are starting to pull their money
https://www.vox.com/22151710/china-japan-south-korea-climate-change-coal-finance

12/11/20 ————--Is 2020's Record-Breaking Hurricane Season What the Future Holds?
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/12/10/2020s-record-breaking-hurricane-season-what-future-holds

12/11/20 ————--Embracing Ecological Realism - Human exploitation of Planet Earth has reached a point where what we do and how we live reverberates across the circle of life—and could destroy it, for every species, for all life.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/12/10/embracing-ecological-realism

12/11/20 ————--New Report Shows How Banks and Financial Firms 'Gambling Away Our Future' by Bankrolling Oil and Gas Projects
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/12/10/new-report-shows-how-banks-and-financial-firms-gambling-away-our-future-bankrolling

12/11/20 ————--Disrupting the Atlantic’s Ecosystem Can Have Far-Reaching Effects
https://www.indepthnews.net/index.php/sustainability/climate-action/4049-disrupting-the-atlantic-s-ecosystem-can-have-far-reaching-effects

12/11/20 ————--This is how climate change is reshaping the entire planet
https://massivesci.com/articles/climate-change-explainer-ocean-acidification-greenhouse

12/12/20 ————— The American Petroleum Institute Is Working to Kill Voting on Local Measures
https://truthout.org/articles/the-american-petroleum-institute-is-working-to-kill-voting-on-local-measures/

12/12/20 ————— Noting Nation's Unparalleled Contributions to Global Crisis, 100+ Groups Push Biden to Commit US to 'Fair Share' of Climate Action - The letter to the president-elect calls for not only rejoining the Paris agreement, but also "bold, equitable, and ambitious emissions reductions and a commitment to support less wealthy countries to do the same.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/12/11/noting-nations-unparalleled-contributions-global-crisis-100-groups-push-biden-commit

12/12/20 ————— The Paris climate pact is 5 years old. 5 youth activists share their hopes for what’s next. - “The only thing that is missing is the actual will to do something, to change for the better.”
https://www.vox.com/22167974/anniversary-paris-agreement-climate

12/12/20 ————— The stormy, fiery year when climate disasters wouldn’t stop
https://apnews.com/article/pandemics-wildfires-climate-change-floods-arctic-18b9a80f52d81adf64e36b55d73ab728

12/13/20 ————--'Can Anybody Still Deny That We Are Facing a Dramatic Emergency?' Asks UN Chief at Climate Summit - “If we don't change course," he warned, "we may be headed for a catastrophic temperature rise of more than 3 degrees this century.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/12/12/can-anybody-still-deny-we-are-facing-dramatic-emergency-asks-un-chief-climate-summit

12/13/20 ————--'Climate Change – A Core National Security Priority in the Incoming Administration, Dec 15
https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/12/event-climate-change-a-core-national-security-priority-in-the-incoming-administration-dec-15/

12/13/20 ————--‘ European External Action Service building a Climate Change and Defence Roadmap
https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/12/european-external-action-service-building-a-climate-change-and-defence-roadmap/

12/13/20 ————--'The Complexity of the Climate Change, Migration and Conflict Nexus
https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/12/the-complexity-of-the-climate-change-migration-and-conflict-nexus/

12/13/20 ————--‘  EU leaders agree to deeper cuts to greenhouse gas emissions by 2030
https://www.vox.com/22169776/eu-emissions-target-cut-un-paris-agreement

12/13/20 ————--‘ To Combat the Climate Crisis, We Need a Government-Wide Mobilization - Hopefully Biden will nominate leaders who understand the severity of the climate crisis and the environmental injustices that burden communities of color and low-income communities.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/12/12/combat-climate-crisis-we-need-government-wide-mobilization

12/13/20 ————--‘ How Biden Could Save $437 Billion and Create Millions of Jobs by Reversing Trump Tariffs on Solar Panels
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/12/12/how-biden-could-save-437-billion-and-create-millions-jobs-reversing-trump-tariffs

12/14/20 ————— 'Tom Vilsack for Agriculture Secretary Is Everything That’s Wrong With the Democratic Party - Our planet and rural communities cannot afford four more years of Vilsack’s aggressive corporatism.
https://theintercept.com/2020/12/11/democrat-tom-vilsack-usda-secretary-farms/

12/14/20 ————--China, in Nudge to U.S., Makes a New Promise to Tackle Global Warming
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/12/climate/china-xi-greenhouse-gases.html

12/14/20 ————— A catastrophic year casts a pall of uncertainty across California’s agricultural valleys
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/14/a-catastrophic-year-casts-a-pall-of-uncertainty-across-californias-agricultural-valleys

12/15/20 ————— US to hold world climate summit early next year and seek to rejoin Paris accord
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/14/us-to-hold-world-climate-summit-early-next-year-and-seek-to-rejoin-paris-accord

12/15/20 ————— The Paris agreement five years on: is it strong enough to avert climate catastrophe?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/08/the-paris-agreement-five-years-on-is-it-strong-enough-to-avert-climate-catastrophe

12/15/20 ————— The most consequential impact of Trump’s climate policies? Wasted time.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2020/12/most-consequential-impact-of-trumps-climate-policies-wasted-time/

12/15/20 ————— Sluggish start for Arctic sea ice freeze-up
https://earthsky.org/earth/sluggish-start-for-arctic-sea-ice-freeze-up-2020?utm_source=EarthSky+News&utm_campaign=b43f130b69-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_02_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c643945d79-b43f130b69-395109277

12/15/20 ————— Climate change fuels new toxic algal blooms along Pacific Coast
https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2020/12/14/Climate-change-fuels-new-toxic-algal-blooms-along-Pacific-Coast/2131607952944/

12/16/20 ————— Inslee proposes his latest climate-change package as part of Washington budget
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/inslee-proposes-his-latest-climate-change-package-as-part-of-washington-budget-proposal/

12/16/20 ————— Inslee announces bold climate package for 2021–2023 biennium
https://www.governor.wa.gov/news-media/inslee-announces-bold-climate-package-2021–2023-biennium

12/16/20 ————--'Two Powerhouse Leaders': Environmentalists Applaud Biden Selections of Granholm, McCarthy for Key Climate Posts - “Joe Biden's entire government must be dedicated to mobilizing for an end to the fossil fuel era, and these announcements are a step in the right direction.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/12/16/two-powerhouse-leaders-environmentalists-applaud-biden-selections-granholm-mccarthy

12/16/20 ————— A green future for agriculture all Americans can get behind
https://www.politico.com/sponsor-content/2020/11/23/a-green-future-for-agriculture-all-americans-can-get-behind?cid=202011hp

12/16/20 ————— Losing Ground: Climate Change Is Altering the Rules of Ecosystem Hierarchy
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/losing-ground-climate-change-is-altering-the-rules-of-ecosystem-hierarchy/

12/17/20 ————— READING RECOMMENDATION: The Ministry for the Future: A Novel (2020) 
https://www.amazon.com/Ministry-Future-Kim-Stanley-Robinson/dp/0316300136/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1607971705&sr=1-1

12/17/20 ————— The Paris agreement is five years old. Is it working? - New climate commitments from China, the UK, and EU bring the world closer to the Paris goals.
https://www.vox.com/22175698/climate-change-treaty-trump-china-eu-uk-paris-agreement-biden

12/17/20 ————— As 2020 Ends, It’s Time for News Outlets to Declare a "Climate Emergency” - Let 2021 be the year that we declare, in accordance with science, that humanity is facing a climate emergency—an emergency we promise to illuminate and, we hope, help humanity overcome.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/12/16/2020-ends-its-time-news-outlets-declare-climate-emergency

12/17/20 ————— Amazon Must Stop Flooding Our Oceans With Plastic Waste - Amazon’s apparent embrace of plastic packaging is hindering its commitment to help the fight against climate change.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/12/16/amazon-must-stop-flooding-our-oceans-plastic-waste

12/17/20 ————— Biden’s Climate Team Begins to Take Shape - The president-elect is expected to pick Gina McCarthy, a former E.P.A. chief, as White House climate coordinator. Jennifer Granholm, a former Michigan governor, is said to be his choice for the Energy Department.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/15/climate/biden-cabinet-mccarthy-granholm-buttigieg.html

12/17/20 ————— THE YEAR IN CLIMATE - 2020 was a crisis year: a pandemic, economic turmoil, social upheaval. And running through it all, climate change. Here’s some of the best reporting from The Times’s Climate Desk.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/climate/2020-climate-change.html

12/17/20 ————— Defense Experts Call on Biden to Ready Military for Climate Change
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/defense-experts-call-on-biden-to-ready-military-for-climate-change/

12/17/20 ————— Biden Threads Climate Change Policy Through Federal Government - Biden is elevating the issue as a policy priority, appointing people to newly created positions and threading it through other agencies than those that have traditionally addressed it.
https://www.usnews.com/news/elections/articles/2020-12-16/biden-threads-climate-change-policy-through-federal-government

12/18/20 ————— ‘Unbelievable’ snowfall blankets parts of the Northeast
https://apnews.com/article/alex-azar-coronavirus-pandemic-44596ac11683c35faac9243fb1cf5078

12/18/20 ————— Wildfire smoke changes dramatically as it ages, and that matters for downwind air quality – here’s what we learned flying through smoke plumes
https://theconversation.com/wildfire-smoke-changes-dramatically-as-it-ages-and-that-matters-for-downwind-air-quality-heres-what-we-learned-flying-through-smoke-plumes-151671

12/18/20 ————— Under Pressure From Climate Activists, World's Largest Insurance Market to Ditch Coal, Tar Sands, and Arctic Projects
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/12/17/under-pressure-climate-activists-worlds-largest-insurance-market-ditch-coal-tar

12/18/20 ————— How climate change is affecting winter storms.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/17/climate/climate-change-winter.html

12/18/20 ————— Biden Put Climate at the Heart of His Campaign. Now He’s Delivered Groundbreaking Nominees
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/17122020/biden-epa-interior-secretary-deb-haaland-michael-regan-climate/

12/18/20 ————— Transforming Land and Sea for a More Sustainable World
https://e360.yale.edu/features/overview-transforming-land-and-sea-for-a-more-sustainable-world

12/20/20 ————— Temperatures keep rising
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2020/12/temperatures-keep-rising.html

12/20/20 ————— Climate Change – A Core National Security Priority in the Incoming Administration, Dec 15 - VIDEO
https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/12/event-climate-change-a-core-national-security-priority-in-the-incoming-administration-dec-15/

12/20/20 ————— U.S. National Intelligence Council: Global Water Insecurity to Increase Over the Next 30 Years
https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/12/u-s-national-intelligence-council-global-water-insecurity-to-increase-over-the-next-30-years/

12/20/20 ————— A Climate Security Plan for America Part 1: Demonstrate Leadership
https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/12/a-climate-security-plan-for-america-part-1-demonstrate-leadership/

12/20/20 ————— 2020 Was Supposed To Be Our Best Last Chance To Save The Planet. So How Did We Do?
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/climate-change-2020-last-chance-pandemic_n_5fdcc5dac5b650b99adbfb31

12/20/20 ————--'Folks, we're in crisis': Joe Biden introduces environmental advisers - President-elect announces racially diverse team to face ‘existential threat of our time’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/19/folks-crisis-joe-biden-environmental-advisers-haaland-kerry-granholm

12/20/20 ————— Will rising temperatures make superweeds even stronger?
https://www.salon.com/2020/12/20/will-rising-temperatures-make-superweeds-even-stronger_partner/


12/23/20 ————— 2020 Arctic Report Card: Sea ice loss, extreme wildfires
https://earthsky.org/earth/arctic-report-card-2020-sea-ice-loss-extreme-wildfires?utm_source=EarthSky+News&utm_campaign=048c7600ee-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_02_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c643945d79-048c7600ee-395109277

12/23/20 ————— Fueled by Climate Change, Wildfires Threaten Toxic Superfund Sites
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23122020/superfund-climate-change-wildfires-toxic-sites/

12/23/20 ————— Five Years After Paris, Where Are We Now? Facing Urgent Choices - Climate experts point to some signs of hope, but add: ‘That is not nearly enough.’
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23122020/paris-agreement-five-year-anniversary-biden/

12/24/20 ————— The Atlantic Hurricane Season Typically Brings About a Dozen Storms. This Year It Was 30
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24122020/hurricanes-atlantic-extreme-weather-warming-climate-storms-louisiana-environmental-justice/

12/24/20 ————— Scientists descended into Greenland’s perilous ice caverns — and came back with a worrying message - Vertical ice caves in Greenland, called ‘moulins,’ drain water from the ice to the sea — and they’re even bigger than we thought
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/12/23/climate-moulins-greenland/

12/24/20 ————— Warmer winters causing more ice-free lakes in Northern Hemisphere, study finds
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/warmer-winters-ice-free-lakes-1.5851815

12/24/20 ————— Inuit-led project maps more than two decades of sea ice conditions near Pond Inlet
https://nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/__trashed-6/

12/24/20 ————— The world's most suspenseful iceberg is breaking apart
https://mashable.com/article/iceberg-a68a-antarctica-drifting-breaking-up/

12/24/20 ————— 2020 sets new record for US acreage burned in wildfires - The year was also one of the hottest on record.
https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/environment/531462-2020-sets-new-record-for-us-acreage-burned-in

12/27/20 ————— An Orwellian climate while Rome burns
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2020/12/an-orwellian-climate-while-rome-burns.html

12/27/20 ————— The number of tropical cyclones in the North Atlantic
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2020/12/the-number-of-tropical-cyclones-in-the-north-atlantic/

12/27/20 ————— Local Candidates Embrace Bolder Climate Policies as Federal Policy Has Faltered
https://truthout.org/articles/local-candidates-embrace-bolder-climate-policies-as-federal-policy-has-faltered/

12/27/20 ————— Brazilian forests found to be transitioning from carbon sinks to carbon sources
https://phys.org/news/2020-12-brazilian-forests-transitioning-carbon-sources.html
 
12/28/20 ————— This Year Was A Disaster For The Planet - From record-breaking wildfires to devastating hurricanes, human-driven climate change keeps killing us.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/climate-change-2020-deadly-records_n_5fe24139c5b64e4421005303

12/28/20 ————— Billion-Dollar Disasters: The Costs, in Lives and Dollars, Have Never Been So High - Fueled by climate change, extreme weather set records this year, causing close to $50 billion and the loss of at least 188 lives by early October.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29122020/billion-dollar-weather-disasters-climate-change-wildfire-hurricane-storms/

12/28/20 ————— Hawaii’s Beaches Are Disappearing
https://projects.propublica.org/hawaii-beach-loss/

12/29/20 ————— Our Best Climate Stories of 2020 - Another year of climate-fueled extreme weather revealed the imminent dangers we face, the urgent need to act, and the role agriculture plays in both. Here is our best climate reporting.
https://civileats.com/2020/12/29/our-best-climate-stories-of-2020/

12/29/20 ————— David Scott Sets Racial Justice, Food Security, and Climate Change as Priorities for House Ag - The first Black chairman of the powerful Agriculture Committee says his team is already lining up several spring hearings on key issues.
https://civileats.com/2020/12/23/david-scott-sets-racial-justice-food-security-and-climate-change-as-priorities-for-house-ag/

12/29/20 ————— In 2020, scientists documented hundreds of new species. Here are a few.
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/22202733/2020-new-species

12/29/20 ————— President-elect Biden: Water Must Be a National Priority - The Biden Administration must take executive action to promote universal access to safe water for every person.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/12/29/president-elect-biden-water-must-be-national-priority

12/29/20 ————— 2020 was a year of climate disasters — and a warning of more to come
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/531922-2020-was-a-year-of-climate-disasters-and-a-warning-of-more-to-come

NOVEMBER  2020

Warming Trends: Battling Beetles, Climate Change Blues and a Tool That Helps You Take Action
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30102020/warming-trends-ecology-mental-health-climate

Energizing People Who Play Outside to Exercise Their Civic Muscles at the Ballot Box
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30102020/outdoor-recreation-voters-election-2020

Joe Biden makes a final pitch to Americans in 2 new climate ads
https://grist.org/politics/joe-biden-makes-a-final-pitch-to-americans-in-2-new-climate-ads/

Climate change is on the ballot in 7 cities and states
https://grist.org/politics/climate-change-is-on-the-ballot-in-7-cities-and-states/?utm_campaign=sprout&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1604093815

It’s Hard to Tell How Serious Wall Street is About Climate
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-30/it-s-hard-to-tell-how-serious-wall-street-is-about-climate

Trump rolled back more than 125 environmental safeguards. Here’s how.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/climate-environment/trump-climate-environment-protections/

11/1/20 ————— VIDEO: Can Climate Change Undermine Nuclear Deterrence?
https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/10/can-climate-change-undermine-nuclear-deterrence/

11/1/20 ————— RELEASE: Can Climate Change Increase the Risk of Nuclear Conflict?
https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/10/release-can-climate-change-increase-the-risk-of-nuclear-conflict/

11/1/20 ————— The Center for Climate and Security on CBS News: Suppression of Climate Change Analysis by the White House
https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/10/the-center-for-climate-and-security-on-cbs-news-suppression-of-climate-change-analysis-by-the-white-house/

11/1/20 ————— The UN Security Council’s Lack of Consensus on Climate and Security
https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/10/the-un-security-councils-lack-of-consensus-on-climate-and-security/

11/1/20 ————— We have to accelerate clean energy innovation to curb the climate crisis. Here’s how.
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/21426920/climate-change-renewable-energy-solar-wind-innovation-green-new-deal

11/1/20 ————— How Joe Biden And Young Voters Learned To Love Each Other — At Least For Now
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/how-joe-biden-and-young-voters-learned-to-love-each-other-at-least-for-now_n_5f9d978ac5b65662bcc788b4

11/2/20 ————— The politics of cultural despair: That's what's killing us, not Donald Trump - The United States has become a grotesque shadow of itself. The absurd Trump regime is a symptom, not a cause
https://www.salon.com/2020/11/01/the-politics-of-cultural-despair-thats-whats-killing-us-not-donald-trump/

11/2/20 ————— When Trump’s EPA Needed a Climate Scientist, They Called on John Christy
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30102020/john-christy-alabama-climate-contrarian

11/2/20 ————— Analysts See Democrats Likely to Win the Senate, Opening the Door to Climate Legislation
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30102020/Senate-2020-election-swing-states-Arizona-Colorado-South-Carolina

11/2/20 ————— Despite What the Logging Industry Says, Cutting Down Trees Isn’t Stopping Catastrophic Wildfires
https://www.propublica.org/article/despite-what-the-logging-industry-says-cutting-down-trees-isnt-stopping-catastrophic-wildfires

11/2/20 ————— Tropical Storm Eta Forms, Tying a Record Set 15 Years Ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/01/climate/eta-hurricane-record.html

11/2/20 ————— Top 5 Ways Trump Failed You Too Epically to Ever Be Reelected - Trump has promoted coal burning, the dirtiest fossil fuel and the one most deadly to the health of the earth’s climate.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/11/02/top-5-ways-trump-failed-you-too-epically-ever-be-reelected

11/3/20 ————— How Four Years of Trump Reshaped Food and Farming - No matter who wins the White House on Tuesday, policy changes over the last four years will have long-term impacts on the food system—from the farm economy to food access.
https://civileats.com/2020/11/02/how-four-years-of-trump-reshaped-food-and-farming/

11/3/20 ————— ‘I lost everything’: In hurricane-ravaged Louisiana, people struggle to rebuild
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/31/in-hurricane-ravaged-louisiana-people-struggle-to-rebuild-.html

11/3/20 ————— From East to West On Election Eve, Climate Change—and its Encroaching Peril—Are On Americans’ Minds
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02112020/election-climate-change-turning-point

11/3/20 ————— Climate crisis breaks open generational rifts in US families - A sense of despair and outrage among young people over global heating is being met with indifference and dismissal among some older relatives
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/02/climate-crisis-differences-old-and-young-families

11/3/20 ————— These Obscure Races May Decide the Future of Climate Change - Forget Congress—a handful of local elections could seal the fate of a Green New Deal.
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/11/climate-utility-races-2020/

11/3/20 ————— The Future of Farm Conservation Programs Hinges on the Election
https://civileats.com/2020/11/03/the-future-of-farm-conservation-programs-hinges-on-the-election/

11/4/20 ————— How Do You Know When Society Is About to Fall Apart
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/04/magazine/societal-collapse.html

11/4/20 ————— The oil industry thinks it can work with Biden, despite call for 'transition' away from it
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/03/energy-202-oil-industry-thinks-it-can-work-with-biden-despite-call-transition-away-it/

11/4/20 ————— Fate of climate crisis hangs on election as US exits Paris agreement
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/04/us-paris-climate-agreement-exit-election

11/5/20 ————— The U.S. Left the Paris Climate Pact. Allies and Rivals Are Pressing Ahead.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/04/climate/paris-agreement-us-election.html

11/5/20 ————— A majority of FL voters chose the presidential candidate who calls climate change a hoax
https://www.floridaphoenix.com/2020/11/04/a-majority-of-fl-voters-chose-the-presidential-candidate-who-calls-climate-change-a-hoax/

11/5/20 ————— Americans voted for major progress on climate crisis and clean energy — will they get it?
https://www.salon.com/2020/11/05/americans-voted-for-major-progress-on-climate-crisis-and-clean-energy--will-they-get-it/

11/6/20 ————— U.S. WITHDRAWAL FROM PARIS AGREEMENT CASTS THE STAKES OF ELECTION IN PLANETARY TERMS
https://theintercept.com/2020/11/04/paris-agreement-withdrawal/

11/6/20 ————— Storm Eta wreaks 'shocking' devastation in Central America, 8 dead
https://news.trust.org/item/20201105152439-mgy23

11/6/20 ————— Changing Pacific Conditions Raise Sea Level Along U.S. West Coast (VIDEO)
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/esnt/2020/for-us-west-coast-changing-pacific-conditions-raise-sea-level-rise-stakes

11/6/20 ————— Joe Biden will be president, but there will be no Green New Deal
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/21547245/joe-biden-wins-2020-climate-change-clean-energy-policy

11/7/20 ————— Global Food System Emissions Alone Threaten Warming Beyond 1.5°C—But We Can Act Now To Stop It
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/11/06/global-food-system-emissions-alone-threaten-warming-beyond-15degc-we-can-act-now

11/7/20 ————— Young Voters, Motivated by Climate Change and Environmental Justice, Helped Propel Biden’s Campaign
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/06112020/young-voters-climate-change-environmental-justice-joe-biden

11/7/20 ————— A Bipartisan Climate Policy? It Could Happen Under a Biden Administration, Washington Veterans Say
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/05112020/election-2020-biden-mcconnell-senate-climate-change-policy

11/8/20 ————— Climate promises will crash into regulatory bureaucracy
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/07/joe-biden-policies-energy-climate-change-433631

11/9/20 ————— Declining Snow Cover in U.S. Northeast Will Have Major Impacts on Rivers, Study Finds
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/declining-snow-cover-in-u-s-northeast-will-have-major-impacts-on-rivers-study-finds

11/9/20 ————— Environmental Ballot Measures Get Widespread Approval by American Voters
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/environmental-ballot-measures-get-widespread-approval-by-american-voters

11/10/20 ————— Farmers are depleting the Ogallala Aquifer because the government pays them to do it
https://theconversation.com/farmers-are-depleting-the-ogallala-aquifer-because-the-government-pays-them-to-do-it-145501

11/10/20 ————— Seeing Clouds Clearly: Are They Cooling Us Down or Heating Us Up?
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09112020/clouds-cooling-climate-effects

11/10/20 ————— Alaska’s permafrost, which stores greenhouse gases, is less plentiful and more fragile than believed, study says
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/alaska-permafrost-greenhouse-gas-carbon/2020/11/06/e7c5b676-1ed8-11eb-ba21-f2f001f0554b_story.html

11/10/20 ————— Theta Forms as Season’s 29th Named Storm, Breaking a Record
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/09/climate/atlantic-hurricane-season-record.html

11/10/20 ————— October heat: this Arctic archipelago was 10 degrees warmer than normal
https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/2020/11/october-heat-arctic-archipelago-was-10-degrees-warmer-normal

11/11/20 ————— Was a Federal Scientist’s Dismissal an 11th-hour Bid to Give Climate Denial Long-Term Legitimacy?
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/10112020/trump-administration-national-climate-assessment-michael-kuperberg-david-legates

11/11/20 ————— Report sounds an alarm on ongoing decline of US coral reefs
https://apnews.com/article/science-climate-atlantic-ocean-climate-change-oceans-865d4f4a67fb7afe376f3cf39df26390

11/11/20 ————— Climate Change Will Make Parts of the U.S. Uninhabitable. Americans Are Still Moving There.
https://www.propublica.org/article/climate-change-will-make-parts-of-the-u-s-uninhabitable-americans-are-still-moving-there

11/11/20 ————— The fall of Trump propels the climate story into a decisive new era
https://www.cjr.org/covering_climate_now/biden-election-climate-voters.php

11/11/20 ————— Final weeks of historic hurricane season bring new storms
https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-gulf-of-mexico-floods-fort-lauderdale-storms-e20d14ced1e634752e0b268fdcb8c7d3

11/12/20 ————— Why the Biden administration should establish a Department of Climate - The executive branch is not yet equipped to respond to climate change. Here’s how it can change that.
https://www.vox.com/2020/7/21/21332435/joe-biden-climate-change-department-epa

11/12/20 ————— Demanding White House Climate Office and 'Fierce' Cabinet Picks, Groups Urge Biden to Claim His 'FDR Moment’
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/11/11/demanding-white-house-climate-office-and-fierce-cabinet-picks-groups-urge-biden

11/12/20 ————— How Biden aims to amp up the government’s fight against climate change
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/11/11/biden-climate-change/
 
11/12/20 ————— As The Climate Warms, Hurricanes Are Lasting Longer Over Land, Study Finds
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/climate-change-hurricanes-lasting-longer_n_5faabf2ac5b66009569ebf5f

11/12/20 ————— Here’s How Scientists Want Biden to Take on Climate Change
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/heres-how-scientists-want-biden-to-take-on-climate-change/

11/12/20 ————— Federal Reserve Warns Of Climate Risks, In Historic First
https://www.forbes.com/sites/arielcohen/2020/11/11/us-fed-report-acknowledges-climate-change-risks-in-historic-first/?sh=50c9909f52dc

11/13/20 ————— US military is a bigger polluter than as many as 140 countries – shrinking this war machine is a must
https://theconversation.com/us-military-is-a-bigger-polluter-than-as-many-as-140-countries-shrinking-this-war-machine-is-a-must-119269

11/13/20 ————— Climate Groups Push Biden to Ensure Financial Appointees Are Committed to Actions That 'Match the Scale of the Crisis’
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/11/12/climate-groups-push-biden-ensure-financial-appointees-are-committed-actions-match

11/14/20 ————--'We packed long underwear and never wore it': Arctic scientists shocked at warming
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/13/arctic-melting-climate-change

11/14/20 ————--Why war-displaced will end up being dwarfed by climate change refugees
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2020/11/12/a-convergence-of-calamities/

11/14/20 ————--Biden Given Roadmap to Revitalize Rural America - The plan "lays a foundation for bringing economic vitality to rural communities in the face of racial injustice, economic decline, climate change, and a devastating pandemic.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/11/13/biden-given-roadmap-revitalize-rural-america

11/14/20 ————--'I've never seen anything like that.' The reasons why Eta flooded South Florida so badly
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/ive-never-seen-anything-like-that-the-reasons-why-eta-flooded-south-florida-so-badly/ar-BB1aXqEe

11/14/20 ————--Death toll rises following disastrous flooding in North Carolina
https://www.accuweather.com/en/severe-weather/death-toll-rises-following-disastrous-flooding-in-north-carolina/848979

11/14/20 ————--The Trump Environmental Protection Agency’s Parting Gifts
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-epa_n_5fadbd38c5b6b36333689adf

11/14/20 ————--Food system causes one third of greenhouse gases
https://climatenewsnetwork.net/food-system-causes-one-third-of-greenhouse-gases/

11/15/20 ————— Above Zero Celsius at North Pole November 2020
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2020/11/above-zero-celsius-at-north-pole-november-2020.html

11/15/20 ————— Alaska’s Tsunami Time Bomb - Melting ice has left one small town on the brink of disaster.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/11/alaskas-tsunami-time-bomb/617082/

11/15/20 ————— The thaw of the Third Pole: China's glaciers in retreat
https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/the-thaw-of-the-third-pole-chinas-glaciers-in-retreat

11/15/20 ————— U.S. President-Elect Biden and the Climate Security Nexus: Recommendations for the Way Ahead
https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/11/u-s-president-elect-biden-and-the-climate-security-nexus-recommendations-for-the-way-ahead/

11/15/20 ————— What Would a Climate-Focused DoD Budget Look Like?
https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2020/11/what-would-climate-focused-dod-budget-look/169966/

11/15/20 ————— A Record Year for Hurricanes Exposes Racial Disparities on the Gulf Coast
https://truthout.org/audio/a-record-year-for-hurricanes-exposes-racial-disparities-on-the-gulf-coast/

11/15/20 ————— After Trump’s Payouts Are Gone, What Happens to Farmers?
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/11/14/after-trumps-payouts-are-gone-what-happens-farmers

11/16/20 ————— Joe Biden can't bring back "normal" politics — nobody can. We need to reinvent it
https://www.salon.com/2020/11/15/joe-biden-cant-bring-back-normal-politics--no-one-can-we-need-to-reinvent-it_partner/

11/16/20 ————— HotSpots H2O: In a Year of Unrelenting Floods, Yet Another Storm Hits Central Vietnam 
https://www.circleofblue.org/2020/world/hotspots-h2o-in-a-year-of-unrelenting-floods-yet-another-storm-hits-central-vietnam/

11/16/20 ————— Iota, Barreling Toward Central America, Becomes a Category 4 Hurricane
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/15/world/americas/hurricane-iota.html

11/16/20 ————— Here’s What a Republican Senate Really Means for the Climate - Green infrastructure is likely under Biden but don’t count on climate requirements for businesses.
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/11/heres-what-a-republican-senate-really-means-for-the-climate/

11/1720 ————— Connecting to nature is good for kids – but they may need help coping with a planet in peril
https://theconversation.com/connecting-to-nature-is-good-for-kids-but-they-may-need-help-coping-with-a-planet-in-peril-148162

11/1720 ————— HURRICANE ETA DEVASTATES CENTRAL AMERICA AS U.S. WITHDRAWS FROM CLIMATE ACCORD - Indigenous communities in Honduras, Nicaragua, and Guatemala were among the hardest hit. Now another hurricane is arriving.
https://theintercept.com/2020/11/16/hurricane-eta-central-america/

11/1720 ————--'Unreal & Heartbreaking': Experts Highlight Climate Crisis Connection as Category 5 Hurricane Iota Barrels Toward Central America
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/11/16/unreal-heartbreaking-experts-highlight-climate-crisis-connection-category-5

11/1720 ————— A Lesson for Humanity From 17 Million Doomed Creatures
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/16/opinion/coronavirus-minks-wildlife-environment.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

11/18/20 ————— Citing Her Ties to Agribusiness and Fossil Fuels, 160+ Groups Tell Biden That Heitkamp Is 'Wrong Choice' for USDA
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/11/17/citing-her-ties-agribusiness-and-fossil-fuels-160-groups-tell-biden-heitkamp-wrong

11/18/20 ————— How shifting from meat-heavy to plant-based diets can help allay the climate crisis
https://www.vox.com/21562639/climate-change-plant-based-diets-science-meat-dairy

11/18/20 ————— Arctic wildfires are lasting longer and burning more intensely
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2020/11/arctic-wildfires-are-lasting-longer-and-burning-more-intensely/

11/18/20 ————— Biden Plans to Move Fast With a ‘Climate Administration.’ Here’s How.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/17/climate/biden-climate-change.html

11/18/20 ————— Funding for climate disasters 'failing' those most vulnerable, says IFRC
https://www.reuters.com/article/u

11/20/20 ————— We Simply Cannot Afford Half-Measures': Outside DNC, Progressives Demand Biden Go Big for Green New Deal
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/11/19/we-simply-cannot-afford-half-measures-outside-dnc-progressives-demand-biden-go-big

11/20/20 ————— BIDEN TREASURY PICK COULD DEFUND THE FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY, CLIMATE ORGANIZERS SAY
https://theintercept.com/2020/11/19/biden-treasury-secretary-climate/

11/20/20 ————— As Biden Names Advisers, Climate Activists Push Back on Fossil Fuel Influence
https://truthout.org/articles/as-biden-names-new-staffers-climate-activsts-push-back-on-fossil-fuel-influence/

11/20/20 ————— Inside Clean Energy: Arizona’s Net-Zero Plan Unites Democrats and Republicans
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18112020/inside-clean-energy-arizona-solar

11/20/20 ————— Phoenix has never seen a hot spell like this so late in the year before
https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-forecasts/phoenix-has-never-seen-a-hot-spell-like-this-so-late-in-the-year-before/852546

11/20/20 ————— Iota’s devastation comes into focus in storm-weary Nicaragua
https://apnews.com/article/tegucigalpa-honduras-hurricane-iota-floods-storms-1ea056d7163e5f7792059a5909eb5811

11/20/20 ————— Is Climate-Related Financial Regulation Coming Under Biden? Wall Street Is Betting on It
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/17112020/climate-wall-street-biden-transition

11/20/20 ————— How affluent people can end their mindless overconsumption - Every energy reduction we can make is a gift to future humans, and all life on Earth.
https://www.vox.com/21450911/climate-change-coronavirus-greta-thunberg-flying-degrowth

11/20/20 ————— These are the 10 countries most at risk from the effects of climate change
https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/climate-change/526684-these-are-the-10-countries-most-at-risk-from

11/21/20 ————— Accelerated global warming and stadial cooling events: IPCC oversights regarding future climate trends
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2020/11/accelerated-global-warming-and-stadial-cooling-events-ipcc-oversights-regarding-future-climate-trends.html

11/21/20 ————— How Federal Climate Change Actions and Inactions on Food Security Affect the Department of Defense
https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/11/how-federal-climate-change-actions-and-inactions-on-food-security-affect-the-department-of-defense/

11/21/20 ————— Connecting Nuclear and Climate Policy in the Biden Administration
https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/11/briefer-connecting-nuclear-and-climate-policy-in-the-biden-administration/

11/21/20 ————— Greenland Is Melting, And a New Model Suggests We've Greatly Underestimated Its Impact
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-see-could-rise-by-more-than-7-metres-if-greenland-just-keeps-melting

11/22/20 ————— Deep Frozen Arctic Microbes Are Waking Up - Thawing permafrost is releasing
microorganisms, with consequences that are still largely unknown
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/deep-frozen-arctic-microbes-are-waking-up/

11/22/20 ————— Warm Arctic, Cold Continents? It Sounds Counterintuitive, but Research Suggests it’s a Thing
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20112020/warm-arctic-cold-continents-climate-change

11/22/20 ————— Covid-19 Shutdowns Were Just a Blip in the Upward Trajectory of Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20112020/covid-19-coronavirus-shutdowns-greenhouse-gas-emissions

11/22/20 ————— Shocking temperatures across the Arctic
https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/climate-crisis/2020/11/shocking-temperatures-across-arctic

11/22/20 ————— We Need a National Institute of Climate Change and Health
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-need-a-national-institute-of-climate-change-and-health/

11/23/20 ————— 'No Time to Lose for Climate Action': Atmospheric CO2 Continued to Rise in 2020 Despite Covid-19 Lockdowns
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/11/23/no-time-lose-climate-action-atmospheric-co2-continued-rise-2020-despite-covid-19

11/23/20 ————— Biden Names John Kerry As Climate Envoy - It’s not the climate “czar” job advocates want to see, but progressives are hopeful that’s coming, too.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kerry-climate-envoy_n_5fbc14acc5b68ca87f7dea3e

11/23/20 ————— Biden Has Promised to Kill the Keystone XL Pipeline. Activists Hope He’ll Nix Dakota Access, Too
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18112020/biden-activists-keystone-xl-dakota-access-pipeline-line-3

11/24/20 ————— A Warming Planet Makes Northeastern Forests More Susceptible to Western-Style Wildfires
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20112020/warming-planet-northeastern-forests-wildfires

11/24/20 ————— Record-shattering Warmth Pushes Arctic Temperatures to 12 Degrees F Above Normal
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/record-shattering-warmth-pushes-arctic-temperatures-to-12-degrees-f-above-normal

11/24/20 ————— Many roads aren't ready for climate change - They may wear out faster than planned, driving up costs to communities.
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2020/11/many-roads-arent-ready-for-climate-change/

11/26/20 ————— Radical Climate Centrists? Say It Ain't So, Joe
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/11/25/radical-climate-centrists-say-it-aint-so-joe

11/26/20 ————— What the Janet Yellen pick for Treasury means for climate policy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/25/energy-202-what-janet-yellen-pick-treasury-means-climate-policy/

11/27/20 ————— Defeat Trump. OK, Now Comes the Hard Part. - We must seize the moment. The vision driving these movements, so long mocked and marginalized, must enter the political mainstream and begin to change the world.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/11/26/defeat-trump-ok-now-comes-hard-part

11/27/20 ————— Climate ‘apocalypse’ fears stopping people having children – study
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/27/climate-apocalypse-fears-stopping-people-having-children-study

11/27/20 ————— Battered by back-to-back hurricanes, Honduras braces for a long recovery
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/hurricane-eta-iota-honduras-central-america/2020/11/25/8cd11e98-2e75-11eb-bae0-50bb17126614_story.html

11/27/20 ————— Wildfire Smoke Is Poisoning California’s Kids. Some Pay a Higher Price.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/26/climate/california-smoke-children-health.html

11/27/20 ————— More than 3 billion people affected by water shortages, data shows
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/26/more-than-3-billion-people-affected-by-water-shortages-data-shows

11/28/20 ————— There is no time to lose
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2020/11/there-is-no-time-to-lose.html

11/29/20 ————— A Very Strong Signal: 5 Key Takeaways on John Kerry’s Climate Envoy Role and Seat on the National Security Council
https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/11/a-very-strong-signal-5-key-takeaways-on-john-kerrys-climate-envoy-role-and-seat-on-the-national-security-council/

11/29/20 ————— How to Prioritize Climate Change in U.S. National Security
https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/11/how-to-prioritize-climate-change-in-u-s-national-security/#respond

11/29/20 ————— Where Will the Next Big Flood Hit? - An army of volunteers is helping forecasters predict disasters before they strike.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/11/predicting-floods-before-strike/617208/

11/29/20 ————— In Georgia, 16 Superfund Sites Are Threatened by Extreme Weather Linked to Climate Change
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25112020/superfund-georgia-senate-runoffs-climate-change-trump

11/29/20 ————— Temperatures top 47C amid ongoing Australian fire crisis - as it happened
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2019/dec/18/australia-extreme-heatwave-weather-forecast-nsw-fires-near-new-south-wales-total-fire-ban-bushfires-victoria-melbourne-sydney-latest-news-live-updates



2020 - OCTOBER

Trump’s Pick for the Supreme Court Could Deepen the Risk for Its Most Crucial Climate Change Ruling
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29092020/amy-coney-barrett

Why we’re more confident than ever that climate change is driving disasters:  The emerging field of climate attribution helps explain the wildfires and hurricanes of 2020.
https://www.vox.com/21452781/zogg-fire-glass-wildfire-california-climate-change-hurricanes-attribution-2020-debate

Biden Pitched A Climate Plan. Trump Rambled About ‘Immaculate Air’ And Cleaning Forests
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-biden-climate-change-presidential-debate_n_5f73fd99c5b6d698bb254f36

Who Had Substantive Climate Discussion on Their Debate Bingo Card?
https://www.motherjones.com/2020-elections/2020/09/presidential-debate-climate-trump-record/

10/01/20/————— The Arctic hasn’t been this warm for 3 million years – and that foreshadows big changes for the rest of the planet
https://theconversation.com/the-arctic-hasnt-been-this-warm-for-3-million-years-and-that-foreshadows-big-changes-for-the-rest-of-the-planet-144544

10/01/20/————— Will We Be Able to Reverse Trump’s Climate Damage?:  What Joe Biden would need to do starting from Day One to correct the course of U.S. climate policy
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-climate-crisis-damage-can-it-be-fixed-1064995/

10/01/20/————— Getting warmer: Trump concedes human role in climate change
https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-technology-politics-b5ae9468286d92f44c6a10d1e6d2cad0

10/02/20/————--Drought warning, watch areas expand to almost half of Pennsylvania
https://www.post-gazette.com/news/state/2020/10/01/Drought-warning-watch-areas-expand-to-almost-half-of-Pennsylvania/stories/202010010124

10/02/20/————--Joe Biden walks political tightrope by saying he does not support the Green New Deal
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/30/energy-202-joe-biden-walks-political-tightrope-by-saying-he-does-not-support-green-new-deal/

10/02/20/————--A tiny pest helped stoke this year’s devastating wildfires:  It’s not just hot, dry conditions and fire suppression that has exacerbated 2020's western fires. There’s also the attack of the beetles to consider.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/10/bark-beetles-helped-stoke-2020-devastating-wildfires/

10/02/20/————--Fires and Storms Push Demand for Emergency Shelter to a New High:  The Red Cross has provided more nights of shelter to Americans this year than at any point on record, a sign of the widening human toll of climate change.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/01/climate/disaster-shelter-red-cross.html

10/02/20/————--Brazil's Amazon rainforest suffers worst fires in a decade
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/01/brazil-amazon-rainforest-worst-fires-in-decade

10/02/20/————--'A $100 Billion Lifeline While Most Americans Are Being Left Behind': Report Details Massive Fed Bailout of Fossil Fuel Industry:  ”Big Oil is exploiting Covid-19 to go on an unprecedented borrowing binge, and the Trump administration is to blame."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/10/01/100-billion-lifeline-while-most-americans-are-being-left-behind-report-details

10/02/20/————--First-Ever Analysis Reveals How America's Top 100 Law Firms Are 'Accelerating the Climate Crisis’:  "Law firms write the contracts for fossil fuel projects, lobby to weaken environmental regulations, and help fossil fuel companies evade accountability in court."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/10/01/first-ever-analysis-reveals-how-americas-top-100-law-firms-are-accelerating-climate

10/02/20/————--'Strong Start' But 'Not the End of the Road,' Says Greenpeace as Biden Vows to Bar Fossil Fuel Leaders From Transition Team:  ”Personnel is policy, and we need experts in the White House who put climate and environmental justice ahead of corporate profits."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/10/01/strong-start-not-end-road-says-greenpeace-biden-vows-bar-fossil-fuel-leaders

10/02/20/————--Greenland's rapid melting could mess with the oceanic "conveyer belt" — with drastic consequences:  The global flow of ocean water may be interrupted by record ice melt off Greenland
https://www.salon.com/2020/10/01/greenlands-rapid-melting-could-mess-with-the-oceanic-conveyer-belt--with-drastic-consequences/

10/03/20/————— A Second Trump Term Would Be 'Game Over' for the Climate, Says Top Scientist:  Michael Mann, one of the world’s most eminent climate experts, says Earth’s future 'is in the hands of American citizens.'
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/10/02/second-trump-term-would-be-game-over-climate-says-top-scientist

10/03/20/————— Americans are becoming climate migrants before our eyes
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/02/climate-change-migration-us-wildfires

10/04/20/————— The political theater of climate change: a 62-year history of inaction
https://www.salon.com/2020/10/04/the-political-theater-of-climate-change-a-62-year-history-of-inaction/

10/04/20/————— The Amazon Has Seen Our Future
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/02/opinion/amazon-rainforest-future.html

10/04/20/————— Does Overselling Regenerative Ag’s Climate Benefits Undercut its Potential?
https://civileats.com/2020/10/01/does-overselling-regenerative-ags-climate-benefits-undercut-its-potential/

10/04/20/————— California Will Keep Burning. But Housing Policy Is Making It Worse.:  There are ways to keep people and homes safer from wildfires. Then, there’s what California does.
https://www.propublica.org/article/california-will-keep-burning-but-housing-policy-is-making-it-worse

10/04/20/————— Wildfire smoke is laced with toxic chemicals – here’s how they got there
https://theconversation.com/wildfire-smoke-is-laced-with-toxic-chemicals-heres-how-they-got-there-147328

10/05/20/————— Anxiety Mounts Abroad About Climate Leadership and the Volatile U.S. Election:  “The outcome will have profound consequences for the future of Earth’s climate.”
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03102020/anxiety-abroad-u.s.-election-trump-climate-policy

10/06/20/————— Droughts That Start Over the Ocean? They’re Often Worse Than Those That Form Over Land
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/06102020/droughts-ocean-land-climate-change

10/06/20/————— Category 4 Hurricane Delta could reach 155 mph, near Cat 5 strength
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/weather/2020/10/06/breaking-very-impressive-rapid-intensification-makes-delta-category-2-hurricane/3634511001/

10/07/20/————— Biden Considering New White House Office on Climate Change
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-07/biden-considering-new-white-house-office-on-climate-change

10/07/20/————— Climate scientists on Earth's two futures:  The worst effects of climate change don't have to happen, scientists say. But humans' actions in the near future will determine if they do. - VIDEO
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/climate-scientists-earth-future-60-minutes-2020-10-04/

10/07/20/————— Emissions of Nitrous Oxide, a Climate Super-Pollutant, Are Rising Fast on a Worst-Case Trajectory
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07102020/nitrous-oxide-fertilizer-emissions-nature-study

10/07/20/————— Busy 2020 hurricane season has Louisiana bracing a 6th time
https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-john-bel-edwards-storms-evacuations-hurricane-delta-4e18bc3890566c8c206e379358242670

10/07/20/————— Pence Said Trump Listens to Scientists. That’s a Joke, Right?
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/10/pence-said-trump-listens-to-scientists-thats-a-joke-right/

10/08/20/————— Climate denial ads on Facebook seen by millions, report finds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/08/climate-denial-ads-on-facebook-seen-by-millions-report-finds

10/08/20/————— Having Rolled Back Obama’s Centerpiece Climate Plan, Trump Defends a Vastly More Limited Approach
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/08102020/clean-power-plan-oral-arguments

10/08/20/————— The Pence-Harris Showdown Came up Well Short of an Actual 'Debate' on Climate Change
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/08102020/pence-harris-climate-change-vice-presidential-debate

10/08/20/————— Judges Hear Arguments in President Trump’s Biggest Climate Rollback
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/08/climate/trump-climate-change.html

10/08/20/————— The climate battle quietly raging this week about US homes
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/09/climate-change-building-code-emissions-us

10/09/20/————— Can the world survive four more years of Donald Trump?:  From climate change to nuclear weapons to global health — this election isn’t just about you, America.
https://www.politico.eu/article/us-election-2020-implications-for-the-world-trump-biden/?fbclid=IwAR2JOtx6HJgGl8PEAVCfydecyMA4Z_oiCXXjNrl2bN5xwCJ8PkThzHR6Jg8

10/09/20/————— How Joe Biden could reorient foreign policy around climate change:  A new report lays out a series of bold steps Biden could take as president without any help from Congress.
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/21505488/joe-biden-foreign-policy-climate-change

10/09/20/—————'Be Afraid—Be Very Afraid': Methane Ruling Seen as Ominous Sign With Barrett Poised to Join Supreme Court
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/10/09/be-afraid-be-very-afraid-methane-ruling-seen-ominous-sign-barrett-poised-join

10/09/20/————— Hurricane Delta inflicts new round of destruction in Louisiana
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/10/hurricane-delta-louisiana-creole-lake-charles-damage

10/11/20/————— This is my message to the western world – your civilization is killing life on Earth
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/12/western-worldyour-civilisation-killing-life-on-earth-indigenous-amazon-planet

10/11/20/————— Fifth of countries at risk of ecosystem collapse, analysis finds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/12/fifth-of-nations-at-risk-of-ecosystem-collapse-analysis-finds?CMP=twt_a-environment_b-gdneco

10/11/20/————— California thought it could delay climate disaster. Now millions of acres are burning.
https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/10/08/california-thought-it-could-delay-climate-disaster-now-millions-of-acres-are-burning-1317641

10/13/20/————— The Arctic is in a death spiral. How much longer will it exist?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2020/oct/13/arctic-ice-melting-climate-change-global-warming

10/13/20/————— Drought and heat together menace American West
https://climatenewsnetwork.net/drought-and-heat-together-menace-american-west/

10/13/20/————— UN: Climate change means more weather disasters every year
https://apnews.com/article/climate-climate-change-droughts-fires-united-nations-570076e5b2d26e717bd072d0535b174c

10/13/20/————— What impacts do the West Coast wildfires have on crops?
https://civileats.com/2020/10/13/what-impacts-do-the-west-coast-wildfires-smoke-have-on-crops/

10/14/20/————— 'Uninhabitable Hell' for Millions: UN Report Sounds Alarm on Humanity's Continued Destruction of Planet Earth:  Political and business leaders are being "willfully negligent" as natural disasters nearly double this century, the world body's special representative for disaster risk reduction said Monday.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/10/13/uninhabitable-hell-millions-un-report-sounds-alarm-humanitys-continued-destruction

10/14/20/————— Climate change a factor in most of the 7,000 natural disasters over last 20 years: UN report
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/520651-climate-change-a-factor-in-most-of-the-7000-natural-disasters-over

10/14/20/————— The great thaw: global heating upends life on Arctic permafrost – photo essay
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2020/oct/13/the-great-thaw-global-heating-upends-life-on-arctic-permafrost-photo-essay

10/14/20/————— What Would Happen If All the Antarctic Ice Melted?:  It … let's just say it would not be good. Here, let's do the math. 
https://www.wired.com/story/what-would-happen-antarctic-ice-melted/

10/14/20/————— Worsening rifts and fractures spotted at 2 important Antarctic glaciers
https://earthsky.org/earth/worsening-rifts-fractures-2-important-antarctic-glaciers?utm_source=EarthSky+News&utm_campaign=e0464771c3-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_02_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c643945d79-e0464771c3-395109277

10/14/20/————— New Maps Show How Climate Change is Making California’s “Fire Weather” Worse
https://projects.propublica.org/california-fire-weather/

10/14/20/————— ‘Waiting for FEMA’: Displaced and distraught, thousands who fled Louisiana hurricanes languish in hotels
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/louisiana-hurricanes-displaced-hotels-fema/2020/10/13/6e232f66-0d66-11eb-8074-0e943a91bf08_story.html

10/14/20/—————'We Don't Need a Climate Denier on the Supreme Court': Outrage as Barrett Says She Has No 'Firm Views' on Climate Crisis
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/10/14/we-dont-need-climate-denier-supreme-court-outrage-barrett-says-she-has-no-firm-views

10/15/20/—————‘ No Time to Lose': New Study Shows 50% Coral Decline on Great Barrier Reef:  
”We expect this decline to continue," predicted one of the study's authors, who said that unless urgent climate action is taken, "the reef will be unrecognizable." 
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/10/14/no-time-lose-new-study-shows-50-coral-decline-great-barrier-reef

10/15/20/—————The number of global methane hot spots has soared this year despite the economic slowdown
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/10/14/number-global-methane-hot-spots-has-soared-this-year-despite-economic-slowdown/

10/15/20/—————Phoenix has hit 100 degrees on record-setting half of the days in 2020
https://www.chron.com/news/article/Phoenix-has-hit-100-degrees-on-record-setting-15647373.php

10/15/20/—————Four Charts Tell the Story of the Post-Covid Energy Transition
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14102020/inside-clean-energy-4-charts-coronavirus

10/16/20/————— 'Sadistic and Depraved': Trump Rejects California Request for Federal Disaster Aid to Recover From Catastrophic Wildfires:  ”That a sitting president—of any party—would deny their own citizens help during their time of greatest need, amid literal hellfire raining down on American cities, is beyond shameful.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/10/16/sadistic-and-depraved-trump-rejects-california-request-federal-disaster-aid-recover

10/16/20/————— We asked Joe Biden’s campaign 6 key questions about his climate change plans:  How Biden could use the powers of the presidency to protect vulnerable communities and hold fossil fuel companies accountable.
https://www.vox.com/21516594/joe-biden-climate-change-covid-19-president

10/16/20/————— A plan to radically reduce China’s emissions by 2050:  A new report is the latest sign that China is serious about decarbonizing.
https://www.vox.com/2020/10/15/21516537/climate-change-china-xi-jinping-coal-carbon-neutral

10/16/20/————— How the 137 million Americans who own stock can force climate action:  The two best ways to hold companies to their climate commitments.
https://www.vox.com/21509913/climate-change-bp-microsoft-investors-shareholders-accountability

10/16/20/————— What Germany Can Teach the US About Quitting Coal
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14102020/germany-coal-transition

10/16/20/—————'We don't have any choice': the young activists naming and shaming US politicians
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/16/sunrise-movement-wide-awakes-us-climate-activists

10/16/20/————— Nearly Half of the U.S. Is in Drought. It May Get Worse.:  The most widespread drought in the continental United States since 2013 covers more than 45 percent of the Lower 48 states, federal scientists said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/15/climate/noaa-climate-call-drought.html

10/17/20/————— Earth breaks September heat record, may reach warmest year
https://apnews.com/article/science-climate-climate-change-5282059feae2661424d7ff3fd5ad4044

10/17/20/————— What’s causing climate change, in 10 charts:  Different ways of looking at the problem.
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/21428525/climate-change-cause-charts-china-us-responsible

10/17/20/————— The world’s largest tropical wetland has become an inferno
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/the-worlds-largest-tropical-wetland-has-become-an-inferno/

10/17/20/————— New Climate Warnings in Old Permafrost: 'It’s a Little Scary Because it’s Happening Under Our Feet.’
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16102020/permafrost-study-arctic-ocean-climate-change
 
10/17/20/————— Humility, Caring and Wisdom Make a Better Future Possible
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/10/17/humility-caring-and-wisdom-make-better-future-possible

10/18/20/————— High Temperatures October 2020
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2020/10/high-temperatures-october-2020.html

10/18/20/————— Climate Change Adversely Affecting Aircraft Performance in Greece: Implications for Militaries?
https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/10/climate-change-adversely-affecting-aircraft-performance-in-greece-implications-for-militaries/

10/18/20/————— Welcome to the Final Battle for the Climate
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/10/17/great-power-competition-climate-china-europe-japan/

10/19/20/————— Iowa derecho in August was most costly thunderstorm disaster in U.S. history
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/10/17/iowa-derecho-damage-cost/

10/19/20/————— Colorado Wildfire Grows Into Largest in State History
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/18/us/colorado-wildfires-cameron-peak.html

10/19/20/————— Alaska's new climate threat: tsunamis linked to melting permafrost
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/18/alaska-climate-change-tsunamis-melting-permafrost

10/19/20/————— Is The Risk Of Sea Level Rise Affecting Florida Home Prices? A New Study Says Yes
https://www.npr.org/2020/10/15/924239753/is-the-risk-of-sea-level-rise-affecting-florida-home-prices-a-new-study-says-yes

10/20/20/————-- October Wildfires Like Boulder’s Calwood Fire Are Unusual And A Sign Of Things To Come
https://www.cpr.org/2020/10/19/october-wildfires-like-boulders-calwood-fire-are-unusual-and-a-sign-of-things-to-come/

10/20/20/————--Amid Climate Crisis, Many Americans Still Don’t Know What the Green New Deal Is
https://truthout.org/articles/amid-climate-crisis-many-americans-still-dont-know-what-the-green-new-deal-is/

10/20/20/————--ExxonMobil’s Supposed Shift on Climate Belies Its Donations to Climate Deniers
https://truthout.org/articles/exxonmobils-shift-on-climate-change-belies-its-contributions-to-climate-deniers/

10/20/20/————--How Climate-Driven Disasters Threaten Climate Progress
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/climate-fires-california-blackout/

10/20/20/————--How changes in Icelandic waters are making Europe's winters harsher
https://newseu.cgtn.com/news/2020-10-20/How-changes-in-Icelandic-waters-are-making-Europe-s-winters-harsher-UFBdIzRPvG/index.html

10/20/20/————--Deadly Bacteria in Coastal Waters Causes a Flesh-Eating Disease. Climate Change Is Making it Worse.
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/10/deadly-bacteria-in-coastal-waters-causes-a-flesh-eating-disease-climate-change-is-making-it-worse/

10/20/20/————--How extreme weather can affect children - They can't protect themselves, so they must rely on adults to care for them.
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2020/10/how-extreme-weather-can-affect-children/

10/20/20/————--China delivers diatribe against U.S. climate policies - Beijing blames Trump’s ‘negative stance’ and ‘poor track record’ for undermining progress on an international climate accord
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/10/19/china-delivers-diatribe-against-us-climate-policies/

10/20/20/————— Biden climate team quietly plans transition
https://www.eenews.net/stories/1063716475

10/21/20/————— Depths of the Weddell Sea are warming five times faster than elsewhere
https://phys.org/news/2020-10-depths-weddell-sea-faster.html

10/21/20/————— Make America Green Again - How the U.S. could go from climate laggard to climate leader — in 8 simple steps
https://grist.org/politics/how-the-us-could-go-from-climate-laggard-to-climate-leader-in-8-simple-steps/

10/21/20/————— The Question That Haunts Climate Advocates - It’s not “Will Donald Trump win?”
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2020/10/the-question-that-haunts-climate-advocates/616785/

10/21/20/————— Pressed on Climate Views and Ties to Shell Oil, Barrett Once Again Calls Established Climate Science ‘Controversial'
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/10/21/pressed-climate-views-and-ties-shell-oil-barrett-once-again-calls-established

10/21/20/————— Geothermal energy is poised for a big breakout
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/10/21/21515461/renewable-energy-geothermal-egs-ags-supercritical

10/22/20/————— Earth just had its hottest September on record
https://earthsky.org/earth/2020-hottest-september-on-record?utm_source=EarthSky+News&utm_campaign=d0bc474f55-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_02_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c643945d79-d0bc474f55-395109277

10/22/20/————— Minnesota Weather: Record-Setting Snow Storm Drops Several Inches Across State
https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2020/10/20/minnesota-weather-snow-system-expected-to-drop-2-5-inches-of-wet-heavy-snow-across-minnesota/

10/22/20/————— The Greatest 24-Hour Snowfalls in All 50 States
https://weather.com/science/weather-explainers/news/state-24-hour-snowfall-records-noaa

10/22/20/————— Fighting Voter Suppression, Environmental Racism, and Corporate Agriculture in Hog Country
https://civileats.com/2020/10/22/fighting-voter-suppression-environmental-racism-and-corporate-agriculture-in-hog-country/

10/22/20/————— What Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation will mean for environmental law and Joe Biden’s climate plan
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/21526207/amy-coney-barrett-senate-vote-environmental-law-biden-climate-plan

10/22/20/————— Cities Need More Ambitious Plans to Curb Emissions, Report Finds
https://www.usnews.com/news/cities/articles/2020-10-22/a-new-report-finds-cities-must-take-more-action-to-curb-climate-change

10/22/20/————— Turbulent era sparked leap in human behavior, adaptability 320,000 years ago
https://phys.org/news/2020-10-turbulent-era-human-behavior-years.html

10/23/20/————— Colorado is fighting its largest wildfire in history. Other massive blazes are close behind. - Three of the four largest fires in Colorado history have ignited since July.
https://www.vox.com/2020/10/19/21522994/cameron-peak-calwood-colorado-wildfire-fire-record-east-troublesome-lefthand-canyon

10/23/20/————— Biden schools Trump on environmental justice during debate
https://grist.org/politics/biden-trump-environmental-justice-presidential-debate/

10/23/20/————— Conservatives pounce on Biden’s desire to move away from oil - The former vice president said he would stop giving the industry federal subsidies, to the consternation of President Donald Trump and his supporters.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/22/biden-wants-to-transition-from-the-oil-industry-431532

10/23/20/————— In the West, Lightning Grows as a Cause of Damaging Fires
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/23/climate/west-lightning-wildfires.html

10/23/20/————— At Last, Joe Biden Leaned Into Climate - Polls overwhelmingly show President Trump’s climate denial is his greatest weakness. At the final debate, the Democrat seized on the issue.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-trump-debate-climate_n_5f920b38c5b695a32fb1b53a

10/24/20/————— A second Trump term would mean severe and irreversible changes in the climate - No joke: It would be disastrous on the scale of millennia.
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/8/27/21374894/trump-election-second-term-climate-change-energy-russia-china

10/24/20/————— Joe Biden is Finally Talking About Fossil Fuels—That’s a Good Thing - It is high time to break the spell the industry seems to have cast over Democratic politicians. This was a promising start.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/10/23/joe-biden-finally-talking-about-fossil-fuels-thats-good-thing

10/24/20/————— Oil Industry Expresses Concern, Not Alarm, About Biden Comments - After the candidate called for a “transition” away from oil and gas, executives said the country would need fossil fuels for decades to come.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/23/business/energy-environment/joe-biden-oil-debate-reaction.html

10/24/20/————— Amy Coney Barrett faces recusal questions over links to Shell
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/24/amy-coney-barrett-shell-recusal-supreme-court

10/25/20/————— Earthquake hits Alaska October 19, 2020
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2020/10/earthquake-hits-alaska-october-19-2020.html

10/25/20/————— The Council on Strategic Risks Offers Recommendations for the Next U.S. Administration on Biological, Climate and Nuclear Threats
https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/10/release-the-council-on-strategic-risks-offers-recommendations-for-the-next-u-s-administration-on-biological-climate-and-nuclear-threats/

10/26/20/————— War on NOAA? A Climate Denier’s Arrival Raises Fears the Agency's Climate Mission Is Under Attack
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23102020/noaa-climate-denial-david-legates

10/26/20/————— Alarm as Arctic sea ice not yet freezing at latest date on record
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/22/alarm-as-arctic-sea-ice-not-yet-freezing-at-latest-date-on-record

10/26/20/————— As Colorado wildfires burn, fears that climate change is causing “multi-level emergency” mount
https://www.denverpost.com/2020/10/25/colorado-wildfires-climate-change/

10/26/20/————— Biden Outlines His Top Two Priorities as President in Rare Pod Save America Appearance
https://www.motherjones.com/2020-elections/2020/10/biden-outlines-his-top-two-priorities-as-president-in-rare-pod-save-america-appearance/

10/27/20/————— Joe Biden calls climate change the ‘number one issue facing humanity’
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/24/joe-biden-climate-change-is-number-one-issue-facing-humanity.html?fbclid=IwAR3FuK7vE-Q4vvkYekmUkW7ghaW1oTE2sMl3FwIEHBXNmURh59uJfWvnPzM

10/27/20/————— Arctic Ocean: why winter sea ice has stalled, and what it means for the rest of the world
https://theconversation.com/arctic-ocean-why-winter-sea-ice-has-stalled-and-what-it-means-for-the-rest-of-the-world-148753

10/28/20/————--'Sleeping giant' Arctic methane deposits starting to release, scientists find
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/oct/27/sleeping-giant-arctic-methane-deposits-starting-to-release-scientists-find

10/28/20/————--Gulf Coast braces, again, for hurricane as Zeta takes aim
https://apnews.com/article/tropical-storm-zeta-gulf-coast-487fcfc70b8ac16795f4b4ff381019b5

10/28/20/————--Two new studies substantially advance understanding of currents that help regulate climate
https://phys.org/news/2020-10-substantially-advance-currents-climate.html

10/28/20/————--California wildfire leaves two firefighters critically injured, forces 90,000 to evacuate
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/southern-california-wildfire-forces-60-000-orange-county-residents-evacuate-n1244810

10/28/20/————--Colorado Contends with Record-Setting Wildfires
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/colorado-contends-with-record-setting-wildfires1/

10/28/20/————--The Oil Market May Have Tanked, but Companies Are Still Giving Plenty to Keep Republicans in Office
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27102020/oil-campaign-contributions-republicans-trump

10/28/20/————--A beloved Jamaican beach is succumbing to climate change. It won’t be the last - Climate change is eroding beaches all over the Caribbean – even though the region contributes a tiny fraction of the emissions heating the planet
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/27/jamaica-hellshire-beach-climate-change

10/28/20/————— Global Emissions Likely Peaked in 2019, Report Finds
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/global-emissions-likely-peaked-in-2019-report-finds

10/29/20/————— Where’s the sea ice? 3 reasons the Arctic freeze is unseasonably late and why it matters
https://theconversation.com/wheres-the-sea-ice-3-reasons-the-arctic-freeze-is-unseasonably-late-and-why-it-matters-148918

10/29/20/————--'Bankrolling Extinction': Report Shows Big Banks Lent Over $2.6 Trillion to Fund Global Biodiversity Destruction in 2019
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/10/28/bankrolling-extinction-report-shows-big-banks-lent-over-26-trillion-fund-global

10/29/20/————— Hurricane Zeta Lashes Louisiana Coast in a Storm Season to Remember
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/28/us/hurricane-zeta.html

10/29/20/————— A woman warned GM about warming. Men didn't listen
https://www.eenews.net/stories/1063717235

10/29/20/————— Why the record low Arctic sea ice this October is so alarming - Global warming is melting Arctic sea ice, which in turn may accelerate global warming.
https://www.vox.com/21536859/arctic-sea-ice-2020-climate-change-alaska-polar-bears-charts

10/29/20/————— Trump and Biden on the biggest climate question: What kind of energy transition lies ahead?
https://www.salon.com/2020/10/29/trump-and-biden-on-the-biggest-climate-question-what-kind-of-energy-transition-lies-ahead/

10/30/20/————— Climate Progressives Eye Treasury As Key Post If Biden Wins.- Warming-fueled disasters and risky fossil fuel bets pose huge threats to the financial system.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-treasury_n_5f99e006c5b6aab57a0f08db

10/30/20/————— 2020 likely to be one of warmest years on record despite La Niña
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/29/2020-warmest-year-record-la-nina-climate-crisis

2020 - SEPTEMBER


9/1/20 ——————- President Donald Trump’s Climate Change Record Has Been a Boon for Oil Companies, and a Threat to the Planet
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/31082020/candidate-profile-donald-trump-climate-change-election-2020

9/1/20 ——————- A Beautiful Yet Grim Map Shows How Wildfire Smoke Spreads
https://www.wired.com/story/map-shows-how-wildfire-smoke-spreads/

9/1/20 ——————- A burning chemical plant may be just the tip of Hurricane Laura’s damage in this area of oil fields and industry
https://theconversation.com/a-burning-chemical-plant-may-be-just-the-tip-of-hurricane-lauras-damage-in-this-area-of-oil-fields-and-industry-145217

9/1/20 ——————- What It’s Like To Live In A City That’s Had 3 ‘Once In A Lifetime’ Climate Disasters In 12 Years
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cedar-rapids-climate-crisis-floods-derecho-iowa_n_5f4caa1dc5b64f17e13fe135

9/2/20 ——————- "Isn't Just Good Policy—It's Good Politics": 145 Groups Demand Biden Ban Fossil Fuel Execs and Lobbyists From Campaign and Cabinet
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/01/isnt-just-good-policy-its-good-politics-145-groups-demand-biden-ban-fossil-fuel

9/3/20 ——————-The Sitting President Has No Climate Plan. Why Isn’t That Headline News?
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/09/02/sitting-president-has-no-climate-plan-why-isnt-headline-news

9/3/20 ——————- Who’s advising Joe Biden on climate? His former rivals.
https://grist.org/politics/whos-advising-joe-biden-on-climate-his-former-rivals/

9/3/20 ——————- Natural disasters can inspire better local climate change policies—if they’re notably deadly or weird
https://www.fastcompany.com/90546229/natural-disasters-can-inspire-better-local-climate-change-policies-if-theyre-notably-deadly-or-weird

9/4/20 ——————- A second Trump term would mean severe and irreversible changes in the climate
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/8/27/21374894/trump-election-second-term-climate-change-energy-russia-china?fbclid=IwAR1FigyvZQ4s2ak-8TP1GmFfxJiljKbdMPnI4zRmN3ecnWDVaobxm6Ehz4w

9/4/20 ——————- Worst-Ever Arctic Fires Released Record Amount of CO2
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-03/climate-change-arctic-fires-in-2020-released-record-carbon?srnd=green

9/4/20 ——————- A Climate Change Skeptic, Mike Pence Brought to the Vice Presidency Deep Ties to the Koch Brothers
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/31082020/candidate-profile-mike-pence-climate-change-election-2020

9/4/20 ——————- Video: How ancient ice cores show ‘black swan’ events in history – even pandemics
https://theconversation.com/video-how-ancient-ice-cores-show-black-swan-events-in-history-even-pandemics-144784

9/4/20 ——————- 43 Green Groups Demand Moderators Make Climate Crisis 'Central Focus' of 2020 Presidential Debates
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/03/43-green-groups-demand-moderators-make-climate-crisis-central-focus-2020

9/5/20 ——————- Trump EPA Chief Lays Out Vision for Agency Critics Warn Would Create 'Apocalyptic, Devastated Planet'
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/04/trump-epa-chief-lays-out-vision-agency-critics-warn-would-create-apocalyptic

9/5/20 ——————- Massive mystery holes appear in Siberian tundra — and could be linked to climate change
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/04/world/craters-tundra-siberia-trnd-scn/index.html

9/5/20 ——————- Americans Back Tough Limits on Building in Fire and Flood Zones
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/04/climate/flood-fire-building-restrictions.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytclimate

9/5/20 ——————-'Disaster for Endangered Species and the Natural World': Advocates Decry Trump Move to Gut Habitat Protection Law
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/04/disaster-endangered-species-and-natural-world-advocates-decry-trump-move-gut-habitat

9/6/20 ——————- 50,000-Foot Smoke Plumes and Record-Shattering Heatwave as Climate Emergency Grips California
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/06/50000-foot-smoke-plumes-and-record-shattering-heatwave-climate-emergency-grips

9/6/20 ——————- Land in Russia’s Arctic Blows ‘Like a Bottle of Champagne’
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/05/world/europe/russia-arctic-eruptions.html

9/6/20 ——————- Heat Wave Roasts Southern California With Record of 121 Degrees
https://www.nytimes.com/article/california-weather.html

9/7/20 ——————- Drastic Denver temperature plunge could set historic record
https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/drastic-denver-temperature-plunge-could-set-historic-record/808470
 
9/8/20 ——————- 'This Is What a Climate Crisis Looks Like': Fires Have Now Burned Record 2 Million Acres in California This Year
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/08/what-climate-crisis-looks-fires-have-now-burned-record-2-million-acres-california

9/8/20 ——————- Global Temperature Could Exceed Limit Set By World Leaders In Next Decade: UN Report
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/global-warming-temperature-rising-united-nations_n_5f58c5b0c5b6b48507fa34c0

9/8/20 ——————- In the Battle Over the Senate, Both Parties’ Candidates Are Playing to the Middle on Climate Change
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/08092020/senate-control-election-2020-climate-change

9/8/20 ——————- Senate 2020: Mitch McConnell Now Admits Human-Caused Global Warming Exists. But He Doesn’t Have a Climate Plan
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03092020/kentucky-2020-senate-climate-change-election-mitch-mcconnell-amy-mcgrath

9/8/20 ——————- How SUVs conquered the world – at the expense of its climate
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/01/suv-conquered-america-climate-change-emissions

9/8/20 ——————- Much of the American West is on fire, illustrating the dangers of a climate of extremes
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/wildfires-american-west/2020/09/08/2e9bd2a6-f20b-11ea-a852-eb7526c580f4_story.html

9/8/20 ——————- Trump, Calling Himself ‘the No. 1 Environmental President,’ Green Washes His Record
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/08/us/politics/trump-drilling-environment-florida.html

9/8/20 ——————- Climate Explained: Methane is short-lived in the atmosphere but leaves long-term damage
https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/122699845/climate-explained-methane-is-shortlived-in-the-atmosphere-but-leaves-longterm-damage

9/9/20 ——————- States Are Doing What Big Government Won’t to Stop Climate Change
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/climate-covid-stimulus-states/

9/9/20 ——————- Coronavirus, hurricanes, wildfires: Many Americans still unprepared for natural disasters, emergencies
https://www.studyfinds.org/americans-still-unprepared-for-natural-disasters/

9/9/20 ——————- With World Closing in on Paris Warming Limit, UN Report Makes Case for 'Transformational Action' to Remake Global Economy
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/09/world-closing-paris-warming-limit-un-report-makes-case-transformational-action

9/9/20 ——————- With 'Irreparable Damage' Looming, 15 State AGs File Suit to Block Trump From Fossil Fuel Assault on Arctic Refuge
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/09/irreparable-damage-looming-15-state-ags-file-suit-block-trump-fossil-fuel-assault

9/9/20 ——————- A Siege of 80 Large, Uncontained Wildfires Sweeps the Hot, Dry West
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09092020/wildfires-american-west-climate

9/9/20 ——————- Climate crisis could displace 1.2bn people by 2050, report warns
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/09/climate-crisis-could-displace-12bn-people-by-2050-report-warns

9/10/20 ——————-'Nature Is Unraveling': New WWF Report Reveals 'Alarming' 68% Plummet in Wildlife Populations Worldwide Since 1970
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/10/nature-unraveling-new-wwf-report-reveals-alarming-68-plummet-wildlife-populations

9/10/20 ——————-The US Is a Failed State:  In less than four years, Donald Trump has exacerbated nearly every issue plaguing this country, from income inequality to global warming.
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/trump-usa-election/

9/10/20 ——————-The American West Is Burning But Trump Hasn't Mentioned Historic Wildfires in 'Any Way, Shape, or Form' for Nearly 3 Weeks
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/10/american-west-burning-trump-hasnt-mentioned-historic-wildfires-any-way-shape-or-form

9/10/20 ——————-La Nina is here, threatening even bigger blazes and storms
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/La-Nina-is-here-threatening-even-bigger-blazes-15556516.php

9/10/20 ——————-Lawmakers, Progressive Coalition Unveil Framework to Create 'Thriving' Fair and Green Economy in Pandemic Recovery
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/10/lawmakers-progressive-coalition-unveil-framework-create-thriving-fair-and-green

9/10/20 ——————-'Green New Deal or the Blood Red Apocalypse. Your Choice': Dems Urged to Embrace Bold Climate Action as West Burns
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/10/green-new-deal-or-blood-red-apocalypse-your-choice-dems-urged-embrace-bold-climate

9/10/20 ——————-Scientists are seeing an 'acceleration of pandemics': They are l ooking at climate change
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/09/10/climate-change-covid-19-does-global-warming-fuel-pandemics/5749582002/

9/10/20 ——————-Iowa Farmers Face Climate-Fueled Destruction, While the Industry Says it’s ‘Just Weather’
https://civileats.com/2020/09/09/iowa-farmers-face-climate-fueled-destruction-while-the-industry-says-its-just-weather/

9/11/20 ——————- Humans exploiting and destroying nature on unprecedented scale – report
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/10/humans-exploiting-and-destroying-nature-on-unprecedented-scale-report-aoe?CMP=twt_a-environment_b-gdneco&fbclid=IwAR2wCDah03LaLJF4QCYcGihnkGK3sHqWNLKbojSX27X6ec4XJmWZ61U2AMw

9/11/20 ——————- California’s recurring wildfire problem, explained:  The state’s weather is becoming warmer and more volatile due to climate change. And there are more people and buildings.
https://www.vox.com/21430638/california-wildfires-2020-orange-sky-august-complex

9/11/20 ——————- As fires burn the west, top Democrats stay quiet on the climate crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/12/wildfires-democrats-climate-crisis

9/11/20 ——————-'I have never seen anything like this': Oregon towns emptied and confusion spreads amid fires
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/11/oregon-fires-towns-emptied-molalla

9/11/20 ——————- In Oregon, a New Climate Menace: Fires Raging Where They Don’t Usually Burn
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/12/climate/oregon-wildfires.html

9/11/20 ——————- As Fires Engulf West, Democrats Not Running on Trump Climate Failures Called 'Political Malpractice’:  "People are dying and losing their homes and jobs. But politicians in D.C. are sitting on their hands, and the president of the United States is telling people that the solution is to clean up their yards.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/11/fires-engulf-west-democrats-not-running-trump-climate-failures-called-political

9/11/20 ——————- What’s causing climate change, in 10 charts:  Different ways of looking at the problem.
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/21428525/climate-change-west-coast-fires-cause-charts

9/11/20 ——————- These Are The Towns Destroyed By The West Coast Wildfires
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/towns-destroyed-west-coast-wildfires_n_5f5a86a1c5b6b48507fdbd1a

9/11/20 ——————- Wildfires are striking closer and closer to cities. We know how this will end
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/12/wildfires-are-striking-closer-and-closer-to-cities-we-know-how-this-will-end

9/11/20 ——————- Oregon Police Beg Public to Stop Calling In False Reports Blaming Antifa for Wildfires
https://theintercept.com/2020/09/10/oregon-police-beg-public-stop-calling-false-reports-blaming-antifa-wildfires/

9/11/20 ——————- As Wildfire Smoke Blots Out the Sun in Northern California, Many Ask: ‘Where Are the Birds?’
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/10092020/california-wildfire-smoke-birds-climate-change

9/11/20 ——————- As Wildfires Rage, Portland’s Air Quality Is Currently The Worst In The World
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/portland-seattle-air-quality-worst-in-world_n_5f5bc14bc5b6b485080034ad

9/11/20 ——————- The future has arrived. These explosive fires are our climate change wakeup call
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/11/the-future-has-arrived-these-explosive-fires-are-our-climate-change-wakeup-call

9/11/20 ——————- Climate Emergency Overdrive: Our Age of Compound Disasters as 10% of Oregon Is Evacuated, California Burns, and Louisiana Sinks
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/09/12/climate-emergency-overdrive-our-age-compound-disasters-10-oregon-

9/11/20 ——————- Climate change largely missing from campaign as fires rage
https://apnews.com/c9d89097d4cc9f8db6a2c95994b09efd

9/12/20 ——————- Senate Democrats Release Climate Report – Highlight National Security Risks
https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/09/senate-democrats-release-climate-report-highlight-national-security-risks/

9/12/20 ——————- The Future of Research on Climate Change and Armed Conflict
https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/09/the-future-of-research-on-climate-change-and-armed-conflict/

9/12/20 ——————- With Wildfires Tearing Through the West, Biden Slams Trump Denial and Calls Climate Crisis an 'Imminent, Existential Threat’
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/12/wildfires-tearing-through-west-biden-slams-trump-denial-and-calls-climate-crisis

9/12/20 ——————- “Unprecedented”: What’s behind the California, Oregon, and Washington wildfires
https://www.vox.com/21431313/california-oregon-washington-wildfires-2020-weather-climate-covid

9/12/20 ——————- Forest fires cause high emissions in Oregon
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2020/09/forest-fires-cause-high-emissions-in-oregon.html

9/13/20 ——————- Sanders Delivers Message to Lawmakers Who Claim US Can't Afford Green New Deal: Climate Catastrophe Is 'Much More Expensive'
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/13/sanders-delivers-message-lawmakers-who-claim-us-cant-afford-green-new-deal-climate

9/13/20 ——————- Washington Gov. Inslee says state looks ‘apocalyptic’ from fires
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/13/inslee-wildfires-climate-change-413593

9/13/20 ——————- Wildfires Raise Fight Over Climate Change Before Trump’s Visit
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/wildfires-raise-fight-over-climate-change-before-trumps-visit_n_5f5f542dc5b67602f607c7f3

9/13/20 ——————- Social media disinformation on US west coast blazes ‘spreading faster than fire’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/14/disinformation-oregon-wildfires-spreading-social-media

9/13/20 ——————- Is BP Finally Committing to Ambitious Climate Action—or About to Fool Us Twice? Five Things to Look For in Its Climate Strategy
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/09/13/bp-finally-committing-ambitious-climate-action-or-about-fool-us-twice-five-things

9/13/20 ——————- For Small Farms Surviving the Pandemic, Co-ops Are a Lifeline
https://civileats.com/2020/09/14/for-small-farms-surviving-the-pandemic-co-ops-are-a-lifeline/

9/13/20 ——————- Western Wildfires Damage, Contaminate Drinking Water Systems 
https://www.circleofblue.org/2020/wef/western-wildfires-damage-contaminate-drinking-water-systems/

9/14/20 ——————- New Study Finds Planet Heading Toward Temperature Threshold Not Seen in 34 Million Years
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/14/new-study-finds-planet-heading-toward-temperature-threshold-not-seen-34-million

9/14/20 ——————-"It'll Start Getting Cooler, You Just Watch": Trump Spits Climate Denialism Right in California's Face
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/14/itll-start-getting-cooler-you-just-watch-trump-spits-climate-denialism-right

9/14/20 ——————- To Block Trump's Gutting of Methane Regulation, Coalition of State and Local Governments Sues EPA
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/14/block-trumps-gutting-methane-regulation-coalition-state-and-local-governments-sues

9/14/20 ——————- Fires Prove the Climate Catastrophe Is a Constitutional Crisis Too
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/fires-climate-constitutional-crisis/

9/14/20 ——————- Investors Who Manage $47 Trillion Pressure Top Polluters to Pursue Transition to Net-Zero Emissions
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/14/investors-who-manage-47-trillion-pressure-top-polluters-pursue-transition-net-zero

9/14/20 ——————- Gulf Coast Residents Brace For New Hurricane
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gulf-coast-residents-brace-for-possible-new-hurricane_n_5f5f51f1c5b62874bc1f9a1c

9/14/20 ——————- Tropical Atlantic churns out another record-setting storm with formation of Vicky
https://www.accuweather.com/en/hurricane/tropical-atlantic-churns-out-another-record-setting-storm-with-formation-of-vicky/812199

9/14/20 ——————- Amateur Air Pollution Trackers Are Mapping Western Wildfire Smoke
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-14/mapping-the-wildfire-smoke-choking-the-western-u-s?srnd=citylab-environment

9/14/20 ——————- What’s in wildfire smoke, and why is it so bad for your lungs?
https://theconversation.com/whats-in-wildfire-smoke-and-why-is-it-so-bad-for-your-lungs-144790?fbclid=IwAR1FVdZFk4uujygYAawaIS9scTwVWGcXr_neOgGzi6MURE5JKHmIMmvT6hU

9/14/20 ——————- A Secret Recording Reveals Oil Executives’ Private Views on Climate Change
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/12/climate/methane-natural-gas-flaring.html

9/14/20 ——————- Biden Puts Climate Change at Center of Presidential Campaign, Calling Trump a ‘Climate Arsonist’
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14092020/joe-biden-climate-change-wildfires-donald-trump-2020-election

9/14/20 ——————- Text: Joe Biden on Climate Change, ‘a Global Crisis That Requires American Leadership’
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14092020/joe-biden-climate-change-speech-full-text

9/15/20 ——————- We need a new climate narrative: Not a dystopian movie, but a vision of hope, change and empowerment
https://www.salon.com/2020/09/16/we-need-a-new-climate-narrative-not-a-dystopian-movie-but-a-vision-of-hope-change-and-empowerment/

9/15/20 ——————- UN Biodiversity Report Urges 8 Transitions Needed to Restore Essential Ecosystems Impacted by Humanity
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/15/un-biodiversity-report-urges-8-transitions-needed-restore-essential-ecosystems

9/15/20 ——————- Birds 'falling out of the sky' in mass die-off in south-western US
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/16/birds-falling-out-of-the-sky-in-mass-die-off-in-south-western-us-aoe

9/15/20 ——————- Trump Scoffs at Plea to Take Climate Change Seriously Amid Fires, Mocks Science Instead
https://theintercept.com/2020/09/14/trump-scoffs-plea-take-climate-change-seriously-amid-wildfires-mocks-science/

9/15/20 ——————- The West faces apocalypse, and we need a national solution - The Forest Service and the states can't face this disaster alone, and politics isn't helping. There's an answer
https://www.salon.com/2020/09/16/the-fire-this-time-the-west-faces-apocalypse-and-we-need-a-national-solution/

9/15/20 ——————-'A Matter of Life and Death': After 175 Years, Scientific American Backs Biden With Magazine's First-Ever Endorsement
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/15/matter-life-and-death-after-175-years-scientific-american-backs-biden-magazines

9/15/20 ——————-'Where Will Everyone Go?' New Report Documents How Climate Migration Could Reshape US
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/15/where-will-everyone-go-new-report-documents-how-climate-migration-could-reshape-us

9/15/20 ——————- Earth’s glaciers and ice sheets are melting
https://earthsky.org/earth/ice-sheets-glaciers-tearing-loose-worst-case-vulnerable?utm_source=EarthSky+News&utm_campaign=98deaf3692-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_02_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c643945d79-98deaf3692-395109277

9/15/20 ——————- Arctic Heat Wave: Block of Ice Twice as Big as Manhattan Breaks off Greenland’s Largest Ice Shelf, Goes Into Ocean
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/09/15/arctic-heat-wave-block-ice-twice-big-manhattan-breaks-greenlands-largest-ice-shelf

9/15/20 ——————- Changing Patterns of Ocean Salt Levels Give Scientists Clues to Extreme Weather on Land
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14092020/ocean-saltwater-climate-change-extreme-weather

9/15/20 ——————- Hurricane Sally Is Bringing 'History-Making' Rains To Gulf Coast, Forecasters Say
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/15/913032727/hurricane-sally-is-bringing-history-making-rains-to-gulf-coast-forecasters-say

9/15/20 ——————- In a Dry State, Farmers Use Oil Wastewater to Irrigate Their Fields, but is it Safe?
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14092020/oil-wastewater-irrigation-california-farm-fields

9/15/20 ——————- Business Roundtable endorses market-based climate policy
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/15/business-roundtable-endorse-market-based-climate-policy-415804

9/16/20 ——————- The Age of Megafires: The World Hits a Climate Tipping Point
https://e360.yale.edu/features/the-age-of-megafires-the-world-hits-a-climate-tipping-point

9/16/20 ——————- Trump’s plan for managing forests won’t save us in a more flammable world, experts say
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/09/16/fires-climate-change/

9/16/20 ——————- The West Coast’s extreme heat and wildfires have another hidden danger:  Affordable housing is at risk, and policymakers need to act now to protect it.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90550201/the-west-coasts-extreme-heat-and-wildfires-have-another-hidden-danger

9/16/20 ——————- California’s Desert Fauna Will Never Recover: Fire in the Anthropocene has become the environmental equivalent of nuclear war.
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/california-fire-drought-climate/

9/16/20 ——————- Hurricane Sally’s Fierce Rain Shows How Climate Change Raises Storm Risks
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/climate/hurricane-sally-climate-change.html

9/16/20 ——————- American Exceptionalism is Another Casualty of Our Climate Disasters
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/09/american-exceptionalism-is-another-casualty-of-our-climate-disasters/

9/16/20 ——————- Facebook unveils info hub to combat climate misinformation
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/facebook-unveils-info-hub-to-combat-climate-misinformation/

9/17/20 ——————- Bolstering Calls for Climate Action, 'Mutant Sloth' Hurricane Sally Leaves Major Mess for Gulf Coast
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/17/bolstering-calls-climate-action-mutant-sloth-hurricane-sally-leaves-major-mess-gulf

9/17/20 ——————- South Faces Widespread Flooding, Power Outages In Hurricane Sally’s Wake
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hurricane-sally-flooding-power-outages_n_5f6358bac5b6ba9eb6ea8d32

9/17/20 ——————- What wildfires in Brazil, Siberia, and the US West have in common:  Climate change and mismanagement are fueling large, uncontrolled fires around the world.
https://www.vox.com/21441711/2020-california-wildfires-brazil-amazon-pantanal-siberia-climate-change

9/17/20 ——————- Climate change and forest management have both fueled today’s epic Western wildfires
https://theconversation.com/climate-change-and-forest-management-have-both-fueled-todays-epic-western-wildfires-146247

9/17/20 ——————- Wildfires can leave toxic drinking water behind – here’s how to protect the public
https://theconversation.com/wildfires-can-leave-toxic-drinking-water-behind-heres-how-to-protect-the-public-146160

9/18/20 ——————- Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Environment
https://www.ontheissues.org/Court/Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg_Environment.htm

9/18/20 ——————- Summer of U.S. Disasters Set Records, Left Trail of Ruin
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/summer-u-disasters-set-grim-131736376.html

9/18/20 ——————- The U.S. Is on the Path to Destruction:  Climate change is killing Americans and destroying the country’s physical infrastructure.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/4-degrees-celsius-election/616393/

9/18/20 ——————- Why some US cities are plotting a ‘green recovery’ after the pandemic
https://grist.org/climate/why-some-us-cities-are-plotting-a-green-recovery-after-the-pandemic/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

9/19/20 ——————- New studies confirm weakening of the Gulf Stream circulation (AMOC)
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2020/09/new-studies-confirm-weakening-of-the-gulf-stream-circulation-amoc/

9/19/20 ——————- Wildfires in the U.S. and Their Effects on Security
https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/09/wildfires-in-the-u-s-and-their-effects-on-security/

9/19/20 ——————- AS THE WEST BURNS, THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION RACES TO DEMOLISH ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONS
https://theintercept.com/2020/09/19/wildfires-trump-election-epa-environment/

9/19/20 ——————- Tropical Storm Beta Meandering Toward Texas, Louisiana
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tropical-storm-beta-texas-louisiana_n_5f676027c5b6480e89708c34

9/19/20 ——————- Fires and floods hurl climate change to fore of U.S. election
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-wildfires-election-analysis/fires-and-floods-hurl-climate-change-to-fore-of-u-s-election-idUSKBN26A05Q

9/19/20 ——————-'Too late to stop it': California's future hinges on managing megafires
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/18/california-fires-wildfires-future-housing

9/19/20 ——————- Charleston aims to force fossil fuel companies to pay $2bn to combat climate crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/20/charleston-force-fossil-fuel-companies-pay-2bn-combat-climate-crisis

9/19/20 ——————- Temperatures threaten to become unbearable
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9/20/20 ——————- California Desert Communities Told To Evacuate As Winds Stoke Flames
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/california-wildfires-evacuations-desert_n_5f67793ac5b6de79b676c0f2

9/20/20 ——————- In a Year of Climate Reckoning, Where Does Joe Biden Stand on Climate and Agriculture?
https://civileats.com/2020/09/21/in-a-year-of-climate-reckoning-where-does-joe-biden-stand-on-climate-and-agriculture/

9/21/20 ——————- The United States Has Become a Disaster Area:  Hurricanes in the Gulf, fires in the West, the coronavirus everywhere—the country is a mess.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/09/united-states-disaster-area/616422/

9/21/20 ——————- Highlighting 'Extreme Carbon Inequality,' Oxfam Study Shows World's Richest 1% Emit More Than Twice as Much CO2 as Poorest 50%
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/21/highlighting-extreme-carbon-inequality-oxfam-study-shows-worlds-richest-1-emit-more

9/21/20 ——————- Europe Drives Destruction of US Forests in the Name of Fighting Climate Change
https://truthout.org/articles/europe-drives-destruction-of-us-forests-in-the-name-of-fighting-climate-change/

9/21/20 ——————- The Many Ugly Faces of Climate Science Denial
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/09/21/many-ugly-faces-climate-science-denial

9/21/20 ——————- The Climate Emergency Isn't Just a Crisis, It's a Crime
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/09/21/climate-emergency-isnt-just-crisis-its-crime

9/21/20 ——————- Bobcat fire becomes one of the largest in Los Angeles county history
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/21/bobcat-fire-los-angeles-county-california-wildfires

9/21/20 ——————- 2 Years Ago, Scientists Warned Us Dead Trees Would Fuel Unpredictable Wildfires. Now It’s Happening.
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/09/california-creek-fire-dead-trees-2018-study-bioscience/

9/22/20 ——————- Climate Anxiety Is Rising in the US — But Not Among Republicans
https://truthout.org/articles/climate-anxiety-is-rising-in-the-us-but-not-among-republicans/

9/22/20 ——————-'Another Alarm Bell in the Climate Emergency' as Arctic Sea Ice Shrinks to Second Lowest Extent on Record
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/22/another-alarm-bell-climate-emergency-arctic-sea-ice-shrinks-second-lowest-extent

9/22/20 ——————- First Came the Hurricane, Then Came the Campaign of Terror:  Climate change made Hurricane Dorian a monster that pummeled the Bahamas's Haitian minority. Human cruelty made its aftermath brutal. Both could have been prevented.
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/hurricane-bahamas-climate/

9/22/20 ——————- Climate change since 2000 will cut U.S. growth over next 30 years - CBO
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-growth-cbo/climate-change-since-2000-will-cut-u-s-growth-over-next-30-years-cbo-idUSKCN26C37Q

LOOKING BACK:  Trump nominates AccuWeather CEO to lead key climate agency
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/11/climate-accuweather-noaa-myers-trump-243697

9/22/20 ——————- The Warming Climates of the Arctic and the Tropics Squeeze the Mid-latitudes, Where Most People Live
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22092020/warming-arctic-climate-mid-latitude-tropics-extreme-weather

9/22/20 ——————- Climate Disruption Is Now Locked In.  The Next Moves Will Be Crucial.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/22/climate/climate-change-future.html

9/22/20 ——————- Planet Is Burning, But First Presidential Debate Set to Ignore Humanity's Most Pressing Issue: Climate
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/23/planet-burning-first-presidential-debate-set-ignore-humanitys-most-pressing-issue

9/22/20 ——————- As wildfires, flooding, and hurricanes grow more frequent, climate migration begins
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2020/09/as-wildfires-flooding-and-hurricanes-grow-more-frequent-climate-migration-begins/

9/23/20 ——————- Trump Is Losing Farmer Support in Climate Crisis. Will They Swing the Election?
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-is-losing-farmer-support-in-climate-crisis-will-they-swing-the-election/

9/23/20 ——————- The Media’s Climate Coverage Is Improving, but Time Is Very Short
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/climate-media-coverage-election/

9/23/20 ——————- How Republicans Are Trying to Use the Green Party to Their Advantage
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/22/us/politics/green-party-republicans-hawkins.html

9/23/20 ——————- China, in Pointed Message to U.S., Tightens Its Climate Targets
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/22/climate/china-emissions.html

9/23/20 ——————- Even as Major Politicians Continue to Drag Feet, Poll Shows Majority in US Want Bold Climate Action and End of Fossil Fuels
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/23/even-major-politicians-continue-drag-feet-poll-shows-majority-us-want-bold-climate

9/23/20 ——————- Landmark Supreme Court climate ruling more vulnerable than ever with Ginsburg's death
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/23/energy-202-landmark-supreme-court-climate-ruling-more-vulnerable-than-ever-with-ginsburg-death/

9/23/20 ——————- Election and Supreme Court Fight Will Decide Trump’s Environmental Legacy
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/climate/trump-environment-courts.html

9/23/20 ——————- Battered, Flooded and Submerged: Many Superfund Sites are Dangerously Threatened by Climate Change
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23092020/climate-change-epa-superfund-sites-hurricanes-floods-fires-sea-level-rise

9/23/20 ——————- We’ll Have to Learn to Live With Smoke. Here’s Why.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/climate/fires-west-smoke.html

9/23/20 ——————- Melting Antarctic ice will raise sea level by 2.5 metres – even if Paris climate goals are met, study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/23/melting-antarctic-ice-will-raise-sea-level-by-25-metres-even-if-paris-climate-goals-are-met-study-finds

9/23/20 ——————- Will We Be Able to Reverse Trump’s Climate Damage?
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/09/24/will-we-be-able-reverse-trumps-climate-damage

9/24/20 ——————- Why do some hurricanes stall, and why is that so hard to forecast
https://theconversation.com/why-do-some-hurricanes-stall-and-why-is-that-so-hard-to-forecast-146804

9/24/20 ——————- Greenwashing Capitalism Won’t Heal the Planet
https://truthout.org/articles/greenwashing-capitalism-wont-heal-the-planet/

9/24/20 ——————- Gov. Jay Inslee on the Climate Crisis: ‘We Cannot Give in to Defeat and Pessimism’
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/jay-inslee-wildfires-washington-climate-crisis-1065359/?fbclid=IwAR3oMoYH-otnuFMxX6uYbs2QF4hLi1wmENQFNMjav0jntJFi7PbApMNH6iQ

9/24/20 ——————- Trouble concentrating? CO2 may be to blame.:  Excessive carbon dioxide is one of the biggest environmental problems. It’s also the reason it can be so hard to focus on solving the problem.
https://www.vox.com/ad/21374320/how-carbon-dioxide-affects-your-thinking

9/24/20 ——————- Climate action will be ‘cornerstone’ of Canada’s economic recovery plan: throne speech
https://thenarwhal.ca/throne-speech-canada-climate-action/

9/24/20 ——————- Scientists fear the Western wildfires could lead to long-term lung damage:  Young children, older adults, and people with preexisting conditions face the highest risks.
https://www.vox.com/21451219/wildfire-2020-california-oregon-washington-health-air-quality

9/24/20 ——————- MAP: See the toxic sites near you that are threatened by climate change
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/map-see-toxic-sites-near-you-are-threatened-climate-change-n1240932

9/24/20 ——————- Trump Administration to Announce Plan to Open Tongass Forest to Logging
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/24/climate/tongass-logging.html

9/24/20 ——————- Ocean Heat Waves Are Directly Linked to Climate Change
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/24/climate/ocean-heat-waves-blob.html

9/24/20 ——————- These 5 Stats Show Just How Devastating California’s Wildfires Have Been—So Far
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/09/these-5-stats-show-just-how-devastating-californias-wildfires-have-been-so-far/

9/25/20 ——————- How affluent people can end their mindless overconsumption:  Every energy reduction we can make is a gift to future humans, and all life on Earth.
https://www.vox.com/21450911/climate-change-coronavirus-greta-thunberg-flying-degrowth

9/25/20 ——————- Seas Are Rising. We Must Create Climate-Resilient Infrastructure — Now.
https://truthout.org/articles/seas-are-rising-we-must-create-climate-resilient-infrastructure-now/

9/25/20 ——————- Climate Disasters Are Leaving Families With Nowhere to Go:  In Oregon, the wildfires are colliding with a housing crisis.
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/oregon-wildfires-homeless/

9/25/20 ——————- The Soil Revolution That Could Save Farming And The Climate
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/climate-change-regenerative-farming_n_5f6cba7ec5b653a2bcb1550f

9/25/20 ——————- On climate change, oil and gas companies have a long way to go
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/9/25/21452055/climate-change-exxon-bp-shell-total-chevron-oil-gas

9/25/20 ——————- China’s commitment to become carbon neutral by 2060, explained:  China just stepped up its climate goals. Is it enough to avert climate chaos?
https://www.vox.com/21455941/china-climate-change-carbon-neutrality-net-zero-solar-electric-vehicles

9/25/20 ——————- California braces for dangerous heat as wildfire battle continues
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/25/california-heatwave-temperatures-wildfires

9/26/20 ——————- Increased High Tide Flooding Threatens Coastal Security in the US
https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/09/increased-high-tide-flooding-threatens-coastal-security-in-the-us/

9/26/20 ——————- Complex Emergencies and Alliance Strength
https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/09/complex-emergencies-alliance-strength/

9/26/20 ——————- The Pentagon’s Global Supply Chain Threatened by Climate Change
https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/09/the-pentagons-global-supply-chain-threatened-by-climate-change/

9/26/20 ——————-'Regenerative Agriculture and the Soil Carbon Solution': New Paper Outlines Vision for Climate Action
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/26/regenerative-agriculture-and-soil-carbon-solution-new-paper-outlines-vision-climate

9/26/20 ——————- Why Did Birds Fall Out Of The Sky In September? Wildlife Experts Are Closer To An Answer
https://www.cpr.org/2020/09/23/why-did-birds-fall-out-of-the-sky-in-september-colorado-new-mexico/

9/26/20 ——————- Climate action will be ‘cornerstone’ of Canada’s economic recovery plan: throne speech
https://thenarwhal.ca/throne-speech-canada-climate-action/

9/27/20 ——————- Farmers Are Plagued by Debt and Climate Crisis. Trump Has Made Things Worse.
https://truthout.org/articles/farmers-are-plagued-by-debt-and-climate-crisis-trump-has-made-things-worse/

9/27/20 ——————- What Does Equitable Climate Policy Actually Look Like?
https://truthout.org/articles/what-does-equitable-climate-policy-actually-look-like/

9/27/20 ——————- Are Carbon Markets for Farmers Worth the Hype?
https://civileats.com/2020/09/24/are-carbon-markets-for-farmers-worth-the-hype/

9/27/20 ——————- Florida’s ‘Gray Greens’ are mobilizing to save the environment
https://www.tampabay.com/life-culture/2020/09/28/floridas-gray-greens-are-mobilizing-to-save-the-environment/

9/27/20 ——————- The video origin of the myth that global warming is good for agriculture
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2020/09/video-origin-of-the-myth-that-global-warming-good-for-agriculture/

9/27/20 ——————-'My friends were lied to': will coalminers stand by Trump as jobs disappear?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/24/donald-trump-coal-miners-us-election

9/27/20 ——————- Rising temperatures put heat on Nebraska's $7 billion corn industry
https://journalstar.com/business/agriculture/rising-temperatures-put-heat-on-nebraskas-7-billion-corn-industry/article_542a97fc-0cbb-5310-913d-57f406f9da1d.html

9/28/20 ——————- Record Wildfires on the West Coast Are Capping a Disastrous Decade
 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/24/climate/fires-worst-year-california-oregon-washington.html?fbclid=IwAR1v_A7SM-CEiXGXinYbQXbDrwyxJkDAlV7XJHgy-QHsRK0Jq0rt2EafyeI

9/28/20 ——————- As wildfires break records, firefighters face growing health risks:  Emerging scientific evidence shows they may be at risk of respiratory and heart illness, and maybe even cancer.
https://crosscut.com/focus/2020/09/wildfires-break-records-firefighters-face-growing-health-risks

9/28/20 ——————- The oceans are out of balance — and that means stronger storms and threats to marine life
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/climate-change-oceans-balance-stronger-storms-marine-life/

9/28/20 ——————- New Study Shows a Vicious Circle of Climate Change Building on Thickening Layers of Warm Ocean Water
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28092020/ocean-stratification-climate-change

9/28/20 ——————- Human Activity is Increasing Severity and Frequency of Major Marine Heatwaves
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/human-activity-is-increasing-severity-and-frequency-of-major-marine-heatwaves

9/28/20 ——————- The Oceans Appear to Be Stabilizing. Here's Why it's Very Bad News | Opinion
https://www.newsweek.com/climate-change-oceans-stabilizing-1534512

9/28/20 ——————- America’s ring of fire
https://www.revealnews.org/episodes/americas-ring-of-fire-2/

9/28/20 ——————- Design for the Future When the Future Is Bleak:  Amid pandemics and environmental disasters, designers and architects have been forced to imagine a world in which the only way to move forward is to look back.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/28/t-magazine/design-future-pandemic-climate.html

9/28/20 ——————-'Trying to Have It Both Ways': Investigation Reveals BP and Shell Still Back Anti-Climate Lobby Groups, Despite Pledges
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/28/trying-have-it-both-ways-investigation-reveals-bp-and-shell-still-back-anti-climate

9/28/20 ——————- Homes Are Becoming Harder To Insure Thanks To Climate Change
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/home-insurance-climate-change_l_5f721262c5b6e99dc3306840

9/29/20 ——————- Trump’s Pick for the Supreme Court Could Deepen the Risk for Its Most Crucial Climate Change Ruling
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29092020/amy-coney-barrett

9/29/20 ——————- Why we’re more confident than ever that climate change is driving disasters:  The emerging field of climate attribution helps explain the wildfires and hurricanes of 2020.
https://www.vox.com/21452781/zogg-fire-glass-wildfire-california-climate-change-hurricanes-attribution-2020-debate

9/29/20 ——————- Biden Pitched A Climate Plan. Trump Rambled About ‘Immaculate Air’ And Cleaning Forests
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-biden-climate-change-presidential-debate_n_5f73fd99c5b6d698bb254f36

9/29/20 ——————- Who Had Substantive Climate Discussion on Their Debate Bingo Card?
https://www.motherjones.com/2020-elections/2020/09/presidential-debate-climate-trump-record/


2020 - AUGUST

With Dirty Energy Sector Crashing, Nearly 70 Groups Urge Fed to Stop Buying Up Wasteful Fossil Fuel Industry Debt
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/07/30/dirty-energy-sector-crashing-nearly-70-groups-urge-fed-stop-buying-wasteful-fossil
 
We Have Entered the "End Game" for Oil—With "Permanent Demand Destruction"
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/07/31/we-have-entered-end-game-oil-permanent-demand-destruction
 
Scientists have ruled out the worst-case climate scenario — and the best one too
https://www.vox.com/2020/7/31/21340748/climate-change-carbon-emissions-sensitivity-how-much-will-earth-warm
 
A Quarter of Bangladesh Is Flooded. Millions Have Lost Everything.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/climate/bangladesh-floods.html
 
Arctic sea ice could disappear completely within two months' time
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2020/07/arctic-sea-ice-could-disappear-completely-within-two-months-time.html
 
8/3/20 ------------- Wildfires can poison drinking water – here’s how communities can be better prepared
https://theconversation.com/wildfires-can-poison-drinking-water-heres-how-communities-can-be-better-prepared-141430
 
8/3/20 ------------- Life and Death in Our Hot Future Will Be Shaped by Today’s Income Inequality
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2020-climate-heat-inequality/?srnd=green
 
8/3/20 ------------- The Worst-Case Scenario for Global Warming Tracks Closely With Actual Emissions
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03082020/climate-change-scenarios-emissions
 
 8/7/20 ------------- Ocean warming threatens coral reefs and soon could make it harder to restore them
https://theconversation.com/ocean-warming-threatens-coral-reefs-and-soon-could-make-it-harder-to-restore-them-142876

8/7/20 ------------- This giant climate hot spot is robbing the West of its water
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/climate-environment/climate-change-colorado-utah-hot-spot/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most

8/8/20 ------------- FEMA Administrator Testifies That Hurricanes are Affected by Climate Change
https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/08/07/fema-administrator-testifies-that-hurricanes-are-affected-by-climate-change/

8/8/20 ------------- North Hole 2020?
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2020/08/north-hole-2020.html

8/8/20 ------------- As the pandemic has made clear, America has no welfare state — but we sure have a warfare state
https://www.salon.com/2020/08/08/as-the-pandemic-has-made-clear-america-has-no-welfare-state--but-we-sure-have-a-warfare-state/

8/9/20 ------------- Climate Activists Push Biden to Cut Ties With Industry-Friendly Energy Advisers
https://truthout.org/articles/climate-activists-push-biden-to-cut-ties-with-industry-friendly-energy-advisers/

8/9/20 ------------- On Climate Policy, Biden’s Advisers Reveal More Than His Proposals Do
https://theintercept.com/2020/08/07/joe-biden-climate-policy-advisers/

8/10/20 ------------- What is a derecho? An atmospheric scientist explains these rare but dangerous storm systems
https://theconversation.com/what-is-a-derecho-an-atmospheric-scientist-explains-these-rare-but-dangerous-storm-systems-140319

8/10/20 ------------- One Million Lost Power in Storm That Spawned Chicago Tornado
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-10/chicago-faces-dangerous-storm-already-ripping-apart-midwest?srnd=green

8/10/20 ------------- The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the corrosive legacy of environmental racism in the United States
https://theintercept.com/2020/08/08/coronavirus-pollution-environmental-justice-racism/

8/10/20 ------------- Biden locks down mainstream green groups with Sierra Club endorsement
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/08/11/energy-202-biden-locks-down-mainstream-green-groups-with-sierra-club-endorsement/

8/10/20 ------------- On Climate, Kamala Harris Has a Record and Profile for Action
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11082020/kamala-harris-joe-biden-election-2020-climate-change

8/11/20 ------------- Baghdad’s record heat offers glimpse of world’s climate change future
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/08/12/baghdad-iraq-heat-climate-change/?arc404=true

8/11/20 ------------- Video: Covid-19 Will Be Just 'One of Many' New Infectious Diseases Spilling Over From Animals to Humans
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/12082020/zoonotic-diseases-coronavirus-climate-change-video

8/11/20 ------------- Bad omen: Hurricanes are growing stronger in every region of the world, study finds
https://www.studyfinds.org/hurricanes-growing-stronger/

8/11/20 ------------- With Biden-Harris Ticket Set, Climate Groups Demand 'Transformative Action From Day One' If Elected
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/08/12/biden-harris-ticket-set-climate-groups-demand-transformative-action-day-one-if

8/11/20 ------------- 6 former EPA bosses call for agency reset after election
https://apnews.com/7b5ec8e0002f3dce6bf88edde92dcb6c

8/11/20 ------------- Global Warming Could Unlock Carbon From Tropical Soil
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/climate/tropical-soils-climate-change.html

8/12/20 ------------- The Grim World Our Grandchildren Will Inherit
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/trump-war-tomdispatch/

8/13/20 ------------- Going, Going ... Gone: Greenland’s Melting Ice Sheet Passed a Point of No Return in the Early 2000s
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14082020/greenland-ice-sheet-melt-climate-change

8/13/20 ------------- Trump Rolls Back Methane Rule as Bankrupt Permian Drillers Ignore Venting Flares
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-rolls-back-methane-rule-as-bankrupt-permian-drillers-ignore-venting-flares/

8/13/20 ------------- Sweltering heat is shattering records, triggering power outages across California
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/15/california-heatwave-triggers-power-outages.html

8/13/20 ------------- Tropical Storm Josephine breaks record for Atlantic storms, more likely on the way
https://www.reu

8/14/20 ------------- Record Arctic blazes may herald new ‘fire regime’ decades sooner than anticipated
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/08/14/record-arctic-fires/?arc404=true
 
8/14/20 ------------- Forest Fires Are Setting Chernobyl’s Radiation Free
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/08/chernobyl-fires/615067/

8/14/20 ------------- Solidarity Forever: Essential Workers, Public Goods, and How We Are in This Together
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/08/16/solidarity-forever-essential-workers-public-goods-and-how-we-are-together

8/16/20 ------------- 2019 State of the Climate Report: Peak greenhouse gases and record heat
https://earthsky.org/earth/international-climate-report-2019-record-heat-greenhouse-gas?utm_source=EarthSky+News&utm_campaign=85da53fd15-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_02_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c643945d79-85da53fd15-395109277

8/16/20 ------------- Death Valley Likely Hit 130 Degrees On Sunday, Earth’s Highest Temperature Since 1913
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/death-valley-130-degrees_n_5f3a1cfbc5b6959911e682fe

8/16/20 ------------- China’s Summer of Floods is a Preview of Climate Disasters to Come
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14082020/china-floods-climate-change-extreme-weather

8/17/20 ------------- Iowa Seeks Nearly $4 Billion In Disaster Aid After Storm Damage
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/iowa-federal-aid-derecho-storm-damage_n_5f3a7500c5b6959911e75780

8/17/20 ------------- Trump sought to withhold California fire aid because of politics, former official says
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-08-17/trump-sought-to-withhold-california-fire

8/17/20 ------------- Trump Finalizes Arctic Refuge Drilling Plan, Cementing His Anti-Public Lands Legacy
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-arctic-refuge-drilling-plan_n_5f3a8664c5b61100c3aa2bea

8/17/20 ------------- Public Lands Are Key to Fighting Climate Change
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/08/17/public-lands-are-key-fighting-climate-change

8/18/20 ------------- The Climate Crisis Is Still a Crisis:  If the fate of American democracy is on the ballot in November, so too is the future of the planet.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/climate-crisis-still-crisis/615319/

8/18/20 ------------- Trump dropped into Iowa — and didn't even try to understand the devastation
https://www.salon.com/2020/08/19/trump-dropped-into-iowa--and-didnt-even-try-to-understand-the-devastation/

8/18/20 ------------- Democrats Drop Demand To End Fossil Fuel Subsidies From Party Platform
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/democratic-national-committee-climate_n_5f3c2907c5b6d8a9173f0268

8/20/20 ------------- After Two Nights of Speeches, Activists Ask: Hey, What About Climate Change?
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19082020/democratic-national-convention-joe-biden-climate-change

8/20/20 ------------- Greenpeace Gives Democratic Platform C+ on Climate, Calling for 'Action at the Scale That Science and Justice Demand'
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/08/19/greenpeace-gives-democratic-platform-c-climate-calling-action-scale-science-and

8/20/20 ------------- How Weather Detectives Scrutinize Would-Be World Records
https://kuow.org/stories/how-weather-detectives-scrutinize-would-be-world-records

8/20/20 ------------- Northern California wildfires threatening thousands of homes
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/northern-california-wildfires-threatening-thousands-of-homes/

8/20/20 ------------- ‘Earth Overshoot Day’ Is This Week
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/climate/earth-overshoot-day.html

8/21/20 ------------- The climate crisis has already arrived. Just look to California’s abnormal wildfires
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/21/the-climate-crisis-has-already-arrived-just-look-to-californias-abnormal-wildfires

8/21/20 ------------- What Happens When A Wildfire Meets A Pandemic
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-happens-wildfire-coronavirus-pandemic_n_5f3d6b90c5b609f4f673c34c

8/22/20 ------------- What’s in that wildfire smoke, and why is it so bad for your lungs?
https://theconversation.com/whats-in-that-wildfire-smoke-and-why-is-it-so-bad-for-your-lungs-144790

8/22/20 ------------- What makes California’s current major wildfires so unusual
https://www.vox.com/2020/8/21/21377181/california-wildfire-2020-coronavirus-covid-19-heat-scu-lnu-lightning-complex-climate

8/22/20 ------------- California’s 2 Emergencies: How To Shelter People Fleeing Wildfires In A Pandemic
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/california-wildfires-coronavirus-shelters_n_5f40066fc5b697824f984e17

8/22/20 ------------- As California Fires Rage, Pandemic Leaves State Hundreds of Firefighters Short
https://www.newsweek.com/calfornia-fire-coronavirus-pandemic-budget-1526408

8/23/20 ------------- Methane Hydrates Tipping Point threatens to get crossed
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2020/08/methane-hydrates-tipping-point-threatens-to-get-crossed.html

8/23/20 ------------- Earth has lost 28 trillion tonnes of ice in less than 30 years
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/aug/23/earth-lost-28-trillion-tonnes-ice-30-years-global-warming

8/23/20 ------------- 2 Tropical Storms A Potential Double Threat To US Gulf Coast
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/2-tropical-storms-a-potential-double-threat-to-us-gulf-coast_n_5f415147c5b6305f325826b5

8/23/20 ------------- Heat is turbocharging fires, drought and tropical storms this summer
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/08/21/heat-climate-change-weather/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most
 
8/23/20 ------------- When It Comes to Climate Change, It’s Joe Biden Versus the DNC:  The Democratic presidential nominee knows that halting fossil fuel subsidies is imperative. Why doesn’t the DNC?
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/biden-climate-platform/

8/23/20 ------------- Stop Adding (Fossil) Fuels to the Fire:  This November, we need to vote as if our house is on fire.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/08/23/stop-adding-fossil-fuels-fire

8/23/20 ------------- 2020 Is Proving Another Disastrous Year For Our Earth’s Climate
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/2020-another-disastrous-year-for-our-earth_n_5f3d8b59c5b66346157fd6e2

8/23/20 ------------- Climate Security in the 2021 U.S. National Defense Authorization Act
https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/08/climate-security-in-the-2021-u-s-national-defense-authorization-act/

8/23/20 ------------- The Security Imperative of Stopping Climate Change: Reflections on the 2019 State of the Climate Report
https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/08/the-security-imperative-of-stopping-climate-change-reflections-on-the-2019-state-of-the-climate-report/

8/24/20 ------------- California and Colorado Fires May Be Part of a Climate-Driven Transformation of Wildfires Around the Globe
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22082020/california-colorado-wildfires-climate-change-global-transformation

8/24/20 ------------- Wildfires Across Northern California Devastate Farmers and Farmland
https://civileats.com/2020/08/24/wildfires-across-northern-california-devastate-farmers-and-farmland/

8/24/20 ------------- The National Guard and US military are helping to fight California's massive fires
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/california-fires-national-guard-military

8/24/20 ------------- Solar panels are starting to die. What will we do with the megatons of toxic trash?
https://grist.org/energy/solar-panels-are-starting-to-die-what-will-we-do-with-the-megatons-of-toxic-trash/
 
8/25/20 ------------- Democrats’ climate plan takes aim at the fossil fuel industry’s political power
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/24/democrats-climate-plan-fossil-fuel-industry

8/25/20 -------------'What Stage of Capitalism Is This?' Hedge Fund $3 Billion Richer Thanks to Wager on Wildfire Insurance Claims
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/08/24/what-stage-capitalism-hedge-fund-3-billion-richer-thanks-wager-wildfire-insurance

8/26/20 -------------'Unless we change course, the US agricultural system could collapse
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/26/us-farming-agriculture-food-supply-danger

8/26/20 -------------'As Party of Climate Denial Meets, Wildfires Rage and Hurricanes Target Gulf Coast
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/08/25/party-climate-denial-meets-wildfires-rage-and-hurricanes-target-gulf-coast

8/26/20 -------------'Senate Democrats want to build a climate coalition that can take on the Kochs
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/21396261/senate-climate-change-committee-report-brian-schatz-koch-industries

8/26/20 -------------'Biloxi’s 15-year recovery from Hurricane Katrina offers lessons for other coastal cities
https://theconversation.com/biloxis-15-year-recovery-from-hurricane-katrina-offers-lessons-for-other-coastal-cities-144172

8/26/20 -------------'Western wildfires are spinning off tornadoes – here’s how fires create their own freakish weather
https://theconversation.com/western-wildfires-are-spinning-off-tornadoes-heres-how-fires-create-their-own-freakish-weather-144904

8/26/20 -------------'The Biblical Flood That Will Drown California
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/08/california-flood-arkstorm-farmland-climate-change/

8/26/20 -------------'Increase in freshwater in Arctic Ocean could affect global climate systems
https://thenarwhal.ca/freshwater-arctic-ocean-climate-change-currents/

8/26/20 -------------''Underwhelming and Inadequate': Green Groups Slam New Senate Democrats' Climate Report
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/08/25/underwhelming-and-inadequate-green-groups-slam-new-senate-democrats-climate-report

8/26/20 -------------'Proving 'A Different World Is Possible,' Exxon Dropped From Dow Jones After 92-Year Run
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/08/25/proving-different-world-possible-exxon-dropped-dow-jones-after-92-year-run

8/27/20 —————— Hurricane Laura hits Gulf Coast as an “extremely dangerous” storm
https://www.vox.com/2020/8/26/21401440/hurricane-laura-texas-louisiana-marco-storm-track-katrina

8/27/20 —————— Disasters Are Driving A Mental Health Crisis
https://publicintegrity.org/environment/hidden-epidemics/disasters-mental-health-crisis-wildfire-hurricane-flood-climate-covid/

8/27/20 —————— Climate change is causing more rain in the North. That’s bad news for permafrost
https://thenarwhal.ca/climate-change-rain-arctic-permafrost-thaw/

8/27/20 —————— The Fires May be in California, but the Smoke, and its Health Effects, Travel Across the Country
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26082020/california-fire-smoke-health-effects

8/27/20 —————— More Than 750,000 People Under Evacuation Orders Across the U.S. Due to Extreme Weather
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/more-than-750-000-people-under-evacuation-orders-across-the-us-due-to-extreme-weather

8/27/20 —————— U.S. Flood Strategy Shifts to ‘Unavoidable’ Relocation of Entire Neighborhoods
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/26/climate/flooding-relocation-managed-retreat.html

8/27/20 —————— Climate crisis: Global warming could rapidly destroy Antarctic ice shelves with ‘major consequences’, study suggests
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-crisis-antarctica-ice-shelves-cracks-hydrofracturing-glaciers-a9690111.html

8/28/20 —————— Hurricane Laura: The danger of storm surge, explained
https://www.vox.com/2020/8/27/21403161/hurricane-laura-storm-surge-flooding-unsurvivable

8/28/20 —————--As Hurricane Laura Batters Louisiana, Massive Chemical Leak Spews Toxic Smoke Near Lake Charles
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/08/27/hurricane-laura-batters-louisiana-massive-chemical-leak-spews-toxic-smoke-near-lake

8/28/20 —————--COVID-19 and climate change expose the dangers of unstable supply chains
https://fortune.com/2020/08/27/covid-climate-change-logistics-supply-chain-stability-coronavirus/

8/28/20 —————--Europe poised to ramp up emission cuts with ambitious target
https://www.dailyclimate.org/europe-poised-to-ramp-up-emission-cuts-with-ambitious-target-bloomberg-2647201373.html

8/28/20 —————--Historians: Trump's response to Hurricane Laura is telling
https://www.eenews.net/stories/1063712595

8/28/20 —————--HOW TO HEAL EMOTIONAL WOUNDS AFTER DISASTER
https://publicintegrity.org/environment/hidden-epidemics/how-to-heal-emotional-wounds-after-disaster/

8/28/20 —————--Laura Rapidly Intensified Over a Super-Warm Gulf. Only the Storm Surge Faltered
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27082020/laura-rapidly-intensified-over-super-warm-gulf-only-storm-surge-faltered

8/28/20 —————--Hurricane Laura’s rapid intensification is a sign of a warming climate, scientists say
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/08/27/hurricane-laura-rapid-intensification/

8/28/20 —————--Welcome to the ‘Pyrocene,’ an Epoch of Runaway Fire
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-27/as-wildfires-rage-the-pyrocene-age-is-upon-us?srnd=citylab

8/29/20 —————--10 Days of Climate Extremes: From Record Heat to Wildfires to the One-Two Punch of Hurricane Laura
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28082020/climate-extremes-record-heat-wildfires-hurricane-laura-floods

8/29/20 —————--With Wild and Dangerous Weather All Around, Republicans Stay Silent on Climate Change
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28082020/republican-national-convention-trump-climate-change

8/29/20 —————--23 AGs Sue Trump Council Over 'Reckless and Unprecedented' Gutting of Bedrock US Environmental Law
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/08/28/23-ags-sue-trump-council-over-reckless-and-unprecedented-gutting-bedrock-us

8/29/20 —————--"Business as Usual! Business as Usual!" Chants the Oligarchy as the World Burns
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/08/28/business-usual-business-usual-chants-oligarchy-world-burns

8/30/20 —————--“Massive Investments in Resilience Needed”: Climate Lessons from Covid
https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/08/massive-investments-in-resilience-needed-climate-lessons-from-covid/
 
8/30/20 —————— Omission of climate crisis at RNC risks losing voters, some conservatives warn
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/aug/26/rnc-climate-crisis-omission-risks-losing-voters


2020 - JULY
 
What House Democrats actually want to do about climate change
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/6/30/21305891/climate-change-house-democrats-select-committee-report
 
South Pole warmed three times the global rate in last 30 years: study
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-antarctica/south-pole-warmed-three-times-the-global-rate-in-last-30-years-study-idUSKBN240210
 
What House Democrats actually want to do about climate change
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/6/30/21305891/climate-change-house-democrats-select-committee-report
 
The Democrats Have a New Climate Plan that Doesn’t Entirely Depend on Capitalism
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/06/the-democrats-have-a-new-climate-plan-that-doesnt-entirely-depend-on-capitalism/
 
The Fed Is Bailing Out Polluters While Cities Struggle
https://newrepublic.com/article/158329/fed-bailing-polluters-cities-struggle

Temperatures, rain and goldfinches. New report details climate change impacts in N.J.
https://www.nj.com/news/2020/06/temperatures-rain-and-goldfinches-new-report-details-climate-change-impacts-in-nj.html
 
7/1/20 ----------- House Democrats’ Climate Plan Embraces Much of Green New Deal, but Not a Ban on Fracking
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30062020/house-democrats-climate-plan-green-new-deal-not-ban-fracking
 
7/1/20 ----------- As Democrats Unveil Ambitious Climate Goals, House Lawmakers Press For Green Stimulus
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/democrats-climate-crisis-coronavirus-stimulus-bill_n_5efbcd58c5b612083c543d7c
 
7/1/20 ----------- The Climate Emergency Won’t Wait for the Press to Play Catch-up Again
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/climate-emergency-election-2020/
 
7/1/20 ----------- The “Godzilla” Saharan dust cloud over the US, explained
https://www.vox.com/2020/7/1/21307053/sahara-dust-storm-2020-godzilla-cloud-saharan-sunset
 
7/1/20 ----------- Climate and National Security in the New “Solving the Climate Crisis” Report
https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/07/01/climate-and-national-security-in-the-new-solving-the-climate-crisis-report/
 
7/2/20 ----------- Majority of Americans agree feds aren’t doing enough to combat climate change
https://www.studyfinds.org/majority-of-americans-agree-feds-arent-doing-enough-to-combat-climate-change/
 
7/2/20 ----------- Fish more vulnerable to warming water than first thought
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/fish-more-vulnerable-to-warming-water-than-first-thought/
 
7/2/20 ----------- House approves $1.5T green infrastructure plan
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/505397-house-approves-15t-green-infrastructure-plan
 
7/2/20 ----------- Some new climate models are projecting extreme warming. Are they correct?
https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2020/07/some-new-climate-models-are-projecting-extreme-warming-are-they-correct/
 
7/2/20 ----------- Heatwaves have become longer in most of the world since 1950s – study
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/03/heatwaves-longer-since-1950s-study-frequency
 
7/2/20 ----------- Amazon fires at 13-year high for June
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-53262565
 
7/3/20 ----------- Climate change is hitting home gardens. Here's how to adapt.
https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2020/0703/Climate-change-is-hitting-home-gardens.-Here-s-how-to-adapt
 
NOAA – 6 to 10 Day Outlooks
https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/610day/
 
NOAA – 8-14 Day Forcast
https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/short_range/NAEFS/naefs_bias-corrected_tmean_8-14day-global.png
 
7/3/20 ----------- In New York City, ‘Managed Retreat’ Has Become a Grim Reality
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03072020/new-york-city-managed-retreat-sea-level-rise
 
7/3/20 ----------- A rapid Arctic meltdown taking place in Siberia alarms scientists
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/a-rapid-arctic-meltdown-taking-place-in-siberia-alarms-scientists/
 
7/4/20 ----------- Arctic Oil Infrastructure Faces Climate Karma: Siberia’s heatwave reflects temperature changes that weren’t generally forecast to occur until the end of the century. That’s bad news for everyone.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-07-05/siberia-heatwave-climate-change-really-is-big-oil-industry-risk
 
7/7/20 ----------- Think Covid-19 Disrupted the Food Chain? Wait and See What Climate Change Will Do
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/06072020/coronavirus-agriculture-food-chain-future-climate-change
 
7/7/20 ----------- The scariest thing about global warming (and Covid-19)
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/7/7/21311027/covid-19-climate-change-global-warming-shifting-baselines
 
7/7/20 ----------- A heat wave thawed Siberia's tundra. Now, it's on fire.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/07/heat-wave-thawed-siberia-now-on-fire/
 
7/7/20 ----------- '24 Hours. 3 Dirty Pipelines Delayed': Supreme Court Rejects Trump Effort to Greenlight Keystone XL Construction
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/07/07/24-hours-3-dirty-pipelines-delayed-supreme-court-rejects-trump-effort-greenlight
 
7/8/20 ----------- Arctic Sea Ice at Record Low for Time of Year
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2020/07/arctic-sea-ice-at-record-low-for-time-of-year.html
 
7/9/20 ----------- Humanity on Track to Soon Hit 1.5ºC Paris Accord Limit as Atmospheric CO2 Nears Level Not Seen in 15 Million Years
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/07/09/humanity-track-soon-hit-15oc-paris-accord-limit-atmospheric-co2-nears-level-not-seen
 
7/9/20 ----------- New climate report highlights 'enormous challenge ahead' for meeting Paris Agreement goals
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/new-climate-report-highlights-enormous-challenge-ahead-meeting-paris-agreement-n1233258
 
7/9/20 ----------- A Climate Movement Turning Point?
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/07/09/climate-movement-turning-point
 
7/9/20 ----------- Updated Species Extinction List Signals 'Urgent Action Needed to Save Life on Earth'
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/07/09/updated-species-extinction-list-signals-urgent-action-needed-save-life-earth
 
7/9/20 ----------- In Parched Southwest, Warm Spring Renews Threat of ‘Megadrought’
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/climate/southwest-megadrought-climate-change.html
 
7/9/20 ----------- Coast-to-Coast U.S. Heat Wave May Break Records, Hurt Crops
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-08/coast-to-coast-u-s-heat-wave-may-break-records-hurt-crops?srnd=green
 
7/9/20 ----------- Global warming and ice sheet melting: Portents of a Younger dryas-like stadial event
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2020/07/global-warming-and-ice-sheet-melting-portents-of-a-younger-dryas-like-stadial-event.html
 
7/10/20 ----------- A massive, intense heat wave is settling over the continental US. The ravages of the Covid pandemic are going to make it all the more deadly.
https://www.wired.com/story/how-a-heat-dome-forms/
 
7/10/20 ----------- Why extreme heat is so alarming for the fight against Covid-19
https://www.vox.com/2020/7/10/21311766/covid-19-coronavirus-heat-wave-hot-texas-arizona
 
7/10/20 ----------- Watchdog Accuses Trump's NOAA of 'Choosing Extinction' for Critically Threatened Right Whales by Hiding Scientific Evidence
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/07/10/watchdog-accuses-trumps-noaa-choosing-extinction-critically-threatened-right-whales
 
7/10/20 ----------- Humanity on Track to Soon Hit 1.5ºC Paris Accord Limit as Atmospheric CO2 Nears Level Not Seen in 15 Million Years
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/07/09/humanity-track-soon-hit-15oc-paris-accord-limit-atmospheric-co2-nears-level-not-seen
 
7/12/20 ----------- Better-Than-Before Climate Plans Still Aren't Good Enough
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/07/12/better-climate-plans-still-arent-good-enough
 
7/13/20 ----------- 'Privatize the Profit, Socialize the Mess': Abandoned Fracking Wells Left Spewing Climate-Killing Methane Nationwide
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/07/13/privatize-profit-socialize-mess-abandoned-fracking-wells-left-spewing-climate
 
7/13/20 ----------- Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Are "Dominating Climate Policy Battles During COVID-19"
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/07/13/fossil-fuel-lobbyists-are-dominating-climate-policy-battles-during-covid-19
 
7/13/20 ----------- G.A.O.: Trump Boosts Deregulation by Undervaluing Cost of Climate Change
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/climate/trump-climate-change-carbon-cost.html
 
7/13/20 ----------- Heat Wave Drives People Inside in Covid’s Hottest Hot Spots
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-11/heat-wave-drives-people-inside-in-covid-s-hottest-hot-spots?srnd=green
 
7/13/20 ----------- A Pandemic and Surging Summer Heat Leave Thousands Struggling to Pay Utility Bills
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/13072020/coronavirus-energy-heat-waves
  
7/14/20 ----------- Joe Biden has a chance to make history on climate change
https://www.vox.com/2020/5/28/21265416/joe-biden-climate-change-democrats-young-voters
 
7/14/20 ----------- Biden’s $2 Trillion Climate Plan Promotes Union Jobs, Electric Cars and Carbon-Free Power
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14072020/joe-biden-climate-plan-coronavirus-build-back-better
 
7/14/20 ----------- 'More Work to Do' But 'Major Step Forward': Progressives Welcome Biden's $2 Trillion Green Energy Plan
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/07/14/more-work-do-major-step-forward-progressives-welcome-bidens-2-trillion-green-energy
 
7/14/20 ----------- Should Banks Be Forced to Price In Climate Change?
https://www.politico.com/news/agenda/2020/07/14/federal-reserve-climate-change-341820
 
7/14/20 ----------- Many technologies needed to solve the climate crisis are nowhere near ready
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/7/14/21319678/climate-change-renewable-energy-technology-innovation-net-zero-emissions
 
7/15/20 ----------- Global Methane Emissions Reach a Record High
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/climate/methane-emissions-record.html
 
7/15/20 ----------- New Data Shows an ‘Extraordinary’ Rise in U.S. Coastal Flooding
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/climate/coastal-flooding-noaa.html
 
7/15/20 ----------- Trump Weakens Major Conservation Law to Speed Construction Permits
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/15/climate/trump-environment-nepa.html
 
7/15/20 ----------- Death Valley sets record for planet's hottest temperature in years — and the heat wave is forecast to spread
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/death-valley-hottest-temperature-record-heat-wave/
 
7/15/20 ----------- Trump Proposes Speedier Environmental Reviews for Highways, Pipelines, Drilling and Mining
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/15072020/trump-nepa-pipelines-highways-drilling-mining
 
7/15/20 ----------- Trump Slashed a Major Environmental Rule. That’s Just the Beginning.
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/07/trump-is-rushing-to-slash-every-last-obama-era-environmental-rule/
 
7/15/20 ----------- First Thing: pandemic proves climate was never treated as a crisis, say activists
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/16/first-thing-pandemic-proves-climate-was-never-treated-as-a-crisis-say-activists

7/16/20 ----------- 'Resounding' Win for Public Health and Climate as Judge Blocks Trump Attempt to Gut Methane Restrictions
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/07/16/resounding-win-public-health-and-climate-judge-blocks-trump-attempt-gut-methane
 
7/16/20 ----------- The entire world’s carbon emissions will finally be trackable in real time
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/7/16/21324662/climate-change-air-pollution-tracking-greenhouse-gas-emissions-trace-coalition
 
7/19/20 ----------- Event: Center for Climate and Security Director to Speak to Congress Today on Climate Change Threats (VIDEO)
https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/07/14/event-center-for-climate-and-security-director-to-speak-to-congress-today-on-climate-change-threats/
 
7/19/20 ----------- As a sizzling July continues, here’s what to know about climate change and weather
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/as-a-sizzling-july-continues-heres-what-to-know-about-climate-change-and-weather-2020-07-16?platform=hootsuite
 
7/19/20 ----------- I Was a Military COVID Planner. Trust Me: Texas Is in Deep, Deep Trouble
https://www.thedailybeast.com/i-was-a-military-covid-planner-trust-me-texas-is-in-deep-deep-trouble?ref=home
 
7/20/20 ----------- How Warren is shaping Biden's policies
https://www.axios.com/warren-biden-influence-policies-76513650-bf21-4f32-8ca5-68802b35ebe9.html
 
7/20/20 ----------- As the Culture Wars Flare Amid the Pandemic, a Call to Speak ‘Science to Power’
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18072020/culture-wars-coronavirus-paris-agreement-climate-change
 
7/20/20 ----------- Morgan Stanley commits to tallying its climate impact
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/20/morgan-stanley-climate-impact-371696
 
7/20/20 ----------- Three Unexpected Ways Joe Biden Plans to Tackle Climate Change
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/07/three-unexpected-ways-joe-biden-plans-to-tackle-climate-change/
 
7/21/20 ----------- How a ‘Heat Dome’ Forms—and Why This One Is So Perilous
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/07/how-a-heat-dome-forms-and-why-this-one-is-so-perilous/
 
7/22/20 ----------- Would Trump’s Reelection Doom the Planet? - Jay Inslee says the next four years "is our last chance ... to do something about it." Is he right?
https://newrepublic.com/article/154539/trumps-reelection-doom-planet
 
7/22/20 ----------- Why the next president should establish a Department of Climate
https://www.vox.com/2020/7/21/21332435/climate-change-department-joe-biden
 
7/22/20 ----------- Climate Change Poses ‘Systemic Threat’ to the Economy, Big Investors Warn
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/climate/investors-climate-threat-regulators.html
 
7/22/20 ----------- Rich Americans’ homes generate 25% more greenhouse gasses than those less affluent
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/21/rich-americans-homes-greenhouse-gasses-energy
 
7/22/20 ----------- Green Jobs Can Be Just as Good as Fossil Fuel Jobs
https://newrepublic.com/article/158575/green-jobs-can-just-good-fossil-fuel-jobs
 
7/23/20 ----------- WAR ON THE WORLD: Industrialized Militaries Are a Bigger Part of the Climate Emergency Than You Know
https://theintercept.com/2019/09/15/climate-change-us-military-war/
 
7/23/20 ----------- As Planet Edges Closer to Multiple Climate Tipping Points, Scientists Identify First Active Methane Gas Leak in Antarctica
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/07/22/planet-edges-closer-multiple-climate-tipping-points-scientists-identify-first-active
 
7/23/20 ----------- Scientists probe ancient history of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet and find unsettling news about sea level rise
https://www.dailyclimate.org/get-our-good-news-newsletter-2645673138.html
 
7/23/20 ----------- Tropical Storm Gonzalo develops, shattering yet another Atlantic record
https://www.accuweather.com/en/hurricane/tropical-storm-gonzalo-forms-in-central-atlantic/780947
 
7/24/20 ----------- Activists Ramp Up Pressure on Other Insurers After Swiss Company Ditches 'Climate-Wrecking' Trans Mountain Pipeline
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/07/23/activists-ramp-pressure-other-insurers-after-swiss-company-ditches-climate-wrecking
 
7/24/20 ----------- Amid Disappointment Over Party's Draft Platform, 25,000+ People Urge DNC to Adopt Climate Panel's Ambitious Policies
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/07/23/amid-disappointment-over-partys-draft-platform-25000-people-urge-dnc-adopt-climate
 
7/24/20 ----------- What’s Going on Inside the Fearsome Thunderstorms of Córdoba Province?
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/22/magazine/worst-storms-argentina.html
 
7/24/20 -----------  ‘It’s Past Time’: Rep. Ilhan Omar, Sen. Bernie Sanders Unveil Bill To Strip Fossil Fuel Funding
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fossil-fuel-subsidies-bernie-sanders-ilhan-omar_n_5f1a0722c5b6128e68230ee9
 
7/25/20 -----------  For a Greener Future': Omar, Sanders Lead Bill to End Destructive Taxpayer Subsidies for Fossil Fuels
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/07/24/greener-future-omar-sanders-lead-bill-end-destructive-taxpayer-subsidies-fossil
 
7/25/20 -----------  Biggest ice sheet on Earth more vulnerable to melting than thought
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/07/east-antarctic-ice-sheet-more-vulnerable-to-melting-than-thought/
 
7/26/20 -----------  A global I-told-you-so: Forty years ago, Jimmy Carter's Global 2000 report sounded dire warnings about our environment.
https://www.dailyclimate.org/global-2000-jimmy-carter-2646798852.html
 
7/26/20 -----------  Science suppression is a security threat – whether climate or covid
https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/07/20/science-suppression-is-a-security-threat-whether-climate-or-covid/
 
7/26/20 -----------  Climate Sensitivity: A new assessment
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2020/07/climate-sensitivity-a-new-assessment/
 
7/26/20 -----------  Converging Risks in South Asia: Is a Disruptive Transition on the Horizon? 
https://councilonstrategicrisks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Converging-Risks-in-South-Asia_Is-a-Disruptive-Transition-on-the-Horizon_BRIEFER-9_2020_7_BRIEFER-9_2020_7-2.pdf
 
7/27/20 -----------  I’m bewildered that Trump would imperil America by abandoning the Paris agreement
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/20/ban-ki-moon-trump-paris-agreement
 
7/27/20 -----------  How the global climate fight could be lost if Trump is re-elected
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/27/global-climate-fight-could-be-lost-trump-re-elected
 
7/27/20 -----------  In 100 days, the climate emergency may be even more serious. That's why we’re launching this series
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2020/jul/27/100-days-climate-emergency-even-more-serious-new-series
 
7/28/20 -----------  Climate Change: Mind-Blowing Warnings from Arctic and Antarctica
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/07/27/climate-change-mind-blowing-warnings-arctic-and-antarctica
 
7/28/20 -----------  How to Move Biden Left: Biden’s climate policy is an invitation to movements to keep pushing the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/biden-movements-climate-progressive/
 
7/28/20 -----------  Killer heat: US racial injustices will worsen as climate crisis escalates
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/28/us-racial-injustices-will-worsen-climate-crisis-escalates
 
7/28/20 -----------  Migratory river fish populations plunge 76% in past 50 years
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/27/migratory-river-fish-populations-plunge-76-in-past-50-years
 
7/28/20 -----------  Climatologist Michael Mann on 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season: "Hate to Say, 'We Told You So'"
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/07/28/climatologist-michael-mann-2020-atlantic-hurricane-season-hate-say-we-told-you-so
 
7/28/20 -----------  Hundreds of Toxic Superfund Sites Imperiled by Sea-Level Rise, Study Warns
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27072020/toxic-superfund-epa-sea-level-rise-climate-change
 
7/28/20 -----------  Trump Says Nuclear Proliferation Is Scarier Than Climate Change. He’s Failing at Both.
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/07/trump-says-nuclear-proliferation-is-scarier-than-climate-change-hes-failing-at-both/
 
 
2020 - JUNE
 
6/2/20 -------------- New Study Shows Global Warming Intensifying Extreme Rainstorms Over North America
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01062020/extreme-rain-study-climate-change

6/2/20 -------------- Responding to protests, green groups reckon with a racist past
https://grist.org/justice/responding-to-george-floyd-protests-green-groups-reckon-with-a-racist-past/

6/2/20 -------------- Mass Extinctions Are Accelerating, Scientists Report
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/science/mass-extinctions-are-accelerating-scientists-report.html
 
6/3/20 -------------- As Protests Rage Over George Floyd’s Death, Climate Activists Embrace Racial Justice
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02062020/george-floyd-racial-justice-police-brutality-environment-climate-activism

6/3/20 -------------- Most Trump environmental rollbacks will take years to be reversed
https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2020/06/most-trump-environmental-rollbacks-will-take-years-to-be-reversed/

6/3/20 -------------- In 'Targeted Strike' Against Environmental and Racial Justice, Trump EPA Curbs State Power to Reject Fossil Fuel Projects
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/06/02/targeted-strike-against-environmental-and-racial-justice-trump-epa-curbs-state-power

6/4/20 -------------- Why racial justice is climate justice
https://grist.org/fix/combatting-climate-change-covid-19-and-systemic-injustice-on-the-same-front/

6/4/20 -------------- The National Guard Is Working Double Time on Protests and Pandemic. Next up: Hurricanes.
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/06/the-national-guard-is-working-double-time-on-protests-and-pandemic-next-up-hurricanes/

6/5/20 -------------- Fossil Fuel Emissions Push Greenhouse Gas Indicators to Record High in May
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04062020/fossil-fuel-emissions-mauna-loa-keeling-curve-coronavirus-hawaii

6/5/20 -------------- 'The Planet Is at Stake': DNC Panel Pushes Biden to Back $16 Trillion Plan to Fight Climate Crisis
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/06/04/planet-stake-dnc-panel-pushes-biden-back-16-trillion-plan-fight-climate-crisis

6/6/20 -------------- Fossil Fuel Industry Could Face $25 Trillion Collapse Due to Clean Tech, Climate Policies, and Covid-19 Pandemic
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/06/04/fossil-fuel-industry-could-face-25-trillion-collapse-due-clean-tech-climate-policies

6/6/20 --------------  “Extinction breeds extinctions”: How losing one species can wipe out many more
https://www.vox.com/2020/6/6/21280720/endangered-species-extinction-ecosystem-climate-change-biodiversity-crisis

6/6/20 -------------- ‘2040’ Documemtry
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2020/06/2040/

6/6/20 -------------- Building a Resilient Future Post COVID-19
https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/06/01/building-a-resilient-future-post-covid-19/

6/9/20 -------------- Unequal Impact: The Deep Links Between Racism and Climate Change
https://e360.yale.edu/features/unequal-impact-the-deep-links-between-inequality-and-climate-change

6/9/20 -------------- Western Colorado Water Purchases Stir Up Worries About The Future Of Farming
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/05062020/western-colorado-water-purchases-farming-agriculture

6/9/20 -------------- Borrowed time: Climate change threatens U.S. mortgage market
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/08/borrowed-time-climate-changemortgage-market-304130

6/9/20 -------------- Economic Growth Can't Go Back to Normal If We Are to Solve the Ecological Crisis
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/06/08/economic-growth-cant-go-back-normal-if-we-are-solve-ecological-crisis

6/9/20 -------------- A new bill would officially prohibit Trump from nuking hurricanes
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/trump-nuke-hurricane

6/9/20 -------------- Save the Insects, Save the Farmers, Save Ourselves: New Global Report Calls for End of Industrial Agriculture
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/06/09/save-insects-save-farmers-save-ourselves-new-global-report-calls-end-industrial

6/9/20 -------------- Q&A: A Human Rights Expert Hopes Covid-19, Climate Change and Racial Injustice Are a ‘Wake-Up Call’
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09062020/coronavirus-climate-change-racial-injustice-philip-alston

6/9/20 -------------- Climate Change I Have Known
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/climate-change-i-have-known?utm_source=pocket-newtab

6/9/20 -------------- Snow Dusts The Rockies…On June 9th
https://www.weathernationtv.com/news/snow-dusts-the-rockies-on-june-9th/

6/12/20 -------------- Fewer blizzards for North America as snow lessens
https://climatenewsnetwork.net/fewer-blizzards-for-north-america-as-snow-lessens/

6/12/20 -------------- Research Shows 'Linking Climate Policy to Social and Economic Justice Makes It More Popular'
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/06/12/research-shows-linking-climate-policy-social-and-economic-justice-makes-it-more

6/12/20 -------------- Forest trees are growing shorter and dying younger
https://climatenewsnetwork.net/forest-trees-are-growing-shorter-and-dying-younger/

6/12/20 -------------- It’s Time to Rethink the Food System from the Ground Up
https://civileats.com/2020/06/12/op-ed-its-time-to-rethink-the-food-system-from-the-ground-up/

6/14/20 -------------- Rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere continues unabated
https://earthsky.org/earth/rising-carbon-dioxide-co2-record-high-june2020?utm_source=EarthSky+News&utm_campaign=9909886c78-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_02_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c643945d79-9909886c78-395109277

6/14/20 -------------- Europe's big climate comeback: Facing the COVID crisis, EU looks stronger than ever
https://www.salon.com/2020/06/15/europes-big-climate-comeback-facing-the-covid-crisis-eu-looks-stronger-than-ever/
 
6/15/20 -------------- 2020 likely to be the warmest year on record globally (VIDEO)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/warmest-year-on-record-2020-likely/

6/15/20 -------------- CLIMATE CHANGE IS KILLING AMERICANS. HEALTH DEPARTMENTS AREN’T EQUIPPED TO RESPOND
https://publicintegrity.org/environment/hidden-epidemics/underfunded-unprepared-cdc-fight-against-climate-change-public-health-heat-death/

6/15/20 -------------- New N.C. climate change report says the time to act is now
https://www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2020/06/16/new-n-c-climate-change-report-says-the-time-to-act-is-now/

6/15/20 -------------- A water crisis looms for 270 million people as South Asia’s glaciers shrink
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2020/07/water-crisis-looms-for-270-million-people-south-asia-perpetual-feature/

6/18/20 -------------- Conservation could create jobs post-pandemic
https://theconversation.com/conservation-could-create-jobs-post-pandemic-140505

6/18/20 -------------- Reporters barred from listening to end of Biden fundraiser
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/reporters-barred-from-listening-to-end-of-biden-fundraiser/

6/18/20 -------------- World has six months to avert climate crisis, says energy expert
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/18/world-has-six-months-to-avert-climate-crisis-says-energy-expert

6/18/20 -------------- US states have spent the past 5 years trying to criminalize protest
https://grist.org/justice/states-criminalize-protest-george-floyd-philando-castile-enbridge-dapl/
 
6/18/20 -------------- Climate crisis: alarm at record-breaking heatwave in Siberia
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/17/climate-crisis-alarm-at-record-breaking-heatwave-in-siberia

6/18/20 -------------- The Climate Crisis Is Killing Us, and America’s Premier Public-Health Agency Doesn’t Care
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/cdc-climate-program-failures-1017391/
 
6/19/20 -------------- The End of the American Century: Marked by disease, endless wars, and a dying planet, the American empire is finally reaching its decline.
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/trump-empire-decline/
 
6/19/20 -------------- 2020 Siberian Heatwave continues
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2020/06/2020-siberian-heatwave-continues.html
 
6/19/20 -------------- Arctic records its hottest temperature ever
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/arctic-records-its-hottest-temperature-ever-2020-06-20/

6/19/20 -------------- The New Water Development Report and Implications for Security
https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/06/18/the-new-water-development-report-and-implications-for-security/

6/19/20 -------------- Rising Seas Threaten an American Institution: The 30-Year Mortgage
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/climate/climate-seas-30-year-mortgage.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytclimate

6/23/20 -------------- US public opinion supports action on climate change — and has for years
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/6/23/21298065/climate-clean-energy-public-opinion-poll-trends-pew

6/23/20 -------------- In Pandemic Recovery Efforts, Polluting Industries Are Winning Big
https://e360.yale.edu/features/in-pandemic-recovery-efforts-polluting-industries-are-winning-big

6/23/20 -------------- Your Climate Disaster Tax Bill Is Growing
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/opinion/climate-change-financial-disaster.html

6/23/20 -------------- What is a derecho? An atmospheric scientist explains these rare but dangerous storm systems
https://earthsky.org/earth/what-is-a-derecho-storm-system?utm_source=EarthSky+News&utm_campaign=ca1a9032ad-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_02_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c643945d79-ca1a9032ad-395109277

6/23/20 -------------- Revealed: millions of Americans can’t afford water as bills rise 80% in a decade
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/23/millions-of-americans-cant-afford-water-bills-rise

6/23/20 -------------- Clean water should be an American human right, not a government profit machine
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2020/jun/23/clean-water-should-be-an-american-human-right-not-a-government-profit-machine
 
6/23/20 -------------- DNC 'Snubs' Climate Movement Just as Greenpeace Endorses Democratic Panel's Visionary Plan
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/06/23/dnc-snubs-climate-movement-just-greenpeace-endorses-democratic-panels-visionary-plan
 
6/23/20 -------------- Why it’s so damn hot in the Arctic right now
https://www.vox.com/2020/6/23/21300279/arctic-siberia-temperature-heat-wave-record-russia-fire-climate-change
 
6/24/20 -------------- Siberian Heat Wave Is A ‘Warning Cry’ From The Arctic, Climate Scientists Say
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/siberia-heat-wave_n_5ef45a7bc5b615e5cd3943a7
 
6/24/20 -------------- How 200 Trump judges could shape environmental policy
https://www.eenews.net/stories/1063442695
 
6/26/20 -------------- 100 degrees in Siberia? 5 ways the extreme Arctic heat wave follows a disturbing pattern
https://theconversation.com/100-degrees-in-siberia-5-ways-the-extreme-arctic-heat-wave-follows-a-disturbing-pattern-141442
 
6/26/20 -------------- Fading Winters, Hotter Summers Make the Northeast America’s Fastest Warming Region
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26062020/hotter-summers-northeast-united-states-warming
 
6/26/20 -------------- It’s Time to Nationalize the Fossil Fuel Industry
https://truthout.org/articles/its-time-to-nationalize-the-fossil-fuel-industry/
 
6/26/20 -------------- Multiple Crises Signal the Need to Change Course
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/06/27/multiple-crises-signal-need-change-course
 
6/27/20 -------------- A disastrous summer in the Arctic
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/a-disastrous-summer-in-the-arctic
 
6/27/20 -------------- 'Warning Sign of Major Proportions': Number of Siberian Forest Fires Increase Fivefold in Week Since Record High Temperature
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/06/27/warning-sign-major-proportions-number-siberian-forest-fires-increase-fivefold-week
 
6/27/20 -------------- John Conger and Alice Hill Call for a National Resilience Act
https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/06/22/john-conger-and-alice-hill-call-for-a-national-resilience-act/
 
6/28/20 -------------- This Map Shows Which U.S. Homes Will Flood Over the Next 30 Years Due to Climate Change
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9353dv/this-map-shows-which-us-homes-will-flood-over-the-next-30-years-due-to-climate-change
 
6/28/20 -------------- Should Environmentalists Embrace Universal Basic Income?
https://therevelator.org/basic-income-climate/

2020 – MAY
 
Can your community handle a natural disaster and coronavirus at the same time?
https://theconversation.com/can-your-community-handle-a-natural-disaster-and-coronavirus-at-the-same-time-135920

Slashing US Meat Consumption by Half Could Cut Diet-Related Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 35%: Study
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/04/30/slashing-us-meat-consumption-half-could-cut-diet-related-greenhouse-gas-emissions-35

On a Melting Planet, More Precisely Tracking the Decline of Ice
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30042020/ice-glacier-melting-science-study

Antarctica And Greenland Are Losing Thousands Of Gigatons of Ice — That's A Lot
https://www.wrvo.org/post/antarctica-and-greenland-are-losing-thousands-gigatons-ice-thats-lot

Global warming: An Arctic island is warming SIX times faster than the global average
https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1276239/Global-warming-Arctic-temperatures-Spitsbergen-warming-faster-climate-change

Video: Planet of the Humans. Michael Moore’s Documentary
https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-michael-moore-planet-humans/5711481

Here's Which Type of Billion-Dollar Weather Disaster Has Occurred Most Frequently in Each State Since 1980
https://weather.com/safety/news/2020-04-30-billion-dollar-weather-disaster-frequency-by-state-since-1980

5/1/20 ----------- Op-ed: A Fairer, More Resilient Food System is Possible
https://civileats.com/2020/05/01/op-ed-a-fairer-more-resilient-food-system-is-possible/

5/2/20 ----------- Pentagon and Northern Command: Climate Change Has Implications for National Security in the Arctic
https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/04/29/pentagon-and-northern-command-climate-change-has-implications-for-national-security-in-the-arctic/
 
5/2/20 ----------- Don’t look now, but the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season could break records
https://grist.org/climate/dont-look-now-but-the-2020-atlantic-hurricane-season-could-break-records/?utm_content=buffer5756e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
 
5/2/20 ----------- 'Milestone Moment' as JPMorgan Chase Announces Former Exxon CEO to No Longer Be Lead Director of Bank's Board
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/05/02/milestone-moment-jpmorgan-chase-announces-former-exxon-ceo-no-longer-be-lead
 
5/2/20 ----------- True Resilience Involves Pushing Forward From COVID-19, Not Just Bouncing Back
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/05/03/true-resilience-involves-pushing-forward-covid-19-not-just-bouncing-back
 
5/2/20 ----------- Uprooting the Farm Crisis in Times of COVID-19
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/05/03/uprooting-farm-crisis-times-covid-19
 
5/3/20 ----------- Why "Planet of the Humans," Michael Moore’s new film about green energy, is so controversial
https://www.salon.com/2020/05/01/why-planet-of-the-humans-michael-moores-new-film-about-green-energy-is-so-controversial/

5/3/20 ----------- 50 Years From Now, Many Densely Populated Parts of the World Could be Too Hot for Humans
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04052020/hot-climate-niches-50-years-human-population

5/5/20 ----------- In Another Record 'We Should Not Be Breaking,' Daily Average of CO2 Levels Hits High of 418.12 ppm
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/05/05/another-record-we-should-not-be-breaking-daily-average-co2-levels-hits-high-41812

5/5/20 ----------- Global warming pushes April temperatures into record territory, as 2020 heads for disquieting milestone
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/05/05/global-warming-pushes-april-temperatures-into-record-territory-2020-heads-disquieting-milestone/

5/5/20 ----------- A Life of Heat 'Near Unlivable' for More Than 3 Billion People in Just Decades, Climate Report Warns
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/05/05/life-heat-near-unlivable-more-3-billion-people-just-decades-climate-report-warns

5/5/20 ----------- It’s Hurricane Preparedness Week, and communities aren’t ready for both coronavirus and a disaster
https://theconversation.com/its-hurricane-preparedness-week-and-communities-arent-ready-for-both-coronavirus-and-a-disaster-137858

5/5/20 ----------- How Climate Change Is Contributing to Skyrocketing Rates of Infectious Disease
https://www.propublica.org/article/climate-infectious-diseases

5/5/20 ----------- Mother's Day Weekend Cold Snap Will Smash Records, Wring Out Rare May Lake-Effect Snow in Parts of the East
https://weather.com/forecast/regional/news/2020-05-03-may-cold-temperature-pattern-snow-midwest-east
 
5/8/20 ----------- The Green New Deal Is the Key to Ending Forever Wars
https://truthout.org/articles/the-green-new-deal-is-the-key-to-ending-forever-wars/

5/8/20 ----------- California’s mountain snow cover is vanishing a month early, in a worrying setup for fire season
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/05/08/california-snowpack-fire-season/

5/8/20 ----------- New York City Tied Its Record Latest Spring Snowfall, In One of Its Least Snowy Seasons
https://weather.com/safety/winter/news/2020-05-09-new-york-city-record-latest-snowfall

5/8/20 ----------- Return to 'Business as Usual' Means Climate Catastrophe: World's Mayors Demand Transformative Green Covid-19 Recovery
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/05/07/return-business-usual-means-climate-catastrophe-worlds-mayors-demand-transformative

5/8/20 ----------- Thirsty Future for American West, as ”Megadrought” Grips Some of the Fastest-Growing U.S. Cities
https://www.fairwarning.org/2020/05/megadrought-american-west/
 
5/10/20 ----------- Very High Greenhouse Gas Levels
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2020/05/very-high-greenhouse-gas-levels.html

5/10/20 ----------- The Responsibility to Prepare and Prevent: The Urgent Need For a Climate-Security Governance Architecture
https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/05/06/the-responsibility-to-prepare-and-prevent-the-urgent-need-for-a-climate-security-governance-architecture/

5/10/20 ----------- Climate Security on Day One
https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/05/04/climate-security-on-day-one/
 
5/11/20 ----------- Will the Coronavirus Crisis Trump the Climate Crisis?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/09/world/europe/will-the-coronavirus-crisis-trump-the-climate-crisis.html

5/12/20 ----------- Fossil Fuels Already Get Billions in Bailouts — They’re Called Subsidies
https://truthout.org/articles/fossil-fuels-already-get-billions-in-bailouts-theyre-called-subsidies/

5/12/20 ----------- GOP lawmakers accuse Wall Street of 'discriminating' against fossil fuels during coronavirus pandemic
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-energy-202/2020/05/11/the-energy-202-gop-lawmakers-accuse-wall-street-of-discriminating-against-fossil-fuels-during-coronavirus-pandemic/5eb83926602ff11bb117915a/

5/12/20 ----------- We’re All Casualties of Trump’s War on Science
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/11/opinion/coronavirus-trump.html
 
5/12/20 ----------- 'Disaster Capitalism at Its Worst': Report Details Big Oil's Efforts to Cash In on Coronavirus
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/05/12/disaster-capitalism-its-worst-report-details-big-oils-efforts-cash-coronavirus

5/12/20 ----------- With 10 Appointees on the Ninth Circuit, Trump Seeks to Tame His Nemesis
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/12052020/trump-ninth-circuit-court-nominees-san-franscisco-california-climate-change

5/12/20 ----------- Oil companies that bought back their stock got $15.5 million in government coronavirus funds
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-energy-202/2020/05/12/the-energy-202-oil-companies-that-bought-back-their-stock-got-15-5-million-in-government-coronavirus-funds/5eb9b520602ff11bb117a2e7/

5/19/20 ----------- New Study Shows Global Warming Increasing Frequency of the Most-Destructive Tropical Storms
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18052020/hurricane-tropical-storms-climate-change

5/19/20 ----------- Americans See Climate as a Concern, Even Amid Coronavirus Crisis
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/19/climate/coronavirus-climate-change-survey.html

5/19/20 ----------- An uncharted 21-23rd centuries’ climate territory
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2020/05/an-uncharted-21-23rd-centuries-climate-territory.html

5/20/20 ----------- Why some spots on the planet are heating up faster than other
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2020/05/20/climate-change-hotspots/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most

5/20/20 ----------- Covid-19 has laid bare many flaws of industrialized animal agriculture. Plant- and cell-based alternatives offer a more resilient solution.
https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-lets-rebuild-the-broken-meat-industry-without-animals/

5/20/20 ----------- Greenhouse Gas Emissions Plunge in Response to Coronavirus Pandemic
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20052020/greenhouse-gas-emissions-plunge-response-coronavirus-pandemic

5/21/20 ----------- “It’s Catastrophe Upon Catastrophe”—Michigan Flooding Is One of Many Pandemic Weather Disasters
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/05/its-catastrophe-upon-catastrophe-michigan-flooding-is-one-of-many-pandemic-weather-disasters/

5/21/20 ----------- Republican corruption and carelessness led to devastation in Michigan: Does Trump care?
https://www.salon.com/2020/05/23/republican-corruption-and-carelessness-lead-to-devastation-in-michigan-does-trump-care/

5/22/20 ----------- Parts of Siberia are hotter than Washington, D.C., with temperatures nearly 40 degrees above average
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/05/22/parts-siberia-are-hotter-than-washington-with-temperatures-nearly-degrees-above-average/OeKsgmItUWiUg5SKZrzOdP/story.html

5/23/20 ----------- What a Week’s Disasters Tell Us About Climate and the Pandemic
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/23/climate/climate-change-coronavirus.html
 
5/23/20 ----------- Virus Crisis Exposes Cascading Weaknesses in U.S. Disaster Response
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/22/climate/fema-volunteer-disaster-response.html

5/23/20 ----------- What Happens if a Hurricane Hits During the Pandemic?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/24/us/hurricane-pandemic-coronavirus-florida.html

5/24/20 ----------- An uncharted 21-23rd centuries’ climate territory
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2020/05/an-uncharted-21-23rd-centuries-climate-territory.html

5/24/20 ----------- Parts of Siberia are hotter than Washington, D.C., with temperatures nearly 40 degrees above average
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/05/22/parts-siberia-are-hotter-than-washington-with-temperatures-nearly-degrees-above-average/OeKsgmItUWiUg5SKZrzOdP/story.html

5/24/20 ----------- Climate Change Didn’t Pause for COVID-19: Implications for Military Readiness
https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/05/18/climate-change-didnt-pause-for-covid-19-implications-for-military-readiness/

5/25/20 ----------- Michael Moore film Planet of the Humans removed from YouTube
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/may/26/michael-moore-film-planet-of-the-humans-removed-from-youtube

5/25/20 ----------- Arms Control & Disarmament: A Failed Marriage
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/05/25/arms-control-disarmament-failed-marriage

5/26/20 ----------- Hurricanes and other extreme weather disasters prompt some people to move and trap others in place
https://theconversation.com/hurricanes-and-other-extreme-weather-disasters-prompt-some-people-to-move-and-trap-others-in-place-129128

5/27/20 ---------- At last, a climate policy platform that can unite the left
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/21252892/climate-change-democrats-joe-biden-renewable-energy-unions-environmental-justice

5/27/20 ---------- Why $77 Billion a Year in Public Finance for Oil, Gas, and Coal Is Even Worse Than It Sounds
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/05/27/why-77-billion-year-public-finance-oil-gas-and-coal-even-worse-it-sounds

5/28/20 ---------- Joe Biden has a chance to make history on climate change
https://www.vox.com/2020/5/28/21265416/joe-biden-climate-change-democrats-young-voters

5/28/20 ---------- New Report Details How G20 Nations Spend $77 Billion a Year to Destroy Climate
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/05/27/new-report-details-how-g20-nations-spend-77-billion-year-destroy-climate

5/28/20 ---------- Imagine Hurricane Katrina during a pandemic. The US needs to prepare for that — now.
https://www.vox.com/2020/4/21/21222687/coronavirus-covid-19-hurricane-planning-preparedness-emergency-managers-disaster

5/29/20 ---------- Former Federal Reserve Governor Rebukes Central Bank for Using Covid-19 Lending Power to Bail Out 'Dying' Fossil Fuel Industry
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/05/28/former-federal-reserve-governor-rebukes-central-bank-using-covid-19-lending-power

5/29/20 ---------- Antarctic Ocean Reveals New Signs of Rapid Melt of Ancient Ice, Clues About Future Sea Level Rise
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28052020/antarctic-ocean-ice-melt-climate-change
 
Heeding the Intelligence Warnings of the Next Crisis
https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/05/27/heeding-the-intelligence-warnings-of-the-next-crisis/
 
5/30/20 ---------- World health leaders urge green recovery from coronavirus crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/26/world-health-leaders-urge-green-recovery-from-coronavirus-crisis

5/30/20 ---------- The Amazon Will Soon Burn Again
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/opinion/amazon-bolsonaro-deforestation.html?smid=tw-share

2020 – APRIL
 
‘We can’t go back to normal’: how will coronavirus change the world?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/31/how-will-the-world-emerge-from-the-coronavirus-crisis
 
Our environmental practices make pandemics like the coronavirus more likely
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/3/31/21199917/coronavirus-covid-19-animals-pandemic-environment-climate-biodiversity
 
Trump’s Fuel Efficiency Reduction Would Be Largest Anti-Climate Rollback Ever
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/31032020/fuel-efficiency-rollback-trump-administration-california-cafe-climate-change-tailpipe-emissions

4/1/20 ------------- Abnormally warm Gulf of Mexico could intensify the upcoming tornado and hurricane seasons
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/03/31/gulf-of-mexico-warm-tornadoes-hurricanes/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most

4/1/20 ------------- FEMA braces for a multi-front war as hurricane season looms
 https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/01/fema-braces-for-hurricane-season-160655

4/1/20 ------------- Inside Clean Energy: 7 Questions (and Answers) About How Covid-19 is Affecting the Clean Energy Transition
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01042020/coronavirus-7-questions-and-answers-about-how-covid-19-affecting-clean-energy

4/1/20 ------------- Game changer? Antarctic ice melt related to tropical weather shifts: Study
https://news.mongabay.com/2020/04/game-changer-antarctic-ice-melt-related-to-tropical-weather-shifts-study/

4/1/20 ------------- Pandemic Highlights Serious Vulnerabilities to Transnational Security Threats In a Climate-Changed World (VIDEO)
https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/04/01/pandemic-highlights-serious-vulnerabilities-to-transnational-security-threats-including-climate-change/

Here's how to mobilize the same federal machinery that gave us Wi-Fi, semiconductors, GPS, and the internet—this time to fight climate change.
https://www.wired.com/story/global-warming-new-cold-war-technology/

4/2/20 ------------- Gutting fuel economy standards during a pandemic is peak Trump
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/4/2/21202509/trump-climate-change-fuel-economy-standards-coronavirus-pandemic-peak

4/2/20 ------------- Inside Clean Energy: 7 Questions (and Answers) About How Covid-19 is Affecting the Clean Energy Transition
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01042020/coronavirus-7-questions-and-answers-about-how-covid-19-affecting-clean-energy

4/2/20 ------------- In an Era of Pandemics and Fires, Global Action Is the Only Hope
https://e360.yale.edu/features/in-an-era-of-pandemics-and-fires-global-action-is-the-only-hope

4/2/20 ------------- The Next Pandemic Could Be Hiding in the Arctic Permafrost
https://newrepublic.com/article/157129/next-pandemic-hiding-arctic-permafrost

4/2/20 ------------- 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season Expected to Be More Active Than Normal, Colorado State University Outlook Says
https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2020-04-01-2020-atlantic-hurricane-season-april-outlook

4/3/20 ------------- How coronavirus threatens the seasonal farmworkers at the heart of the American food supply
https://theconversation.com/how-coronavirus-threatens-the-seasonal-farmworkers-at-the-heart-of-the-american-food-supply-135252

4/4/20 ------------- 'We Need People's Bailout, Not Polluters' Bailout': Climate Groups Move to Preempt Big Oil Giveaway Amid Pandemic
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/04/03/we-need-peoples-bailout-not-polluters-bailout-climate-groups-move-preempt-big-oil

4/4/20 ------------- How science finally caught up with Trump's playbook – with millions of lives at stake
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/04/trump-coronavirus-science-analysis

4/4/20 ------------- Will Coronavirus Change How We Think About Climate Change?
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-will-coronavirus-change-how-we-think-about-climate-change-1.8735116

4/6/20 ------------- Oil Companies Are Collapsing, but Wind and Solar Energy Keep Growing
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/business/energy-environment/coronavirus-renewable-energy.html

4/6/20 ------------- The Green New Deal Is Cheap, Actually
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/why-the-green-new-deal-is-cheap-actually-965794/

4/8/20 ------------- A rare ozone hole is open over the Arctic
https://earthsky.org/earth/unusual-ozone-hole-opens-over-arctic?utm_source=EarthSky+News&utm_campaign=e00aebc839-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_02_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c643945d79-e00aebc839-395109277

4/8/20 ------------- The Coronavirus Is a Dress Rehearsal for Climate Change
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/coronavirus-climate-change-rehearsal-for-climate-change/

4/8/20 ------------- Decades of Science Denial Related to Climate Change Has Led to Denial of the Coronavirus Pandemic
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/08042020/science-denial-coronavirus-covid-climate-change

4/8/20 ------------- Unchecked Global Warming Could Collapse Whole Ecosystems, Maybe Within 10 Years
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07042020/global-warming-ecosystem-biodiversity-rising-heat-species

4/9/20 ------------- Animal Viruses Are Jumping to Humans. Forest Loss Makes It Easier.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/climate/animals-humans-virus-covid.html

4/10/20 ------------- The US has a collective action problem that’s larger than the coronavirus crisis
https://www.vox.com/2020/4/10/21216216/coronavirus-social-distancing-texas-unacast-climate-change

4/10/20 ------------- Trump Advances Climate Doom With Massive Fracking Expansion on Federal Lands in Colorado
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/04/10/trump-advances-climate-doom-massive-fracking-expansion-federal-lands-colorado

4/10/20 ------------- 'Unprecedented Threat' for East Africa as Larger Second Wave of Locust Crisis Arrives Amid Pandemic
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/04/10/unprecedented-threat-east-africa-larger-second-wave-locust-crisis-arrives-amid

4/10/20 ------------- Media Advisory: The International Military Council On Climate And Security Offers Expertise On Humanitarian Assistance And Disaster Relief To Assist During COVID-19 Crisis
https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/04/09/media-advisory-the-international-military-council-on-climate-and-security-offers-expertise-on-humanitarian-assistance-and-disaster-relief-to-assist-during-covid-19-crisis/

4/10/20 ------------- S. Fred Singer, a Leading Climate Change Contrarian, Dies at 95: Derided as a “Merchant of Doubt,” he spent decades trying to refute the evidence of global warming and other environmental risks.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/climate/s-fred-singer-dead.html

4/12/20 ------------- The Last Stimulus Ignored Climate. Activists Are Determined That Won't Happen in the Next One.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/04/12/last-stimulus-ignored-climate-activists-are-determined-wont-happen-next-one

4/12/20 ------------- Latest Bleaching of Great Barrier Reef Underscores Global Coral Crisis
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11042020/great-barrier-reef-coral-bleaching-great-ocean-global-warming

4/12/20 ------------- Will the next great pandemic come from the permafrost?
https://thenarwhal.ca/next-great-pandemic-permafrost/

4/12/20 ------------- AMERICA AND THE NEW GEOPOLITICS AFTER CORONAVIRUS
https://theintercept.com/2020/04/12/coronavirus-response-geopolitics/
 
4/13/20 ------------- Climate Change Won’t Stop for the Coronavirus Pandemic
https://www.propublica.org/article/climate-change-wont-stop-for-the-coronavirus-pandemic

4/13/20 ------------- Dozens Are Killed as Tornadoes and Severe Weather Strike Southern States
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/us/tornado-storm-south.html

4/13/20 ------------- Cities from Bogota to Oakland are closing streets to make room for pedestrians and bikers. Urbanists think we'd be healthier if such changes were permanent.
https://www.wired.com/story/pandemic-opportunity-remake-cities/

4/13/20 ------------- Virginia becomes the first state in the South to target 100% clean power
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/3/12/21172836/virginia-renewable-energy-100-percent-clean

4/14/20 ------------- Arctic Hit By Ten Tipping Points
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2020/04/arctic-hit-by-ten-tipping-points.html

4/15/20 ------------- Think This Pandemic Is Bad? We Have Another Crisis Coming: Addressing climate change is a big-enough idea to revive the economy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/opinion/climate-change-covid-economy.html

4/15/20 ------------- Earth had its 2nd-hottest March on record
https://earthsky.org/earth/march-2020-2nd-hottest-global-on-record

4/16/20 ------------- For Emergency Personnel, Disaster Planning Must Now Factor in Covid-19
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/15042020/coronavirus-covid-disaster-wildfire-flood-hurricane

4/16/20 ------------- Greenland ice sheet melts at near record rate in 2019
https://www.thenational.ae/uae/environment/greenland-ice-sheet-melts-at-near-record-rate-in-2019-1.1006606

4/16/20 ------------- Wildlife Collapse From Climate Change Is Predicted to Hit Suddenly and Sooner
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/climate/wildlife-population-collapse-climate-change.html
 
4/16/20 ------------- The Parched West is Heading Into a Global Warming-Fueled Megadrought That Could Last for Centuries
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/15042020/megadrought-american-west-south-america-drought-climate-change

4/16/20 ------------- Covid-19 and Climate Change Threats Compound in Minority Communities
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16042020/coronavirus-climate-environmental-justice-oil-refinery-hurricanes-port-arthur-texas

4/16/20 ------------- Video: In New York’s Empty Streets, Lessons for Climate Change in the Response to Covid-19
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16042020/video-new-york-city-coronavirus

4/16/20 ------------- US to have major floods on daily basis unless sea-level rise is curbed – study
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/apr/16/us-climate-change-floods-sea-level-rise
 
4/17/20 ------------- A Big Oil Bailout Would Be the Opposite of the Green New Deal We Need
https://truthout.org/articles/a-big-oil-bailout-would-be-the-opposite-of-the-green-new-deal-we-need/

4/17/20 ------------- U.S. conservatives who detest climate models add a new target: coronavirus models
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/us-conservatives-who-detest-climate-models-add-new-target-coronavirus-models#
 
4/19/20 ------------- A crash course on climate change, 50 years after the first Earth Day
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/19/climate/climate-crash-course-5.html

4/19/20 ------------- Climate Change Multiplies the Threats of Infectious Diseases
https://truthout.org/articles/climate-change-multiplies-the-threats-of-infectious-diseases/

4/19/20 ------------- The Next Economic Stimulus Must Include Green New Deal Measures
https://truthout.org/articles/the-next-economic-stimulus-must-include-green-new-deal-measures/

4/19/20 ------------- Empty Grocery Shelves and Rotting, Wasted Vegetables: Two Sides of a Supply Chain Problem
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/17042020/coronavirus-agriculture-supply-chain-grocery-store-farming

4/19/20 ------------- Trump (Sort of) Accepted Covid-19 Modeling. Don’t Expect the Same on Climate Change.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19042020/coronavirus-modeling-trump-fauci-climate-science-climate-denial

4/19/20 ------------- The Food Chain’s Weakest Link: Slaughterhouses
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/18/business/coronavirus-meat-slaughterhouses.html

4/19/20 ------------- The Meat Business, a Big Contributor to Climate Change, Faces Major Tests
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/climate/meat-industry-climate-impact.html

4/19/20 ------------- Fossil fuels are in long-term decline. Coronavirus stimulus money will be wasted on them.
https://www.vox.com/2020/4/20/21224659/coronavirus-stimulus-money-oil-prices-fossil-fuels-bailout

4/20/20 ------------- World's Oceans Now Warmest on Record, Increasing Risk of Hurricanes, Wildfires
https://time.com/5824299/ocean-temperature-rise-climate-change/

4/20/20 ------------- Climate crisis: North pole 'soon to be ice free in summer', scientists say
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change-north-pole-ice-free-summer-arctic-global-warming-a9474881.html

4/20/20 ------------- As Oil Prices Fall Below $0 Per Barrel, Climate Advocates Urge Against Fossil Fuel Industry Bailout
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/04/20/oil-prices-fall-below-0-barrel-climate-advocates-urge-against-fossil-fuel-industry

4/20/20 ------------- Decade After BP Deepwater Horizon, Green Groups Demand: End Fossil Fuels 'Once and for All'
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/04/20/decade-after-bp-deepwater-horizon-green-groups-demand-end-fossil-fuels-once-and-all

4/20/20 ------------- The Moral and Strategic Calculus of Voting for Joe Biden to Defeat Trump — or Not
https://theintercept.com/2020/04/20/donald-trump-joe-biden-2020-presidential-election-voting/
 
4/22/20 ------------- Today is the 50th anniversary of Earth Day
https://earthsky.org/earth/first-earth-day-50th-anniversary-april22-2020?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=email_this&utm_source=email

4/22/20 ------------- A Second Dust Bowl Would Affect Entire World’s Food Supply, Researchers Say
https://www.studyfinds.org/a-second-dust-bowl-would-affect-entire-worlds-food-supply-researchers-say/

4/22/20 ------------- Is the Coronavirus Pandemic Affecting Climate Change?
https://www.wired.com/story/coronavirus-pandemic-climate-change/

4/22/20 ------------- Environmental Destruction Brought Us COVID-19. What It Brings Next Could Be Far Worse.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/emerging-disease-environmental-destruction_n_5e9db58fc5b63c5b58723afd

4/22/20 ------------- ‘Mom, are We Going to Die?’ How to Talk to Kids About Hard Things Like Covid-19 and Climate Change
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21042020/climate-change-coronavirus-talking-to-kids

4/22/20 ------------- As Snowmelt Declines, Farmers in Western U.S. Could Be Among the Hardest Hit
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/as-snowmelt-disappears-farmers-in-western-u-s-could-be-among-the-hardest-hit

4/22/20 ------------- Jay Inslee Endorses Biden, Citing Private Conversations on Climate Policy
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/us/politics/jay-inslee-endorses-biden.html

4/22/20 ------------- Global climate battle shifts to once-in-a-generation government spending
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/23/climate-battle-world-government-spending-coronavirus-204571

4/22/20 ------------- Employees Are Fighting For A New Cause At Work: The Climate
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/employee-activism-climate-change_n_5ea04b1ac5b6a486d082480d

4/22/20 ------------- Why farmers are dumping milk down the drain and letting produce rot in fields
https://theconversation.com/why-farmers-are-dumping-milk-down-the-drain-and-letting-produce-rot-in-fields-136567

4/22/20 ------------- Battered by Matthew and Florence, North Carolina Must Brace for More Intense Hurricanes
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23042020/hurricane-matthew-florence-north-carolina-sea-level-rise-climate-change
 
4/23/20 ------------- We Need to Hear These Poor Trees Scream’: Unchecked Global Warming Means Big Trouble for Forests
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24042020/forest-trees-climate-change-deforestation
 
4/24/20 ------------- Heeding Warnings: World Meteorological Organization’s 2019 Report on the Global Climate
https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/04/23/heeding-warnings-world-meteorological-organizations-2019-report-on-the-global-climate/

4/24/20 ------------- Coronavirus shows we are not at all prepared for the security threat of climate change
https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/04/20/coronavirus-shows-we-are-not-at-all-prepared-for-the-security-threat-of-climate-change/

4/24/20 ------------- Eleven of 12 hottest years have occurred since 2000, new climate report warns
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change-global-warming-hottest-years-on-record-a9477796.html

4/25/20 ------------- Humanity’s Impact On World’s Wildlife: Study Shows Dire Situation For Many Species
https://www.studyfinds.org/humanitys-impact-on-worlds-wildlife-study-shows-dire-situation-for-many-species/

4/25/20 ------------- Video: Covid-19 Drives Earth Day Anniversary Online, Inspiring Creative New Tactics For Climate Activists
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25042020/video-coronavirus-earth-day-50th-anniversary

Michael Moore, filmmakers respond to criticism of new bombshell environmental film (VIDEO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bop8x24G_o0
 
4/25/20 ------------- 5 Ways Environmental Damage Drives Human Diseases Like COVID-19 (VIDEO)
https://therevelator.org/environmental-damage-diseases/
 
4/27/20 ------------- Meteorologists say 2020 on course to be hottest year since records began
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/apr/27/meteorologists-say-2020-on-course-to-be-hottest-year-since-records-began

4/27/20 ------------- Europe’s Cities Are Making Less Room for Cars After Coronavirus
https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2020/04/coronavirus-reopen-cities-public-transit-car-free-bike-milan/610360/

4/27/20 ------------- The Coronavirus Pandemic Is Forcing Cities To Rethink Public Transportation
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/coronavirus-italy-public-transportation-bikes-cars_n_5ea6b1f1c5b66d0b7b43abcc

4/27/20 ------------- New Zealand calls for thousands of new 'green' jobs in bold comeback plan
https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/stories/new-zealand-recovery-plan-green-party-economy-coronavirus
 

2020 – MARCH

3/1/20 ------------ Climate change: how do I cope with our planet’s inevitable decline?
https://theconversation.com/climate-change-how-do-i-cope-with-our-planets-inevitable-decline-128593?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton

3/2/20 ------------ Record-Breaking Warm Weather Expected Around Globe As Human-Caused Climate Crisis Now As Powerful As El Niño's Effects, Says WMO
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/02/record-breaking-warm-weather-expected-around-globe-human-caused-climate-crisis-now

3/2/20 ------------ California Had Its Driest February on Record. Here’s How Bad It Was
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/03/climate/dry-california.html

3/2/20 ------------ Wildfire in Dry, Windy Conditions Forces Evacuation of Residents Near Riverside, California
https://weather.com/news/news/2020-03-03-california-wildfire-evacuations-mann-fire-norco-riverside-corona

3/4/20 ------------ Desert Locust Swarms Continue to Spread in Africa, Middle East
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/desert-locust-swarms-continue-to-spread-in-africa-middle-east/

3/4/20 ------------ 'Alarming': Tropical Forests in Shift From Carbon Sponge to Carbon Source
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/04/alarming-tropical-forests-shift-carbon-sponge-carbon-source

3/4/20 ------------ 'Devastating': Great Barrier Reef in Danger of Catastrophic Bleaching as Temperatures in Australia Remain High
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/04/devastating-great-barrier-reef-danger-catastrophic-bleaching-temperatures-australia

3/5/20 ------------ In Dozens of Cities East of the Mississippi, Winter Never Really Happened
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04032020/winter-southeast-united-states-polar-vortex-warming

3/5/20 ------------ SEEDS OF DESPAIR: Isolated, and with limited access to mental-health care, hundreds are dying by suicide.
https://investigatemidwest.org/2020/03/05/seeds-of-despair-isolated-and-with-limited-access-to-mental-health-care-hundreds-are-dying-by-suicide/
 
3/6/20 ------------ After Tornado, Nashville Braces for Disaster Capitalism
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2020/03/nashville-tornado-real-estate-speculators-opportunity-zone/607558/

3/6/20 ------------ Groups rally against tax breaks for petrochemical manufacturers
https://www.timesonline.com/news/20200309/groups-rally-against-tax-breaks-for-petrochemical-manufacturers

3/7/20 ------------ American Climate Video: Al Cathey Had Seen Hurricanes, but Nothing Like Michael (VIDEO)
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04032020/american-climate-video-hurricane-michael-mexico-beach-mayor-al-cathey

3/7/20 ------------ From climate grief to climate action: Young people need hope, concrete goals
https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/from-climate-grief-to-climate-action-young-people-need-hope-concrete-goals

3/7/20 ------------ Coronavirus could halt the world’s emissions growth. Not that we should feel good about that.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/03/06/coronavirus-could-halt-worlds-emissions-growth-not-that-we-should-feel-good-about-that/?arc404=true

3/7/20 ------------ Airlines are flying empty planes to keep slots during the coronavirus crisis
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/airlines-are-flying-empty-planes-to-keep-slots-during-the-coronavirus-crisis-c8w33vzqg?wgu=270525_54264_15835463319188_d63982c966&wgexpiry=1591322331&utm_source=planit&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_content=22278

3/10/20 ------------ Three charts that explain what coronavirus is doing to climate emissions
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-energy-202/2020/03/09/the-energy-202-three-charts-that-explain-what-coronavirus-is-doing-to-climate-emissions/5e653554602ff10d49ac58c0/

3/10/20 ------------ Shale drillers are staring down the barrel of the worst oil bust yet
https://www.post-gazette.com/business/powersource/2020/03/10/shale-oil-drillers-bust-2020-price-war-OPEC-Russia-crude-US-prices/stories/202003100019

3/10/20 ------------ Coronavirus 'Really Not the Way You Want To Decrease Emissions'
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/10032020/coronavirus-climate-change-economy-emissions

3/10/20 ------------ 'Corporate Socialists' Denounced as Trump Considers Fracking Industry Bailout Amid Coronavirus Outbreak
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/10/corporate-socialists-denounced-trump-considers-fracking-industry-bailout-amid

3/10/20 ------------ Politics and Consequences: From Climate Emergency to Coronavirus
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/03/11/politics-and-consequences-climate-emergency-coronavirus

3/10/20 ------------ Trump Administration Presses Cities to Evict Homeowners From Flood Zones
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/11/climate/government-land-eviction-floods.html

3/10/20 ------------ The oil price war’s ultimate loser is America
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-oil-price-wars-ultimate-loser-is-america/2020/03/10/814d8a1c-62eb-11ea-b3fc-7841686c5c57_story.html

3/12/20 ------------ Heartland Launches Website of Contrarian Climate Science Amid Struggles With Funding and Controversy
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/12032020/heartland-instutute-climate-change-skeptic

3/12/20 ------------ Why We Panic About The Coronavirus But Not About The Climate Crisis
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/coronavirus-climate-change-action-panic_n_5e6a27b4c5b6747ef117ff0d

3/12/20 ------------ The oil shock of 2020 appears to be here – and the pain could be wide and deep
https://theconversation.com/the-oil-shock-of-2020-appears-to-be-here-and-the-pain-could-be-wide-and-deep-133293

3/12/20 ------------ One Year Ago, a Bomb Cyclone Triggered Record Flooding in Nebraska That Destroyed Dam
https://weather.com/safety/winter/news/2020-03-13-bomb-cyclone-record-flooding-nebraska-spencer-dam-2019

3/12/20 ------------ At 'Shock Doctrine Press Conference,' Trump Bails Out Oil Industry, Not US Families, as Coronavirus Crisis Intensifies
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/13/shock-doctrine-press-conference-trump-bails-out-oil-industry-not-us-families

3/14/20 ------------ 6 Ways the Trump Administration Has Botched Responses to the Coronavirus and Climate Change
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/03/6-ways-the-trump-administration-has-botched-responses-to-the-coronavirus-and-climate-change/

3/14/20 ------------ Politics and Consequences: From Climate Emergency to Coronavirus
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/03/11/politics-and-consequences-climate-emergency-coronavirus

3/14/20 ------------ Coronavirus fallout could be the ‘nail in the coffin’ for smaller oil companies
https://grist.org/energy/coronavirus-fallout-could-be-the-nail-in-the-coffin-for-smaller-oil-companies/?utm_content=bufferface0&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
 
3/14/20 ------------ The Coronavirus Pandemic Proves That We Can Overcome the Climate Crisis—If We Want To
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-coronavirus-pandemic-proves-that-we-can-overcome-the-climate-crisis-if-we-want-to/

3/14/20 ------------ Does climate change play a role in infectious diseases like COVID-19?
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/climate-change-coronavirus-covid-19-weather-15134727.php

3/18/20 ------------ Last Year, the U.S. Intelligence Community Warned of a Coronavirus Pandemic: Will We Heed their Climate Warnings?
https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/03/18/last-year-the-u-s-intelligence-community-warned-of-a-coronavirus-pandemic-will-we-heed-their-climate-warnings/

3/18/20 ------------ Health-Related Costs of Climate Change Will Add Billions to Damage Assessments
https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/03/17/health-related-costs-of-climate-change-will-add-billions-to-damage-assessments/

3/18/20 ------------ Global Green New Deal Supporters Urge World Leaders to Learn From Coronavirus to Tackle Climate Crisis
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/18/global-green-new-deal-supporters-urge-world-leaders-learn-coronavirus-tackle-climate

3/19/20 ------------ 6 Ways Trump’s Denial of Science Has Delayed the Response to COVID-19 (and Climate Change)
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19032020/denial-climate-change-coronavirus-donald-trump

3/19/20 ------------ Coronavirus Crisis, Says Coalition, Must Force Wall Street to Finally Recognize Perils of Climate Shocks 'Barreling Towards Us'
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/20/coronavirus-crisis-says-coalition-must-force-wall-street-finally-recognize-perils

3/20/20 ------------ Coronavirus and climate (VIDEO)
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2020/03/coronavirus-and-climate/
 
3/20/20 ------------ World's Governments Must Learn About Emissions During COVID-19 Shutdown
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2020/03/worlds-governments-must-learn-about-emissions-during-covid-19-shutdown.html
 
3/23/20 ------------ 'Green Stimulus' Demanded to Battle Convergent Crises of Coronavirus, Economic Injustice, and Climate Emergency
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/23/green-stimulus-demanded-battle-convergent-crises-coronavirus-economic-injustice-and

3/23/20 ------------ Further perspectives on pandemics and climate change
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2020/03/further-perspectives-on-pandemics-and-climate-change/

3/24/20 ------------ Our Growing Food Demands Will Lead to More Corona-like Viruses
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23032020/coronavirus-zoonotic-diseases-climate-change-agriculture

3/24/20 ------------ A Green Stimulus Plan for a Post-Coronavirus Economy
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2020/03/coronavirus-economic-recovery-green-stimulus-climate-change/608650/

3/25/20 ------------ What the Coronavirus Curve Teaches Us About Climate Change
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/03/26/what-the-coronavirus-curve-teaches-us-about-climate-change-148318

3/25/20 ------------ A just and sustainable economic response to coronavirus, explained
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/3/25/21180248/just-sustainable-economic-response-coronavirus-explained

3/25/20 ------------ Coronavirus: 'Nature is sending us a message’, says UN environment chief
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/25/coronavirus-nature-is-sending-us-a-message-says-un-environment-chief

3/26/20 ------------ Are We Prepared for a Climate Crisis in the Middle of a Pandemic?
https://truthout.org/articles/are-we-prepared-for-a-climate-crisis-in-the-middle-of-a-pandemic/

3/26/20 ------------ Coronavirus Already Hindering Climate Science, But the Worst Disruptions Are Likely Yet to Come
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26032020/coronavirus-climate-science-research-impact

3/27/20 ------------ America is entering another Great Depression — and it's time for a new New Deal
https://www.salon.com/2020/03/27/america-is-entering-another-great-depression--and-its-time-for-a-new-new-deal/

3/27/20 ------------ Democrats block bailout for Big Oil in coronavirus stimulus package
https://www.salon.com/2020/03/27/democrats-block-bailout-for-big-oil-in-coronavirus-stimulus-package_partner/

3/27/20 ------------ Polluting Industries Cash-In on COVID, Harming Climate in the Process
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27032020/coronavirus-covid-pandemic-agriculture-plastics-airlines-renewables-coal

3/27/20 ------------ Trump’s Move to Suspend Enforcement of Environmental Laws is a Lifeline to the Oil Industry
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27032020/coronavirus-covid-19-EPA-API-environmental-enforcement
 
3/28/20 ------------ What the Coronavirus Means for Climate Change
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-climate-change.html
 
3/29/20 ------------ Coronavirus Shows Us What Our Future Could Look Like During Climate Crisis
https://truthout.org/articles/coronavirus-shows-us-what-our-future-could-look-like-during-climate-crisis/
 
3/29/20 ------------ A top Republican wants to hold off on additional coronavirus aid
https://www.vox.com/2020/3/29/21198870/kevin-mccarthy-coronavirus-aid-package-cares-act

2020 – FEBRUARY
 
 
We may avoid the very worst climate scenario. But the next-worst is still pretty awful.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/01/30/we-may-avoid-very-worst-climate-scenario-next-worst-is-still-pretty-awful/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most
 
How should we discuss scenarios of future emissions?
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2020/01/bau-wow-wow/

“Unprecedented” Locust Invasion Approaches Full-Blown Crisis
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/unprecedented-locust-invasion-approaches-full-blown-crisis/

"They're Done": CNBC's Jim Cramer Says Fossil Fuel Industry "In the Death Knell Phase"
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/31/theyre-done-cnbcs-jim-cramer-says-fossil-fuel-industry-death-knell-phase
 
2/2/20 -------------- Sea Level Rise Happening Faster Along U.S. Coastlines, According to Annual Report
https://weather.com/news/news/2020-02-04-sea-level-rise-increasing-us-report-card

2/3/20 -------------- CAN WE HAVE PROSPERITY WITHOUT GROWTH?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/02/10/can-we-have-prosperity-without-growth

2/4/20 -------------- Miami Is the “Most Vulnerable” Coastal City Worldwide
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/miami-is-the-most-vulnerable-coastal-city-worldwide/

2/5/20 -------------- Why Clouds Are the Key to New Troubling Projections on Warming
https://e360.yale.edu/features/why-clouds-are-the-key-to-new-troubling-projections-on-warming

2/5/20 -------------- Trump Makes Nary a Mention of ‘Climate Change,’ Touting America’s Fossil Fuel Future
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/05022020/state-of-the-union-donald-trump-climate-change-energy-independence

2/6/20 -------------- Bumblebee Decline Linked With Extreme Heat Waves
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/05022020/bumblebee-climate-change-heat-decline-migration

2/6/20 -------------- These vertical farms could turn Brooklyn into an agricultural oasis
https://www.fastcompany.com/90458979/these-vertical-farms-could-turn-brooklyn-into-an-agricultural-oasis

2/6/20 -------------- The Energy 202: 2020 Democrats play up climate plans as a way to win in New Hampshire
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-energy-202/2020/02/06/the-energy-202-2020-democrats-play-up-climate-plans-as-a-way-to-win-in-new-hampshire/5e3af148602ff15f8279a40a/

2/7/20 -------------- The next president can force the financial sector to take climate change seriously
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/2/7/21127596/climate-change-financial-sector-dodd-frank-risk

2/7/20 -------------- Energy secretary announces coal research initiative (A hint of socialism!)
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/482047-energy-secretary-announces-coal-research-initiative

2/7/20 -------------- Thanks to Trump, Keystone XL Is Back. The Anti-Pipeline Movement Is Ready.
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/02/trump-keystone-xl-pipeline-native-indigenous-activism/

2/7/20 -------------- States of Emergencies Declared Amid Eastern Kentucky Floods
https://ohiovalleyresource.org/2020/02/07/states-of-emergencies-declared-amid-eastern-kentucky-floods/

2/7/20 -------------- ‘Sea-level rise won’t affect my house’ – even flood maps don’t sway Florida coastal residents
https://theconversation.com/sea-level-rise-wont-affect-my-house-even-flood-maps-dont-sway-florida-coastal-residents-130433

2/8/20 -------------- 'Something Big Is Shifting': As Georgetown Announces Fossil Fuel Divestment, Students Across US Demand Their Schools Follow Suit
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/08/something-big-shifting-georgetown-announces-fossil-fuel-divestment-students-across

2/9/20 -------------- Why stronger winds over the North Atlantic are so dangerous (VIDEO)
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2020/02/why-stronger-winds-over-north-atlantic-are-so-dangerous.html

2/10/20 -------------- The Arctic: World War III’s Newest Battlefield
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/02/10/arctic-world-war-iiis-newest-battlefield

2/10/20 -------------- Study examines effects of nuclear war on Earth’s oceans
https://earthsky.org/human-world/study-toll-of-nuclear-war-earths-oceans?utm_source=EarthSky+News&utm_campaign=4232d92999-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_02_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c643945d79-4232d92999-395109277

2/10/20 -------------- Poll reveals climate change as most important issue for U.S. adults
https://earthsky.org/earth/poll-reveals-climate-change-as-most-important-issue-for-u-s-adults?utm_source=EarthSky+News&utm_campaign=4232d92999-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_02_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c643945d79-4232d92999-395109277

2/9/20 -------------- Dual Threats of Flooding Rainfall and Severe Storms Return to the Waterlogged South This Week
https://weather.com/safety/floods/news/2020-02-07-flood-threat-heavy-rain-severe-thunderstorms-returns-south

2/10/20 -------------- Second Year of Major Spring Floods Forecast for U.S. Heartland
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/second-year-of-major-spring-floods-forecast-for-u-s-heartland/

2/10/20 -------------- Roaring jet stream powers British Airways flight from New York to London in under 5 hours, an unofficial record
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/02/09/british-air-record-flight-speed-atlantic/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most

2/10/20 -------------- GOP “Climate Plan” Calls for Planting Trees But No Emissions Reduction
https://truthout.org/articles/gop-climate-plan-calls-for-planting-trees-but-no-emissions-reduction/

2/10/20 -------------- The Climate-Fueled Camp Fire Took Their Homes. Now They Are at Risk of Losing FEMA Housing Too.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/02/10/climate-fueled-camp-fire-took-their-homes-now-they-are-risk-losing-fema-housing-too

2/10/20 -------------- Amplifying Urgent Need to Slash Emissions, New Map Series Shows How Climate Crisis Could Impact Europe
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/10/amplifying-urgent-need-slash-emissions-new-map-series-shows-how-climate-crisis-could

2/10/20 -------------- The Biggest Municipal Solar Farm in the US Is Coming to…Cincinnati?
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/02/the-biggest-municipal-solar-farm-in-the-us-is-coming-to-cincinnati/

2/11/20 -------------- Climate Change Once Again Left Out of Trump’s Federal Budget
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-once-again-left-out-of-trumps-federal-budget/

2/12/20 -------------- 'The Saddest Thing Is That It Won't Be Breaking News': Concentration of CO2 Hits Record High of 416 ppm
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/12/saddest-thing-it-wont-be-breaking-news-concentration-co2-hits-record-high-416-ppm

2/12/20 -------------- A huge iceberg just broke off West Antarctica’s most endangered glacier
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/02/antarctica-pine-island-glacier/

2/12/20 -------------- Trump’s Biggest Vulnerability Is His Climate Change Denial
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/02/trumps-biggest-vulnerability-is-his-climate-change-denial/

2/12/20 -------------- Global warming is making Washington’s climate more Southern. This winter, it most resembles Atlanta’s.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/02/12/global-warming-is-nudging-washingtons-climate-southward-this-winter-it-most-resembles-atlanta/

2/13/20 -------------- Antarctica broke two temperature records in a week
https://www.vox.com/2020/2/7/21128389/antarctica-record-heat-temperature-climate-change-glacier-ice-melt

2/13/20 -------------- Spring 2020 Temperature Outlook: Warmer-Than-Average Temperatures Expected for Most of the Lower 48
https://weather.com/forecast/national/news/2020-02-12-spring-2020-march-april-may-temperature-outlook

2/13/20 -------------- Twin Dangers of Scorching Days and Sweltering Nights Are on the Rise
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/twin-dangers-of-scorching-days-and-sweltering-nights-are-on-the-rise/

2/13/20 -------------- Inside Clean Energy: The Case for Optimism
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/12022020/inside-clean-energy-optimism-bp-efficiency-renewable-energy

2/13/20 -------------- Polar Vortex Grows Arctic Sea Ice to 10-Year High, but There's a Catch (VIDEO)
https://weather.com/news/news/2020-02-13-polar-vortex-arctic-sea-ice-cover-highest

2/13/20 -------------- There are rivers in the sky drenching the U.S. because of climate change
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/there-are-rivers-in-the-sky-drenching-the-u-s-because-of-climate-change/

2/13/20 -------------- Climate Crisis Could Cause a Third of Plant and Animal Species to Disappear Within 50 Years: Study
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/14/climate-crisis-could-cause-third-plant-and-animal-species-disappear-within-50-years

2/13/20 -------------- Ancient Antarctic Ice Melt Could Happen Again
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/02/13/ancient-antarctic-ice-melt-could-happen-again/

2/13/20 -------------- January 2020 Temperature Anomaly
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2020/02/january-2020-temperature-anomaly.html

2/14/20 -------------- NOAA: January 2020 was Earth's warmest January on record
https://www.toledoblade.com/local/environment/2020/02/14/noaa-january-2020-was-warmest-on-record/stories/20200213126

2/14/20 -------------- The climate crisis is shaping our presidential campaign — and it could bring us together
https://www.salon.com/2020/02/14/the-climate-crisis-is-shaping-our-presidential-campaign--and-it-could-bring-us-together/

2/14/20 -------------- The false promise of “renewable natural gas”
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/2/14/21131109/california-natural-gas-renewable-socalgas

2/14/20 -------------- Measuring Our Impact on the Planet
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/02/14/measuring-our-impact-planet

2/15/20 -------------- Bomb Cyclone Storm Dennis, One of the Most Intense North Atlantic Storms on Record, Triggers Massive Flooding in U.K. (VIDEO)
https://weather.com/news/international/news/2020-02-12-bomb-cyclone-dennis-rival-most-intense-north-atlantic-storms

2/16/20 -------------- She pushed Trump to exit the Paris climate agreement and roll back environmental rules. And she’s returning to EPA as chief of staff.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/02/14/she-pushed-trump-exit-paris-climate-agreement-rollback-environmental-rules-shes-returning-epa-chief-staff/

2/16/20 -------------- The Enormous but Hidden Consequences of Antarctica’s Record Heat
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/02/the-enormous-but-hidden-consequences-of-antarcticas-record-heat/

2/18/20 -------------- Speeding Sea Level Rise Threatens Nuclear Plants
https://www.globalresearch.ca/speeding-sea-level-rise-threatens-nuclear-plants/5704001

2/18/20 -------------- A military perspective on climate change could bridge the gap between believers and doubters
https://theconversation.com/a-military-perspective-on-climate-change-could-bridge-the-gap-between-believers-and-doubters-128609

2/18/20 -------------- Trump Administration Begins Work on Next National Climate Report
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-administration-begins-work-on-next-national-climate-report/

2/18/20 -------------- Buttigieg and Centrist Dems Want a Military Response to Climate Change. That’s Dangerous.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/02/18/buttigieg-and-centrist-dems-want-military-response-climate-change-thats-dangerous

2/18/20 -------------- Extreme Weather Could Spark Economic Recession 'Likes of Which We've Never Seen Before,' Research Warns
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/18/extreme-weather-could-spark-economic-recession-likes-which-weve-never-seen-research

2/18/20 -------------- Trump delivers on pledge for wealthy California farmers
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/trump-delivers-on-pledge-for-wealthy-california-farmers/

2/21/20 -------------- World's financial firms risk $1 trillion in losses if slow to act on climate change: report
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-finance-industry-climate-change/worlds-financial-firms-risk-1-trillion-in-losses-if-slow-to-act-on-climate-change-report-idUSKBN20F2FH

2/21/20 -------------- The anti-Greta: A conservative think tank takes on the global phenomenon
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/02/23/meet-anti-greta-young-youtuber-campaigning-against-climate-alarmism/

2/21/20 -------------- Is There a Better Way to Measure Wildfire Risk?
https://www.citylab.com/environment/2020/02/california-wildfire-risk-insurance-disaster-models-ai-tools/606025/

2/23/20 -------------- Why the Russian Petro-State Is Actually Terrified of a Bernie Sanders Presidency: The Green New Deal
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/02/23/why-russian-petro-state-actually-terrified-bernie-sanders-presidency-green-new-deal

2/24/20 -------------- Fossil-Fuel Subsidies Must End
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/fossil-fuel-subsidies-must-end/

OFF TOPIC - LOOKIING BACK: We now have a dollar value for one of oil’s biggest subsidies
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/9/21/17885832/oil-subsidies-military-protection-supplies-safe

From Wikipedia: Corporate welfare
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_welfare

OFF TOPIC - LOOKIING BACK: Trump is the true socialist
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-is-the-true-socialist/2019/07/25/4f45410c-af1a-11e9-8e77-03b30bc29f64_story.html

OFF TOPIC - LOOKIING BACK: Trump offers socialism for the rich, capitalism for everyone else
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/11/trump-offers-socialism-for-the-rich-capitalism-for-everyone-else

OFF TOPIC - LOOKIING BACK: 6 questions about socialism you were too embarrassed to ask
https://www.vox.com/2015/10/14/9530787/socialism-history-explained

'2/24/20 -------------- Unprecedented' globally: more than 20% of Australia's forests burnt in bushfires
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/feb/25/unprecedented-globally-more-than-20-of-australias-forests-burnt-in-bushfires

2/24/20 -------------- “All hell breaking loose”: How the Pentagon is planning for climate change
https://www.vox.com/2020/2/24/21145687/climate-change-usa-military-book-interview

2/25/20 -------------- Climate change and soaring flood insurance premiums could trigger another mortgage crisis
https://www.vox.com/2020/2/25/21146896/climate-change-fema-flood-insurance-mortgage-crisis

2/25/20 -------------- The Humongous Costs of Inaction
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/02/25/humongous-costs-inaction

2/25/20 -------------- National Security Experts Call for Eliminating Greenhouse Gas Emissions
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/national-security-experts-call-for-eliminating-greenhouse-gas-emissions/

2/25/20 -------------- How scientists wrestle with grief over climate change
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/scientists-grief-climate-change-warming-mental-health-ecology
 
2/29/20 -------------- This Winter May Be One of the Warmest on Record. What Does That Mean for Spring?
https://weather.com/news/weather/news/2020-02-28-warm-winter-2019-20-what-does-that-mean-spring-2020-temperature


2020 – JANUARY
 
Australia’s Angry Summer: This Is What Climate Change Looks Like
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/australias-angry-summer-this-is-what-climate-change-looks-like/

'Tasteless': Australian PM Condemned for Hosting Fireworks-Laden Party While Country Burns
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/12/31/tasteless-decision-australian-pm-host-fireworks-laden-nye-party-while-country-burns

There Were More Than 100 “Billion Dollar” Climate Disasters in the Past Decade
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2019/12/there-were-more-than-100-billion-dollar-climate-disasters-in-the-past-decade/

Statistic of the Decade: The Massive Deforestation of the Amazon
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/12/31/statistic-decade-massive-deforestation-amazon

California will require solar panels on all new homes. That’s not necessarily a good thing.
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/5/15/17351236/california-rooftop-solar-pv-panels-mandate-energy-experts

Wind conditions influence water circulation and carbon dioxide concentrations in the Southern Ocean
https://phys.org/news/2019-12-conditions-circulation-carbon-dioxide-southern.html

Sea-Tac Just Had Its Hottest Recorded Decade… Ever
https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2019/12/31/42426477/sea-tac-just-had-its-hottest-recorded-decade-ever

1/1/20 ---------------- A Grim New Definition of Generation X
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/01/01/grim-new-definition-generation-x
 
1/1/20 ---------------- Highs and lows of Seattle's weather in 2019
https://www.king5.com/article/weather/weather-blog/highs-and-lows-of-seattles-weather-in-2019/281-cb66a81b-b742-4184-83c7-c6b78ae60844

1/1/20 ---------------- Climate coverage is improving, but challenges abound heading into 2020
https://www.mediamatters.org/broadcast-networks/climate-journalism-had-breakout-year-2019-what-will-2020-bring

1/1/20 ---------------- Australia bushfires: PM's climate stance criticised as thousands flee blazes
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jan/01/australia-bushfires-defence-forces-sent-to-help-battle-huge-blazes

1/1/20 ---------------- 'A new focus for us': Canada's building code being modernized to address climate change
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/climate-change-canada-building-codes-1.5412390

1/1/20 ---------------- Cities Race to Slow Climate Change—and Improve Life for All
https://www.wired.com/story/cities-climate-change-equity-paris-agreement/

1/2/20 ---------------- Where Is the Green New Deal Headed in 2020?
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02012020/green-new-deal-future-2020-election-climate-change-sanders-ocasio-cortez

1/2/20 ---------------- The 2010s were a lost decade for climate. We can’t afford a repeat, scientists warn.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/12/31/s-were-lost-decade-climate-we-cant-afford-repeat-scientists-warn/?utm_campaign=post_most&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=Newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1

1/2/20 ---------------- The decade has ended, but it will never be over
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-decade-has-ended-but-it-will-never-be-over/2019/12/30/2915636e-1b9d-11ea-8d58-5ac3600967a1_story.html?utm_campaign=post_most&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=Newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1

1/2/20 ---------------- Smoke From Australia Fires Delivers Capital 'Worst Air Quality on Record'—With More to Come
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/01/smoke-australia-fires-delivers-capital-worst-air-quality-record-more-come

1/2/20 ---------------- America’s love affair with the single-family house is cooling, but it won’t be a quick breakup
https://theconversation.com/americas-love-affair-with-the-single-family-house-is-cooling-but-it-wont-be-a-quick-breakup-120719

1/2/20 ---------------- 'The salt they pump back in kills everything': is the cost of Chile's fresh water too high?
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2020/jan/02/the-salt-they-pump-back-in-kills-everything-is-the-cost-of-chiles-fresh-water-too-high

1/2/20 ---------------- Norway records warmest ever January day at 19C
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50971446

1/2/20 ---------------- Flooding From What Officials Called 'Not Ordinary Rain' Kills Dozens and Displaces Thousands in Jakarta
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/02/flooding-what-officials-called-not-ordinary-rain-kills-dozens-and-displaces

1/2/20 ---------------- Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison Heckled for Insufficient Response to Bushfires by Residents of Devastated Community (VIDEO)
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/02/australian-prime-minister-scott-morrison-heckled-insufficient-response-bushfires

1/2/20 ---------------- Australia Faces Extinction but its Leaders Still Don’t Want to Know
https://www.thedailybeast.com/australia-wildfires-confront-the-country-with-extinction?ref=scroll

1/2/20 ---------------- We are seeing the very worst of our scientific predictions come to pass in these bushfires
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/03/we-are-seeing-the-very-worst-of-our-scientific-predictions-come-to-pass-in-these-bushfires

1/2/20 ---------------- What Australia’s devastating fires look like on the ground
https://www.vox.com/world/2020/1/2/21046526/bush-fires-in-australia-now-photos-heat-red-sky-animals

1/3/20 ---------------- The Banality of Apocalypse: Escaping, With “Paw Patrol” and Daniel Tiger, From the Australian Fires
https://theintercept.com/2020/01/01/banality-apocalypse-australian-fire/

1/3/20 ---------------- Ocean Acidification Threatens the U.S. Economy
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ocean-acidification-threatens-the-u-s-economy/

1/3/20 ---------------- Trump Rule Would Exclude Climate Change in Infrastructure Planning
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/03/climate/trump-nepa-climate-change.html?action=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage

1/5/20 ---------------- How Economists Tricked Us Into Thinking Capitalism Works
https://truthout.org/articles/how-economists-tricked-us-into-thinking-capitalism-works/

1/5/20 ---------------- What Will Another Decade of Climate Crisis Bring?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/01/13/what-will-another-decade-of-climate-crisis-bring

1/6/20 ---------------- Naomi Klein: Climate Solutions That Neglect Inequality Are Doomed to Fail
https://truthout.org/articles/naomi-klein-climate-solutions-that-neglect-inequality-are-doomed-to-fail/

1/6/20 ---------------- Atlantic current could falter before 2100
https://www.eco-business.com/news/atlantic-current-could-falter-before-2100/

1/6/20 ---------------- 'Because Insects Are Key to Our Own Survival,' 73 Scientists Unveil Global Roadmap to Battle Bugpocalypse
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/06/because-insects-are-key-our-own-survival-73-scientists-unveil-global-roadmap-battle

1/6/20 ---------------- "Stop Making a Killing at the Planet's Expense": Climate Advocates Call for Fossil Fuel Companies to Foot Australia Fires Bill
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/06/stop-making-killing-planets-expense-climate-advocates-call-fossil-fuel-companies

1/6/20 ---------------- A staggering 500 million animals are estimated dead in Australia’s fires
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/1/6/21051897/australia-fires-animals-dead-500-million-estimate

1/7/20 ---------------- Report Detailing U.S. Threats Ignores Climate Change
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/report-detailing-u-s-threats-ignores-climate-change/

1/8/20 ---------------- Water wars: early warning tool uses climate data to predict conflict hotspots
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/jan/08/water-wars-early-warning-tool-uses-climate-data-to-predict-conflict-hotspots

1/8/20 ---------------- Boomers: You can still be heroes in the story of climate change
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/1/8/21055097/baby-boomers-climate-change-australia

1/8/20 ---------------- In Australia's Burning Forests, Signs We've Passed a Global Warming Tipping Point
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/08012020/australia-wildfires-forest-tipping-points-climate-change-impact-wildlife-survival

1/8/20 ---------------- As Australia burns, its leaders are clinging to coal
https://www.vox.com/world/2020/1/8/21051756/australia-fires-climate-change-coal-politics

1/8/20 ---------------- Australia’s Wildfire Catastrophe Isn’t the “New Normal.” It’s Much Worse Than That.
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/01/michael-mann-australias-wildfires-podcast-climate-change/

1/8/20 ---------------- 2019 Was Second Hottest Year on Record
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/08/climate/2019-temperatures.html

1/8/20 ---------------- A quarter of the global pig population has been wiped out. Here’s why.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/01/06/why-global-swine-fever-epidemic-is-hitting-poor-people-hardest/

1/8/20 ---------------- ‘Weakening of Gulf Stream could bring colder UK 
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jan/08/weakening-of-gulf-stream-could-bring-colder-uk-winters

1/8/20 ---------------- It’s not just Australia — Indonesia is facing its own climate disaster
https://grist.org/climate/its-not-just-australia-indonesia-is-facing-its-own-climate-disaster/?utm_content=bufferaf707&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
 
1/9/20 ---------------- Trump Admits Climate Change Is ‘Not a Hoax’ After Proposing Rollback of Environmental Law
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-admits-climate-change-is-not-a-hoax-after-proposing-rollback-of-environmental-law

1/9/20 ---------------- Trump proposes change to environmental rules to speed up highway projects, pipelines and more
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/white-house-wants-to-change-rules-to-speed-up-highway-projects-pipelines-drilling/

1/10/20 ---------------- Lowland Snow Likely As Arctic Front Settles In Washington
https://patch.com/washington/sammamish/s/gz6n5/lowland-snow-likely-arctic-front-settles-washington

1/10/20 ---------------- Australia's raging fires will create big problems for fresh drinking water
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/01/australian-fires-threaten-to-pollute-water/
 
1/11/20 ---------------- America's war machine rolls on — and most Democrats do nothing to stop it
https://www.salon.com/2020/01/11/americas-war-machine-rolls-on-and-most-democrats-do-nothing-to-stop-it/

David Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse”
https://www.vox.com/2019/4/12/18306566/david-attenborough-our-planet-netflix-advocacy

1/11/20 ---------------- Want to Do Something About Climate Change? Follow the Money
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/11/opinion/climate-change-bank-investment.html
 
1/11/20 ---------------- Boston Hits 70 Degrees on Back-to-Back Days, Sets All-Time January Record High Sunday
https://weather.com/news/weather/news/2020-01-12-boston-70-degrees-saturday-sunday-all-time-january-record-high

1/11/20 ---------------- Schrier updates Auburn town hall about work in D.C.
https://www.auburn-reporter.com/news/schrier-updates-town-hall-about-work-in-d-c/

LOOKING BACK - Fox News Mocks Climate Crisis: ‘Anything to Justify Taking Your Money’ (VIDEO)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-mocks-climate-crisis-anything-to-justify-taking-your-money?ref=home

NOAA - North American Ensemble Forecast System 8 to 14 Day Temperature Guidance
https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/short_range/NAEFS/naefs_bias-corrected_tmean_8-14day-global.png

LOOKING BACK - Our oceans broke heat records in 2018 and the consequences are catastrophic
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2019/jan/16/our-oceans-broke-heat-records-in-2018-and-the-consequences-are-catastrophic

800,000 Years of Temperature and Carbon Dioxide Records
https://nas-sites.org/americasclimatechoices/more-resources-on-climate-change/climate-change-lines-of-evidence-booklet/evidence-impacts-and-choices-figure-gallery/figure-14/

1/13/20 ---------------- Emails Reveal U.S. Justice Dept. Working Closely with Oil Industry to Oppose Climate Lawsuits
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/10012020/emails-show-us-justice-department-working-closely-oil-industry-oppose-climate-lawsuits

1/13/20 ---------------- How Rising Temperatures Increase the Likelihood of Nuclear War
https://www.thenation.com/article/nuclear-defense-climate-change/

1/13/20 ---------------- Why do record ocean temperatures matter?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/13/why-record-ocean-temperatures-matter

1/13/20 ---------------- California's wildfire risk keeps getting worse. Now a decade of blackouts lies ahead
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jan/13/californias-wildfire-risk-keeps-getting-worse-now-a-decade-of-blackouts-lie-ahead

1/13/20 ---------------- The Plant-Based Movement to Transition Farmers Away from Meat and Dairy Production
https://civileats.com/2020/01/13/the-plant-based-movement-to-transition-farmers-away-from-meat-and-dairy-production/

1/13/20 ---------------- No more excuses for lack of cooperation in Olympia on climate change
https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/no-more-excuses-for-lack-of-cooperation-in-olympia-on-climate-change/

1/14/20 ---------------- 'A Massive Victory': BlackRock CEO Promises to Center Climate Change in Investment Strategy
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/14/massive-victory-blackrock-ceo-promises-center-climate-change-investment-strategy

1/14/20 ---------------- James Murdoch Slams Fox News and News Corp Over Climate-Change Denial
https://www.thedailybeast.com/james-murdoch-slams-fox-news-and-news-corp-over-climate-change-denial?ref=home

1/14/20 ---------------- Ocean Warming Is Speeding Up, with Devastating Consequences, Study Shows
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14012020/ocean-heat-2019-warmest-year-argo-hurricanes-corals-marine-animals-heatwaves

1/14/20 ---------------- INSLEE, ENVIRONMENTALISTS WANT MORE AGGRESSIVE ACTION TOWARD REDUCING GREENHOUSE GASES
https://www.invw.org/2020/01/14/inslee-environmentalists-want-more-aggressive-action-toward-reducing-greenhouse-gases/

1/14/20 ---------------- EU lays out 1 trillion-euro plan to support Green Deal
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/eu-launches-1-trillion-euro-plan-to-support-green-deal/

1/14/20 ---------------- Rains are finally arriving in fire-ravaged Australia, but they bring new risks
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/01/14/rain-australia-fires-forecast/

1/14/20 ---------------- Who controls Trump’s environmental policy?
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/14/climate/fossil-fuel-industry-environmental-policy.html

1/14/20 ---------------- Native Species or Invasive? The Distinction Blurs as the World Warms
https://e360.yale.edu/features/native-species-or-invasive-the-distinction-blurs-as-the-world-warms

1/14/20 ---------------- From 74 degrees to a foot of snow: Northeast US braces for storms after record-breaking warmth
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/weather/2020/01/14/weather-forecast-northeast-boston-snow/4465609002/

1/14/20 ---------------- Gov. Inslee delivers State of the State Address
https://www.issaquahreporter.com/news/gov-inslee-delivers-state-of-the-state-address/

1/14/20 ---------------- Spawning Grounds: Lake Sammamish kokanee documentary premieres Jan. 18
https://www.issaquahreporter.com/news/spawning-grounds-lake-sammamish-kokanee-documentary-premiers-saturday/

1/15/20 ---------------- One more data point
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2020/01/one-more-data-point/

1/15/20 ---------------- 'Unquestionably Alarming Signs': New Data Confirms Earth Just Had Hottest Decade on Record
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/15/unquestionably-alarming-signs-new-data-confirms-earth-just-had-hottest-decade-record

1/15/20 ---------------- Climate change is making Australia’s weird weather even weirder
https://www.vox.com/2020/1/15/21065557/australia-fires-climate-change-weather-extreme-heat-drought-flood
 
1/15/20 ---------------- Dead Birds Washing Up by the Thousands Send a Warning About Climate Change
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/15012020/seabird-death-ocean-heat-wave-blob-pacific-alaska-common-murre

1/16/20 ---------------- Democratic Candidates Position Themselves as Climate Hawks Going into Primary Season
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/15012020/2020-election-debate-climate-change-iowa-caucuses-sanders-warren-buttigieg-biden

1/16/20 ---------------- Cory Booker's Halt on Factory Farms Would Help the Climate
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/01/15/cory-bookers-halt-factory-farms-would-help-climate

1/16/20 ---------------- The 2010s Were the Hottest Decade—The 2020s Will Top Them
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-2010s-were-the-hottest-decade-the-2020s-will-top-them/

1/16/20 ---------------- Weather shows evidence of climate change every single day since 2012
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/01/weather-shows-evidence-of-climate-change-every-single-day-since-2012/

1/16/20 ---------------- UN warns hunger crisis in southern Africa 'on scale we've not seen before'
https://www.dw.com/en/un-warns-hunger-crisis-in-southern-africa-on-scale-weve-not-seen-before/a-52029274

1/16/20 ---------------- State Supreme Court limits Gov. Inslee’s rule cutting greenhouse-gas emissions
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/state-supreme-court-limits-gov-inslees-rule-cutting-greenhouse-gas-emissions/

1/16/20 ---------------- Microsoft makes big push to tackle climate change, vowing to be ‘carbon negative’ by 2030
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft/microsoft-makes-big-push-to-tackle-climate-change-vowing-to-be-carbon-neutral-by-2030/

1/16/20 ---------------- Local congresswoman’s bill that secures additional grant funding for farmers signed into law
http://www.ifiberone.com/columbia_basin/local-congresswoman-s-bill-that-secures-additional-grant-funding-for/article_31beea0c-38a4-11ea-9bea-abb29129ecd7.html

1/16/20 ---------------- Capitalism ‘will fundamentally be in jeopardy’ if business does not act on climate change, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/16/microsoft-ceo-capitalism-is-in-jeopardy-if-we-do-not-act-on-climate-change.html

1/17/20 ---------------- Washingtonians are more likely to die on smoky days, new UW research shows
https://crosscut.com/2020/01/washingtonians-are-more-likely-die-smoky-days-new-uw-research-shows

1/17/20 ---------------- Lawmakers want tougher carbon-reduction goals, even as WA falls short of current targets
https://crosscut.com/2020/01/lawmakers-want-tougher-carbon-reduction-goals-even-wa-falls-short-current-targets
 
1/17/20 ---------------- US court dismisses suit by youths over climate change
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/u-s-court-dismisses-suit-by-oregon-youths-over-climate-change/

1/17/20 ---------------- Why Australia’s fires are linked to floods in Africa (VIDEO)
https://www.vox.com/videos/2020/1/17/21069394/australia-fires-floods-africa-iod

1/18/20 ---------------- After massing snowfall, an outpouring of support for Skykomish residents (VIDEO)
https://komonews.com/news/local/outpouring-of-support-for-skykomish-and-surrounding-communities

1/18/20 ---------------- The storms that saved Washington's snowpack
https://www.king5.com/article/weather/weather-blog/the-storms-that-saved-washingtons-snowpack/281-83959796-9631-4837-b7bb-74e4d0bfe458

1/18/20 ---------------- OZONE LAYER RECOVERY IS BEING UNDERMINED BY POLLUTION FROM U.S. COMPANIES
https://theintercept.com/2020/01/18/ozone-layer-epa-united-states-pollution/

1/18/20 ---------------- Crippling Newfoundland, Canada, Blizzard From Bomb Cyclone Smashes All-Time Daily Snow Record
https://weather.com/storms/winter/news/2020-01-18-newfoundland-blizzard-record-daily-snow-st-johns
 
1/20/20 ---------------- Climate not considered a top 10 risk by CEOs – survey
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/climate-not-considered-a-top-10-risk-by-ceos-survey/

1/20/20 ---------------- Conservative States Seek Billions to Brace for Disaster. (Just Don’t Call It Climate Change.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/20/climate/climate-change-funding-states.html?action=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage

1/20/20 ---------------- Big oil is the new big tobacco. Congress must use its power to investigate
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/20/big-oil-congress-climate-change

1/20/20 ---------------- Mayfly numbers drop by half since 2012, threatening food chain
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/01/mayfly-insect-populations-in-decline/
 
1/21/20 ---------------- The primary suspect behind the deaths of a million seabirds? A West Coast heat wave
https://crosscut.com/2020/01/primary-suspect-behind-deaths-million-seabirds-west-coast-heat-wave
 
1/21/20 ---------------- Act as if You Loved Your Children Above All Else': Greta Thunberg Demands Davos Elite Immediately Halt All Fossil Fuel Investments
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/21/act-if-you-loved-your-children-above-all-else-greta-thunberg-demands-davos-elite

1/21/20 ---------------- UW study finds disturbing climate change evidence in Arctic Ocean
https://www.king5.com/article/tech/science/disturbing-climate-change-evidence-found-in-the-arctic/281-944f24fd-331e-4311-99ee-dffb3b088637

1/21/20 ---------------- Spain declares climate emergency, gets climate plan ready
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/spain-declares-climate-emergency-gets-climate-plan-ready/

1/22/20 ---------------- Rising temperatures put more US workers at risk of dying from heat
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/22/heat-deaths-workers-safety-climate-crisis

1/22/20 ---------------- Planet Just Had Costliest Decade for Global Natural Disasters: Insurance Industry Report
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/22/planet-just-had-costliest-decade-global-natural-disasters-insurance-industry-report

1/22/20 ---------------- Humanity Risking 'Global Disaster' as Material Consumption Passes 100 Billion Tons Annually
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/22/humanity-risking-global-disaster-material-consumption-passes-100-billion-tons

1/23/20 ---------------- Farm Bureau Warily Concedes on Climate, But Members Praise Trump’s Deregulation
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22012020/farm-bureau-convention-trump-climate-change-regulation

1/23/20 ---------------- U.S. Food Trade Increasingly Leans On Unsustainable Groundwater 
https://www.circleofblue.org/2020/world/u-s-food-trade-increasingly-leans-on-unsustainable-groundwater/

1/23/20 ---------------- Climate Change Could Cause the Next Financial Meltdown
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/business/climate-change-central-banks.html

1/23/20 ---------------- Australia’s Marine Animals Will Be the Fires’ Unseen Victims
https://www.hakaimagazine.com/news/australias-marine-animals-will-be-the-fires-unseen-victims/

1/23/20 ---------------- 'The Most Dangerous Situation That Humanity Has Ever Faced': Doomsday Clock Now 100 Seconds to Midnight
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/23/most-dangerous-situation-humanity-has-ever-faced-doomsday-clock-now-100-seconds

1/23/20 ---------------- The dramatic dismissal of a landmark youth climate lawsuit might not close the book on that case
https://theconversation.com/the-dramatic-dismissal-of-a-landmark-youth-climate-lawsuit-might-not-close-the-book-on-that-case-130162

1/23/20 ---------------- NOAA Gets Go-Ahead to Study Controversial Climate Plan B
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/noaa-gets-go-ahead-to-study-controversial-climate-plan-b/

1/23/20 ---------------- What does Trump actually believe on climate change? (VIDEO)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51213003

1/23/20 ---------------- Ancient Viruses Trapped in Glaciers for Thousands of Years Could Be Released By Climate Crisis: Study
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/23/ancient-viruses-trapped-glaciers-thousands-years-could-be-released-climate-crisis

1/23/20 ---------------- As Financial Institutions Grow Concerned About Economic Impacts of Climate Crisis, Activists Target Funders of Fossil Fuel Industry
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/23/financial-institutions-grow-concerned-about-economic-impacts-climate-crisis

1/23/20 ---------------- It’s Steven Mnuchin who should listen to economists on climate change
https://www.vox.com/2020/1/23/21078895/greta-thunberg-climate-change-steven-mnuchin

1/23/20 ---------------- As Climate Risks Worsen, U.S. Flood Buyouts Fail to Meet the Need
https://e360.yale.edu/features/as-climate-risks-worsen-u.s.-flood-buyouts-fail-to-meet-the-need
  
1/24/20 ---------------- Snowiest Day On Record: Where Washington Has Seen The Most Snow
https://patch.com/washington/sammamish/s/gzqty/snowiest-day-record-where-washington-has-seen-most-snow
 
1/24/20 ---------------- This map shows where people on the coasts will flee to once sea levels rise
https://www.fastcompany.com/90455314/this-map-shows-where-people-on-the-coasts-will-flee-to-once-sea-levels-rise

1/26/20 ---------------- Global Groundwater Is Threatened by Unsustainable Practices Amid Climate Crisis
https://truthout.org/articles/global-groundwater-is-threatened-by-unsustainable-practices-amid-climate-crisis/

1/26/20 ---------------- Rolling Back Water Rules Doesn’t Help Most Farmers — It’s For Big Polluters
https://truthout.org/articles/rolling-back-water-rules-doesnt-help-most-farmers-its-for-big-polluters/

1/26/20 ---------------- House Republicans caught between Trump and young voters on climate change
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/26/climate-change-trump-republicans-104665

1/27/20 ---------------- Caught Off Guard: The Southeast Struggles with Climate Change
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26012020/southeast-climate-change-action-flooding-hurricanes

1/27/20 ---------------- As Climate Change Hits the Southeast, Communities Wrestle with Politics, Funding
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23012020/louisville-lge-southeast-carbon-emissions-climate-change

1/27/20 ---------------- January Rain Approaches Records With More Wet Weather On Tap
https://patch.com/washington/sammamish/s/gzuq6/january-rain-approaches-records-more-wet-weather-tap

1/27/20 ---------------- 'Extremely Disappointing': New Analysis Offers Scathing Critique of Top Democrat's CLEAN Future Act
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/27/extremely-disappointing-new-analysis-offers-scathing-critique-top-democrats-clean

1/28/20 ---------------- Lawsuits Seeking Damages for Climate Change Face Critical Legal Challenges
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27012020/supreme-court-climate-change-cases-fossil-fuel-accountability

1/28/20 ---------------- Antarctica melting: Journey to the 'doomsday glacier'
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51097309

1/27820 ---------------- Climate crisis: ‘Unprecedented’ ocean heatwaves led to record numbers of whale entanglements, study reveals
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-crisis-humpback-whale-entanglements-ocean-heatwave-california-a9304571.html

1/28/20 ---------------- Climate-Crisis Fueled Locust Swarms Pose 'Unprecedented Threat to Food Security and Livelihoods' in East Africa
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/28/climate-crisis-fueled-locust-swarms-pose-unprecedented-threat-food-security-and

1/28/20 ---------------- Democrats to offer $760B infrastructure plan with big climate theme
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/28/infrastructure-house-budget-climate-108396
 
1/28/20 ---------------- We’re on track to hit 1.5°C of warming in 2040. Here’s how it will change our work lives
https://www.fastcompany.com/90449975/were-on-track-to-hit-1-5c-of-warming-in-2040-heres-how-it-will-change-our-work-lives
 
1/29/20 ---------------- The Next Coronavirus Nightmare Is Closer Than You Think
https://www.thedailybeast.com/get-ready-for-more-coronavirus-nightmares-thanks-to-climate-change

1/29/20 ---------------- Where's Winter? Most of the Lower 48 Has Been Warmer Than Average So Far This Winter, Except Here
https://weather.com/forecast/national/news/2020-01-28-above-average-temperatures-winter-lower-48-frigid-temperatures

1/29/20 ---------------- 5 Things You Should Know About the Earth’s Warming Ocean
https://therevelator.org/ocean-climate-change/
 
1/30/20 ---------------- Andes Meltdown: New Insights Into Rapidly Retreating Glaciers
https://e360.yale.edu/features/andes-meltdown-new-insights-into-rapidly-retreating-glaciers

1/30/20 ---------------- The Worst Climate Scenarios May No Longer Be the Most Likely
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-worst-climate-scenarios-may-no-longer-be-the-most-likely/
 
1/30/20 ---------------- Germany is tackling the green-energy transition — and the world is watching
https://www.salon.com/2020/01/30/germany-is-tackling-the-green-energy-transition--and-the-world-is-watching/
 
1/30/20 ---------------- Low snow to snowmageddon: January dumps gave needed bump to region's lagging snowpack
https://kuow.org/stories/january-dumps-gave-needed-bump-to-lagging-snowpack
 
1/30/20 ---------------- Is Natural Gas Really Helping the U.S. Cut Emissions?
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30012020/natural-gas-methane-carbon-emissions