“Pollution and climate change by excessive burning of fossil fuels are real threats, not the people who warn that we must take these threats seriously.”  — David Suzuki 

JULY 2021

7/1/21 —— Unprecedented, unbelievable, unsettling: what the heatwave feels like in Seattle
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/01/unprecedented-unbelievable-unsettling-what-the-heatwave-feels-like-in-seattle
7/1/21 —--The Climate Crisis Is a Crime Story - Fossil fuel companies lied for decades about climate change, and humanity is paying the price. Shouldn’t those lies be central to the public narrative?
​https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/climate-crisis-crime/
7/1/21 —--U.S. Chamber official warned of climate danger in 1989
https://www.eenews.net/stories/1063736153
7/1/21 —--Latest Northwest US heatwave presents mounting challenge to GOP climate denial: report
https://www.alternet.org/2021/06/latest-northwest-us-heatwave-dismantled-gop-climate-change-arguments/
7/1/21 —--Millions remain under heat warning as extreme heat grips Northwest
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/30/weather/pacific-northwest-extreme-heat-wednesday/index.html
7/1/21 —--Experts Warn Florida Tower Disaster Is Climate Emergency 'Wake-Up Call’ - One local risk assessment specialist said the building's collapse "could be a canary-in-the-coal-mine-type event" as sea levels rise.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/06/29/experts-warn-florida-tower-disaster-climate-emergency-wake-call
7/1/21 —--Miami Building Collapse Shows Tragic Costs of Neoliberal Deregulation
https://theintercept.com/2021/06/29/miami-building-regulations-grenfell-neoliberal/
7/1/21 —--Wall Street Sharks Are Out to Privatize, Commodify, and Profit From Our Water - The good news is that the U.S. public is not only increasingly aware of the inexcusable inadequacies and inequalities in our water system but also increasingly outraged.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/06/30/wall-street-sharks-are-out-privatize-commodify-and-profit-our-water
7/1/21 —--How the ripple effects of extreme weather events will impact the systems that keep our world running - While it is always difficult to directly connect one single weather event to climate change, experts say that our warming world will make things like heatwaves, storms and droughts more frequent and more severe.
https://news.sky.com/story/how-the-ripple-effects-of-extreme-weather-events-will-impact-the-systems-that-keep-our-world-running-12345691
7/1/21 —— Heat Waves Prompt Workers To Walk Out: ‘We Weren’t Going To Tolerate It’ - A doughnut shop. A Jack In The Box. A Hooters. Workers all over say their workplaces are too hot as the U.S. bakes.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/heat-wave-workers-walk-out_n_60dcd0c9e4b03d4073e55032
7/2/21 —— Footage of Exxon Lobbyist Increases Pressure on Biden to End Fossil Fuel Subsidies - “It's time for President Biden to pick a side: Exxon or the American majority?”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/07/01/footage-exxon-lobbyist-increases-pressure-biden-end-fossil-fuel-subsidies
7/2/21 —— Big Oil Should Be Prosecuted for Their Crimes Against Humanity - Fossil fuel companies lied for decades about climate change, and humanity is paying the price. Shouldn’t those lies be central to the public narrative?
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/07/01/big-oil-should-be-prosecuted-their-crimes-against-humanity
7/2/21 —— 200+ Groups to Democrats: $6 Trillion 'Should Be the Floor' for Climate and Infrastructure Bill - “Over a ten-year period, it represents just over 1% of the U.S. GDP and less than half of Pentagon spending given current trends.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/07/01/200-groups-democrats-6-trillion-should-be-floor-climate-and-infrastructure-bill
7/2/21 —— Progressives Decry 'Foolish and Dangerous' Approach of White House Climate Memo - “This is not a bold agenda, it is technocratic market-speak that is decades out of date.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/06/30/progressives-decry-foolish-and-dangerous-approach-white-house-climate-memo
7/2/21 —— Great Barrier Reef's decline should be a wake-up call
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/561075-great-barrier-reefs-decline-should-be-a-wake-up-call
7/2/21 —— For first time, federal infrastructure projects being judged on how they tackle climate change and racial justice
https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/infrastructure/561150-for-first-time-federal-infrastructure-projects
7/2/21 —— ‘Megadrought’ along border strains US-Mexico water relations
https://theconversation.com/megadrought-along-border-strains-us-mexico-water-relations-160338
7/2/21 —— Miami’s Climate Dystopia Gets Real - South Florida’s real estate is only going to get more deadly if we continue to ignore all the warning signs of a doomed coastline
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/miami-beach-building-collapse-climate-change-1191989/
7/2/21 —— How to redesign cities to withstand heat waves - Trees, green roofs, and white paint can help in a changing climate.
https://www.vox.com/22557563/how-to-redesign-cities-for-heat-waves-climate-change
7/2/21 —— This Is Only the Beginning: It's About to Get Much Harder - Our planet hasn’t seen temperatures this hot in fifteen million years, when the sea level was forty meters higher than it is today.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/07/02/only-beginning-its-about-get-much-harder
7/2/21 —— Progressive Lawmakers Want Biden to Not Include Military Spending in Infrastructure Plan - “It makes poor economic and security sense to use this plan to funnel more money into the Pentagon.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/07/progressive-lawmakers-want-biden-to-not-include-military-spending-in-infrastructure-plan/
LOOKING BACK: James Hansen's 1988 Climate Predictions Coming True - VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aohY1nEpBc
LOOKING BACK: In 1993 my agency warned of climate change. In 1995 it was abolished
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/27/1993-agency-climate-change-abolished-office-technology-assessment
LOOKING BACK: Climate treaty heads for trouble
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg14519690-300-climate-treaty-heads-for-trouble/
7/3/21 —— Exxon Lobbyists Caught Saying Quiet Part Out Loud On Climate Obstruction - These revelations should indeed be shocking to all of us as they lay bare the true reality of Exxon’s dangerous views as a corporation and how they work the political system to allow them to continue their damaging ways.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/07/03/exxon-lobbyists-caught-saying-quiet-part-out-loud-climate-obstruction
7/3/21 —— Leaked UN report warns of climate tipping points - Here’s what they are and why they matter
https://www.salon.com/2021/07/03/leaked-un-report-warns-of-climate-tipping-points_partner/
7/3/21 —— Scientists Call Northwest Heatwave the 'Most Extreme in World Weather Records’ - “Never in the century-plus history of world weather observation have so many all-time heat records fallen by such a large margin.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/07/02/scientists-call-northwest-heatwave-most-extreme-world-weather-records
7/3/21 —— Is climate change amping up the Pacific Northwest heat wave? Yes — and it’s time to stop asking. - Scientists say the burden of proof has shifted for connecting heat waves and global warming
https://www.salon.com/2021/07/02/is-climate-change-amping-up-the-pacific-northwest-heat-wave-yes--and-its-time-to-stop-asking_partner/
7/3/21 —— This Is How You Die In Extreme Heat - Record temperatures across North America have already killed hundreds. Here’s what actually happens when overheating turns fatal.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/heat-wave-death_n_60df24ade4b0e01b6b1dd5fd
7/3/21 —— The Climate Crisis Demands Democracy Reform - Fixing America's broken political system and building a healthier democracy can contribute to a more just and sustainable world.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/07/03/climate-crisis-demands-democracy-reform
7/3/21 —— ‘We thought it wouldn’t affect us’: heatwave forces climate reckoning in Pacific north-west
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/03/pacific-northwest-heat-dome-climate-change
7/5/21 —— Unprecedented heat, hundreds dead and a town destroyed. Climate change is frying the Northern Hemisphere
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/04/world/canada-us-heatwave-northern-hemisphere-climate-change-cmd-intl/index.html
7/5/21 —--'Triumph for Environmental Justice': Oil Companies Scrap Pipeline Plans Amid Grassroots Pressure - “We've shown them that we aren't the path of least resistance," said a local organizer. "We are the path of resilience.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/07/04/triumph-environmental-justice-oil-companies-scrap-pipeline-plans-amid-grassroots
7/5/21 —— Sporadic Environmental Voters Hold the Power to Shift Elections and Turn Red States Blue - A new report from the Environmental Voter Project claims to have identified a hidden voting bloc in nine states: low-propensity environmental voters.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04072021/sporadic-environmental-voters-hold-the-power-to-shift-elections-and-turn-red-states-blue/
7/5/21 —— Extreme heat is becoming more frequent—and our infrastructure is going to need to adapt - The heat wave in the Northwest showed the fragility of systems that weren’t designed for triple-digit temperatures. As those heats become more common, engineers are rethinking what resilience means.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90651986/extreme-heat-is-becoming-more-frequent-and-our-infrastructure-is-going-to-need-to-adapt
7/5/21 —— Humanity Needs to Declare Independence From Fossil Fuels - We have the technical know-how as well as the available economic resources to make the transition to a clean energy future. Now it must be done.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/07/05/humanity-needs-declare-independence-fossil-fuels
7/6/21 —— America's leadership on climate change will define its global standing
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/561273-americas-leadership-on-climate-change-will-define-its-global
7/6/21 —— As Big Oil Execs Roam Free, Climate Activist Gets 8 Years in Prison - “How many years do you think ANY fossil fuel CEO will serve for knowingly destroying our planet's climate?" asked one climate group in response to Jessica Reznicek's sentence.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/07/05/big-oil-execs-roam-free-climate-activist-gets-8-years-prison
7/6/21 —— 'Disgusting': Pipeline Company Files $15 Billion Claim Against US for Canceled Keystone XL - TC Energy Corporation filed for compensation under a free trade provision that allows investors to sue governments if they impede profits.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/07/05/disgusting-pipeline-company-files-15-billion-claim-against-us-canceled-keystone-xl
7/7/21 —— Global evidence links increase in extreme precipitation to climate change
https://theconversation.com/global-evidence-links-increase-in-extreme-precipitation-to-climate-change-163715
7/7/21 —— The North American heatwave shows we need to know how climate change will change our weather
https://theconversation.com/the-north-american-heatwave-shows-we-need-to-know-how-climate-change-will-change-our-weather-163802
7/7/21 —— Suburban living the worst for carbon emissions – new research
https://theconversation.com/suburban-living-the-worst-for-carbon-emissions-new-research-149332
7/7/21 —— Climate crisis reporting: How to cover a 'permanent emergency’
https://www.cnn.com/videos/media/2021/07/04/climate-reporting-stelter-rs-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/reliable-sources-highlights/
7/7/21 —— Opinion: Climate scientists warned us. When will we listen?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/05/climate-scientists-warned-us-when-will-we-listen/
7/7/21 —— Small majority believe there is still time to avert climate disaster – survey - Survey in 16 countries finds just over half of consumers believe their own behaviour can help
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/05/small-majority-believe-there-is-still-time-to-avert-climate-disaster-survey
7/7/21 —— The climate crisis will create two classes: those who can flee, and those who cannot
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/07/global-heating-climate-crisis-heat-two-classes
7/7/21 —— Utah’s Great Salt Lake has been shrinking for years. Now it faces a drought
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/06/utah-great-salt-lake-shrinking-drought
7/7/21 —— North America Just Experienced Hottest June on Record—For Now - “This was the hottest June on record. Until next year, and the year after that, and the year after that—unless we address the climate crisis.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/07/07/north-america-just-experienced-hottest-june-record-now
7/7/21 —— Amid Record Heat, Footage Shows GOP Sen. Ron Johnson Dismissing Climate Change as ‘Bullsh*t' - “Imagine being a U.S. senator in 2021 while millions of Americans suffer from record-breaking heat, drought, fire, and flood, and being confident enough to say climate change is ‘bullshit.’"
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/07/07/amid-record-heat-footage-shows-gop-sen-ron-johnson-dismissing-climate-change-bullsht
7/7/21 —— Why the Shift from “Climate Change” to “Climate Emergency” Matters
https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2021/07/05/climate-emergency
7/7/21 —--'Nowhere Is Safe': Scientists Sound Alarm as Killer Heat Rages in Pacific Northwest - 
The heat is having dire consequences.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/07/07/nowhere-safe-scientists-sound-alarm-killer-heat-rages-pacific-northwest
7/7/21 —— The Fallacy of Our Carbon Footprint - Big Oil says citizens should do more to stop climate change.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/solving-plastic/2021/05/10/carbon-footprint-fallacy-big-oil
7/7/21 —— How to Get Rid of Throwaway Culture
https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/solving-plastic/2021/05/10/how-to-get-rid-of-throwaway-culture
7/7/21 —— House Democrats Unite in Urging Biden to Keep Climate Goals in Infrastructure
https://truthout.org/articles/house-democrats-unite-in-urging-biden-to-keep-climate-goals-in-infrastructure/
7/7/21 —— A Week After the Pacific Northwest Heat Wave, Study Shows it Was ‘Almost Impossible’ Without Global Warming - The extreme temperatures have shaken scientists’ fundamental understanding of heat waves and triggered concerns about a climate tipping point.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07072021/pacific-northwest-heat-wave-attribution-study-climate-change/
7/7/21 —— California braces for dangerously high temperatures in new heatwave - Temperatures could reach 115F in the Central Valley and 120F in desert areas like Palm Springs
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/07/california-heatwave-high-temperatures-inland-central-valley
7/8/21 —— Arctic sea ice disappearing fast
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2021/07/arctic-sea-ice-disappearing-fast.html
7/8/21 —— Biden Mocks Ron Johnson for Saying Climate Crisis Is “Bullshit”
https://truthout.org/articles/biden-mocks-ron-johnson-for-saying-climate-crisis-is-bullshit/
7/8/21 —--'This Is Huge': Schumer Commits to Creating Civilian Climate Corps - “We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to confront the climate crisis and create millions of middle-class union jobs," he said. "Creating a new Civilian Climate Corps is a key step.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/07/08/huge-schumer-commits-creating-civilian-climate-corps
7/8/21 —— A Fox News Climate Disinformation Channel Is The Last Thing We Need - The media giant responsible for sowing doubt about the climate crisis is launching a 24-hour weather news channel.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fox-news-weather-channel-climate-disinformation_n_60e71972e4b0787790104425
7/8/21 —— Scientists have long warned climate change threatens our food security. Now they’re finding solutions. - We’ve barely scratched the surface on the potential of plants.
https://grist.org/article/scientists-have-long-warned-climate-change-threatens-our-food-security-now-theyre-finding-solutions/
7/8/21 —— Op-ed: Embracing rainwater through green infrastructure - The US can tackle climate change driven flooding in vulnerable communities by building nature-based solutions into infrastructure plans.
https://www.dailyclimate.org/green-infrastructure-2653726985.html
7/8/21 —— Why Record-Breaking Overnight Temperatures Are So Concerning - Nights are warming faster than days across most of the U.S., with potentially deadly consequences.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/09/upshot/record-breaking-hot-weather-at-night-deaths.html
7/8/21 —— As Arctic melt sets early July record, hard times lie ahead for ice: Studies
https://news.mongabay.com/2021/07/as-arctic-melt-sets-early-july-record-hard-times-lie-ahead-for-ice-studies/
7/8/21 —— With Amazon Rainforest at 'Tipping Point,' Big Banks Told to End Fossil Fuel Financing - “If banks have Arctic exclusions to protect biodiversity and fragile ecosystems... then why don't banks have exclusions for the Amazon?”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/07/09/amazon-rainforest-tipping-point-big-banks-told-end-fossil-fuel-financing
7/8/21 —— Warning Against 'Exxon Infrastructure Deal,' Progressives Say Jobs Package Must Center Climate - “Enough negotiating with Republicans pushing environmental injustice. We should be the ones the Biden administration prioritizes at the table.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/07/09/warning-against-exxon-infrastructure-deal-progressives-say-jobs-package-must-center
7/8/21 —— Sizzling in the South: Gulf Coast communities fight for equitable climate solutions - Miami has become a frontline community in the fight against climate change
https://www.salon.com/2021/07/09/sizzling-in-the-south-gulf-coast-communities-fight-for-equitable-climate-solutions_partner/
7/8/21 —— ‘We live in a desert. We have to act like it’: Las Vegas faces reality of drought
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/09/las-vegas-climate-change-drought-water-conservation
7/8/21 —— Hail, tornadoes and flooded New York subways as stormy weather hits east coast - Rainstorms drenched New York while Tropical Storm Elsa sparked tornadoes in North Carolina and Virginia
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/08/tropical-storm-elsa-new-york-flooding-rain
7/10/21 —--'Biden Climate Timeline' Details Broken Promises on Planetary Emergency - “The administration is not living up to its promises from the campaign," says the group behind the project.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/07/09/biden-climate-timeline-details-broken-promises-planetary-emergency
7/10/21 —--'Flooded NYC Subways Exemplify Why Climate Is Key to Infrastructure Fight - “I have been told that combating climate change is expensive. Compared to what?" asked Sen. Bernie Sanders.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/07/09/flooded-nyc-subways-exemplify-why-climate-key-infrastructure-fight
7/10/21 —--'1 Billion Sea Creatures Cooked To Death In Canada In Record Pacific Northwest Heat Wave - “If we don’t like it, then we need to work harder to reduce emissions,” warned the University of British Columbia scientist who calculated the massive toll.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/billion-sea-creatures-died-vancouver-canada-heat-wave_n_60e798ece4b0adb9cbfada39
7/10/21 —--'‘A scourge of the Earth’: grasshopper swarms overwhelm US west - The drought has created ideal conditions for grasshopper eggs to hatch and for the insatiable eaters to survive into adulthood
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/04/grasshopper-swarms-us-west-drought
7/10/21 —--'US west heatwave: 31m people brace for record-breaking temperatures
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/09/us-west-heatwave-california-nevada-record
7/10/21 —--'Las Vegas could surpass its record-high of 117F as residents of US west face very high risk of heat-related illness
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/california-western-us-heat-wave_n_60e8777be4b0df9868228b70
7/10/21 —--'How to sabotage climate legislation? An Exxon lobbyist explains - Joe Manchin, "shadow groups," and one really bad job interview
https://www.salon.com/2021/07/10/how-to-sabotage-climate-legislation-an-exxon-lobbyist-explains_partner/
7/10/21 —— 'Dead Heat: It Is Too Late to Leave - The house is burning, burning, burning ... as we all walk past.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/07/09/dead-heat-it-too-late-leave
7/11/21 —— To Protect Themselves From Heat Waves, the Working Class Needs to Get Organized
https://truthout.org/articles/to-protect-themselves-from-heat-waves-the-working-class-needs-to-get-organized/
7/11/21 —— Why Are We Fueling Our Own Extinction? - ‘While the rest of us understand supply and demand theory, our politicians, slick from all that oil money gushing into their hands, seem unable to firmly grasp this basic theory.’
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/07/10/why-are-we-fueling-our-own-extinction
7/12/21 —— Our climate change turning point is right here, right now - - People are dying. Aquatic animals are baking in their shells. Fruit is being cooked on the tree. It’s time to act
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/12/our-climate-change-turning-point-is-right-here-right-now
7/12/21 —— In California’s interior, there’s no escape from the desperate heat: ‘Why are we even here?’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/10/california-central-valley-extreme-heat-race
7/12/21 —— Californians asked to cut water use by 15% as drought ravages the state - The governor has only requested, not ordered, the restriction as reservoirs have dwindled to dangerously low levels
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/08/california-drought-water-use-restriction
7/12/21 —— How the highly unusual Death Valley temperatures just got more complicated
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/11/weather/weather-death-valley-heat-record-california-weekend/index.html
7/12/21 —--'Wake Up Call': Rapidly Thawing Permafrost Threatens Trans-Alaska Pipeline - “The implications of this speak to the pipeline’s integrity and the effect climate change is having on pipeline safety in general.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/07/11/wake-call-rapidly-thawing-permafrost-threatens-trans-alaska-pipeline
7/12/21 —— Arctic Roads and Runways Face the Prospect of Rapid Decline - A new study helps explain why melting permafrost is hitting Arctic infrastructure so hard.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-02/alaska-infrastructure-faces-prospect-of-rapid-decline?srnd=citylab-environment
7/12/21 —— What It Means If 'Ecocide' Becomes an International Crime - ‘Our understanding of our place in, and responsibility towards, the natural world is in dire need of a reality check’
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/07/11/what-it-means-if-ecocide-becomes-international-crime
7/12/21 —— Climate change also has a mental health toll - Mental health effects for those dealing with climate change are pronounced.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/climate-change-mental-health-toll/story?id=77926778
7/12/21 —— Bootleg Fire rages through Oregon, threatening California’s electricity supply
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/07/12/bootleg-fire-oregon-disaster-environment/
7/12/21 —— Countdown to billionaire space race raises climate questions
https://www.eenews.net/stories/1063735795
7/13/21 —— A Climate View From California: Teetering on the Existential Edge - It’s impossible to overstate the urgency of the moment.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/07/12/climate-view-california-teetering-existential-edge
7/13/21 —— In Antarctica, a lake’s disappearance might offer clues about melting ice shelves
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/antarctica-lake-disappear-climate-change/2021/07/09/2e94dbd2-df4e-11eb-9f54-7eee10b5fcd2_story.html
7/13/21 —— This Governor Withdrew From A Climate Pact. Days Later, He’s Pleading For Help With Drought. - Montana GOP Gov. Greg Gianforte isn’t interested in helping combat climate change, but wants federal assistance to deal with its worsening impacts.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/montana-governor-greg-gianforte-climate-drought-wildfires_n_60ec923ce4b0b2a04a1bedc0
7/13/21 —— For Central Valley Farmworkers, No Escape From Stifling Heat
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/07/for-central-valley-farmworkers-no-escape-from-stifling-heat/
7/13/21 —— American west stuck in cycle of ‘heat, drought and fire’, experts warn
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/12/wildfires-california-oregon-drought-heat-fire-cycle
7/14/21 —— Western US Hits 130 Degrees as Congress Bickers Over Climate Infrastructure
https://truthout.org/articles/western-us-hits-130-degrees-as-congress-bickers-over-climate-infrastructure/
7/14/21 —— The West catches fire while the East goes under water as climate change fuels both extremes - The Bootleg Fire in Oregon will likely become the first 200,000-acre wildfire of 2021. In the East, up to a foot of rain put parts of Pennsylvania under water.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/west-catches-fire-while-east-goes-under-water-climate-change-n1273815
7/14/21 —— Is There No Way Out of the Climate Crisis? - There isn’t without global action against fossil fuel companies.
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/climate-crisis-fires/
7/14/21 —--'Subsidizing the Climate and Ecological Crisis': Biden Approving Fossil Fuel Permits Faster Than Trump or Obama - AP’s findings run counter to the president's campaign vow to end oil and gas extraction on public lands.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/07/13/subsidizing-climate-and-ecological-crisis-biden-approving-fossil-fuel-permits-faster
7/14/21 —— Manchin's Energy Bill Condemned as 'Kick in the Gut to Climate Justice’ - “Instead of funding non-polluting alternatives, it throws public money at expensive, unproven technologies that will allow the fossil fuel industry to continue poisoning frontline communities and trashing the planet.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/07/13/manchins-energy-bill-condemned-kick-gut-climate-justice
7/14/21 —— Campaign Disclosures Show Senate Dems in ExxonMobil Exposé Got Almost $333,000 - A separate review of the fossil fuel company's "2020 Worldwide Giving Report" shows that centrist think tanks are also "raking in Exxon cash.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/07/13/campaign-disclosures-show-senate-dems-exxonmobil-expose-got-almost-333000
7/14/21 —--'A Big Deal,' Says Sanders as Dems Agree to Pursue a $3.5 Trillion Reconciliation Bill - Sanders, chair of the Senate Budget Committee, described the spending agreement as the "most significant piece of legislation... since the Great Depression.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/07/14/big-deal-says-sanders-dems-agree-pursue-35-trillion-reconciliation-bill
7/14/21 —— Farmworkers Demand Basic Safety After Working In Extreme Heat Wave - Undocumented farmworkers worked in 100+ degrees to get food on people’s tables. They want federal heat standards and a pathway to citizenship.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/farmworkers-federal-heat-standards-citizenship_n_60e76f7be4b0639661bcf260
7/15/21 —— EU unveils ambitious climate package as it cools on fossil fuels
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/14/europe/eu-climate-change-policies-fit-for-55-intl/index.html
7/15/21 —--'$3.5 Trillion Isn't Enough': Sunrise Says House Dems Must Go Bigger Than Senate on Climate - “The House must put forward a larger investment than this and hold the line on what we need," said the youth-led Sunrise Movement. "Climate priorities cannot be cut.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/07/14/35-trillion-isnt-enough-sunrise-says-house-dems-must-go-bigger-senate-climate
7/15/21 —— Central American Climate Migration is a Human Security Crisis
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/07/central-american-climate-migration-is-a-human-security-crisis/
7/15/21 —— At least 6 killed in Germany as flooding caused by rainfall 'not seen in 100 years' hits Europe
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/15/europe/germany-deaths-severe-flooding-intl/index.html
7/15/21 —— Many Nations Receive Failing Scores on Climate Change and Health - A new report says the European Union and the United States, among others, need to go much farther in addressing human health impacts in their national climate change commitments.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/15072021/many-nations-receive-failing-scores-on-climate-change-and-health/
7/15/21 —— Areas of Earth that contributed less to climate change will suffer the most
https://www.sfchronicle.com/climate/article/Areas-of-earth-that-contributed-less-to-climate-16314484.php
7/15/21 —--'Biggest Story in the World Right Now': Humanity Has Flipped Amazon From Carbon Sink to Source - The findings, said one expert, "show that the uncertain future is happening now.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/07/14/biggest-story-world-right-now-humanity-has-flipped-amazon-carbon-sink-source
7/15/21 —— The Case Is Made—and the Time Is Now—for a Civilian Climate Corps - From Bernie Sanders and AOC to the Sunrise Movement, progressives are working to establish an updated version of a New Deal program to meet the challenges of economic and climate upheaval.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/07/14/case-made-and-time-now-civilian-climate-corps
7/15/21 —— Heat exhaustion, apocalyptic scenes: what it’s like fighting the US’s biggest wildfire
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/15/wildfire-firefighter-oregon-california-bootleg
7/16/21 —— Climate Coverage Must Stop Ignoring the World's Poorest - The global poor have been living, and dying, from climate-driven disasters for years—but the mainstream media in richer nations is nowhere to be found.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/07/15/climate-coverage-must-stop-ignoring-worlds-poorest
7/16/21 —— High-tide flood risk is accelerating, putting coastal economies at risk
https://theconversation.com/high-tide-flood-risk-is-accelerating-putting-coastal-economies-at-risk-164481
Joe Manchin says he's 'very, very' disturbed about reconciliation proposals on climate change
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/14/politics/joe-manchin-reconciliation-climate-change/index.html
7/16/21 —— The Government Cut Off Water to Farmers in the Klamath Basin. It Reignited a Decades-Old War Over Water and Fish - Drought has long fueled tensions between growers, who depend on the water for irrigation, and the Klamath Tribes, who hold two protected fish species as sacred.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16072021/drought-klamath-basin-oregon-california-agriculture-tribes-fish/
7/16/21 —— Severe drought threatens Hoover dam reservoir – and water for US west
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/13/hoover-dam-lake-mead-severe-drought-us-west
7/16/21 —— The health and climate consequences of the American food system cost three times as much as the food itself
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/07/16/true-cost-of-american-food-system/
7/16/21 —— Hundreds Missing and Scores Dead as Raging Floods Strike Western Europe - Strong rains caused rivers to burst their banks and wash away buildings in Belgium and Germany, where at least 1,300 remained missing. Homes and streets in the Netherlands and Switzerland also flooded.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/15/world/europe/flooding-germany-belgium-switzerland-netherlands.html
7/16/21 —— Nearly half of Americans say climate change has become a bigger threat - Extreme weather is behind the shift, and about a third of poll respondents say the change influences their decision where to live.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/-nearly-half-of-americans-say-climate-change-has-become-a-bigger-threat
7/16/21 —— Washington governor calls it the ‘summer of climate change’ as West Coast to be hit with another heatwave from Saturday - ‘This is not political hyperbole. It is a scientific consensus that is jarring the life of every Washingtonian in some way,’ says Governor Inslee
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/washington-heatwave-inslee-drought-emergency-b1884596.html
7/17/21 —— Noam Chomsky: 2024 will be an ‘organized death knell for human society’ if Republicans retake the White House
https://www.alternet.org/2021/07/noam-chomsky-2024-will-be-an-organized-knell-for-human-society-if-republicans-retake-the-white-house/
7/17/21 —--'We Are in Deep, Deep Sh*t': Climate Experts Shocked at Severity of Floods in Germany and Belgium
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/07/16/we-are-deep-deep-sht-climate-experts-shocked-severity-floods-germany-and-belgium
7/17/21 —— Flood Deaths Are Rising In Germany And Officials Blame Climate Change
https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2021/07/16/1016796637/germany-belgium-flooding-deaths-climate-change
7/17/21 —— How climate change fueled the devastating floods in Germany and northwest Europe - “These are the harbingers of climate change that have now arrived in Germany.”
https://www.vox.com/22577431/germany-flooding-europe-climate-change
7/17/21 —— Flash Flooding in Thailand Rages Through Canals and Streets
https://weather.com/news/weather/video/flash-flooding-in-thailand-rages-through-canals-and-streets
7/17/21 —— Rain and Flood Threat From Midwest to Northeast
https://weather.com/news/weather/video/weekend-rain-and-flood-threat-from-midwest-to-northeast
7/17/21 —— Flagstaff declares state of emergency as Arizona hit by devastating floods - Debris from areas burned by wildfires courses through city streets as one woman dies in flash flood on Colorado River
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/16/arizona-floods-flagstaff-state-of-emergency
7/17/21 —— As coastal flooding worsens, some cities are retreating from the water
https://theconversation.com/as-coastal-flooding-worsens-some-cities-are-retreating-from-the-water-164463
7/17/21 —— Oregon wildfire causes miles-high ‘fire clouds’ as flames grow - Pyrocumulus clouds viewable from 100 miles away as Bootleg fire grows beyond size of New York City
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/16/bootleg-fire-oregon-fire-clouds-pyrocumulus
7/17/21 —— What’s in wildfire smoke? A toxicologist explains the health risks
https://theconversation.com/whats-in-wildfire-smoke-a-toxicologist-explains-the-health-risks-164597
7/17/21 —— Billions in Trust Meant for Wildfire Survivors Went to Lawyers and Consultants
https://truthout.org/video/billions-in-trust-meant-for-wildfire-survivors-went-to-lawyers-and-consultants/
7/17/21 —— Oregon Workers Feared For Their Lives During Heat Wave, OSHA Complaints Show - Around the state, workers said they lacked air conditioning and sufficient breaks as the Pacific Northwest shattered temperature records.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/oregon-workers-heat-wave-osha_n_60f148b6e4b0a771e802f616
7/17/21 —--'Future Belongs to Renewable Energy': Greenland Ditches All Oil Drilling - “Great news!" exclaimed one international legal group.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/07/16/future-belongs-renewable-energy-greenland-ditches-all-oil-drilling
7/17/21 —— Great Salt Lake is shrinking fast. Scientists demand action before it becomes a toxic dustbin
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/17/us/great-salt-lake-drought-dying/index.html
7/17/21 —— Officials Pull ‘Emergency Lever’ as Lake Powell Plunges Toward Dangerous New Low - The West's second-largest reservoir could be at risk of losing the ability to generate hydropower as officials rush to fill it.
https://gizmodo.com/officials-pull-emergency-lever-as-lake-powell-plunges-1847308190
7/18/21 —— Converging Climate Risks: Government, Military, and Business at NATO 2030
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/07/converging-climate-risks-government-military-and-business-at-nato-2030/
7/18/21 —— Desperate search for survivors as western Europe reels from a 'catastrophe of historic proportion’
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/17/europe/floods-western-europe-intl/index.html
7/18/21 —— Devastating Photos Of The Floods In Germany That Have Killed Over 100 People
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katebubacz/photos-deadly-floods-germany
7/18/21 —— A flash flood killed a Grand Canyon visitor. Drought in the Southwest could be making monsoon flooding worse
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/16/weather/monsoon-flood-arizona-utah/index.html
7/18/21 —— The largest wildfire in the US has grown about 1,000 acres every hour
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/16/weather/western-us-wildfires/index.html
7/18/21 —— Dry thunderstorms and high temperatures raise wildfire risk across the already-scorched West
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/17/weather/western-us-wildfires-saturday/index.html
7/18/21 —— Oregon's Growing Bootleg Fire is One of 70 Now Raging in US West, Where Another Heatwave Looms - “We are living through a climate catastrophe," said Rep. Jamaal Bowman. "We have to redesign our economy to respond to the current crisis and to ensure it doesn't get much, much worse.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/07/17/oregons-growing-bootleg-fire-one-70-now-raging-us-west-where-another-heatwave-looms
7/18/21 —— Analysis: ‘No one is safe’ as extreme weather batters the wealthy world
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/analysis-no-one-is-safe-as-extreme-weather-batters-the-wealthy-world/
7/18/21 —— With Disasters Mounting By The Day, The U.S. May Finally Enact Real Climate Policy - But there are some big “ifs.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/natural-disasters-climate-policy_n_60f1e92be4b0d5140ebfe89c
7/18/21 —— Manchin Wants to Invest More Taxpayer Money in Propping Up Fossil Fuel Industry
https://truthout.org/articles/manchin-wants-to-invest-more-taxpayer-money-in-propping-up-fossil-fuel-industry/
7/18/21 —— Ocasio-Cortez: 'House Progressives Are Standing Up' for Infrastructure Plan Prioritizing Care, Climate - “If Sen. Manchin and the rest of the Senate approve the 'reconciliation bill' then we will approve their bipartisan bill. But if they try to strip immigration reform, child care, climate action, etc., then we're at an impasse," said the New York Democrat.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/07/16/ocasio-cortez-house-progressives-are-standing-infrastructure-plan-prioritizing-care
7/18/21 —— Companies Must Disclose—and Face—Mounting Climate Risks - The United States is hurtling toward a half-trillion dollars' worth of annual economic losses in a do-nothing scenario on emissions.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/07/17/companies-must-disclose-and-face-mounting-climate-risks
7/18/21 —— At least 800 tons of dead sea life washed up in Tampa Bay
https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/at-least-800-tons-of-dead-sea-life-washed-up-in-tampa-bay/983679
LOOKING BACK - How climate change is making ‘red tide’ algal blooms even worse
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2018/08/14/how-climate-change-is-making-red-tide-algal-blooms-even-worse/
7/18/21 —— ‘In hell’: Nowhere has been drier than this stretch of Texas
https://www.eenews.net/articles/in-hell-nowhere-has-been-drier-than-this-stretch-of-texas/
7/18/21 —— Climate Mayors are building back better — now Congress must act
https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/energy-environment/563122-climate-mayors-are-building-back-better-now-congress
7/18/21 —— Why Climate Change Threatens Your Retirement Savings
https://texasnewstoday.com/why-climate-change-threatens-your-retirement-savings/363630/
7/18/21 —— California’s Cliffs Are Collapsing One by One - Researchers are stepping up their efforts to understand why—and when—bluffs come crashing down.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/07/californias-cliffs-are-collapsing-one-one/619462/
7/19/21 —— Enormous scale of destruction is revealed as water subsides after historic western Europe flooding
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/18/europe/western-europe-floods-sunday-intl/index.html
7/19/21 —— Merkel pledges stronger post-flood focus on ‘climate protection’ - n‘The German language knows hardly any words for this devastation,’ chancellor says on visit to flood-stricken region.
https://www.politico.eu/article/merkel-pledges-stronger-post-flood-focus-on-climate-protection/
7/19/21 —— ‘How many dead will we accept?’ European floods expose failure to heed climate warnings - A Belgian climatologist surveys the wreckage of his hometown.
https://www.politico.eu/article/belgium-european-floods-failure-to-heed-climate-change-warnings/
7/19/21 —— ‘It Is All Connected’: Extreme Weather in the Age of Climate Change - The storm that brought flooding and devastation to parts of Europe is the latest example of an extreme weather event. More are expected.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/16/climate/europe-floods-climate-change.html
7/19/21 —— Opinion: The E.U. is getting serious about climate. Can the U.S. follow suit?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/18/eu-is-getting-serious-about-climate-can-us-follow-suit/
7/19/21 —— Despite Climate Crisis, Governments Failing to Use Covid Stimulus for Green Recovery - The pandemic offers a perfect opportunity to build back better and accelerate the world's transition to renewables, but only 10% of the $17 trillion global bailout is expected to have a positive environmental impact.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/07/18/despite-climate-crisis-governments-failing-use-covid-stimulus-green-recovery
7/19/21 —— To Flee, or to Stay Until the End and Be Swallowed by the Sea - On the Isle de Jean Charles in the bayous of Louisiana, the nation’s first federally funded climate migrants have a decision to make as their ancestral island disappears.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18072021/to-flee-or-to-stay-until-the-end-and-be-swallowed-by-the-sea/
7/19/21 —— It’s Not a Border Crisis. It’s a Climate Crisis. - There was a time when rural Guatemalans never left home. But back to back hurricanes, failed crops and extreme poverty are driving them to make the dangerous trek north to the U.S. border.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/07/19/guatemala-immigration-climate-change-499281
7/19/21 —— Democrats look to crush states’ highway habit - The proposed changes are riling up opposition from state transportation departments and the road-building lobby.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/18/democrats-states-highways-transportation-499906
7/19/21 —— What Is Flash Flooding, and How Can You Avoid It? - Eighty-eight people die on average each year in the United States as a result of sudden flooding that follows heavy rainstorms, the National Weather Service said.
https://www.nytimes.com/article/flash-flood-safety-tips.html
7/19/21 —— What an Alberta town can teach us about coping with climate disasters - High River was hard-hit by flooding in 2013; it's now a case study for recovery and mental health
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/whatonearth/what-an-alberta-town-can-teach-us-about-coping-with-climate-disasters-1.6101147
7/19/21 —— Bernie Sanders steers climate agenda from Budget perch
https://www.eenews.net/articles/bernie-sanders-steers-climate-agenda-from-budget-perch/
7/19/21 —— Northern hemisphere’s awful summer shows urgent need for climate action
https://www.theage.com.au/environment/climate-change/northern-hemisphere-s-awful-summer-shows-urgent-need-for-climate-action-20210718-p58ar7.html
7/19/21 —--‘ We are so unprepared': Extreme heat fueled by climate change putting farmworkers' lives on the line
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/we-are-so-unprepared-extreme-heat-fueled-by-climate-change-putting-farmworkers-lives-on-the-line/ar-AAMhRUa
7/20/21 —— Report from Europe’s flood zone: researcher calls out early warning system gridlock amid shocking loss of life
https://theconversation.com/report-from-europes-flood-zone-researcher-calls-out-early-warning-system-gridlock-amid-shocking-loss-of-life-164648
7/20/21 —— The next big financial crisis could be triggered by climate change – but central banks can prevent it
https://theconversation.com/the-next-big-financial-crisis-could-be-triggered-by-climate-change-but-central-banks-can-prevent-it-161726
7/20/21 —--'A False Solution': 500+ Groups Urge US, Canadian Leaders to Reject Carbon Capture - “We need to ditch fossil fuels, not 'fix' them with technologies that are dangerous, costly, unproven at scale, and at odds with environmental justice.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/07/19/false-solution-500-groups-urge-us-canadian-leaders-reject-carbon-capture
7/20/21 —— Will the Democrats’ Climate Legislation Hinge on Carbon Capture? - The bipartisan infrastructure bill may include billions in support for the technology. Progressive groups are not happy about it.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20072021/democrats-climate-infrastructure-legislation-carbon-capture-storage/
7/20/21 —— Wet bulb temperature: The crucial weather concept that actually tells us when heat becomes lethal - High temperatures aren't meaningful — this little-known metric determines when our cities will become uninhabitable
https://www.salon.com/2021/07/18/wet-bulb-temperature-climate-change/
7/20/21 —— How a powerful US lobby group helps big oil to block climate action
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/19/big-oil-climate-crisis-lobby-group-api
7/20/21 —— The Bootleg Fire in Oregon is so large, it's creating its own weather
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/20/weather/us-western-wildfires-tuesday/index.html
7/20/21 —— Climate-Driven Changes in Clouds are Likely to Amplify Global Warming - New research, using machine learning, helps project how the buildup of greenhouse gases will change clouds in ways that further heat the planet.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19072021/climate-driven-changes-in-clouds-are-likely-to-amplify-global-warming/
7/20/21 —— Think Twice Before You Build That Seawall - All the water still has to go somewhere.
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/07/think-twice-before-you-build-that-seawall/
7/20/21 —— Biden administration, workers grapple with health threats posed by climate change and heat - The Labor Department is looking at new regulations while workers, particularly in the West, suffer through a brutal summer
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/07/19/heat-wave-workers-climate-change/
7/20/21 —— Flood me once, shame on me. Flood me twice, shame on FEMA? - A 20-year-old law would have made communities more resilient to climate change. FEMA didn’t enforce it
https://www.salon.com/2021/07/20/flood-me-once-shame-on-me-flood-me-twice-shame-on-fema_partner/
7/20/21 —— Here’s What Climate Scientists Are Really Saying About This Catastrophic Summer - “The community hasn’t done as good of a job projecting how bad climate impacts would be at 1.2 degrees Celsius.”
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/07/heres-what-climate-scientists-are-really-saying-about-this-catastrophic-summer/
7/20/21 —— Harrowing report on plastic pollution says we have 29 years to save the ocean - A journal article and report issued simultaneously point to a (difficult) path towards reducing plastic pollution
https://www.salon.com/2021/07/20/harrowing-report-on-plastic-pollution-says-we-have-29-years-to-save-the-ocean/
7/21/21 —— Are We Prepared for Pandora's Box of Climate Catastrophes? - There is still time to avoid the catastrophe we have set in motion, but it is going to take drastic behavior change and huge grassroots pressure on governments to force them to act immediately.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/07/20/are-we-prepared-pandoras-box-climate-catastrophes
7/21/21 —— IEA Warns CO2 Emissions Set to Climb to 'All-Time High' as Rich Nations Skimp on Clean Energy - The Paris-based agency slammed rich governments for promising to "build back better" but refusing to "put their money where their mouth
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/07/20/iea-warns-co2-emissions-set-climb-all-time-high-rich-nations-skimp-clean-energy
7/21/21 —— Chinese city drenched with record-breaking rainfall - VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2ZqVIwyX_M
7/21/21 —— $470 million flood damage bill in hard-hit Dutch town
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/470-million-flood-damage-bill-in-hard-hit-dutch-town/
7/21/21 —— Fatal floods expose gaps in Germany’s disaster preparedness
https://www.climatechangenews.com/2021/07/20/fatal-floods-german-authorities-face-criticism-lack-preparation/
7/21/21 —— Sea snot choking Turkey's waters could be a warning to the world
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sea-snot-turkey-could-be-warning-to-world-us-pollution-climate-change/
7/21/21 —— Environmentalists urge DeSantis to declare Red Tide emergency - Pinellas County has removed 1,277 tons of dead marine life and debris as calls for Gov. Ron DeSantis to declare a state of emergency grow.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/2021/07/19/environmentalists-urge-desantis-to-declare-red-tide-emergency/
7/21/21 —— A Drought So Dire That a Utah Town Pulled the Plug on Growth - Groundwater and streams vital to both farmers and cities are drying up in the West, challenging the future of development.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/20/us/utah-water-drought-climate-change.html
7/21/21 —— A new study shows just how quickly the world’s cryosphere is shrinking
https://www.arctictoday.com/a-new-study-shows-just-how-quickly-the-worlds-cryosphere-is-shrinking/?wallit_nosession=1
7/21/21 —— As Record Heat Threatens Tokyo Olympics, Here's What Climate Change Means For Future Sporting Events
https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2021/07/20/as-record-heat-threatens-tokyo-olympics-heres-what-climate-change-means-for-future-sporting-events/?sh=35e4da284fb2
7/21/21 —— ‘Airpocalypse’ hits Siberian city as heatwave sparks forest fires
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/20/airpocalypse-hits-siberian-city-as-heatwave-sparks-forest-fires
7/21/21 —— Extreme heat is killing American workers - The US needs a national standard to protect workers from heat.
https://www.vox.com/22560815/heat-wave-worker-extreme-climate-change-osha-workplace-farm-restaurant
7/22/21 —— In China, 'Heaviest Rain in 1,000 Years' Triggers Deadly Flooding, Landslides - At least 25 people in the central province of Henan have died and roughly 200,000 residents have been evacuated as of Wednesday.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/07/21/china-heaviest-rain-1000-years-triggers-deadly-flooding-landslides
7/22/21 —— B.C. declares state of emergency as wildfires grow, forcing more evacuations
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/osoyoos-wildfire-july-20-1.6109437
7/22/21 —— ‘Nowhere is safe’: heat shatters vision of Pacific north-west as climate refuge
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/21/pacific-northwest-heatwave-dome-climate-change
7/22/21 —— After Covid, the climate crisis will be the next thing the right says we ‘just have to live with’ - The politics of this new, extreme individualism will make collective responses to social crises impossible
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/22/covid-climate-crisis-politics-individualism
7/22/21 —— 84 Democrats Sign Letter Demanding Civilian Climate Corps in Reconciliation Bill
https://truthout.org/articles/84-democrats-sign-letter-demanding-civilian-climate-corps-in-reconciliation-bill/
7/22/21 —— The Senate’s infrastructure gamble, explained - The future of the Senate’s two-track strategy on infrastructure is uncertain.
https://www.vox.com/2021/7/21/22575946/senate-infrastructure-gamble-explained-bif
7/22/21 —— Do Leaked Climate Reports Help or Hurt Public Understanding of Global Warming?
Last month’s leaked IPCC report cherry picked grim scenarios, but it’s just the latest in a long line of leaks intended to shape perception of climate science.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21072021/do-leaked-climate-reports-help-or-hurt-public-understanding-of-global-warming/
7/22/21 —— Catastrophic floods could hit Europe far more often, study finds - Slow-moving storms such as recent deluge in Germany could become 14 times more frequent by 2100
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/21/catastrophic-floods-could-hit-europe-far-more-often-study-finds
7/22/21 —— Chinese City Hit by Deadly Floods Had Heatwaves Days Before - The devastation in Zhengzhou is the latest in a series of extreme weather events globally that are making the risks of climate change more tangible.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-21/chinese-city-hit-by-deadly-floods-suffered-heatwaves-days-before
7/22/21 —— Scientists understood physics of climate change in the 1800s – thanks to a woman named Eunice Foote
https://theconversation.com/scientists-understood-physics-of-climate-change-in-the-1800s-thanks-to-a-woman-named-eunice-foote-164687
7/22/21 —— New Temperature Outlook is in - Meteorologist Ari Sarsalari breaks down what to expect through November.
https://weather.com/news/weather/video/new-temperature-outlook-is-in
7/22/21 —— Lessons from Indigenous firefighters on the front lines of Western wildfires - First Nations bring generations of knowledge to the fight against climate-fueled blazes.
https://www.vox.com/22586851/indigenous-native-firefighters-western-wildfires-climate-change
7/22/21 —— Summer of disaster: Extreme weather wreaks havoc worldwide as climate change bears down
https://news.yahoo.com/summer-disaster-extreme-weather-wreaks-115720112.html
7/22/21 —— Extreme heat triggers mass die-offs and stress for wildlife in the West
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/extreme-heat-triggers-mass-die-offs-and-stress-for-wildlife-in-the-west
7/23/21 —— Wildfire Smoke Blankets North American Skies
https://earthsky.org/todays-image/wildfire-smoke-blankets-north-american-skies/?utm_source=EarthSky+News&utm_campaign=9f60597838-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_02_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c643945d79-9f60597838-395109277
7/23/21 —— The Climate Crisis Has Gone Critical - Human-induced climate change has gotten so bad that our only hope isn’t to reverse it, but to simply save what we can.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/07/23/climate-crisis-has-gone-critical
7/23/21 —— Landslides in India Kill 100+ as Monsoon Rains Pummel Nation - “We have been talking about climate change and it is happening," said one of the country's top environmental officials.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/07/23/landslides-india-kill-100-monsoon-rains-pummel-nation
7/23/21 —— ‘Reckless’: G20 states subsidised fossil fuels by $3tn since 2015, says report - Support for coal, oil and gas remains high despite pledges to tackle climate crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/20/g20-states-subsidised-fossil-fuels-2015-coal-oil-gas-cliamte-crisis?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter
7/23/21 —— The air is toxic’: how an idyllic California lake became a nightmare - The shrinking Salton Sea was once a tourist destination. Now it’s home to dangerous algal blooms, endless dust and noxious air
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/23/salton-sea-california-lake-dust-drought-climate
7/23/21 —— Shifting from Fossil Fuels to Renewables Would Add 8 Million Energy Sector Jobs Worldwide: Study - “Currently, an estimated 18 million people work in the energy industries—a number that is likely to increase, not decrease, to 26 million if we reach our global climate targets.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/07/23/shifting-fossil-fuels-renewables-would-add-8-million-energy-sector-jobs-worldwide
7/23/21 —— Climate change will bring heavier storms and our sewers aren’t ready
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/07/23/science/climate-change-will-bring-heavier-storms-our-sewers-arent-ready/?event=event25
7/23/21 —— US set for punishing temperatures as huge ‘heat dome’ to settle over country
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/24/america-heatwave-climate-crisis-heat-dome
7/23/21 —— Three degrees of global warming is quite plausible and truly disastrous - Rapid emission cuts can reduce the risks but not eliminate them
https://www.economist.com/briefing/2021/07/24/three-degrees-of-global-warming-is-quite-plausible-and-truly-disastrous?utm_content=buffer5f160&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
7/23/21 —— Coral reef scientists raise alarm as climate change decimates vital ocean ecosystems - Coral reefs can't be protected from heat waves — and they're dying as a result
https://www.salon.com/2021/07/24/coral-reef-scientists-raise-alarm-as-climate-change-decimates-vital-ocean-ecosystems_partner/
7/24/21 —— Monsoon rains could bust exceptional drought across the Southwest
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/24/weather/southwest-monsoon-flash-flood-drought-weekend-forecast/index.html
7/24/21 —— The West's historic drought in 3 maps
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/17/weather/west-california-drought-maps/index.html
7/24/21 —— Tracking wildfires in the US
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2020/weather/wildfire-and-air-quality-tracker/
7/24/21 —— Wildfire smoke blowing across the U.S. is more toxic than we thought - Wildfires are threatening homes on the West Coast and in Canada, but their smoke is polluting air as far away as New York.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/wildfire-smoke-blowing-across-country-more-toxic-than-we-thought?loggedin=true
7/25/21 —— Oregon Gov. Warns Of ‘Harsh Reality’ Amid Mammoth Bootleg Fire - Gov. Kate Brown said fires were growing worse due to climate change. “They’re hotter, they’re more fierce, and obviously much more challenging to tackle.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kate-brown-bootleg-fire-harsh-reality_n_60fe2f9be4b0a807eeb36274
7/25/21 —— How bad is space tourism for the environment? And other space travel questions, answered. - Six questions to consider before launching yourself into space.
https://www.vox.com/recode/22589197/space-travel-tourism-bezos-branson-rockets-blue-origin-virgin-galactic-spacex
7/25/21 —— Homes and businesses damaged throughout Metro Detroit after severe storms
https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2021/07/25/homes-and-businesses-badly-damaged-throughout-metro-detroit-after-severe-storms/
7/25/21 —— California's largest wildfire is threatening thousands of structures
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/25/weather/dixie-fire-california-update/index.html
7/25/21 —— Montana Wildfire Fight Draws Help From Other States
https://www.npr.org/2021/07/24/1020207430/montana-wildfire-fight-draws-help-from-other-states-as-much-of-the-west-burns
7/28/21 —— Living on a Newly Unrecognizable Planet - The massive storms in Germany, heat domes, and fires that produce their own weather suggest that models of linear progress may no longer be appropriate for storms of this magnitude and intensity.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/07/27/living-newly-unrecognizable-planet
7/28/21 —— Record-Breaking Heat Waves Have Arrived Decades Earlier Than Predicted
https://truthout.org/articles/record-breaking-heat-waves-have-arrived-decades-earlier-than-predicted/
7/28/21 —— Small climate changes can have devastating local consequences – it happened in the Little Ice Age
https://theconversation.com/small-climate-changes-can-have-devastating-local-consequences-it-happened-in-the-little-ice-age-164916
REPOST:  READING RECOMMENDATION: The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850 (2019)
https://www.amazon.com/Little-Ice-Age-Climate-1300-1850/dp/1541618599/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=little+ice+age&qid=1627404793&s=books&sr=1-1
7/28/21 —— Infrastructure: Manchin's Significant Coal Profits Not of Interest to Corporate News - Since he took office in 2010, he’s made more than $4.5 million off coal.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/07/27/infrastructure-manchins-significant-coal-profits-not-interest-corporate-news
7/28/21 —— Historic floods fuel misery, rage in Detroit
https://www.eenews.net/articles/historic-floods-fuel-misery-rage-in-detroit/
7/28/21 —— Critical measures of global heating reaching tipping point, study finds - Carbon emissions, ocean acidification, Amazon clearing all hurtling toward new records
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/27/global-heating-critical-measures-tipping-point-study
7/28/21 —— Extreme weather events in India bear climate change footprint - Experts warn that we can not ignore the climate change footprint and it is very much going to be a part of our daily routine. Monsoon rains would increase with an increase in the global temperatures
https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/india/extreme-weather-events-in-india-bear-climate-change-footprint
7/28/21 —— Wildfires Ravage Sardinia in ‘a Disaster Without Precedent’ - A 25-mile swath of vegetation, farms and villages is hit by one of the largest wildfires in decades, devastating the Italian tourist destination.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/26/world/europe/wildfires-italy-sardinia.html
7/28/21 —— Floods, Heat, Then Floods Again: England Is Battered by Wild Weather - Thunderstorms in London flooded hospitals’ emergency rooms and submerged streets for the second time this month.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/26/world/europe/london-flooding-heat.html
7/28/21 —— ‘What can we do?’ Chinese discuss role of climate crisis in deadly floods - Media and citizens have begun asking if China has properly prepared for climate emergency
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/26/chinese-discuss-role-climate-crisis-china-deadly-floods
7/29/21 —— What we owe to future generations - They’ll face extreme risks like climate change, pandemics, and artificial intelligence. We can help them survive.
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22552963/how-to-be-a-good-ancestor-longtermism-climate-change
7/29/21 —— How many years until we must act on climate? Zero, say these climate thinkers Jennifer Francis , Michael Mann , Holly Jean Buck and Peter Kalmus - We asked a panelist of experts on when we need to start changing our economies and ways of consuming and producing. Their answer: now
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/28/climate-crisis-zero-fossil-fuels-environment
7/29/21 —— Biden's Climate Pledges Are Incompatible With His Belligerence Toward China - Bipartisan belligerence and spiraling Pentagon budgets threaten to undermine global climate action just when we need it most.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/07/28/bidens-climate-pledges-are-incompatible-his-belligerence-toward-china
7/29/21 —— Progressives Threaten to Tank Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal If Their Demands Aren't Met - “A small bipartisan infrastructure bill doesn't have a path forward in the House unless it has a jobs and families package with our progressive priorities alongside it.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/07/29/progressives-threaten-tank-bipartisan-infrastructure-deal-if-their-demands-arent-met
7/29/21 —— Derechos Are a Major Danger With Destructive Winds. Here's What to Know About Them.
https://weather.com/storms/severe/news/2020-04-28-derechos-severe-thunderstorms-widespread-damaging-winds-explained
7/29/21 —— Washington County's New Rules Against Fossil Fuel Expansion Celebrated as 'Blueprint' for Nation - “This is a landmark victory for the local communities who have stood up and held firm for over a decade to protect the climate, the Salish Sea, and their own health and safety.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/07/28/washington-countys-new-rules-against-fossil-fuel-expansion-celebrated-blueprint
7/30/21 —— Chomsky: We Need Genuine International Cooperation to Tackle the Climate Crisis
https://truthout.org/articles/chomsky-we-need-genuine-international-cooperation-to-tackle-the-climate-crisis/
7/30/21 —— Ignoring climate change will yield 'untold suffering,' panel of 14,000 scientists warns
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/news/ignoring-climate-change-will-yield-untold-suffering-panel-of-14000-scientists-warns/ar-AAMEUac?ocid=uxbndlbing
7/30/21 —— What’s in the new infrastructure bill — and why it’s a big deal - The bill would genuinely impact many people’s lives.
https://www.vox.com/22598883/infrastructure-deal-bipartisan-bill-biden-manchin
7/30/21 —— Europe's Flooding Shows Climate Solutions Must Be Driven by People-Power - It’s time to stop viewing people as victims of environmental breakdown, and start viewing them as an essential part of the solution.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/07/29/europes-flooding-shows-climate-solutions-must-be-driven-people-power
7/30/21 —— Let's Reinvent the US Military for Real National Defense - Ten ways to create a people's military.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/07/29/lets-reinvent-us-military-real-national-defense
7/30/21 —— Beetles, drought, and fires are a ticking time bomb in the West - A tiny insect is transforming the western US — with a little help from climate change.
https://www.vox.com/2021/7/29/22594137/bark-beetles-wildfire-california-oregon-climate-change
7/30/21 —— For FEMA head, trip to wildfire regions reaffirms drive to address climate change
https://www.axios.com/fema-administrator-western-wildfires-climate-change-6abee9a3-4547-4076-b1a9-33465be62615.html
7/30/21 —— To prepare for future climate change, scientists turn to past 'tipping points’
https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2021/07/29/climate-change-tipping-points/3701627572982/
7/30/21 —— Tornado ravages Philadelphia suburb amid mass casualty event
https://www.accuweather.com/en/severe-weather/tornado-ravages-philadelphia-suburb-amid-mass-casualty-event/991193?traffic_source=Connatix

JUNE 2021

Heatwave deaths set to soar as UK summers become hotter - Met Office warning over impact of global heating prompts calls for action to protect elderly and vulnerable
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/30/heatwave-deaths-set-to-soar-as-uk-summers-become-hotter
Biden's $6T plan a 'whole of government' approach on climate
https://www.eenews.net/stories/1063733825
Will there be resource wars in our renewable energy future? - The post-petroleum resource race and what to make of it
https://www.salon.com/2021/05/31/will-there-be-resource-wars-in-our-renewable-energy-future_partner/
6/2/21 ——— Western States Sizzle Under Triple-Digit Temperatures - Temperatures in parts of California could reach well above 100 on Wednesday, and areas across Nevada and Washington State will continue to see sweltering conditions.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/01/us/excessive-heat-warning.html
6/2/21 ——— Add ‘Climate Hazards’ to Your Home-Buyer’s Checklist - Maps and other data are now available to help buyers analyze the risks of fires, floods and other disasters when searching for a new house.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/01/realestate/home-buying-climate-disasters.html
6/2/21 ——— The smartest way to finance clean energy that you’ve never heard of - A national green bank could be a game changer.
https://www.vox.com/2021/6/1/22454779/green-banks-biden-american-jobs-plan
6/3/21 ——— Schumer's Anti-China Bill Sacrifices Climate for Empire - The bill undermines Kerry's negotiated agreement with China, sabotaging an opportunity for the U.S. and China—countries responsible for releasing half of the world's fossil fuel emissions—to partner on curbing emissions and sharing strategies for greening the Earth.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/06/02/schumers-anti-china-bill-sacrifices-climate-empire
6/3/21 ——— Inside Clean Energy: Yes, We Can Electrify Almost Everything. Here’s What That Looks Like. - National lab wraps up groundbreaking project on electrifying the economy.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03062021/inside-clean-energy-electrification-report/
6/3/21 ——— In the Sunbelt, Young Climate Activists Push Cities to Cut Emissions, Whether Their Mayors Listen or Not
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02062021/jacksonville-florida-nashville-tennessee-carbon-emissions-mayors-young-people/
6/3/21 ——— Global warming driving oxygen losses in Earth's freshwater lakes
https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2021/06/02/lake-oxygen-global-declines/8991622573790/
6/3/21 ——— A 20-Foot Sea Wall? Miami Faces the Hard Choices of Climate Change. - A proposal to construct barriers for storm surge protection has forced South Floridians to reckon with the many environmental challenges they face.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/02/us/miami-fl-seawall-hurricanes.html
6/3/21 ——— ‘Mind-blowing’: tenth of world’s giant sequoias may have been destroyed by a single fire
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/02/sequoias-destroyed-california-castle-fire
6/4/21 ——— Jane Goodall: Living a Life of Purpose | 2021 Templeton Prize (VIDEO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9TiRytw-OU
6/4/21 ——— Climate tipping points could topple like dominoes, warn scientists - Analysis shows significant risk of cascading events even at 2C of heating, with severe long-term effects
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/03/climate-tipping-points-could-topple-like-dominoes-warn-scientists
6/4/21 ——— Zombie Fires in the Arctic Are an Environmental Time Bomb - In peat-heavy northern terrain, blazes will increasingly last the winter.
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/06/arctic-zombie-fires-environmental-time-bomb-global-warming-climate-change/
6/4/21 ——— Call It What It Is: A Climate Emergency - Why are media outlets still not treating climate change as the catastrophic threat it truly is?
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/climate-change-media/
6/4/21 ——— Right-Wing Disinformation Campaigns Are Targeting State Climate Initiatives
https://truthout.org/articles/right-wing-disinformation-campaigns-are-targeting-state-climate-initiatives/
6/4/21 ——--'$2 Trillion Was Already the Compromise': Progressive Revolt Brews Over Biden's Infrastructure Offer to GOP - “The president can't expect us to vote for an infrastructure deal dictated by the Republican Party," said Rep. Jamaal Bowman.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/06/04/2-trillion-was-already-compromise-progressive-revolt-brews-over-bidens
6/4/21 ——— Climate crisis: rich countries falling short on vow to help poorer ones - US and UK are only G7 nations proposing to increase climate finance despite failure to meet $100bn-a-year aid pledge
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/03/climate-crisis-rich-countries-falling-short-on-vow-to-help-poorer-ones
6/5/21 ——— Biden Faces First Major Climate Protest As President - Sunrise Movement, the youth campaigners behind the Green New Deal, are set to rally at the White House.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-climate-sunrise-movement-protest_n_60b94bcee4b0169ca972db88
6/5/21 ——— Record Heat Possible From Northern Plains to Northeast
https://weather.com/news/weather/video/record-heat-possible-from-northern-plains-to-northeast
6/5/21 ——— Food fears rising
https://www.axios.com/food-costs-world-labor-384b0a07-977d-466d-884a-f70a7f4eea51.html
6/5/21 ——— Invasive Pests Spreading Due to Climate Change, Threatening Food Supply
https://weather.com/news/climate/video/invasive-pests-spreading-due-to-climate-change-threatening-food-supply
6/5/21 ——— If we can vaccinate the world, we can beat the climate crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/05/poorer-nations-climate-promises-vaccines-vaccinating-covid
6/5/21 ——— Global Task Force Says to Stop Next Pandemic Humanity Must End Destruction of Nature - “We can choose to transform this moment into an opportunity to learn from our recent tragic mistakes... We can choose to invest in prevention.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/06/04/global-task-force-says-stop-next-pandemic-humanity-must-end-destruction-nature
6/5/21 ——— America still needs to learn from its biggest pandemic failure - America’s pandemic playbook assumed the US could take collective action. The country proved that wrong.
https://www.vox.com/22458461/covid-19-collectivism-individualism-vaccine-failure-america
6/5/21 ——— How Pesticides Are Harming Soil Ecosystems - At a time when interest in regenerative agriculture is growing, a new study looks at the way pesticides can devastate soil species that foster plant health and sequester carbon.
https://civileats.com/2021/06/04/how-pesticides-are-harming-soil-ecosystems/
6/6/21 ——— Climate Security: A Tale of Two Defense Hearings
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/06/climate-security-a-tale-of-two-defense-hearings/
6/6/21 ——— Greenhouse gas levels keep rising at accelerating rates
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2021/06/greenhouse-gas-levels-keep-rising-at-accelerating-rates.html
6/6/21 ——— A slowing current system in the Atlantic Ocean spells trouble for Earth - The potential disruption of an Atlantic current system marks a "big gamble at planetary scale”
https://www.salon.com/2021/06/05/atlantic-meridional-overturning-circulation-slowing-global-warming/
6/6/21 ——— Covid and Climate Change Push South Asia Toward a Complex Emergency
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/06/covid-and-climate-change-push-south-asia-toward-a-complex-emergency/
6/6/21 ——— 2021-2030: The Renewal Decade - Protecting and regenerating the viability of our blue-green home is the essential work of the next few years. Everyone is needed and we each have a role to play.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/06/05/2021-2030-renewal-decade
6/6/21 ——— G-7 Targets Environmental Crimes in Push for Greater Disclosure
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-05/g-7-targets-environmental-crimes-in-push-for-greater-disclosure?utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&cmpid=socialflow-twitter-climate&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=climate
6/7/21 ——— The Perils of an 'America First' Climate Policy - To meet his climate promises, Biden will have to abandon the U.S. tradition of hawkish nationalism in favor of global cooperation.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/06/05/perils-america-first-climate-policy
6/7/21 ——— The West Can End the Water Wars Now - Far-right radicals in Southern Oregon are threatening to bust open an irrigation canal. Instead, the region could be a model for managing watersheds in a warmer world.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/06/oregon-water-drought-conflict/619109/
6/7/21 ——— A Million Years of Data Confirms: Monsoons Are Likely to Get Worse - The annual summer monsoon in South Asia begins this month. A new study points to more destructive storms.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/climate/monsoons-climate-change.html
6/7/21 ——— The Alarming Power of Melting Arctic Ice - At least 25 times over the past 120,000 years, the temperature in Greenland swung dramatically. Now, scientists have a better understanding of why.
https://www.hakaimagazine.com/news/the-alarming-power-of-melting-arctic-ice/
6/7/21 ——— An enormous missing contribution to global warming may have been right under our feet - A new study finds a large, previously unknown contribution to climate change through human conversion of peatlands for agriculture
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/06/04/an-enormous-missing-contribution-global-warming-may-have-been-right-under-our-feet/
6/7/21 ——— Oregon fall firestorms cautionary tale in worsening drought
https://apnews.com/article/nv-state-wire-oregon-fires-climate-change-nm-state-wire-0fcfcde1ab4a5a9b05877e2c40547855
6/7/21 ——— Economic Devastation From Climate Crisis Like Two Covid-19 Pandemics Per Year by 2050: Analysis - But Oxfam International says 2021 "could be a turning point if governments grasp the challenge to create a safer more liveable planet for all.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/06/07/economic-devastation-climate-crisis-two-covid-19-pandemics-year-2050-analysis
6/7/21 ——— David Attenborough Says Climate Change Is A ‘Crime’ Humanity Has Inflicted On The Planet - The documentarian reiterated his grief that society has destroyed large swaths of the natural world, but said humanity is “not beyond redemption.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/david-attenbourough-climate-change-crime_n_60bd88c7e4b0882193c5e7b7
6/7/21 ——— The Climate Bill Even Big Ag Loves - Even some hardline conservative senators like the Growing Climate Solutions Act. But will it make a dent in emissions?
https://www.motherjones.com/food/2021/06/carbon-market-climate-bill-agribusiness-greenhouse-gas-emissions-agriculture/
6/7/21 ——— Republicans pledge allegiance to fossil fuels like it’s still the 1950s - Republican-led states are threatening retaliation against banks that refuse to lend to coal, oil and gas companies in effort to delay transition to clean energy
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/07/republicans-fossil-fuels-coal
6/8/21 ——— Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Hits Highest Level in Over 4 Million Years - “If we want to avoid catastrophic climate change, the highest priority must be to reduce CO2 pollution to zero at the earliest possible date.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/06/07/atmospheric-carbon-dioxide-hits-highest-level-over-4-million-years
6/8/21 ——— New Cold War on a Burnt Planet? Nothing Could Make Me Sadder - My fears are only growing that the world we're leaving our children and grandchildren could be a hell on earth. The worst part, of course, is that it doesn't have to be this way.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/06/07/new-cold-war-burnt-planet-nothing-could-make-me-sadder
6/8/21 ——— Amnesty Says Paltry G7 Climate Plans 'A Devastating, Mass-Scale Assault on Human Rights’ - “These are not administrative failures, they are a devastating, mass-scale assault on human rights.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/06/07/amnesty-says-paltry-g7-climate-plans-devastating-mass-scale-assault-human-rights
6/8/21 ——— In it together: Most Americans gave back to their communities for the first time during pandemic
https://www.studyfinds.org/giving-back-communities-2020/
6/8/21 ——— Western fires are burning higher in the mountains at unprecedented rates - Heat and dryness are leaving high mountain areas more vulnerable to forest fires
https://www.salon.com/2021/06/07/western-fires-are-burning-higher-in-the-mountains-at-unprecedented-rates_partner/
6/8/21 ——— The far right is weaponizing climate change to argue against immigration - The right-wing solution to environmental problems: more borders and exclusion.
https://www.vox.com/22456663/arizona-environment-immigration-climate-change-right-wing
6/8/21 ——— Record heat bakes Middle East as temperatures top 125 degrees - It has been called ‘the harshest heat wave in history for this time of the year’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/06/07/record-june-heat-wave-middle-east/
6/8/21 ——— Amid mega-drought, rightwing militia stokes water rebellion in US west - Demonstrations have sparked fears of a confrontation between law enforcement and rightwing anti-government activists
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/08/klamath-falls-oregon-protests-ammon-bundy
6/8/21 ——— ‘Truly an emergency’: how drought returned to California – and what lies ahead
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/07/california-drought-oregon-west-climate-change
6/9/21 ——— Military Operations Will be Strained by Climate Change 0 U.S. adviser says “It is our duty to warn the public about this threat”
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/military-operations-will-be-strained-by-climate-change/
6/9/21 ——— Nuclear Subsidies May Be Slowing Transition to Clean Energy, Advocates Say
https://truthout.org/articles/nuclear-subsidies-may-be-slowing-transition-to-clean-energy-advocates-say/
6/9/21 ——— Over 8 Million Californians Live Within 50 Mi. Of Stored Radioactive Waste (VIDEO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNlEOqCRTMI
6/9/21 ——— Nobody knows exactly how tornadoes form — and the mystery can be deadly - Tornado warnings often come minutes before disaster. Here’s what’s standing in the way of better forecasts.
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/22465340/tornado-science-how-do-they-form-mystery
6/9/21 ——— ‘It was sad having to leave’: Climate crisis splits Alaskan town in half
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/08/it-was-sad-having-to-leave-climate-crisis-splits-alaskan-town-in-half
6/9/21 ——— As storm season begins, report details potential damage to polluted sites - Northeast tops list of regions with Superfund sites most impacted by hurricanes
https://www.njspotlight.com/2021/06/hurricanes-superfund-sites-pollution-contamination-spread-toxic-communities-of-color/
6/9/21 ——— The 'Big Con' Revealed: Report Details Fossil Fuel Industry's Deceptive 'Net Zero' Strategy - “Big polluters and rich governments should not only reduce emissions to Real Zero, they must pay reparations for the huge climate debt owed to the Global South.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/06/09/big-con-revealed-report-details-fossil-fuel-industrys-deceptive-net-zero-strategy
6/9/21 ——— It’s not just your imagination — ticks are out of control this year - Here’s why, and what climate change has to do with it
https://www.salon.com/2021/06/09/its-not-just-your-imagination--ticks-are-out-of-control-this-year_partner/
6/10/21 ——— Inslee Statement on Record Global Carbon Levels
https://www.governor.wa.gov/news-media/inslee-statement-record-global-carbon-levels
6/10/21 ——— International Military Council Issues “World Climate and Security Report 2021” Warning of Catastrophic Climate Risks and Urging Significant Greenhouse Gas Reductions (VIDEO)
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/06/release-international-military-council-issues-world-climate-and-security-report-2021-warning-of-catastrophic-climate-risks-and-urging-significant-greenhouse-gas-reductions/
6/10/21 ——— 'No Climate, No Deal': Progressives in Congress Warn Biden Against Cutting Green Energy From Infrastructure Package
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/06/09/no-climate-no-deal-progressives-congress-warn-biden-against-cutting-green-energy
6/10/21 ——— Most Voters Prefer Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Over Smaller GOP Proposal
https://truthout.org/articles/most-voters-prefer-bidens-infrastructure-plan-over-smaller-gop-proposal/
6/10/21 ——— 'A Gift to the Planet': Maine Lawmakers Pass Landmark Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill - “This is groundbreaking and will be heard across the nation.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/06/09/gift-planet-maine-lawmakers-pass-landmark-fossil-fuel-divestment-bill
6/10/21 ——— Ahead of Key Summit, 350+ Groups and 100+ Economists Tell G7 Nations to 'Stop Funding Fossil Fuels’ - “We have had enough of world leaders sitting and talking whilst the world burns around them, with Covid-19 and climate impacts continuing to wreak havoc," said one campaigner.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/06/09/ahead-key-summit-350-groups-and-100-economists-tell-g7-nations-stop-funding-fossil
6/10/21 ——— US solar company to open $680M plant in Ohio
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/557541-us-solar-company-to-open-680m-plant-in-ohio
6/10/21 ——— As more climate migrants cross borders seeking refuge, laws will need to adapt
https://theconversation.com/as-more-climate-migrants-cross-borders-seeking-refuge-laws-will-need-to-adapt-159673
6/10/21 ——— Podcast | Can conservative America embrace climate policy? - Sen. Jon Tester discusses the challenges facing Democrats as they try to convince red state voters to go green.
https://crosscut.com/podcast/crosscut-talks/3/15/podcast-can-conservative-america-embrace-climate-policy
6/10/21 ——— Iceland’s first ‘danger alert’ for a wildfire could be a sign of things to come - Drier weather and more things that can burn are putting Iceland at increasing risk of large wildfires.
https://www.arctictoday.com/icelands-first-danger-alert-for-a-wildfire-could-be-a-sign-of-things-to-come/?wallit_nosession=1
6/10/21 ——— Climate change is rapidly transforming the Arctic: Why everybody should care
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/557548-climate-change-is-rapidly-transforming-the-arctic-why-everybody
6/10/21 ——— Texas Republican asks: can we fix the moon’s orbit to fight climate change?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/09/texas-republican-louie-gohmert-climate-change
6/11/21 ——— 4 climate obstacles Biden facing at the G-7 - Here’s what to watch for as the president tries to find common ground with world leaders.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/10/biden-climate-obstacles-g7-492974
6/11/21 ——— Biden pitched a bold climate vision. He may be watching it die in Congress. - Climate hawks are starting to worry that their issue is getting thrown under a fossil-fueled bus.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/10/biden-climate-agenda-492726
6/11/21 ——— Public Banking Can Improve the Lives of US Workers While Helping Save the Planet
https://truthout.org/articles/public-banking-can-improve-the-lives-of-us-workers-while-helping-save-the-planet/
6/11/21 ——--'Fossil Fuel Exit Strategy' Shows Transition to Renewable Future Totally Doable - “The hurdle is no longer economic nor technical; our biggest challenges are political. A cleaner future is within reach.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/06/10/fossil-fuel-exit-strategy-shows-transition-renewable-future-totally-doable
6/11/21 ——— Looming heat wave could push Phoenix, Vegas temps to 115 F or higher
https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-forecasts/heat-wave-phoenix-vegas-temps-to-115-f-or-higher/960027
6/11/21 ——— Hoover Dam reservoir hits record low, in sign of extreme western U.S. drought
https://news.trust.org/item/20210610085045-9uvq6
6/11/21 ——— Republicans to unveil a GOP-only climate caucus
https://www.eenews.net/stories/1063734621
6/12/21 ——--'Climate Denial Masquerading as Bipartisanship': Progressives Reject Latest Infrastructure Compromise - “Refusing to act on climate means selling out future generations. The future of our planet and the health of our communities are non-negotiable.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/06/11/climate-denial-masquerading-bipartisanship-progressives-reject-latest-infrastructure
6/12/21 ——--'Following Keystone XL Victory, Climate Leaders Demand Biden Cancel Line 3 and Other 'Trump Pipelines’ - “If we want to have clean water, we have to stop poisoning it. If we want to solve the climate crisis, we can't make it worse.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/06/11/following-keystone-xl-victory-climate-leaders-demand-biden-cancel-line-3-and-other
6/12/21 ——--'The Acceleration of an Antarctic Glacier Shows How Global Warming Can Rapidly Break Up Polar Ice and Raise Sea Level - New research on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet tracked the disintegration of a floating ice shelf and how that accelerated the flow of the Pine Island Glacier to the sea.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11062021/the-acceleration-of-an-antarctic-glacier-shows-how-global-warming-can-rapidly-break-up-polar-ice-and-raise-sea-level/
6/12/21 ——— 'Joe Biden’s reforming agenda at risk of dying a slow death in Congress - 
Transformational change, such as a huge infrastructure bill and voting rights protections, are hamstrung by antiquated procedures that give an effective veto to the minority
 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/12/joe-biden-reforming-agenda-slow-death-congress
6/13/21 ——— “Climate Denial Masquerading as Bipartisanship”: Markey Pans Centrist Plan
https://truthout.org/articles/climate-denial-masquerading-as-bipartisanship-markey-pans-centrist-plan/
6/13/21 ——— Ice Shelf Protecting Critical Glacier Is Rapidly Breaking Up - The Pine Island Glacier’s ice shelf in Antarctica acts like a cork in a bottle preventing melting ice mass from flowing into the ocean.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pine-island-glacier-ice-shelf_n_60c4bface4b0402a2c0276b5
6/13/21 ——— Western U.S. may be entering its most severe drought in modern history
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/drought-western-united-states-modern-history/
6/13/21 ——— Biden plans to reverse Trump’s Alaska policy. Here’s why it matters. - Tongass National Forest is a frequent target for political ping-pong between environmental and development interests.
https://www.vox.com/2021/6/12/22530771/biden-alaska-tongass-national-forest-repeal-replace-trump-policy'
6/14/21 ——— On Climate and Covid-19 Emergencies, G7 Judged a 'Colossal Failure' for All the World to See - “Never in the history of the G7 has there been a bigger gap between their actions and the needs of the world. In the face of these challenges the G7 have chosen to cook the books on vaccines and continue to cook the planet.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/06/13/climate-and-covid-19-emergencies-g7-judged-colossal-failure-all-world-see
6/14/21 ——— Will Biden Be Forced to Give Up What Some Say is His Best Shot at Tackling Climate Change? - Studies suggest the clean electricity standard the White House is proposing would give renewables a leg up in a nation awash in fossil fuel. But Congress is a stumbling block.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14062021/biden-infrastructure-clean-electricity-standard-manchin/
6/14/21 ——— Biden and G7 Announce Progress on Climate Change with One Major Failure - The group failed to decide on ending coal for electrical power.
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/06/biden-and-g7-announce-progress-on-climate-change-with-one-major-failure/
6/14/21 ——— New Analysis Suggests We Have Already Hit Peak Internal Combustion Engine
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/new-analysis-suggests-we-have-passed-peak-internal-combustion-engine
A $26-Billion Plan to Save the Houston Area From Rising Seas
https://undark.org/2021/06/14/texas-sized-effort-to-fend-off-rising-seas/
6/14/21 ——— A new Boston high-rise will be the largest office building to meet this exacting sustainability standard - The 812,000-square-foot building will be the largest ever to get Passive House certification, meaning it meets strict requirements for how much energy it uses.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90645411/a-new-boston-high-rise-will-be-the-largest-office-building-to-meet-this-exacting-sustainability-standard
6/14/21 ——— As the Climate Emergency Grows, Farmworkers Lack Protection from Deadly Heat - Two new reports draw attention to the scant laws safeguarding farmworkers’ health, including from worsening extreme heat. 
https://civileats.com/2021/06/14/as-the-climate-emergency-grows-farmworkers-lack-protection-from-deadly-heat/
6/15/21 ——— We Don’t Need Science Fiction to Avert Climate Catastrophe - Europe is showing the world that a clean-energy transition is possible with existing technology.
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/clean-energy-transition-europe/
6/15/21 ——— Could Biden's Civilian Climate Corps Save America? - This plan ensures that we can meet our urgent demands during the climate crisis, while empowering our workers and businesses to lead a clean energy revolution.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/06/14/could-bidens-civilian-climate-corps-save-america
6/15/21 ——--'Rare, dangerous and deadly' heat wave tightens grip on western US
https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-forecasts/rare-dangerous-and-deadly-heat-wave-tightens-grip-on-western-us/961965
6/15/21 ——— Des Moines water officials call for water use reduction
https://apnews.com/article/des-moines-water-use-business-environment-and-nature-551c111b61372c48123d6e0ce93bb604
6/15/21 ——— Rocky Mountain forests burning more now than any time in the past 2,000 years
https://theconversation.com/rocky-mountain-forests-burning-more-now-than-any-time-in-the-past-2-000-years-162383
6/16/21 ——— “Back to normal” puts us back on the path to climate catastrophe - The data is in: The pandemic did nothing to slow climate change.
https://www.vox.com/22522791/climate-emissions-post-covid
6/16/21 ——— Mosquitoes in winter? Scientists say pests will be a year-long problem thanks to climate change
https://www.studyfinds.org/mosquitoes-winter-climate-change/
6/16/21 ——— Record-challenging heat wave to broil western Europe
https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-forecasts/stifling-heat-wave-to-build-in-paris-berlin-warsaw/963150
6/16/21 ——— 2021 could be one of the driest years in a millennium, and there’s no relief in sight
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/2021-could-be-one-of-the-driest-years-in-a-millennium-and-theres-no-relief-in-sightter to thousand
6/16/21 ——— 50 Million Under Heat Warning As Extreme Temps, Drought Envelop Western U.S. - Temperatures in the 110s and 120s are expected to grip Arizona, Nevada and western Colorado as the climate change-fueled heat wave continues.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/western-us-excessive-heat-drought_n_60c8f5dbe4b0f7e7ccf59d86
6/16/21 ——— Sweltering Texans urged to reduce cooking and cleaning to ease grid strain
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/16/texas-power-grid-conservation-heat-wave
6/16/21 ——— To Understand How Warming is Driving Harmful Algal Blooms, Look to Regional Patterns, Not Global Trends - Scientists have widely assumed that climate change is increasing algal blooms around the world. But a new study suggests a more nuanced relationship.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16062021/algal-blooms-global-regional-trends/
6/16/21 ——— Miami is the first city in the world with a chief heat officer
https://www.fastcompany.com/90646879/miami-is-the-first-city-in-the-world-with-a-chief-heat-officer
6/16/21 ——— Republicans aim again to block governor’s climate strategy
https://apnews.com/article/government-and-politics-pa-state-wire-climate-climate-change-environment-and-nature-1d432f8025989c48c4ef6c432b0639e3
6/17/21 ——— The Beauty of Earth From Orbit
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2021/06/photos-beauty-earth-orbit/619218/
6/17/21 ——— Gaza’s Summer: Destruction, Pandemic & Climate Change
https://consortiumnews.com/2021/06/16/gazas-summer-destruction-pandemic-climate-change/
6/17/21 ——— The West has all the ingredients for another terrible wildfire season - Extreme heat and extreme drought are combining to drive up fire risks. But blazes aren’t guaranteed.
https://www.vox.com/22527757/wildfires-heat-wave-drought-california-arizona-utah-colorado-climate    
6/17/21 ——— What tree rings reveal about America's megadrought - How we know the American west is experiencing a once-in-a-millennium drought
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2021/jun/17/tree-rings-america-megadrought-visual
6/17/21 ——— Scientist Who Spent Year at 'Epicenter' of Climate Crisis Warns World May Already Have Hit Arctic 'Tipping Point’ - ‘Urgent' action is needed, atmospheric scientist Markus Rex said.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/06/16/scientist-who-spent-year-epicenter-climate-crisis-warns-world-may-already-have-hit
6/17/21 ——— Biden’s Climate Agenda Is Colliding With Trump’s Judiciary - A Trump-appointed judge struck down Biden’s pause on new federal oil and gas leases, dealing a blow to the administration’s climate efforts.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-judge-strikes-down-biden-leasing-pause_n_60ca264ee4b0e08ef7bbf040
6/17/21 ——— Remember snow days? Today’s kids get heat days - America’s schools are underprepared for the worst impacts of climate change
https://www.salon.com/2021/06/17/remember-snow-days-todays-kids-get-heat-days_partner/
6/18/21 ——— The shocking numbers behind the Lake Mead drought crisis
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/17/us/lake-mead-drought-water-shortage-climate/index.html
6/18/21 ——— A California reservoir is expected to fall so low that a hydro-power plant will shut down for first time
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/17/us/california-drought-oroville-power/index.html
6/18/21 ——— Californians asked to cut back power usage during extreme heat conditions
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/17/weather/california-extreme-heat-power-conservation/index.html
6/18/21 ——— The American south-west is running out of water. We’ve seen it coming for years
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/16/american-south-west-drought-water
6/18/21 ——— ‘This is really, really bad’: scientists on the scorching US heatwave - Researchers had long forewarned of this crisis and now they’re seeing their studies and models become real life
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/18/us-heatwave-west-climate-crisis-drought
6/18/21 ——— Doctors warn of pavement burns as record heat wave scorches several states
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/16/weather/heatwave-pavement-burns-trnd/index.html
6/18/21 ——— One of Arizona’s largest wildfires continues to grow as heat and dry conditions grip the West
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/16/weather/arizona-wildfires-wednesday/index.html
6/18/21 ——— Arizona lawmakers advance $100M fire fund in special session
https://apnews.com/article/arizona-business-climate-change-fires-government-and-politics-c72d6e3882d908e7211c0332cdd7f10f
6/18/21 ——— Extreme Heat, Drought Fuel Dozens of Fires Across Western U.S.
https://weather.com/news/news/2021-06-16-western-wildfires-heat-wave-drought
6/18/21 ——— An eighth of the US population is sweltering under a record-breaking heat dome. Climate change is making it worse
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/16/weather/west-heat-wave-records-drought-climate/index.html
6/18/21 ——— ‘Mega-heat wave’ is peaking in the West, breaking records and intensifying drought, fire
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/06/17/heat-wave-southwest-fires-drought/
6/18/21 ——— The science connecting wildfires to climate change - A heating-up planet has driven huge increases in wildfire area burned over the past few decades.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/climate-change-increases-risk-fires-western-us
6/18/21 ——— What Is a Megadrought? - Yes, the West is in extreme drought. But for part of the region, conditions have been bad for decades, rivaling periods in the distant past.
https://www.nytimes.com/article/what-is-a-megadrought.html
6/18/21 ——— U.N. warns drought may be 'the next pandemic’
https://www.reuters.com/article/un-drought-report/un-warns-drought-may-be-the-next-pandemic-idUSL5N2NY51U
6/18/21 ——— Led by Sanders, Senate Dems Weigh $6 Trillion Infrastructure Bill as Bipartisan Talks Fail on Climate - “The Republican Party has made clear that they are not prepared to stand up for the American people and address the many crises facing working families today. We can get to work without them.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/06/17/led-sanders-senate-dems-weigh-6-trillion-infrastructure-bill-bipartisan-talks-fail
6/18/21 ——— Sanders Speaks Out Against 'Dangerous' Chorus Pushing for New Cold War With China - “Developing a mutually beneficial relationship with China will not be easy," the senator writes. "But we can do better than a new Cold War.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/06/17/sanders-speaks-out-against-dangerous-chorus-pushing-new-cold-war-china
6/18/21 ——— Is the Controlled Shrinking of Economies a Better Bet to Slow Climate Change Than Unproven Technologies? - New research suggests social transformations that prompt “degrowth” could cut humanity’s climate footprint in time to meet the Paris climate agreement target.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18062021/degrowth-economies-climate-change-technology-gdp/
6/18/21 ——— Companies bet carbon labels can help the climate. Will consumers catch on?
Growing demand for sustainable goods is driving carbon labels into the market
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2021/06/17/carbon-footprint-emissions-label/
6/18/21 ——— What’s a 100-year flood? A hydrologist explains
https://theconversation.com/whats-a-100-year-flood-a-hydrologist-explains-162827
6/18/21 ——— Salamanders have a secret to surviving climate change - These slippery amphibians are teaching scientists about the power of adaptation and the limits of prediction.
https://www.vox.com/22533604/california-drought-heatwave-wildfires-climate-change-salamanders
6/19/21 ——--'Epic Failure of Humanity': Global Displaced Population Hits All-Time High - “The tragedy of so many children being born into exile should be reason enough to make far greater efforts to prevent and end conflict and violence.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/06/18/epic-failure-humanity-global-displaced-population-hits-all-time-high
6/19/21 ——--Lake Mead's decline points to scary water future in West
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/558991-lake-meads-decline-points-to-scary-water-future-in-west
6/19/21 ——--33 Wildfires Are Already Burning Across 10 States – and Summer Hasn’t Even Begun
https://truthout.org/articles/33-wildfires-are-already-burning-across-10-states-and-summer-hasnt-even-begun/
6/19/21 ——--'Surreal' and 'Distressing': Climate Experts' Predictions Come True With US Heatwave - “The current heatwave and drought leave no doubt, we are living the dangerous effects of the climate crisis.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/06/18/surreal-and-distressing-climate-experts-predictions-come-true-us-heatwave
6/19/21 ——--Earth is trapping ‘unprecedented’ amount of heat, Nasa says - Scientists from agency and Noaa say Earth’s ‘energy imbalance’ roughly doubled from 2005 to 2019 in ‘alarming’ way
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jun/17/earth-trapping-heat-study-nasa-noaa
6/19/21 ——--Extreme Heat Wave Threatens Vulnerable Communities In The West - Heat is responsible for more deaths in the U.S. than all other natural disasters
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/western-heat-wave-extreme-temperatures_n_60cd0d71e4b01af0c27054aa
6/19/21 ——--‘It’s brutal’: Las Vegas cooks amid blazing heatwave – and it’s going to get worse
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/19/las-vegas-heatwave-nevada-us-west-temperatures
6/19/21 ——--Small Farmers in California Face Tough Choices Amidst Drought - After a historically dry winter, some growers are farming less land, switching crops, and trucking in water, or taking the season off entirely.
https://civileats.com/2021/06/18/small-farmers-in-california-face-tough-choices-amidst-the-drought/
6/19/21 ——--As a Hot, Dry Summer Begins in California, More Water Wells Are Failing
https://www.circleofblue.org/2021/world/as-a-hot-dry-summer-begins-in-california-more-water-wells-are-failing/
6/19/21 ——--As Climate Warms, a Rearrangement of World’s Plant Life Looms
https://e360.yale.edu/features/as-climate-warms-a-rearrangement-of-worlds-plant-life-looms
6/19/21 ——— The Sad Fate Of Krill In The Southern Ocean
https://earthsky.org/earth/the-sad-fate-of-krill-in-the-southern-ocean/?utm_source=EarthSky+News&utm_campaign=498bff2210-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_02_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c643945d79-498bff2210-395109277
6/20/21 ——— EVENT: Jackson Hole Global Forum 2021: Climate Change and National Security
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/06/event-jackson-hole-global-forum-2021-climate-change-and-national-security/
6/20/21 ——— Could temperatures keep rising?
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2021/06/could-temperatures-keep-rising.html
6/20/21 ——— Climate Security and the U.S.-Russia Summit
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/06/climate-security-and-the-u-s-russia-summit/
6/20/21 ——— Australia Faces Critical Climate Security Threats, and the Australian Security Leaders Climate Group (ASLCG) is Here to Help
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/06/australia-faces-critical-climate-security-threats-and-the-australian-security-leaders-climate-group-aslcg-is-here-to-help/
6/20/21 ——— The West's historic drought in 3 maps
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/17/weather/west-california-drought-maps/index.html
6/20/21 ——— Tropical storm Claudette: life-threatening flash flooding rises across US south-east
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/20/claudette-storm-life-threatening-flash-flooding-warnings-us-south-east
6/20/21 ——— On climate, our hubris is the problem -  Unless we move beyond techno-centrism, discuss a fair development deal, and change lifestyles, summits won’t yield outcomes
https://www.tbsnews.net/thoughts/climate-our-hubris-problem-262096
6/21/21 ——— Northernmost Siberian wildfire discovered from space - There is an abnormally high number of wildfires in Siberia to be June, and parts of the northern regions are recording temperatures more than +15°C higher than normal.
https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/climate-crisis/2021/06/northernmost-wildfire-72deg-n-discovered-space
6/21/21 ——— Scorching Hot in Phoenix: What it’s Like to Work in 115 Degrees   - Phoenix is facing a double heat and housing crisis that is falling hardest on people who have to suffer the sun.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/20/us/100-degree-weather.html
6/22/21 ——— Global Hopes in Doubt After G7 Fails to Meet Climate Finance Pledges for Poor Nations - “I'd have really hoped for a clearer signal on how and when we will be able to see the commitment to mobilize the $100 billion fulfilled.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/06/21/global-hopes-doubt-after-g7-fails-meet-climate-finance-pledges-poor-nations
6/22/21 ——— Heatwaves don't lie: Telling the truth about climate change
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/559395-heatwaves-dont-lie-telling-the-truth-about-climate-change
6/23/21 ——— What if American Democracy Fails the Climate Crisis? - Ezra Klein and four environmental thinkers discuss the limits of politics in facing down the threat to the planet.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/22/magazine/ezra-klein-climate-crisis.html
6/23/21 ——— Legal experts worldwide draw up ‘historic’ definition of ecocide - Draft law is intended to prosecute offences against the environment
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/22/legal-experts-worldwide-draw-up-historic-definition-of-ecocide
6/23/21 ——— The climate change runaway chain reaction-like process - Amplifying feedbacks leading to accelerated planetary temperatures
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-climate-change-runaway-chain-reaction-like-process.html
6/23/21 ——— New Climate Research From a Year-Long Arctic Expedition Raises an Ozone Alarm in the High North - Warming of the surface of the Arctic is matched by a colder polar vortex high in the atmosphere, which is speeding the breakdown of the Earth’s shield against ultraviolet rays.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23062021/climate-research-mosaic-arctic-ozone/
6/23/21 ——--'Should Ring Alarm Bells': Study Warns of Severe Drying for Amazon Rainforest
Findings, says lead researcher, shows "that this vital global resource must not be taken for granted.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/06/22/should-ring-alarm-bells-study-warns-severe-drying-amazon-rainforest
6/23/21 ——— WWF says Mediterranean heating 20% faster than world's oceans
https://www.dw.com/en/wwf-says-mediterranean-heating-20-faster-than-worlds-oceans/a-58008071
6/23/21 ——— Record breaking temperatures recorded in Arctic Russia
https://www.rcinet.ca/eye-on-the-arctic/2021/06/22/record-breaking-temperatures-recorded-in-arctic-russia/
6/23/21 ——— Stark Reality Of California Drought From Space
https://earthsky.org/todays-image/stark-reality-of-california-drought-from-space/?utm_source=EarthSky+News&utm_campaign=79f6fc1d9f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_02_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c643945d79-79f6fc1d9f-395109277
6/23/21 ——— Even Emergency Measures Won’t Save the West From Megadrought - Water cuts and dam removals are now necessary steps to keep the consequences of the climate crisis at bay. But the only long-term answer is to cut emissions.
https://newrepublic.com/article/162803/even-emergency-measures-wont-save-west-megadrought
6/23/21 ——— GOP Rejects Green Infrastructure Funding in Face of Historic Drought and Heat
https://truthout.org/video/gop-rejects-green-infrastructure-funding-in-face-of-historic-drought-and-heat/
6/23/21 ——— This giant ‘inland ocean’ is Southern California’s last defense against drought
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2021-06-22/massive-lake-busts-southern-california-drought
6/24/21 ——— Leaked IPCC Draft Climate Report 'Reads Like a 4,000-Page Indictment' of Humanity's Failure - “This is a warning of existential risk. Of survival. Of collapse," said Extinction Rebellion.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/06/23/leaked-ipcc-draft-climate-report-reads-4000-page-indictment-humanitys-failure
6/24/21 ——— How heat waves form, and how climate change makes them worse - Heat domes, heat islands, mega-droughts, and climate change: the anatomy of worsening heat waves.
https://www.vox.com/22538401/heat-wave-record-temperature-extreme-climate-change-drought
6/24/21 ——— Potentially Historic Northwest Heat Wave Likely to Bring Dangerous, Record-Breaking Temperatures
https://weather.com/forecast/regional/news/2021-06-22-northwest-dangerous-record-heat-late-june?cm_ven=hp-slot-2
6/24/21 ——— Yellowstone is losing its snow as the climate warms, and that means widespread problems for water and wildlife – a new report details the changes
https://theconversation.com/yellowstone-is-losing-its-snow-as-the-climate-warms-and-that-means-widespread-problems-for-water-and-wildlife-a-new-report-details-the-changes-163223
6/24/21 ——— Democrats think now is their last, best chance to pass a big climate bill - Haunted by their failure to pass a climate bill in 2009, some Democrats are vowing “no climate, no deal.”
https://www.vox.com/22537509/democrats-climate-bill-biden-waxman-markey
6/24/21 ——— Without ‘Transformative Adaptation’ Climate Change May Threaten the Survival of Millions of Small Scale Farmers
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23062021/transformative-adaptation-climate-change-agriculture-small-farmers/
6/24/21 ——— Right-Wing SCOTUS Majority Rules Union Organizing on Farms Violates Landowners' Rights - The Supreme Court "fails to balance a farmer's property rights with a farm worker's human rights," said United Farm Workers of America.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/06/23/right-wing-scotus-majority-rules-union-organizing-farms-violates-landowners-rights
6/24/21 ——— Stay or Go? Climate Disaster Victims Face Wrenching Decision - Experts also say low-income people, communities of color and Indigenous peoples have fewer options
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stay-or-go-climate-disaster-victims-face-wrenching-decision/
6/24/21 ——— With Planet's Future at Stake, Biden Told to Be Bold With Pick for Top Energy Post - “It's time to treat climate change like the emergency it is, and stop approving new fossil fuel extraction and infrastructure, reads a letter signed by over 300 climate-focused groups.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/06/23/planets-future-stake-biden-told-be-bold-pick-top-energy-post
6/24/21 ——— The search for the Dr. Fauci of climate change - A growing number of physicians are trying to transform the medical profession to meet climate change challenges
https://www.salon.com/2021/06/24/the-search-for-the-dr-fauci-of-climate-change_partner/
6/24/21 ——— ‘The water is coming’: Florida Keys faces stark reality as seas rise
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/24/florida-keys-climate-change-sea-level-rise
6/25/21 ——— ‘Jaw-dropping’ forecast is warning sign of climate change’s future impact in Washington, scientists say
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/jaw-dropping-forecast-is-warning-sign-of-climate-changes-future-impact-in-washington-scientists-say/
6/25/21 ——— Records crumble in Europe, Russia amid scorching heat wave - Moscow has its highest June temperature on record due to one of several heat domes baking the Northern Hemisphere
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/06/24/june-heat-wave-europe-russia/
6/25/21 ——— All-time record triple digit heat forecast for many people that don't have A/C
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/24/weather/heat-wave-oregon-washington-idaho/index.html
6/25/21 ——— Biden Administration Backs Oil Sands Pipeline Project - The administration urged a court to throw out a challenge brought by tribal and environmental groups, backing a pipeline that would carry Canadian oil across Minnesota and Wisconsin.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/24/climate/line-3-pipeline-biden.html
6/25/21 ——— Progressives Alarmed by Privatization Dub Infrastructure Deal a 'Disaster in the Making’ - “Communities across the country have been ripped off by public-private schemes that enrich corporations and Wall Street investors and leave the rest of us to pick up the tab.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/06/24/progressives-alarmed-privatization-dub-infrastructure-deal-disaster-making
6/25/21 ——— Earth tipping points could destabilize each other in domino effect: Study
https://news.mongabay.com/2021/06/earth-tipping-points-could-destabilize-each-other-in-domino-effect-study/
6/26/21 ——— Dueling heat waves are baking the East and West Coasts. One is going to be worse than the other
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/26/weather/heat-wave-forecast-west-east-coast/index.html
6/26/21 ——— 6 crucial climate actions the Senate left out of its infrastructure deal - The bipartisan deal is a disappointment on climate change, but it’s only part one. Here’s what could come next.
https://www.vox.com/22549410/infrastructure-deal-biden-climate-senate-bipartisan-jobs
6/26/21 ——--'We Are in a Climate Emergency': As Temps Soar, Over 90% of Western US Gripped by Drought - “The West has never seen a drought like this, especially so early in the dry season.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/06/25/we-are-climate-emergency-temps-soar-over-90-western-us-gripped-drought
6/26/21 ——--'Move Forward' on Infrastructure, Ocasio-Cortez Says Amid GOP 'Fury' Over Two-Track Approach - She says to "rebuild infrastructure and draw down carbon, lower the age of Medicare and extend it to cover vision and dental, expand childcare and housing accessibility, and serve the American people." 
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/06/25/move-forward-infrastructure-ocasio-cortez-says-amid-gop-fury-over-two-track-approach
6/26/21 ——— House Passes Resolution to Reverse 'Reckless' Trump-Era Methane Rule - “Biden should direct the EPA to use the full power of the Clean Air Act to reduce methane emissions from oil and gas by 65% by 2025," said one advocate.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/06/25/house-passes-resolution-reverse-reckless-trump-era-methane-rule
6/26/21 ——— New Bill Would Require Biden to Declare Wildlife Extinction Crisis a National Emergency - “Declaring the extinction crisis to be a national emergency would unlock key presidential powers that will halt the unraveling of the planet’s life-support systems.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/06/25/new-bill-would-require-biden-declare-wildlife-extinction-crisis-national-emergency
6/27/21 ——— The national security risks of the US drought
https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/560382-the-national-security-risks-of-the-us-drought
6/27/21 ——— Why water levels in megadrought-impacted Southwestern states have some experts concerned - Water has arguably become the most precious commodity on the West Coast.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/water-levels-megadrought-impacted-southwestern-states-experts-concerned/story?id=78199192
6/27/21 ——— Extreme heat will be more frequent in the Pacific Northwest. Experts say region is not prepared
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/26/weather/pacific-northwest-heat-climate-adaptation/index.html
6/27/21 ——— Heat waves can be life-threatening — for more reasons than one - How heat and air pollution make a dangerous public health duo
https://www.salon.com/2021/06/27/heat-waves-can-be-life-threatening--for-more-reasons-than-one_partner/
6/27/21 ——— These are the hotshot firefighters leading attacks against California wildfires. And they're quitting
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/26/us/california-wildfires-hotshot-firefighter-shortage/index.html
6/27/21 ——— ‘Am I scared? You betcha’: Here's why drought scientists have their bugout bags ready to go
https://www.alternet.org/2021/06/severe-dought/
6/27/21 ——— New Climate Security Report has Implications for NATO and COP26
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/06/new-climate-security-report-has-implications-for-nato-and-cop26/
6/28/21 ——--'No Reconciliation Bill, No Deal': Sanders Says Progressive Package Must Come With Bipartisan Plan = "There will not be a bipartisan infrastructure deal without a reconciliation bill that substantially improves the lives of working families and combats the existential threat of climate change.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/06/28/no-reconciliation-bill-no-deal-sanders-says-progressive-package-must-come-bipartisan
6/28/21 ——— Expert cautions climate change could destabilize more buildings
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/expert-cautions-climate-change-could-destabilize-more-buildings/2021/06/27/b740dc7a-2385-467d-863d-6967c7e3cc30_video.html
6/29/21 ——— Heatwaves and the danger of the Arctic Ocean heating up
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2021/06/heatwaves-and-the-danger-of-the-arctic-ocean-heating-up.html
6/29/21 ——— Global Warming Cauldron Boils Over in the Northwest in One of the Most Intense Heat Waves on Record Worldwide - As residents prepare for even more temperature records to fall in the heat dome forecast to persist for days, scientists see a heavy climate change fingerprint.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29062021/pacific-northwest-heat-wave-climate-change/
6/29/21 ——— We Don't Need a New Report to Know It's Time to Act Urgently on the Climate Crisis
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/06/28/we-dont-need-new-report-know-its-time-act-urgently-climate-crisis
6/29/21 ——— Pacific Northwest Heat Wave Is Buckling Roads And Melting Power Cables - Temperature records are shattering across a region that rarely deals with intense heat.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pacific-northwest-heat-wave-roads_n_60da357ce4b085480fe39872
6/29/21 ——— Issaquah Highlands reach scorching 116 degrees, knocks out power for thousands
https://komonews.com/news/local/issaquah-highlands-reach-scorching-116-degrees-knocks-out-power-for-thousands
6/29/21 ——— Northwestern Heatwave Sparks Calls for Transformative Climate Action - “Making sure our planet is habitable for human life *is* infrastructure," tweeted Rep. Ilhan Omar. "We need a bold package that tackles the climate crisis.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/06/28/northwestern-heatwave-sparks-calls-transformative-climate-action
6/29/21 ——— Miami condo collapse prompts questions over role of climate change - Experts suggest vulnerability of south Florida to rising seas could lead to destabilization of further buildings
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/29/miami-condo-collapse-questions-climate-change
6/29/21 ——— Before condo collapse, rising seas long pressured Miami coastal properties - Authorities and scientists say it’s too soon to say whether rising seas played a role in the fall of Champlain Towers South
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/06/25/rising-sea-levels-condo-collapse/
6/29/21 ——— Miami Tower Collapse Stokes Fresh Climate Anxieties - In coastal cities, rising seas and sinking land can bring deadly circumstances.
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/06/miami-tower-collapse-stokes-new-fears-rising-seas-climate-change/
6/30/21 ——— Climate Change in the U.S. National Security Strategy: History and Recommendations
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/06/briefer-climate-change-in-the-u-s-national-security-strategy-a-brief-history/
6/30/21 ——— America's Nearly $1.3 Trillion National Security Budget Isn't Making Us Any Safer
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/06/29/americas-nearly-13-trillion-national-security-budget-isnt-making-us-any-safer
6/30/21 ——— The Northwest heat wave is ‘unprecedented.’ Here’s what’s pushing it into uncharted territory. —- Governor Inslee - video
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/28/weather/heat-waves-climate-change/index.html
6/30/21 ——— Gov. Inslee: Heat wave is beginning of permanent climate emergency - VIDEO
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gov-inslee-heat-wave-is-beginning-of-permanent-climate-emergency-115635781914?fbclid=IwAR1qquJpoK65e9Kkj6PQsha_wd7cAQWBTr4m-VlMvervQP8ZrUwkfRsy0jk
6/30/21 ——— First Thing: officials warn historic heatwave in North American west is just the beginning - Extreme weather is the start of a ‘permanent emergency’ caused by climate breakdown, Americans have been told. Plus, the man who made a $1bn business from celebrity shoutouts
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/30/first-thing-officials-warn-historic-heatwave-in-north-american-west-is-just-the-beginning
6/30/21 ——— Record heat on both coasts
https://www.cnn.com/videos/weather/2021/06/29/daily-weather-forecast-record-heat-hot-pacific-northwest-northeast-new-england-tropical-storm-danny.cnn
6/30/21 ——— Nowhere Is Ready for This Heat - The Pacific Northwest is melting now, but all across America the infrastructure we have was built for the wrong century.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/06/portland-seattle-heatwave-warning/619313/
6/30/21 ——— Environmentalists Take Sharp Aim at Demcrats’ Climate Compromise - Weakened infrastructure bill will “condemn” Americans “to untold devastation.”
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/06/environmentalists-green-campaign-targets-biden-democratic-infrastructure-bill-climate-compromise/
6/30/21 ——— Biden Unveils Plan To Combat Threat Of Western Wildfires Amid Extreme Drought - The president is meeting with Western state governors as concerns grow over the risk of a historic fire season.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-western-state-governors-wildfires_n_60dbba54e4b0a3e21b3318fd
6/30/21 ——--'This Is the Climate Emergency': Dozens of Sudden Deaths Reported as Canada Heat Hits Record 121°F - “This is not the new normal. Normal is going to keep changing until we stop emitting greenhouse gas emissions.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/06/30/climate-emergency-dozens-sudden-deaths-reported-canada-heat-hits-record-121degf
6/30/21 ——— Sunrise Activists Arrested Over 'No Climate, No Deal' Blockade of White House - “President Biden has been failing us," Sunrise Movement executive director Varshini Prakash said about the administration's recent comments on the infrastructure package.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/06/28/sunrise-activists-arrested-over-no-climate-no-deal-blockade-white-house
6/30/21 ——— Progressives slam Mitch McConnell's effort to sabotage reconciliation bill
https://www.alternet.org/2021/06/mitch-mcconnell-2653588186/
6/30/21 ——— The US Chamber of Commerce Has Helped Downplay the Climate Threat, a New Report Concludes
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29062021/us-chamber-of-commerce-downplay-climate-threat-new-report-concludes/
6/30/21 ——— Historic drought in the West is forcing ranchers to take painful measures
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/historic-drought-in-west-forcing-ranchers-to-take-painful-measures
6/30/21 ——— Northwest heat wave wilts new GOP climate resolve - House Republicans formed a new climate caucus last week, but that hasn't changed their policy positions amid the record temperatures
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/29/northwest-heat-wave-republicans-497062
6/30/21 ——— Fact check: Is half a degree of warming really such a big deal?
https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-is-half-a-degree-of-warming-really-such-a-big-deal-for-the-planet/a-57859167
6/30/21 ——— Trees are dying of thirst in the Western drought – here’s what’s going on inside their veins
https://theconversation.com/trees-are-dying-of-thirst-in-the-western-drought-heres-whats-going-on-inside-their-veins-162385
6/30/21 ——— Explosive Growth of Toxic Algae Threatens Water Supplies Across US
https://truthout.org/articles/explosive-growth-of-toxic-algae-threatens-water-supplies-across-us/

MAY 2021

5/1/21 —— New US Intelligence Community Reports Focus on Climate and Ecological Security Risks
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/04/new-us-intelligence-community-reports-focus-on-climate-and-ecological-security-risks/
5/1/21 —— Drought is Leading to Instability and Water Weaponization in the Middle East and North Africa
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/04/drought-is-leading-to-instability-and-water-weaponization-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa/
5/1/21 —— Managing Complex Emergencies in Complex Times – Lessons from Japan
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/04/managing-complex-emergencies-in-complex-times-lessons-from-japan/
5/1/21 —— Don’t put the Arctic on the back burner: Multilateralism’s role in a melting north - The US can no longer afford to ignore the potential for regional conflict due to a changing climate.
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/04/30/dont-put-the-arctic-on-the-back-burner-multilateralisms-role-in-a-melting-north/
5/1/21 —— May 2021 Temperature Outlook: Warmer Than Average Conditions Anticipated for Eastern, Central U.S.
https://weather.com/forecast/national/news/2021-04-29-may-2021-temperature-outlook-united-states
5/1/21 —— Three Hailstorms in Oklahoma, Texas, Wednesday Likely Caused Over $1 Billion Damage Combined
https://weather.com/storms/severe/news/2021-04-29-three-hailstorms-oklahoma-texas-damage
5/1/21 —— How Biden could actually deliver on his climate goals - The road to the 2030 goal is clear. The road to 2050 is a little murkier.
https://www.vox.com/22398456/biden-climate-change-goals-industry-buildings-agriculture
5/1/21 —— California just hit 95% renewable energy. Will other states come along for the ride?
https://www.latimes.com/environment/newsletter/2021-04-29/solar-power-water-canals-california-climate-change-boiling-point
5/1/21 —— Climate crisis: our children face wars over food and water, EU deputy warns
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/30/climate-crisis-we-must-make-sacrifices-to-avoid-future-wars-says-eu-deputy-frans-timmermans
5/1/21 —— These new air conditioners are designed to fight the looming cooling crisis
https://www.fastcompany.com/90630083/these-new-air-conditioners-are-designed-to-fight-the-coming-cooling-crisis
5/2/21 —— Civilian Climate Corps can help stem rural-urban divide
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/551310-civilian-climate-corps-can-help-stem-rural-urban-divide
5/2/21 —— How Arizona’s Attorney General Is Weaponizing Climate Fears To Keep Out Immigrants
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/arizona-climate-lawsuit_n_60897a42e4b0b9042d8d6ae5
5/2/21 —— As Extreme Weather Batters America’s Farm Country, Costing Billions, Banks Ignore the Financial Risks of Climate Change - The effects on agriculture of more frequent and intense natural disasters could overwhelm lenders, destabilize the food supply and disrupt the global economy.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02052021/extreme-weather-agricultural-financial-risks-climate-change/
5/2/21 —— Newsom’s $1-billion wildfire plan favors logging over homeowners, critics say
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2021-04-30/newsom-california-wildfire-plan
5/2/21 —— Whales Face New and Emerging Threats - We’ve made a lot of strides in whale conservation, but climate change, plastic pollution and other dangers have emerged.
https://therevelator.org/whales-threats/
5/3/21 —— Deforestation in Brazil is out of control. Bolsonaro is asking for billions to stop it. - A new analysis of satellite imagery shows some 430,000 acres of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest have been wiped out so far in 2021.
https://www.vox.com/22409783/jair-bolsonaro-amazon-brazil-deforestation-trees-climate-change-2021
5/3/21 —— TAP WATER TESTING BY LOCATION
https://article.images.consumerreports.org/prod/content/dam/CRO-Images-2021/Health/04Apr/Consumer-Reports-Tap-Water-Test-Results-April-2021
5/3/21 —— Biden administration to propose first rule requiring cut in climate pollutants - The new Environmental Protection Agency rule targets hydrofluorocarbons, greenhouse gases that are thousands of times more powerful than carbon dioxide
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/05/03/epa-climate-hfcs/
5/3/21 —— As glaciers disappear in Alaska, the rest of the world’s ice follows
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/01/as-glaciers-disappear-in-alaska-the-rest-of-the-worlds-ice-follows
5/3/21 —— ‘Firefighters Out There in the Snow’: Wildfires Rage Early in Parched West - Firefighters in New Mexico, Arizona and California are battling springtime blazes that have been fueled by a severe drought and boosted by climate change.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/30/us/wildfires-fire.html
5/3/21 —— Glaciers in retreat: tracking the decline of the Earth’s ‘rivers of ice’
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/02/glaciers-in-retreat-tracking-the-decline-of-the-earths-rivers-of-ice
5/3/21 —— California’s wildfire season is expanding as the wet season becomes compressed
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/05/02/california-wildfire-season-growing/
5/3/21 —— Glacial lakes threaten millions with flooding as planet heats up
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/02/glacial-lakes-threaten-m
5/4/21 —— Severe Water Cuts Are Coming for Arizona. The Rest of the Southwest Is Next. - The restrictions are essential to keep the states from running dry, but vulnerable communities have already suffered from water scarcity for years.
https://newrepublic.com/article/162236/water-cuts-colorado-river-equitable
5/4/21 —--"Long overdue": The Senate just passed $35 billion for clean drinking water - America’s water systems are aging and underfunded. This bipartisan bill might change that
https://www.salon.com/2021/05/04/long-overdue-the-senate-just-passed-35-billion-for-clean-drinking-water_partner/
5/4/21 —— Severe Storms Spawn Tornadoes In Mississippi, Kill Driver In Georgia
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mississipi-tornadoes-atlanta-driver-killed_n_6090473ae4b09cce6c218f21
5/4/21 —— ‘Decades ahead of his time’: history catches up with visionary Jimmy Carter
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/03/jimmy-carter-climate-change-carterland-film-biography
5/4/21 —— Receding glaciers causing rivers to suddenly disappear - Global phenomenon known as river piracy demands urgent adaptation from ecosystems and people who rely on their flow
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/03/receding-glaciers-causing-rivers-to-suddenly-disappear
5/4/21 —— A Growing Summertime Risk for Cities: Power Failures During Heat Waves - The author of a new study said the combination of blackouts and extreme heat “may be the deadliest climate-related event we can imagine.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/03/climate/heat-climate-health-risks.html
5/5/21 —— Highlighting Need for World Leaders to Go Into 'Emergency Mode,' Analysis Finds Earth on Track for 2.4˚C of Warming - “The fact that current global warming is now at 1.2°C above pre-industrial levels only serves to reinforce the urgency of further NDC updates," says a new analysis from Climate Action Tracker.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/05/04/highlighting-need-world-leaders-go-emergency-mode-analysis-finds-earth-track-24c
5/5/21 —— New Soil Study Shows Pesticides 'Destroying the Very Foundations of Web of Life’ - “These troubling findings add to the urgency of reining in pesticide use to save biodiversity.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/05/04/new-soil-study-shows-pesticides-destroying-very-foundations-web-life
5/5/21 —— U.S. saw fewest April tornadoes since 2000
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/us-saw-fewest-april-tornadoes-since-2000/ar-BB1gjYnA?ocid=uxbndlbing
5/6/21 —— Study Warns of 'Rapid and Unstoppable' Sea Level Rise If World Misses Paris Climate Targets - “Once you put enough heat into the climate system, you are going to lose those ice shelves, and once that is set in motion you can't reverse it.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/05/05/study-warns-rapid-and-unstoppable-sea-level-rise-if-world-misses-paris-climate
5/6/21 —— Nature is Critical to Slowing Climate Change, But It Can Only Do So If We Help It First - Biden’s climate summit highlighted “nature-based solutions,” but political and Indigenous leaders agree Native peoples should lead the way and researchers warn of pitfalls.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/05052021/nature-is-critical-to-slowing-climate-change-but-it-can-only-do-so-if-we-help-it-first/
5/6/21 —— Climate report predicts weeks of 90-degree days by mid-century in Pa.
https://www.post-gazette.com/business/powersource/2021/05/05/climate-impacts-assessment-pennsylvania-DEP-flood-heat-waves-environmental-justice-weather/stories/202105050132
5/6/21 —— This map shows the climate impacts on every county in the Western U.S.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90631656/this-map-shows-the-climate-impacts-on-every-county-in-the-western-u-s
5/7/21 —— Reducing methane is good for climate, health and can pay for itself – yet emissions are still rising fast, a new UN report warns
https://theconversation.com/reducing-methane-is-good-for-climate-health-and-can-pay-for-itself-yet-emissions-are-still-rising-fast-a-new-un-report-warns-160423
5/7/21 —— Amid Danger Signs, A Global Energy Leader Finds Reason for Hope
https://e360.yale.edu/features/amid-danger-signs-a-global-energy-leader-finds-reason-for-hope-fatih-birol
5/7/21 —— Past warming periods offer a worrying view of the Arctic’s future
https://www.arctictoday.com/past-warming-periods-offer-a-worrying-view-of-the-arctics-future/?wallit_nosession=1
5/7/21 —— New UN Report Highlights 'Absolutely Critical' Need to Dramatically Slash Global Methane Emissions - “Reducing human-caused methane emissions is one of the most cost-effective strategies to rapidly reduce the rate of warming and contribute significantly to global efforts to limit temperature rise to 1.5°C.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/05/06/new-un-report-highlights-absolutely-critical-need-dramatically-slash-global-methane
5/8/21 —— Warming is clearly visible in new US ‘climate normal’ datasets
https://theconversation.com/warming-is-clearly-visible-in-new-us-climate-normal-datasets-159684
5/8/21 —— Wildfires are contaminating drinking water systems, and it’s more widespread than people realize
https://theconversation.com/wildfires-are-contaminating-drinking-water-systems-and-its-more-widespread-than-people-realize-159527
5/8/21 —— A CLIMATE DYSTOPIA IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA - California’s divided and fire-scarred cities, reeling from climate disasters, need a Green New Deal.
https://theintercept.com/2021/05/07/california-fires-chico-housing-real-estate/
5/9/21 —— Security Highlights from the Leaders Summit on Climate
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/05/security-highlights-from-the-leaders-summit-on-climate/
5/9/21 —— EVENT: Building Climate Resilience at Home – Preparing for and Preventing the Security Impacts of Climate Change
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/05/event-building-climate-resilience-at-home-preparing-for-and-preventing-the-security-impacts-of-climate-change/
5/9/21 —--'Jugular' of the U.S. fuel pipeline system shuts down after cyberattack
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/08/colonial-pipeline-cyber-attack-485984
5/9/21 —— Bill seeks to make Louisiana ‘fossil fuel sanctuary’ in bid against Biden’s climate plans - Republicans and Democrats are introducing bills to push against Biden’s new restrictions on oil and gas companies
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/09/louisiana-bill-fossil-fuel-sanctuary
5/10/21 —— Over 600 Public Water Systems in California Communities Face Risk of Failure
https://truthout.org/articles/over-600-public-water-systems-in-california-communities-face-risk-of-failure/
5/10/21 —— As Wildfire Season Nears, Many California Farmers Can’t Get Fire Insurance - After years of devastating wildfires, many commercial insurers aren’t renewing farmers’ policies. The state may step in to help. 
https://civileats.com/2021/05/10/as-wildfire-season-nears-many-california-farmers-cant-get-fire-insurance/
5/10/21 —— The Biden administration just proposed a game-changing approach to nature conservation - The America the Beautiful initiative could redefine US conservation as we know it.
https://www.vox.com/2021/5/7/22423139/biden-30-by-30-conservation-initiative-historic
5/11/21 —— Water wells are at risk of going dry in the US and worldwide
https://theconversation.com/water-wells-are-at-risk-of-going-dry-in-the-us-and-worldwide-160147
5/11/21 —— The Big Melt
https://thetyee.ca/big-melt/
5/12/21 —— The Climate Clock That Starts Right Now - Antarctica’s fate in the 2060s could depend on carbon removal today.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/05/2060s-are-so-important-climate-change-glacier-carbon-removal/618861/
5/12/21 —— Biden Budget Would Send $1.3 Billion More to Israeli Military Than to Global Climate Programs: Analysis - A group of anti-war veterans said President Joe Biden's spending priorities indicate that he thinks "preserving apartheid is more important than fighting climate change.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/05/11/biden-budget-would-send-13-billion-more-israeli-military-global-climate-programs
5/12/21 —— La Nina Gives a Turbocharge Boost to Already High Food Prices - The prospect of a U.S. drought — and difficult weather almost everywhere else — has prices soaring.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-04-29/la-nina-is-pushing-up-food-prices-and-making-inflation-fears-worse
5/13/21 —— U.S. has entered unprecedented climate territory, EPA warns
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/u-s-has-entered-unprecedented-climate-territory-epa-warns/
5/13/21 —— 660+ Groups Call on Democrats to 'Reject Gas and Other False Climate Solutions' for Clean Energy Standard - “As we look to combat the climate emergency, it is crucial that we invest in solutions that support a just energy future.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/05/12/660-groups-call-democrats-reject-gas-and-other-false-climate-solutions-clean-energy
5/13/21 —— Antarctica’s Doomsday Glacier: How Doomed Are We? - Two new papers offer radically different predictions of the glacier’s future — and thus for the future of low-lying cities around the world. Here’s how to understand the divergent projections
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/antarctica-thwaites-glacier-how-fast-will-it-melt-1168437/
5/13/21 —— Cities Are Woefully Unprepared for the Havoc of Climate Change - More than 40 percent have no adaptation plan, a global survey suggests.
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/05/cities-woefully-unprepared-climate-change-adaptation-global-warming/
5/13/21 —— Facing rising temperatures, Miami appoints chief heat officer - Jane Gilbert, the city’s new chief heat officer, says she will put together a task force of experts to address the problem
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2021/05/12/climate-urban-heat-miami/
5/13/21 —— The one crucial thing missing from Biden’s climate plan
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22420063/biden-burger-ban-meat-climate-animal-agriculture
5/13/21 —— Climate emissions shrinking the stratosphere, scientists reveal
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/12/emissions-shrinking-the-stratosphere-scientists-find
5/14/21 —— EPA Data Kept Secret Under Trump Shows Climate Crisis Becoming 'More Evident, Stronger, and Extreme’ - “Combating climate change—it's not optional. It's essential," said EPA Administrator Michael Regan.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/05/13/epa-data-kept-secret-under-trump-shows-climate-crisis-becoming-more-evident-stronger
5/14/21 —— What to Expect This Summer
https://weather.com/news/weather/video/what-to-expect-this-summer
5/14/21 —— Biden’s Pipeline Dilemma: How to Build a Clean Energy Future While Shoring Up the Present’s Carbon-Intensive Infrastructure
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14052021/biden-colonial-pipeline-climate-dakota-access-line-5-line-3/
5/14/21 —— ExxonMobil wants you to feel responsible for climate change so it doesn’t have to shoulder the blame - A new study reveals how the oil company used “cutting-edge propaganda” to focus on fossil fuel consumption.
https://www.vox.com/22429551/climate-change-crisis-exxonmobil-harvard-study
5/14/21 —— As the Climate Warms, Could the U.S. Face Another Dust Bowl?
https://e360.yale.edu/features/as-the-climate-warms-could-the-u.s.-face-another-dust-bowl
5/14/21 —— The green schism threatening Biden’s climate plan - Left-wing climate and environmental justice activists believe it isn’t ambitious enough.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/13/green-schism-biden-climate-plan-488037
5/14/21 —— Ignoring climate change hasn’t made it go away
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ignoring-climate-change-hasnt-made-it-go-away/2021/05/13/b1cfa376-b413-11eb-9059-d8176b9e3798_story.html
5/14/21 —— Whales face new and emerging threats - Despite the strides in whale conservation, climate change, plastic pollution and other dangers have emerged
https://www.salon.com/2021/05/14/whales-face-new-and-emerging-threats_partner/
5/15/21 —— A dangerous fire season looms as the drought-stricken Western US heads for a water crisis
https://theconversation.com/a-dangerous-fire-season-looms-as-the-drought-stricken-western-us-heads-for-a-water-crisis-160848
5/15/21 —— Who Funds the Climate Crisis? - For fossil fuel companies, what drives their profit is ownership of carbon in the ground. That's why they have spent billions of dollars stoking the climate denial industry and fighting regulations.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/05/14/who-funds-climate-crisis
5/15/21 —— NOAA’s ‘New Normals’ Climate Data Raises Questions About What’s Normal - Does using 30-year weather averages mask rapid global warming?
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/15052021/noaa-new-normal-climate-change-data/
5/15/21 —— A Climate Security Plan for America Part 4: Prepare for and Prevent Climate Impacts
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/05/a-climate-security-plan-for-america-part-4-prepare-for-and-prevent-climate-impacts/
5/15/21 —— Why is future sea level rise still so uncertain?
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2021/05/why-is-future-sea-level-rise-still-so-uncertain/
5/15/21 —— New Report: Melting Mountains, Mounting Tensions: Climate Change and the India-China Rivalry
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/05/new-report-melting-mountains-mounting-tensions-climate-change-and-the-india-china-rivalry/
5/15/21 —— How oil capitalists conspired to spread climate change denialism — in 1988 - Starting decades ago, powerful corporations spread a sophistic climate change denialist ideology. Here's how
https://www.salon.com/2021/05/15/how-oil-capitalists-conspired-to-spread-climate-change-denialism-in-1988/
5/15/21 —--'Worst day': Water crisis deepens on California-Oregon line - Federal regulators shut off irrigation water to farmers from a critical reservoir and said they wouldn't send extra water to dying salmon or to wildlife refuges.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/worst-day-water-crisis-deepens-california-oregon-line-n1267479
5/15/21 —— The meat industry is doing exactly what Big Oil does to fight climate action
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/the-meat-industry-is-doing-exactly-what-big-oil-does-to-fight-climate-action/2021/05/14/831e14be-b3fe-11eb-ab43-bebddc5a0f65_story.html
5/16/21 —— California’s Relentless Droughts Strain Farming Towns - Gov. Newsom has placed most of the state under a drought emergency, which could leave communities struggling with agricultural pollution without drinking water.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/17052021/california-drought-farming-agrculture-climate-change/
5/16/21 —— Extreme Heat Risks May Be Widely Underestimated and Sometimes Left Out of Major Climate Reports - New studies sharpen warnings for unlivable heat in the tropics, and nearly unthinkable extremes in major Northern Hemisphere cities.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16052021/extreme-heat-risks-climate-change/
5/16/21 —— Designed for disaster: These homes can withstand a Category 5 hurricane - As climate change fuels more intense storms, Deltec and other companies build hurricane-proof homes
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/05/16/hurricane-proof-homes-deltec/
5/17/21 —— The Supreme Court Sidesteps a Full Climate Change Ruling, Handing Industry a Procedural Win - Rather than rule on whether oil and gas companies should pay damages related to climate change, the high court sent Baltimore’s case back to the lower courts.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18052021/the-supreme-court-sidesteps-a-full-climate-change-ruling-handing-industry-a-procedural-win/
5/17/21 —— Greenland ice sheet on brink of major tipping point, says study - Scientists say ice equivalent to 1-2 metres of sea level rise is probably already doomed to melt
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/17/greenland-ice-sheet-on-brink-of-major-tipping-point-says-study
5/17/21 —— Flooding Emergencies Declared in Louisiana, Texas; Lake Charles Slammed Yet Again
https://weather.com/news/news/2021-05-17-louisiana-texas-flooding-emergency-lake-charles
5/17/21 —— An Unbroken Record of Climate During the Age of Dinosaurs - A scientific drilling project in China has retrieved a continuous history of conditions from Earth’s most recent “greenhouse” period that may offer insights about future climate scenarios.
https://eos.org/science-updates/an-unbroken-record-of-climate-during-the-age-of-dinosaurs
5/18/21 —--'The IEA Is Starting to Get It': World Energy Body Praised for Finally Admitting Fossil Fuels Must Stay in the Ground
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/05/18/iea-starting-get-it-world-energy-body-praised-finally-admitting-fossil-fuels-must
5/18/21 —--''We're at the Brink': Researchers Warn Greenland Ice Sheet May Have Already Passed Tipping Point - “There will be substantially enhanced melting in the future—which is quite worrying," said researchers.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/05/18/were-brink-researchers-warn-greenland-ice-sheet-may-have-already-passed-tipping
5/18/21 —--'Trees Fell Faster in the Years Since Companies and Governments Promised to Stop Cutting Them Down - The Forest Trends report shows a 50 percent increase in deforestation of tropical woodlands, most of it for agriculture and much of it illegal, since the 2014 New York Declaration on Forests.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19052021/deforestation-climate-change-forest-trends-companies-governments/
5/18/21 —--'Running out of water and time: How unprepared is California for 2021’s drought?
https://calmatters.org/environment/2021/05/unprepared-california-drought-2021-lessons-learned/
5/18/21 —--'Green Infrastructure: Cities Around the Great Lakes Plan for a Changing Future
https://www.circleofblue.org/2021/great-lakes/green-infrastructure-cities-around-the-great-lakes-plan-for-a-changing-futurp/
5/18/21 —--'Here Is Who’s Behind the Global Surge in Single-Use Plastic - A new report shows that a surprisingly small number of big companies and banks are behind the manufacturing and financing of much of the world’s single-use plastic.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/18/climate/single-use-plastic.html
5/18/21 —--'How changing climate affects turbulence in the sky
https://www.wpxi.com/weather/how-changing-climate-affects-turbulence-sky/DVI4IF47VVAEJAPRDAU2FAU62E/
5/18/21 —--'Climate change is forcing Americans to relocate
https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/national/climate-change-is-forcing-americans-to-relocate
5/20/21 —--Scientists aren’t sure what will happen to clouds as the planet warms - Why clouds are one of the greatest sources of uncertainty for climate change.
https://www.vox.com/22430792/cloud-science-mystery-unexplainable-podcast-climate-change
5/20/21 —--These eerie, glowing clouds keep appearing more often - The rise of noctilucent clouds may be yet another unforeseen consequence of burning fossil fuels.
https://www.vox.com/22420935/glowing-cloud-noctilucent-mystery-unexplainable-podcast-climate
5/20/21 —--Greenland ice sheet destabilizing, climate scientists fear a ‘worrying’ transition is close
https://www.studyfinds.org/greenland-ice-sheet-destabilizing/
5/20/21 —--Lawmakers Push Biden to End Public Financing for 'Dangerous' Fossil Fuel Projects Overseas - “With U.S. leadership on international clean energy investments, we can stop financing the climate crisis, support domestic clean energy jobs, and join the global community in moving away from fossil fuel investments.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/05/19/lawmakers-push-biden-end-public-financing-dangerous-fossil-fuel-projects-overseas
5/20/21 —--Inside Clean Energy: Solar Industry Wins Big in Kentucky Ruling - State regulators find that the value of rooftop solar is much more than a utility had argued.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20052021/inside-clean-energy-kentucky-rooftop-solar/
Climate change could make overwinter ‘zombie’ fires more common
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/19/climate-change-could-make-overwinter-zombie-fires-more-common
5/20/21 —--Biden made this city a poster child for climate change. Then it flooded again. - Lake Charles, Louisiana, was wrecked by another storm just two weeks after President Joe Biden pledged support for disaster recovery from last year's hurricanes.
https://grist.org/equity/lake-charles-flooding-biden-infrastrucutre/
5/20/21 —--The Particular Psychology of Destroying a Planet - What kind of thinking goes into engaging in planetary sabotage?
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/the-particular-psychology-of-destroying-a-planet
5/20/21 —--Massive heatwave across northern Russia as Moscow takes chair of Arctic Council
https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/climate-crisis/2021/05/massive-heatwave-across-northern-russia-moscow-takes-chair-arctic-council
5/21/21 —— The Post-Petroleum Resource Race and What to Make of It - Lithium, cobalt, and rare earths.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/05/20/post-petroleum-resource-race-and-what-make-it
5/21/21 —— As Climate Crisis and Violence Converge, Internal Displacement Hit Global Record High of 55 Million in 2020: Report - “We are failing to protect the world's most vulnerable people from conflict and disasters," said the head of the Norwegian Refugee Council.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/05/20/climate-crisis-and-violence-converge-internal-displacement-hit-global-record-high-55
5/21/21 —— The lucrative climate proposal that’s going nowhere in Washington
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/21/states-carbon-pricing-490021
5/21/21 —— Even Amid a Pandemic, More Than 40 Million People Fled Their Homes - Storms, floods, wildfires and to a lesser degree, conflict, uprooted millions globally in 2020 — the largest human displacement in more than a decade.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/20/climate/storms-floods-wildfires-displacement.html
5/21/21 —— Iceberg Splits From Antarctica, Becoming World’s Largest - The iceberg broke off from the edge of the Ronne Ice Shelf into the Weddell Sea this week, researchers said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/20/world/iceberg-antarctica-ronne-a76.html
5/21/21 —--'A Real Hotspot': Study Shows Arctic Warming 3 Times Faster Than Rest of Earth
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/05/20/real-hotspot-study-shows-arctic-warming-3-times-faster-rest-earth
5/22/21 —— As the Arctic Heats Up, How to Keep the Peace - Global warming has increased human activity at the top of the world, and fueled interest from non-polar China. How it’s overseen must reflect that.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-05-22/to-stop-the-arctic-from-melting-china-russia-and-u-s-must-keep-peace?srnd=premium
5/22/21 —— Congress Urged to Divert Pentagon Dollars After Afghan Withdrawal Towards Social Uplift, Climate Emergency - “The real security challenges of today—from the climate crisis to global inequality—demand that we cut the Pentagon budget and invest instead in human needs," said one peace advocate who backed a letter to U.S. lawmakers.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/05/21/congress-urged-divert-pentagon-dollars-after-afghan-withdrawal-towards-social-uplift
5/22/21 —— Two-thirds of California’s counties are in a drought emergency. Get used to it
https://www.salon.com/2021/05/21/two-thirds-of-californias-counties-are-in-a-drought-emergency-get-used-to-it_partner/
5/22/21 —— Biden order on climate financial risk reaches deep into the economy - Extreme weather poses risks to supply chains, food and water, housing and energy, according to a two-page fact sheet on the order.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/20/biden-climate-financial-risk-490045
5/22/21 —— Texas gov knew of natural gas shortages days before blackout, blamed wind anyway - Official’s phone logs offer blow-by-blow account of the disaster as it unfolded.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/05/texas-gov-knew-of-natural-gas-shortages-days-before-blackout-blamed-wind-anyway/
5/22/21 —— Doctors put a price tag on the annual health impacts of climate change. It’s $820 billion. - And that’s an underestimate.
https://grist.org/article/doctors-put-a-price-tag-on-the-annual-health-impacts-of-climate-change-its-820-billion/
5/22/21 —— Biden’s negotiations with Republicans are making some Democrats anxious
Democrats are weighing the costs of negotiating with Republicans on infrastructure.
https://www.vox.com/2021/5/21/22446283/biden-negotiation-republicans-american-jobs-plan
5/23/21 —— Ahead of Arctic Council Meeting, New “Story Map” Analysis Outlines Mounting Climate Change Risks to Arctic Security
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/05/ahead-of-arctic-council-meeting-new-story-map-analysis-outlines-mounting-risks-climate-change-poses-to-arctic-security/
5/23/21 —— CONGRESS PLANS CLIMATE RESILIENCY — BUT MOSTLY FOR THE MILITARY - Since 2019, Congress has repeatedly held hearings on climate resiliency for bases, but hardly ever talks about schools, public housing, or prisons.
https://theintercept.com/2021/05/22/congress-climate-military/
5/23/21 —— Early-Season Heat in the East to Bring First 90s and Could Set Records
https://weather.com/forecast/regional/news/2021-05-17-warmup-late-week-east-first-90s-of-season
5/23/21 —— Extreme weather kills 21 ultra-marathon runners in China
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/22/china/china-runners-deal-intl-hnk/
5/23/21 —— Climate change: G7 ministers agree new steps against fossil fuels
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57203400
5/24/21 —— Arctic Ocean invaded by hot, salty water
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2021/05/arctic-ocean-invaded-by-hot-salty-water.html
5/24/21 —— Environmentalists see infrastructure as crucial path to climate goals
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/554868-environmentalists-see-infrastructure-as-key-path-to-climate-goals
5/24/21 —— Luckless Lake Charles: Louisiana city battered by extreme weather – again
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/24/lake-charles-louisiana-weather-climate-crisis
5/25/21 —— China finances most coal plants built today – it’s a climate problem and why US-China talks are essential
https://theconversation.com/china-finances-most-coal-plants-built-today-its-a-climate-problem-and-why-us-china-talks-are-essential-161332
5/25/21 —— Greenland’s ice sheet is releasing huge amounts of mercury into rivers
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2278370-greenlands-ice-sheet-is-releasing-huge-amounts-of-mercury-into-rivers/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=echobox&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1621868715
5/25/21 —— The climate crisis requires a new culture and politics, not just new tech
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/24/climate-change-crisis-culture-politics-technology
We can’t plant our way out of the climate crisis -
5/25/21 —— What if planting more trees isn’t the climate solution we want it to be?
https://www.fastcompany.com/90639454/we-cant-plant-our-way-out-of-the-climate-crisis
5/25/21 —— Opinion: A new study shows getting to net-zero emissions is doable. Here’s how.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-new-study-shows-getting-to-net-zero-emissions-is-doable-heres-how/2021/05/23/3768b354-b9b6-11eb-a6b1-81296da0339b_story.html
5/26/21 —— Western fires are burning higher in the mountains at unprecedented rates in a clear sign of climate change
https://theconversation.com/western-fires-are-burning-higher-in-the-mountains-at-unprecedented-rates-in-a-clear-sign-of-climate-change-159699
5/26/21 —— Say Hello To The World’s Biggest Iceberg
https://earthsky.org/earth/worlds-biggest-iceberg-a76-2021/?utm_source=EarthSky+News&utm_campaign=79e032fce0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_02_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c643945d79-79e032fce0-395109277
5/26/21 —— Arctic Sea Ice Succumbs To Atlantification
https://earthsky.org/earth/arctic-sea-ice-succumbs-to-atlantification/?utm_source=EarthSky+News&utm_campaign=79e032fce0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_02_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c643945d79-79e032fce0-395109277
5/26/21 —— Nature Can Save Humanity From By restoring ecosystems, conservationists can help the land sequester carbon. But it's still no substitute for drastically cutting emissions.
https://www.wired.com/story/nature-can-save-humanity-from-climate-doom-but-not-on-its-own/
5/26/21 —— Turkey struck by ‘sea snot’ because of global heating - Increasing blanket of mucus-like substance in water threatens coral and fishing industry
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/25/turkey-struck-by-sea-snot-because-of-global-heating
5/27/21 —--'Landslide Victory for Climate Justice': Court Rules Shell Must Cut CO2 Emissions 45% by 2030 - “This is a turning point in history," said an attorney who noted that the ruling "may also have major consequences for other big polluters.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/05/26/landslide-victory-climate-justice-court-rules-shell-must-cut-co2-emissions-45-2030
5/27/21 —--'Economic Study Shows Why 'Saving the Planet Is Not a Jobs Killer’ - “It's not an impossible task to make sure workers in the fossil fuel industry are provided with the skills, training, and opportunities to find other jobs," the Center for Economic and Policy Research found.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/05/26/economic-study-shows-why-saving-planet-not-jobs-killer
5/27/21 —--'In California’s Drier Future, What’s the Best Investment for Securing Water?
https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2021/05/26/california-drought-diverse-water-supplies
More drought predicted for Iran over next 5 years
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/461371/More-drought-predicted-for-Iran-over-next-5-years
5/27/21 —--'15 states threaten to pull billions of dollars from big banks that dump fossil fuels - “It is simply antithetical to our nation’s position as a democracy and a capitalist economy for the Executive Branch to bully corporations into curtailing legal activities,” a group of state treasurers wrote in a letter to President Biden’s climate envoy, John Kerry.
https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/climate-change/555466-15-states-threaten-to-pull-billions-of-dollars
5/27/21 —--''This Is Climate Denial': Biden Goes to Bat for Massive Alaska Drilling Project Approved Under Trump - “Burning that oil would create nearly 260 million metric tons of CO2 emissions—about the equivalent of what is produced by 66 coal-fired power plants.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/05/27/climate-denial-biden-goes-bat-massive-alaska-drilling-project-approved-under-trump
5/27/21 —--'Biden Warned Not to Abandon Key Climate Plans to Appease 'Science-Denying Republicans’ - “If Democrats decide that climate priorities can be put off for later, don't be surprised if young people put off voting for them again.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/05/27/biden-warned-not-abandon-key-climate-plans-appease-science-denying-republicans
5/28/21 —--'Sanders Warns Dems Could Lose Congress If They Get Mired in 'Never-Ending' Negotiations With GOP - “The Democrats in Congress must move forward boldly, protecting the working families of our country and restoring faith in government. Yes, the future of the country is at stake.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/05/28/sanders-warns-dems-could-lose-congress-if-they-get-mired-never-ending-negotiations
5/28/21 —--'Why Big Oil should be worried after a day of reckoning - Exxon, Shell, and Chevron are under siege in the courtroom and the boardroom.
https://www.vox.com/22455347/exxon-board-shell-oil-news-chevron-engine-no-one
5/28/21 —--''End This Game': Dems Urged to Ditch GOP After 'Woefully Inadequate' Infrastructure Offer - “Ceding to Republicans and accepting any GOP proposal will only lead to the death of more people from extreme weather... and will put in jeopardy the Democratic majority in 2022 and 2024.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/05/27/end-game-dems-urged-ditch-gop-after-woefully-inadequate-infrastructure-offer
5/28/21 —--'As California’s Drought Worsens, the Biden Administration Cuts Water Supplies and Farmers Struggle to Compensate - The driest year in four decades for the state’s water supply hub is hitting its richest agricultural valley hard.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28052021/california-central-valley-drought-water/
5/28/21 —--'‘Cataclysmic day’ for oil companies sparks climate hope - Court and investor defeats over carbon emissions a historic turning point, say campaigners and lawyers
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/27/cataclysmic-day-for-oil-companies-sparks-climate-hope
5/28/21 —--'A Big Climate Problem With Few Easy Solutions: Planes - The airline industry might not be able to reduce greenhouse gas emissions for decades because most solutions are not yet viable.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/28/business/energy-environment/airlines-climate-planes-emissions.html
5/28/21 —--'Climate tipping point? ExxonMobil's shareholder revolt and the end of the line for fossil fuels - ExxonMobil shareholders fight back in a stunning week that makes clear the market for fossil fuels is winding down
https://www.salon.com/2021/05/28/climate-tipping-point-exxonmobils-shareholder-revolt-and-the-end-of-the-line-for-fossil-fuels/
5/29/21 —— 'Forget the GOP Plan. Youth Climate Activists Want $10 Trillion for Infrastructure.
https://truthout.org/audio/forget-the-gop-plan-climate-activists-want-10-trillion-for-infrastructure/
5/29/21 —— ‘Bipartisan’ Is How Republicans Say ‘Sucker!’ - The GOP counterproposal to Biden’s infrastructure plan is not a “bipartisan” gesture. It’s a scam to gut programs that care for the elderly and save the planet.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/republicans-infrastructure-counteroffer-biden/
5/29/21 —— June Temperature Outlook is in!
https://weather.com/news/weather/video/june-temperature-outlook-is-in
5/29/21 —--'Our world is fragile': Kamala Harris tells 1,000 Naval Academy graduates the Colonial pipeline hack was 'a warning shot' and climate change is a 'national security threat
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9630581/Harris-addresses-1-000-Naval-Academy-graduates.html
5/29/21 —— Hoover Dam, symbol of the modern West, faces a new test with an epic water shortage
https://www.azcentral.com/in-depth/news/local/arizona-environment/2021/05/27/hoover-dam-drought-water-levels-lake-mead/5134031001/
5/29/21 —— It's getting more likely the world will reach a climate tipping point in the next five years
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/27/world/climate-temperatures-increase-wmo-intl/index.html
5/29/21 —— Why Biden Isn’t Cracking Down on Fossil Fuels - Environmental activists had high hopes when he entered office, but have found his record mixed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/28/us/politics/biden-climate-change-fossil-fuels.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage
5/29/21 —--'Your Legacy Is... What You Deliver': Climate Movement Says Biden Budget Not Bold Enough - “This might be a political show for Biden," said the Sunrise Movement, "but for us it's a fight for our lives and for the communities we love and care about.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/05/28/your-legacy-what-you-deliver-climate-movement-says-biden-budget-not-bold-enough
5/30/21 —— Initial Reactions to the Biden Budget: Takes Systemic Security Risks Seriously, But More Is Needed
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/05/initial-reactions-to-the-biden-budget-takes-systemic-security-risks-seriously-but-more-is-needed/
5/30/21 —— A Growing Crisis: The Launch of the World Climate and Security Report 2021
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/05/a-growing-crisis-the-launch-of-the-world-climate-and-security-report-2021/
5/30/21 —— The CSR team on the Biden budget and systemic threats
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/05/the-csr-team-on-the-biden-budget-and-systemic-threats/
5/30/21 —— Energy Road Map Charts Challenging Course to Oil-Free Future - By 2050, 90% of global electricity generation could come from renewable sources, 70% from solar photovoltaic and wind.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/05/29/energy-road-map-charts-challenging-course-oil-free-future
5/30/21 —— Happy summer? Rain, unseasonably cold temps to greet Northeast for holiday weekend
https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-forecasts/rain-cold-air-to-greet-northeast-for-holiday-weekend/953465

APRIL 2021

4/1/21 —— Most Economists Agree: Benefits of 'Drastic' Climate Action Outweigh Costs of Status Quo - “People who spend their careers studying our economy are in widespread agreement that climate change will be expensive, potentially devastatingly so.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/03/30/most-economists-agree-benefits-drastic-climate-action-outweigh-costs-status-quo
4/1/21 —— Scientists to Biden: Slash Emissions 50% Below 2005 Levels by 2030 - “This goal is both technically feasible and necessary—now we need action.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/03/30/scientists-biden-slash-emissions-50-below-2005-levels-2030
4/1/21 —— Global warming is making crop storage costly for farmers
https://inhabitat.com/global-warming-is-making-crop-storage-costly-for-farmers/
4/1/21 —— The nine boundaries humanity must respect to keep the planet habitable
https://news.mongabay.com/2021/03/the-nine-boundaries-humanity-must-respect-to-keep-the-planet-habitable/
4/1/21 —— Centrist Democrats Panned for Demanding Revival of Major Tax Break for the Rich - “Democratic moderates are holding climate policy hostage to get a tax cut for the rich.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/03/31/centrist-democrats-panned-demanding-revival-major-tax-break-rich
4/1/21 —— Joe Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure and jobs plan, explained - Biden’s new plan takes an expansive view of infrastructure.
https://www.vox.com/2021/3/31/22357179/biden-two-trillion-infrastructure-jobs-plan-explained
4/1/21 —— April Temperature Outlook: Warmer Than Average Conditions Expected for Much of the United States
https://weather.com/forecast/national/news/2021-03-30-april-2021-temperature-outlook-united-states
4/1/21 —— Critics Warn Biden Infrastructure Plan 'Falls Woefully Short' on Climate Crisis - “Biden has pledged to cut carbon emissions 50% and decarbonize our electricity sector, but this proposal won't even come close.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/03/31/critics-warn-biden-infrastructure-plan-falls-woefully-short-climate-crisis
4/1/21 —— Flood Risks Are Rising Amid Climate Change, But Congress Is Delaying Action
https://truthout.org/articles/flood-risks-are-rising-amid-climate-change-but-congress-is-delaying-action/
4/1/21 —— What should coal communities do when power plants shut down? Ask Germany. - Here are 3 big lessons from Germany’s transition off of coal power.
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/22349104/coal-climate-change-biden-infrastructure-plan-germany-just-transition
4/1/21 —— Solar Swells as Coal Collapses: Analysis Shows Rapid Shift to Renewables Underway -  "Cleaner and lower-cost wind and solar, coupled with battery storage, will drive fossil fuels out of the market.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/03/31/solar-swells-coal-collapses-analysis-shows-rapid-shift-renewables-underway
4/1/21 —— A Crisis for Climate Stability': Data Shows Rainforest Destruction Accelerated in 2020 - “As in past years, commodity-driven deforestation was the leading cause of tree cover loss.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/03/31/crisis-climate-stability-data-shows-rainforest-destruction-accelerated-2020
4/1/21 —— Biden’s Climate Plan Means Tough Choices: Which Homes Get Saved? - The $2 trillion proposal represents an enormous effort to fight climate change, but it sidesteps the question of who will be forced to move because of rising water.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/31/climate/biden-climate-infrastructure-resilience.html
4/1/21 —— Biden's Cloudy Climate Vision - Troubling signs that the White House won’t go big enough in the fight against climate chaos.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/03/31/bidens-cloudy-climate-vision
4/1/21 —— Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Will Bring A Showdown Over Taxes - Democrats aren’t yet on the same page when it comes to tax policy.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-taxes-infrastructure_n_6064b6b1c5b6d5b7a695328b
4/1/21 —— Relatively low maximum Arctic ice extent part of the ‘new normal’
https://www.arctictoday.com/relatively-low-maximum-arctic-ice-extent-part-of-the-new-normal/?wallit_nosession=1
4/1/21 —— These maps show how many days a year your coastal city could flood - By 2050, some coastal cities could have flooding every day of the year.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90620062/these-maps-shows-how-many-days-a-year-your-coastal-city-could-flood
4/1/21 —— John Kerry Urged to Help End Flow of Finance From Wall Street to Industries Fueling Climate Crisis - “A climate action approach that seeks to partner with Wall Street without also holding it accountable is no longer credible in 2021.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/03/31/john-kerry-urged-help-end-flow-finance-wall-street-industries-fueling-climate-crisis
4/1/21 —— How much forest did we lose in 2020? Like, a Netherlands’ worth - Report: Dry, fiery weather is killing the world's trees
https://www.salon.com/2021/04/01/how-much-forest-did-we-lose-in-2020-like-a-netherlands-worth_partner/
4/1/21 —— Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Is Much More Than That. But Does It Go Far Enough? - It’s his best shot at addressing the climate crisis. Critics on the left say it’s merely a down payment.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/03/bidens-infrastructure-plan-is-much-more-than-that-but-does-it-go-far-enough/
4/2/21 —— White House moves to reshape role of US capitalism
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/545836-white-house-moves-to-reshape-role-of-us-capitalism
4/2/21 —— Biden Wants 5 Times The Climate Spending Obama Won. That’s Still 5 Times Too Small. - In a private call with activists, the White House acknowledged the package would disappoint some advocates, but hoped for “hype” anyway.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-infrastructure-climate-spending_n_6064b288c5b6a38505e1cf02
4/2/21 —— Complaining About Corporate Tax Hike, McConnell Admits GOP Won't Support Biden Infrastructure Plan - The Kentucky Republican vowed to fight the president's proposal "every step of the way.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/04/01/complaining-about-corporate-tax-hike-mcconnell-admits-gop-wont-support-biden
4/2/21 —— Biden's infrastructure bill is popular — so Republicans are trying to make it a culture war fight
https://www.salon.com/2021/04/01/bidens-infrastructure-bill-is-popular--so-republicans-are-trying-to-make-it-a-culture-war-fight/
4/2/21 —— Sweden rejects pioneering solar geoengineering test
https://news.trust.org/item/20210331165317-oulyk/
4/2/21 —— Arctic lightning has tripled since 2010, thanks to rapid warming
https://www.arctictoday.com/arctic-lightning-has-tripled-since-2010-thanks-to-rapid-warming/?wallit_nosession=1
4/2/21 —— How climate change is stunting farm production - “Climate change has basically wiped out about seven years of improvements in agricultural productivity over the past 60 years.”
https://www.dailyclimate.org/climate-change-and-agriculture-2651320926.html
4/2/21 —— Big winter snows in the North could be fueled by Arctic sea ice loss - A new study finds a direct link between an extreme snow event in Europe and declining Arctic sea ice—and suggests it could be part of a pattern.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/big-winter-snows-in-north-could-be-fueled-by-arctic-sea-ice-loss
4/2/21 —— Once climate change deniers, the agriculture industry positions itself as part of the solution
https://investigatemidwest.org/2021/04/01/once-climate-change-deniers-the-agriculture-industry-positions-itself-as-part-of-the-solution/
4/2/21 —— Fire and flood: 'Whole areas of Australia will be uninsurable’
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/apr/02/fire-and-flood-whole-areas-of-australia-will-be-uninsurable
4/2/21 —— California's Dry Weather Is Bad News For Wildfires And Water Supply
https://laist.com/2021/04/01/drought_california_heat_climate_change_wildfire_april_snowpack.php
4/3/21 —— Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure plan, explained in 600 words - The proposal takes an expansive view of infrastructure.
https://www.vox.com/2021/4/2/22364100/biden-human-infrastructure-jobs-plan
4/3/21 —— Biden wants corporations to pay for his $2 trillion infrastructure plans, echoing a history of calls for companies to chip in when times are tough
https://theconversation.com/biden-wants-corporations-to-pay-for-his-2-trillion-infrastructure-plans-echoing-a-history-of-calls-for-companies-to-chip-in-when-times-are-tough-157295
4/3/21 —— Fossil Fuel Companies Got $8.2 Billion in Tax Bailouts—Then Fired Over 58,000 Workers - “It's time to stop subsidizing them and start facing the climate crisis," says a BailoutWatch analyst.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/04/02/fossil-fuel-companies-got-82-billion-tax-bailouts-then-fired-over-58000-workers
4/3/21 —— Biden’s Jobs Plan Includes $10B For A Civilian Climate Corps. Is It Enough? - The White House says the New Deal-style program will “mobilize the next generation of conservation and resilience workers.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-jobs-plan-civilian-climate-corps_n_606631b8c5b6aa24bc608c1f
4/3/21 —— Here’s how Biden’s infrastructure plan could get passed through Congress - The three scenarios for how Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure plan could become law, explained.
https://www.vox.com/22361959/biden-infrastructure-jobs-plan-congress
4/3/21 —— ‘Record-breaking’ temperatures to engulf Southwest, with ‘critical’ fire weather conditions possible - Highs near 100 are likely in Phoenix, more than three weeks ahead of average
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/04/02/record-southwest-temperatures-fire-weather/
4/4/21 —— ‘Congressional Hearing on Resilience Highlights Climate Change Risks
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/04/congressional-hearing-on-resilience-highlights-climate-change-risks/
4/4/21 —— Goldman Sachs has made big promises on climate policy — but where does the money go?
https://www.salon.com/2021/04/03/goldman-sachs-has-made-big-promises-on-climate-policy--but-where-does-the-money-go/
4/5/21 —— Biden economic adviser: 'It's important we upgrade our definition of infrastructure’
https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/546372-cea-chair-rouse-its-important-we-upgrade-our-definition-of
4/5/21 —— Biden’s Big Infrastructure Plan Hits McConnell, GOP Blockade - Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell set the defining tone for his party when he flatly declared last week he will fight Biden’s agenda “every step of the way.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bidens-big-infrastructure-plan-hits-mcconnell-gop-blockade_n_606b03aec5b6832c7939a6a2
4/5/21 —— “You Need Water to Live”: Pete Buttigieg Explains Infrastructure to Republicans
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/04/you-need-water-to-live-pete-buttigieg-explains-infrastructure-to-republicans/
4/5/21 —— Bernie Sanders Says Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Doesn’t Go Far Enough on Climate
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/04/bernie-sanders-says-bidens-infrastructure-plan-doesnt-go-far-enough-on-climate/
4/5/21 —— Meet Arizona's water one-percenters
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/05/arizona-water-one-percenters
4/6/21 —— Sea levels could rise as much as 60 feet from melting ice sheets, research suggests
https://www.studyfinds.org/sea-levels-could-rise-60-feet-melting-ice-sheets/
4/6/21 —— Yellen pushes global minimum corporate tax
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/546460-yellen-presses-for-global-minimum-tax-in-first-big-speech-as-treasury
4/6/21 —— Manchin Under Fire for Threatening to Block Infrastructure Bill Over Corporate Tax Hike - “I think we need a grassroots movement that makes it clear to Joe Manchin... that the progressive agenda is what the American people want," said Sen. Bernie Sanders.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/04/06/manchin-under-fire-threatening-block-infrastructure-bill-over-corporate-tax-hike
4/6/21 —— The US needs a macrogrid to move electricity from areas that make it to areas that need it
https://theconversation.com/the-us-needs-a-macrogrid-to-move-electricity-from-areas-that-make-it-to-areas-that-need-it-155938
4/6/21 —— Fossil fuels get too many government handouts. Biden wants to cut them off. - The American Jobs Plan proposes taking away major tax breaks for the fossil fuel industry.
https://www.vox.com/22363539/oil-gas-subsidies-biden-solar-wind-tax-reform-infrastructure-bill
4/6/21 —— Biden wants to give electric cars a huge boost. Will people buy them? - His infrastructure plan calls for more EV chargers, incentives for buyers, and more US manufacturing.
https://www.vox.com/22364340/electric-cars-biden-infrastructure-plan-evs-chargers
4/6/21 —--'A Remarkable Story of Resilience and Hope': Renewable Energy Smashes Records in 2020 - “There is a huge amount to be done... The international community must look to this trend as a source of inspiration to go further.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/04/05/remarkable-story-resilience-and-hope-renewable-energy-smashes-records-2020
4/6/21 —— Projected Surge of Lightning Spells More Wildfire Trouble for the Arctic
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/05042021/projected-surge-of-lightning-spells-more-wildfire-trouble-for-the-arctic/
4/6/21 —— The wage gap that threatens Biden's climate plan - Workers in the greener side of the energy industry earn significantly less than those who extract fossil fuels and run power plants, new data show.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/06/biden-climate-jobs-wage-gap-479130
4/6/21 —— The coming diseases: As the climate warms, Alaska faces new threats from zoonotic illnesses
https://www.arctictoday.com/the-coming-diseases-as-the-climate-warms-alaska-faces-new-threats-from-zoonotic-illnesses/?wallit_nosession=1
4/6/21 —— California is on the brink of drought – again. Is it ready?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/06/california-is-on-the-brink-of-drought-again-is-it-ready
4/7/21 —--'We Have to Act': Atmospheric CO2 Passes 420 PPM for First Time Ever
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/04/06/we-have-act-atmospheric-co2-passes-420-ppm-first-time-ever
4/7/21 —--Study: Drought-breaking rains more rare, erratic in US West - Rainstorms grew more erratic and droughts much longer across most of the U.S. West over the past half-century as climate change warmed the planet
https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/study-drought-breaking-rains-erratic-rare-us-west-76905607
4/7/21 —--How the new climate normal will change our weather reports - The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is about to add more recent data to its definition of ‘normal’ temperatures, which means additional hot days won’t sound so warm by comparison.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90622535/how-the-new-climate-normal-will-change-our-weather-reports
4/7/21 —--Ecocide: Should Destruction of the Planet Be a Crime? - To prosecute and imprison political leaders and corporate executives would require a parsing of legal boundaries and a recalibration of criminal accountability.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07042021/ecocide-should-destruction-of-the-planet-be-a-crime/
4/7/21 —--As the Climate Crisis Grows, a Movement Gathers to Make ‘Ecocide’ an International Crime Against the Environment - International lawyers, environmentalists and a growing number of world leaders say “ecocide”—widespread destruction of the environment—would serve as a “moral red line” for the planet.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07042021/climate-crisis-ecocide-vanuatu-the-fifth-crime/
4/7/21 —--JPMorgan Secretly Emailed the Trump Administration About Bailing Out the Oil Industry
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/04/jpmorgan-secretly-emailed-the-trump-administration-about-bailing-out-the-oil-industry/
4/7/21 —--For Republicans, Pipes Are Infrastructure Only If They Carry Oil - Unhappy with President Joe Biden’s sweeping American Jobs Plan, members of the GOP have latched on to an extremely narrow definition of infrastructure.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republicans-pipes-energy-infrastructure-biden_n_606b1e57c5b66c4ab6b543a8
4/7/21 —— How Debt and Climate Change Pose  ‘Systemic Risk’ to World Economy - With dozens of countries struggling to manage both staggering debt and mounting climate disasters, some financial leaders are calling for green debt relief.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/07/climate/debt-climate-change.html
4/8/21 —— Wall Street Is a Primary Villain' in Climate Crisis, Analysis Shows - DeSmog’s investigation found that at least 65% of directors from 39 global banks had 940 connections to "climate-conflicted" industries.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/04/07/wall-street-primary-villain-climate-crisis-analysis-shows
4/8/21 —— Greenpeace Says Biden Tax Plan for Fossil Fuel Subsidies 'Simply Not Good Enough’ - “Not a dime of our tax dollars should go towards corporations that poison our communities and wreck our climate.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/04/07/greenpeace-says-biden-tax-plan-fossil-fuel-subsidies-simply-not-good-enough
4/8/21 —— Progressive Democrats Face Resistance on Infrastructure - The party is split between a stubborn establishment and what some activists see as its overly conciliatory left flank.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/biden-infrastructure-bill/
4/8/21 —— Corporate America tears down Biden's infrastructure plan
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/06/corporate-america-biden-infrastructure-plan-479490
4/8/21 —— Nearly Two-Thirds of US Voters Back Corporate Tax Hike to Fund Biden Infrastructure Plan - Support for the American Jobs Plan's proposed 7% corporate tax increase ranged from 42% among Republicans to 85% of Democrats. 
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/04/07/nearly-two-thirds-us-voters-back-corporate-tax-hike-fund-biden-infrastructure-plan
4/8/21 —— America's biggest corporations paid no federal income taxes last year: study - Thanks to policies passed by Trump, many corporations were able to pay no taxes on their profits in 2020
https://www.salon.com/2021/04/07/americas-biggest-corporations-paid-no-federal-income-taxes-last-year-study/
4/8/21 —— Inside Clean Energy: The Coast-to-Coast Battle Over Rooftop Solar - As California works on a new net metering policy, other states are grappling with similar issues.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/08042021/inside-clean-energy-the-coast-to-coast-battle-over-rooftop-solar/
4/8/21 —— Marine species increasingly can’t live at equator due to global heating - Study suggests it is already too warm in tropics for some species to survive
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/08/marine-species-increasingly-cant-live-at-equator-due-to-global-heating
4/9/21 —— U.S. infrastructure to headline global climate talks
https://www.eenews.net/stories/1063729473
4/9/21 —— Sanders Slams Big Oil CEO Who Refuses to Testify at Senate Climate Hearing
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/04/08/sanders-slams-big-oil-ceo-who-refuses-testify-senate-climate-hearing
4/9/21 —— Despite Pandemic Shutdowns, CO2 Now at Levels Unseen in 3.6 Million Years - NOAA warned that carbon dioxide and methane "continued their unrelenting rise in 2020.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/04/08/despite-pandemic-shutdowns-co2-now-levels-unseen-36-million-years
4/9/21 —— Why investments in clean, renewable energy will avoid blackouts at a low cost
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/547068-why-investments-in-clean-renewable-energy-will-avoid-blackouts-at
4/9/21 —— McConnell-Led Opposition to Infrastructure Plan May Haunt GOP in Next Elections
https://truthout.org/articles/mcconnell-led-opposition-to-infrastructure-plan-may-haunt-gop-in-next-elections/
4/9/21 —— Biden’s Corporate Tax Increase Will Raise $2.5 Trillion Says Treasury Department
https://truthout.org/articles/bidens-corporate-tax-increase-will-raise-2-5-trillion-says-treasury-department/
4/9/21 —— In the West, Signs in the Snow Warn That a 20-Year Drought Will Persist and Intensify - Critical April 1 snowpack readings once again spell trouble, and new studies show the warming climate is lengthening dry spells and shrinking the snowpack, even in winter.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09042021/west-snowpack-water-drought-climate-change/
4/9/21 —— Third of Antarctic ice shelves ‘will collapse amid 4C global heating’ - ‘Unimaginable amounts’ of water will flow into oceans if that temperature rise occurs and ice buffers vanish, warn UK scientists
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/08/third-of-antarctic-ice-shelves-will-collapse-amid-4c-global-heating
4/9/21 —— US could make its new climate target fair — to the rest of the world
Biden is about to announce a new 2030 climate target. Will it go far enough?
https://www.vox.com/22373740/biden-climate-change-2030-united-states-paris-agreement-emissions
4/10/21 —— Economists Warn Democrats 'Going Too Small' on Infrastructure Risks Economic and Climate Catastrophe - “The costs of inaction outweigh the risks of borrowing to take action—by trillions of dollars.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/04/09/economists-warn-democrats-going-too-small-infrastructure-risks-economic-and-climate
4/10/21 —— The GOP Is Voting Against Its Base - Republicans are making a risky bet by opposing Biden’s infrastructure plan.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/04/bidens-infrastructure-bill-would-help-gop-base/618549/
4/10/21 —— First-Ever Observations From Under Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday Glacier’ Are Bad News
https://earther.gizmodo.com/first-ever-observations-from-under-antarctica-s-doomsd-1846650385
4/10/21 —— Are Huge Tree Planting Projects More Hype than Solution?
https://e360.yale.edu/features/are-huge-tree-planting-projects-more-hype-than-solution
4/10/21 —— U.S. Intelligence Report Warns of Global Consequences of Social Fragmentation - The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted weaknesses of the international order, said the report, which is issued every four years.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/08/us/politics/intelligence-global-trends-report-pandemic.html
4/10/21 —— Scientists alarmed after four gray whales found dead in San Francisco Bay - Deaths discovered over a course of nine days are ‘just the tip of the iceberg’ for the species, says expert
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/09/gray-whales-dead-san-francisco-bay
4/11/21 —— UK publishes new Climate-Defence Roadmap aiming for Zero-Emissions by 2050
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/04/uk-publishes-new-climate-defence-roadmap-aiming-for-zero-emissions-by-2050/
4/11/21 —— Biden budget proposes $1.4 billion for environmental justice
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/547383-biden-budget-proposal-includes-14-billion-toward-environmental#.YHIXIv2gclY.twitter
4/11/21 —— Climate change is hitting home, and experts urge tougher responses
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/climate-change-is-hitting-home-and-experts-urge-tougher-responses/ar-BB1fpzVo
4/11/21 —--'The Time Is Now to Go Forward': Sanders Says Dems Can't Waste Time Catering to Obstructionist GOP - “When the scientists tell us we have five or six years before there will be irreparable damage done because of climate change, I'm not going to slow down.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/04/11/time-now-go-forward-sanders-says-dems-cant-waste-time-catering-obstructionist-gop
4/12/21 —— Skies went dark: Historians pinpoint the very 'worst year' ever to be alive
https://www.accuweather.com/en/severe-weather/historians-pinpoint-the-very-worst-year-to-ever-be-alive/927803
4/12/21 —— House hunters are fleeing climate change, causing a new kind of gentrification - A new survey shows that Americans are factoring climate change into their moving plans. This could push low-income families into at-risk areas.
https://grist.org/housing/house-hunters-are-fleeing-climate-change-causing-a-new-kind-of-gentrification/
4/12/21 —— Driven by Industry, More States Are Passing Tough Laws Aimed at Pipeline Protesters
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/12042021/laws-pipeline-protests-line-3/
4/12/21 —— Ocean Warming Is Making Equatorial Waters Uninhabitable - We are seeing “massive scale rearrangements of biodiversity.”
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/04/warming-is-making-our-equatorial-waters-uninhabitable/
4/13/21 —— Critics Warn $15 Billion Merger of Global Water Giants Would Create 'Dangerous Corporate Monopoly’
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/04/12/critics-warn-15-billion-merger-global-water-giants-would-create-dangerous-corporate
4/13/21 —--'Only the Beginning': Citing Climate and Investment Risks, NY State Pension Fund to Ditch Tar Sands
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/04/12/only-beginning-citing-climate-and-investment-risks-ny-state-pension-fund-ditch-tar
4/13/21 —— World’s first hydrogen-powered cargo vessel to set sail in Paris this year
https://www.optimistdaily.com/2021/04/worlds-first-hydrogen-powered-cargo-vessel-to-set-sail-in-paris-this-year/
4/13/21 —— Slip Sliding Away: Landslides Follow Flooding As Major Risk To Appalachian Communities
https://ohiovalleyresource.org/2021/04/09/slip-sliding-away-landslides-follow-flooding-as-major-risk-to-appalachian-communities/
4/13/21 —— Hundreds of big American brands are asking Biden to commit to cutting emissions 50% by 2030 = Apple, Google, Microsoft, Coca-Cola, Walmart, Nike, Levi Strauss, Salesforce, and more are trying to push the administration to set bolder emissions goals.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90624328/hundreds-of-big-american-brands-are-asking-biden-to-commit-to-cutting-emissions-50-by-2030
4/13/21 —— Trump Abandoned the Climate. This Is Biden’s Moment. - The new president has promised to take the lead on climate. His plan does not disappoint.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/12/opinion/biden-climate-plan.html
4/13/21 —— When It Comes to the Climate Crisis, Those Responsible Should Be Held Accountable - Majority Action, has released a list of 30 corporate directors who are obstacles to climate progress—directors who should be voted out of positions of power to make way for people who are more climate literate. 
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/04/13/when-it-comes-climate-crisis-those-responsible-should-be-held-accountable
4/13/21 —— Nervous North American farmers set to 'seed in faith' into parched soils
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-agriculture-weather/nervous-north-american-farmers-set-to-seed-in-faith-into-parched-soils-idUSKBN2BZ16F
4/13/21 —— Wisconsin poised for devastating wildfire season as hundreds of blazes rage - State has lost almost as much acreage to fires in four months as it did throughout last year
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/13/wisconsin-wildfires-season
4/14/21 —— Scientific American to Use 'Climate Emergency' in Magazine's Future Coverage - “This idea is not a journalistic fancy," writes a senior editor. "We are on solid scientific ground.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/04/13/scientific-american-use-climate-emergency-magazines-future-coverage
4/14/21 —--'Seismic shift' at FERC could kill natural gas pipelines
https://www.eenews.net/stories/1063729691
4/14/21 —— It’s not just Big Oil. Big Meat also spends millions to crush good climate policy. - A new study reveals how the companies you buy meat from block climate action.
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22379909/big-meat-companies-spend-millions-lobbying-climate
4/14/21 —— Analysis: 8 counties got half of 2020 flood claims
https://www.eenews.net/stories/1063729791
4/14/21 —--'The Climate Emergency Is Not Coming. It Is Here': Local Officials Across US Demand Fracking Ban - “It's time for our leaders in Washington to tackle the climate crisis now, not later. This means halting fracking and fossil fuel projects, period.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/04/13/climate-emergency-not-coming-it-here-local-officials-across-us-demand-fracking-ban
4/14/21 —— Over 25 Years, World's Wealthiest 5% Behind Over One-Third of Global Emissions Growth: Study - “We have got to cut over-consumption and the best place to start is over-consumption among the polluting elites who contribute by far more than their share of carbon emissions.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/04/13/over-25-years-worlds-wealthiest-5-behind-over-one-third-global-emissions-growth
4/14/21 —— Carbon dioxide levels now higher than at any time in past 3.6 million years
https://earthsky.org/earth/carbon-dioxide-co2-levels-2020-highest-in-3-million-years?utm_source=EarthSky+News&utm_campaign=e839547ba7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_02_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c643945d79-e839547ba7-395109277
4/14/21 —— This Glacier in Alaska Is Moving 100 Times Faster Than Normal
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/04/13/climate/muldrow-glacier-alaska-mount-denali.html
4/14/21 —— Biden Wants Leaders to Make Climate Commitments for Earth Day - The administration is closing in on deals with some close allies, but agreements with powers like China, Brazil and India are proving difficult.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/13/climate/biden-climate-change-diplomacy.html
4/14/21 —— Calls for US, China to work together and ‘set example’ on climate change
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3129415/calls-us-china-work-together-and-set-example-climate-change
Now Is Our Last Best Chance to Confront the Climate Crisis - With Joe Biden in office, a serious plan to combat climate change is finally in our sights — but the clock is ticking, and there is no more room for error
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/climate-crisis-2050-goals-biden-administration-1154528/
4/15/21 —— A Tale of 2 Climate Migrants - The United States has done more to fuel climate migration than any other country on Earth, and yet it does not always welcome climate migrants
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/climate-refugee-migration/
4/15/21 —— Kerry’s China climate talks should focus on coal consumption
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/04/14/kerrys-china-climate-talks-should-focus-on-coal-consumption/
4/15/21 —— From defeat to the White House for young climate advisers
https://www.eenews.net/stories/1063729907
4/15/21 —— ENERGY TRANSITIONS - 100% clean power? U.S. may be halfway there
https://www.eenews.net/stories/1063729813
4/15/21 —— Passing Climate Bills Without Labor Standards Won’t Transition the Economy
https://truthout.org/articles/passing-climate-bills-without-labor-standards-wont-transition-the-economy/
4/15/21 —— Fossil Fuel Phase Out Must Begin Where the Industry Has Hurt People the Most
https://truthout.org/articles/fossil-fuel-phase-out-must-begin-where-the-industry-has-hurt-people-the-most/
4/15/21 —— Wildfire Researchers Forecast 2021 Fire Season That May Be More Severe Than 2020
https://truthout.org/articles/wildfire-researchers-forecast-2021-fire-season-that-may-be-more-severe-than-2020/
4/15/21 —— Here’s What A Civilian Climate Corps Could Look Like - A new proposal from an influential policy outfit outlines how the Biden administration could put 1.5 million Americans to work.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/civilian-climate-corps-biden-plan_n_606f6a7ec5b62ff28f406914
4/15/21 —— Sea level rise creating ghost forests in U.S. East
https://earthsky.org/earth/sea-level-rise-ghost-forests-us-east-coast?utm_source=EarthSky+News&utm_campaign=69e554dd28-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_02_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c643945d79-69e554dd28-395109277
4/15/21 —— Scientific American to Use 'Climate Emergency' in Magazine's Future Coverage - “This idea is not a journalistic fancy," writes a senior editor. "We are on solid scientific ground.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/04/13/scientific-american-use-climate-emergency-magazines-future-coverage
4/16/21 —— Google Earth’s new time-lapse feature reveals decades of planetary damage
https://www.fastcompany.com/90625123/google-earths-new-timelapse-feature-reveals-decades-of-planetary-damage
4/16/21 —— Can America’s Road Builders Break the Highway Habit? - The Biden infrastructure plan pledges a rethink of federal transportation priorities. But the government agencies that build and maintain U.S. highways might not all be along for the ride. 
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-15/the-coming-battle-over-building-better-highways?srnd=citylab-transportation
4/16/21 —— Washington State plans to phase out new gas cars by 2030
https://www.fastcompany.com/90625844/washington-state-plans-to-phase-out-new-gas-cars-by-2030
4/17/21 —— Climate change: To adapt is to be human
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/548667-climate-change-to-adapt-is-to-be-human
4/17/21 —— Why Spy Agencies Say the Future Is Bleak - Climate change, technology, disease and financial crises will pose big challenges for the world, an intelligence report concludes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/15/opinion/global-trends-intelligence-report.html
4/18/21 —— A Climate Security Plan for NATO: Collective Defense for the 21st Century
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/04/a-climate-security-plan-for-nato-collective-defense-for-the-21st-century/
4/18/21 —— Despite Tensions, U.S. and China Agree to Work Together on Climate Change - The two countries said they would treat global warming “with the seriousness and urgency that it demands.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/17/world/asia/china-us-emissions.html?smid=tw-nytclimate&smtyp=cur
4/18/21 —— Event: Climate Change, Intelligence, and Global Security
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/04/event-climate-change-intelligence-and-global-security/
4/18/21 —— The Use of Climate as a Scapegoat for Governance Abuses and Failures – and Why That’s a Problem
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/04/the-use-of-climate-as-a-scapegoat-for-governance-abuses-and-failures-and-why-thats-a-problem/
4/18/21 —— The Southwest Offers Blueprints for the Future of Wastewater Reuse
https://truthout.org/articles/the-southwest-offers-blueprints-for-the-future-of-wastewater-reuse/
4/18/21 —— Will Florida be lost forever to the climate crisis?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/apr/21/florida-climate-crisis-sea-level-habitat-loss
4/18/21 —— The Pandemic Remade Every Corner of Society. Now It's the Climate's Turn
https://time.com/5953374/climate-is-everything/
4/18/21 —— The Search for Environmental Hope - Climate news is relentlessly, objectively grim. Should we ever allow ourselves to feel optimism?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/04/12/climate-news-is-relentlessly-objectively-grim-should-we-ever-allow-ourselves-feel-optimism/
4/19/21 —— Youth Demand US Action on Climate-Induced Loss and Damage in Global South - “The climate crisis is already causing severe impacts, leading to the loss of lives and livelihoods, and damage to homes, schools, roads, and hospitals.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/04/18/youth-demand-us-action-climate-induced-loss-and-damage-global-south
4/19/21 —— New Wind and Solar Up 50% Globally in 2020, as China Beats US by Over 4 to 1 - The United States was lying down on the job.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/04/18/new-wind-and-solar-50-globally-2020-china-beats-us-over-4-1
4/19/21 —— Therapists Are Seeing More Patients Struggle With Climate Anxiety
https://truthout.org/articles/therapists-are-seeing-more-patients-struggle-with-climate-anxiety/
4/19/21 —— Climate change is making your allergies worse - The annual pollenocalypse is here.
https://www.vox.com/22383707/allergies-2021-pollen-allergy-covid-19-climate-change-asthma
4/19/21 —— Rescuing the Planet Is Still Possible: The Case for a Global Green New Deal - It is irrational to rely on capitalist solutions to global warming when it is capitalism itself that has led us towards the current path of a climate catastrophe.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/04/18/rescuing-planet-still-possible-case-global-green-new-deal
4/19/21 —— Leaked calls show ALEC’s secret plan to fight Biden on climate - A new ALEC working group is promoting long-shot tactics like nullification and a constitutional
https://grist.org/politics/alec-biden-climate-republicans/
4/19/21 —— Biden takes on Dems’ ‘Mission Impossible’: Revitalizing coal country
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/18/coal-country-revitalization-biden-482659
4/19/21 —— NEW REPORTS: CLEANING UP COAL SITES AND PLUGGING GAS WELLS COULD CREATE THOUSANDS OF JOBS
https://www.alleghenyfront.org/new-reports-cleaning-up-coal-site-and-plugging-gas-wells-could-create-thousands-of-jobs/
4/20/21 —— Putin accepts Biden's invitation to virtual climate summit - Despite tensions between Washington and Moscow, the Russian president has agreed to take part in an online conference on the climate crisis.
https://www.dw.com/en/putin-accepts-bidens-invitation-to-virtual-climate-summit/a-57257091
4/20/21 —— Interstate water wars are heating up along with the climate
https://theconversation.com/interstate-water-wars-are-heating-up-along-with-the-climate-159092
4/20/21 —— As States Thwart Climate Progress, Progressives Pitch A Lifeline To Green Cities - Reps. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) are pitching a Green New Deal for local governments.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/green-new-deal-cities_n_607d8f3ce4b051555027d81a
4/20/21 —— We Could Have Greened Half the US Electrical Grid With $2.26 Wasted on Afghan War - Much of the money spent in Afghanistan was wasted and disappeared into a fog of corruption.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/04/19/we-could-have-greened-half-us-electrical-grid-226-wasted-afghan-war
4/20/21 —— Noxious Neighbors: The EPA Knows Tanks Holding Heavy Fuels Emit Harmful Chemicals. Why Are Americans Still at Risk? - The agency has been aware for more than a decade that companies are underreporting emissions, using equations developed by the petroleum industry that are often wrong.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18042021/toxic-neighbords-tank-fumes-epa-harmful-chemicals/
4/20/21 —— Ice Storm Aftermath: More Climate Extremes Ahead for Galveston - Expect more hurricanes and deadly heat waves, supercharged by global warming.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19042021/ice-storm-aftermath-more-climate-extremes-ahead-for-galveston/
4/20/21 —— Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez introduce 'Green New Deal for Public Housing’
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/548982-sanders-ocasio-cortez-introduce-green-new-deal-for-public-housing?rl=1
4/20/21 —— Multi-billion euro lawsuits derail climate action - An archaic energy treaty is being weaponized by big emitters to sue EU governments who are phasing out fossil fuels. Hundreds of billions of taxpayer funds could be redirected from climate action to corporate coffers.
https://www.dw.com/en/energy-charter-treaty-ect-coal-fossil-fuels-climate-environment-uniper-rwe/a-57221166
4/21/21 —— A sweeping study shows how humans changed the environment over 12,000 years - Researchers find that humans have long occupied much of the planet — but only recently began to destroy it
https://www.salon.com/2021/04/21/a-sweeping-study-shows-how-humans-changed-the-environment-over-12000-years/
4/21/21 —— He survived California’s deadliest wildfire. But not his encounter with police
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/20/california-wildfire-homeless-paradise-camp-fire-stephen-vest
4/21/21 —— Crises Collide: Homeless in America When Climate Disaster Strikes - In some cases, solutions to homelessness and the climate crisis might be one and the same.
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/homelessness-climate-change/
4/21/21 —— Hydrogen is one future fuel oil execs and environmentalists could both support as rival countries search for climate solutions
https://theconversation.com/hydrogen-is-one-future-fuel-oil-execs-and-environmentalists-could-both-support-as-rival-countries-search-for-climate-solutions-159201
4/21/21 —— Coal Miners Union Says It Would Accept Transition to Renewables With Green Jobs
https://truthout.org/articles/coal-miners-union-says-it-would-accept-transition-to-renewables-with-green-jobs/
4/21/21 —— Global Climate Policy Reboot: Launching a US-Canada Fossil Fuel Phase Out - US President Biden’s Leaders Summit on Climate could spark a transformative shift in global climate action—if the U.S. and Canada embark on a fossil fuel production phase out. 
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/04/20/global-climate-policy-reboot-launching-us-canada-fossil-fuel-phase-out
4/21/21 —— Big Agriculture Is the Problem - You reap what you sow.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/04/20/big-agriculture-problem
4/21/21 —— Biden’s Climate Credibility May Hinge on Whether He Makes Good on U.S. Financial Commitments to Developing Nations - World governments have spent $12 trillion addressing the Covid-19 pandemic. But a $100 billion climate fund for less wealthy countries has run sizable deficits.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21042021/biden-climate-summit-financial-commitments-developing-nations/
4/21/21 —— Ahead of the Climate Summit, Environmental Groups Urge Biden to Champion Methane Reductions as a Quick Warming Fix - Methane cuts remain essential to slow climate change over the coming decades and limit warming to 1.5C.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20042021/methane-biden-climate-summit/
4/21/21 —— How Federal Prohibition Is Turning Cannabis into a Climate Villain - Cultivating weed can be an emissions-heavy industry, and requiring each state to grow its own is making it worse
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/cannabis-climate-change-emissions-1158029/
4/21/21 —— The predictable economic effects of climate change have started to appear
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/04/20/predictable-economic-effects-climate-change-have-started-appear/
4/21/21 —— Also roaring back from pandemic: earth-warming emissions
https://apnews.com/article/technology-financial-markets-government-and-politics-financial-crisis-climate-change-30e8c98766bbfd4bfa8facb5b6625d01
4/21/21 —— Biden assembled an all-star climate team. Now he has to deliver.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/21/biden-climate-team-483841
4/22/21 —— To make climate change a ‘priority,’ Biden should ditch the cold war approach to China - Secretary of State Blinken recently placed the challenge in the contradictory context of great power competition.
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/04/21/to-make-climate-change-a-priority-biden-should-ditch-the-cold-war-approach-to-china/
4/22/21 —— The U.S. And China Inch Toward Cooperation On Climate — Thrilling Other Countries - “We salute the fact” that John Kerry, Biden’s special envoy for climate, traveled to China, Italian ambassador to the U.S. Armando Varricchio told HuffPost.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/us-china-climate-cooperation_n_6080711ce4b0dff254005632
4/22/21 —— A guide to Biden's climate summit
https://www.eenews.net/stories/1063730531
4/22/21 —— Biden Pledges U.S. Will Cut Climate-Changing Pollution At Least In Half By 2030 - The new target for limiting planet-warming pollution nearly doubles Obama’s goal, highlighting how much time to act was lost during the Trump years.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-climate-pledge_n_6080a3efe4b01e14f06ccfcd
4/22/21 —— How the Green New Deal fits Democrats' climate plans
https://www.eenews.net/stories/1063730513
4/22/21 —— Inside the Chamber of (Climate) Commerce
https://www.eenews.net/stories/1063730503
4/22/21 —— Texas and California Blackouts Show We Need Dramatic Infrastructure Upgrades
https://truthout.org/articles/texas-and-california-blackouts-show-we-need-dramatic-infrastructure-upgrades/
4/22/21 —— Climate Change Will Force Us to Rethink Migration and Asylum - As climate change accelerates, it will become increasingly untenable to reduce US immigration and asylum policy to a question of border security.
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/border-biden-climate-migration/
4/22/21 —— Biden wants to convince the world America can be trusted on climate change - It’s going to be a tough sell.
https://www.vox.com/22395564/climate-change-biden-summit-world-pitch
4/22/21 —— Climate Groups Warn Reported Biden Plan to Cut Emissions in Half by 2030 'Not Good Enough’ - “Science and justice demand that we reduce emissions by 70% from 2005 levels by 2030 on the road to zero emissions by mid-century.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/04/21/climate-groups-warn-reported-biden-plan-cut-emissions-half-2030-not-good-enough
4/22/21 —— 17 Young People on the Moment the Climate Crisis Became Real for Them
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/04/young-people-moment-climate-crisis-became-real/
4/22/21 —— 10 things we learned about Earth since the last Earth Day - The secret to wombat poop, how skies turn orange, and what a cold ocean blob could mean for the climate.
https://www.vox.com/22392485/earth-day-climate-change-environment-year-review
4/22/21 —— Over 70 million people are under freeze warnings as snow and severe storms track into Northeast
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/21/weather/snow-freeze-cold-storms-weather-forecast/index.html
4/23/21 —— As Nations Gather for Biden’s Virtual Climate Summit, Ambitious Pledges That Still Fall Short of Paris Goal - Leaders call for urgent action and stress the need for cooperation. But how countries will meet their targets remains unclear.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22042021/biden-virtual-climate-summit-paris-brazil-china-russia-europe/
4/23/21 —— How climate became the centerpiece of Biden’s economic agenda - The politics and urgency around climate change are shifting.
https://www.vox.com/2021/4/22/22396107/climate-biden-agenda-american-jobs-plan
4/23/21 —— Climate Activists Converge on Washington With a Gift and a Warning for Biden and World Leaders - Caravaning from New York, leaders from 350.org and other groups gave the president a ticking clock with a deadline for action just six years from now.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22042021/climate-activists-converge-on-washington-with-a-gift-and-a-warning-for-biden-and-world-leaders/
4/23/21 —— Why do we care how smart animals are?
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/22373580/animals-intelligent-smart-orcas-chickens
5 things to know about the brand new US climate commitment - It’s the most ambitious target to date, but it still may not be big enough to atone for our outsize emissions.
https://www.vox.com/22397364/earth-day-us-climate-change-summit-biden-john-kerry-commitment-2030-zero-emissions
4/23/21 —— Big Banks Are Fueling the Climate Emergency - The only "green" the big banks are interested in is your hard earned money.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/04/22/big-banks-are-fueling-climate-emergency
4/23/21 —— Inside Clean Energy: Some Straight Talk about Renewables and Reliability - A former watchdog for Texas’ grid operator speaks out on legislation that would penalize wind and solar.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22042021/inside-clean-energy-some-straight-talk-about-renewables-and-reliability/
4/23/21 —— Changes to giant ocean eddies could have ‘devastating effects’ globally - Researchers fear increasing energy in these eddies could affect ability of Southern Ocean to absorb C02
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/23/changes-to-giant-ocean-eddies-could-have-devastating-effects-globally
4/23/21 —— Climate crisis has shifted the Earth’s axis, study shows - Massive melting of glaciers has tilted the planet’s rotation, showing the impact of human activities
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/23/climate-crisis-has-shifted-the-earths-axis-study-shows
4/23/21 —— Study Surveys Global Risk of Dry Wells 
https://www.circleofblue.org/2021/world/study-surveys-global-risk-of-dry-wells/
4/24/21 —— Biden Vows to Cut Emissions While US Continues to Subsidize Fossil Fuels
https://truthout.org/video/biden-vows-to-cut-emissions-while-us-continues-to-subsidize-fossil-fuels/
4/24/21 —— What If 401(k)s Could Fund the Green New Deal Instead of Wall Street?
https://truthout.org/articles/what-if-401ks-could-fund-the-green-new-deal-instead-of-wall-street/
4/24/21 —— Jobs and Technology Take Center Stage at Friday’s Summit, With Biden Pitching Climate Action as a Boon for the Economy - “We can do this,” Biden told the world leaders attending the virtual event. But it will be a heavy lift to get the world on track in time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23042021/biden-climate-summit-jobs-cop26-glasgow-clean-energy/
4/24/21 —— Miami’s sea level rise bill is $4 billion by 2060. It won’t keep every neighborhood dry.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/environment/article250781284.html
4/24/21 —— Biden Wants to Slash Emissions. Success Would Mean a Very Different America. - Hitting the targets could require a rapid shift to electric vehicles, the expansion of forests nationwide, development of complex new carbon-capture technology and many other changes, researchers said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/22/climate/biden-emissions-target-economy.html
4/24/21 —— Houston’s Mosquito-Killing Superhero Takes on the Climate Crisis - Climate change is altering the patterns and prevalence of infectious diseases as vectors like mosquitoes migrate to new regions. In Houston, a man named Max Vigilant is helping to protect the city against new outbreaks
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/houston-mosquitos-infectious-diseases-climate-crisis-1159121/
4/24/21 —— 4 winners and 4 losers from Biden’s climate leader summit
https://www.vox.com/2021/4/23/22397532/climate-change-summit-biden-xi-jinping-jair-bolsonaro-winners-losers
4/25/21 —— Survey of Security Experts Warns of Potentially Catastrophic Climate Threats in the Next 20 Years
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/04/survey-of-security-experts-warns-of-potentially-catastrophic-climate-threats-in-the-next-20-years/
4/25/21 —— Two graphs show the path to 1.5 degrees
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2021/04/two-graphs-show-the-path-to-1-5-degrees/
4/25/21 —— The Leaders Summit on Climate is a Historic Moment in Global Security
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/04/todays-leaders-summit-on-climate-is-a-historic-moment-in-global-security/
4/25/21 —— The National Academies Calls on USGCRP to Adopt Integrated Climate Change Risk Framing
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/04/the-national-academies-calls-on-usgcrp-to-adopt-integrated-climate-change-risk-framing/
4/25/21 —— As a hotter, drier climate grips the Colorado River, water risks grow across the Southwest
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-environment/2021/04/23/snow-and-shrinking-flows-colorado-river-shortage/7294203002/
4/25/21 —— Halting the Vast Release of Methane Is Critical for Climate, U.N. Says - A major United Nations report will declare that slashing emissions of methane, the main component of natural gas, is far more vital than previously thought.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/24/climate/methane-leaks-united-nations.html
4/25/21 —— The Grocery Price Shock Is Coming to a Store Near You
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/the-grocery-price-shock-is-coming-to-a-store-near-you/ar-BB1fZDaC
4/25/21 —— Climatologist Michael E Mann: 'Good people fall victim to doomism. I do too sometimes
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/27/climatologist-michael-e-mann-doomism-climate-crisis-interview
4/26/21 —— Extractive Companies Privatize Repression and Counterinsurgency in the Americas
https://truthout.org/articles/extractive-companies-privatize-repression-and-counterinsurgency-in-the-americas/
4/26/21 —— Climate Change Is a Driving Force in Central American Migration
https://truthout.org/video/climate-change-is-a-driving-force-in-central-american-migration/
4/26/21 —— Homelessness and Extreme Weather Are Converging Climate Crises
https://truthout.org/articles/homelessness-and-extreme-weather-are-converging-climate-crises/
4/26/21 —— A New Program Like FDR’s Civilian Conservation Corps Could Help the Nation Fight Climate Change and Transition to Renewable Energy - Proposals currently being considered in Washington differ from the New Deal program because of a focus on employing women and people of color and tackling projects in underserved communities.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26042021/civilian-conservation-corps-fdr-climate-change-renewable-energy-transition/
4/26/21 —— The Paris Agreement Was a First Step, Not an End Goal. Still, the World’s Nations Are Far Behind
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23042021/the-paris-agreement-was-a-first-step-not-an-end-goal-still-the-worlds-nations-are-far-behind/
4/26/21 —— Using Hydrogen To Back Up The Grid
https://www.invw.org/2021/04/23/using-hydrogen-to-back-up-the-grid/
4/26/21 —— Fighting the feedback loop: why scientists are sounding the alarm on Canada’s melting permafrost
https://thenarwhal.ca/permafrost-canada-scientists-climate-change/
4/26/21 —— Biden’s Bet on a Climate Transition Carries Big Risks - The president’s plans to cut emissions in half by 2030 relies heavily on a government effort to steer the development of new industries, but business leaders are fretting over the rapid timeline.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/24/business/bidens-climate-change.html
4/26/21 —— Global warming perceptions by state: Most Americans accept human fault - These numbers show the next big front in the climate change fight.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/global-warming-perceptions-states-more-americans-accept-fault-n1265213
4/26/21 —— The true costs of our cheap food and the American diet
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/25/our-unequal-earth-mark-bittman-cheap-food-american-diet
4/27/21 —— These graphics show how the world is racing to climate failure
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2021/04/26/news/these-graphics-show-how-world-racing-climate-failure
4/27/21 —— Wells dry up, crops imperiled, farm workers in limbo as California drought grips San Joaquin Valley
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2021-04-26/as-drought-deepens-california-growers-see-grim-futurequin
4/27/21 —— How Climate Change Is Nipping At North Carolina's Coasts
https://www.wfae.org/show/charlotte-talks-with-mike-collins/2021-04-26/how-climate-change-is-nipping-at-north-carolinas-coasts
4/27/21 —— Somehow, a majority of Americans still don't think climate change will affect them
https://www.mic.com/p/somehow-a-majority-of-americans-still-dont-think-climate-change-will-affect-them-74772737
4/27/21 —— Drought-hit California orders Nestlé to stop pumping millions of gallons of water
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/27/california-nestle-water-san-bernardino-forest-drought
4/28/21 —— No, Biden’s Not Banning Burgers — But Meat Is a Real Climate Problem
https://truthout.org/articles/no-bidens-not-banning-burgers-but-meat-is-a-real-climate-problem/
4/28/21 —— Poor communities will likely need to be compensated as a result of climate change policies, study says - Climate change policies could also increase the financial burden on the poor.
https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/poor-communities-compensated-result-climate-change-policies-study/story?id=77241971&cid=clicksource_4380645_14_post_hero_card_hed\
4/28/21 —— Plastics and toxic chemicals are killing fish — and poisoning us
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2021/04/27/news/plastics-toxic-chemicals-killing-fish-poisoning-us
4/28/21 —— Tech needed to halt climate change still underdeveloped - Many of the technologies needed to stop climate change are still in early stages of development, a study of green tech patents has revealed. Greater action is required to bring them to market in time.
https://www.dw.com/en/tech-needed-to-halt-climate-change-still-underdeveloped/a-57339898
Senate to Reinstate Obama-Era Controls on Climate-Warming Methane - Senate Democrats on 4/28/21 —— Wednesday will use a once-obscure law to resurrect Obama-era regulations on methane that the Trump administration had wiped away.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/28/climate/climate-change-methane.html
4/28/21 —— Biden's unlikely new ally on climate change: Corporate America
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/27/bidens-climate-change-corporate-america-484784
4/28/21 —— California commits to end oil extraction in the state by 2045
https://www.optimistdaily.com/2021/04/california-commits-to-end-oil-extraction-in-the-state-by-2045/
4/29/21 —— The Top 11 Climate Actions of Joe Biden’s First 100 Days - An unprecedented effort to thwart humanity’s greatest threat.
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/04/biden-100-days-climate-change-humanitys-greatest-threat/
4/29/21 —— Climate-friendly farming strategies can improve the land and generate income for farmers
https://theconversation.com/climate-friendly-farming-strategies-can-improve-the-land-and-generate-income-for-farmers-157220
4/29/21 —— Earth’s Glaciers Are Melting Faster Than Ever, Satellites Show - Human-caused climate change is now making glaciers lose snow and ice even more rapidly, scientists say.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/glaciers-melting-faster_n_6089b43de4b0b9042d8dcad3
4/29/21 —— Climate collapse: The people who fear society is doomed - No scientific study has found that climate change is likely to wipe out civilization, but for many even the possibility is terrifying enough to upend their lives.
https://www.dw.com/en/climate-collapse-civilization-societal-breakdown-misinformation-mental-health/a-56848557
4/29/21 —— Republicans’ climate credibility hit by make-believe ‘war on burgers’ claim - Unfounded claims do not reflect president’s proposals to tackle global heating, which make no mention of meat consumption
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/28/joe-biden-climate-crisis-republicans-meat
4/29/21 —— The good news about climate change: there’s still hope - With warming environments, landscapes are shifting. But life is still abundant
https://www.salon.com/2021/04/29/the-good-news-about-climate-change-theres-still-hope_partner/
4/29/21 —— From dust bowl to California drought: a climate scientist on the lessons we still haven’t learned
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/29/california-drought-climate-dust-bowl
4/30/21 —— Watching a coral reef die as climate change devastates one of the most pristine tropical island areas on Earth
https://theconversation.com/watching-a-coral-reef-die-as-climate-change-devastates-one-of-the-most-pristine-tropical-island-areas-on-earth-159792
4/30/21 —— Dingell and Markey Introduce $10 Trillion THRIVE Act to Tackle 'Our Biggest Emergencies’ - The bill aims to ensure "an intersectional response" to the climate crisis, coronavirus pandemic, economic inequity, and racial injustice "that is proportionate to the scope of the problems we face.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/04/29/dingell-and-markey-introduce-10-trillion-thrive-act-tackle-our-biggest-emergencies
4/30/21 ——'This Is Huge': Top Court Rules Germany's Climate Law Inadequate to Protect Future Generations - “This can change so much, not just for us here in Germany but for activists worldwide.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/04/29/huge-top-court-rules-germanys-climate-law-inadequate-protect-future-generations
4/30/21 —— Climate change threatens to spread antibiotic resistance in the Arctic
https://www.arctictoday.com/climate-change-threatens-to-spread-antibiotic-resistance-in-the-arctic/?wallit_nosession=1
4/30/21 —— Hawaii to become the first state to declare climate emergency
https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/climate-change/550916-hawaii-to-become-the-first-state-to-declare
4/30/21 —— Evangelicals are losing their climate skepticism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/evangelicals-are-losing-their-climate-skepticism/2021/04/29/c9c58cd8-a8f7-11eb-a8a7-5f45ddcdf364_story.html
4/30/21 —— The Senate just took a step toward actually lowering US greenhouse gas emissions - Why the Senate’s move to reverse Trump’s deregulation of methane molecules is so critical, and where the resolution goes next.
https://www.vox.com/22404194/methane-emissions-greenhouse-gases-senate-reverses-trump-order

MARCH 2021

Snowstorms, the breach of the Arctic vortex and the effects of ice meltwater on the oceans
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2021/02/snowstorms-breach-of-arctic-vortex-and-the-effects-of-ice-meltwater-on-the-oceans.html

Why Water Conflict is Rising, Especially on the Local Level
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/02/why-localized-water-violence-is-flourishing-even-as-transboundary-water-wars-are-not/

Climate Security at the UNSC: Opportunities for US Action in March
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/02/climate-security-at-the-unsc-opportunities-for-us-action-in-march/

New U.S. Global Fragility Strategy Recognizes Environmental Issues as Key to Stability
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/02/new-u-s-global-fragility-strategy-recognizes-environmental-issues-as-key-to-stability/

America's power grid is broken. Here's how to fix it - The US electrical grid is an engineering marvel that isn't being managed well nor maintained, engineers say
https://www.salon.com/2021/02/27/americas-power-grid-is-broken-heres-how-to-fix-it/

Cities Voted For Green Building Codes. Now Developers Want To End Voting.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/climate-green-building-codes_n_60381e23c5b60d98bec8dc7d

3/1/21 ———  A huge iceberg that's bigger than New York City broke off near a UK base in Antarctica
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/27/world/antarctica-iceberg-trnd/index.html

3/1/21 ———  How the Loss of Soil Is Sacrificing America’s Natural Heritage
https://e360.yale.edu/features/how-the-loss-of-soil-is-sacrificing-americas-natural-heritage

3/1/21 ———  Biden hikes cost of carbon, easing path for new climate rules
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/26/biden-carbon-price-climate-change-471787

3/2/21 ———  Hurricane Hunters faced a grueling pace in 2020. With climate change, it may not let up.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/02/28/hurricane-hunters-age-fleet-climate/

3/2/21 ———  How climate change can revolutionize US national security policy
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/03/01/how-climate-change-can-revolutionize-us-national-security-policy/

3/2/21 ———  The Pentagon, First, Last, and Always - Focusing on the wrong threats, including a new cold war with China, is the last thing we can afford now.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/03/02/pentagon-first-last-and-always

3/2/21 ———  The Most Effective Method of Minimizing the Impacts of Climate Change Is Ensuring That Everyone’s Basic Needs Are Met - We must attend to the structural injustices that immiserate so much of this country.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/03/01/most-effective-method-minimizing-impacts-climate-change-ensuring-everyones-basic

3/2/21 ———  Capital Versus Biosphere: Humankind Is Testing the Limits of the Very Space in Which We Live - An eco-social agenda fit for the times.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/03/01/capital-versus-biosphere-humankind-testing-limits-very-space-which-we-live

3/2/21 ———  The Climate Crisis Fuels Violence Against Women - Without women’s full participation and freedom from violence, oppression, and discrimination, our efforts to address the climate crises will be an absolute failure.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/03/01/climate-crisis-fuels-violence-against-women

3/2/21 ———  AFTER TEXAS, GREEN NEW DEAL ADVOCATES PUSH ROOFTOP SOLAR. BUT WILL BIDEN FUND IT? - Federal funding could jumpstart rooftop solar, providing jobs, lower bills, and a boost to electric systems’ disaster resilience.
https://theintercept.com/2021/03/01/solar-electricity-green-new-deal-biden/

3/2/21 ———  How Republicans are responding to Biden’s climate agenda — in public and in private
https://grist.org/politics/steve-daines-marsha-blackburn-response-to-biden-climate-agenda/

3/2/21 ———  Uncovering Patterns in California’s Blazing Wildfires - A study of trends in wildfire occurrence over the past 30 years shows that environmental, climatic, and human-related factors can point out regions with high fire probabilities.
https://eos.org/research-spotlights/uncovering-patterns-in-californias-blazing-wildfires

3/2/21 ———  Weekslong Water Crisis Continues In Mississippi, Hitting Black Residents Hardest - Infrastructure failures following bitterly cold temperatures caused dozens of water mains to burst and freeze, leaving thousands without running water for weeks.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/water-crisis-jackson-mississippi-black-residents_n_603d7d62c5b6829715029845

3/2/21 ———  Memo from Texas: Without big, bold progressive leadership, we die - Republican governance has failed my home state in dramatic fashion. Now Joe Biden and the Democrats must step up
https://www.salon.com/2021/03/02/memo-from-texas-without-big-bold-progressive-leadership-we-die/

3/3/21 ———  The Texas blackouts showed how climate extremes threaten energy systems across the US
https://theconversation.com/the-texas-blackouts-showed-how-climate-extremes-threaten-energy-systems-across-the-us-155834

3/3/21 ———  'It's Like Nobody Cares': After Two Weeks Without Running Water, Jackson, Miss. Pleads for Help - “Water is a basic necessity and it just brought a lot of frustration, anger, and disappointment," said one of the city's residents. "If you don't know when it's coming back, what is being done to help us?”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/03/02/its-nobody-cares-after-two-weeks-without-running-water-jackson-miss-pleads-help

3/3/21 ———  In the Atlantic Ocean, Subtle Shifts Hint at Dramatic Dangers - The warming atmosphere is causing an arm of the powerful Gulf Stream to weaken, some scientists fear.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/03/02/climate/atlantic-ocean-climate-change.html

3/3/21 ———  Russian researchers: Average Arctic temperature could increase 20°С by century's end
https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/climate-crisis/2021/03/russian-researchers-average-arctic-temperature-could-increase-20-degs

3/3/21 ———  February's temper tantrum: Bitter end to winter part of worrisome trend in Nebraska
https://omaha.com/weather/februarys-temper-tantrum-bitter-end-to-winter-part-of-worrisome-trend-in-nebraska/article_b9c21d1a-770b-11eb-b28c-3f59b1c27331.html

3/3/21 ———  ‘Existential threat to our survival’: see the 19 Australian ecosystems already collapsing
https://theconversation.com/existential-threat-to-our-survival-see-the-19-australian-ecosystems-already-collapsing-154077
 
3/3/21 ———  A 'Green New Dud'? Progressives Warn House Climate Bill 'Fails to Grasp the Fundamental Truth' of Planetary Crisis
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/03/02/green-new-dud-progressives-warn-house-climate-bill-fails-grasp-fundamental-truth

3/4/21 ———  The World Finally Started Cutting Climate Pollution. Now It Needs To Multiply That By 10. - New research shows that climate regulations work — but more countries need to get on board.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/global-carbon-emissions_n_603f9b4cc5b6d7794ae34293

3/4/21 ———  Cancel All Coal Projects to Have 'Fighting Chance' Against Climate Crisis, Says UN Chief
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/03/03/cancel-all-coal-projects-have-fighting-chance-against-climate-crisis-says-un-chief

3/4/21 ———  This map shows every one of the world’s remaining coal power plants
https://www.fastcompany.com/90610616/this-map-shows-every-one-of-the-worlds-remaining-coal-power-plants

3/4/21 ———  John Kerry Tells Big Oil to Stop Resisting Energy Transition or "You’re Going to End up on the Wrong Side of This Battle.”
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/03/03/john-kerry-tells-big-oil-stop-resisting-energy-transition-or-youre-going-end-wrong

3/4/21 ———  Wolf Slaughter in Wisconsin Spurs Call for Biden to Reinstate Federal Protection for Iconic Species
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/03/03/wolf-slaughter-wisconsin-spurs-call-biden-reinstate-federal-protection-iconic

3/4/21 ———  House Energy and Commerce leaders unveil sweeping climate change legislation
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/03/house-energy-commerce-climate-legislation-473351

3/4/21 ———  Then and now: A 'megadrought' in California
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56225862

3/4/21 ———  Texas Farmers Tally Up the Damage From a Winter Storm ‘Massacre’
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/04/dining/texas-farms-storm-damage.html

3/4/21 ———  New climate ‘normal’ for Atlantic hurricanes shows more frequent and intense storms
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/03/03/hurricanes-atlantic-climate-normal/

3/5/21 ———  The Only Good "National Security" Approach to Climate Change Is to Make the Planet Itself Safer—for Everyone Who Lives on It - As we saw in Texas, climate change is a major security risk. But it's not the kind the military is well equipped to handle.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/03/04/only-good-national-security-approach-climate-change-make-planet-itself-safer

3/5/21 ———  US-China tensions threaten global climate change efforts
https://nypost.com/2021/03/04/us-china-tensions-threaten-global-climate-change-efforts/

3/5/21 ———  New Documentary ‘Meltdown’ Looks At Greenland’s Melting Glaciers And The Effects Of Climate Change
https://www.wabe.org/new-documentary-meltdown-looks-at-greenlands-melting-glaciers-and-the-effects-of-climate-change/

3/5/21 ———  Diving in the icy depths: the scientists studying what climate change is doing to the Arctic Ocean – The Conversation Weekly podcast
https://theconversation.com/diving-in-the-icy-depths-the-scientists-studying-what-climate-change-is-doing-to-the-arctic-ocean-the-conversation-weekly-podcast-156417

3/6/21 ———  Earth Temperature Timeline
https://xkcd.com/1732/

3/6/21 ———  China aims to be carbon neutral by 2060. Its new 5-year plan won’t cut it. - The plan could allow for emissions to keep growing through 2025.
https://www.vox.com/22313871/china-energy-climate-change-five-year-plan-wind-solar-coal-oil-gas

3/6/21 ———  One weird trick to fix climate change: Close the offshore wealth loophole - How closing tax havens can fund climate policy.
https://www.vox.com/2021/3/5/22310179/carbon-tax-climate-change-wealth-tax

3/7/21 ———  Why The Intelligence Community Needs a Climate Change Task Force
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/03/why-the-intelligence-community-needs-a-climate-change-task-force/

3/7/21 ———  Watch: The Center for Climate and Security on BBC World News
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/03/watch-the-center-for-climate-and-security-on-bbc-world-news/

3/7/21 ———  Calls for the Biden Administration to Prioritize Our Water Infrastructure
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/03/06/calls-biden-administration-prioritize-our-water-infrastructure

3/7/21 ———  Global Obsession With Economic Growth Will Increase Risk of Deadly Pandemics in Future - Human civilization is on a collision course with the laws of ecology.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/03/06/global-obsession-economic-growth-will-increase-risk-deadly-pandemics-future

3/8/21 ———  Big Banks Make a Dangerous Bet on the World’s Growing Demand for Food
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07032021/agriculture-banks-climate-change-emissions-meat-dairy-blackrock/

3/9/21 ———  'Frightening' New Data Shows Humanity Has Degraded or Destroyed Two-Thirds of World's Rainforest
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/03/08/frightening-new-data-shows-humanity-has-degraded-or-destroyed-two-thirds-worlds

3/9/21 ———  Global Warming’s Deadly Combination: Heat and Humidity - A new study suggests that large swaths of the tropics will experience dangerous living and working conditions if global warming isn’t limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/08/climate/climate-change-heat-tropics.html

3/9/21 ———  Sinking land and rising seas: the dual crises facing coastal communities
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/sinking-land-rising-seas-dual-crises-facing-coastal-communities

3/9/21 ———  Hundreds of toxic sites at risk for flooding, which could endanger surrounding communities
https://ktxs.com/news/spotlight-on-america/hundreds-of-toxic-sites-at-risk-for-flooding-which-could-endanger-surrounding-communities

3/9/21 ———  Federal Courts Help Biden Quickly Dismantle Trump’s Climate and Environmental Legacy
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09032021/federal-courts-biden-trump-environmental-climate-policy/

3/9/21 ———  Small Farmers Are Struggling After the Texas Big Freeze
https://civileats.com/2021/03/09/small-farmers-are-struggling-after-the-texas-big-freeze/

3/9/21 ———  Average Arctic Ocean temperatures in February warmer than past two decades
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/542090-average-arctic-ocean-temperatures-in-february-warmer-than-past-2

3/9/21 ———  Republicans' new favorite study trashes Biden's climate plans – but who's behind it? - Wyoming representative Liz Cheney says the study proves Biden’s policies would destroy state economies. But it has the oil and gas industry’s fingerprints all over it
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/09/republican-study-wyoming-biden-climate-plans

3/9/21 ———  US urged to cut 50% of emissions by 2030 to spur other countries to action - Biden administration is set to unveil a new greenhouse gas reduction target at a climate meeting on 22 April, Earth Day
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/09/us-climate-crisis-cut-emissions-environment

3/10/21 ———  Historic drought deepens in the West as window for rain, snow closes - Water supply and wildfire concerns grow for the dry season
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/03/03/drought-worsens-west/

3/10/21 ———  Wildfires Will Keep Getting Worse — Even in “Best Case” Climate Scenarios
https://truthout.org/articles/wildfires-will-keep-getting-worse-even-in-best-case-climate-scenarios/

3/10/21 ———  U.S. sees coldest February since 1989 amid global temperature dip - The planet’s temperature was above average, but 2021 is off to cooler start compared with recent years
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/03/08/us-coldest-february-1989-global-warming/

3/10/21 ———  We Are Local Leaders Uniting to Hold Climate Polluters Accountable - We wouldn't be forced to tackle these unprecedented challenges were it not for the oil and gas industry that has spent decades polluting our climate and lying about it in order to protect their profits. 
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/03/09/we-are-local-leaders-uniting-hold-climate-polluters-accountable

3/10/21 ———  Through Vigilant Organizing, Progressives Secure Representation In The Biden Administration - Make no mistake, these appointments matter—these individuals will be shaping and informing policy decisions at the highest levels of government, affecting millions of lives in the process.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/03/09/through-vigilant-organizing-progressives-secure-representation-biden-administration

3/10/21 ———  'Don't Patronize Me': Katie Porter Tears Into Oil Exec for Claiming His Industry Doesn't Get Special Tax Breaks
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/03/10/dont-patronize-me-katie-porter-tears-oil-exec-claiming-his-industry-doesnt-get

3/11/21 ———  Winter Storm Xylia, a Potentially Historic Blizzard in the Rockies and High Plains, Hits This Weekend
https://weather.com/storms/winter/news/2021-03-10-rockies-plains-major-snowstorm-xylia

3/11/21 ———  Emergency Declared as Hawaii Flooding Forces Evacuations and Leaves One Missing
https://weather.com/news/news/2021-03-10-hawaii-flooding-oahu-maui-kauai-evacuations-haleiwa

3/11/21 ———  Summer Temperature Outlook Is in
https://weather.com/news/weather/video/summer-temperature-outlook-is-in

3/11/21 ———  Why every state is vulnerable to a Texas-style power crisis - “The infrastructure we have built right now really isn’t ready.”
https://www.vox.com/22308149/texas-blackout-power-outage-winter-uri-grid-ercot

3/11/21 ———  Hawaii’s rains, floods cited as examples of climate change
https://apnews.com/article/floods-storms-hawaii-evacuations-honolulu-0ce94593956b28503bec7f4b320f6bfa

3/11/21 ———  Hawaii: flooding forces evacuations as officials warn 'this is climate change’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/11/hawaii-flooding-evacuations-climate-crisis?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1615494804

3/11/21 ———  Extreme rain three times more likely thanks to climate change, Met Office warns
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/rain-flooding-uk-met-office-b1815928.html

3/11/21 ———  First-ever study of all Amazon greenhouse gases suggest the forest is worsening climate change
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/amazon-rainforest-now-appears-to-be-contributing-to-climate-change

3/12/21 ———  Washington climate activists disagree about how to cut carbon - A landmark bill in the state Legislature has split environmentalists, with some questioning whether it will reduce pollution in communities hardest hit by it.
https://crosscut.com/environment/2021/03/washington-climate-activists-disagree-about-how-cut-carbon

3/13/21 ———  Insatiable demand for marijuana is causing a giant problem with greenhouse gases
https://www.studyfinds.org/demand-cannabis-greenhouse-gases/

3/13/21 ———  Recalling the travails of the ‘big stick’
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/03/12/recalling-the-travails-of-the-big-stick/

3/13/21 ———  Democrats debate fast-track for infrastructure package
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/542807-democrats-debate-fast-track-for-infrastructure-package

3/13/21 ———  The megadrought parching 77 percent of the Western US, explained - Lack of rain and rising temperatures threaten to decrease water supplies and bring more wildfires this summer and in the years to come
https://www.vox.com/2021/3/13/22324813/drought-california-snow-rain-west-colorado-wildfire-farms-water-climate-change


3/14/21 ———  Confirm Methane's Importance - Agriculture, land use and forestry responsible for half of people's greenhouse gases emissions?
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2021/03/confirm-methanes-importance.html

3/14/21 ——— To the UN Security Council: Connect Food Security with Climate Security
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/03/to-the-un-security-council-connect-food-security-with-climate-security/

3/14/21 ——— EVENT: Building Climate Resilience Abroad – How the US Can Help Allies and Partners With Climate Security Risks
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/03/event-building-climate-resilience-abroad-how-the-us-can-help-allies-and-partners-with-climate-security-risks/

3/14/21 ——— Climate Security: A Growing Military Concern That Policymakers Should Heed
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/03/climate-security-a-growing-military-concern-that-policymakers-should-heed/

3/14/21 ——— Report Highlight: Climate Security and the Strategic Energy Pathway in South Asia
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/03/report-highlight-climate-security-and-the-strategic-energy-pathway-in-south-asia/

3/14/21 ——— Rep. Jamaal Bowman Sees Climate As The Next Big Education Push After COVID-19 Reopenings
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jamaal-bowman-green-new-deal-schools_n_604c3494c5b6cf72d09661cb

3/14/21 ——— In the Atlantic Ocean, Subtle Shifts Hint at Dramatic Dangers - The warming atmosphere is causing an arm of the powerful Gulf Stream to weaken, some scientists fear.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/03/02/climate/atlantic-ocean-climate-change.html?referringSource=articleShare

3/14/21 ——— Small temperature increase can cause bigger wildfires, more often
https://earthsky.org/earth/climate-change-2-degrees-celsius-impact-wildfire-risk?utm_source=EarthSky+News&utm_campaign=4fa11b6428-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_02_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c643945d79-4fa11b6428-395109277

3/15/21 ——— Long-lost Core Drilled to Prepare Ice Sheet to Hide Nuclear Missiles Holds Clues About a Different Threat - Plant remnants frozen beneath 4,000 feet of ice show that most of Greenland’s ice sheet melted about 1 million years ago, in a climate like today’s.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/15032021/ice-core-greenland-ice-sheet-climate-change/

3/15/21 ——— A forgotten Cold War experiment has revealed its icy secret. It’s bad news for the planet.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/03/15/greenland-ice-sheet-more-vulnerable/

3/15/21 ——— A Tale of Two Cities: One Planning for the 2050s, the Other for the 1950s
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/03/15/tale-two-cities-one-planning-2050s-other-1950s

3/15/21 ——— Maps of historic housing discrimination show how neighborhoods that suffered redlining in the 1930s face a far higher risk of flooding today.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-flood-risk-redlining/?srnd=citylab

3/15/21 ——— Combination of climate change, development to fuel urban flooding
https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2021/03/15/climate-change-urban-flooding/7131615815309/

3/15/21 ——— Climate crisis: recent European droughts 'worst in 2,000 years’ - Study of tree rings dating back to Roman empire concludes weather since 2014 has been extraordinary
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/15/climate-crisis-recent-european-droughts-worst-in-2000-years
 
3/15/21 ——— ‘Reading the writing on the wall’: why Wall Street is acting on the climate crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/16/wall-street-climate-crisis-emissions

3/16/21 ——— Why the Pentagon is serious about reducing its carbon footprint
https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2021/0316/Why-the-Pentagon-is-serious-about-reducing-its-carbon-footprint

3/16/21 ——— Worst sandstorm in a decade chokes Beijing
https://www.vox.com/2021/3/16/22332150/beijing-sandstorm-air-pollution-dust-asia

3/16/21 ——— Green Groups File 'First-of-Its-Kind' FTC Complaint Against Chevron for Climate Lies - “The world's second biggest polluter shouldn't advertise that they're good for the environment." 
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/03/16/green-groups-file-first-its-kind-ftc-complaint-against-chevron-climate-lies

3/16/21 ——— Hundreds of Local Officials Demand 'Transformative' Infrastructure Plan for US - “If the winter storm taught us anything, it is that we need our infrastructure to be more resilient and sustainable," said Austin, Texas Mayor Steve Adler.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/03/16/hundreds-local-officials-demand-transformative-infrastructure-plan-us

3/16/21 ——— The Texas Freeze Set Off a Methane Bomb - We may never know the full extent of pollution in the Permian Basin.
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/03/the-texas-freeze-set-off-a-methane-bomb/

3/16/21 ——— Climate change altering Earth’s rivers
https://earthsky.org/earth/climate-change-altering-earths-river-flow?utm_source=EarthSky+News&utm_campaign=4194387df6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_02_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c643945d79-4194387df6-395109277

3/17/21 ——— Greg Abbott consulted an infamous climate change denier before Texas energy debacle: reporter
https://www.rawstory.com/greg-abbott-consulted-an-infamous-climate-change-denier-before-texas-energy-debacle-reporter/

3/17/21 ——— Wild weather: 4 essential reads about tornadoes and thunderstorms
https://theconversation.com/wild-weather-4-essential-reads-about-tornadoes-and-thunderstorms-157275

3/17/21 ——— More than 10 million people displaced by climate disasters in six months, report finds
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/homeless-displaced-floods-droughts-environment-b1818345.html

3/17/21 ——— Atlantic hurricane season 2021: Named storms coming earlier, in warmer waters due to climate change
https://www.al.com/news/2021/03/atlantic-hurricane-season-2021-named-storms-coming-earlier-in-warmer-waters-due-to-climate-change.html
3/18/21 ——— Forecast for spring: Nasty drought worsens for much of US
https://apnews.com/article/water-use-weather-california-agriculture-united-states-b24a2a60ae320df2fb245e4f215aeb5e

3/18/21 ——— Oil firms knew decades ago fossil fuels posed grave health risks, files reveal
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/18/oil-industry-fossil-fuels-air-pollution-documents

3/18/21 ——— The ‘Army Of Environmental Super Voters’ Is Growing, And Marching On City Hall - Exclusive: The Environmental Voter Project is expanding its effort to mobilize inactive green voters to five more states, bringing its total operation to 17 states.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/environmental-voters_n_60523a97c5b6f2f91a2e4d09

3/18/21 ——— 430+ Groups From 6 Continents Demand Biden End All US Subsidies for Global Fossil Fuel Projects - “We have to stop subsidizing fossil fuel companies at the expense of our climate.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/03/18/430-groups-6-continents-demand-biden-end-all-us-subsidies-global-fossil-fuel

3/18/21 ——— The surprise catch of seafood trawling: Massive greenhouse gas emissions - A new study shows that one industrial fishing method emits as much carbon dioxide annually as the aviation industry.
https://www.vox.com/22335364/climate-change-ocean-fishing-trawling-shrimp-carbon-footprint

3/19/21 ——— Democrats Unveil 'Build Green' Infrastructure and Jobs Act - Sen. Ed Markey called the bill "our opportunity to invest in a clean energy revolution across our country, transform our transportation sector to be climate-smart, and create millions of good-paying union jobs at the same time.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/03/19/democrats-unveil-build-green-infrastructure-and-jobs-act

3/19/21 ——— Why major unions are wary of the move to wind and solar jobs - Biden wants to move quickly toward a clean energy economy. Unions are worried about what it means for workers.
https://www.vox.com/22301534/major-unions-worried-about-wind-solar-jobs

3/20/21 ——— U.S. Congress: Bipartisan Support for Investments in Combating Climate Change at the Department of Defense (VIDEO)
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/03/u-s-congress-bipartisan-support-for-investments-in-combating-climate-change-at-the-department-of-defense/

3/20/21 ——— A Blueprint for the U.S. Department of Defense’s Strategic Assessment of Climate Change
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/03/a-blueprint-for-the-department-of-defenses-strategic-assessment-of-climate-change/

3/20/21 ——— How the US and China can jump-start cooperation on climate change - To be legitimate climate leaders on the world stage, the US and China must start by raising ambition at home.
https://www.vox.com/22319488/china-biden-alaska-blinken-climate-change

3/20/21 ——— Youth climate activists are back with new, sharper demands for countries and corporations
https://www.vox.com/2021/3/20/22340607/climate-change-strike-greta-thunberg-fridays-for-future-net-zero-emissions

3/20/21 ——— Monster Storms Can Spell Disaster for Farm Animals - Before a severe weather event, producers must provide extra feed and adequate shelter to their animals, monitor water and heat sources, and develop an evacuation plan.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/03/20/monster-storms-can-spell-disaster-farm-animals

3/20/21 ——— AOC, Elizabeth Warren Introduce Bill to Electrify Public Transportation
https://truthout.org/articles/aoc-elizabeth-warren-introduce-bill-to-electrify-public-transportation/

3/20/21 ——— Biden White House Reinstates EPA Climate Change Website That Trump Took Down
https://truthout.org/articles/biden-white-house-reinstates-epa-climate-change-website-that-trump-took-down/

3/20/21 ——— Neoliberalism Doesn’t Care - ‘Neoliberalism is a relentless and shameless assault on the commons: the planet, public health, community, public spaces, rich conversation, trust, love, history, clean air and clean water. ‘
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/03/20/neoliberalism-doesnt-care

3/21/21 ——--‘ Never seen anything like it': locals watch helplessly as floodwaters rise across New South Wales
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/mar/21/never-seen-anything-like-it-locals-watch-helplessly-as-floodwaters-rise-across-nsw

3/21/21 ——— Australia’s Worst Floods in Decades Quicken Concerns About Climate Change - In a country that suffered the harshest wildfires in its recorded history just a year ago, the deluge has become another awful milestone.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/22/world/australia/australia-floods.html

3/21/21 ——— Footage Of Australia’s Massive Mouse Plague Will Haunt Your Nightmares = The mice are everywhere. Everywhere. Think about that: Everywhere.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/australia-mice-plague_n_605808afc5b6bd95117de19d

3/21/21 ——— China says it will work with US on climate
https://thehill.com/policy/international/china/544191-china-says-it-will-work-with-us-on-climate
 
3/22/21 ——— Experts Urge World Leaders to 'Put Marine Ecosystems at the Heart of Climate Policy’ - “A healthy ocean, teeming with life, is a vital tool in the bid to tackle global heating.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/03/22/experts-urge-world-leaders-put-marine-ecosystems-heart-climate-policy
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3/22/21 ——— Migrants are heading north because Central America never recovered from last year’s hurricanes - Devastation from Hurricanes Eta and Iota has deepened the humanitarian crisis in Guatemala and Honduras.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2021/3/22/22335816/border-crisis-migrant-hurricane-eta-iota

3/22/21 ——— Following Hurricanes, Water Insecurity Spikes in Nicaragua 
https://www.circleofblue.org/2021/world/hotspots-h2o-following-hurricanes-water-insecurity-spikes-in-nicaragua/

3/22/21 ——— As Biden’s immigration policy faces scrutiny, the DHS chief says the border is “closed” - The administration currently has more than 15,000 unaccompanied minors in custody.
https://www.vox.com/2021/3/21/22343184/as-bidens-immigration-policy-faces-scrutiny-the-dhs-chief-says-the-border-is-closed

3/22/21 ——— Why the US bears the most responsibility for climate change, in one chart
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/4/24/18512804/climate-change-united-states-china-emissions

3/22/21 ——— Economics of climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean
https://www.cepal.org/en/infographics/economics-climate-change-latin-america-and-caribbean

3/22/21 ——— How climate change is making hurricanes more dangerous
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2019/07/how-climate-change-is-making-hurricanes-more-dangerous/
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3/22/21 ——— Nearly half of Pennsylvania government electricity to come from solar power by 2023
https://www.post-gazette.com/business/powersource/2021/03/22/Pennsylvania-government-solar-powered-project-2023-energy-electricity-supply-arrays/stories/202103220063

3/22/21 ——— As regulations vanish, one Missouri county is ground zero for factory farming debate
https://investigatemidwest.org/2021/03/22/as-regulations-vanish-one-missouri-county-is-ground-zero-for-factory-farming-debate/

3/22/21 ——— The biggest animal welfare success of the past 6 years, in one chart - Factory farming is spreading, but some of its worst practices are on their way out.
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22331708/eggs-cages-chickens-hens-meat-poultry

3/22/21 ——— Lake Michigan is heating up due to climate change, study reveals
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/lake-michigan-is-heating-up-due-to-climate-change-study-reveals/ar-BB1eQC66

3/23/21 ——— Biden needs more than a special envoy to deal sustainably with climate change
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/544457-biden-needs-more-than-a-special-envoy-to-deal-sustainably-with

3/23/21 ——— Cancellation of Fracking Project in Texas Shows Power of Grassroots Organizing
https://truthout.org/articles/cancellation-of-fracking-project-in-texas-shows-power-of-grassroots-organizing/

3/23/21 ——— Evidence of Fracking Chemicals Found in Bodies of Pennsylvania Children
https://truthout.org/articles/evidence-of-fracking-chemicals-found-in-bodies-of-pennsylvania-children/

3/23/21 ——— Progressives Say Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Falls Short
https://truthout.org/articles/progressives-say-bidens-infrastructure-plan-falls-short/

3/23/21 ——— Biden Eyes Tax Hikes for Rich, Ending Fossil Fuel Subsidies to Fund Infrastructure
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/03/23/biden-eyes-tax-hikes-rich-ending-fossil-fuel-subsidies-fund-infrastructure

3/23/21 ——— Facing sweltering soldiers and flooded ports, NATO to focus on climate change
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/nato-climate-change-stoltenberg/2021/03/23/3884fe52-8aa7-11eb-a33e-da28941cb9ac_story.html

3/23/21 ——— The Water Crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, Is a Dire Warning Sign
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/03/water-crisis-in-jackson-mississippi-is-a-dire-warning-sign/

3/23/21 ——— Michigan’s Rural Water Systems Confront Generations of Inadequate Investment
https://www.circleofblue.org/2021/world/michigans-rural-water-systems-confront-generations-of-inadequate-investment/

3/23/21 ——— I thought I’d seen it all studying plastics. Then my team found 2,000 bags in a camel.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/23/camels-plastic-bags-pollution-dubai/

3/23/21 ——— Biden’s Recovery Plan Bets Big on Clean Energy - The president’s plan, worth up to $4 trillion, represents a fundamental shift in the way Democrats talk about tackling climate change: It’s no longer a side issue.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/23/climate/biden-infrastructure-stimulus-climate-change.html

3/23/21 ——— There Is No Vaccine for Global Warming - In the past year, carbon emissions dropped significantly as the Covid-19 pandemic kept us all home. How we move forward will determine the fate of the planet.
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/pandemic-climate-change/

3/23/21 ——— Fed sets up panels to examine risks that climate change poses to the financial system
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/23/fed-to-examine-risks-climate-change-poses-to-financial-system.html

3/24/21 ——— Big Banks Are ‘Fueling Climate Chaos’ By Pouring Trillions Into Oil, Gas And Coal
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/banks-fossil-fuels-finance-climate-change_n_605a45b8c5b6cebf58d28d52

3/24/21 ——— The Fossil Fuel Industry Is Turning to Far-Right Authoritarians - As climate change intensifies and countries turn to clean energies, Big Oil will take increasingly desperate measures to survive.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/03/24/fossil-fuel-industry-turning-far-right-authoritarians

3/24/21 ——— Will California have another year of record-setting wildfires? - Can the state’s new measures—from clearing brush to installing solar microgrids—be enough to mitigate the damaging effects of continuing drought?
https://www.fastcompany.com/90618171/will-california-have-another-year-of-record-setting-wildfires

3/24/21 ——— The latest must-have among US billionaires? A plan to end the climate crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/25/elon-musk-climate-plan-reward-jeff-bezos-gates-investments

3/25/21 ——— Geoengineering The Climate Just Became More Of A Real Possibility In The U.S. - Artificially cooling the planet carries potential threats — and so does allowing tech billionaires to monopolize the research efforts.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/solar-geoengineering-climate-change_n_605c765dc5b67593e055ff9d

3/26/21 ——— HOW THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT CAN MOVE FROM ABSTRACTION TO ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE
https://warontherocks.com/2021/03/how-the-defense-department-can-move-from-climate-change-abstraction-to-action/

3/26/21 ——--Big Oil's Embrace of Carbon Pricing Called PR Ploy to 'Avoid Real, Effective Climate Action’ - “This is yet another greenwashing tactic wielded by the fossil fuel industry to distract from their disproportionate responsibility for the climate crisis.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/03/26/big-oils-embrace-carbon-pricing-called-pr-ploy-avoid-real-effective-climate-action

3/26/21 ——--Texas doubles the death toll from its deep freeze winter storm - More than 100 people died during last month’s storm.
https://thehill.com/changing-america/resilience/natural-disasters/545084-texas-doubles-the-death-toll-from-its-deep

3/26/21 ——--A very, very, very dry future for the U.S. West
https://www.axios.com/megadrought-us-west-climate-change-b2617911-cd18-4869-8dea-b39143ccf911.html

3/26/21 ——— Why the climate crisis will intensify the border crisis
https://www.axios.com/climate-change-immigration-border-crisis-07aab997-e7e5-42eb-ac81-f711dd8ca54b.html

3/27/21 ——— Climate talk invite the one good thing this week in US-Russia-China relations
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/03/27/climate-talk-invite-the-one-good-thing-this-week-in-us-russia-china-relations/

3/27/21 ——— Climate Change in U.S. National Security Strategies under Obama, Trump and Biden
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/03/climate-change-in-u-s-national-security-strategies-under-obama-trump-and-biden/

3/27/21 ——— Global warming is endangering more than we think. We must adjust.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-warming-is-endangering-more-than-we-think-we-must-adjust/2021/03/26/1a963fc0-77cc-11eb-8115-9ad5e9c02117_story.html

3/27/21 ——— Downpours flood homes, roads leading to rescues in Tennessee
https://apnews.com/article/floods-thunderstorms-nashville-storms-weather-06b0b257e728b44a3ddecf6105596837

3/27/21 ——— A potential rule of thumb for hourly rainfall?
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2021/03/a-potential-rule-of-thumb-for-hourly-rainfall/

3/28/21 ——— Democrats Prepare To Push Biden For A $10 Trillion, Decade-Long Green Infrastructure Plan- As Republicans seek to shrink the White House’s $3 trillion package, some powerful Democrats are laying out an even more ambitious vision.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/infrastructure-bill-biden-administration-progressive-democrats_n_605e518ec5b6531eed04e2a6

3/28/21 ——— Sea level is rising at fastest rate in 2,000 years, and the quickest in N.J., Rutgers study says
https://www.nj.com/politics/2021/03/sea-level-is-rising-at-fastest-rate-in-2000-years-and-the-quickest-in-nj-rutgers-study-says.html

3/28/21 ——— Biden mulls giving farmers billions to fight climate change. Even farmers are unsure about the plan.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/29/biden-carbon-bank-proposal-478224

3/28/21 ——— Biden says Xi, Putin welcome at climate summit April 22
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-biden-climate/biden-says-xi-putin-welcome-at-climate-summit-april-22-idUSKBN2BI2YJ

3/28/21 ——— Joe Biden’s coming infrastructure push, explained - Biden’s massive infrastructure plan is also a climate plan.
https://www.vox.com/22334274/joe-biden-infrastructure-climate-push-explained

3/30/21 ——— This Russian Arctic coast has planet's quickest warming - Parts of Northern Siberia were up to 7℃ warmer than normal in 2020. Massive melting of sea-ice on the Northern Sea Route now paves the way for a hike in shipping.
https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/climate-crisis/2021/03/unprecedented-arctic-warming-opens-gates-northern-sea-route

February 2021

2/1/21 —————- Climate Change Ravaged the West With Heat and Drought Last Year; Many Fear 2021 Will Be Worse
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/31012021/climate-change-west-droughts-wildfire/

2/1/21 —————- Heat killed a record number of people in Arizona last year, 'a staggering increase’
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-environment/2021/01/31/heat-killed-record-number-people-arizona-last-year/4294654001/

2/1/21 —————- Why Phoenix may be uninhabitable by the end of this century
https://www.salon.com/2021/01/31/why-phoenix-may-be-uninhabitable-by-the-end-of-this-century/

2/1/21 —————- The Guardian view on climate progress: the need for speed
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/31/the-guardian-view-on-climate-progress-the-need-for-speed

2/1/21 —————- Biden's climate change plan and the battle for America's most threatened workers
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/31/bidens-climate-change-plan-and-americas-most-threatened-workers.html

2/2/21 —————- A Surge From an Atmospheric River Drove California’s Latest Climate Extremes
Research suggests that much of the state will endure more extreme precipitation events that drive floods, mudslides and debris flows.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02022021/a-surge-from-an-atmospheric-river-drove-californias-latest-climate-extremes/

2/2/21 —————- As Warming Oceans Bring Tough Times to California Crab Fishers, Scientists Say Diversifying is Key to Survival
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01022021/california-agriculture-crab-fishermen-climate-change/

2/2/21 —————- The Western United States Is a Hotspot for Snow Droughts - A new study compares snowpack across the world and offers a tool to help scientists pinpoint where this critical resource is waning — and what that means for ecosystems and economies.
https://therevelator.org/snow-droughts-west/

2/2/21 —————- Now and then: Iceland's vanishing glaciers
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-55346329

2/2/21 —————- Groundhog predicts 6 more weeks of winter
https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/everything-you-need-to-know-about-groundhog-day?utm_source=EarthSky+News&utm_campaign=fae2af1734-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_02_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c643945d79-fae2af1734-395109277

2/2/21 —————- Biden needs to undo Trump’s most disastrous climate decisions — fast
Here’s how he can start with three of the worst ones.
https://www.vox.com/22255748/biden-trump-cars-oil-gas-electricity-climate-change

2/3/21 —————- Obsession With GDP, Disregard of Nature Leading Towards Ecosystem Collapse: Report
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/02/02/obsession-gdp-disregard-nature-leading-towards-ecosystem-collapse-report

2/3/21 —————- 113-year-old record broken as heavy snow hammers Northeast
https://www.accuweather.com/en/winter-weather/live-news/live-updates-on-noreaster-bringing-heavy-snow-to-northeastern-us/891967

2/3/21 —————- American Cities Are Way Underreporting Their Carbon Footprints
https://www.wired.com/story/american-cities-underreporting-their-carbon-footprints/

2/3/21 —————- How to spot the tricks Big Oil uses to subvert action on climate change - Three ways fossil fuel companies try to trick the public.
https://www.vox.com/22260311/oil-gas-fossil-fuel-companies-climate-change

2/3/21 —————- How wetlands are linked to our climate - Bogs, ponds and peatlands don't get the attention they deserve. Yet they could help us save the climate — and ourselves.  
https://www.dw.com/en/climate-change-peat-soil-forests-biodiversity-protected-nature-co2-emissions/a-56408677

2/3/21 —————- The Terrifying Warning Lurking in the Earth’s Ancient Rock Record - Our climate models could be missing something big.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/03/extreme-climate-change-history/617793/

2/3/21 —————- President Biden Has the Most Ambitious Climate Change Plan in US History. Will It Be Enough to Save the Planet?
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/02/president-biden-has-the-most-ambitious-climate-change-plan-in-us-history-will-it-be-enough-to-save-the-planet/

2/4/21 —————- Will We Ever Fully Understand Humans’ Impact on Nature? - A conversation with Elizabeth Kolbert about her new book, efforts to “control the control of nature,” and how the climate beat has changed. 
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/elizabeth-kolbert-under-white-sky-qa/

2/4/21 —————- Every US state will see below freezing temperatures over the next week
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/02/weather/polar-vortex-forecast-freezing-cold/index.html

2/4/21 —————- Joe Biden’s plans to combat climate crisis have – predictably – provoked GOP backlash
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/04/joe-biden-climate-crisis-republican-backlash

2/4/21 —————- Water Warning: The Looming Threat of the World’s Aging Dams
https://e360.yale.edu/features/water-warning-the-looming-threat-of-the-worlds-aging-dams

2/4/21 —————- Therapy for the End of the World - Anxiety over the climate crisis is spreading like wildfire. Psychologists are just starting to figure out how to help
https://thewalrus.ca/therapy-for-the-end-of-the-world/

2/4/21 —————- Arctic Ocean was once a tub of fresh water covered with a half-mile of ice
https://www.livescience.com/arctic-ocean-freshwater.html

2/5/21 —————- It’s a New Day in the Climate Battle, Now We Must Act With Agency- -We must push forward aggressively now that the wind is finally at our backs, to rescue our planet while there is still time.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/02/04/its-new-day-climate-battle-now-we-must-act-agency

2/5/21 —————- California’s Rainy Season Now Starts a Month Later Than It Used To
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/californias-rainy-season-is-starting-a-month-later-than-it-used-to

2/5/21 —————- Global heating to blame for threat of deadly flood in Peru, study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/04/global-heating-to-blame-for-threat-of-deadly-flood-in-peru-study-says

2/5/21 —————- Got Climate Anxiety? These People Are Doing Something About It - Distress over global warming is increasing, but formal and informal support networks are springing up, too.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/04/climate/climate-anxiety-stress.html

2/6/21 —————- Inevitable Planetary Doom Has Been Exaggerated - Hope for the future is a reasonable and necessary prerequisite for action.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/02/other-side-catastrophe/617865/

2/6/21 —————- Planting Trees Sounds Like A Simple Climate Fix. It’s Anything But. - We need forests to fight climate change, but planting trees to cancel out emissions is a lot harder than it looks.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/planting-trees-not-simple-climate-fix_n_601c1627c5b6c0af54d17e98

2/6/21 —————- GM is all-in for electric vehicles in this new Super Bowl ad. What changed? - The company has a long history of obstructing climate policies.
https://www.vox.com/2021/2/5/22266732/super-bowl-general-motors-will-ferrell-electric-vehicles-awkwafina-kenan-thompson

2/7/21 —————- International Military Council Issues Reports Urging Action to Drastically Reduce Emissions and Prepare for Escalating Climate Risks in Asia
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/02/release-international-military-council-issues-reports-urging-action-to-drastically-reduce-emissions-and-prepare-for-escalating-climate-risks-in-asia/

2/7/21 —————- More Extreme Weather
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2021/02/more-extreme-weather.html

2/7/21 —————- Don’t climate bet against the house
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2021/02/dont-climate-bet-against-the-house/

2/7/21 —————- Biden’s Executive Orders on Climate Change Aren’t Upsetting Some Industry Giants
https://truthout.org/articles/bidens-executive-orders-on-climate-change-arent-upsetting-some-industry-giants/

2/7/21 —————- Winter Package - Although cold weather still exists in a warming climate, the winter season has warmed across most of the U.S. since 1970—which has negative consequences.
https://medialibrary.climatecentral.org/resources/winter-package

2/7/21 —————- The Colorado River Basin’s Worsening Dryness In Five Numbers
https://www.kunc.org/2021-01-29/the-colorado-river-basins-worsening-dryness-in-five-numbers

2/7/21 —————- 150 feared dead as glacier crashes into dam in northern India
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/07/150-feared-dead-as-glacier-crashes-into-dam-in-northern-india

2/8/21 —————- Big Business squirms as Biden tightens climate regulations
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/08/biden-climate-backlash-big-business-467130

2/8/21 —————- A Former Trump Adviser May Have Revealed What The Fossil Fuel Bonanza Was Really About
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-fossil-fuels_n_601c626fc5b68e068fbccba6

2/8/21 —————- Invasive Insects and Diseases Are Killing Our Forests - America wasn’t ready for the pandemic. And it isn’t ready for the next contagion to strike our woodlands.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/06/opinion/epidemic-invasive-species-trees.html

2/8/21 —————- Massive losses should be a warning to big oil that its bonanza is over - Covid has battered the industry, and the race for renewables is speeding up. We are at a tipping point
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/feb/07/massive-losses-should-be-a-warning-to-big-oil-that-its-bonanza-is-over
 
2/9/21 —————- Before Himalayan Flood, India Ignored Warnings of Development Risks - Long before a deadly flood hit two hydroelectric dams, scientists warned repeatedly that such projects were dangerous in a fragile region made more so by global warming.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/08/world/asia/india-flood-ignored-warnings.html

2/9/21 —————- The Colorado River Crisis Is a National Crisis - Colorado River drought and water supply issues could soon affect 12 percent of Americans.
https://newrepublic.com/article/161263/colorado-river-water-supply-crisis

2/10/21 —————- What exactly is the polar vortex?
https://theconversation.com/what-exactly-is-the-polar-vortex-153958

2/10/21 —————- Is this the end of the A-68A iceberg?
https://earthsky.org/earth/end-of-the-a68a-iceberg-feb2021?utm_source=EarthSky+News&utm_campaign=12cf550ab9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_02_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c643945d79-12cf550ab9-395109277

2/10/21 —————- Fifth Season takes vertical farming to a whole new level
https://www.post-gazette.com/life/food/2021/02/10/Fifth-Season-vertical-farm-Braddock-spinach-greens-Pittsburgh/stories/202102110003

2/10/21 —————- Hail! It’s America’s Most Underrated Climate Risk
https://www.

2/11/21 —————- Fossil Fuel and Other Polluters Gave Tens of Millions in Campaign Cash to GOP Lawmakers Opposing Biden's Leasing Freeze
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/02/10/fossil-fuel-and-other-polluters-gave-tens-millions-campaign-cash-gop-lawmakers

2/11/21 —————- Brutal ice storm could leave hundreds of thousands in the dark, cold
https://www.accuweather.com/en/winter-weather/ice-storm-may-cut-power-for-hundreds-of-thousands/897672

2/11/21 —————- The scariest thing about climate change isn’t the weather—it’s us
https://www.fastcompany.com/90602632/the-scariest-thing-about-climate-change-isnt-the-weather-its-us

2/11/21 —————- Has the polar vortex arrived? What is it?
https://earthsky.org/earth/what-is-the-polar-vortex?utm_source=EarthSky+News&utm_campaign=a5666e039e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_02_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c643945d79-a5666e039e-395109277

2/11/21 —————- Biden—Handed Road Map for Action—Told US Has Moral Responsibility to Lead on Climate Refugees
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/02/11/biden-handed-road-map-action-told-us-has-moral-responsibility-lead-climate-refugees

2/12/21 —————- Earth’s history in 40 seconds: Video model shows how the planet developed over one billion years
https://www.studyfinds.org/billion-years-earth-40-seconds/

2/12/21 —————- Study Warns Emissions Cuts Must Be 80% More Ambitious to Meet Even the Dangerously Inadequate 2°C Target
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/02/11/study-warns-emissions-cuts-must-be-80-more-ambitious-meet-even-dangerously

2/12/21 —————- California's rainfall is at historic lows. That spells trouble for wildfires and farms
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/11/california-dry-weather-drought-wildfire-agriculture

2/13/21 —————- Autoworkers face uncertain future in an era of electric cars
https://www.post-gazette.com/business/career-workplace/2021/02/14/Autoworkers-face-uncertain-future-in-an-era-of-electric-cars/stories/202102140054

2/13/21 —————- This Chinese City Has 16,000 Electric Buses And 22,000 Electric Taxis
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brookecrothers/2021/02/14/this-chinese-city-has-16000-electric-buses-and-22000-electric-taxis/?sh=16b1167f3a92

2/13/21 —————- Winter Storm Brings Icy Temperatures and Cuts Power Across U.S.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/14/us/winter-storm-snow-ice.html

2/13/21 —————- Texas sees one of its coldest winters in decades as temperatures drop
https://www.th

2/15/21 —————- Submarine Permafrost Has Been Overlooked as a Major Source of Greenhouse Gases, Scientists Warn
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/submarine-permafrost-has-been-overlooked-as-a-major-source-of-greenhouse-gases-scientists-warn

2/15/21 —————- There’s an invisible climate threat seeping from grocery store freezers. Biden wants to change that.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/02/15/these-gases-your-grocerys-freezer-are-fueling-climate-change-biden-wants-fix-that/

2/15/21 —————- Deadly Winter Storm Leaves More Than 4 Million Without Power
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/winter-weather-feb-2021_n_602b8094c5b6741597e45d7e

2/15/21 —————- U.S. oil wells, refineries shut as winter storm hits energy sector
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-energy-texas-weather/oil-refineries-shut-as-texas-energy-industry-reels-from-deep-freeze-idUSKBN2AF1QV

2/16/21 —————- Extreme Winter Weather Hits Hard Across U.S.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/extreme-winter-weather-hits-hard-across-us_n_602c111ac5b65259c4e52dd3

2/16/21 —————- At Least 12 Deaths Tied to Winter Storm Uri as Millions Remain Without Power in Texas and Some Lose Water, Too
https://weather.com/news/news/2021-02-16-winter-storm-uri-impacts-power-outages-boil-water

2/16/21 —————- Texas is under winter storm warning for first time in history - VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB8WHm-5FU0

2/16/21 —————- Why the Texas power grid is struggling to cope with the extreme cold - A sudden spike in energy demand and a loss of natural gas, coal, nuclear, and wind energy during a winter storm triggered blackouts across the state.
https://www.vox.com/2021/2/16/22284140/texas-blackout-outage-winter-storm-uri-ercot-power-grid-cold-snow-austin-houston-dallas

2/16/21 —————- How one Texas storm exposed an energy grid unprepared for climate change
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/one-texas-storm-exposed-energy-grid-unprepared-climate-change-rcna289

2/16/21 —————- Texas mayor tells residents to fend for themselves during power outage: ‘Only the strong will survive’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/02/17/texas-mayor-power-outages-colorado/

2/16/21 —————- Biden gets his first energy crisis — and an opening
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/16/texas-energy-outage-469217

2/16/21 —————- Texas Blackouts Hit Minority Neighborhoods Especially Hard - As the freak winter storm raged, historically marginalized communities were among the first to face power outages, experts say.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/16/climate/texas-blackout-storm-minorities.html

2/16/21 —————- A Glimpse of America’s Future: Climate Change Means Trouble for Power Grids - Systems are designed to handle spikes in demand, but the wild and unpredictable weather linked to global warming will very likely push grids beyond their limits.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/16/climate/texas-power-grid-failures.html

2/16/21 —————-'He Is Lying. People Are Dying': Calls for Texas Governor to Resign as He Blames Power Outages on Wind and Solar
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/02/17/he-lying-people-are-dying-calls-texas-governor-resign-he-blames-power-outages-wind

2/16/21 —————- From Covid To Mass Power Outages, the Texas Republican Party Has Created a Failed State - The Republican Party does not believe in government. They believe in coddling the very rich.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/02/17/covid-mass-power-outages-texas-republican-party-has-created-failed-state

2/16/21 —————- Anger mounts over Texas power blackouts as icy cold maintains its grip
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/17/texas-power-blackout-weather-cold

2/16/21 —————- Cities are sinking under their own weight, increasing danger from rising sea levels
https://www.studyfinds.org/cities-sinking-under-own-weight/

2/16/21 —————- Bendable concrete and other CO2-infused cement mixes could dramatically cut global emissions
https://theconversation.com/bendable-concrete-and-other-co2-infused-cement-mixes-could-dramatically-cut-global-emissions-152544

2/16/21 —————- Private planes, mansions and superyachts: What gives billionaires like Musk and Abramovich such a massive carbon footprint
https://theconversation.com/private-planes-mansions-and-superyachts-what-gives-billionaires-like-musk-and-abramovich-such-a-massive-carbon-footprint-152514

2/16/21 —————- Bolstering Alarm Over Scientists' Warnings, New Study Finds Sea Level Rise Projections 'Are On the Money’
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/02/16/bolstering-alarm-over-scientists-warnings-new-study-finds-sea-level-rise-projections

2/16/21 —————- Bill Gates, Climate Warrior. And Super Emitter.
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/bill-gates-climate-book/

2/17/21 —————- Power outages across the Plains: 4 questions answered about weather-driven blackouts
https://theconversation.com/power-outages-across-the-plains-4-questions-answered-about-weather-driven-blackouts-155345

2/17/21 —————- Power outages linger for millions as another icy storm looms
https://apnews.com/article/100-million-americans-more-ice-snow-404012f8d8885259968b8d37b13899d6

2/17/21 —————- Inside Clean Energy: Explaining the Crisis in Texas = This is what happens when the challenges of climate adaptation run into the challenges of the energy transition.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18022021/inside-clean-energy-texas-power-crisis/

2/17/21 —————- I’m Freezing Cold and Burning Mad in Texas - The state’s power outages have revealed the difference between performative governance and actually governing.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/02/freezing-cold-and-burning-mad-texas/618048/

2/17/21 —————- Frozen Ceiling Fan Photo Shows Brutal Reality Of American Cold Snap
https://www.unilad.co.uk/viral/frozen-ceiling-fan-photo-shows-brutal-reality-of-american-cold-snap/

2/17/21 —————- $5,152 Power Bill? Texas’ Winter Storm Hell Only Gets Worse
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/5-152-power-bill-texas-winter-storm-hell-only-gets-worse/ar-BB1dLKDE

2/17/21 —————- Animals at Texas primate sanctuary freeze to death amid catastrophic power outages
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/animals-at-texas-primate-sanctuary-freeze-to-death-amid-catastrophic-power-outages/ar-BB1dLUD0

2/17/21 —————- Nearly 12 million Texans now face water disruptions. The state needs residents to stop dripping taps.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/17/texas-water-boil-notices/

2/17/21 —————- Texas flunks climate change test as its energy grid freezes up
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-power-outage-storm-climate-change/

2/17/21 —————- Texas Republicans lied about the power crisis. We need more investment in renewables — not less.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/texas-republicans-lied-about-the-power-crisis-we-need-more-investment-in-renewables--not-less/2021/02/17/e934eb98-7159-11eb-b8a9-b9467510f0fe_story.html

2/17/21 —————-'He Is Lying. People Are Dying': Calls for Texas Governor to Resign as He Blames Power Outages on Wind and Solar
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/02/17/he-lying-people-are-dying-calls-texas-governor-resign-he-blames-power-outages-wind

2/17/21 —————- GOP response to the Texas winter storms steals directly from Trump's sadistic COVID-19 playbook
https://www.salon.com/2021/02/17/gop-response-to-the-texas-winter-storms-steals-directly-from-trumps-sadistic-covid-19-playbook/

2/17/21 —————- 3 ways Texas could avoid another electricity crisis - The answer is not more fossil fuel power plants.
https://www.vox.com/22286974/texas-power-outage-winter-storm-uri-gas-grid-ercot-snow-climate-change

2/17/21 —————-'Blood Is on Abbott's Hands': Anger at GOP Leaders Surges as Food, Water Shortages Compound Texas Power Crisis
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/02/18/blood-abbotts-hands-anger-gop-leaders-surges-food-water-shortages-compound-texas

2/17/21 —————- Scientists are divided over whether climate change is fueling extreme cold events
Is the cold wave that froze Texas this week a unique event or a sign of what’s to come?
https://www.vox.com/22287295/texas-winter-storm-blackout-extreme-cold-climate-change-uri-polar-vortex-arctic-dallas-houston

2/17/21 —————- People In Texas Jails Are ‘Freezing,’ Without Hot Food Or Running Water
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-winter-storm-jails-prisons-power-outage_n_602db1dbc5b66da5db9ee685

2/17/21 —————- Why America's power grids will keep failing us - “They're not adaptive or flexible, and that is really causing a lot of the problems," one expert said
https://www.salon.com/2021/02/17/why-americas-power-grids-will-keep-failing-us/

2/17/21 —————- The Texans facing blackouts and burst pipes: 'Do I wait for the ceiling to cave in?’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/18/texas-snow-winter-storm-blackout-power-water

2/17/21 —————- Anger mounts over Texas power blackouts as icy cold maintains its grip
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/17/texas-power-blackout-weather-cold

2/17/21 —————- People are rescuing thousands of 'cold-stunned' sea turtles in Texas
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/17/texas-winter-storm-sea-turtles-cold-stunned

2/17/21 —————- East Coast Faces Rising Seas From Slowing Gulf Stream
https://www.climatecentral.org/news/east-coast-faces-rising-seas-from-slowing-gulf-stream-15587

2/17/21 —————- How icebergs really melt -- and what this could mean for climate change - Current models wrongly assume icebergs melt uniformly in warming oceans
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/02/210216133415.htm

2/17/21 —————- Climate chaos is the real job killer. Biden's clean energy plan will boost the economy.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2021/02/16/climate-change-clean-energy-jobs-economic-stability-column/4451356001/

2/17/21 —————- Recent blockbuster snow totals along East Coast may be tied to climate change - Above-average sea-surface temperatures off the East Coast are adding more moisture to the atmosphere.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/02/05/snowfall-records-climate-change-northeast/

2/17/21 —————- Role of Climate Crisis 'Can't Be Hand-Waved Away': Scientists Say Freezing Texas Linked to Warming Arctic
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/02/17/role-climate-crisis-cant-be-hand-waved-away-scientists-say-freezing-texas-linked

2/18/21 —————- Texas’s Power Crisis Has Turned Into a Disaster That Parallels Hurricane Katrina
https://truthout.org/articles/texass-power-crisis-has-turned-into-a-disaster-that-parallels-hurricane-katrina/

2/18/21 —————- Winter Storms Offer a Taste of the Climate Chaos Ahead If We Don’t Cut Emissions
https://truthout.org/articles/winter-storms-offer-a-taste-of-the-climate-chaos-ahead-if-we-dont-cut-emissions/

2/18/21 —————- U.S. Needs To Brace Itself For More Deadly Storms, Experts Say - This week’s storms, which have killed at least two dozen people, fit a pattern of worsening extremes under climate change.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/climate-change-more-deadly-storms_n_602e8683c5b6cc8bbf39de12

2/18/21 —————- How mutual aid groups are helping Texas - People have applauded local organizing efforts in cities like Austin, Dallas, and Houston, in the face of a lacking government response.
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22289581/mutual-aid-helps-texas-storm

2/18/21 —————- Fox News turns Winter Storm Uri into a cudgel to own the libs - “It seems pretty clear that a reckless reliance on windmills is the cause of this disaster” in Texas, Tucker Carlson lied.
https://www.vox.com/2021/2/17/22287469/fox-news-winter-storm-uri-windmills-ercot-greg-abbott-hannity-carlson

2/18/21 —————- St. David's hospital without water pressure, heat, officials say
https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2021/02/17/winter-weather-texas-st-davids-medical-center-austin-without-water-heat/6791735002/

2/18/21 —————- How global warming can cause Europe's harsh winter weather
https://www.dw.com/en/cold-winter-global-warming-polar-vortex/a-56534450

2/18/21 —————- From Wikipedia:  Polar vortex
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_vortex

2/18/21 —————- Warm Arctic, Cold Continents? It Sounds Counterintuitive, but Research Suggests it’s a Thing
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22112020/warm-arctic-cold-continents-climate-change/

2/18/21 —————- After Texas power grid collapse, lawmakers wade into U.S. energy and climate policy
https://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-nation/2021/02/18/Mike-Doyle-Dan-Camp-Beaver-County-oil-natural-gas-drilling-cracker-plant/stories/202102180131

2/18/21 —————- TEXAS REPUBLICANS RAN A TWENTY-YEAR EXPERIMENT. THE RESULTS ARE IN. - The state’s energy crisis didn’t come out of nowhere: it took decades of deregulation to make it happen.
https://theintercept.com/2021/02/19/deconstructed-texas-republicans-experiment/

2/18/21 —————- Same force behind Texas deep freeze could drive prolonged heat waves - Long-lasting heat waves can be deadly. A new study suggests a warming Arctic could drive more of them in the future.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/same-mechanism-behind-southern-cold-spell-could-drive-prolonged-heat-waves

2/18/21 —————- Some Electricity Restored In Texas, But Water Woes Grow
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-winter-storm-power-water_n_602f447cc5b6cc8bbf3a7816

2/18/21 —————- Ted Cruz flies to Cancún as millions of Texans freeze in the dark
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/18/ted-cruz-cancun-flight-texas-storms-holiday-senator-reports

2/18/21 —————- AOC Raised $1 Million for Struggling Texans as Cruz Handled Post-Cancún PR Mess
https://truthout.org/articles/aoc-raised-1-million-for-struggling-texans-as-cruz-handled-post-cancun-pr-mess/

2/19/21 —————- Facebook Busts Climate Myths
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20022021/https-insideclimatenews-org-news-19022021-warming-trends-facebook-meltdown-sad-yeti-biomass-great-lakes/

2/19/21 —————- 4 More States Propose Harsh New Penalties For Protesting Fossil Fuels - Industry-designed bills to silence climate protests are under consideration in Arkansas, Kansas, Minnesota and Montana. More are likely to come.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fossil-fuel-protest_n_602c1ff6c5b6c95056f3f6af

2/19/21 —————- 3 Things People Get Wrong About The Polar Vortex And Climate Change
https://www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/2021/02/19/3-things-people-get-wrong-about-the-polar-vortex-and-climate-change/?sh=6a8ddfc7426e

2/19/21 —————- Texas was "seconds and minutes" away from catastrophic monthslong blackouts, officials say
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/18/texas-power-outages-ercot/

2/19/21 —————- Why Wind Turbines In Cold Climates Don’t Freeze: De-Icing And Carbon Fiber
https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottcarpenter/2021/02/16/why-wind-turbines-in-cold-climates-dont-freeze-de-icing-and-carbon-fiber/?sh=24f12ba01f59

2/19/21 —————- Wind turbines can handle the cold just fine. Just look at Iowa. - Some Republicans want you to think wind turbines caused the Texas blackout. Here’s why they’re wrong.
https://www.vox.com/2021/2/19/22290512/texas-winter-storm-wind-energy-power-outage-grid-fox-news

2/19/21 —————- Biden is poised to sign a major disaster declaration for Texas - Here’s what the federal government is doing to help Texas.
https://www.vox.com/2021/2/19/22291432/biden-major-disaster-declaration-texas-fema-storm

2/19/21 —————- When the GOP Left Texans to Freeze, Locals Stepped Up With Mutual Aid
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/02/when-the-gop-left-texans-to-freeze-locals-stepped-up-with-mutual-aid/

2/19/21 —————- Top Texas Republicans on the ropes after tone-deaf storm response
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/19/texas-storm-response-cruz-abbott-perry-470109

2/19/21 —————- Texas man reportedly freezes to death in his recliner
https://www.fox5ny.com/news/texas-man-reportedly-freezes-to-death-in-his-recliner

2/19/21 —————- Fossil Fuel Exec Brags of 'Hitting the Jackpot' as Natural Gas Prices Surge Amid Deadly Crisis in Texas
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/02/19/fossil-fuel-exec-brags-hitting-jackpot-natural-gas-prices-surge-amid-deadly-crisis

2/19/21 —————- As Texas deep freeze subsides, some households now face electricity bills as high as $10,000
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/deep-freeze-subsides-texans-now-face-electricity-bills-10-000-n1258362

2/19/21 —————- Texas disaster exposes what happens when Republicans replace governance with trolling - Republicans have mastered the art of breaking government and telling voters it's because government can't work
https://www.salon.com/2021/02/19/texas-disaster-exposes-what-happens-when-republicans-replace-governance-with-trolling/

2/19/21 —————- We’re Doing Disaster Planning All Wrong - The crisis in Texas shows that we can’t prepare for climate chaos by relying on past averages.
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/02/were-doing-disaster-planning-all-wrong/

2/19/21 —————- Why the cold weather caused huge Texas blackouts – a visual explainer
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/20/texas-power-grid-explainer-winter-weather

2/20/21 —————- New Report Calls on Canada to Create a “Climate Security Plan” to Combat Security Threats of Climate Change
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/02/release-new-report-calls-on-canada-to-create-a-climate-security-plan-to-combat-security-threats-of-climate-change/

2/20/21 —————- Weather experts: Lack of planning caused cold catastrophe
https://apnews.com/article/weather-texas-2a3095311cf760fb9f1a6d2e835e5bc0

2/20/21 —————- Texas and California built different power grids, but neither stood up to climate change - The winter storm that crippled Texas this week and heat wave the hit California last summer show much more needs to be done to protect power supplies from extreme weather.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/21/texas-california-climate-change-power-grids-470434

2/20/21 —————- Texas Blackouts Point to Coast-to-Coast Crises Waiting to Happen - Continent-spanning storms triggered blackouts in Oklahoma and Mississippi, halted one-third of U.S. oil production and disrupted vaccinations in 20 states.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/20/climate/united-states-infrastructure-storms.html?action=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage

2/20/21 —————- Texas Freeze Illustrates a Failed Economic System - We need to begin changing our fundamental ethic, from "I'm getting mine. Screw you," to "We're all in this together." Because we are.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/02/20/texas-freeze-illustrates-failed-economic-system

2/20/21 —————- Why some Texans are facing catastrophic electric bills after a winter storm - Wholesale power plans left Texans on the hook for thousands of dollars after prices spiked.
https://www.vox.com/2021/2/20/22292926/texas-high-electric-bills-winter-storm-griddy

2/20/21 —————- All The Ways The Power Grid Failed In Texas - How a Texas-first energy policy turned into a Texas-only energy failure.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-power-grid-failure-why_n_602e9682c5b6cc8bbf3a0268

2/21/21 —————- Texas Failed Because It Did Not Plan - What went wrong in Texas? The Lone Star State made three fundamental errors.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/02/what-went-wrong-texas/618104/

2/21/21 —————- Tales from the Texas cold: Struggles didn't stop when power returned
https://www.rawstory.com/tales-from-the-texas-cold-struggles-didnt-stop-when-power-returned/

2/21/21 —————- Flood risk is growing for US homeowners due to climate change. Current insurance rates greatly underestimate the threat, a new report finds
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/22/business/flood-insurance-climate-change-risk-first-street-foundation/index.html

2/21/21 —————- Demands Grow for Texas to 'Forgive All Utility Bills' as Price Gouging by Energy Companies Sparks Outrage
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/02/22/demands-grow-texas-forgive-all-utility-bills-price-gouging-energy-companies-sparks

2/21/21 —————-'No Safe Amount': Environmentalists Sound Alarm Over Texas Refineries' Release of - Hundreds of Thousands of Pounds of Pollutants During Storm
337,000 pounds of benzene, carbon monoxide, hydrogen sulfide, and sulfur dioxide were flared, as well as an indeterminate amount of methane. 
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/02/21/no-safe-amount-environmentalists-sound-alarm-over-texas-refineries-release-hundreds

2/21/21 —————- Texas Democrats Use Their Organizing Power for Disaster Relief
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/02/texas-democrats-use-their-organizing-power-for-disaster-relief/

2/22/21 —————- VIEWING RECOMMENDATION: Kiss the Ground (2020) * * * * * * * * * * ! MUST WATCH
https://www.netflix.com/title/81321999

2/22/21 —————- We’ll need conscription to fight climate change
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/02/22/well-need-conscription-to-fight-climate-change/

2/22/21 —————- We Need a Civilian Conservation Corps - We need knowledgeable, passionate stewards of our public lands, but most people can’t afford to pursue a career in conservation. So let’s create the jobs.
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/conservation-jobs/

2/22/21 —————- 2021 Update: Half of America In or Near Poverty - We need Guaranteed Jobs. President Biden's proposed Civilian Climate Corps is a positive step in this direction.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/02/22/2021-update-half-america-or-near-poverty

2/22/21 —————- A Green New Deal Would Solve Texas Energy Deregulation, Says Naomi Klein
https://truthout.org/video/a-green-new-deal-would-solve-texas-energy-deregulation-says-naomi-klein/

2/22/21 —————- Cost of flood damage to U.S. homes will increase by 61% in 30 years
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-floods-realestate/cost-of-flood-damage-to-u-s-homes-will-increase-by-61-in-30-years-idUSKBN2AM0E3

2/22/21 —————- What I wish I’d had in Texas - When it comes to a disaster like Winter Storm Uri, what does it mean to be prepared?
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22295826/texas-power-outage-water-winter-storm-uri

2/22/21 —————- Why Texas froze (and California fried): This disaster was 90 years in the making - It took decades of misguided policy — and the climate crisis — to create last week's Lone Star catastrophe
https://www.salon.com/2021/02/23/why-texas-froze-and-california-fried-this-disaster-was-90-years-in-the-making/

2/22/21 —————- Texas’ Freeze Was One Part of a Long Disaster We’re Still Living Through
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/02/texas-freeze-was-one-part-of-a-long-disaster-were-still-living-through/

2/23/21 —————- President Biden, Who Controls Our Food System Matters - We need a democratic, decentralized farm and food industry that works for people and our planet. The status quo is not sustainable.
https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/biden-vilsack-confirmation-farming/

2/23/21 —————-'We Must Heed the Warning': 1 in 3 Freshwater Fishes—Vital to Food and Jobs for Millions—Face Extinction
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/02/23/we-must-heed-warning-1-3-freshwater-fishes-vital-food-and-jobs-millions-face

2/23/21 —————- In Attacks on Environmental Advocates in Canada, a Disturbing Echo of Extremist Politics in the US - Critics say the provincial government’s inquiry into foreign funding of activists has devolved into incompetence and relies on reports laced with conspiracy theories and climate denial.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24022021/tar-sands-alberta-keystone-canada-climate-denial/

2/23/21 —————- A new 3D model bolsters the case that climate change is causing mysterious Siberia craters (VIDEO)
https://www.arctictoday.com/a-new-3d-model-bolsters-the-case-that-climate-change-is-causing-mysterious-siberia-craters/

2/23/21 —————- The Great Climate Bill of 2021 Is Being Shaped Now - The game before the game has started.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/02/the-great-climate-bill-of-2021-is-being-shaped-now/618121/

2/23/21 —————-'I had to pay $500 a day': freeze shows Texans true cost of unregulated power
The fallout of from the big freeze left some customers owing thousands but, experts say, one way or another consumers will pay the price for the state’s vulnerable energy infrastructure
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/24/texas-energy-bills-scandal-snow-storm

2/24/21 —————-'The Answer to the Climate Crisis Is Not More US Militarism - Climate change poses an existential threat. That doesn’t mean we should further empower an already bloated Pentagon.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/02/24/answer-climate-crisis-not-more-us-militarism

2/24/21 —————-'Chronology of Military and Intelligence Concerns About Climate Change
https://climateandsecurity.org/2017/01/chronology-of-the-u-s-military-and-intelligence-communitys-concern-about-climate-change/

2/24/21 —————-'Journalists and the Looming Superstorm of Climate Disinformation - With climate action on the table, disinformation is poised to get louder. What should journalists do about it?
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/texas-wind-climate-disinformation/

2/24/21 —————-'What’s your “fair share” of carbon emissions? You’re probably blowing way past it. - How the right to pursue happiness through unlimited consumption harms the planet, and our kids.
https://www.vox.com/22291568/climate-change-carbon-footprint-greta-thunberg-un-emissions-gap-report

2/24/21 —————-'Sunshine for All: Closing the Solar Energy Gap - Proven strategies can make solar power available to lower income people.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/02/24/sunshine-all-closing-solar-energy-gap

2/24/21 —————-'3 popular policies Democrats can use to fight climate change and boost the economy - Here’s how climate policy can double as economic stimulus.
https://www.vox.com/22278998/biden-stimulus-jobs-climate-change-energy-electric-cars-conservation

2/24/21 —————-'Inside Clean Energy: The Right and Wrong Lessons from the Texas Crisis
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25022021/inside-clean-energy-texas-energy-crisis-lessons/

2/24/21 —————-'Will the climate crisis tap out the Colorado River? - Water availability is going from bad to worse in the seven states that rely on the drought-stricken river.
https://www.hcn.org/issues/53.3/south-colorado-river-will-the-climate-crisis-tap-out-the-colorado-river
 
2/24/21 —————-'It’s Not Just Texas. The Energy Meltdown Can Happen to Your State, Too. - “Why did they not do a better job of managing the grid, which is their job?”
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/02/its-not-just-texas-the-energy-meltdown-can-happen-to-your-state-too/

2/24/21 —————- ‘In anti-government Texas, catastrophic storms prompt calls for regulation
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/25/texas-regulation-power-grid-winter-storm-blackouts

2/25/21 —————- We Can't Afford Another Cold War on This Scalding Planet - Biden, climate change, and China.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/02/25/we-cant-afford-another-cold-war-scalding-planet

2/25/21 —————- The United States Is the Biggest Carbon Polluter in History—Now Is the Time for Bold Action - The U.S. is officially back in the Paris Climate Agreement. But Biden must do much, much more than restore the status quo under Obama.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/02/25/united-states-biggest-carbon-polluter-history-now-time-bold-action

2/25/21 —————- Finally addressing the root causes of mass migration from Central America
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/02/25/finally-addressing-the-root-causes-of-mass-migration-from-central-america/

2/25/21 —————- Biden Could Hire Jobless Oil and Gas Workers to Plug Abandoned Oil Wells
https://truthout.org/articles/biden-could-hire-jobless-oil-and-gas-workers-to-plug-abandoned-oil-wells/

2/25/21 —————- Texas Power Grid Deregulation Cost Texans $28 Billion Over Two Decades
https://truthout.org/articles/texas-power-grid-deregulation-cost-texans-28-billion-over-two-decades/

2/25/21 —————- Winter storm could cost Texas more money than any disaster in state history
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/25/texas-winter-storm-cost-budget/

2/25/21 —————- A Clean Energy Milestone: Renewables Pulled Ahead of Coal in 2020 - Low costs of wind and solar power helped renewables pass coal in electricity generation; gas remains the leader.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26022021/clean-energy-renewable-coal-natural-gas/

2/25/21 —————- How the Race for Renewable Energy is Reshaping Global Politics - The world’s transition to clean energy. But will it produce a kind of clean energy realpolitik, with countries vying for advantage, or a more utopian future that reduces conflict?
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26022021/energy-transition-global-clean-energy-china-biden/

2/25/21 —————- Climate Change is Weakening the Ocean Currents That Shape Weather on Both Sides of the Atlantic - The change in the main ocean heat pump could bring more heat waves to Europe, increase sea level rise in North America and force fish to move farther north. (VIDEO)
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25022021/climate-change-ocean-currents-atlantic/

2/25/21 —————- An Atlantic current system that controls sea levels and heat waves is on the brink of collapse - If Atlantic circulation weakens too much, we will see flooded cities, heatwaves and major winter storms
https://www.salon.com/2021/02/25/an-atlantic-current-system-that-controls-sea-levels-and-heat-waves-is-on-the-brink-of-collapse/

2/25/21 —————- Solar panels and batteries on your home could help prevent the next grid disaster
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/solar-panels-and-batteries-on-your-home-could-help-prevent-the-next-grid-disaster

2/25/21 —————- Information on factory farms is spotty at best. The government has been hogtied from doing more.
https://investigatemidwest.org/2021/02/25/information-on-factory-farms-is-spotty-at-best-the-government-has-been-hogtied-from-doing-more/

2/25/21 —————- How Rivers in the Sky Melted Antarctic Ice
https://www.hakaimagazine.com/news/how-rivers-in-the-sky-melted-antarctic-ice/

2/26/21 —————- Atlantic Ocean circulation at weakest in a millennium, say scientists
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/25/atlantic-ocean-circulation-at-weakest-in-a-millennium-say-scientists

2/26/21 —————- Instead of Fueling Cold War With China, Biden Should Collaborate on Climate
https://truthout.org/articles/instead-of-fueling-cold-war-with-china-biden-should-collaborate-on-climate/

2/26/21 —————- The real-life Day After Tomorrow! The Gulf Stream is 'dangerously close to tipping point' with the ocean current at its WEAKEST for over 1,000 YEARS due to climate change which could cause flooding on the US east coast
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9304273/The-Gulf-Stream-weakest-1-000-YEARS-climate-change.html

2/26/21 —————- The Arctic Has a Cloud Problem - Tiny iodine particles are clumping together to trap sunlight and melt polar sea ice.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/02/arctic-has-cloud-problem/618159/

2/26/21 —————- Climate Change Increases Flooding Risk For Some 230,000 Ohio Valley Homes
https://ohiovalleyresource.org/2021/02/25/climate-change-increases-flooding-risk-for-some-230000-ohio-valley-homes/

2/26/21 —————- Long road to recovery: effects of devastating winter freeze to haunt Texas for years
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/27/texas-freeze-storm-residents-power-outages-effects

January 2021

1/1/21 ————— So Long! Top 6 Reasons We Won’t Miss 2020, or Donald Trump
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/12/31/so-long-top-6-reasons-we-wont-miss-2020-or-donald-trump

1/1/21 ————— How Trump Tried, but Largely Failed, to Derail America’s Top Climate Report - The White House repeatedly attempted to thwart the country’s premier climate science document, one meant to steer policy for years. Scientists got in the way.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/01/climate/trump-national-climate-assessment.html

1/1/21 ————— Covid-19 and Climate Change Will Remain Inextricably Linked, Thanks to the Parallels (and the Denial) - Covid-19 has been described as climate change in fast motion. Climate activists hoped it would underscore the threat. But for some, it may have done the opposite.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01012021/covid-climate-parallels-denial/

1/2/21 ————— Youth Activists Ring In 2021 With Renewed Demand That World 'Wake Up to the Climate Crisis’ - “It must be the year we take real action instead of continuing to repeat meaningless words and empty promises.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/01/01/youth-activists-ring-2021-renewed-demand-world-wake-climate-crisis

1/2/21 ————— Top Positive Environmental Stories From 2020 - This year, species were brought back from the edge of extinction, interest in renewable energy surged, environmental monitoring technology improved, new protected areas were created, and a few Indigenous women leaders got some long-overdue credit and recognition.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/01/01/top-positive-environmental-stories-2020

1/2/21 ————— Record Strongest Storm Hits Alaska - VIDEO
https://weather.com/news/weather/video/strongest-storm-on-record-to-hit-alaska?cm_ven=hp-slot-2

1/2/21 ————— ‘The sea is rising, the climate is changing’: the lessons learned from Mozambique’s deadly cyclone
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/02/the-sea-is-rising-the-climate-is-changing-the-lessons-learned-from-mozambiques-deadly-cyclone?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

1/2/21 ————— Congress takes action against ‘super greenhouse gases’ in coronavirus stimulus
https://grist.org/politics/congress-takes-action-against-hfcs-super-greenhouse-gases-in-coronavirus-covid-19-stimulus/?utm_campaign=sprout&utm_source=facebook,twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1609444312

1/3/21 ————— EVENT: US Navy War College: The National Security Significance of a Changing Climate, January 8
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/01/event-us-navy-war-college-the-national-security-significance-of-a-changing-climate-january-8/

1/3/21 ————— 2020 vision - No-one needs another litany of all the terrible things that happened this year, but there are three areas relevant to climate science that are worth thinking about:
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2020/12/2020-vision/

1/3/21 ————— Paygo Exemptions in House Rules Will Help Pave Way for Green New Deal and Medicare for All, Progressives Say
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/01/02/paygo-exemptions-house-rules-will-help-pave-way-green-new-deal-and-medicare-all

1/3/21 ————— Biden set to supercharge clean energy push with $40B stash
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/01/biden-clean-energy-453171

1/3/21 ————— One in three US rivers have changed color since 1984. Here's what this means
https://www.salon.com/2021/01/03/one-in-three-us-rivers-have-changed-color-since-1984-heres-what-this-means/

1/4/21 ————— Many Scientists Now Say Global Warming Could Stop Relatively Quickly After Emissions Go to Zero - That’s one of several recent conclusions about climate change that came more sharply into focus in 2020.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03012021/five-aspects-climate-change-2020/

1/4/21 ————— Many Scientists Now Say Global Warming Could Stop Relatively Quickly After Emissions Go to Zero - That’s one of several recent conclusions about climate change that came more sharply into focus in 2020.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03012021/five-aspects-climate-change-2020/ Biden Climate Plan Looks For Buy-in From Farmers Who Are Often Skeptical About Global Warming - The administration has options to cut emissions even if a Republican-led Senate opposes climate-focused agriculture policies.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04012021/biden-climate-plan-agriculture-farmers-tom-vilsack/

1/4/21 ————— Many Scientists Now Say Global Warming Could Stop Relatively Quickly After Emissions Go to Zero - That’s one of several recent conclusions about climate change that came more sharply into focus in 2020.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03012021/five-aspects-climate-change-2020/ Study of Growth Rings in Tundra Shrubs Reveals Spread of Arctic `Browning’
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/study-of-growth-rings-in-tundra-shrubs-reveals-spread-of-arctic-browning

1/4/21 ————— Many Scientists Now Say Global Warming Could Stop Relatively Quickly After Emissions Go to Zero - That’s one of several recent conclusions about climate change that came more sharply into focus in 2020.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03012021/five-aspects-climate-change-2020/ How the Department of Defense could help win the war on climate change - The Pentagon has a huge appetite for clean energy — and a massive budget.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/04/biden-pentagon-climate-change-454404

1/4/21 ————— Many Scientists Now Say Global Warming Could Stop Relatively Quickly After Emissions Go to Zero - That’s one of several recent conclusions about climate change that came more sharply into focus in 2020.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03012021/five-aspects-climate-change-2020/ Trump loyalists aim to block Biden's goal to rejoin Iran and Paris agreements
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/22/iran-nuclear-deal-republicans-aim-to-block-biden-rejoining

1/6/21 ————--'Era of Small Ideas Is Over': With Democrats Poised to Seize Senate, Progressives Say Party Has Mandate to Go Big
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/01/06/era-small-ideas-over-democrats-poised-seize-senate-progressives-say-party-has

1/6/21 ————--Study: Warming already baked in will blow past climate goals
https://apnews.com/article/climate-climate-change-pollution-3f226aed9c58e36c69e7342b104d48bf

1/6/21 ————--Cities Face Withering Heat under Worst Warming Scenarios - Temperatures could rise by more than 4 degrees Celsius by 2100 in some cities around the world
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cities-face-withering-heat-under-worst-warming-scenarios/

1/6/21 ————--A New Study on Regenerative Grazing Complicates Climate Optimism
https://civileats.com/2021/01/06/a-new-study-on-regenerative-grazing-complicates-climate-optimism/

1/6/21 ————— Trump administration opens millions more acres of Alaska to drilling
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/05/energy-202-trump-administration-opens-millions-more-acres-alaska-drilling/

1/7/21 ————--Scientists warn of extreme winter weather in early 2021 due to sudden stratospheric warming
https://www.studyfinds.org/extreme-winter-weather-stratospheric-warning/

1/7/21 ————--With Climate Action Finally on the Table, Journalists Must Redouble Their Commitment to the Climate Story
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/01/06/climate-action-finally-table-journalists-must-redouble-their-commitment-climate

1/7/21 —————  U.S. Disaster Costs Doubled in 2020, Reflecting Costs of Climate Change - The $95 billion in damage came in a year marked by a record number of named Atlantic storms, as well as the largest wildfires recorded in California.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/07/climate/2020-disaster-costs.html

1/8/21 —————  Inside Clean Energy: The Energy Storage Boom Has Arrived
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07012021/inside-clean-energy-energy-battery-storage-boom/

1/8/21 —————  Capitol Rioters Walked Away. Climate Protesters Saw a Double Standard. - “There’s two worlds,” said one community activist who has been arrested several times at nonviolent protests. “And we’ve got to fix that.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/07/climate/capitol-riots-arrests-climate.html

1/8/21 —————  2020 Ties 2016 as Hottest Yet, European Analysis Shows
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/climate/hottest-year-ever.html

1/9/21 —————  After a record 22 billion-dollar disasters in 2020, it’s time to make US disaster policy more effective and equitable – here’s how
https://theconversation.com/after-a-record-22-billion-dollar-disasters-in-2020-its-time-to-make-us-disaster-policy-more-effective-and-equitable-heres-how-152439

1/10/21 —————  For First Time, the Pentagon IG Annual Report Identifies Climate Change as Top Challenge
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/01/for-first-time-the-pentagon-ig-annual-report-identifies-climate-change-as-top-challenge/

1/10/21 —————  The Council on Strategic Risks Condemns Violence Against U.S. Democratic Institutions
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/01/the-council-on-strategic-risks-condemns-violence-against-u-s-democratic-institutions/

1/10/21 —————  The Southwest’s Race Against the Climate Clock
https://capitalandmain.com/new-mexicos-race-against-the-climate-clock-0108

1/11/21 —————  Two-thirds of Earth’s land is on pace to lose water as the climate warms – that’s a problem for people, crops and forest
https://theconversation.com/two-thirds-of-earths-land-is-on-pace-to-lose-water-as-the-climate-warms-thats-a-problem-for-people-crops-and-forests-151984

1/11/21 —————  Madrid Is Buried Under Heaviest Snowfall in 50 Years
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/11/world/europe/spain-snow-storm-filomena.html

1/11/21 —————  Insect populations suffering death by 1,000 cuts, say scientists
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/11/insect-populations-suffering-death-1000-cuts-scientists

1/12/21 —————  Top scientists warn of 'ghastly future of mass extinction' and climate disruption - Sobering new report says world is failing to grasp the extent of threats posed by biodiversity loss and the climate crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/13/top-scientists-warn-of-ghastly-future-of-mass-extinction-and-climate-disruption-aoe

1/12/21 —————  Trump’s EPA launches surprise attack on Biden’s climate rules
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/12/trump-epa-biden-climate-rules-458280

1/12/21 —————  Even With a 50-50 Split, a Biden Administration Senate Could Make Big Strides on Climate
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/13012021/biden-administration-senate-schumer-mconnell-climate-change/

1/12/21 —————  Biden can fight climate change, guarantee housing, and halve poverty — without the GOP - Biden’s majority is fragile. But it could also be incredibly powerful.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22217054/joe-biden-senate-majority-budget-reconciliation

1/14/21 —————  Trump's Attacks on Democracy Threatens Climate Survival - Only a democracy that works can defuse the climate crisis. Without that expression of grassroots democracy, the world would likely be entering the climate nightmare of four more years of Trump.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/01/13/trumps-attacks-democracy-threatens-climate-survival

1/14/21 —————  As the Arctic melts, a regime shift is taking place - The Arctic is changing faster than any environment on Earth. The old order is being swept away, leaving scientists to ask: What’s coming in its place?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-13/regime-shift-is-taking-place-as-arctic-sea-ice-melts/12956328?nw=0

1/14/21 —————  Many Overheated Forests May Soon Release More Carbon Than They Absorb - New research suggests that, sooner than expected, trees may become carbon sources rather than carbon sinks, as a feedback loop of rising temperatures drives them to release more greenhouse gases.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/13012021/forests-heat-climate-change/

1/15/21 —————  Will 2021 Be the Year for Environmental Justice Legislation? States Are Already Leading the Way
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/15012021/environmental-justice-in-2021-legislation/

1/15/21 —————  2020 rivals hottest year on record, pushing Earth closer to a critical climate threshold - Escalating temperatures poise planet to breach 1.5 C for the first time, possibly later this decade
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2021/2020-tied-for-hottest-year-on-record/?itid=sf_climate-environment

1/15/21 —————  What clean energy might look like in 2021 - Here’s what we might be able to expect from clean energy advancements in the United States this year.
https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/environment/534239-what-clean-energy-might-look-like-in-2021

1/16/21 —————  2020 Hindsight - Yesterday was the day that NASA, NOAA, the Hadley Centre and Berkeley Earth delivered their final assessments for temperatures in Dec 2020, and thus their annual summaries.
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2021/01/2020-hindsight/

1/16/21 —————  The U.S. Congress Overrode Trump Veto on FY21 NDAA: Here are the Climate Security Highlights in the Bill
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/01/u-s-congress-overrides-trump-veto-on-fy21-ndaa-here-are-the-climate-security-highlights-in-the-bill/

1/16/21 —————  Looking Back: The Center for Climate and Security 2020 Wrap-Up
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/01/looking-back-the-center-for-climate-and-security-2020-wrap-up/

1/16/21 —————  Most Democrats and Republicans think the government should make climate change a priority - A new survey finds broad support among American voters for doing more on climate change.
https://www.vox.com/2021/1/15/22233228/democrats-republicans-view-climate-change-global-warming

1/17/21 —————  Global Efforts to Adapt to the Impacts of Climate Are Lagging as Much as Efforts to Slow Emissions
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/17012021/united-nations-report-greenhouse-gas-emissions-lagging/

1/17/21 —————  The South’s Communication Infrastructure Can’t Withstand Climate Change
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18012021/south-us-communication-infrastructure-hurricanes/

1/17/21 —————  Climate change pushed ocean temperatures to record high in 2020, study finds
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-18/ocean-temperatures-reached-record-high-in-2020-study-finds/13062628

1/17/21 —————  More Than 400,000 U.S. Clean Energy Jobs Have Been Lost So Far During the Pandemic
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/more-than-400-000-u-s-clean-energy-jobs-have-been-lost-so-far-during-the-pandemic

1/17/21 —————  Where 2020's Record Heat Was Felt the Most
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/14/climate/hottest-year-2020-global-map.html

1/17/21 —————  Biden Needs to Hit the Ground Running on Climate—or Else - We are running out of time.
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/01/biden-needs-to-hit-the-ground-running-on-climate-or-else/

1/18/21 —————  Biden Plans to Rescind Keystone XL in “Huge Victory” for Indigenous-Led Movement
https://truthout.org/articles/biden-plans-to-rescind-keystone-xl-in-huge-victory-for-indigenous-led-movement/

1/18/21 —————  DANGEROUS HEAT, UNEQUAL CONSEQUENCES - How two neighborhoods in Arizona and Florida became hotspots for sickening heat
https://publicintegrity.org/environment/hidden-epidemics/dangerous-heat-illness-unequal-consequences/

1/18/21 —————  Here’s how climate change affects your health
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/here-s-how-climate-change-affects-your-health/ss-BB1cRpbI?li=BBnba9O

1/18/21 —————  Climate change blamed for a third of U.S. flood losses in past 3 decades
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/climate-change-blamed-for-a-third-of-us-flood-losses-in-past-3-decades/2021/01/15/398728a2-544c-11eb-a817-e5e7f8a406d6_story.html

1/18/21 —————  Joëlle Gergis on mourning and making sense of what we have lost on the frontlines of the climate crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/audio/2021/jan/19/joelle-gergis-on-mourning-and-making-sense-of-what-we-have-lost-on-the-frontlines-of-the-climate-crisis

1/18/21 —————  Climate change will shift planet’s rain belt, threatening food security for billions, scientists say
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/rain-belt-food-security-university-california-b1788972.html

1/20/21 —————  Cleaner air and a climate solution, are now within reach — if we have the political will - Clean air, cheaper energy and responding to climate change all have the same solution — and Americans are ready
https://www.salon.com/2021/01/19/cleaner-air-and-a-climate-solution-are-now-within-reach--if-we-have-the-political-will/

1/20/21 —————  Cheaper solar power means low-income families can also benefit – with the right kind of help
https://theconversation.com/cheaper-solar-power-means-low-income-families-can-also-benefit-with-the-right-kind-of-help-151907

1/20/21 —————  Restoring Our Water Systems Should Be Top Priority for Biden Administration
https://truthout.org/articles/restoring-our-water-systems-should-be-top-priority-for-biden-administration/

1/20/21 —————  Fighting Climate Change Could Define Kamala Harris’ Vice Presidency. Watch Our Interview With Her.
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/01/fighting-climate-change-could-define-kamala-harris-vice-presidency-watch-our-interview-with-her/

1/20/21 —————  How Biden Could Use His Whole Government to Take on Climate Change
https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2021-01-19/explainer-how-biden-could-use-his-whole-government-to-take-on-climate-change

1/21/21 —————  Trump’s big gamble to gut US power plant emissions rules fails in court, opening door for powerful new climate rules
https://theconversation.com/trumps-big-gamble-to-gut-us-power-plant-emissions-rules-fails-in-court-opening-door-for-powerful-new-climate-rules-153618

1/21/21 ————— Biden Signs Sweeping Orders to Tackle Climate Change and Rollback Trump’s Anti-Environment Legacy - The new president moved immediately to review more than 100 Trump administration actions and restore the protection of federal lands and the regulation of greenhouse gases.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21012021/biden-executive-orders-climate-change/

1/21/21 ————— Biden Cancels Keystone XL, Halts Drilling in Arctic Refuge on Day One, Signaling a Larger Shift Away From Fossil Fuels - The president’s executive actions will have real world effects, but market forces have stolen some of their thunder.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21012021/biden-cancels-keystone-xl-and-halts-arctic-drilling-fossil-fuels/

1/21/21 ————— The US Rejoins the Paris Agreement, but Rebuilding Credibility on Climate Action Will Take Time - Committing to the pact means decarbonizing the United States by 2050 and following up on global commitments abandoned by the Trump administration.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21012021/biden-paris-climate-agreement/

1/21/21 ————— This state-of-the-art indoor farm is transforming Appalachia into an agricultural powerhouse
https://www.fastcompany.com/90595161/this-state-of-the-art-indoor-farm-is-transforming-appalachia-into-an-agricultural-powerhouse

1/21/21 ————— At Dawn of Biden Administration, Opportunities for Water Systems 
https://www.circleofblue.org/2021/world/at-dawn-of-biden-administration-opportunities-for-water-systems/

1/22/21 ————— The Paris Climate Agreement: What You Need to Know - President Biden’s decision to return to the climate pact fulfills a campaign pledge, but the United States has some catching up to do.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/21/climate/biden-paris-climate-agreement.html

1/22/21 ————--"Let's Turn This 'Temporary Halt' to Permanent Ban'": Biden Praised for Pause on Drilling Leases - “The federal oil and gas program is nothing but an injustice," said Jeremy Nichols of WildEarth Guardians.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/01/21/lets-turn-temporary-halt-permanent-ban-biden-praised-pause-drilling-leases

1/22/21 ————— Building a green economy could stop ‘nightmare’ degradation of Amazon
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/21/building-a-green-economy-could-stop-nightmare-degradation-of-amazon-aoe

1/22/21 ————— Every Cabinet job is about climate change now - How Biden can direct every part of the government to attack the problem
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/biden-cabinet-climate-change/2021/01/21/a288a12e-5b5d-11eb-b8bd-ee36b1cd18bf_story.html

1/23/21 ————— Why the US rejoining the Paris climate accord matters at home and abroad — 5 scholars explain
https://theconversation.com/why-the-us-rejoining-the-paris-climate-accord-matters-at-home-and-abroad-5-scholars-explain-153783

1/23/21 ————— We Need To Stop The Fossil Fuel Industry's PR Machine - Our theory of change is simple: if we can get the world’s largest and most powerful PR and Ad agencies to stop working for the fossil fuel industry, we’ll dramatically weaken the industry’s ability to pollute the public debate and block climate action.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/01/22/we-need-stop-fossil-fuel-industrys-pr-machine

1/23/21 ————— Southern Ocean waters are warming faster than thought, threatening Antarctic ice - A layer of warming water is rising from the subsurface, threatening to speed up Antarctic ice melt
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/01/21/southern-ocean-warming-antarctica/

1/24/21 ————— The peril of high atmospheric methane levels
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-peril-of-high-atmospheric-methane-levels.html

1/24/21 ————— The Biden Administration & Climate Security: Week One
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/01/the-biden-administration-climate-security-week-one/

1/24/21 ————— Amsterdam Is Embracing a Radical New Economic Theory to Help Save the Environment. Could It Also Replace Capitalism?
https://time.com/5930093/amsterdam-doughnut-economics/

1/24/21 ————— The Game-Changing Biden Order You Haven’t Heard About - A directive about the regulatory process could lead to progressive movement on climate change, public health and worker safety.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-order-progressive-regulation_n_6009dabec5b6efae63002e20

1/25/21 ————— Great Lakes ice reaches lowest mid-January level on record, part of climate trend - Ice coverage is highly variable, but experts say it’s lagging well below average.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/01/22/great-lakes-ice-coverage/

1/25/21 ————— The pandemic could devastate mass transit in the U.S. — and not for the reason you think - Covid-19 is speeding up shifts in where Americans live and work, posing a long-term challenge to transit systems built around getting people to downtown workplaces.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/24/coronavirus-effect-mass-transit-461658

1/25/21 ————— Our Future Food Supply Depends on Endangered Wild Crops - The lead author of a new study on the important role wild plants play in food crop diversity and climate mitigation calls for greater conservation efforts.
https://civileats.com/2021/01/25/our-future-food-supply-depends-on-endangered-wild-crops/

1/26/21 ————— REPOST - 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

1/26/21 ————— Coal Communities Across the Nation Want Biden to Fund an Economic Transition to Clean Power - The president promised to create a task force on how best to help the communities. Advocates want that and new jobs, broadband internet and funding for health and education.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26012021/coal-communities-just-transition-renewable-energy-biden-administration/

1/26/21 ————— Global Ice Loss on Pace to Drive Worst-Case Sea Level Rise - A new study combines ice melt data from all sources to reaffirm one of the most serious climate change threats.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25012021/global-ice-loss-sea-level-rise/

1/26/21 ————— Scientists address myths over large-scale tree planting
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-55795816

1/26/21 ————— Earth is now losing 1.2 trillion tons of ice each year. And it’s going to get worse. - Ice is melting faster worldwide, with greater sea-level rise anticipated, studies show.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/01/25/ice-melt-quickens-greenland-glaciers/

1/26/21 ————— Wyoming could lead US green energy push with wind power
https://www.dw.com/en/wyoming-wind-energy-jobs-renewables-green/a-56307204

1/26/21 ————— New U.S. Strategy Would Quickly Free Billions in Climate Funds - Emergency management officials aim to funnel up to $10 billion into preventing climate disasters. The plan “would dwarf all previous grant programs of its kind,” one analyst said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/25/climate/fema-climate-spending-biden.html

1/26/21 ————— Climate change hit poorest countries hardest in 2019
https://www.dw.com/en/climate-change-hit-poorest-countries-hardest-in-2019/a-56334708

1/26/21 ————— President Biden, the US Is Capable of This Too: Europe Generates More Electricity With Renewables Than Fossil Fuels for First Time
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/01/26/president-biden-us-capable-too-europe-generates-more-electricity-renewables-fossil

1/26/21 ————— Biden’s “all of government” plan for climate, explained - Rejoining the Paris agreement is just the start of Biden’s climate and clean energy policy.
https://www.vox.com/22242572/biden-climate-change-plan-explained

1/26/21 ————— This is historic snow': major winter storm blankets parts of US
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/26/snow-us-weather-winter-storm

1/27/21 ————-- 'Incredible': Schumer Says Biden Should Declare a Climate Emergency - “If ever there was an emergency, climate is one," the Senate Majority leader said.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/01/26/incredible-schumer-says-biden-should-declare-climate-emergency

1/27/21 ————-- Biden turns attention to climate crisis with new executive orders today – live updates
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2021/jan/27/joe-biden-donald-trump-impeachment-covid-coronavirus-climate-crisis-executive-orders-live-updates

1/27/21 —————  Joe Biden's 'climate day' of executive actions signals clean break with Trump
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/27/joe-biden-climate-change-executive-orders

1/28/21 —————  Ice is melting away from Earth’s coldest places at a record pace, study reveals
https://www.studyfinds.org/ice-melting-earths-coldest-places/

1/28/21 —————  The World’s Long, Messy Breakup With Coal = Coal is in a death spiral — but it’s far from clear when the final coal plant will close.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/coal-death-spiral-climate-environment_n_600a72bec5b6d64153aa9d36

1/28/21 —————  Biden’s “all of government” plan for climate, explained - Rejoining the Paris agreement is just the start of Biden’s climate and clean energy policy.
https://www.vox.com/22242572/biden-climate-change-plan-explained

1/28/21 —————  'Now Is the Moment to Deliver': Sunrise Movement Says Biden Climate Ambitions Require Abolition of Senate Filibuster - “Our generation will not accept any excuses for delay or inaction on delivering historic legislation to build back better.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/01/27/now-moment-deliver-sunrise-movement-says-biden-climate-ambitions-require-abolition

1/28/21 —————  100 Seconds to Midnight: 'Doomsday Clock' Reveals Humanity Closer Than Ever to the Apocalypse = Citizens must "demand... that their governments reorder their priorities and cooperate... to reduce the risk of nuclear war, climate change, and other global disasters, including pandemic disease.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/01/27/100-seconds-midnight-doomsday-clock-reveals-humanity-closer-ever-apocalypse

1/28/21 —————  Stopping Climate Change Is Not Enough, We Must Also Address Climate Impacts With Effective Strategies - To address the climate crisis we must restore past adaptation efforts, innovate new ones, and develop a national resilience strategy to organize and guide our efforts in the decades to come.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/01/27/stopping-climate-change-not-enough-we-must-also-address-climate-impacts-effective

1/28/21 —————  Denouncing 'Handouts to Big Oil,' Biden Calls on Congress to End $40 Billion in Taxpayer Subsidies for Fossil Fuels - “Biden campaigned on eliminating fossil fuel giveaways, and voters agree by a huge margin," said one climate activist.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/01/27/denouncing-handouts-big-oil-biden-calls-congress-end-40-billion-taxpayer-subsidies

1/28/21 —————  It’s Biden’s 'Climate Day' and Vote Climate U.S. PAC Has a Present for America - Find out where you U.S. Senator and Representative stand with our Vote Climate U.S. PAC 117th Congress Climate Scorecard.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/01/27/its-bidens-climate-day-and-vote-climate-us-pac-has-present-america

1/28/21 —————  As Biden vows monumental action on climate change, a fight with the fossil fuel industry has only begun - ‘This is not the time for small measures,’ the president said Wednesday, as he unveiled sweeping executive actions to cut emissions to fight global warming.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/01/27/biden-climate-change/

1/28/21 —————  Monarch butterflies are in trouble: Here’s how to help in your own yard
https://earthsky.org/earth/monarch-butterflies-of-western-us-nearing-extinction-what-you-can-do?utm_source=EarthSky+News&utm_campaign=5262d8a7c8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_02_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c643945d79-5262d8a7c8-395109277

1/28/21 —————  ‘We Need to Be Bold,’ Biden Says, Taking the First Steps in a Major Shift in Climate Policy - Environmental justice, scientific integrity, climate’s threat to national security and weaning off fossil fuels. It’s a big agenda and an emphatic rejection of the last four years.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28012021/biden-climate-policy-steps/

1/28/21 —————  Almost two-thirds of people believe climate change is a global emergency, UN poll finds
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/27/world/un-climate-poll-global-emergency-intl/index.html

1/28/21 —————  Avoiding a ‘Ghastly Future’: Hard Truths on the State of the Planet
https://e360.yale.edu/features/avoiding-a-ghastly-future-hard-truths-on-the-state-of-the-planet

1/28/21 —————  Speaking of Water: China’s Water Challenges in 2021 
https://www.circleofblue.org/2021/world/speaking-of-water-chinas-water-challenges-in-2021/

1/29/21 —————  To make the US auto fleet greener, increasing fuel efficiency matters more than selling electric vehicles
https://theconversation.com/to-make-the-us-auto-fleet-greener-increasing-fuel-efficiency-matters-more-than-selling-electric-vehicles-153085

1/29/21 —————  Thawing permafrost is full of ice-forming particles that could get into atmosphere
https://theconversation.com/thawing-permafrost-is-full-of-ice-forming-particles-that-could-get-into-atmosphere-152736

1/29/21 —————  How Joe Biden Can Cut Off The Fossil Fuel Industry’s Federal Funding
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-fossil-fuels_n_60121f59c5b61cb95350ea89

1/29/21 —————  Biden’s Climate Day Confronts A Tricky Question: What Should We Do About Mining? - As the new president broke from the old on climate issues, his nominee for energy secretary revealed one potential area of continuity.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-climate-mining-jennifer-granholm_n_6011f0e9c5b61cb95350caf6

1/29/21 —————  Report: Pennsylvania stands to gain 243,000 jobs a year from clean energy investment
https://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2021/01/29/report-pennsylvania-stands-to-gain-243000-jobs-a-year-from-clean-energy-investment/

1/29/21 —————  In a Major Move Away From Fossil Fuels, General Motors Aims to Stop Selling Gasoline Cars and SUVs by 2035
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29012021/general-motors-electric-vehicles-carbon-neutrality/

1/29/21 —————  How Biden’s new Civilian Climate Corps would work
https://www.fastcompany.com/90598742/how-bidens-new-civilian-climate-corps-would-work

1/29/21 —————  Another terrible year for wildfires and smoke in the US in 2020
https://earthsky.org/earth/us-2020-wildfire-season-record-bad?utm_source=EarthSky+News&utm_campaign=32d0aa39da-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_02_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c643945d79-32d0aa39da-395109277

1/30/21 —————  Climate change is a national security priority, new SecDef says
https://www.radio.com/connectingvets/news/climate-change-is-now-a-national-security-priority

1/30/21 —————  Will the US end military domination to save the planet?
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/01/28/will-the-us-end-military-domination-to-save-the-planet/

1/30/21 —————  Atmospheric river storms can drive costly flooding – and climate change is making them stronger
https://theconversation.com/atmospheric-river-storms-can-drive-costly-flooding-and-climate-change-is-making-them-stronger-128902

1/30/21 —————  15 Of Yosemite’s Iconic Giant Sequoias Fall In Most Damaging Storm In Decades
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/yosemite-giant-sequoias-fall_n_6013a724c5b6aa4bad32b831

1/30/21 —————  Climate risk is about to become a much bigger part of the financial system
https://qz.com/1962476/climate-risk-is-about-to-reshape-wall-street/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

1/31/21 —————  The Biden Administration & Climate Security: Week Two
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/01/the-biden-administration-climate-security-week-two/

1/31/21 —————  A Climate Security Plan for America Part 2: Assess Climate Risks
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/01/a-climate-security-plan-for-america-part-2-assess-climate-risks/

1/31/21 —————  The Center for Climate and Security Applauds the Biden Administration’s Executive Actions on Climate Change
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/01/the-center-for-climate-and-security-applauds-the-biden-administrations-executive-actions-on-climate-change/

1/31/21 —————  New Report by Security Experts Warns of “Great Power Conflict” Potential in Arctic if Climate Change Uncurbed
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/01/release-new-report-by-security-experts-warns-of-gray-zone-warfare-and-great-power-conflict-potential-in-arctic-if-climate-change-goes-uncurbed/

1/31/21 —————  Highlights from the U.S. Navy War College Conference on Climate Change and National Security
https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/01/highlights-from-the-u-s-navy-war-college-conference-on-climate-change-and-national-security/

1/31/21 —————  What Carbon Budget?
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2021/01/what-carbon-budget.html