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They are Darth Vaders and Thanatoses, they are destroyers of a planet

Effing Earth on Fire: Bill Nye is Extremely Disappointed in Your Science Literacy

John Oliver | Last Week Tonight | HBO Video Clip | – With the Green New Deal sparking a national conversation about all the ways to combat climate change, John Oliver looks at a few potential solutions. Green New Deal: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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It will be Very Hot and very Wet–We’ve exceeded 415ppm of Carbon Dioxide for the first Time since the Pliocene

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration measures atmospheric carbon dioxide at its Moana Loa observatory. You can see that on May 11 we were just about at 415 parts per million of CO2. A couple of days this week, we’ve gone over 415. When I say that, you should run […]

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The Meaning of the Green New Deal: Tackling Climate Change but with Good Union Jobs

OtherWords

By Héctor J. Figueroa | – Across the country, you’ll find millions of working families whose wages haven’t budged in a generation, even as the cost of living has skyrocketed. Many of these same communities are now getting hit hardest by floods, droughts, storms, and other climate disasters. How are workers going to withstand rising […]

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Tipping Point: For 1st Time in US History, Renewables made more Electricity than Coal in April

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Avery Thompson Popular Mechanics reports that in the month of April for the first time in US history, the country produced more electricity with renewables than with coal. Part of the solution to this puzzle is economic. In much of the US, Thompson notes, you could actually make more money […]

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Ruining the Planet: Not only are the German Far Right Scary Racists, they’re Climate Denialists to Boot

Clean Energy Wire

Right-wing parties poised to bring climate scepticism to European parliament, with Germany’s AfD leading the way

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Scottish Gov’t Announces ‘Climate Emergency’ in response to Extinction Rebellion Call

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Scotland’s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon of the social-democratic Scottish National Party has called a “climate emergency,” doing so in response to a call from “Extinction Rebellion Scotland.” The latter is a youth protest group that has staged walk-outs from high schools and engaged in civil disobedience in numerous cities around […]

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Global Inequality is 25% Higher than it would have been in a Climate-Stable World

The Conversation

With 12m inhabitants, Mumbai has the world’s largest population exposed to coastal flooding

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Not just Notre Dame: With Global Heating, Arsonists have set the whole World on Fire

Tom Engelhardt

We are, of course, talking about nothing short of the ultimate crime, but on any given day of our lives, you’d hardly notice that it was underway