Today's bombshell report from the Intl Energy Agency is easy to translate: anyone who continues to engage or invest in fossil fuel development is wrecking the climate.
— Bill McKibben (@billmckibben) May 18, 2021
Or, more simply: Keep It In the Groundhttps://t.co/sGQCdiV5rn
Tag: climate
GOP Threatens to Hold Economy Hostage to Slash Climate Investments
In addition to threatening cuts to Social Security and Medicare, congressional Republicans are reportedly plotting to use the debt ceiling and an end-of-year clash over government funding to target popular climate investments approved in August as part of the Inflation Reduction Act.
Source: GOP Threatens to Hold Economy Hostage to Slash Climate Investments
Human-Carbon Nature
Who’s to blame for climate destabilization and the many other ecological crises driving us toward collapse? Looking for the villains in the story is
Risk of multiple climate tipping points escalates above 1.5°C global warming — ScienceDaily
Multiple climate tipping points could be triggered if global temperature rises beyond 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, according to a major new analysis. Even at current levels of global heating the world is already at risk of passing five dangerous climate tipping points, and risks increase with each tenth of a degree of further warming.
Source: Risk of multiple climate tipping points escalates above 1.5°C global warming — ScienceDaily
One Man’s Lonely, Lonely Fight to Ban Private Jets
Banning private jet flights like the one Kylie Jenner took over the weekend is a massively popular idea with little to no political movement behind it. One man says that needs to change.
Climate: Scientists Stunned to Find Atlantic Plankton 90% Gone; Marine Life, our Oxygen Imperiled
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – (Note: After publication, Jonathan Gitlin at Ars Technica took issue with the below on the …
Source: Climate: Scientists Stunned to Find Atlantic Plankton 90% Gone; Marine Life, our Oxygen Imperiled
‘Nothing Short of a Death Sentence’: Fury as Manchin Tanks Climate Spending
While Manchin’s refusal to endorse green energy funding may have been entirely foreseeable given his close ties to the fossil fuel industry and his role in tanking the Build Back Better package just months earlier, climate advocates nevertheless voiced dismay at the power one individual has been able to exert over a process with implications for billions of people across the planet.
Source: ‘Nothing Short of a Death Sentence’: Fury as Manchin Tanks Climate Spending