“Mind Blowing” Decrease in Antarctic Sea Ice
Polar experts warned last Friday that disappearing Antarctic sea-ice could have a devastating impact on the continent's role in regulating planetary temperature. The level of sea-ice, which reflects sunlight back into the atmosphere and serves as a coolant to the...
March to End Fossil Fuels
March to End Fossil Fuels The Global Fight to End Fossil Fuels takes place in New York City on September 15 and 17 to coincide with Climate Week and the UN Climate Ambition Summit. Demonstrations are also planned across the country and internationally. Information on...
Anger A Catalyst for Climate Activism & The Global Fight to End Fossil Fuels
Norweigan researchers recently conducted a study that revealed that anger was the most important catalyst for climate activism. The study predicted anger is seven times more likely than hope to promote active engagement. “The problem isn’t that people feel too scared...
Fake Twitter Bots Undermine Climate Talks
Fake Twitter bots designed to discredit November’s COP28 and greenwash this year’s sponsor, the UAE, are promoting the Emirates’ climate credentials, according to reporting in today’s New York Times. Sultan al-Jaber, the Emirati official presiding over this year's...
Week of Nationwide Demonstrations Demand End of Fossil Fuels
A week of actions to End Fossil Fuels kicks off with a powerful action in DC today to #StopMVP led by frontline Appalachians. Activists will be joined outside the White House by members of Congress, including Rep. Justin J. Pearson and Rep. Rashida Tlaib. Today’s...
Alliance of 130+ EU and US decision makers call to end fossil fuel influence at UN climate talks
In a letter addressed to the UN secretary general, the European Commission President and the President of the United States, 133 MEPs, senators and representatives express their “profound concern that current rules governing the United Nations Framework Convention on...
Climate Doom & Facing Climate Grief
One of the things which really spooked me this past week was reading Bill McKibben’s article in The Crucial Years “Maybe we should have called this planet 'Ocean'. McKibben reports that scientists are shocked by the terrifying fact that temperatures in the oceans,...
Drastic Temperature Rise Expected with El Niño’s Arrival
The UN’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) last week issued a warning that a likely El Niño this summer could result in drastically elevated temperatures breaking previous heat records. Estimates suggest a 60% chance of El Niño arriving by the end of June,...
Debt Ceiling Crisis Cataclysmic for Economy and Climate
As the US debt ceiling crisis barrels towards a June 1 deadline, President Biden meets today with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, whose budget-cutting plan would gut the climate-related sections of the IRA through the Limit, Save, Grow Act. The impact of the...
100K East Africans Face Famine Conditions Due to Climate Change
In stunning reporting last week, Inside Climate News cited studies that claim climate change is responsible for famine conditions currently impacting 100 thousand in East Africa. Some 23 million people living in the Horn of Africa countries of Ethiopia, Somalia, and...