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'Joe and Chuck's Excellent Adventure: A View from West Virginia of the climactic Inflation Reduction Act'
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Music megastars Taylor Swift and Jay-Z are no strangers to being at the top of rankings.
But recently the two Grammy-winning artists found themselves featured prominently on a new list: “Celebs with the Worst Private Jet Co2 Emissions.” wapo.st/3btio39
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One of the US’ most-beloved national parks took a beating from the #ClimateCrisis earlier this year. It’s still recovering.
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"Diseases such as Zika, malaria, dengue, chikungunya and even Covid-19 have been aggravated by climate impacts caused by burning fossil fuels, such as heatwaves, wildfires, extreme rainfall and floods."
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'Warmer and wetter': US' changing climate helps fuel record Kentucky flooding, experts say courier-journal.com/story/news/loc via @giffin_connor
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The real causes for our dying planet.
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Let me be clear: The flooding in EKY is a climate disaster. This is what climate change looks like in the mountains. A deep drought followed by feet of rain in a matter of hours that has no where to go but up and out. It will keep coming at shorter intervals from now til forever.
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#Climatechange will only make these hazards worse: "Should the good news hold, and the trees escape alive, their survival isn’t mere luck: The National Park Service has spent decades thinking about the fire management of this particular grove."
Here's a summary of the climate and energy provisions in the new Dem reconciliation bill. A short thread.
democrats.senate.gov/summary-of-the
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And "It represents the biggest climate investment made by any country ever, and it will unlock potentially trillions in private capital, which is waiting on the sidelines for the types of subsidies, credits and guarantees this bill will include."
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Good follow up by the NYT's Climate Forward column on the Schumer/Manchin climate deal:
"The bill would use tax incentives to promote low-emissions energy industries over the next decade." mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#inbo
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just posted a story on the "Caring for Creation Together" interfaith #ClimateCrisis meetup in Charleston WV on June 4, 2022. The writer quoted me and others in this on-point profile, which dives into tying faith to climate talk.
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Here are some of the records broken by the United Kingdom heat wave this week - The Washington Post
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The social and economic system that we live under is rapidly creating conditions that are incompatible with the preservation of life on this planet. This is a staggering truth and a pressing reality that shapes all our lives and determines our struggles. #ClimateCrisis
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A PSA from trees.
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No, planting a trillion new trees can NOT save the world. If we want a livable planet, and I would strongly suggest that we do want a livable planet, it will take ending the fossil fuel industry and toxic capitalism
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BREAKING UK airport suspends all flights as heatwave melts runway tarmac
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"The world is literally burning up while joins every single Republican to stop strong action ... for the survival of our planet... One Senator should not have the power to stop the progress we desperately need on the #climatecrisis.”
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As President Biden’s climate ambitions appeared to collapse in Congress on Friday, advocates around the world expressed alarm about how an absence of U.S. leadership could undermine the push to avoid catastrophic warming of Earth’s atmosphere.
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An illustrated round-up of a dire turn of Manchineanism: "led his party through months of tortured negotiations that collapsed on Thursday ... a yearlong wild goose chase that produced nothing as the Earth warms to dangerous levels.”
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When you don't stand for the most significant #ClimateCrisis legislation in a generation as the planet’s climate begins to teeter wildly out of control, you, , are the opposite of a moral giant: a moral munchkin. We thus propose the hashtag: #JoeMunchkin
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Manchin has taken more money from the fossil fuel industry than anyone else in DC
And the return on that investment has been enormous. Big Oil got its money worth a thousand times over.
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There’s a lot the Biden administration could be doing on climate change:
1. A robust social cost of carbon rule with broad reach.
2. Require carbon capture from all major emitters.
3. Stricter limits on co-pollutants from coal- and gas-fired power plants
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Save us—and animals—from billionaires, specifically ones like founder Joe Ricketts. He erected miles of 5-ft fencing on his Montana ranch, disrupting migration & more
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The hot sauce-#climatecrisis connection is no joke. “Almost everything we grow and raise in the US is facing some climatic stress,” said Carolyn Dimitri, nutrition and food studies professor at NYU."
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This topic came up in another thread and I was looking for a story about the ongoing insect apocalypse and the #climatecrisis. Here's a good one from 2021:
While heat waves are shaped by complex local factors such as urbanization and land use, scientists no longer have much doubt about whether climate change is making them worse
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As the Senate wind towards recess in August and still has not signed onto a #ClimateAction bill, I offer you my first-ever editorial cartoon — what Joe's legacy might look like in the year 2075 A.D. Go forth and multiply, cartoon ...
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Humans don’t need fossil fuels to survive, capitalism does.
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Everest base camp to shift location after 70 years due to #ClimateChange
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In the end, climate catastrophe has arrived sooner rather than later: "Extreme weather is here early, testing the nation’s readiness and proving, once again, that overlapping climate disasters are now becoming more frequent and upending Americans’ lives.”
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As notes in on June 15, 2022, we may be headed toward the worst outcome of all — that politicians like and many others "bickered while the world burned." theatlantic.com/science/archiv 4/5
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"The hour is late, indeed. Alarming headlines come tumbling one after the other now, as apocalyptic elements of the national and global #ClimateCrisis catastrophe link and move in concert ..." 3/5
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"It would be nice, really nice, to be surprised at the last moment by climate action by . To see some pale, yet still significant version of the grand ambitions of the Biden Administration’s #BuildBackBetter climate vision come to pass ..." 2/5
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