News: ‘General’ Archive
‘When asked a clear ”yes or no” scientific question about climate change, she should have jumped at the chance to give a clear answer — but she did not. She replied that it is a “very contentious matter of public debate.” Settled science is clear and visible proof abounds — so she is either grossly uniformed or she lied.’
Source: Climate change answer disqualifies Barrett for Supreme Court |Chicago Sun*Times
‘Supreme court nominee Amy Coney Barrett refused to say whether she accepts the science of climate change, under questioning from Kamala Harris, saying she lacked the expertise to know for sure and calling it a topic too controversial to get into.’
‘…Two-thirds of Americans say the government isn’t doing enough to reduce the effects of global warming, according to a June survey from the Pew Research Center, and the two presidential candidates’ approaches couldn’t be further apart. President Trump has often dismissed global warming as a hoax; his rival, Joseph R. Biden Jr., calls climate change an “emergency” that requires rapidly overhauling the nation’s energy system.’
Source: A FIELD GUIDE TO THE ELECTION AND CLIMATE CHANGE | The New York Times
‘What concerns me is that we may have already pushed the planetary system past the point of no return.’
‘The city of Lins (431 km from SP) recorded this Wednesday (7) the highest temperature in the history of the state of São Paulo: 43.5ºC. The measurement is from Inmet (National Institute of Meteorology).’
Source: São Paulo State Records Highest Temperature in History | Folha de S.Paulo
‘(CNN)In an unprecedented move, the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday published an editorial written by its editors condemning the Trump administration for its response to the Covid-19 pandemic — and calling for the current leadership in the United States to be voted out of office.’
Source: Prestigious medical journal calls for US leadership to be voted out over Covid-19 failure | CNN
‘The extra damages—anywhere from $10 trillion to $50 trillion over the next 200 years when measured in today’s dollars, according to the study—show us that the cost of inaction is substantially higher than previously believed, he says.’
Source: Trillions of extra economic damages predicted in new study of climate change effects | Phys.org
‘In the face of this urgency, Mann broadly supports implementing a Green New Deal. This he defines as a vast government effort that deploys both regulations – for example, no more coal plants – and market mechanisms like carbon pricing to transition away from fossil fuels as rapidly as possible. In the coming weeks, he adds, there is no more important way for US citizens to exercise agencythan to vote – vote for candidates who support such a transition, such as Joe Biden, and against Donald Trump and other Republicans who obstruct it.’
Source: A second Trump term would be ‘game over’ for the climate, says top scientist | The Nation
‘…Environmental law scholars believe that with Barrett on the bench, there will be little remaining support on the nation’s highest court for upholding what is arguably its most important environmental ruling—Massachusetts v. the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.’
‘The message from the visceral scenes unfolding in the western US is clear: climate displacement isn’t something that happens only outside of our borders. It has already begun in the US, and we can no longer turn our backs on the more than 20 million climate migrants worldwide.’
Source: Americans are becoming climate migrants before our eyes | The Guardian