‘Chinese President Xi Jinping has vowed to protect the landmark Paris agreement, which aims to curb climate change and fossil fuel emissions.’

Source: Climate change: China vows to defend Paris agreement – BBC News

‘White House officials are leaning toward taking the United States out of the Paris climate agreement, people familiar with the deliberations say.’

Source: White House leaning toward exiting Paris climate pact | TheHill

‘…SEN. JEFF MERKLEY: So, yesterday, in partnership with a whole bunch of environmental groups and social justice groups, I introduced 100 by 50. It’s a phrase I want everyone in the country to hear multitudinous times, 100 by 50—100 percent clean and renewable energy by the year 2050. It’s a goal that we’ve got to get completely off fossil fuels, no more burning in any sector of the energy economy. And it’s a timeline. And to get there, we have to move urgently, passionately, quickly. Time is not on our side.’

Source: Democracy Now – Sens. Markey & Merkley Push Bill for 100% Clean and Renewable Energy by 2050

April 29, 2017  Oakland, California

Climate activists rallied at Lake Merritt in Oakland on Saturday, enjoying a diverse group of speakers, poets, and musicians on a beautiful spring day. The event was one of hundreds of demonstrations taking place across the country, including the large climate march in Washington D.C.

‘…But the uncertainty of climate modeling runs in both directions. Climate Shock, a 2015 book by two economists, Gernot Wagner and Martin Weitzman, argues that the “likely” global-warming scenario gets too much attention. What should really concern policy makers, they suggest, is the chance that scientists are underrating temperature change. The likely outcomes, represented by the thick part of the curve, are extremely dangerous and expensive levels of climate change. But the truly frightening scenarios lie on the right edge of the curve.’

Source: What If Climate Scientists Are Guessing Wrong?

‘Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets Saturday in Washington, D.C., and cities across the globe, for the People’s Climate March, demanding action on protecting the environment.’

Source: People’s Climate March: Marchers Unite To Take On Trump’s Climate Policies : The Two-Way : NPR

‘”The state of the planet is unraveling all around us because of our addiction to fossil fuels,” Xiuhtezcatl Martinez said at the steps of the US Supreme Court this week. “For the last several decades, we have been neglecting the fact that this is the only planet that we have and that the main stakeholders in this issue (of climate change) are the younger generation. Not only are the youth going to be inheriting every problem that we see in the world today — after our politicians have been long gone — but our voices have been neglected from the conversation.’

Source: Climate change: Meet the kids suing Donald Trump. – CNNPolitics.com

Live broadcast of the DC climate march on Democracy Now

‘Thousands of demonstrators are expected to take to the streets Saturday in Washington, D.C., and cities across the country, for the Peoples Climate March, which is being billed as a mobilization for climate, jobs and justice.’

Source: Thousands Of Marchers Expected To Take On Trump’s Climate Policies : The Two-Way : NPR

“…The effects will be felt not immediately but over decades and centuries and millenniums. More ice will melt, and that will cut the planet’s reflectivity, amplifying the warming; more permafrost will thaw, and that will push more methane into the atmosphere, trapping yet more heat. The species that go extinct as a result of the warming won’t mostly die in the next four years, but they will die. The nations that will be submerged won’t sink beneath the waves on his watch, but they will sink. No president will be able to claw back this time — crucial time, since we’re right now breaking the back of the climate system.”

Source: New York Times