The Californian fires are a “tipping point” for many residents as they realize that life will never be the same. They must also be the tipping point for clear concise action by politicians to force the oil industry to begin ramping down their operations now. There can be no more excuses.
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As Our Climate Emergency Deepens, Trump says it won’t be on agenda at G7 next year held at his golf course
Just hours after NOAA released its findings on our rapidly warming world, the Trump administration announced that the climate crisis will not be discussed at the G7 summit next June.
One Year After Landmark IPCC Report: We have to “Shut Big Oil down or face extreme climate disruption.”
“Rather than planning an orderly decline in production”, Big Oil is “doubling down and acting like there is no climate crisis. This presents us with a simple choice: shut them down or face extreme climate disruption.”
Big Polluters respond to Greta’s climate call with “woefully short” ambition
After the UN climate Summit, Andrew Steer, head of the World Resources Institute and a former World Bank official, said the Big Polluters fell “woefully short” of expectations. “Their lack of ambition stands in sharp contrast with the growing demand for action around the world.”
As one million species head for extinction, urgent need to tackle climate change & biodiversity loss
“Nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history — and the rate of species extinctions is accelerating, with grave impacts on people around the world now likely”
Facebook’s New Fact-Checking Service are Koch-Funded Climate Deniers
In what can only be described as verging on the bizarre, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has given the contract to fight fake news to an organization that pushes fake news on climate change.
“As civilization accelerates towards disaster, #climatesilence reigns across US news media” ÂÂÂÂÂ
“The planet is on a fast path to destruction. The media must cover this like it’s the only story that matters”
As evidence of man-made global warming hits ‘gold standard’, Robert Mercer continues funding denialists
One of the world’s most secretive billionaires is still pouring millions into climate denial, despite scientists concluding we have reached the “gold standard” linking human activity to climate change.
Ten Days Left For Kids to #JoinJuliana in #YouthvGov Lawsuit
Zero Hour, a youth-led climate justice organization, has launched a nationwide drive to get thousands of young people to add their names to the Juliana Plaintiffs.
Trump erases climate change from SOTU “but you can’t erase a global crisis”
Trump “celebrated the US being the world’s No. 1 oil and gas producer. And the house cheered – they cheered for the knowing destabilization of the planet. Don’t call them deniers, they are arsonists.”