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The Guardian (UK) As the UN sits down for its annual climate conference this week, many experts believe we have passed the point of no return December 2, 2018 by Robin McKie On Sunday morning (December 2nd) hundreds of politicians, government officials and scientists will gather in the grandeur of the International Congress Centre in Katowice, […]

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Conservative pundits who tout land management as the main issue fail to see the big picture Scientific American  October 29, 2020 By Rebecca Miller, Katharine Mach, and Chris Field AS THE TOLL FROM CALIFORNIA’S WILDFIRES GROWS HIGHER YEAR AFTER YEAR, the state’s future appears fiery and hazy with smoke. For conservative columnists like Ben Shapiro, Niall […]

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World’s moral leaders are throwing down the gauntlet over destruction of Planet Earth By Paul B. Farrell Columnist for Marketwatch.com April 22, 2015 Headlines warn us. He’s throwing down the gauntlet. Forget “Prince of Peace.” It’s 2015. Pope Francis is igniting WW III. The big one. He knows capitalism’s already at war everywhere, destroying the […]

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Science organizations from 11 countries, including the U.S., call for global action against the changing climate. The Los Angeles Times June 8, 2005 By Miguel Bustillo The National Academy of Sciences and 10 similar organizations from some of the world’s most powerful nations released a statement Tuesday calling for a stronger international response to global […]

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Religious institutions need to set their moral compass on one of the great humanitarian issues of our time The Guardian (London), May 7th 2014 By Christiana Figueres SAVING THE EARTH AND ITS PEOPLES FROM DANGEROUS CLIMATE CHANGE is an economic, social and environmental issue – and a moral and ethical one too that goes to […]

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Sobering new report says world is failing to grasp the extent of threats posed by biodiversity loss and the climate crisis The Guardian, January 13, 2021 By Phoebe Weston The planet is facing a “ghastly future of mass extinction, declining health and climate-disruption upheavals” that threaten human survival because of ignorance and inaction, according to […]

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Global warming will strike hardest against the very people we’re told to love: the poor and vulnerable. The New York TIMES October 31, 2019 I’m a climate scientist. I’m also an evangelical Christian. And I’m Canadian, which is why it took me so long to realize the first two things were supposed to be entirely […]

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Economists greatly underestimate the price tag on harsher weather and higher seas. Why is that? October 23, 2019 By Naomi Oreskes and Nicholas Stern For some time now it has been clear that the effects of climate change are appearing faster than scientists anticipated. Now it turns out that there is another form of underestimation […]

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2017 by Dr. Michael Mann What can we say about the role of climate change in the unprecedented disaster that is unfolding in Houston with Hurricane Harvey? There are certain climate change-related factors that we can, with great confidence, say worsened the flooding. Sea level rise attributable to climate change – some of which is […]

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December 4th, 2020 by Dr. James Hansen Reversing climate change is possible, sensible and necessary. A year ago, when I was in the middle of writing my new book Sophie’s Planet, I thought that I may have a hard time selling people on the fact that we must go back at least to mid-20th century climate […]

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