“I have seen many scientific reports in my time, but nothing like this."
This is what United Nations Secretary General António Guterres said after reading a new report from the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)...
The "Conference of the Parties" (COP) 26 United Nations Climate Conference is to begin in Glasgow, Scotland next week.
But unlike previous climate conferences, this one comes with a “code red for humanity.”
Unless nations arrive with plans...
Democrats have a day to prove they are capable of delivering on President Joe Biden's campaign promise of "building back better."
If they fail, they risk a republican rout in next year's mid-term elections and possibly...
What is the greatest threat to global public health?
Many will argue it's COVID-19.
That's a reasonable claim since, as of this writing, there are 41,645,545 total confirmed cases in the United States alone, and 666,806 Americans...
It's bad.
Really bad.
Some phrases climate experts are using now are “record-shattering,” “out of time,” “unprecedented,” and even “irreversible.”
Several previously optimistic about our ability to mitigate the worst of the climate emergency are now becoming more...
As Vt. Sen. Bernie Sanders has said many times, "Despair is not an option."
That's true.
The moment we succumb to despair, particularly pertaining to politics, is the moment the opposition wins.
With so many deep-pocketed special interests...
We have been told time and again that private industry is the engine driving innovation and the economy.
While to an extent this is true, we must not forget corporations' number-one priority is to maximize profits.
If...
On the campaign trail, Joe Biden proclaimed “nothing would fundamentally change.”
This made many, particularly progressives that ultimately helped get Biden elected, understandably nervous.
Then Biden released the most progressive climate and economic plan of any Democratic nominee in...
Some of the circumstances President-elect Joe Biden will be inheriting from the Trump administration are not unprecedented.
We weathered an influenza pandemic a century ago.
We have dealt with collapsing economies.
Immigration has always been a political football.
Income...
How many more catastrophic tipping points are we going to surpass?
How much worse does the weather have to get before we wake up to the destruction we are inflicting on the environment?
Even a half-degree temperature...
A jointly authored article from The Nation and the Columbia Journalism Review noted last year:
“Judging by the climate coverage to date, most of the US news media still don’t get grasp the seriousness of this issue. This journalistic failure has given...
There’s been a lot of finger pointing over where the coronavirus originated.
Did it come out of a Huanan seafood market, otherwise known as a wet market, in Wuhan, China?
Was it transmitted to humans from a pangolin?
Was it...
In 2017, Donald Trump announced the United States would be withdrawing from the landmark Paris Climate Accords, for which the formal withdrawal process began this past November and is expected to conclude this November 4th--that...
There's been a lot of finger pointing over where the coronavirus originated.
Did it come out of a Huanan seafood market, otherwise known as a wet market, in Wuhan, China?
Was it transmitted to humans from a...
Two year ago, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulators decreed they would no longer rigidly enforce emissions standards for cars and trucks, arguing the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan timeline is not appropriate and standards are “too high.”
While the nation...
"Untold suffering."
Is that dire enough?
It's a warning 11,000 scientists from 153 countries pose humanity faces unless it effects major societal transformations.
That warning published in the journal BioScience goes on to explain:
“We declare clearly and unequivocally...
In June of 2015, Donald Trump stood in the White House Rose Garden and announced the United States’ withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accords.
So much has transpired the past two years, it's easy to forget.
Yet...
One week ago, more than 4,500 climate strikes rallied across 150 countries ahead of this week’s U.N. Climate Action Summit for the purpose of holding lawmakers accountable for aggressive action on climate change's imminent threat to...
Clinical psychologist and founder of the Climate Mobilization Project, Margaret Klein Salamon, stated:
“Americans are finally beginning waking up to the existential threat that the climate emergency poses to our society.”
She added:
“It’s young people that have...
"Nero fiddled while Rome burned."
According to historians, in the year 64, as a six-day conflagration that decimated Rome began, Roman emperor Nero was at his Antium villa 35 miles away. He supposedly returned immediately to...
