Stephan: Elizabeth Kolbert has been saying sensible accurate things about climate change for over two decades, and I think she is spot on in this essay. I am not optimistic about the future of the U.S. because I don't see anything like what ought to be happening to prepare for climate change taking place.
The events of the next several millennia hinge on actions that will be taken by the time today’s toddlers reach adulthood.Credit: Raphael Neal / Agence VU / Redux
Like millions of other Americans, I first learned about climate change in the summer of 1988. For its day, it was a scorcher: Yellowstone National Park burst into flames; the Mississippi River ran so low that almost four thousand barges got backed up at Memphis; and, for the first time in its history, Harvard University shut down owing to heat. It was on an afternoon when the mercury in Washington, D.C., hit ninety-eight degrees that James Hansen, then the head of nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, told a Senate committee that “the greenhouse effect has been detected and is changing our climate now.” Speaking to reporters after the hearing, Hansen went a step further: “It is time to stop waffling so much and say that the evidence is pretty strong that the greenhouse effect is here.”
Hansen’s warning was certainly not the first. A report to President Lyndon Johnson […]
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Stephan: Climate change cares nothing for national borders; it is a planet-wide trend, and as this report describes what happens in the U.S. is going to have an effect on the entire world.
SATKHIRA, BANGLADESH – 2020/06/05: People crossing the broken flooded road after the landfall of cyclone Amphan during the aftermath. Thousands of shrimp enclosures have been washed away, while numerous thatched house, trees, electricity and telephone poles, dykes and croplands were damaged and many villages were submerged by the tidal surge of the Amphan in Satkhira District. Credit: by Piyas Biswas/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty
What we can learn from Covid-19 for the climate crisis 03:01
(CNN)The climate crisis has become a key issue not just for American voters in this US election — but people across the world.What the next president does or doesn’t do over the next four years will have a profound impact on the whether the world is able to avert the worst effects of climate change, scientists, policy makers and activists say.They say the world needs a US president who cares about climate change, for two main reasons. First, many nations take their cue from US policy, particularly on issues such as the climate crisis, meaning Washington has a unique opportunity to influence. […]
Stephan: As is the case in so many negative trends women bear the brunt of the negative effects much more than men and, as this report describes, climate change is not any different.
Pregnant woman sitting in the shade under water vaporisers on a hot day. Credit: Davide Zanin / Alamy
But this impact is not being felt equally. A growing body of research suggests that the world’s most disadvantaged people are also the most vulnerable to the health impacts of climate change and the least likely to be able to adapt.
Gender is just one of many factors that can influence a person’s standing in society. This in-depth explainer looks into how climate change can have differing impacts on the health of men and women around the world.
An analysis of 130 peer-reviewed studies – visualised below on an interactive map – finds that women and girls often face disproportionately high health risks from the impacts of climate change when compared to men and boys.
The analysis shows that 68% (89) of the 130 studies found that women were more affected by […]
Stephan: First, I hope every one of my readers has or is, today, voting. We have the opportunity to restore honor and integrity to our country and to develop policies that preserve our democracy and foster wellbeing at every level.
Today's edition has a single story. If you have any questions as to for whom you should vote, or you want to be sure you have made the right choice, read this factual report.
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Stephan: If you are voting today, consider this before you cast your vote.
The Trump family
Early in President Trump’s term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We called this list a collection of Trump’s cruelties, collusions, and crimes, and it felt urgent then to track them, to ensure these horrors — happening almost daily — would not be forgotten. This election year, amid a harrowing global health, civil rights, humanitarian, and economic crisis, we know it’s never been more critical to note these horrors, to remember them, and to do all in our power to reverse them. This list will be updated between now and the November 2020 Presidential election.- – –
Various writers have compiled this list during the course of the Trump administration. Their work has been guided by invaluable journalistic resources, includingWTFJHT, NPR, theNew York Times, theWashington Post, and other sources, to whom we are grateful.- – –
ATROCITY KEY
– Sexual Misconduct, Harassment, & Bullying – White Supremacy, Racism, Homophobia, Transphobia, & Xenophobia – Public Statements / Tweets – Collusion […]
– Sexual Misconduct, Harassment, & Bullying
– White Supremacy, Racism, Homophobia, Transphobia, & Xenophobia
– Public Statements / Tweets
– Collusion […]
