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Report: COVID Took a Toll on Coal, Clearing Way for a Green Recovery
New York Magazine: COVID Took a Toll on Coal, Clearing Way for a Green Recovery.
The COVID pandemic has provided climate hawks with plenty of cause for despair. The fact that America’s capacity for misgovernance, ideological delusion, and consumerist myopia has proved vast enough to sustain opposition to […]
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The next global crisis is already here—and it’s even worse than COVID-19
Fast Company: The next global crisis is already here—and it’s even worse than COVID-19 Imagine the horrors of coronavirus, compounded and made permanent. That’s climate change. Politicians who care about the future (ours and theirs) can’t wait […]
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Study: Climate change “may have played a key role” in coronavirus pandemic
CBS News: Climate change “may have played a key role” in coronavirus pandemic, study says. Human-caused climate change “may have played a key role” in the coronavirus pandemic. That’s the conclusion of a new study which examined how changes in climate have transformed the forests […]
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Yale Climate Connections, January 29, 2021
Articles include: Deadlines for action on Trump-era climate issues; 50 billion-dollar weather disasters in 2020; Study: Accounting for value of nature; Michael Mann’s book, ‘The New Climate War’; Poet Amanda Gorman’s ‘Earthrise’ climate change video; […]
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How Hudson Valley Farmers Are Experiencing Climate Change
The River Newsroom: How Hudson Valley Farmers Are Experiencing Climate Change. The local effects of the climate crisis are easy to list. But how does it feel, and what challenges is it already presenting?
Christmas Eve of 2020 brought a storm to the Hudson Valley that one might describe as tropical. Temperatures […]
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Report: How the COVID-19 pandemic has made fighting the climate crisis harder
The Hill: How the COVID-19 pandemic has made fighting the climate crisis harder. A new report explains the continued effort needed to fight climate change amid the ongoing pandemic.
A report from the World Economic Forum states that countries cannot rely on the COVID-19-induced emissions reduction to alleviate adverse effects […]
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NYT Climate FWD: January 13, 2021
New York Times articles include: Capital Riot Ties to Climate Disinformation; Coronavirus and GHGs; 2020 Tied for hottest year; CIA Spy for the earth.
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Study: Ocean temperatures hit another record high in 2020
Fast Company: Ocean temperatures hit another record high in 2020. The drop in emissions caused by the pandemic didn’t change the trajectory of our warming oceans.
Though 2020 saw a record drop in global carbon emissions, it wasn’t enough […]
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Congress takes action against ‘super greenhouse gases’ in coronavirus stimulus
Grist: Congress takes action against ‘super greenhouse gases’ in coronavirus stimulus.
This week, with Americans distracted by tinsel, wrapping paper, and the prospect of a much-needed $600 stimulus check, Congress achieved something that in recent years has seemed impossible: It passed legislation that will cut greenhouse gas emissions and boost clean […]
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