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2021
Remembering the First Earth Summit
GreenPolicy360 Siterunner: Thirty years ago and now I'm older and looking back at the first "Earth Summit" that led to the first global climate 'Conference of the Parties'. My reports to the Environmental News Service (ENS) picked up on the green, environmental platform planks I was also adding to the Platform in Progress for California Governor Jerry Brown's presidential campaign. The first Earth Summit and Governor Brown's energetic efforts both moved a vital, forward-looking vision and both encountered myriad obstacles from powers-that-be and business-as-usual. The obstacles didn't stop before or after 1992. The work continued on and continues to today... November 2021, fifty years on...
I'm now remembering and picking up and continuing the threads of Representative George E. Brown's work to advance climate science, beginning in earnest with the first National Climate Act of 1978 and establishment of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to push what was called a "big science, earth science" agenda with the first generation of focused earth studies and science, measuring and monitoring 'the Commons' , earth's atmosphere, natural resources (e.g., Landsat's start up and a deep, multi-decade array of NASA/NOAA/USGS missions that have now continued for half a century.
A tip of our GreenPolicy360 hat to #PlanetCitizens and #PlanetCitizensPlanetScientists.
Here's to Opportunities for Citizen Activism
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After COP26, where do we go from here?
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This Is 'Code Red'
"We've got to listen to the scientists and the economists, and the national security experts, they all tell us this is code red," Biden said... "The nation and the world are in peril. That's not hyperbole. That is a fact."
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Planet on catastrophic path, UN reports warn prior to International Summit in Glasgow
As climate pledges fall short, U.N. predicts globe could warm by catastrophic 2.7 degrees Celsius
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Deep Costs of War, Failed Policies:
Time for a New Vision, New Definitions of National Security
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More from Bill McKibben - https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Bill_McKibben,_planet_citizen
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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
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Climate in the Infrastructure Bill: A substantial investment in resilience
Infrastructure Bill Passes in Senate: Next Up, 3.5T Resolution
Follow-on reconciliation package of legislation essential to address green policy, energy, climate
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31 Vital Earth Signs
'Virtual signs' worsening
Tipping points, deepening disaster
Researchers, part of a group of more than 14,000 scientists who have signed on to an initiative declaring a worldwide climate emergency, said that governments had consistently failed to address the root cause of climate change: "the overexploitation of the Earth".
Of 31 "vital signs"—key metrics of planetary health that include greenhouse gas emissions, glacier thickness, sea-ice extent and deforestation—they found that 18 hit record highs or lows.
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FB post from GreenPolicy360's siterunner
- by Alice Bell
- Publication scheduled for September 2021
- Traversing science, politics, and technology, Our Biggest Experiment shines a spotlight
- on the little-known scientists who sounded the alarm to reveal the history behind the
- defining story of our age: the climate crisis.
- 🥵 When it gets too hot....
Surface temperatures in Siberia heat up to a mind-boggling 118 degrees
Via Climate.gov
From Portland, Oregon, to Vancouver, Canada, the heat during the end of June didn't just break records; it buried them. Learn more in this Event Tracker post.
Devastating News: Climate Change Impacts to Hit Sooner than Predicted
Climate change will fundamentally reshape life on Earth in the coming decades, even if humans can tame planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, according to a landmark draft report from the UN's climate science advisors obtained by AFP.
Species extinction, more widespread disease, unliveable heat, ecosystem collapse, cities menaced by rising seas—these and other devastating climate impacts are accelerating and bound to become painfully obvious before a child born today turns 30.
The choices societies make now will determine whether our species thrives or simply survives as the 21st century unfolds, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says in a draft report seen exclusively by AFP.
But dangerous thresholds are closer than once thought, and dire consequences stemming from decades of unbridled carbon pollution are unavoidable in the short term.
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