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Listen Carefully: "Nature is sending a message..."
Face the Climate Crisis - Now
#ActNow, Before It's Too Late


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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.

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International climate negotiations in Glasgow, Scotland


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The 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow

31 October - 12 November 2021
* https://ukcop26.org/


A First-Hand Point of View at the International Climate Summit

By Lauren Boritzke Smith

GLASGOW, Scotland, COP 26 – Being on the ground in Glasgow, Scotland, for COP26 is a strange and humbling experience... The work happening here is fast-paced, desperate, hopeful, angering, innovative, rooted in community … and frustrating. So many stories here plead to be heard as the world heads for further warming on a runaway train of emissions...

So, what does it truly feel like to be here at COP26? Read More


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COP26 Progress Report


Go Gavin Go. Time for science, measuring & monitoring

#AtmosphericScience #EarthScience #StrategicDemands #PlanetCitizensPlanetScientists
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November 5


Less than a week into the international climate summit in Glasgow, known as COP26, the mood is mixed.

There have been positive developments, such as pledges to end and reverse deforestation, a deal to cut methane emission levels by 30% by 2030 and new commitments to phase out coal power.

Ultimately, however, the success of the summit will be judged on whether countries and companies can keep the 1.5 degrees Celsius goal alive. This critically important temperature threshold refers to the aspirational target of the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement.

Experts say it is difficult to see how COP26 can steer the world toward 1.5 degrees Celsius.


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October 30, 2021 / Associated Press

Earth gets hotter, deadlier during decades of climate talks


October 29


Biden's Climate Plan Survives Negotiations in Congress

Next Step, Turn the Framework Agreement into Passed Legislation

WaPo / Biden’s new Build Back Better bill has $555 billion for climate, making it the biggest clean energy bill ever


October 28


As a Day of Negotiating Ends, the 'Build Back Better' Legislation Moves Forward

“We wanted a $3.5 trillion package, but we understand the reality of the situation,” US Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair PRAMILA JAYAPAL (D-Wash.) told reporters.

“I don’t think it’s hyperbole to say that the House and Senate majorities and my presidency will be determined by what happens in the next week,” President Biden said.

Senator Sanders (I-Vt.) expressed deep unhappiness with Manchin-Sinema cuts yet praised the plan as “the most consequential bill since the 1960s.”


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U.S. Congress 'Gets Its Last Best Chance at Meaningful Climate Action'

Does one West Virginia coal-state Senator kill the US plan to confront the #ClimateCrisis


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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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GreenPolicy360 Founder / Siterunner

New definitions of national and global security, new priorities are critically necessary for a rational defense of our larger security interests...


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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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* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Our_Biggest_Experiment


Our Biggest Experiment
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....


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Surface temperatures in Siberia heat up to a mind-boggling 118 degrees

Climate change is behind record-breaking heat waves
From heating human bodies to baking the Earth


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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.

Astounding heat obliterates all-time records across the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada in June 2021


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.


Intergenerational

"The worst is yet to come, affecting our children's and grandchildren's lives much more than our own."