2019: A Year of Climate Action
This was the year that the climate crisis broke through, with a massive youth-led movement taking to the streets in cities across the globe and the international media amping up coverage of climate-fueled storms and wildfires, climate science and climate politics.It was the year the 2020 U.S. presidential candidates…
Care About the Climate Crisis? It’s Time to Go All In.
NASA just reported June 2019 was the hottest month in recorded history, and July’s global average temperature will likely be even hotter. All-time heat records are being broken with alarming regularity now both in the U.S. and across the world, and obvious impacts are everywhere - severe floods, fires,…
Climate Change Will Hit Economies Hardest in Trump States, Report Finds
A recent report from the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program has found that states President Trump won in the 2016 election - including Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama, and Georgia - are among the most vulnerable to the economic impacts of climate change. Overall, 15 of the 16 states…
