What is the intersection of climate change and social justice?
Find out in this podcast as BCB host Christina Hulet interviews Running-Grass, a long-time environmental justice activist and multicultural environmental educator on Bainbridge Island.
WHAT’S UP BAINBRIDGE, with environmentalists Steven Johnson and Randal Samstag, offer a podcast preview of this Saturday’s Forum discussion at 10am, Nov. 18, Eagle Harbor Congregation Church. Hope you can listen to the podcast and join us at the Forum!
CNN MONEY article discusses how many countries are polically motivated to go green with electric and hybrid cars. Britain and France will end sales of gas and diesel powered vehicles by 2040 and India is moving toward an “all electric” transportion fleet by 2030.
In repealing the Clean Power Plan, the Trump administration shows that it’s bent on removing government regulations around climate change. That means it’s up to Congress to make the market solve this problem instead. Failure to act will lead to the day when climate-related disasters outpace our ability to recover and adapt.
Read more from this article by Mark Reynolds is Executive Director of Citizens’ Climate Lobby.
“The short version is, climate change makes these very bad storms worse,” said Sean Sublette, a meteorologist with Climate Central, a nonprofit group that studies climate change. “It’s not the approximate cause of the storm, but it makes these bad storms worse. And in the case of a really bad storm, climate change can make it totally disastrous or catastrophic.”
Katharine Hayhoe, director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University says that, “The most dangerous myth that we have bought into as a society is not the myth that climate isn’t changing or that humans aren’t responsible,” she said. “It’s the myth that ‘It doesn’t matter to me.’ And that’s why this is absolutely the time to be talking about the way climate change amplifies or exacerbates these natural events. This brings it home.”
Read more from this article by Wayne Drash of CNN
A new study connects climate change impacts to the emissions from Exxon, Chevron
and other large oil, gas and cement companies and their products.
“Using models, they calculated that the greenhouse gas emissions of these 90 companies accounted for around 42 to 50 percent of the global temperature increase and about 26 to 32 percent of global sea level rise over the course of industrial history, from 1880 to 2010. Since 1980, a time when global warming was first getting wide attention, their emissions have accounted for around 28 to 35 percent of rising temperatures and around 11 to 14 percent of rising seas.”
Continue reading the story by Nicholas Kusnetz for Inside Climate News.