This is what happens when industrial civilization continues to heat the globe at an unprecedented rate - it creates the conditions for the accelerated destruction of forest ecosystems. More than 80 #Wildfires in #Alberta - this is anything but normal - this is the new climate.
“To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.” — Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
“I think of our response to changing climate as being like a rubber band that can be stretched a long way until it suddenly snaps. And then the megadeaths will begin.” - @paulkrugman
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You can't make this up:
In a clip with @GretaThunberg calling out the media on not covering the data on climate crisis, they cut out the data on the climate crisis.
In last week:
2019 found to be second hottest year ever: https://t.co/xQqWCleoHz
2019 hottest year for oceans yet: https://t.co/7fSRXPq1Zx
Australia dealing with unprecedented fires: https://t.co/IJ7sRzn6o6
90 minutes in: No questions on climate.
More #climatesilence in @nytclimate: 1800 words on how climate change is killing Easter Island, 0 words on essential fact that climate change is manmade. https://t.co/DJNO4dOcb3 @caseysjournal
Silent on climate change: @weatherchannel "Winter Storm Riley Undergoes Bombogenesis Into a Strong Nor'easter With Damaging Winds, Coastal Flooding and Heavy, Wet Snow in the East" https://t.co/pVeC8Ky9pk #climatesilence
How the broadcast TV networks covered climate change in 2017 -- new analysis from @mmfa, by @kkMMFA. TLDR version: They did not cover it well. https://t.co/9wqjZLeUsr