This month’s prayer intention is that sports may be an instrument of peace, encounter, and dialogue among cultures and nations. May sports promote values such as respect, solidarity, and personal growth. Take a moment. Let us #PrayTogether, at https://t.co/S3TtsnB6oT
Global warming is accelerating
Earth is getting hotter and hotter
Earth has warmed 0.35 C in the decade to 2025
compared to 0.2 C per decade on average between 1970 and 2015
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🌊One of the most promising areas for climate action has been largely overlooked and underinvested: the ocean.
Ocean-based climate solutions can deliver over a third of the annual emissions cuts needed in 2050 to limit temperature rise to 1.5°C, a globally agreed target to avert the worst outcomes from climate change.
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James Talarico: “Real men don’t lie and cheat their way through life. They don’t enrich themselves by stealing from other people. They don’t sell their soul to the highest bidder. Real men serve others, weak men serve themselves”
In 1987, Costa Rica was 21% forest. Today it's 57%.
In the 1990s, Costa Rica passed a law that pays landowners directly for the ecosystem services their forest provides: carbon storage, watershed protection, biodiversity, soil stability. The payments are funded by a tax on fossil fuels.
Keep your trees standing and the government cuts you a check. Clear them and you lose the income.
Nearly a million hectares have been protected or restored under the program. Species that had retreated or disappeared from large parts of the country are recovering. The forest came back because the incentive structure changed, not because people were told to care more.
But it crashed the economy, right? Not at all.
Costa Rica became the top per capita agricultural exporter in Latin America. Tourism built around its forests and biodiversity became one of its largest industries. The economy didn't absorb the cost of keeping the forest. The forest became part of what grows their economy.
This is the version of the story most people never hear, the one where protecting nature and economic growth pointed in the same direction because we humans designed it that way.
It's not forests or the economy and it never had to be.
This has been both the most productive year in Denver sports history and the most heartbreaking.
Broncos came so close.
Nuggets broke our hearts.
Avs shook our core.
That sports.
It’s why we watch.
It’s gonna be okay.
We are saddened to learn of the passing of #BroncosROF quarterback Craig Morton, who died on Saturday at the age of 83.
Morton quarterbacked the Broncos from 1977-82 and led the team to its first playoff appearance and Super Bowl berth (XII vs. Dallas) in the 1977 season.
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BREAKING:
TRUMP: "WE'VE BASICALLY STOPPED ALL WINDMILLS IN THE US"
FACT: There are currently over 80,000 windmills operating in the US, up 1700 in Trump's first year in office.
The U.S. has significant manufacturing capacity, especially for:
- Blades (Iowa, Kansas, Texas)
- Nacelles (the housing behind the blades)
ANOTHER LIE
At Egypt’s top tourist sites, Horses with open wounds are forced to haul tourists in blistering heat - even with broken legs. Camels are whipped bloody and dragged through the streets.
This cruelty must end!
🎟️ #DontBuyATicket 🚫.
✍️ Take action now! Urge travel companies to stop supporting this abuse.
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Epstein survivor Haley Robson: I’m so tired of having this administration just completely dismiss us. They’re supposed to be the party of family values and protecting children. And I just feel like if that’s the party you are, it seems like Thomas Massie is the only one showing up for it.
9-year-old in ICE Detention—says she wants to "no longer be alive."
"She wishes she was no longer alive," girl told her mom.
"Has a bad dream about running away from wild animals... But she’s stuck in cage and can’t get out."
Her sister was separated from family as punishment for talking to the press.
If deported the family could face certain death in Egypt—because they cooperated with authorities to testify against the patriarch of the family
Everyone in the family of 5 is an Egyptian immigrant seeking asylum—consisting of the 9-year-old girl, along with 5-year-old twin sisters, a 16-year-old brother, an 18-year-old sister, and their mother.
They have been locked up for 8 months at the Dilley ICE Detention Center near San Antonio, Texas.
The Earth's temperature is climbing faster than a cat on a hot tin roof, with an increase of about 1.54°C since pre-industrial times. But here's where it gets wild – trees aren't just standing there looking pretty; they're like nature's air conditioners on steroids!
Trees can reduce urban temperatures by up to 12°C in the summer. Imagine walking into an oasis of coolness in the middle of a concrete jungle. That's what trees do for us, thanks to their shade and the magical process of evapotranspiration.
But wait, there's more! Trees are also methane munchers. Recent studies suggest tree bark can absorb methane, making trees even more of a climate superhero than we thought.
So, next time you're tempted to cut down a tree for that extra parking space, remember, you might just be turning off Earth's natural air conditioning. Plant more trees, keep them happy, and maybe, just maybe, we'll keep this planet from turning into a giant sauna. 🌳🌍🔥
#ActOnClimate #PlantingTrees #ClimateChange #Trees
As a climate scientist, let me put numbers to what Sen. Schiff is describing.
The Endangerment Finding was backed by a 200-page scientific review, upheld by the Supreme Court, and reaffirmed by the National Academies of Sciences just last year.
85 climate researchers submitted a formal rebuttal. Ignored.
The peer-reviewed data (Henneman et al., Science, 2023): coal pollution killed 460,000 Americans in 20 years. Coal PM2.5 is 2.1x deadlier than other air pollution.
This isn't politics vs. science. Science already won. They just threw out the scoreboard.
Did you know? The Great Barrier Reef is so massive, it's the only living structure on Earth visible from space! But it's under threat from climate change. Let's act now to protect our planet's wonders. #ClimateAction#GreatBarrierReef 🌍🐠
A list of countries that currently have mail-in voting:
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
Chile
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Iceland
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malaysia
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Pakistan
Poland
Portugal
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
South Korea
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
United States
Zimbabwe
A KENTUCKY COUPLE went to hospital for a miscarriage‼️Someone called 911 & police arrested them both while still in the hospital bed‼️She’s facing reckless homicide, abuse of a corpse & up 5 years in prison. This is the third pregnancy related arrest in Kentucky‼️
Trump is not a scientist
He has no understanding of climate change
Yet he is deciding that there will be no more regulations to reduce emissions that is fueling climate change
If your going to ignore scientists and allow stupid and greed to rule
Be prepared to pay a very high price