As 2024 draws to a close, it leaves behind a record that scientists have long warned us about.
Every action we take, every time we organize, becomes more crucial than ever to protect our communities and our planet. Time is of the essence. #Think100Climate
🖼️ @cnn
"For Florida, dangerous climate change has arrived" | Will Tampa's luck run out this time? My 5-year old op-ed in the @TampaBayTimes w/ Andrea Dutton remains evergreen: https://t.co/KFFc8dCKxe
Climate change is an economic problem. Polluting cannot be free.
It's time for #carbonpricing. Put a fee per ton of carbon at the extraction of #FossilFuel.
Rebate that all that money to all U. S. citizens.
Receive a check monthly.
Simple and effective.
The climate crisis has all but disappeared from awareness not only due to the news embargo in Florida and elsewhere, but because humans have virtually no capacity for big-picture thinking
It hasn’t clocked-in that this is a planetary catastrophe that is only just warming up. Disaster victims are naively assuming that governments will have future budget to allocate in rebuilding flood-prone areas where historic towns were built hundreds of years ago. Those towns were built in a different time, for a different climate.
This civilisation and all its infrastructure are unfit to survive the tsunami of weather events which will disrupt, demolish, devalue and decommission homes, businesses, roads, energy networks, farmland, healthcare, education and everything else this “organised” society depends upon. Much of it will end up looking like Gaza, never to be rebuilt
#DisasterRelief #ClimateCrisis
"Civilization could prove a fragile thing."
Shell Oil Company in a confidential 1989 internal memo on the threat of global warming.
Oil and gas companies knew, they lied, and it's time to make them pay for the damage they've done. #MakePollutersPay https://t.co/fXaJt5kfQT
Climate chaos does not care if you deny it, it does not care if you vote Democratic, Republican, or Independent—climate chaos will impact us all.
We must address climate change, our communities cannot wait.
"We've got an upcoming election here...We have a candidate on the one side who denies that climate change is real, calls it a hoax. We've got a candidate on the other side who recognizes that this is one of the great threats we face." —@MichaelEMann
There is a legitimate way to supercharge our efforts to reduce climate change WITHOUT taxpayer dollars.
Require a fee on every ton of #carbon extracted from the ground.
GIVE THAT REVENUE BACK to everyone in equal amounts. (Let the Treasury Department issue the rebate.
“We tend to focus on the cataclysmic risks of climate change,” @NickKristof writes. “But over the last couple of decades we’ve accumulated evidence that the more mundane impacts of heat are already upon us, impacting our daily lives.”
Read: https://t.co/3f5twaPatc
@RichLynch18@nytopinion@NickKristof There is a legitimate way to supercharge our efforts to reduce climate change WITHOUT taxpayer dollars.
Require a fee on every ton of #carbon extracted from the ground.
GIVE THAT REVENUE BACK to everyone in equal amounts. (Let the Treasury Department issue the rebate.
A new angle on Project 2025.
14 groups behind it have gotten donations from a Shell Oil nonprofit.
They include some of the most hardcore climate denial and religious right groups in America.
My new story co-published by @guardian and @DeSmog
https://t.co/5p5CRtnwMR
"#Project2025: The right-wing conspiracy to torpedo global climate action" | My new piece for Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (@BulletinAtomic): https://t.co/gkdZyqnRFP
"These services — insurance, electricity, firefighting — are crucial. But the costs are making an already expensive state even less affordable, including for those who live far from wildfire zones"
We need a #carbontax with the revenue returned to all households.
It's cheaper.
Californians across the state are paying the price for wildfires — in rising bills that have stirred deep anger. On a per-person basis, the costs are eye-popping. https://t.co/E76LrwS0E8
Californians across the state are paying the price for wildfires — in rising bills that have stirred deep anger. On a per-person basis, the costs are eye-popping. https://t.co/E76LrwS0E8
Good news!
But imagine how much sooner this would have happened if coal companies paid for removing the coal from our mountains earlier.
Its past time for a #carbontax with the revenue returned to all households.
#climatechange#FeeWithDividend#ActOnClimate
.@NOAA: June 2024 was Earth's warmest June on record and the world's 13th consecutive month of record-warm temperatures. This ties May 2015-May 2016 for the longest record-warm global temperature streak in the modern record. https://t.co/Kl5iKemsKc #StateOfClimate#Climate