climate crisis

I used to live in Innsbruck, Austria. I was stuck there because of a medical condition. It was the most boring place I ever lived. I used to escape when I could to Munich (a 2 hour drive) and when I was up for a longer drive, to Venice (4 hours). Munich had a great art scene. Venice is a great art scene. I grew to love the city even if I wasn't the biggest fans of an 8 to 8 and a half hour round trip drive. I was horrified on Thursday when I hear that the flooding in St Marks Square was thigh deep. I can remember when planks had to be laid across it, the flooding being ankle high.

by NoahPresident Trump, the best friend our adversaries has ever had, has now formally announced our withdrawal from the Paris agreement on climate change. And, why wouldn't he? It doesn't just hurt us physically; it hurts us economically, and I don't mean just the drowning cities along our coastline.

Everybody's attention span seems fully engaged with impeaching Trump right now. Many people predicted-- correctly-- that that is exactly hat would happen and that it would take a sense of urgency away from other urgent matters, the Climate Crisis being on the top of most lists. This isn't something that we have infinite time to get to; we have very little time get to it and the power of concentrated wealth is lined up against doing anything at all.

by NoahLike her or not, Greta Thunberg is one incredible young lady. At 15, Ivanka Trump was no doubt scheming to get daddy to fund her dream of an expensive line of shoes and handbags made by Chinese slaves. Greta, of course had a commitment to try to save the world so even bubble-headed soulless idiots like Ivanka could wear her dream shoes and be able to afford a lifetime of cosmetic surgery.

-by Mike SiegelMy friend Harvey Hayek is a vintage Texan. A third generation pecan farmer in Fayette County, he owns a gun club, hundreds of prime agricultural acres on the Texas Colorado River, and a bottomless store of homespun stories. Unfortunately, the most compelling of these relates to a coal plant that opened next door, forty years ago, and destroyed Harvey’s livelihood-- and almost his life.Harvey’s farm is a stone’s throw from the Fayette Coal Plant, a publicly-owned power plant built in the late 1970s.

Rachel Ventura with polar bear-by Rep. Mary Jo KilroyLast Friday, the day of the climate strike, one of my Facebook friends posted that he was tired of boomer politicians, and wished they would go away. As a boomer myself, I pointed out to him that not all boomers are the same, and that there is a world of difference between baby boomers like George W.

Climate Change Denier by Nancy OhanianHeads of state have flooded into New York this week for the United Nations General Assembly meetings. One topic of supreme concern is Climate Change-- supreme concern more to some leaders, though, than to others.

The Warmth of Other Suns exhibit-by Skip KaltenheuserTwo Washington exhibits, terrifyingly timely for the stark options before us, demand attention from the recently returned 116th Congress. The Warmth of Other Suns, an exploration of the plight of migrants and refugees, at the Phillips Collection, departs Sept. 22nd. The David H.

Like their dear leader Trump, 9% of Americans think there's no such thing as Climate Change. Trump has convinced himself that the Climate Crisis is nothing but a "Chinese hoax. Everyone else, according to a new poll from CBS News, now recognizes that Climate Change is for real and most Americans feel we've got to address it or suffer the consequences.

If you watched Biden's ghastly performance at the CNN Climate Crisis former last week, you know exactly whey his campaign fought so hard against allowing the DNC to sponsor a Climate debate. Does he even know what the Green New Deal is?