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the “shut down dc” protest effectively shut down dc for hours

CLIMATE ACTIVISTS BLOCK TRAFFIC in downtown Washington, DC, with dozens of arrests in response. “Dozens of climate activists were arrested after they blocked major intersections in Washington, DC, early Monday morning in a show of protest ahead of this week’s United Nation’s climate summit in New York City. [Continue reading]

greta thunberg and the school strike for the climate

CLIMATE ACTIVIST GRETA THUNBERG recently joined Naomi Klein for a conversation on the climate emergency. Klein is a well-published author, senior correspondent at The Intercept, and the inaugural Gloria Steinem endowed chair of media, culture, and feminist studies at Rutgers University. [Continue reading]

is global climate change creating more hurricanes?

HURRICANE SEASON IS ALMOST HERE! Dorian has come and gone, fortunately leaving Alabama mostly unscarred. Others will follow. I live in the relatively (formerly?) moderate clime of the Pacific Northwest. Ou climate has also changed: We now have massive thunder and lightning storms—which used to be a relatively novel experience—and we are in the fifth year of drought that doesn’t get much attention because it’s mild compared to, say, California. [Continue reading]

is India becoming the land of bachelors?

DROUGHT IN INDIA is changing the way marriages are arranged: Men seeking wives are paying large fees to traffickers while wives seeking husbands are being made promises and getting duped into marriages. According to the article “No Water, No Wife: How Climate Change is Linked to Trafficking” (Freedom United, August 5, 2019), wells and other sources of water have dried up, forcing people to walk miles for water in India. [Continue reading]

a driver of global sea level rise

FROM THE ARTICLE “A New Map is the Best View Yet of How Fast Antarctica is Shedding Ice” by Maria Temming for Science News (August 5, 2019): “A new map based on satellite radar data reveals the velocity of ice flow across Antarctica from areas of high elevation to the coasts. [Continue reading]

a blog about the day after tomorrow (which seems to be happening now)

MOST OF THE ARTICLES YOU WILL FIND HERE on the GCC – Global Climate Change blog are portals to other articles. I am certainly not an expert in any field that even remotely touches on the various sciences that address climate. [Continue reading]

FAVORITE QUOTES

“We cannot do it all at once, it is a sequence. An unfolding process. We can only control the end by making a choice at each step. We can only hope. And try. One some other world, possibly it is different. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper tool by which to untangle the components." – Phil Dick, The Man In The High Castle

"We are the first generation to feel the sting of climate change, and we are the last generation that can do something about it.” – Jay Inslee

“The ultimate test of man’s conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.” – Gaylord Nelson

"The Earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations.” – John Paul II

"The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound that man has created through global warming.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger

“The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese proverb

“I play fictitious characters often solving fictitious problems. I believe mankind has looked at climate change in the same way, as if it were fiction.” Leonardo DiCaprio

“As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you, and climate change is one of those exceptions.” – Al Gore

"Go into the world and do well, but more importantly, go into the world and do good." – Minor Myers Jr., President of Illinois Wesleyan University

“What’s the use of a fine house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on.” – Henry David Thoreau

"The general population doesn’t know what’s happening, and it doesn’t even know that it doesn’t know.” – Noam Chomsky

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble—it's what you know that just ain't so." – Mark Twain

"I have lived with several Zen masters, all of them cats." – Eckhart Tolle