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young people and climate

They're worried and anxious - they should be.  We all should be.

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When asked about how governments are responding to climate change, 65% of respondents agreed with the statement that governments are failing young people, 64% agreed that they are lying about the impact of actions taken and 60% agreed they were dismissing people’s distress. Only 36% agreed that governments are acting according to science. However, young people do feel reassured when governments act.

Ray says that the results of surveys such as this could play a part in climate-change lawsuits, because they might provide evidence of moral injury under human-rights law. “If the research can help hold government bodies accountable … that would be extraordinary. It would give a voice to children most vulnerable, and eco-anxiety can become less about ‘snowflakes’ in privileged settings worrying about polar bears — which is how detractors see it,” she says.

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a tip of the hat to Sukie

 

 

ghost forests in new jersey

A sign of global warming

a tip of the hat to Sukie

 

 

phoenix and heat

the civilian climate corps

An updated remake of a Depression-era program.  Done right this could be very important.  Expect the right-wing to fight it.

 

valley fever

Global warming appears to play a role in the increasing cases.  

Yet another thing you really don't want to get.

 

doing it without the word

Wen Stephenson has been on Harvard's case to divest from fossil fuels.  He offers a sarcastic take on their decision to finally begin the process.

 

 

utah's air quality

Salt Lake has always been a disaster in the Winter.  Now larger areas of the  state are having problems year round.

 

 

moving beyond storytelling

Andy Revkin has moved beyond storytelling to creating dialog in an attempt to move the global warming needle a tiny bit.

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Do you feel that your work and the work of other journalists are having enough of an impact?

No. But that doesn’t surprise or even upset me now.

The scope of the challenge is beyond conventional storytelling. Anyone who thinks a better story will solve the climate challenge has not yet fully confronted it.

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great salt lake

It's in serious danger - can it be saved?

a tip of the hat to Bryan 

global warming and the polar vortex

A link has been hypothesized.  Now evidence is pointing towards it..  if it's true we can expect more deep freeze events like Texas saw last Winter.