Climate Change

Striking her mark at the COP24 climate talks taking place this week and next in Poland, fifteen-year-old Greta Thunberg of Sweden issued a stern rebuke on behalf of the world’s youth climate movement to the adult diplomats, executives, and elected leaders gathered by telling them she was not there asking for help or demanding they comply with demands, but to let them know that new political realities and a renewable energy transformation are coming whether they like it or not. #climatechange

After a three-year probe and amid mounting demands that the fossil fuel industry be held accountable for driving the climate crisis, New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood on Wednesday filed suit against ExxonMobil, the world’s largest oil and gas company, for defrauding investors by downplaying the financial threat of regulations crafted to mitigate human-caused global warming.

Amid fresh warnings from United Nations researchers that there is a closing window to enact the “rapid, far-reaching, and unprecedented” societal changes needed to prevent a climate catastrophe, a new study of the global food system underscores the environmental necessity of a massive reduction in meat consumption worldwide.

Geoengineering researcher and activist Dane Wigington makes no bones about it when he says all of our weather is now completely modified. Though programs to manipulate, steer or completely create specific weather conditions have been around for 60 plus years, the recent weather insanity (i.e. Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria) as well as completely anomalous sky […]