Best climate video ever? A Swedish Teenager's Compelling Plea on Climate

Our house is on fire. I am here to say, our house is on fire.

Greta Thunberg.

According to the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), we are less than 12 years away from not being able to undo our mistakes. In that time, unprecedented changes in all aspects of society need to have taken place, including a reduction of our CO2 emissions by at least 50%.

And please note that those numbers do not include the aspect of equity, which is absolutely necessary to make the Paris agreement work on a global scale. Nor does it include tipping points or feedback loops like the extremely powerful methane gas released from the thawing Arctic permafrost.

At places like Davos, people like to tell success stories. But their financial success has come with an unthinkable price tag. And on climate change, we have to acknowledge we have failed. All political movements in their present form have done so, and the media has failed to create broad public awareness.

Read the Climate Code Red story -  “Best climate video ever? A Swedish Teenager's Compelling Plea on Climate.”

We won’t stop California’s wildfires if we don’t talk about climate change

CALIFORNIA, THE nation’s most populous state and the world’s fifth-largest economy , is on fire. In a state already known for monster conflagrations, the past month has been unusually destructive. The Mendocino Complex fire north of San Francisco is now officially the largest in California’s history, having burned an area about the size of Los Angeles, and it is just one of the major blazes the state has had to face since last October.

Firefighters at the Mendocino Complex Fire on Tuesday.

President Trump tried to lay the blame on “bad environmental laws” and wasted water, claims that experts quickly debunked. The 14,000 firefighters on the ground do not lack for water; they are battling blazes next to big lakes and other major bodies of water. The state’s big rivers have not been “diverted into the Pacific,” as Mr. Trump claimed; they flow into the ocean as they always have, though with large amounts sent to cities and farmland for human use.

Read The Washington Post story by the Editorial board - “We won’t stop California’s wildfires if we don’t talk about climate change.”

Seeking comfort from global warming in confusion

Senator Ted Cruz - seeks comfort
in confusion.

Australia’s mild summer, at least in Victoria, and America’s blast of freezing weather confuse many people and convince them global warming is a myth.

Oddly, and the thing they can’t accept is that those two things, at least, are the product of global warming.

A warmer planet simply means that the weather will not be as we expect, with our seasons changing and no longer is there any such thing as “normal.

One who has retreated to the comfort of that confusion is U.S. Senator Ted Cruz seen here - “Seth Meyers Confronts Ted Cruz On Climate Change: ‘I Think The World’s On Fire, Literally’” – talking with Seth Meyers.