WASHINGTON— More than 60 U.S. research scientists today urged North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein to use his executive authority to stop Duke Energy Corp.’s fossil-fuel buildout and suppression of renewable energy solutions. These actions are critical to avoiding the worst damages of the climate emergency and to save lives, the …
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“A Shocking Rise of Warming” Reported by Hansen, Top Climate Team — NC WARN News Release
Duke Energy, other top global polluters must rapidly phase out – not expand – fossil fuels! An international climate science team led by James Hansen says the acceleration of global heating has been greatly underestimated, that a crucial threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius is now being crossed and that an …
Is Gov. Roy Cooper a Climate Change Pretender? — NC WARN News Release
Watchdog group tells NC Governor to walk his talk, stop a leading climate polluter from expanding fossil fuels and suppressing renewables The North Carolina state motto is “To be, rather than to seem.” But Governor Roy Cooper continues to support a years-long pretense that Duke Energy is transitioning to a …
“Delay Means Death” — CNN
Unequal Impact: The Deep Links Between Racism and Climate Change — Yale Environment 360
Editorial: Climate change is just as real as COVID-19. Now’s the last, best chance for our government to treat it that way — LA Times
There is no doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic is the crisis of the moment, and a terribly serious one at that, threatening not only human lives but also the global economy. But it’s not the only crisis the world is facing, and we ought not, while confronting the immediate menace, disregard the other immense threat looming over us: global warming.