2018 was the fourth hottest year on record
NASA and NOAA data show that 2018 was the fourth hottest year on record, while the hottest is 2016. Global surface temperature records go back nearly 140 years. During that time, nine of the 10 hottest years occurred between 2005 and 2018.
5 ways to save rainforests and the world every day | The Optimist Daily
Join us on this week’s View for some simple yet effective tips on we can all help one of the world’s most important and megadiverse ecosystems: the rainforest.
Analysis | How Youth Have Changed the Climate Movement
Frustrated with a lack of process on curbing climate change, young activists are taking matters into their own hands.
Automakers Urge Trump to Undo One of America’s Biggest CO2 Reductions to Date
Twelve automakers sacrifice the future by urging Pres. Trump to lower fuel-economy standards, which might be the single largest CO2 reduction in U.S. history
Containing Trump
He may well try to govern as an authoritarian. Whether he succeeds depends less on what he does than on how civil society responds.
Donald Trump is forming a new world order—where we're not welcome
The nefarious plots of shadowy “globalists” have long been a staple of the Trump-favored purveyors of news-like-product. Whether it’s hidden in the pages of a plan to make the world slightly more sustainable, or blatantly trying to stage a military takeover of Texas, the global conspiracy never sleeps.
Donald’s Demolition Derby
Moyers writes: We’re a week into the Trump administration and it’s pretty obvious what he’s up to. First, Donald Trump is running a demolition derby: He wants to demolish everything he doesn’t like, and he doesn’t like a lot, especially when it comes to government.
Four Cabinet nominations that could blow up in Donald Trump’s face
It would only take a handful of GOP turncoats to torpedo some controversial nods.
How Chicago Became the First City to Make Reparations to Victims of Police Violence by Yana Kunichoff and Sarah Macaraeg — YES! Magazine
The ordinance provides a meaningful model for creating reparations at the local level.
In the Middle of the Night Boston Judges Block Trump Immigration Orders
Sacchetti writes: In a rare middle-of-the night decision, two federal judges in Boston temporarily halted President Trump’s executive order blocking immigrants from seven Muslim-majority nations from entering the United States.