And the news is bad for any of you who may not have been paying attention. I decided I'd just embed a few Tweets from the past few weeks to convey that, and keep them in some kind of loose chronological order, unless there was a point to be made by skipping a few days forward or back.
If you're like me, you won't be able to read to the end. That's okay. It's a lot to absorb. Come back later when you feel stronger, or bookmark for weekend reading. Just don't bury your head in the sand, or in your hands.
We're past the point of mourning.
As meteorologist @EricHolthaus described the record heat: “We’ve left the era of fucking around, and we’re now entering the era of finding out.”
— Tim Dickinson (@7im) June 29, 2021
And Congress was warned *in 1957* that this would be a consequence of burning fossil fuels. https://t.co/z7BBWvwLqm
— Brad Johnson (@climatebrad) June 11, 2021
NEW: High-elevation forests in the Rocky Mountains are burning more now than any time in the past 2,000 years amid extreme, climate change-induced drought.
— Rachel Ramirez (@rachjuramirez) June 14, 2021
"After 2020, it's clear we're in uncharted territory," study's lead author @PhilipHiguera told me. https://t.co/uuUux3iNK3
Incrementalism doomed us allhttps://t.co/yCurq0ym8I
— Nick is a Fred Hampton Leftist 🥋 (@SocialistMMA) June 17, 2021
BREAKING: climate change will drastically reshape life on Earth, according to draft UN @IPCC_CH report aquired by @AFP - This is easily the starkest warning yet of how humans are transforming the planet, and threatening millions of lives
— William Brangham (@WmBrangham) June 23, 2021
https://t.co/bnkIwLkBwX via @YahooNews
A "retirement plan?" Or do you mean a Plan B? Such as, what to do when they're "out-of-work plan?" Or like a "survivalist plan" when sovereign governments collapse amidst climate chaos? Maybe they have some kind of "how-to-die-with-dignity-plan?" https://t.co/LX6zGaESSe
— JoAnn L Chateau (@JoAnnLChateau) June 23, 2021
Terrifying UN Draft Climate Report Urges Total Transformation of Our Way of Life https://t.co/WGPjsjORr1 via @truthout
— gaijingirl2004 Bronx Progressive/Green. 🦺 🇵🇸✡️ (@gaijingirl2004) June 25, 2021
Did you know we're over 415 ppm of atmospheric CO2 for the first time in 23 million years which means dire consequences for life on Earth?
— Ben See (@ClimateBen) June 26, 2021
Climate justice action could limit the damage, protecting people and species, but that won't happen if journalists remain shamefully silent. pic.twitter.com/jWTKMEXOVR
A leaked UN report warns of coming unlivable heat waves, widespread hunger and drought, rising sea levels and extinction. https://t.co/bUeAsJ6tqo
— PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) June 27, 2021
I can't believe I am writing this.
— Scott Duncan (@ScottDuncanWX) June 29, 2021
Canada 🇨🇦 has obliterated its national all-time heat record *for the second day in a row*.
Before yesterday, greater than 45°C had never been recorded. As far as climatology is concerned, this is deeply shocking. pic.twitter.com/X9WJgtHgss
New data are in: Global average sea level is now rising at a rate of 3.4 millimeters (about 0.13 inches) per year as a result of global warming. That's like covering the U.S. in water over 6 inches (about 16 centimeters) deep annually. #NationalOceanMonth https://t.co/f8Cpqopsft
— NASA Climate (@NASAClimate) June 29, 2021
(1/2) South America Cold Spell: Historic low temperatures on 30 June in some areas of Bolivia and Paraguay.Some records broken:
— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) July 1, 2021
-Pozo Hondo -7.4C lowest temp. in June in Paraguay
-Nueva Asuncion -5.4C previous -5.0C 18-7-1975
-Base Aerea Jara -2.8C previous -1.4C 29-6-1996 pic.twitter.com/T4BivF0gRU
Taken one event at a time, it’s easy to cling to the idea that climate change is happening somewhere else, to someone else. But listening to the growing chorus of people adjusting to this new “normal” tells us one thing:
— grist (@grist) July 1, 2021
The frontlines of climate change are everywhere. pic.twitter.com/PfCInsiWk7
The deadly heat in the Northwest is another reason to call the climate emergency the climate emergency https://t.co/CPml9no90P via @sciam
— Laura Helmuth (@laurahelmuth) July 1, 2021
No, you didn’t misread the headline; it’s 118 degrees in the Arctic. https://t.co/oBurQPJ45A
— Climate Reality (@ClimateReality) July 5, 2021
⚠️"Tipping could be imminent"
— Jim Baird (@JimBair62221006) July 6, 2021
'Tipping found in models of the Gulf Stream and North American mid-latitude wind systems add to the growing concern that anthropogenic climate change might be abrupt and irreversible'#ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #NEWShttps://t.co/cS1QhcJp34
We've known that climate change was loading the dice against us for a long time, but now we know by how much. The west coast heatwave was "virtually impossible" without climate change. Analysis by @wxrisk @gjvoldenborgh @SISeneviratne @FrediOtto et al. https://t.co/828X2w9gj1
— Prof. Katharine Hayhoe (@KHayhoe) July 7, 2021
North America just had its hottest June on record, according to the EU’s climate monitoring service.
— AJ+ (@ajplus) July 7, 2021
A heatwave amplified by the climate emergency broke all-time high temperature records in the Pacific Northwest and killed at least 107 people in Oregon, say officials. pic.twitter.com/Qdxy7W8c04
This crime has displaced or killed untold numbers of people around the world, caused countless billions of dollars in economic damage and ravaged vital ecosystems and wildlife. https://t.co/6RQPRBn20s
— DeSmog (@DeSmogBlog) July 8, 2021
Where should we start playing the blame game? Sixty-four years ago, as referenced above? Fifty?
50 years ago scientists warned of dangerous climate change. @AllegraCOP26 @AlokSharma_RDG https://t.co/4dLyPnjIJB
— COP26 Climate Action Plan (@Cop26P) June 25, 2021
More recently?
'In 1979, an Exxon study said that burning fossil fuels “will cause dramatic environmental effects” in the coming decades.
— Climate Clock (@Tav_assoli) July 1, 2021
“The potential problem is great and urgent,” it concluded.'https://t.co/I8hiC5hYWE
Among the many frustrations here: the Biden DOJ is just repeating the legal arguments *of an administration that didn't believe climate change was real* #StopLine3 https://t.co/1lTHPEXwR2
— Bill McKibben (@billmckibben) June 25, 2021
No excuse to subsidize any form of fossils, including LNG+carbon capture
— Mark Z. Jacobson (@mzjacobson) June 21, 2021
Subsidizing CCS is directly subsidizing fossil mining, air pollution, infrastructure & CO2@JoeBiden subsidies for LNG could doom international climate goals https://t.co/1P7hCtbaHf @AlleenBrown
Your Democratic chairman of the Senate Energy Committee, ladies and gentlemen. https://t.co/ElauxiaMu7
— Alyson Metzger (@AlysonMetzger) June 21, 2021
The USA is stricken by megadrought and record heat with the coming wildfire season likely to be the worst on record.
— Extinction Rebellion (@ExtinctionR) June 28, 2021
Democrats control the presidency and both chambers of Congress.
And still no serious action on climate.
Now or never?
System change or collapse? pic.twitter.com/1Eww5Xek7u
President Biden and Treasury Secretary Yellen have both called climate change an "existential threat" that necessitates a bold government response.
— Revolving Door Project (@revolvingdoorDC) June 29, 2021
So why are they backing two ExxonMobil insiders for senior leadership roles at the Treasury Department? pic.twitter.com/LZdhHtvdyN
We already know ExxonMobil bought these guys off. Let's maybe fault the actual source of the greed and corruption.
"There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today."
— Venus Barrington (@CrossEyedBear) June 13, 2021
-The late Ned Beatty (1937-2021) in "Network" (1976) pic.twitter.com/fMQHDMGUGk
Oil companies got $8.2 billion in pandemic bailouts then laid off 60,000 employees.
— Dan Price (@DanPriceSeattle) June 21, 2021
The biggest is Marathon Petroleum, which got a $2.1 billion bailout then laid off 2,000 people.
But yes the real moochers are the people getting $300 in unemploymenthttps://t.co/FEIaUv0Z7q
These 100 companies are responsible for 71% of all CO2 emissions in the world. This is where we need to start. It's that simple.
— Mike Hudema (@MikeHudema) June 21, 2021
There is no planet B. There is no time to waste. #ActOnClimate.#ClimateEmergency #ClimateAction #climatecrisis #climatestrike #GreenNewDeal pic.twitter.com/nH05ao7Jqb
The IEA couldn’t have been more clear: a net zero pathway means no new gas supply and gas plants retired everywhere by 2040
— Justin Guay (@Guay_JG) June 23, 2021
But the @WorldBank is trying to tell the world it’s a climate champ that still finances gas in 2021
Ugly look for Glasgow guyshttps://t.co/dtawRtQRQb
In 2013, #Chevron was to pay $9.5 Bil to 30,000 indigenous for contaminating Rainforest land & streams. Instead, theyve been manipulating the courts to ruin the lawyer, #Donzinger In his 23 mo of his 6 mo house arrest, case has been found unconstitutional
— Green Party US 🌻 (@GreenPartyUS) June 24, 2021
https://t.co/kiMlnnFZLm https://t.co/ytU4R3LWgK
ExxonMobil is the greatest single-use plastic waste polluter in the world, contributing 5.9m tonnes to the global waste mountain.
— Paul Dawson (@PaulEDawson) June 25, 2021
Since most plastic is made from oil and gas the production of plastic is becoming a significant driver of the climate crisis. https://t.co/DXe80maOSy
#oilandgas has NEVER been regulated. EVER.
— TXsharon (@TXsharon) June 30, 2021
Regulation is voluntary: the criminal reports the crime.
It should be no surprise to anyone that the @EPA has underestimated #methane gas by as much as 76%. Industry gives them the numbers 🤯https://t.co/TmkQLmHGNr
Four EPA whistleblowers have come forward to expose corruption in the division that assesses the safety of new chemicals. They told me about the intense pressures they faced to erase evidence of neurological effects, brain damage and cancer https://t.co/aS7e8iAifz
— Sharon Lerner (@fastlerner) July 2, 2021
— Whirled Peas (@GetARealCoffee) July 8, 2021
That's it for now. More bad news, some good news, some local (i.e. the Permian, coastal Texas and even poor, forsaken Lake Charles, La.) coming in Part 2.
