#climate debate

[codexofforbiddenknowledge]

Are electric vehicles truly "zero-emission" when their power comes from coal, gas, or nuclear plants? ⚡🔋

[climate-crisis]

Debate:

Should the Australian government be accused of crimes against humanity since their ignorance towards climate change brought them to the point that they find themselves today with the bushfires? (And because of them, other countries are also suffering, namely New Zealand but also the Pacific Nations)

I will reblog all answers (as long as they weren't already mentioned). Please also mention if you are or not living outside of Australia. (As a matter of fact, I am not living in Australia either and that's why I'm interested in a debate regarding this)

[cli-meme]

[generalelectionmusings]

[markruffalo]

Sign the petition: 2020 presidential candidates must debate environmental policy #climatedebate

I just signed a petition to 2020 Candidates and Democratic National Committee (DNC): There are many formidable candidates running for the Democratic nomination in 2020. We want all the candidates to commit to participating in a debate or forum on environmental issues and policies so we can hear detailed ideas and plans.

Climate change is without a doubt one of the most urgent issues of this decade. I can only hope that our 2020 presidential candidates treat it as such.

[mediamattersforamerica]

During CNN’s two-night Democratic presidential primary debate in Detroit on July 30 and 31, only 9.5% of the questions were about climate change. Yet the climate crisis is one of the most pressing issues facing the nation and the world, and it is imperative that the public knows what candidates propose to do to move us towards a clean economy and a livable climate. 

Climate activists are redoubling their calls for one of the remaining 10 planned debates to be dedicated entirely to the climate crisis.

[mulan-tinkerbell]

Hey guys! If you use Twitter or even just have an account, please please retweet this video. Especially if you live in or near Kentucky-- our future, as well as our nation’s, could very well depend on it. The movement I’m a part of is trying to reach Ben Self, the chairman of our Democratic party as well as the other leaders; Morgan McGarvey and Rocky Adkins, to talk to us about a climate debate tomorrow. We really need Chairman Self to vote YES on the debate. Climate change is the number one most pressing issue to humanity right now; and we need to be treating it as such. We’re running out of time.

I haven’t lived here most of my life (moved barely 2 years ago), and the effects of pollution and climate change here have already had a negative impact on my health. Our air is unsafe to breathe almost every day. And then I went to Detroit, and realized just how GOOD I had it. We deserve clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, and the promise of a healthy future for our children. Scratch that-- a damn CHANCE at any future. Thank you :’) ☀️💚🌎

[rjzimmerman]

Analysis | The Energy 202: How a bizarre blog post is undermining a 2020 climate forum

Some media partners have backed out.

I don’t know if you saw that blog post that was published in the New Republic before it was yanked. It went after Pete Buttigieg and speculated on his bed conduct with his husband and other sordid stuff. The blog author is gay. I didn’t think the blog was homophobic, but nasty and wrong. The posting caused the League of Conservation Voters, NRDC and Earthjustice to pull out of the New Republic-hosted climate summit that had just been announced.

Excerpt from this Washington Post story:

When a collection of advocacy groups and left-leaning publications announced a forum for Democratic presidential candidates to discuss climate change, they wanted the focus to be on what they see as a generational crisis.

But now a bizarre blog post is changing the discussion. And the shift is happening at a time when environmentalists are worried the Democratic Party is giving short shrift to what they see as a looming catastrophe.

It all started on Friday when the New Republic, a left-leaning political magazine, published an op-ed about 2020 Democratic candidate Pete Buttigieg, the openly gay mayor of South Bend, Ind., that many readers derided as homophobic.

The op-ed, titled “My Mayor Pete Problem” and written by Dale Peck, repeatedly referred to “Mayor Pete” as “Mary Pete” and speculated about his sexual preferences.

The incendiary blog post from the reliably liberal magazine, seemingly a piece of satire gone awry, stunned many regular readers. The magazine quickly replaced the article with an editor's note calling the piece "inappropriate and invasive." And the magazine's editor in chief, Win McCormack, offered Buttigieg his "sincerest apologies."

But the damage was already underway. The Washington-based publication was one of two — along with the news website Gizmodo owned by G/O Media — set to host the climate event scheduled for September in New York. A number of environmental groups — including the League of Conservation Voters as well as the political arms of the Natural Resources Defense Council and Earthjustice — pulled their support for the event.