OMG! look at that honeybee swarm!
For young people, two defining events: COVID-19 and climate change
An unforeseen pairing of catastrophes will inform how Generation Z navigates the world as adults, and what sort of future they create. — National Geographic
Youth Climate Activists Are Writing a Just Recovery Curriculum — Yes Magazine
How Climate Change Is Contributing to Skyrocketing Rates of Infectious Disease
A catastrophic loss in biodiversity, reckless destruction of wildland and warming temperatures have allowed disease to explode. Ignoring the connection between climate change and pandemics would be “dangerous delusion,” one scientist said. — ProPublica
Hunger Pandemic: The COVID-19 Effect on Global Food Insecurity — Visual Capitalist
How contact tracing can help the U.S. get control over coronavirus — PBS News
Opinion
The “new approach” for our leaders | Jim Waddell
Trump Imperils the Planet – The New York Times
Endangered species, climate change —
the administration is taking the country, and the world, backward.
Burning wood is not a solution to climate change — The Hill
Pandemic as prologue — High Country News
A failure of imagination has stymied our outbreak response, but that’s just the beginning.
Solutions
Week 24: Plant something native and green this week
Take part: May 10–16, 2020
Model Laws for Deep Decarbonization in the United States
— Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
Regional Actions
Clallam County PUD will have a Board of Commissioners Meeting
this Monday, May 11 at 1:30p.m.
Please attend the virtual meeting on Monday.
PUD is a Public, not a Privatized Utility District. Citizen-ratepayers must call in or login and be counted. See details at https://clallampud.net/commission-meetings/
Climate Leaders Live: Building a Clean Energy Future Together
Tune in on Tuesday May 19, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm.
Documentary Screening
& Discussion | Jim Waddell
Thu May 14, 2020 6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
Online, Zoom
National Actions
Climate Crisis Policy and Columbia University are partnering to present a discussion of 9 active federal climate bills | Wed. July 1, 2020. Noon-1:30 pm
Zoom Register Facebook Event
Sierra Forum: Defund Climate Destruction | Wednesday, May 13 at Noon PT
Will you join our mass call next Thursday, May 14 – Organize to Win in 2020
to get up to date on Keystone XL and be part of the next chapter in this campaign? – 350.org
Be one of the 2,000 people we need today to tell Bank of America: No drilling in the Arctic Refuge — League of Conservation Voters
Local/Regional News
Washington Conservation Voters releases the Legislative Scorecard
Cross-laminated timber panels like these at the Katerra mass timber factory in Spokane Valley, Wash., are designed to replace steel and concrete
National/International News
#EarthDayLive Discussion
NRDC president and CEO Gina McCarthy, Greenpeace USA executive director Annie Leonard, and Ocean Collectiv founder Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson discuss the 50th anniversary of #EarthDay and where we go from here
A Satellite Lets Scientists See Antarctica’s Melting Like Never Before
— The New York Times
The Lab That Discovered Global Warming Has Good News and Bad News
The good news is that the pandemic shows “science works.” The bad news?
Global warming may be far more dangerous than a pandemic.
Combos of heat, humidity at edge of human tolerance hitting globe decades earlier than expected — NBC News
Researchers found that temperature extremes previously thought to be rare have been recorded more than 1,000 times in 40 years.
Read the Washington Post stories that won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize
Global warming to push humans out of climate niche, forcing billions to migrate – The Washington Post
COVID-19 and Climate: Economic Impacts — Climate One
Fed’s expansion of lending program sparks oil bailout worries — Politico
The Federal Reserve told reporters that the changes were not directed at oil and gas companies, or any one industry.
Shell cuts dividend for first time since World War Two — Reuters
Tell members of Congress to support the REWIND Act today — 350.org
Tell Congress to stop bailouts for Big Oil and prioritize the millions of people who are reeling
Here’s an easy way to take action: ask your members of Congress to cosponsor the ReWIND Act, barring fossil fuel bailouts — Climate Hawks Vote
‘Normal’ is a crisis: Climate impacts across the world this week are adding to challenges for those already dealing with COVID-19. Millions of acres are burning in Siberia, and thousands have been displaced as floods hammer Kenya and Somalia. Evacuation orders were just lifted for Fort McMurray, Canada – a key tar sands development area – where thousands of Canadian workers and their families are recovering from floods from fast winter thaw. And as the world’s seas simmer at record-high temperatures, hurricane and wildfire risks are heightening.
How to build a no-smell compost bin
Carbon Emissions Just Turned Back 10 Years — Yes! Magazine
Judge Vacates Oil and Gas Leases on 145,000 Acres in Montana — The New York Times
Inside Clean Energy:
6 Things Michael Moore’s ‘Planet of the Humans’ Gets Wrong
— Inside Climate News
Climate in Politics
This “Honest Government Ad” series may offend you, or it may amuse you with it’s inappropriateness, depending on your sensitivity to strong words.
Alaska Wilderness League presents the Geography of Hope series
Here’s the initial lineup with more events to be announced:
- Thursday, May 7, 4pm EDT: Kristin Gates presents “The Sacred Place Where Life Begins”
- Tuesday, May 12, 7pm EDT: New York Times-featured author Caroline Van Hemert presents on her 4,000-mile journey into Alaska’s wilderness and book “The Sun Is My Compass”
- Thursday, May 21, 7pm EDT: Michael Boardman: Artist in Residence, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
- Saturday, May 30, 5:30pm EDT: Renowned filmmaker Mark Titus presents “The Wild,” which draws attention to the battle against the reckless Pebble Mine that threatens the most productive wild sockeye salmon fishery on Earth, in Bristol Bay, Alaska.
Climate Crash Course #7: Is what I do important? — The New York Times
Pancakes and Jam! brunch & arts
Pull Together and Vines Festival hosts a virtual brunch concert. Listen to the recording.
Calling Bullshit:
Data Reasoning in a Digital World
Course: INFO 270 / BIOL 270. University of Washington
Our learning objectives are straightforward.
After taking the course, you should be able to:
– Remain vigilant for bullshit contaminating your information diet.
– Recognize said bullshit whenever and wherever you encounter it.
– Figure out for yourself precisely why a particular bit of bullshit is bullshit.
– Provide a statistician or fellow scientist with a technical explanation of why a claim is bullshit.
– Provide your crystals-and-homeopathy aunt or casually racist uncle with an accessible and persuasive explanation of why a claim is bullshit. — CallingBullshit.org
Coming August 4th, 2020: Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World, by Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West.
Pre-order now
who has farmed superfine merinos near Oatlands since 2000
- Carbon dioxide:
Nature’s tiny solar panels - Take a deep breath
- Galileo Fixes Everything
- A Silver Lining
- If You Don’t Like the Heat,
Get Out of the Kitchen
This is a series I’m writing on climate change for our local monthly newspaper. I wanted to go back to the basics of the science behind climate change.
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Burning Worlds
Olympic Climate Action 