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People: Links for June 2019

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Civil action: The resistance begins

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Axios   Greta Thunberg named one of TIME's "Next Generation Leaders"

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BBC   Climate activism failing to represent BAME groups, say campaigners

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BBC   Nord Stream 2: Climate activists get into gas pipeline in Germany

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BBC   The Greta effect? Meet the schoolgirl climate warriors

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Climate Home News   European court throws out climate lawsuit, saying plaintiffs are not unique

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Climate Home News   Until Russia allows us to rise together, I will strike for the climate alone

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EcoWatch   Texas Bill Would Make Protesting Pipelines a Felony on Par With Attempted Murder

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Evening Standard   Greenpeace protesters 'shut down' BP's London HQ with blockades weighing 'several' tonnes each 'for fuelling climate emergency'

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Guardian   ‘We need everyone’: Greta Thunberg calls on adults to join climate strikes

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Guardian   Farhana Yamin: ‘It took 20 minutes to unglue me from Shell’s office. It was a bit painful’

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Guardian   No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference review – Greta Thunberg’s vision

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Guardian   Schoolchildren go on strike across world over climate crisis

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Guardian   Torres Strait Islanders take climate change complaint to the United Nations

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Independent   Extinction Rebellion founder cleared of vandalism in landmark case after arguing climate change justification

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Independent   Extinction Rebellion supporters row over whether ‘hippy language’ is watering down climate change message

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Independent   Greenpeace activists board oil rig in Norwegian Arctic to protest new drilling

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Mail Online [Australia]   Chaos in Melbourne as thousands of climate change crusaders block city streets during a massive 'die in'

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New Internationalist   ‘Real education happens outside the classroom’: Climate activists speak

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The Conversation   ‘They’ll give me a detention but it’ll be worth it’ – a climate scientist interviews his climate striking daughter

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The Intercept   PIPELINE OPPONENTS STRIKE BACK AGAINST ANTI-PROTEST LAWS

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Times [UK]   Amnesty International expands remit to include climate change

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Humanity:

Feeling the heat

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Aljazeera   Australia faces 'world-first' climate change human rights case

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BBC   How global warming has made the rich richer   

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Eco-Business   Climate now biggest driver of migration, study finds

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Economist   How climate change can fuel wars

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Guardian   As the left wakes up to climate injustice, we must not fall into ‘green colonialism’

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Guardian   I have felt hopelessness over climate change. Here is how we move past the immense grief

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Guardian   Inequality and climate change: the perfect storm threatening the health of Australia's poorest

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Independent   I used to suffer from ‘climate fatigue’, but leaving London changed everything

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Irish Times   A baby born today: The climate and their future

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Reuters   Climate change pushes farmers to 'tipping point' in Lake Chad crisis

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RSA   Socio-economic conditions and small business vulnerability to climate change impacts in Hong Kong

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Telegraph [UK]   How climate change is fuelling a migration crisis in Bangladesh

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Hunger, diet, health

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Anthropocene   The surprising interplay between climate change and fertility

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Earth’s Future   Projections of Human Exposure to Dangerous Heat in African Cities Under Multiple Socioeconomic and Climate Scenarios

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Mongabay   Extreme weather puts traditional livelihoods in peril in Sri Lanka, studies warn

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New York Times   Your Questions About Food and Climate Change, Answered

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RollingStone   How the Mental Health Community Is Bracing for the Impact of Climate Change

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Springer/Climatic Change   Heat stress vulnerability and risk at the (super) local scale in six Brazilian capitals

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Politics: Will government save us?

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ABC News [US]   Militaries go green, rethink operations in face of climate change

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Atlantic   The Next ‘South China Sea’ Is Covered in Ice

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Climate Home News   European left eyes transatlantic Green New Deal

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Climate Policy   Nationally Determined Contributions under the Paris Agreement and the costs of delayed action

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Eco-Business   Fossil fuel subsidies are wrecking the world, says UN chief

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Eco-Business   How is a carbon dividend better than a carbon tax?

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Guardian   Has the politics of climate change finally reached a tipping point?

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New Scientists   What do the European Parliament results mean for climate change?

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New York Times   U.S. Pressure Blocks Declaration on Climate Change at Arctic Talks

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The Nation   Europe’s Striking Climate Kids Show How to Defeat the Far Right

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Wiley/AGU100/Earth’s Future   Global Rules Mask the Mitigation Challenge Facing Developing Countries

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Yahoo   Fuel subsidies defy green trend amid rising climate alarm

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Politics of assorted national governments

 

BBC   Climate change: Will India's election energy lead to CO2 rise?

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BuzzFeedNews   Italy’s Climate Change–Skeptic Government Wants To Host The UN’s Flagship Climate Change Conference

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Climate Home News   New Zealand introduces ‘zero carbon’ bill with concession to farmers

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Eco-Business   5 reasons why China is the world’s sustainable development superpower

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Eco-Business   Indonesia calls on palm oil industry, obscured by secrecy, to remain opaque

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EcoWatch   Winning Party in Spain’s Election Campaigned on a Green New Deal

 

FP   China Rises in U.N. Climate Talks, While U.S. Goes AWOL

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Guardian   Germany’s AfD turns on Greta Thunberg as it embraces climate denial

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Reuters   In coal we trust: Australian voters back PM Morrison's faith in fossil fuel

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Reuters   South African carbon tax finally becomes law

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Sydney Morning Herald   Come senators, MPs, there's a climate emergency raging

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Times [UK]   Ireland facing €150m bill for missing climate targets

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Yahoo   'Green wave' in EU vote amid climate crisis

 

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United States

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Axios   Carbon "tariffs" could trigger a collision of climate and trade policy

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Axios   Green New Deal activists dismiss nuclear power

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Axios   Jay Inslee unveils his energy plan

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Axios   Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez rally against "middle ground" on climate change

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Bloomberg   Senate GOP Counters Ocasio-Cortez With Free-Market Climate Bills

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Carbon Brief   Lobbying against key US climate regulation ‘cost society $60bn’, study finds

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EcoWatch   Trump Administration Is Restricting How Scientists Conduct Climate Science

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Guardian   2020 candidate John Delaney pitches vastly unusual climate change plan

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Guardian   Climate crisis more politically polarizing than abortion for US voters, study finds

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Guardian   Eight million jobs, $9tn in spending: Jay Inslee's radical plan to tackle climate change

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Mother Jones   Did Senate Republicans Just Get Serious About Agriculture and Climate Change?

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NBC News   Trump is embracing climate destruction

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New Republic   The Green New Deal Costs Less Than Doing Nothing

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New York Mag/ Intelligencer   Trump Thwarts GOP Plot to Pretend His Climate Agenda Isn’t Idiotic

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New Yorker   Notes from a Remarkable Political Moment for Climate Change


PS Magazine   TRUMP WANTS TO END WORST-CASE CLIMATE SCENARIO MODELING. HERE'S WHY THAT MATTERS.

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Reuters   After protests, Britain's parliament declares climate change 'emergency'

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Reuters   U.S. sinks Arctic accord due to climate change differences: diplomats

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The Hill   Green New Deal for farming: Address climate crisis and revitalize food system

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The Hill   Group backing Green New Deal blasts O'Rourke's climate plan

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The Hill   Microsoft, other business leaders head to Capitol Hill in support of carbon tax

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The Hill   Scientist compares Trump's climate stance to Soviet Union

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The Hill   Trump energy officials label natural gas 'freedom gas'

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The Hill   Warren releases plan to tackle climate change threats to military

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Think Progress   Top GOP pollster finds overwhelming support for carbon tax by millennial Republicans

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Washington Post   House passes bill to force U.S. to stay in Paris climate agreement

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Washington Post   The Energy 202: Democrats slammed Biden on climate change. But what would a 'middle ground' even look like?

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People: Other stories

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ABC [Australia]   Climate change has started to influence our language. Here's how

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AP   Is sea rise wrecking coastal home values? The answer: Maybe

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Belfast Telegraph   Cats get more mentions on TV than climate change, analysis finds

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Bloomberg   These Are the Cities Doing the Most to Combat Global Warming

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Business Green   Meet the UK's first Climate Change Teacher

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BuzzFeedNews   Opinion: I'm 12, And I Don't Understand Why Adults Vote To Destroy The Planet

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Climate Home News   Lake Chad not shrinking, but climate is fuelling terror groups: report

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CNN   How climate change impacts people of color

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DW   Meet the athletes taking action on climate change

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Financial Express   A Nepalese director fights climate change in the Himalayas through his film at Cannes

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Forbes   4 Reasons People Fear Science

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Forbes   Meet The Amazon Employees Challenging Jeff Bezos On Climate Change

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Frontiers   How Hope and Doubt Affect Climate Change Mobilization

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Grist   Why your brain doesn’t register the words ‘climate change’

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Guardian   Author of dystopian climate crisis novel is 'deeply optimistic'

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Guardian   Could you give up flying? Meet the no-plane pioneers

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Guardian   New York aims to fight climate change by creating green union jobs

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Huffpost   ‘The Gulf’ Is A Climate Change Novel For A Changed World

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Independent   ‘It’s a call to action, it’s a call to worry’: Daniel Libeskind on how art is leading the fight against climate change

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Independent [UK]   Labour would make climate change core part of school curriculum

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Mashable   How to talk to kids about climate change without scaring them

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Media Matters   ABC News spent more time on royal baby in one week than on climate crisis in one year

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Mongabay   Interest in protecting environment up since Pope’s 2015 encyclical

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PBS   Artists harness the power of fire and ice to shape attitudes on climate change

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RollingStone   Leonardo DiCaprio Details Fight to Curb Climate Change in ‘Ice on Fire’ Trailer

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Science News for Science   Students can sway how their parents view climate change

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Scotsman   Edinburgh’s Beltane Fire Festival 2019 to focus on climate change

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The Conversation   Comic: how to have better arguments about the environment (or anything else)

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The Inquirer [US]   Climate change appears to shape human fertility

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Thomson Reuters   World Heritage sites could be transformed by global warming, finds study

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Tyndall Centre   Can Photography Change the Way We See Climate Change?

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USA Today   Climate change tax for dining out? California restaurants add 1% fee to the bill

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Washington Post   Big storms, bigger waves

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Washington Post   In Alaska, climate change is showing increasing signs of disrupting everyday life

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Weather Channel   Climate Change in the Womb

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Photo Attributions

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People: Photo by: Takver

Viewpoints: Photo by:Chris Waits

Civil action: Photo by: Takver

Human suffering: Photo by: Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Politics: Photo by: Falcon® Photography 

Adaptation: Photo by: U.S. Mission Uganda/Flickr

Other stories: Photo by: Michael Coghlan

Hunger, diet and health: Photo by: Cait

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