People: Links for May 2019

Civil action: The resistance begins

ABC [Australia] Protesters disrupt Brexit debate by baring bottoms over inaction on climate change

Atlantic Photos: Climate-Change Protests Around the World

CNN Climate protests this week caused major disruption. That was the point.

Eco-Business Climate science supports youth protests

France 24 Tens of thousands protest climate change in Switzerland

Global Citizen 12 Female Climate Activists Who Are Saving the Planet

Guardian ‘I would go to prison’: the ordinary people getting arrested for Extinction Rebellion

Guardian A lawyer set himself on fire to protest climate change. Did anyone care?

Guardian Battle of Waterloo Bridge: a week of Extinction Rebellion protests

Guardian Extinction Rebellion arrests pass 1,000 on eighth day of protests

Guardian Extinction Rebellion is leading a new, youthful politics that will change Britain

Guardian Greta Thunberg is right – only a general strike will force action on climate change

Guardian How the symbol for extinction became this generation’s peace sign

Guardian Only rebellion will prevent an ecological apocalypse

Guardian The Extinction Rebellion scorecard: what did it achieve?

Guardian The Guardian view on Greta Thunberg: seizing the future

Guardian We are not yet doomed: the carbon cutters determined to save the world

i-D does the climate change movement have a class problem?

INews The lineup of those attacking Greta Thunberg will only make you like her more

New Republic The Green New Deal Fan on Fox News Wasn’t a Random Diner. He’s a Climate Activist.

New Yorker The Renegade Nuns Who Took On a Pipeline

Reuters Eiffel Tower goes dark for Earth Hour

The Hill Obama praises youth climate activists: 'The sooner you start, the better

Thomson Reuters Foundation 'The stakes are too high': Christian faithful take up climate protest

USA Today These grandparents are dropping everything to fight climate change

Vox Why the climate protests that disrupted London were different

Wiley/Climate Change Promises and risks of nonstate action in climate and sustainability governance

Politics: Will government save us?

Politics of assorted national governments

United States politics

Axios Renewable energy mandates are costly climate policies

BusinessGreen The climate tragedy of Brexit

Climate Home News We need a Green New Deal for Europe

E&E News Wanted: 'Legion of lawyers' to fight climate change

EOS Rising Methane Emissions Could Derail the Paris Agreement

Euractiv Stiglitz urges joint EU-China trade sanctions against the US on climate change

Guardian Politicians’ reluctance on climate change is bizarre – action would not only be right but popular

Guardian It's time for nations to unite around an International Green New Deal

Inside Climate News New York City Sets Ambitious Climate Rules for Its Biggest Emitters: Buildings

The Hill Bloomberg donates $5.5 million to fill in Paris agreement gap

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

Wiley/AGU100/Geophysical Research Letters Assessing Contributions of Major Emitters' Paris‐Era Decisions to Future Temperature Extremes

Wiley/Climate Change On the use and misuse of climate change projections in international development

BBC Climate strike: What is a climate emergency?

Climate Home News EU, China agree to work together on clean energy

Euractiv Climate change will be key issue in EU elections, poll shows

Guardian ‘Historic breakthrough’: Norway’s giant oil fund dives into renewables

Guardian ‘It’s no longer free to pollute’: Canada imposes carbon tax on four provinces

Guardian Labour endorses Extinction Rebellion activists after week of protest

Guardian Politicians’ reluctance on climate change is bizarre – action would not only be right but popular

Guardian [UK] Corbyn launches bid to declare a national climate emergency

Inside Climate News Canada’s Tar Sands Province Elects a Combative New Leader Promising Oil & Pipeline Revival

Newsweek RUSSIA IS SERIOUS ABOUT TACKLING CLIMATE CHANGE, UNLIKE THE U.S., VLADIMIR PUTIN SUGGESTS

Reuters Britain must commit to carbon capture to meet climate goals - lawmakers

Telegraph [UK] Green Party membership soars in Germany as young take a stand against populism

Wiley/Climate Change The overlooked role of discourse in breaking carbon lock‐in: The case of the German energy transition

ABC [Australia] Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's controversial Green New Deal is America's most ambitious — and criticised — climate policy to date

Axios Inside Americans' growing fear of a warm planet

CNBC Ocasio-Cortez slams critics who would wait on climate action as having 'privileged and removed-from-reality attitude'

Guardian Climate change group scrapped by Trump reassembles to issue warning

Guardian Fiscally-conservative Democrats have declared war on the Green New Deal

Guardian The young Republicans breaking with their party over climate change

The Hill Bipartisan senators want 'highest possible' funding for carbon capture technology

The Hill Bloomberg donates $5.5 million to fill in Paris agreement gap

Yale Climate change poses security risks, according to decades of intelligence reports

Yale Should a Green New Deal include nuclear power?

Viewpoints: Media, opinions, personalities

Axios Inside Americans' growing fear of a warm planet

BBC David Attenborough climate change TV show a 'call to arms'

DW Pope tells Greta Thunberg to carry on her fight

Environmental Health News Peter Dykstra: Of bended knees and thin ice

EOS Youth Call Climate Change a Generational Justice Issue

Evening Standard [UK] How flygskam (or flight shame) is spreading across Europe

Guardian Climate crisis: today’s children face lives with tiny carbon footprints

Guardian It's time for nations to unite around an International Green New Deal

Guardian Mae Jemison, an astronaut with down to Earth wisdom on climate change

Guardian The Guardian view on Greta Thunberg: seizing the future

Guardian Why are the US news media so bad at covering climate change?

Independent What Game of Thrones tells us about our own environmental disas

ter

NPR Most Teachers Don't Teach Climate Change; 4 In 5 Parents Wish They Did

Springer/Climatic Change Public communication by climate scientists: what, with whom and why?

The Conversation Gilets Jaunes may be the start of a worldwide revolt against climate action

Yale Former climate 'denier' regrets 'how wrongheaded but certain I was'

Yale Storytelling is key to understanding climate change

Adaptation:

Planning for resilience

BuzzFeedNews These Scientists Are Radically Changing How They Live To Cope With Climate Change

Climate Home News Climate finance misses its mark in Ugandan landslide zones

Eco-Business As sea levels rise, UN climbs aboard floating-cities push

Eco-Business Cambodians try out smartphones to track—and and ease—climate woes

Nature Climate damages and adaptation potential across diverse sectors of the United States

Wiley/AGU100/Earth’s Future Adaptation to Future Water Shortages in the United States Caused by Population Growth and Climate Change

Wiley/Climate Change Adaptive capacity to climate change: A synthesis of concepts, methods, and findings in a fragmented field

Humanity:

Feeling the heat

Anthropocene What’s the connection between climate change and keeping kids in school?

Boston Globe Climate change has increased world economic inequality, study says

Independent Warming climate has grown UK economy 10% in past 50 years, but shrunk the poorest by a third, study says

Inside Climate News Climate Change Worsened Global Inequality, Study Finds

Yale 'How can I prepare my children for climate change?'

People: Other stories

BBC David Attenborough climate change TV show a 'call to arms'

CJR The media are complacent while the world burns

Economist Can the novel handle a subject as cataclysmic as climate change?

EcoWatch Bees, Cougars and Climate: The Best New Environmental Books of April

EcoWatch 'Her Work Will Live On': Climate Movement Mourns Loss of Ecocide Campaigner Polly Higgins

EcoWatch Rapper and Comedian Lil Dicky Recruits 30+ Artists Including Ariana Grande, Justin Bieber for Earth Day Video

Guardian Global warming could create 'greater migratory pressure from Africa'

Guardian How anchoring a ship to an ice floe will help fight climate change

New Scientist David Attenborough finally talks climate change in prime time BBC slot

NPR 8 Ways To Teach Climate Change In Almost Any Classroom

NPR Most Teachers Don't Teach Climate Change; 4 In 5 Parents Wish They Did

The Conversation Climate change: yes, your individual action does make a difference

Yale 'How can I prepare my children for climate change?'

Yale 'How do I talk about climate change at social gatherings?'

Yale New research suggests climate change could enable mosquitoes to evolve more rapidly

Yale Q&A with British novelist and journalist John Lanchester on 'The Wall'

Yale The growing frequency of extreme weather dulls people’s awareness of climate change impacts, researchers say

People: Hunger, diet and health

BBC 'Eco-anxiety': how to spot it and what to do about it

Boston Globe Climate change has increased world economic inequality, study says

Independent Warming climate has grown UK economy 10% in past 50 years, but shrunk the poorest by a third, study says

Inside Climate News Climate Change Worsened Global Inequality, Study Finds

NPR In Florida, Doctors See Climate Change Hurting Their Most Vulnerable Patients

RMetS Anthropogenic climate change and heat effects on health

Wiley/AGU100/Earth’s Future Projections of human exposure to dangerous heat in African cities under multiple

socioeconomic and climate scenarios

Yale Climate change is making ground-level ozone pollution worse

Yale The problem with ignoring people's emotions about climate change

Photo Attributions

People: Photo by: Takver

Public viewpoints: Photo by: Ivy Dawned

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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Axios Renewable energy mandates are costly climate policies

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E&E News Wanted: 'Legion of lawyers' to fight climate change

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EOS Rising Methane Emissions Could Derail the Paris Agreement

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Guardian Politicians’ reluctance on climate change is bizarre – action would not only be right but popular

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Guardian It's time for nations to unite around an International Green New Deal

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Inside Climate News New York City Sets Ambitious Climate Rules for Its Biggest Emitters: Buildings

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The Hill Bloomberg donates $5.5 million to fill in Paris agreement gap

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