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People: Links for September 2019

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Politics: Will government save us?

Brazilian minister booed at climate event as outcry grows over Amazon fires | Environment | The Guardian

Climate change and the far right - Forchtner - 2019 - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change - Wiley Online Library

Climate change, language and politics: How should we talk about what's happening to the planet? - The Washington Post

Conservative nonprofit leader David Jenkins says climate change should be priority for the right » Yale Climate Connections

'Fight for our lives': Fiji calls world leaders 'selfish' as it lays out climate crisis blueprint | World news | The Guardian

France's Macron calls Amazon fires an international emergency - Reuters

G-7: Trump Paved the Way for a Breakthrough on Climate Change | Time

How the world’s dirtiest industries have learned to pollute our politics | George Monbiot | Opinion | The Guardian

Macron calls Amazon fires an 'international crisis' ahead of G7 - CNN

Nationally Determined Contributions: Material climate commitments and discursive positioning in the NDCs - Mills‐Novoa - 2019 - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change - Wiley Online Library

The U.S. left a hole in leadership on climate. China is filling it. - POLITICO

Politics of assorted national governments

‘Our people are dying’: Australia’s climate confrontation in the Pacific | World news | The Guardian

‘Tropical Trump’ sparks unprecedented crisis for Brazilian science

Australia pressures Unesco over impact of climate change on Great Barrier Reef | Australia news | The Guardian

Australia seeks to water down climate declaration at Pacific summit

Bolsonaro can bully on deforestation, but he can't hide from satellites (commentary)

Brazil space institute director sacked in Amazon deforestation row | World news | The Guardian

Brazilian Amazon deforestation surges to break August records | Environment | The Guardian

Chile to account for costs of climate change in budget - Reuters

China government think tank presses for 2025 CO2 cap - Reuters

Climate facts subject to rules on partisan advertising in Canada | Science | AAAS

Exclusive: Germany eyes fiscal U-turn with new debt to finance climate plan - Reuters

Fiji Unveils Plan to Fight Climate Crisis, Condemns 'Grossly Irresponsible and Selfish' Inaction of World Powers - EcoWatch

Germany to spend up to $44 billion to cushion coal exit - ABC News

Igniting global outrage, Brazil's Bolsonaro baselessly blames NGOs for Amazon fires - Reuters

Indonesia seals palm, timber concessions amid forest fires: ministry - Reuters

Japan builds coal plants abroad that wouldn’t be allowed at home: Report

Key challenges for China's carbon emissions trading program - Wang - 2019

- Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change - Wiley Online Library

Meat tax: Will Germans swallow higher prices? | In Depth | DW | 08.08.2019

Pacific Island nations will no longer stand for Australia's inaction on climate change

Pacific Islands leaders agree on climate plan with loopholes - Reuters

Pacific leaders, Australia agree to disagree about action on climate change - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Paradise Threatened: Fiji’s War Against Climate Change - The New York Times

'Part of German soul' under threat as forests die | Environment | The Guardian

The Effects of Anthropogenic Land Use Changes on Climate in China Driven by Global Socioeconomic and Emission Scenarios - Dong - - Earth's Future - Wiley Online Library

When it comes to coal, Australia has transitioned away from economics and common sense | Richard Denniss | Opinion | The Guardian

Politics of the United States

A new tone from some Republicans on climate change — mostly behind closed doors - POLITICO

Bernie Sanders Releases New $16 Trillion Climate Plan | Time

Debate’s Attempt to Show Candidates Divided on Climate Change Finds Unity Instead | InsideClimate News

In Iowa, Candidates Are Talking About Farming's Climate Change Connections Like No Previous Election | InsideClimate News

Sanders offers massive climate plan; will it be too much for voters? - The Washington Post

States and cities sue EPA over rollback of climate regulations aimed at coal plants - The Washington Post

The Navy Created the Pentagon's First Climate Task Force—Now It’s Dead

The Once Common Republican Environmentalist Is Virtually Extinct | The Nation

Top climate change scientist quits USDA, says Trump administration tried to bury his study | TheHill

Warren would pay farmers to fight climate change under new plan | TheHill

Washington governor Jay Inslee drops out of Democratic 2020 presidential race - The Washington Post

What role will climate change play in the 2020 presidential election? » Yale Climate Connections

White Nationalists Discover the Environment - The Atlantic

Other Politics Stories

Big Oil CEOs to huddle on sidelines of UN climate summit in September - Axios

Climate at the G-7: Glimmers of a New World Order

The visual framing of climate change impacts and adaptation in the IPCC assessment reports | SpringerLink

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People: Other stories

‘Greta effect’ leads to boom in children’s environmental books | Environment | The Guardian

A record hot summer burned the first fruit of my apple tree – and left a bad taste in my mouth | Anthony N Castle | Environment | The Guardian

Anti-natalists: The people who want you to stop having babies - BBC News

Brazilian Farmers Believe They Have the Right to Burn the Amazon – Rolling Stone

Climate change is already increasing clear air turbulence above the North Atlantic - The Washington Post

Climate Change Will Increase Violent Turbulence On Airline Flights

Dave Eggers: why we should listen to teenagers speak about climate crisis | Environment | The Guardian

Global Warming Is Conquering the Vikings - Eos

Here’s How Climate Change Is Viewed Around the World - Bloomberg

How climate change could reshape religious practice | Anthropocene

How Gen-Z Is Dealing With a Looming Climate Apocalypse - VICE

Increased shear in the North Atlantic upper-level jet stream over the past four decades | Nature

Naomi Booth on motherhood, anxiety and climate change » Yale Climate Connections

Naomi Klein: How science is telling us all to revolt

Pacific Islands Forum: Tuvalu children welcome leaders with a climate plea | World news | The Guardian

'People should be terrified': one teen's hunger strike over the climate crisis | Environment | The Guardian

Studying the Societal Dimensions of Atmospheric Carbon Removal - Eos

'The Handmaid's Tale' Is Trying To Warn You About Climate Change

The Lion King missed an opportunity to talk about the climate crisis | Greta Moran | Opinion | The Guardian

Understanding Christians' climate views can lead to better conversations about the environment

What I learned writing about climate change and the US south for a year | Environment | The Guardian

What is a Fashion Week's role in a time of climate crisis? | TreeHugger

Why Your Brain Can’t Process Climate Change | Time

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Viewpoints: The science/media chasm

A healthy and productive Amazon is the foundation of Brazil's sovereignty (commentary)

A war between Beyond Meat and Impossible Burger and cattle ranchers draws in veggie burgers and Tofurkey - The Washington Post

Audiences are (finally) paying more attention to climate stories - Columbia Journalism Review

'Bees, not refugees': the environmentalist roots of anti-immigrant bigotry | Environment | The Guardian

Climate change: Should we sue politicians for crimes against humanity? | The Independent

Discrepancy in scientific authority and media visibility of climate change scientists and contrarians | Nature Communications

Global warming is already here. Denying it is unforgivable. - The Washington Post

If you act now you can maybe avoid the worst of climate change. But you know you're not going to | First Dog on the Moon | Opinion | The Guardian

It is high time to reboot our relationship with nature

Offsetting carbon emissions: ‘It has proved a minefield’ | Travel | The Guardian

Our planet is in crisis. But until we call it a crisis, no one will listen | Caleb Redlener, Charlotte Jenkins and Irwin Redlener | Opinion | The Guardian

Sorry, But We Can’t Just Hack Our Way Out of Climate Doom | WIRED

The climate crisis must mean the end of British summer holidays in Spain | Patrick Collinson | Money | The Guardian

The Dangerous Delusion of Optimal Global Warming by Adair Turner - Project Syndicate

The Effects of Discussion of Familiar or Non-Familiar Information on Opinions of Anthropogenic Climate Change: Environmental Communication: Vol 0, No 0

The Guardian view on climate crisis: what can we do? | Editorial | Opinion | The Guardian

Trump is Leading America Down a CO2 Highway to Disaster | Opinion

What makes a carbon tax seem more (or less) fair? | Anthropocene

Why can’t we stop climate change? We’re not wired to empathize with our descendants. - The Washington Post

Why doom and gloom won’t help us fight climate change - The Washington Post

Why the fight against climate change will never be won with capitalism | Opinion | Eco-Business | Asia Pacific

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People: Photo by: Takver

Viewpoints: Photo by: Ivy Dawned

Civil action: Photo by: Takver

Humaniy: Photo by: Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Politics: Photo by: Falcon® Photography 

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

Other people stories: Photo by: Michael Coghlan

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