Blue America helped over two cycles elect Marie Newman to replace odious Dan Lipinski in IL03. She s been fantastic, productive and really effective. So that means the NRCC has her seat in their sights for 2022. We can t let them steal a great progressive seat after all that. Image from: Campaign Photo
A few days ago, the NRCC announced ten new targets they re working on flipping. Most of the seats are held by a pack of conservative New Dems and Blue Dogs from the Republican wing of the Democratic Party.
One of them isn t: our old friend Marie Newman, who we helped over the course of two cycles oust one of the anti-woman conservative Blue Dogs,
Yves here. Even though the Republican response to climate change is little more than a hand wave, the enthusiasm about the Democrats’ approach seems overdone. The Paris Accord goals already look like too little, too late. And that’s before getting to how much hidden carbon we import via Chinese made goods.
There’s too much inertia and wishful thinking and not enough fear.
By Dana Nuccitelli, an environmental scientist, writer, and author of ‘Climatology versus Pseudoscience,’ published in 2015. He has published 10 peer-reviewed studies related to climate change and has been writing about the subject since 2010 for outlets including Skeptical Science and The Guardian. Originally published at Yale Climate Connections
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OP-ED: Since last Earth Day, climate impacts have only hit harder
Jon Clark and Mark Reynolds
Citizens’ Climate Lobby
The amount of heat-trapping emissions humans have spewed into our atmosphere since last Earth Day was 10 percent less than a typical year, a cause for celebration if not for one salient fact: The reduction in carbon pollution will be short-lived as the global economy rebounds from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Though emissions were briefly down, the impact of climate change in 2020 was more devastating than ever. The Atlantic hurricane season broke records for the number of named storms with 30, so many that the World Meteorological Organization ran out of names and had to use the Greek alphabet. AccuWeather estimates the economic fallout from these storms to be between $60 billion and $65 billion.