If Biden is elected, he can roll back some of the damage done by Trump. He can’t undo the damage done to the climate during the Trump administration. That has caused permanent harm.
“I’ve been labeled an alarmist,” said Peter Kalmus, a climate scientist in Los Angeles, where smoke levels have been unhealthy for weeks. “And I think it’s a lot harder for people to say that I’m being alarmist now.” An elegy: @JohnBranchNYT @bradplumer https://t.co/u2lyi0sOEr
— John Schwartz (@jswatz) September 22, 2020
This melting wax panther is an artistic metaphor for the toll human-caused climate change is taking on Florida's wildlife and people. And scientists say it could get even worse. https://t.co/Eu0W1dLf18
— CNN (@CNN) September 22, 2020
“There’s sort of this sense that we can bend the world to our will,” said Kristina Dahl of the Union of Concerned Scientists. “Climate change is exposing the vulnerabilities in the systems that we’ve engineered.”https://t.co/boRbbBp8HB
— NYT Climate (@nytclimate) September 21, 2020
"A climate emergency unfolding before our eyes." Arctic sea ice has shrunk to almost historic levels https://t.co/O9X6Qm1aB4
— TIME (@TIME) September 22, 2020
The Trump administration has tried to roll back 100 environmental regulations over the past four years. Left in place, they could have a significant effect on future greenhouse gas emissions — an additional 1.8 billion metric tons by 2035. https://t.co/UOkdltDLKn
— NYT Climate (@nytclimate) September 20, 2020
The Fire This Time: the irresistible force of accelerating weather disruption from #climatechange is colliding w/the immovable object of unyielding resistance to action from Republican voters & officials alike. My take. https://t.co/ZwtAz9g3L6
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) September 17, 2020
Dereliction of journalistic duty: “Between September 5 and September 8, ABC, CBS, and NBC aired 46 segments on the wildfires, but their link to climate change was only mentioned in seven of those reports across networks,” https://t.co/oES768v15F
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) September 17, 2020
Scientists say an enormous chunk of Greenland’s ice cap, estimated to be about 110 square kilometers (42.3 square miles), has broken off in the far northeastern Arctic. They see it as evidence of rapid climate change. https://t.co/yIfzR109ye
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 15, 2020
President Trump baselessly asserted that climate change is not playing a role in the catastrophic wildfires overtaking forests across the west, rebutting an official briefing him who pleaded for the President listen to the science https://t.co/7z1QufKj9E
— CNN (@CNN) September 14, 2020
Reminder that the Republican Party is the only major political party anywhere in the world that denies the reality of climate change.
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) September 15, 2020
Climate change was the first thing @SenatorReid mentioned when I asked him what policy goals justify abolition of the filibuster. https://t.co/c7s8vfJbTf https://t.co/3fiVv82tkJ
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) September 13, 2020
During a rally in Minden, Nevada, where the air quality is currently rated "unhealthy" & you can smell smoke in the air from nearby wildfires, Trump is touting his decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accords
— Jeremy Diamond (@JDiamond1) September 13, 2020
The northwest part of Oregon has dried out this year, in large part because of climate change, enabling flames driven by strong winds. “We’re seeing fires in places that we don’t normally see fires. Normally it’s far too wet to burn.” https://t.co/0KNmdcV36L
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 12, 2020
Anyway, imagine how different the election would be if Wisconsin and Michigan and Pennsylvania were burning.
— George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 (@gtconway3d) September 12, 2020
Tucker Carlson calls climate change "systemic racism in the sky" https://t.co/rWSlkT09X0
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) September 12, 2020
“If you’re denying this exists, you don’t ask for a report on it.” President Trump has dismissed climate change as a hoax, but a report commissioned by his Commodity Futures Trading Commission warns darkly of global warming's impact on financial markets https://t.co/38F6CXJuxv
— Coral Davenport (@CoralMDavenport) September 9, 2020
As the world heats up, cities with heat-trapping asphalt and little tree cover have left residents sweltering and breathing in more air pollutionhttps://t.co/WREhfR9rvI
— Emma Newburger (@emma_newburger) September 2, 2020
#ImVotingForJoe because he's a decent human being. The more I learn about @JoeBiden the more I like him. And most importantly Joe Biden has an aggressive plan to address climate change: https://t.co/jobJpCMpqr
— Andrea Chalupa (@AndreaChalupa) September 1, 2020
Sad! 