Climate Policy in the Biden Era: On a Personnel Note

By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion

The transition from candidate to president provides critical clues as to how he is likely to rule. Above everything else, politics is a team sport.

The Role of Government in Climate Matters: Isn’t It Obvious?

By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion

The two greatest existential threats facing the nation—viral pandemics and climate change—demand a science-based response. So, it is hardly surprising that the relationship between science and the federal government is being debated in this year of chaos, crisis, and calamity.

An open letter to the young people of the United States

By Sierra Emrick, Resilience.org

New scientific understanding shows we can drastically reduce the time it takes for our environment to stabilize if we elect a leader who will get us back on track with IPCC carbon emission guidelines

Hey, Joe Biden! Call Me, Before Debating Trump on Climate Change

By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion

The first debate between President Trump and former Vice President Biden will occur on the 29th of September. In advance of the encounter, 70 Democratic members of Congress sent a letter to the Commission on Presidential Debates asking it to publicly call on the moderators to include climate in the topics that will be addressed during the debates

Science, the Pandemic, and How the Coming Election is a Crossroads for Climate Change

By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion

The COVID-19 contagion shows once again the disdain President Trump and his administration have for science-based policies and actions.

Courting Solutions to the Climate Crisis —  In All the Wrong Places?

By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion

Twenty years of gridlock have squandered the time that would have been better used for steady—dare I say progressive—enactment of federal policies and programs to effectuate the transition to a just, low-carbon, and sustainable economy.

Is the Green New Deal Dead?

By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion

Technically the Green New Deal (GND) has yet to live as a formal legislative proposal as compared to “a sense of resolution.” Therefore, any reports of its demise would be premature.

The Worst Reason to Oppose the Green New Deal

By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion

I would even venture that climate change is becoming one of the topics most talked about—or like religion and politics not to be talked about—around dinner tables. I credit the rising tide of youth activism for this rather sudden reversal of fortune.

After 40 Years of Government Inaction on Climate, Have We Finally Turned a Corner?

By Gus Speth, Fran Korten, YES! magazine

We’re up against the huge power of the fossil fuel industry; the extraordinary ideological opposition to the federal government doing anything important; money going into disinformation campaigns that people readily bought into. And it’s still going on.

Beware Republicans Bearing Environmental Gifts

By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion

Whatever one thinks of the GND, it has succeeded in making climate change a hot topic of discussion throughout much of the nation. Given climate is on the agenda of every Democratic presidential contender and a popular topic of derision by many conservative politicians and cable pundits, the climate discussion will not be going away anytime soon.

New Study on the Collapse of Mayan Civilization Should be Climate Wake-up Call

By Joe Romm, Climate Progress

A new study finds that it was a severe and long-lasting megadrought that destroyed the great Mayan civilization a thousand years ago. But the research has ominous relevance for us today...

Fossil Fuel Industry Spent Nearly $2 billion to Kill U.S. Climate Action, New Study Finds

By Joe Romm, Climate Progress

Climate action has been repeatedly drowned by a devastating surge and flood of money from the fossil fuel industry — nearly $2 billion in lobbying since 2000 alone.