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10 Reasons to Feel Hopeful About Climate Change in 2019 - The Sierra Club

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The Sierra Club is citing 10 reasons why there is hope, despite climate change.

“Yes, it’s going to get worse,” Roberts writes, “but nobody gets to give up hope or stop fighting.” Exactly right. Here, then, are 10 glimmers of hope that humanity will opt for less screwed over more screwed in 2019.

https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/10-reasons-feel-hopeful-about-climate-change-2019

1. The Divestment Movement Keeps Growing
2. The Paris Agreement Holds Steady
3. The Rule of Law Still Rules
4. Renewable Energy Is on the Rise
5. Coal Is Going, Going...
6. Technology Is Advancing
7. Transportation Is Headed in the Right Direction
8. The Scales of Justice Are Tipping
9. The Political Winds Are Shifting
10. Youths Are on the March
 
Media_Truth said:
The Sierra Club is citing 10 reasons why there is hope, despite climate change.

“Yes, it’s going to get worse,” Roberts writes, “but nobody gets to give up hope or stop fighting.” Exactly right. Here, then, are 10 glimmers of hope that humanity will opt for less screwed over more screwed in 2019.

https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/10-reasons-feel-hopeful-about-climate-change-2019

1. The Divestment Movement Keeps Growing
2. The Paris Agreement Holds Steady
3. The Rule of Law Still Rules
4. Renewable Energy Is on the Rise
5. Coal Is Going, Going...
6. Technology Is Advancing
7. Transportation Is Headed in the Right Direction
8. The Scales of Justice Are Tipping
9. The Political Winds Are Shifting
10. Youths Are on the March
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Most of that is what Trump has been telling us all along.
 
Media_Truth said:
The Sierra Club is citing 10 reasons why there is hope, despite climate change.

“Yes, it’s going to get worse,” Roberts writes, “but nobody gets to give up hope or stop fighting.” Exactly right. Here, then, are 10 glimmers of hope that humanity will opt for less screwed over more screwed in 2019.

https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/10-reasons-feel-hopeful-about-climate-change-2019

1. The Divestment Movement Keeps Growing
2. The Paris Agreement Holds Steady
3. The Rule of Law Still Rules
4. Renewable Energy Is on the Rise
5. Coal Is Going, Going...
6. Technology Is Advancing
7. Transportation Is Headed in the Right Direction
8. The Scales of Justice Are Tipping
9. The Political Winds Are Shifting
10. Youths Are on the March
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Yes take for example that even Republicans are on a local level starting to see the benefits of renewable energy.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshua...n-leaders-love-renewable-energy/#631e530f3da7

While at the same time as your link says we are starting to run out of time for limiting the devastating effects of manmade global warming.

https://www.independent.co.uk/envir...fossil-fuels-greenhouse-gas-co2-a8574731.html

There one big reason for that we are running out of time is the fossil fuels companies massive campaigns during many decades to deceive the public about the reality of climate change and block actions to curb carbon emissions.

https://www.ucsusa.org/global-warmi...siers-fossil-fuel-industry-memos#.XD2Y81xKjIV
 
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Moderate Right said:
Most of that is what Trump has been telling us all along.
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Trump have claimed that global warming is a Chinese hoax.

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/265895292191248385

He also wants to spend billions of dollars per year propping up unprofitable coal plants.

https://www.economist.com/graphic-d...save-americas-failing-coal-fired-power-plants

While the Trump administration also wants to abolishing Mercury and Air Toxics Standards for power plants that have prevented up to 11,000 premature deaths each year and a dramaticly reduced mercury pollution.

https://www.lung.org/about-us/media/press-releases/mercury-and-air-toxics.html
 
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Media_Truth said:
The Sierra Club is citing 10 reasons why there is hope, despite climate change.

“Yes, it’s going to get worse,” Roberts writes, “but nobody gets to give up hope or stop fighting.” Exactly right. Here, then, are 10 glimmers of hope that humanity will opt for less screwed over more screwed in 2019.

https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/10-reasons-feel-hopeful-about-climate-change-2019

1. The Divestment Movement Keeps Growing
2. The Paris Agreement Holds Steady
3. The Rule of Law Still Rules
4. Renewable Energy Is on the Rise
5. Coal Is Going, Going...
6. Technology Is Advancing
7. Transportation Is Headed in the Right Direction
8. The Scales of Justice Are Tipping
9. The Political Winds Are Shifting
10. Youths Are on the March
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Not to be a stickler. But those points seem more like wishful thinking than anything else.

Because coal is anything but going at this point, the Paris agreement has it's own problems with regulating it's own members, Renewable energy has it's own issue with the pollution that it creates, with Technology advancing being possibly the only positive here.
 
There can be no real progress as long as oil and gas control government as well as economic policy.
 
Oborosen said:
Not to be a stickler. But those points seem more like wishful thinking than anything else.

Because coal is anything but going at this point, the Paris agreement has it's own problems with regulating it's own members, Renewable energy has it's own issue with the pollution that it creates, with Technology advancing being possibly the only positive here.
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For example UK that have drastically reduced it's coal consumption and will close its last coal plant in 2025.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jan/05/uk-coal-fired-power-plants-close-2025

While Denmark got 43 percent of their electricity from wind power in 2017 and also plan to get 80 percent of electricity from renewables in 2020.

https://cleantechnica.com/2018/01/06/44-wind-denmark-smashed-already-huge-wind-energy-records-2017/

You also have NIPSCO, a energy company in Republican Indiana, that plan to replace coal with renewables and reduce carbon emissions by more than 90 percent by 2028.

https://www.nipsco.com/your-energy
 
Media_Truth said:
Gotta link?
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No link needed. It is common knowledge that several things on the list are what Trump has always said, such as things would be fine even if the US was not in the Paris accord.
 
Bergslagstroll said:
Trump have claimed that global warming is a Chinese hoax.

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/265895292191248385

He also wants to spend billions of dollars per year propping up unprofitable coal plants.

https://www.economist.com/graphic-d...save-americas-failing-coal-fired-power-plants

While the Trump administration also wants to abolishing Mercury and Air Toxics Standards for power plants that have prevented up to 11,000 premature deaths each year and a dramaticly reduced mercury pollution.

https://www.lung.org/about-us/media/press-releases/mercury-and-air-toxics.html
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Trump has also claimed that it wasn't a hoax.
 
Media_Truth said:
The Sierra Club is citing 10 reasons why there is hope, despite climate change.

“Yes, it’s going to get worse,” Roberts writes, “but nobody gets to give up hope or stop fighting.” Exactly right. Here, then, are 10 glimmers of hope that humanity will opt for less screwed over more screwed in 2019.

https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/10-reasons-feel-hopeful-about-climate-change-2019

1. The Divestment Movement Keeps Growing
2. The Paris Agreement Holds Steady
3. The Rule of Law Still Rules
4. Renewable Energy Is on the Rise
5. Coal Is Going, Going...
6. Technology Is Advancing
7. Transportation Is Headed in the Right Direction
8. The Scales of Justice Are Tipping
9. The Political Winds Are Shifting
10. Youths Are on the March
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The scales of justice are tipping? What does that mean? They aren't supposed to tip .And now that liberal actiivist Ruth Ginsburg is out of commission there is a less likely chance they'll tip. ( Liberal judges typically rule to support liberal causes,)
 
Moderate Right said:
No link needed. It is common knowledge that several things on the list are what Trump has always said, such as things would be fine even if the US was not in the Paris accord.
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:lamo No link needed to back something Trump said... :lamo
 
KLATTU said:
The scales of justice are tipping? What does that mean? They aren't supposed to tip .And now that liberal actiivist Ruth Ginsburg is out of commission there is a less likely chance they'll tip. ( Liberal judges typically rule to support liberal causes,)
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You obviously didn't read the article.

It used to be if you were worried about global warming, you were supposed to change your lightbulbs and recycle. As the political movement to address climate change has evolved, so has the understanding that some players have made outsized contributions to the problem; researchers have established, for example, that the business practices of about 90 companies are responsible for nearly two-thirds of the observed increases in global surface temperatures. Now, an effort is underway to hold the fossil fuel industry responsible for its actions. In 2018, seven cities, counties, and states filed lawsuits against some of these companies, seeking to recover damages brought on by climate-change-related disasters. In November, West Coast crab fishermen sued 30 fossil fuel corporations, alleging that global warming has led to fishery closures and lost revenue. And the our Children’s Trust lawsuit—in which 21 young people are suing the US government for fueling global warming—is still making its way through the court system. Climate liability cases are a part of a global trend: Lawsuits are ongoing in the Netherlands, Peru, the Philippines, Canada, and other countries.
 
Climate change alarmists are like a religious zealot who announces the day the earth will come to an end. When it does, they predict a new date. Then another and another.

How many times now have we gone past the point of no return so far? This all started with Al Gore - and we are now 12 years past his 2006 point of no return that was taught to millions and millions of children as if tuisms from God.
 
joko104 said:
Climate change alarmists are like a religious zealot who announces the day the earth will come to an end. When it does, they predict a new date. Then another and another.

How many times now have we gone past the point of no return so far? This all started with Al Gore - and we are now 12 years past his 2006 point of no return that was taught to millions and millions of children as if tuisms from God.
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It could have been relative easy to prevent most of the devasting consequence of climate change if real action had been taking during the 90’s.

Instead we are now running out of time and already experience the devasting effecst of climate change.

https://www.ucsusa.org/global-warming#.XD7hylxKjIU

While the most devastating effects of climate change can still be avoided if we take decisive action right now.
 
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Media_Truth said:
You obviously didn't read the article.

It used to be if you were worried about global warming, you were supposed to change your lightbulbs and recycle. As the political movement to address climate change has evolved, so has the understanding that some players have made outsized contributions to the problem; researchers have established, for example, that the business practices of about 90 companies are responsible for nearly two-thirds of the observed increases in global surface temperatures. Now, an effort is underway to hold the fossil fuel industry responsible for its actions. In 2018, seven cities, counties, and states filed lawsuits against some of these companies, seeking to recover damages brought on by climate-change-related disasters. In November, West Coast crab fishermen sued 30 fossil fuel corporations, alleging that global warming has led to fishery closures and lost revenue. And the our Children’s Trust lawsuit—in which 21 young people are suing the US government for fueling global warming—is still making its way through the court system. Climate liability cases are a part of a global trend: Lawsuits are ongoing in the Netherlands, Peru, the Philippines, Canada, and other countries.
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Yes more and more people are realizing the huge negative impact the fossil fuel companies have had for many decades. That the fossil fuels companies used massive lobbying, PR and marketing campaigns to delay the transition away from fossil fuels. While the fossil fuels own studies acknowledge manmade global warming and its devasting effects.

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...d-exxons-secret-1980s-climate-change-warnings

While the fossil fuel companies still have a huge influence over the Trump administration.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/09/climate/coal-murray-trump-memo.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/13/climate/cafe-emissions-rollback-oil-industry.html

While corporations can also be a part of the transition away from fossil fuels. For example that over 150 of the world’s most influential companies have committed to source 100 percent renewable electricity. While the price of renewables have dropped so much that even oil companies invests in renewable energy.

Exxon knows renewables are cheaper, even if Trump doesn't
 
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Trump gives false hope to coal miners.

https://www.salon.com/2019/01/07/fo...false-hope-about-coal-jobs-returning_partner/

While for example the Spanish goverment is instead both closing coal mines and providing new jobs for the coal miners.

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...lose-most-coal-mines-after-striking-250m-deal

Trump is also ignoring his own federal agencies that warns about the devastating effects of manmade global warming.

https://science2017.globalchange.gov/

https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/
 
joko104 said:
Climate change alarmists are like a religious zealot who announces the day the earth will come to an end. When it does, they predict a new date. Then another and another.

How many times now have we gone past the point of no return so far? This all started with Al Gore - and we are now 12 years past his 2006 point of no return that was taught to millions and millions of children as if tuisms from God.
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Have you seen this from the EPA?

https://19january2017snapshot.epa.gov/climate-change-science/causes-climate-change_.html

Models that account only for the effects of natural processes are not able to explain the warming observed over the past century. Models that also account for the greenhouse gases emitted by humans are able to explain this warming.

EPA_https19january2017snapshot.epa.govclimate-change-sciencecauses-climate-change_.html.jpg
 
Bergslagstroll said:
For example UK that have drastically reduced it's coal consumption and will close its last coal plant in 2025.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jan/05/uk-coal-fired-power-plants-close-2025

While Denmark got 43 percent of their electricity from wind power in 2017 and also plan to get 80 percent of electricity from renewables in 2020.

https://cleantechnica.com/2018/01/06/44-wind-denmark-smashed-already-huge-wind-energy-records-2017/

You also have NIPSCO, a energy company in Republican Indiana, that plan to replace coal with renewables and reduce carbon emissions by more than 90 percent by 2028.

https://www.nipsco.com/your-energy
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That's good for the UK and India, though I hope they manage to actually update their power grids to deal with using their new source of energy. Because Europe has had that problem for some time already.
https://www.businessinsider.com/europe-renewable-energy-grid-problem-2016-3

Not to mention instances like this going on.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/03/21/europe-renewable-energy/2006245/

I'm trying to remember what countries it was that were experiencing mass power outages because of trying to switch over. I think one was Germany, though I can't seem to find the original article, so don't hold me to that one just yet.
 
Oborosen said:
That's good for the UK and India, though I hope they manage to actually update their power grids to deal with using their new source of energy. Because Europe has had that problem for some time already.
https://www.businessinsider.com/europe-renewable-energy-grid-problem-2016-3

Not to mention instances like this going on.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/03/21/europe-renewable-energy/2006245/

I'm trying to remember what countries it was that were experiencing mass power outages because of trying to switch over. I think one was Germany, though I can't seem to find the original article, so don't hold me to that one just yet.
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The transition away from fossil fuel will of course have challenges. While it will be a lot harder to deal with the devasting effects of manmade global warming. There even federal agencies under Donald Trump warns about the devastating effects of climate change.

https://climate.nasa.gov/effects/

https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/

https://science2017.globalchange.gov/

https://climate.nasa.gov/effects/

The Paris Agreement could also save a millions lives per year just by reducing air pollutions.

“Meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement could save about a million lives a year worldwide by 2050 through reductions in air pollution alone. The latest estimates from leading experts also indicate that the value of health gains from climate action would be approximately double the cost of mitigation policies at global level, and the benefit-to-cost ratio is even higher in countries such as China and India.”

https://www.who.int/news-room/detai...igh-the-costs-of-meeting-climate-change-goals

Also that your second link is from 2013 and since then you have seen an rapid increase in renewable energy all across the world that countinues in a rapid pace. For example in Australia there Teslas giant battery have been proven to be very effective in regulating supply and demand of electricity.

http://theconversation.com/at-its-c...k-for-50-renewable-electricity-in-2025-102903

https://www.theguardian.com/technol...-track-to-make-back-a-third-of-cost-in-a-year
 
Media_Truth said:
The Sierra Club is citing 10 reasons why there is hope, despite climate change.

“Yes, it’s going to get worse,” Roberts writes, “but nobody gets to give up hope or stop fighting.” Exactly right. Here, then, are 10 glimmers of hope that humanity will opt for less screwed over more screwed in 2019.

https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/10-reasons-feel-hopeful-about-climate-change-2019

1. The Divestment Movement Keeps Growing
2. The Paris Agreement Holds Steady
3. The Rule of Law Still Rules
4. Renewable Energy Is on the Rise
5. Coal Is Going, Going...
6. Technology Is Advancing
7. Transportation Is Headed in the Right Direction
8. The Scales of Justice Are Tipping
9. The Political Winds Are Shifting
10. Youths Are on the March
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More and more money is being spent to support those who have chosen as their life work the search for a cure for the weather.
 
marke said:
More and more money is being spent to support those who have chosen as their life work the search for a cure for the weather.
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Global subsidies to fossil fuel are hundreds of billions each year. Much more than the subsidies to renewable energy.

https://www.iea.org/newsroom/news/2...nsumption-subsidies-are-down-but-not-out.html

Bush was president for eight years, Trump have been for two years and you also had have Republican congresses. So all those Republicans should have been able to use federal funds to disprove manmade global warning if any evidence existed. Instead federal agencies countinue to acknolwedge manmade global warming and its devasting effects.

While the fossil fuel companies are amongst the most profitable companies in the world, so they could also have easily fund studies to disprove manmade global warming if any evidence existed. Instead the fossil fuel companies own studies show that manmade global warming is real and will have devasting effects.


https://www.theguardian.com/environ...d-exxons-secret-1980s-climate-change-warnings
 
Bergslagstroll said:
Global subsidies to fossil fuel are hundreds of billions each year. Much more than the subsidies to renewable energy.

https://www.iea.org/newsroom/news/2...nsumption-subsidies-are-down-but-not-out.html

Bush was president for eight years, Trump have been for two years and you also had have Republican congresses. So all those Republicans should have been able to use federal funds to disprove manmade global warning if any evidence existed. Instead federal agencies countinue to acknolwedge manmade global warming and its devasting effects.

While the fossil fuel companies are amongst the most profitable companies in the world, so they could also have easily fund studies to disprove manmade global warming if any evidence existed. Instead the fossil fuel companies own studies show that manmade global warming is real and will have devasting effects.


https://www.theguardian.com/environ...d-exxons-secret-1980s-climate-change-warnings
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It may be just as hard to prove global warming alarmism is unscientific as it is impossible to prove global warming hype is solidly backed by irrefutable scientific speculations, assumptions and interpretations of the very limited data available.
 
Media_Truth said:
The Sierra Club is citing 10 reasons why there is hope, despite climate change.

“Yes, it’s going to get worse,” Roberts writes, “but nobody gets to give up hope or stop fighting.” Exactly right. Here, then, are 10 glimmers of hope that humanity will opt for less screwed over more screwed in 2019.

https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/10-reasons-feel-hopeful-about-climate-change-2019

1. The Divestment Movement Keeps Growing
2. The Paris Agreement Holds Steady
3. The Rule of Law Still Rules
4. Renewable Energy Is on the Rise
5. Coal Is Going, Going...
6. Technology Is Advancing
7. Transportation Is Headed in the Right Direction
8. The Scales of Justice Are Tipping
9. The Political Winds Are Shifting
10. Youths Are on the March
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I disagree with #8. The SCOTUS has been incorporated and likely will get worse. Corporatism is the ENEMY of renewable energy. Renewable energy is our hope for the future of our children.
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