WNC Climate Action Coalition
Confronting Our Local Climate Change Challenges
Some important news concerning the Climate Crisis!
“The last seven years were the world's hottest on record, with the first analysis of global temperature in 2021 showing it was 1.2C above pre-industrial levels”. This means that the greenhouse gases are increasing along with global temperatures. When the “greenhouse gas concentration increases more heat is being trapped than ever before”. Even though this is happening “2021 ranked as the fifth hottest year on record”. This is due to La Nina “bringing cold Pacific waters to the surface”.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/10/climate-crisis-last-seven-years-the-hottest-on-record-2021-data-shows
Climate justice: A long way to go
AP report: “Regulator reports new spills along Line 3 construction route” (AP, 8/10/2021) The Anishinaabe and other N. MN nations and tribes are still being brutalized, their land and water poisoned by Candadian company Enbridge: "MINNESOTA POLICE EXPECTED PIPELINE BUDGET BOOST TO FUND NEW WEAPONS: "The Minnesota police are getting weapons and other "benefits" from Enbridge. This isn't the only instance. See also https://earthjustice.org/brief/2021/oil-giant-enbridge-defies-line-5-pipeline-shutdown-order-faces-profit-seizures
"United Nations Issues Letter Regarding Violations of Anishinaabe Human Rights from Enbridge Line 3, Requests Measures from the United States" -- Sept. 2, 2021 https://www.stopline3.org/news/unitednations
Triple-Win Climate Solutions
The Mountaineer and the Smoky Mountain News
Online and Print Editions
The US's foes, especially the Russians, have been waging disinformation wars about climate:
Most dangerously, a 2018 Republican-led House panel condemned Russian online disinformation for persuading some Americans to think climate change is a “liberal hoax":
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jul/27/the-disinformation-age-a-revolution-in-propaganda
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/14/russia-us-politics-social-media-facebook
Current Actions
The Line 3 tar sands pipeline would cross 200 bodies of water & emit as much carbon as FIFTY new coal plants.
Help stop it!
See Priceofoil.org's
Open Letter to Joe Biden and send your own!
PBS has the INFO!
"A Year to Change the World" with Greta Thunberg
"America's Forests" with Chuck Leavell
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Free online course that explains climate change and prepares you to discuss the issues with others of various viewpoints.
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