Category Archives: Paris Climate Accord

Climate Change Resources

Posted on April 25, 2022 by Mary Foster Morgan

April 25, 2022 If you don’t already receive this excellent weekly climate round-up newsletter, read on. And sign up. Climate Change Resources was created in 2016 by publishers Lena Tabori and Mike Shatzkin to educate and empower us all to … Continue reading →

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Climate and Real Estate

Posted on January 3, 2020 by D. Posnett MD

GUESTWORDS in the East Hampton Star By David Posnett January 1, 2020 There is already evidence of a real estate slump in the United States. A housing recession is predicted for 2020. The average price of luxury home sales is … Continue reading →

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Panic or Empowerment? Brought to You by Greta, Alexandria, 1.6M+

Posted on April 24, 2019 by Mary Foster Morgan

    photos from their instagram Feeling inspired?  I am.  Thrilled, actually, to witness the clear clarion call to climate action….. by young people who have their whole lives to live, and so much to loose.   UNITE BEHIND THE SCIENCE, … Continue reading →

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Oil Giant Takes Climate Change Seriously

Posted on March 8, 2019 by D. Posnett MD

This is hilarious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=34&v=D1BOWxFMT5Q   And this is serious: BY STEVEN MUFSON,  The Washington Post, March 5th The chief economist of one of the world’s biggest oil companies is urging other companies to take climate change seriously — and sooner … Continue reading →

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Spring is Looking Up. March 15 #FridaysForFuture, April 4-23 #DrawdownEcoChallenge

Posted on March 1, 2019 by Mary Foster Morgan

March 15th. The Ides of March, notable to the ancient Romans for settling debts, as a holy day when sheep were sacrificed, and of course, a day to beware, as a seer warned Julius Cesar. What is this year’s prophecy?  … Continue reading →

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Happy Valentine’s Day, Dear Earth, #LoveOurPlanetNotPollution

Posted on February 12, 2019 by Mary Foster Morgan

Some of us have been meeting at the Southampton library to discuss ways we can scale up existing efforts that draw down carbon from the atmosphere, based on the top 100 solutions outlined in the New York Times bestseller Drawdown: … Continue reading →

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Greta Thunberg: 16-year-old star speaker in Davos

Posted on January 26, 2019 by D. Posnett MD

Take a look at a 16 year old lecturing the leaders of the world! Impressive. Our house is on fire! On TED! On ScientistsWarning.Org?

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Dangerous Men

Posted on September 8, 2018 by D. Posnett MD

Bleached Staghorn Coral By James Ewing (Watermill, NY) “The GOP Republican party is the most dangerous organization in human history…dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organized human life on earth.”—Noam Chomsky, scholar, MIT. What are these most dangerous … Continue reading →

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Talk is Cheap Mr. Zeldin

Posted on February 28, 2018 by D. Posnett MD

From James Ewing:  A reminder of where Lee Zeldin stands on the environment.  The Scorecard as per the League of Conservation Voters. To get the specifics on each vote go their website and click on the “vote name”: http://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/lee-zeldin Green … Continue reading →

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Zeldin Boasting about Environment Record?

Posted on January 2, 2018 by maidstonejewelry

Recently Congressman Lee Zeldin (R, NY-1), co-chair of the Long Island Sound Caucus and founding member of the “Congressional Estuary Caucus”, was joined by EPA Regional Administrator Pete Lopez, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Regional Director Carrie Meek … Continue reading →

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Miami under Water – for Good!

Posted on November 4, 2017 by D. Posnett MD

Just heard from a friend regarding United Nations conference in Geneva (Switzerland). Pretty devastating UN report. Even action on climate change NOW will not prevent the predicted devastation as the lag time is too great. Here is the link. You can … Continue reading →

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A Golden Opportunity for Carbon Fees

Posted on October 12, 2017 by D. Posnett MD

From: John Andrews Wednesday, October 11, 2017 7:01 PM Dear Long Island East CCLers (Citizens’ Climate Lobby), Now that the head of the Environmental Protection Agency has gutted President Obama’s Clean Power Plan, it is a perfect opportunity to ask … Continue reading →

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More Bad Zeldin Environmental Votes

Posted on October 12, 2017 by D. Posnett MD

By Marc Rauch and Chelsea Estevez Since our last update in late August, fourteen bills impacting the environment have come before the House of Representatives. Lee Zeldin took the anti-environment position on 12 out of 14 of these recent bills. … Continue reading →

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Oceans in Peril

Posted on September 19, 2017 by D. Posnett MD

Title image from Oceans of Acid. By Judith S. Weis  OpEd in the East Hampton Star Sept. 14, 2017 While some politicians claim that climate change is a hoax, and climate scientists try to refine their models and forecasts of … Continue reading →

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Schizophrenia in the East Hampton GOP

Posted on June 8, 2017 by bcolbath42

Published in The East End Beacon, June 8, 2017 To the Editor:   Reg Cornelia’s recent outbursts lay bare the schizophrenia afflicting the East Hampton GOP. Most recently, on behalf of the EH GOP, he viciously and misleadingly denounced the … Continue reading →

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Macron invites Americans upset over Trump exit from climate pact to find a ‘second homeland’

Posted on June 7, 2017 by bcolbath42

by Margaret Menge | Updated 06 Jun 2017 at 6:06 AM French President Emmanuel Macron is offering refuge to American liberals upset at President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. In a video posted to Twitter, … Continue reading →

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A Crazy Man for President

Posted on June 7, 2017 by davidf67

OK, it took all of four months, but I think it’s been pretty well established by now: we’ve elected a crazy man for President.  Not that for most of us there were any doubts on that score on November 9th … Continue reading →

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The World Reacts To The US Abandoning the Paris Accord

Posted on June 5, 2017 by bcolbath42

Half a dozen world leaders lambasted Mr. Trump’s decision to pull the United States out of the Paris climate agreement this week sent shockwaves through global diplomacy. Former policy experts warned that Trump’s decision to divorce the US from the … Continue reading →

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America Tells Trump To F^%$ Off!

Posted on June 5, 2017 by bcolbath42

More than 1,000 U.S. State and Local governments, college and university leaders, companies and investors let the rest of the world know that America is still with the Paris Accord, ignoring Mr. Trump’s irresponsible action last week.  The letter sent … Continue reading →

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John Oliver Blasts ‘F–king Egomaniac’ Trump for Leaving Paris Climate Accord

Posted on June 5, 2017 by D. Posnett MD

By now we should all know, the Paris agreement was about “2 degrees Celsius”.  If global warming exceeds these 2 extra degrees things become irreversible.  Bad things. Most people understand this, which is why it was possible (although not easy) … Continue reading →

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