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Governments Are Failing To Adapt To Sea Level Rise
Climate change is causing our seas to rise at an unprecedented rate, which is eating away at coastlines all around the world. Here in the United States the government is actually encouraging people to live near this danger, rather than adapt or move to higher ground. Michael Oppenheimer, a climate scientist who has been studying global warming for decades, explains what governments should be doing in the face of this crisis.
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“Our main enemy right now is not our political opponents. Our main enemy now is physics…and we cannot make deals with physics,” Greta Thunberg told the U.S. House of Representatives in a speech during her visit to Washington, D.C.
Drill Baby Drill
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is one of America’s last untouched pieces of wilderness. The Trump Administration is rushing to open it up to oil companies.
#WeCanSolveThis: Harnessing The Power of The Earth
Before John Wick was the co-founder of the Marin Carbon Project, he was just trying to find a way to get rid of weeds on his ranch when he stumbled upon a powerful climate change solution. Then he learned about an approach to farming helps sequester carbon in the soil, and could be a major solution in the fight against climate change.
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How Net-Zero Buildings Can Help The Climate Crisis
The buildings where we live and work can be as big a climate solution as switching to renewable energy, because buildings consume about 40 percent of all energy. Hal Harvey, an energy and climate expert, explains how the concept of net-zero buildings and improved building codes are key to lowering emissions.
Chase Bank Sit-In: Stop The Money Pipeline
The climate movement has identified a new threat: Wall Street and its financing of fossil fuels. The Stop The Money Pipeline campaign teamed up with Fire Drill Fridays to call attention to the role Chase bank is playing in the climate crisis. Bill McKibbon, Rev. Lennox Yearwood and a group of supporters hope to send a message to CEO Jamie Dimon by staging a sit-in at a Chase branch in D.C., while Jane Fonda stages a protest at the Capital building nearby.
Actor and activist Jane Fonda has a very important message for Chase Bank’s CEO Jamie Dimon. She wants him to end Chase bank’s investments in fossil fuels, or we’ll cut up our cards and move our money elsewhere.
Learn more at StopTheMoneyPipeline.com.
The concept of a Green New Deal for the United States is getting a lot of attention. But what a Green New Deal means might be different to from person to person. Energy and policy expert Hal Harvey offers a definition of what that policy should do. He explains that the government needs to set the goals for decarbonizing the economy, and then the private sector has to meet them—and he offers examples of how our country does this all the time.
The Climate Solution You Need To Know About
There are about 200 people who hold the keys to winning or losing on climate change in the United States. They’re the members of Public Utility Commissions (PUCs), who decide how local utility companies get energy. Energy expert Hal Harvey explains why we need to get them on board with solving the climate crisis.
A Big Reason UN Climate Talks Aren’t Working
The fossil fuel industry has been allowed to underwrite and sponsor the United Nations climate talks for years, including the recent COP25 in Madrid. This creates a massive conflict of interest for a conference that’s supposed to be solving the climate crisis. Sponsorships give oil, coal and gas groups access to events and delegates, creating opportunities to push to weaken the Paris Agreement.
In response, a youth-led group of activists is calling for an end to polluter funding at future COPs. Learn more about the #PollutersOut campaign.
The Fossil Fuel Industry Could Set Off A “Carbon Bomb”
There’s a carbon bomb beneath our feet and new research says we’re about to light the fuse. We explain the findings, and what it all means for the goals of the Paris Agreement.
President Trump is attempting to open the largest forest in the United States, Tongass National Forest, to the logging industry, but the public has the chance to weigh in before he takes action.
One third of all global warming has been caused by just 20 companies, and now we know exactly who they are. Here’s what’s even worse: these companies have known their products created pollution that could change our global climate. In this installment of #BigOilKnew, we walk you through the timeline of climate change denial.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Reveals Exxon Knew
New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez questioned Dr. Martin Hoffert during a House Oversight subcommittee hearing on civil rights. Dr. Hoffert was commissioned by ExxonMobil to study climate change, and what he reveals about what the company has known for decades is truly staggering.
Governments Are Failing To Adapt To Sea Level Rise
Climate change is causing our seas to rise at an unprecedented rate, which is eating away at coastlines all around the world. Here in the United States the government is actually encouraging people to live near this danger, rather than adapt or move to higher ground. Michael Oppenheimer, a climate scientist who has been studying global warming for decades, explains what governments should be doing in the face of this crisis.
Why Melting Sea Ice Could Lead To New Kinds Of Weather
Ice in the Arctic is melting at an unprecedented rate and leading to higher sea levels. But higher temperatures aren’t the only cause. Climate scientist Radley Horton explains how the albedo effect, black carbon, and the jet stream are speeding up the rate of melting in the Arctic. And this melting ice could lead to entirely new weather patters.
Tens of millions of people could be displaced by climate change by the end of this century. Climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer explains why that matters, and what governments need to do to prepare.
Greta Thunberg Takes Davos
Greta Thunberg, who inspired a movement of school strikes for climate action, spoke bluntly to the world leaders gathered at the 2020 World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos. Her message: stop funding fossil fuel exploration, immediately end all fossil fuel subsidies, and immediately and completely divest from fossil fuels.
Why We’re Seeing A Lot More 100-Year Floods And Storms
You may have noticed that we’ve been seeing way more 100-year and even 500-year floods, storms, hurricanes, and other severe weather events in the past decade. Shouldn’t a 100-year storm happen…every 100 years? Scientist Radley Horton explains how these events actually have a misleading name, and the real reason the odds are turning against us.
Pete Buttigieg’s Climate Plan
Like all the Democrats in the 2020 presidential primary race, Pete Buttigieg has released a plan to address climate change. Rather than implement regulations on specific technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Mayor Pete believes that market incentives will get the job done, including a price on carbon and lots of investment in research and development.
Andrew Yang’s Climate Change Plan
Presidential hopeful Andrew Yang has a unique plan to fix the climate crisis. He has a tech-centered approach to renewable energy and carbon sequestration, and he proposes switching nuclear energy plants from uranium to thorium. Yang says that if he’s elected, no one with ties to the fossil fuel industry would be allowed to work in his administration.
Bernie Sanders’ 2020 Climate Plan
If elected President of the United States in 2020, Senator Bernie Sanders plans to address climate change by pushing for the Green New Deal. Here’s a closer look at his campaign proposals, which he says will create millions of green jobs and is estimated to cost $16.3 trillion.
Flying Rivers
The Amazon rainforest is under immense pressure, with the number of fires increasing 30.5% over the last year. Gisele Bündchen meets with meets with climate scientist Antonio Donato Nobre above the treetops to learn how important this forest truly is to the whole world.
In 2017, the worst drought in 1,200 years was devastating California, diving farmers to the brink of disaster. Don Cheadle meets a family of farmers whose lives may never be the same as they struggle to find water in the parched Central Valley.
Jack Black takes a seat for a talk therapy session with psychiatrist Lise Van Susteren. They discuss the psychology of climate change. Can she help him?
David Letterman Goes to the Bank
Renewables are changing lives in rural India, as small businesses replace expensive, dirty, and unreliable diesel generators, with cheap, clean, sustainable solar energy. David Letterman visits one such business.
Climate Wars: Yemen
What happens to a society when people start running out of water? New York Times reporter Thomas Friedman went to Yemen to find out.
A Scottish Engineer’s Quest to Design a Kite That Can Power the World
Rod Read, an engineer and stay-at-home dad, lives on the remote Isle of Lewis in Scotland. For the past seven years, he’s been designing a kite that he thinks could revolutionize wind power.
In Mississippi, the costs of coastal flooding are adding up as climate change drives sea levels higher and higher. Do the benefits outweigh the risks?
Video by Nexus Media.
Environmental Racism is Bad for Your Brain
Jeremy Deaton interviews Harriet Washington, a medical ethicist and author of A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind and Beth Gardiner, author of Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution.
These three members of Extinction Rebellion risked arrest in New York City to make a big statement about the climate crisis. We tell their story.
Strike With Us
Nine-year-old Hawkeye Huey calls for support for the global climate strike. Find a strike near you at strikewithus.org.
This video is a collaboration between Amplifier.org and Bemo Studio, and made possible by a grant from the David Rockefeller Fund.
The Nuclear Family
Nuclear plants are closing across New England, so why are these environmentalists rallying to their defense? The Years Project partnered with Exelon to find out.
Three Mile Island
Three Mile Island was the worst nuclear disaster in American history, but everything you’ve heard about it could be wrong.
Forty years later, The YEARS Project has partnered with Exelon to take a look back.
Rise: From One Island to Another
Watch this poetic expedition between two islanders, one from the Marshall Islands and one from Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), connecting their realities of melting glaciers and rising sea levels. Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner and Aka Niviâna use their poetry to showcase the linkages between their homelands in the face of climate change.
This is an invitation to take a few minutes to watch this film, unplug from your daily distractions, immerse yourself in the beauty of our shared home, and let the poetry heal.
Film made by Dan Lin for 350.org.
