climate change

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• SOURCE: Michigan Live
  2/8/20
  

  University of Michigan plans teach-in, including history of climate activism, ahead of 50th Earth Day anniversary

  For Matt Lasseter, professor of history at UM, putting Earth Day and its ties to Michigan into historical context is key.

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• 2/2/20
  

  If the Pentagon is worried by climate change, shouldn’t we be worried too?  

  by David Carlin

  As the world warms, Syria offers a cautionary tale about how climate change may destabilize societies and sow global chaos.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  1/26/20
  

  Are We All Australians Yet?

  by Tom Engelhardt

  In movie terms, think of Australia as the previews. For most of us, the main feature is still to come. The problem is that the schedule for that feature may not be found in your local paper.

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• 1/26/20
  

  Could the Climate Crisis Be “The Good News of Damnation”?

  by Lawrence Wittner

  There is no other solution to the onrushing climate catastrophe than for people and nations to forget their tribal animosities and start behaving as part of a world society. The climate crisis, like the prospect of nuclear annihilation, really is “the good news of damnation.”  And we can only overcome it by working together.

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• SOURCE: LA Progressive
  1/9/20
  

  What Australia’s Fires Should Teach the USA: Be Alarmist!

  by Walter G. Moss

  Most importantly in this 2020 election year, the Australian tragedy tells us we should vote out all the human-caused climate-change deniers and minimizers. 

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• 1/5/20
  

  A History of Climate Change Science and Denialism

  by David Carlin

  Climate science is not a new discipline and the scientific consensus on climate change is far older than many people think.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/12/19
  

  A girl named Greta and the seriously sexist history of Time’s Person of the Year

  At 16, she becomes the youngest Person of the Year ever, and only the fifth woman — er, girl; er, female — in the 90-plus years Time has been naming a Man/Woman/Person of the Year.

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• 1/12/20
  

  The History of Fire: An interview with Stephen Pyne

  by Matthew Crawford

  "Fire is a creation of the living world, but we have defined it as a phenomenon for physics and chemistry...we’ve mostly ignored the ideas and institutions that shape the social half of the equation."

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• 11/17/19
  

  Which Would You Prefer―Nuclear War or Climate Catastrophe?

  by Lawrence Wittner

  A satirical examination of the threats facing the world. 

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  11/10/19
  

  The Greatest Scam in History

  by Naomi Oreskes

  Scientists working on the issue have often told me that, once upon a time, they assumed, if they did their jobs, politicians would act upon the information. That, of course, hasn’t happened. Why?

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/30/19
  

  The priceless history inside the Reagan Library, narrowly saved from a fast-moving wildfire

  by Gillian Brockell

  The article includes tweets and quotes from historians Glenda Gilmore, Douglas M. Charles, Peter A. Shulman, and Kevin Kruse. 

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• 11/17/19
  

  The History Briefing on California Wildfires and Climate Change: How Historians Contextualized the News

  by Matthew Crawford

  Historians give much-needed context on the recent California wildfires and climate change. 

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• 10/29/19
  

  Climate Change Should Makes Us Reckon Our Long History with Wind Energy

  by Andrew Fletcher

  Climate change will make wind energy very important in the next 20 to 30 years. We should embrace its historical roots.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  10/23/19
  

  Climate Change Will Cost Us Even More Than We Think

  by Naomi Oreskes and Nicholas Stern

  Economists greatly underestimate the price tag on harsher weather and higher seas. Why is that?

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  10/22/19
  

  New evidence that an extraterrestrial collision 12,800 years ago triggered an abrupt climate change for Earth

  by Christopher R. Moore

  What kicked off the Earth’s rapid cooling 12,800 years ago?

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  10/13/19
  

  Climate protests have roots that go deep into the rich history of British social change

  by Lucy Robinson

  Extinction Rebellion draws on a radical lineage that brings together a range of beliefs and ages.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  10/17/19
  

  The Greening of the New Deal

  by Steve Fraser

  The Great Depression and the Climate Crisis, New Deals Then and Now.

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• 10/6/19
  

  On Weather and History

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  Thomas Jefferson’s Climate-Induced “Philosophical Hangover” Explained.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  September 23, 2019
  

  Protesters shut down D.C. traffic before. It helped end the Vietnam War — and reshaped American activism.

  by Hannah Natanson

  Thousands of protesters against the Vietnam War took to the streets of downtown Washington in May 1971 with a single goal: Bring traffic to a total, grinding halt in the nation’s capital.

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• 9/29/19
  

  Climate Change: A Worldwide Catastrophe In The Making

  by Alon Ben-Meir

  The United Nations Climate Action Summit revealed how far presidents and prime ministers are willing to go avoid the terrible consequences of global warming.