News & Views | 'We Are Climbing Rapidly Out of Humankind's Safe Zone'

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[] ['We Are Climbing Rapidly Out of Humankind's Safe Zone': New Report Warns Dire Climate Warnings Not Dire Enough](1f9d0/ct3_0/1?sid=TV2%3Auf1hAMxJE) 1f9d0/ct4_0/1?sid=TV2%3Auf1hAMxJE by Jon Queally, staff writer "It is no longer possible to follow a gradual transition path to restore a safe climate," write David Spratt and Ian Dunlop, authors the new report. "We have left it too late; emergency action, akin to a war footing, will eventually be accepted as inevitable. The longer that takes, the greater the... [] [] News... [] [Medicare for All Fact Check From Hell Persists as Sanders Rebukes CNN for Putting 'Blind Faith' in Right-Wing Economist](1f9d0/ct5_0/1?sid=TV2%3Auf1hAMxJE) 1f9d0/ct6_0/1?sid=TV2%3Auf1hAMxJE by Jake Johnson, staff writer After CNN posted a slightly corrected version of its falsehood-riddled Medicare for All fact check on Monday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) thanked network anchor Jake Tapper for admitting that his earlier video "was not factual," but added that the updated version is still full of "errors peddled by the Koch-funded Mercatus Center." --------------------------------------------------------------- [These Giant Portraits Will Stand in the Path of Trans Mountain Pipeline to Make 'Powerful Statement of the Future We Want'](1f9d0/ct7_0/1?sid=TV2%3Auf1hAMxJE) [Some of the portraits of people protesting the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project that are featured in the People on the Path art installaton, which launched Sunday. (Image: Climate Justice Edmonton)](1f9d0/ct8_0/1?sid=TV2%3Auf1hAMxJE) by Andrea Germanos, staff writer To put forth a "hopeful vision for the future" that includes bold climate action, a new installation project is to be erected along the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline expansion route to harnesses art's ability to be a force for social change and highlight the fossil fuel project's increased threats to indigenous rights and a safe climate. --------------------------------------------------------------- [As Arctic Warming Stalls Summer Weather, Study Warns of Intensifying 'Very-Extreme Extremes'](1f9d0/ct9_0/1?sid=TV2%3Auf1hAMxJE) [kerala ](1f9d0/ct10_0/1?sid=TV2%3Auf1hAMxJE) by Jessica Corbett, staff writer A new climate study out Monday in Nature warns that "accelerated warming in the Arctic" is stalling summer weather over North America, Europe, and Asia, and could lead to a future of even more "very-extreme extremes," including dangerous heat waves and flooding. --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [Common Dreams is fueled by readers, like you. 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Bernie Sanders' (I-Vt.) claim that a Koch brothers-funded study showed single-payer would save Americans $2 trillion—was horribly misleading and is in need of a substantial "redo." --------------------------------------------------------------- [Any Invites for Victims of Wall Street Greed? 10 Years After Global Meltdown, Lehman Brothers Planning 'Disgraceful' Reunion](1f9d0/ct15_0/1?sid=TV2%3Auf1hAMxJE) 1f9d0/ct16_0/1?sid=TV2%3Auf1hAMxJE by Jake Johnson, staff writer As millions in the United States, Europe, and throughout the world continue to suffer from the devastating losses of wealth and crippling austerity sparked by the 2008 global financial crisis, former staffers at the failed Wall Street giant Lehman Brothers—which was at the center of the greed-fueled economic crash—are reportedly planning to hold lavish gatherings in London, Hong Kong, and New York to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the firm's collapse. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Former Koch Industries Lawyer Turned Top Trump EPA Official Set to Deliver Major Win for Big Polluters](1f9d0/ct17_0/1?sid=TV2%3Auf1hAMxJE) [Trump digs coal](1f9d0/ct18_0/1?sid=TV2%3Auf1hAMxJE) by Jessica Corbett, staff writer With President Donald Trump expected to unveil a plan on Tuesday that would enable states to decide whether to regulate coal plant emissions, defanging former President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan, the New York Times on Sunday published a detailed profile of William Wehrum, an ex-lawyer for corporate clients like Koch Industries who now leads air pollution policy at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [More News](1f9d0/ct19_0/1?sid=TV2%3Auf1hAMxJE) [] [] Views... [] [Saying Goodbye to Planet Earth](1f9d0/ct20_0/1?sid=TV2%3Auf1hAMxJE) 1f9d0/ct21_0/1?sid=TV2%3Auf1hAMxJE by Chris Hedges On the the dawn of the Anthropocene and how humanity has engineered our own march toward collective suicide --------------------------------------------------------------- [In Afghanistan, Our Need to Rethink the Institution of War](1f9d0/ct22_0/1?sid=TV2%3Auf1hAMxJE) [The People’s Peace Movement ( PPM ) walking barefoot to the Northern provinces of Afghanistan, led by a blind member of their group, Zindani. (Photo: PPM’s Facebook Page) ](1f9d0/ct23_0/1?sid=TV2%3Auf1hAMxJE) by Dr. Hakim We’ve been thinking that we need armies to stop ‘terrorists’, but armies don’t stop ‘terrorists’. Instead, they give ‘terrorists’ reason to keep fighting --------------------------------------------------------------- [Musk, Trump, and the Second Gilded Age](1f9d0/ct24_0/1?sid=TV2%3Auf1hAMxJE) ["They believe the norms other people live by don’t apply to them." (Photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images) ](1f9d0/ct25_0/1?sid=TV2%3Auf1hAMxJE) by Robert Reich Like Trump, Musk loves to upend the status quo by breaking norms and maybe even some laws --------------------------------------------------------------- [On Iran, Is It Trump Versus His Own Neocons?](1f9d0/ct26_0/1?sid=TV2%3Auf1hAMxJE) [Mike Pompeo and Donald Trump (Photo: Department of State/Flickr)](1f9d0/ct27_0/1?sid=TV2%3Auf1hAMxJE) by Trita Parsi This group has already walked back Trump’s offer for dialogue with Iran without preconditions --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump's Deregulation Frenzy Isn't Trumpism, It's Republicanism](1f9d0/ct28_0/1?sid=TV2%3Auf1hAMxJE) ["The rest of the story is a sorry tale of the revolving door between industry lobbyists and the institutions that are supposed to keep the rest of us safe from industry excesses." (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)](1f9d0/ct29_0/1?sid=TV2%3Auf1hAMxJE) by Charles P. Pierce Any other Republican president would've waged the same war on clean air he'll launch Monday --------------------------------------------------------------- [After the Fires, Come the Floods](1f9d0/ct30_0/1?sid=TV2%3Auf1hAMxJE) ["A study in Nature last year concluded that there has been a threefold increase in widespread extreme rain events over central India during 1950–2015." (Photo: India Water Portal)](1f9d0/ct31_0/1?sid=TV2%3Auf1hAMxJE) by Andy Rowell “What is predictable is that climate change which is happening across the globe is going to accelerate the rate at which the extreme events are happening.” --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [More Views](1f9d0/ct32_0/1?sid=TV2%3Auf1hAMxJE) [] [] Newswire... 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