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Monday, 4th of November 2024
The Editor of the UK publication Business Green, James Murray, ask why climate change has not played a bigger role in the US 2024 election cycle:
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsFinding it hard to fathom quite how little climate change has featured in the US election. Maybe the stakes are just too high to properly process. Or is that the arguments against self destruction are so well rehearsed that it feels trite to make them yet again?
— James Murray (@James_BG) November 4, 2024
A journalist with the UK broadcaster Channel 4 lays out why climate change should have been a much more prominent issue this election cycle, explaining there were 23 climate disasters last year each costing over $1bn worth of damage:
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsThere is a clear cut divide between Trump and Harris on climate.
— Maeve Campbell (@ecomaeve) November 4, 2024
The US election comes after a reported 23 climate disasters last year – each one costing over $1 bn in damage.
TRUMP VS. HARRIS ON CLIMATE IN UNDER 2 MINS
🎞️ Scripted, produced + edited by me on @Channel4News pic.twitter.com/drXNk4BGRQ
This number is almost certain to be higher in 2024 as just from the Atlantic Hurricane season, it is estimated that damages would top $200 bn, with the majority being the climate-fuelled monster storms Hurricane Hellene and Milton.
Sunday, 3rd of November 2024
Hollywood veteran actor and environmentalist Harrison Ford has endorsed Harris:
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"I've got one vote — same as anyone else — and I'm going to use it to move forward. I'm going to vote for Kamala Harris" – Harrison Ford on why he's endorsing Kamala Harris and Tim Walz pic.twitter.com/3hlSENqvk1
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) November 2, 2024
Saturday, 2nd of November 2024
We have just published our Editorial setting out why there’s only one option on the 5th of November:
Friday, 1st of November 2024
Four days out from the election, climate advocates Bill McKibben and Jamie Henn have a message to everyone thinking of going for a third-party candidate:
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsAs usual, @jamieclimate is making complete sense. If you care about the future of our climate, vote Harris, and then get to work getting her to work. https://t.co/DtW5ewtLhA
— Bill McKibben (@billmckibben) November 1, 2024
Thursday, 31st of October, 2024
A series of established global news outlets today endorsed Kamala Harris including the Economist and the Wall Street Journal:
Wednesday, 30th of October, 2024
Unsurprisingly, the TV personality and former Republican Governor of California, one of the few Republicans who favours climate action, Arnold Schwarzenegger, has endorsed Harris:
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsI don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians.
— Arnold (@Schwarzenegger) October 30, 2024
I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor.
My time as Governor taught me to…
Tuesday, 29th of October, 2024
Harris has been trying to dump up the youth vote and saying she will deliver strong climate policies:
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsGen Z, I see your power.
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) October 27, 2024
From climate change to gun safety to reproductive freedom, we will deliver the change you are so rightly impatient for: https://t.co/VbrfuqVy9P pic.twitter.com/MI6IYTOQi0
Monday, 28th of October, 2024
Climate scientist Peter Kalmus is not impressed with Harris and the Democrats on climate, though he said as he lives, in a swing state he has cast his vote for the Democratic candidate:
Friday, 25th of October, 2024
Hollywood heartthrob and environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio endorses Kamala Harris while blasting Trump for denying climate science:
Hollywood heartthrob and environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio endorses Kamala Harris while blasting Trump for denying climate science:
Thursday, 24th of October, 2024
In the podcast Shift Key, hosted by the climate news site Heatmap News, Jillian Goodman and Robinson Meyer discuss whether nuclear energy could be the best energy source where bipartisan collaboration and agreement between Democrats and Republicans is possible.
Wednesday, 23rd of October, 2024
The climate news outlet Grist has looked at the two different climate scenarios depending on whether Harris or Trump will become the next US president:
Tuesday, 22nd of October, 2024
In what could be seen as a countermove to Elon Musk’s love affair with Donald Trump, the billionaire founder of Microsoft and philanthropist Bill Gates has donated $50 million to a Super PAC backing Kamala Harris citing climate change:
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsBREAKING
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) October 22, 2024
For the first time, Bill Gates is weighing in significantly in a presidential election.
Gates has donated $50 million to Future Forward, the organization/SuperPAC backing Kamala Harris.
In a statement, Gates said he decided to get involved because “this election is… pic.twitter.com/8fKXBQsjY8
Monday, 21st of October, 2024
The Lincoln Project has labelled Donald Trump as a ‘climate terrorist’:
Sunday, 20th of October, 2024
Writing in the New Yorker, Bill McKibben argues that Harris should start to single out to voters what is at stake in terms of climate impacts:
The next President will have to deal with a stream of unnatural disasters. So perhaps it would be wise for Harris to more aggressively remind voters of the stakes.
Saturday, 19th of October, 2024
Climate change is one of Colorado’s top issues this election cycle.
Friday, 18th of October, 2024
According to the Harris campaign’s climate engagement officer, the recent devastating hurricanes have mobilized climate voters
Thursday, 17th of October, 2024
The respected and liked clean energy and climate change journalist and podcaster David Roberts speaks to Dr Vanessa Chan, the US Department of Energy (DOE)’s Chief Commercialization Officer on his Volts Substack, and discusses the challenges of commercialising new clean energy technologies.
You can read and listen to it here
Wednesday, 16th of October, 2024
On his Substack, Hill Heat, journalist Brad Johnson lists the key climate hawks running for Congress in the 2024 election.
Tuesday, 15th of October, 2024
CNN reporter Andy Kaczynski asks if Kamala Harris’s have softened her strong rhetoric on the fossil fuel industry since being confirmed as the presidential candidate:
Monday, 14th of October, 2024
Some good news from Florida:
Sunday, 13th of October, 2024
There’s fears that an already battered Florida could be hit by another hurricane next week:
Friday, 11th of October, 2024
With Hurricane Milton having now passed, the impact have been less than feared with less than 20 casualties. Though this number is expected to rise in the coming days.
Tuesday, 8th of October, 2024
Meteorologist John Morales does not mince his word when it comes to climate change and Hurricane Milton:
Monday, 7th of October, 2024
Hardly have the dust settled after Hurricane Helene before a new monster hurricane is heading for Florida. Hurricane Milton have already strengthened to a category 5 hurricane – the highest level of the hurricane scale. It is expected to make landfall on Wednesday.
Sunday, 6th of October, 2024
Bill Nye, also known as The Science Guy have joined Harris and Walz on the campaign trail:
Saturday, 5th of October, 2024
Harris argues Trump’s priority lies with Big Oil:
Friday, 4th of October, 2024
The death toll of Hurricane Helene have now surpassed 200 and it has become the most deadly to ever hit the area, the most deadly this year and to have hit the US since Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Thursday, 3rd of October, 2024
David Sirota, the co-writer of the climate change blockbuster Don’t Look Up have said that climate denialism is a bipartisan and not a partisan problem:
Wednesday, 2nd of October, 2024
On Tuesday evening in the Vice-Presidential debate Walz and Vance clashed on climate policy, or many would argue the latter created confusion about what the Trump campaign’s stance on climate change actually is:
Tuesday, 1st of October, 2024
The US is counting the cost after Hurricane Helen with the latest data indicate it is on of the most damaging extreme weather events to hit the US in 2024. The Category 4 hurricane impacted six states and have so far claimed 143 lives with over 600 people still unaccounted for, and economic damage of at least $27 billion.
Thursday, 26th of September, 2024
Hurricane Helen has strengthened to a Category 4 hurricane and will make landfall later this evening. In the below article we look at yet another climate-fuelled extreme weather event in a state where the political leadership reject climate science.
Wednesday, 25th of September, 2024
The climate writer and podcaster David Roberts who famously coined the term ‘Climate Hawk’ has hit out at climate activists who’s even contemplating not voting for Harris.
Tuesday, 24th of September, 2024
Florida, One of the most vulnerable US states to the impacts of climate change and where the political leadership continue to deny the scientific consensus of human-induced climate change are bracing for impacts as, the tropical storm, Helene, is expected to develop into a major hurricane before making US landfall on Florida’s coast Thursday and Friday.
Monday, 23nd of September, 2024
The Biden Administration is investing $3 billion in battery technology.
Sunday, 22nd of September, 2024
Kamala Harris has tweeted about her commitment to climate action:
Friday, 20th of September, 2024
Reuters reports that the Biden Administration is preparing for a scenario Trump were to the wind the election by spending climate funds fast as Trump said he would cancel any unspent funds.
Thursday, 19th of September, 2024
Chatham House looks at the climate costs of a Trump Presidency:
Wednesday, 18th of September, 2024
For only the second time in its history, Scientific American have endorsed a candidate for president. Writing, ‘Kamala Harris has plans to improve health, boost the economy and mitigate climate change. Donald Trump has threats and a dangerous record’
Tuesday, 17th of September, 2024
The Guardian reports on data showing that the Biden Administration’s green policies would have saved 200,000 lives and boost clean energy jobs.
Sunday, 15th of September, 2024
Bloomberg have picked up on the fact that during the debate with Trump, Harris touted record oil boom during the Biden Presidency as a development that could help her win key swing states. But it is unlikely to sway climate activists who are still to be convinced about her climate agenda.
Friday, 13th of September, 2024
A poll by Reuters/Ipsos shows that Harris has edged ahead of Donald Trump by five percentage points, with her views on climate change a significant contributing factor.
Thursday, 12th of September, 2024
The youth led activist group, he Sunrise Movement is not satisfied with what Harris has pledged on climate change.
Wednesday, 11th of September, 2024
Climate Scientist Michael Mann offered his thoughts on Trumps silence on climate:
It is the day after the debate and the post-debate analysis and polling shows that Harris secured a clear victory by putting Trump where she wants him on the backfoot.
She stated that Trump believes climate change is a hoax, a claim that Trump interestingly chose not to respond to.
The following days when polling comes through will show us to which extent the debate performance have altered polling data.
Tuesday, 10th of September, 2024
It is the much anticipated presidential debate this evening, and the performance of either candidates could be a catalyst for the outcome of the election. On her Substack, journalist and activists Emily Atkin will offer a live chat for her paid subscribers about green talking points from 8.45 PM Eastern Time (ET).
Monday, 9th of September, 2024
Kamala Harris launched her policy platform today, under Lower Energy Costs and Tackle the Climate Crisis – it states:
As Attorney General, Kamala Harris won tens of millions in settlements against Big Oil and held polluters accountable. As Vice President, she cast the tie-breaking vote to pass the Inflation Reduction Act, the largest investment in climate action in history. This historic work is lowering household energy costs, creating hundreds of thousands of high-quality clean energy jobs, and building a thriving clean energy economy, all while ensuring America’s energy security and independence with record energy production. As President, she will unite Americans to tackle the climate crisis as she builds on this historic work, advances environmental justice, protects public lands and public health, increases resilience to climate disasters, lowers household energy costs, creates millions of new jobs, and continues to hold polluters accountable to secure clean air and water for all. As the Vice President said at the international climate conference, COP28, she knows that meeting this global challenge will require global cooperation and she is committed to continuing and building upon the United States’ international climate leadership. She and Governor Walz will always fight for the freedom to breathe clean air, drink clean water, and live free from the pollution that fuels the climate crisis.
Sunday, 8th of September, 2024
The political leadership in Florida tends to be Republican and to deny climate science. But the ‘Sunshine State’ is frequently battered by climate change such as hurricanes, and due to the state being one of the lowest lying in the US the impacts is terrifying.
A new scientific study makes for terrifying reading for the Florida population:
Friday, 6th of September, 2024
The climate activist and author Bill McKibben writes on his substack, ‘The Crucial Years’ titled ‘Here Comes the Sun’ that surges in solar power could have a positive impact on this election cycle: “To understand the primal stakes in this year’s election, and to understand the very exciting possibility for rapid progress in the climate fight, a new set of numbers is extremely useful.” You can read it here.
Thursday, 5th of September, 2024
One of the largest news outlets in the US, the New York Times, have landed itself in hot water after it have invited Kevin Roberts, a climate denier and architect of the controversial Project 2025 that is backing Trump to the event, Climate Forward.
Thursday, 22nd of August, 2024
An investigation by the Guardian has revealed that the the energy giant Shell has been financially supporting the climate denying Project 2025 which is believed to be behind the Trump campaign.
Wednesday, 21st of August, 2024
Michael Regan, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator highlights some of the Biden Administrations accomplishments:
Tuesday, 20th of August, 2024
Climate advocates are excited about Kamala Harris and see her law experience and record a golden opportunity to take on Big Oil.
Tuesday, 13th of August, 2024
In, at least by some, much anticipated interview between the Owner of X (formerly Twitter) and Tesla founder Elon Musk and Donald Trump took place yesterday. Musk who has endorsed Trump and has in recent years taken very extreme right wing views shared some astonishing climate and energy views:
“I should probably say something about like, you know, maybe my views on, you know, climate change and oil and gas, because I think I’m probably different from what most people would assume.
Because my views are actually pretty, I think moderate in this regard, which is that I don’t think we should vilify the oil and gas industry and the people that have worked very hard in those industries to provide the necessary energy to support the economy. And if we were to stop using oil and gas right now, we would all be starving and the economy would collapse.
You know, the world has a certain demand for oil and gas and it’s probably better if the United States provides that than some other countries. And it would help with prosperity in the US. And at the same time, obviously my view is like, we do over time wanna move to a sustainable energy economy because eventually you do run out of, I mean, you run out of oil and gas.
It’s not infinite. And there is some risk. I think it’s not, the risk is not as high as, you know, a lot of people say it is with respect to global warming.
But I think if you just keep increasing the cost per million in the atmosphere long enough, eventually it actually simply gets uncomfortable to breathe. People don’t realize this. If you go past a thousand parts per million of CO2, you start getting headaches and nausea.
And so we’re now in the sort of 400 range. We’re adding, I think about roughly two parts per million per year. So, I mean, it still gives us, so what it means is like, we still have quite a bit of time, we don’t need to rush and we don’t need to like, you know, stop farmers from farming or, you know, prevent people from having steaks or basic stuff like that.”
Monday, 12th of August, 2024
Clean Energy America, an advocacy group have in this below video released on YouTube delivered a strong endorsement of Kamala Harris while arguing that a second Trump presidency would be a disaster for the clean energy industry.
Sunday, 11th of August, 2024
More on that Grist article, which is quite a remarkable stat:
Saturday, 10th of August, 2024
How did the US become a country country neglecting climate change knowledge?
Friday, 9th of August, 2024
The offshore wind power giant, Orsted has announced a massive offshore wind supply chain project in South Carolina.
Thursday, 8th of August, 2024
The analysis is starting to come in on the climate record of Tim Walz.
Wednesday, 7th of August, 2024
Climate scientist Dr. Leah Stokes tweets about some of the benefits already being experienced due to the groundbreaking Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) President Biden signed into law in 2022.
Tuesday, 6th of August, 2024
Kamala Harris have selected the Governor of Minnesota Tim Walz as her running mate. Looking at the options available, this is a choice that climate advocates would be relieved about as Walz is one that not only agree action on climate change is important, but one that champions it.
As a governor Walz has championed climate resilience as well as cutting emissions and setting up initiatives and programmes to scale up clean energy. In July he announced $200 million in funding for climate-smart food systems.
The VP announcement has been welcomed by the Sierra Club, the most influential and biggest environmental organisation in the US.
Kamala Harris is expected to announce her running mate today, ending weeks of speculation.
ABC News have looked at where the candidates stand on climate.
Monday, 5th of August, 2024
From a climate perspective view things are moving in the right direction with Kamala Harris is now consistently pulling ahead of Donald Trump. The respected polling analysts Five Thirty Eight and the Silver Bulletin have both concludes that Harris have now narrowly moved ahead of Trump.
Climate advocates and environmentalists have become increasingly concerned about the impact on action on climate change a second Trump presidency could have.
Friday, 2nd of August, 2024
Texas is one of the most Conservative US states, and is the home of the US oil industry. It is a state that historically have always been won by the Republicans. But it is also increasingly becoming a clean energy state, having more installed capacity than any other US state, and this week it set a remarkable solar power generation record.
The growth of clean, energy, alongside other energy sources, is set to increase. The Cleanview Newsletter reports that across the next 18 months Texas will add more clean energy than any other US state, at 35 gigawatts (GW) more than triple the capacity of California who at 11 GW will add the second-most.
Thursday, 1st of August, 2024
Data from the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) estimate that enough natural gas is wasted annually in the US through venting and gas flaring through methane emissions, a harmful greenhouse gas, to meet the gas demand of half a million US households.
Wednesday, 31st of July, 2024
The letter in full can be viewed here.
Tuesday, 30th of July, 2024
Mitt Romney, the outgoing senator from Utah and who ran against Barack Obama in the 2012 Presidential election has flip-flopped on climate change. As a Governor of Massachusetts from 2003-2007 he adopted a energy conservation view , and starting off his 2012 campaign he acknowledged climate change was at least partly contributed by human activity, but later in the campaign he completely reversed course saying he did not accept the science that human activity contributed to climate change. Famously Romney mocked Obama’s climate stance in the televised election debate saying: “President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and to heal the planet, my promise is to help you and your family”.
As we argued back then, Romney had taken a sudden route down climate denialism.
After being defeated by Obama, Romney took a break from political office, but refused to endorse or vote for either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election. In 2018 he successfully ran for Senator of Utah. He quickly became an outlier in his party by being a strong critic of Donald Trump voting for his impeachment and was harassed by his supporters when on the way to certify the election results in the 2020 elections.
His climate stance had changed now, which the above Senate Budget Committee hearing was an evidence of. He said he had no doubt about the science around human induced climate change. He called for a carbon tax – but said that the Democratic approach to tackling it was ineffective and hurting the economy and used a popular Republican attack line that the real villain is China as the world’s biggest emitter. He is right that China is the biggest emitter, but he did not consider that at 1.4 billion, the country’s population is vastly bigger than US at 341,800 and if you were to calculate emissions per capita the US is by far the biggest emitter if you were to compare those two countries.
On his Senator website Romney further adds: “The United States can and should be a worldwide leader in energy production and in developing solutions to climate change. Any long-term, sustainable solution requires support from both sides of the political aisle.”
Vying to win Romney’s seat in this years Senate elections is Republican John Curtis and Democrat Caroline Gleich. Both candidates accept the science of climate change with Curtis serving as the Chairman of the Conservative Climate Caucus, but Gleich an environmentalist, influencer, skier and mountaineer has accused him of greenwashing.
Monday, 29th of July, 2024
Al Gore, vice-president in the Clinton Administration, presidential candidate in the 2000 election and climate advocate have endorsed Kamala Harris.
In addition to the Presidential election, all of the House seats and several Senate’s as well as a host of local elections, several special state ballots are also being voted on the 5th of November. One of them is a ballot in the State of Washington that would repeal the groundbreaking Climate Commitment Act that was spearheaded by the Governor of Washington, the climate advocate Jay Inslee. In June, Inslee discussed this issue with the climate and energy journalist David Roberts on his Volts podcast (see below).
Inslee is the longest serving US Governor and is not running for a third term.
Sunday, 28th of July, 2024
On BlueSky Social climate scientist Peter Gleick is promoting an article in the LA Times about the climate impacts of Project 2025, an extreme Republican policy idea. The article outlines that if such an agenda was to be signed into law, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Weather Service could be demolished.
Saturday, 27th of July, 2024
In Politico Gabriel Gavin and Ben Lefebvre writes that the Trump campaign’s aggressive fossil fuel strategy will prove pivotal in critical swing states: ‘From Texas to Pennsylvania, there’s something more valuable than gold under the ground — and climate-anxious Democrats are too afraid to touch it.’
https://www.politico.eu/article/drill-baby-drill-americas-fossil-fuel-boom-risks-bust-in-europe/
Climate scientist Dr. Leah Stokes have come out with a strong endorsement of Kamala Harris.
Friday, 25th of July, 2024
Tom Steyer a prolific and influential climate change investor and philanthropist, and was a Democratic candidate in the 2020 Primaries.
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