This Wednesday Sheldon Whitehouse will chair an important hearing to shine more light on Big Oil’s ongoing climate deception.

At this crucial moment, Senate Budget Committee has the power to build on years of work in Congress to hold Big Oil accountable.

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New internal Big Oil documents just dropped

featuring hits like

-“We don’t yet see the world even approaching a 2°C pathway'

-'“Methane is more potent than CO2'

-“No one is committed to anything, other than to stay in the game.”

And more!

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One thing Trump's buddies plan to do if he is elected: scrap the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) & along with it the National Weather Service (NWS), eliminating the primary public sources of info about climate & weather respectively.
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1. For the last year, I’ve been buried in a project that merges together data journalism with storytelling from the region I grew up in – the U.S. South, and especially the Gulf Coast. Today, that project started to publish.

3. One is about an extreme flash flood event that struck coastal Alabama last summer, and how a high sea at the end of the Fowl River prevented the floodwaters from draining – making the flooding worse, including well upstream and inland. washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

In-depth -- one of the most rapid sea level surges on Earth is besieging the American South, forcing a reckoning for coastal communities across eight U.S. states, a Washington Post analysis has found.

Reporting by Chris Mooney Brady Dennis + others ⤵️

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Susan Joy Hassol, Climate Communication, a recipient of NCSE's Friend of the Planet award, and Emma Lawrance offer advice about how to talk to #climate doomers. yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/04/how-to… #climate change #climate crisis [1/2]

Want to learn how to talk with your patients about climate change?

John Kotcher, Lisa Patel, MD, MESc, Stefan Wheat, MD, Ed Maibach, & Dr. Rebecca Philipsborn suggest five key touchpoints for climate-related counseling within clinical practice ⤵️ bmj.com/content/385/bm…

'How to talk to a climate doomer (even if that doomer is you)' by Daisy Simmons for the Climate Connections

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'Michael Mann and colleagues predict a record-breaking 33 named storms for the 2024 North Atlantic hurricane season. It is the highest count ever projected' via #PennToday (Penn Arts & Sciences Mann Research Group) @Penn News: penntoday.upenn.edu/news/2024-trop…

What to do if it’s the end of the world as we know it, and you don’t feel fine:

🗞️ How to talk to a climate doomer (even if that doomer is you)
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Biden marks Earth Day with $7bn ‘solar for all’ investment amid week of climate action - targeted at disadvantaged areas to create 200,000 jobs, after last week’s oil and gas lease restrictions in Alaska.
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Our American Climate Corps will put 20,000 young Americans to work fighting the impacts of climate change today so they can join the clean energy and climate-resilience workforce of tomorrow.

Head to ClimateCorps.gov to join the next generation of clean energy workers.

Tune in as I deliver remarks to commemorate Earth Day. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Half the oxygen we breathe comes from tiny phytoplankton in the ocean.

Every day is #EarthDay

Congratulations to my dear friend Susan Joy Hassol for being named a Friend of the Earth by the National Center for Science Education. ⁦Susan Joy Hassol, Climate Communication⁩ ⁦National Center for Science Education⁩ ⁦GMU Center for Climate Change Communication⁩ ⁦⁩ ⁦Bernadette Woods Placky⁩ ⁦⁦Frank Mungeam⁩ ncse.ngo/random-samples…

'[T]he urgency of providing accurate, effective climate science education for all students could hardly be greater,' writes Susan Joy Hassol, Climate Communication, Director of Climate Communication and 2023 NCSE Friend of the Planet award-winner. ncse.ngo/why-we-urgentl… #climateednow #earthday2024

The best place to start the climate conversation with our kids is in nature. Develop their love for the outdoors, and they’ll join you in the fight to protect it.

I'll be speaking about #OurFragileMoment on Wed May 15 from 8 pm to 9 pm BST with Fiona Harvey through livestream The Guardian
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Honored to receive this award EcoHealth Alliance. It's especially meaningful since my friend and #ScienceUnderSiege co-author Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD was last year's recipient. Thanks for the critical work you are doing...