I just want to acknowledge out loud that it is so hard for me right now, and at many other times over this past week, and over these past several months, and for these next four years (and perhaps beyond: TrumpMuskVance), to force myself to begin reading pieces like this, let alone finish them. And then I think of how hard it must be for Bill McKibben to write pieces like this, article after article, book after book, year after year, decade after decade. And then I think of my kids. And everyone else’s. And indeed of all the fauna. And flora. And then I read and applaud the article and resolve to embrace the fight more and to eagerly await Mr. McKibben’s next work. Thank you, Bill, for never quitting and for finding ways to inspire us to never do the same.
They are creating a narrative of fear based on fake emergencies such a hordes of criminals entering the country illegally, while a good many of the REAL emergencies were created by them out of whole cloth. And the rest of the real emergencies, such as the anthropogenic climate change, are being ignored and/or made worse by current policies.
The house is on fire and they are dragging in more fuel, while the rest of us struggle to get enough water in the hose to do any good.
Plastic waste constitutes another emergency that must be dealt with. It appears the fossil fuel industry is planning to make yet more plastic as the world decreases the burning of fossil fuels to address climate change. Microplastics are now present everywhere in the human body and their in vivo levels are increasing. If climate change doesn't destroy us, plastic pollution surely will.
Announcer: "Sigh. Why can't we all just go back to the good old days? You know, when kids rode in the back of dad's pickup truck, we all drank out of the garden hose, nobody worried about silly things like seat belts, fuel economy, workplace safety, pollution, or how hot it's getting? Men were men, women were women, and kids had fun all day long. You know, before all those liberals messed things up?"
More coal?? <Max expletives deleted> While the rest of the world is building and buying renewables at an accelerating rate, we're going back to the stone age? What's next, re-introduction of the '53 DeSoto?
How stupid does it have to get before Americans stop this fawning, knuckle-dragging support for the most corrupt and disastrous presidency in the history of this nation? We're watching the "Beatings will continue until morale improves" meme playing out every day, in real time - and the people getting the beatings are the ones who keep telling us, "It's going to be SO much better - you'll see!!"
Serves us right. Millions of our fellow countrymen thought that the guy who bankrupted casinos and cheated every person he ever did business with would be the financial genius who would stand up for the average Joe and bring down the cost of eggs.
Hey folks, has the Brooklyn Bridge Sales Dept. been in touch with you yet? <insert eye roll>
Thank you. For those of you (like me) who find this hard to read, I have a story.
One day many years ago, I was sitting in a branch of the Vancouver public library, waiting for my partner. And I spied a book on the shelf authored by Bill McKibben. So I scanned it. It was Bill's story of taking on a personal project...learning to cross-country ski. He got an Olympic level coach and really learned how to ski long distances.
Bill was training himself in a long-distance event.
Folks, we are all in a long-distance event. So pace yourselves and stay fit for the challenge.
Of the BYD cars, BM writes, "More importantly, these cars don’t cause pollution." Yes, partially true, but given that China's energy grid is so coal and carbon intensive, it would be more true to write, "the cars don't cause pollution on the road, but their embedded carbon from manufacturing must be considered." Or something more precise.
This would be partially true of Norway and the top EV adopters in Europe too (https://worldstatistics.net/countries-with-the-largest-share-of-electric-cars-ev-sold-20/), since their energy grids are nowhere close to green, or their economies. It’s something I think about now that I live in diesel exhaust pollution lands, the smell is as dirty as the fuel. So I’ll take a BEV using dirty electricity over diesel exhaust whatever the energy grid makeup. We need to connect fossil fuelled & chemical fuelled pollution to the fight for environmental health and well-being. China is keen on getting to a cleaner energy grid (https://www.ft.com/content/43db94f8-c09b-4163-9c7d-e8855cdb46a8) as an industrial policy because solar & wind is energy independence and less costly than the labor and infrastructure of fossil fuels/coal. Whereas EU countries are fighting among themselves over maintaining burning for energy policies and Germany continues to bankroll Russia’s attack on Ukraine by buying Russian fuel.
China is moving as fast as possible away from fossil fuels. It doesn't happen overnight. The fossil fuel make-up of the grid is lowered each day. If we would have started transitioning 40 years ago, when we first become aware of the damage that fossil fuels cause, we would be where we need to be now. It would have much less painful.
Thanks, Bill, for an important "emergency" post and info. The one glaring error I see is your assertion that EVs do not require energy to fuel their cars/trucks. Malarky. Where do you think the electricity comes from? Also, glad to see a tangential admission that solar panels absorb solar heat energy and reradiate it into the environment, although some new coating may overcome that. AS for the disaster in DC, I post daily on the increasing mental disability of Tramp and his MUSKRATS, it's the best this ailing 80yo can do. Thanks for all you do and have done over the years. Have a blessed day.
Bill, I see this as the TRUE EMERGENCY: Why is it that Michael Mann and main stream thought leaders continue to claim that atmospheric and oceanic rising temperatures are not yet determined to be accelerating, and that simply reducing CO2 emissions to zero—or Net Zero—will reduce trillions of tons of accumulated excess anthropogenic emissions and bring temperatures down to the universally accepted Holocene target <350ppm that was established by our mutual friend Jim Hansen et al?
The existential EMERGENCY is the failure of Mann and his disciples to take a cautionary stance and address the worst case that will occur if Hansen is right and Mann is wrong.
If Hansen's assertion “1.5°C is deader than a doornail" and “2°C is on its deathbed" elevate the following to STOP DEAD IN YOUR TRACKS AND CHANGE COURSE EMERGENCY:
"… a near-unbroken spell of record or near-record-breaking temperatures that has persisted since July 2023. Since then, virtually every month has been at least 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) hotter than it was before the industrial revolution when humanity began burning massive amounts of coal, oil and gas." (FRANCE24, by [anonymous pseudonym] France24_en, April 8, 2025 )
To curtail the accelerating rise in global atmospheric and oceanic temperatures requires putting the genie back into the bottle (putting the carbon back into the Earth).
But how … limited forest preservation or perhaps mega-massive ocean restoration?
Would you please reconsider your statement “... as we now understand that letting mature forests continue to grow is the best way to sequester carbon,” which is a reference to your New Yorker piece dated January 22, 2021 which admits, "it takes decades for those forests to regrow and suck up that carbon—decades that we don’t have.”
Restoring the depleted flora and fauna of the ocean food chain from the lowly algae, phytoplankton and krill to small and large fisheries, mammals and whales will sequester carbon in their populations as well as in their carbon-rich poop that sinks into the abyss.
Ocean equilibrium and saturation are now undermining conventional understanding that informs many "main stream" assumptions built into climate models and scientists' dogma.
The documents you referenced simply [quote] compares planting trees with simply preserving existing groves: “growing existing forests intact to their ecological potential—termed proforestation—is a more effective, immediate, and low-cost approach” [end quote]
For context, and to refresh your memory, this is the entire paragraph: [quote] A pair of recent scientific studies in the journal Frontiers in Forests and Global Change make even clearer the utter folly of what we’re doing: one, conducted in the Pacific Northwest, by researchers, including Beverly Law’s team at the Oregon State University College of Forestry, shows that big trees are superb carbon sinks (three per cent of the largest trees contain almost half the forest’s carbon); the other, led by the eminent climate scientist William R. Moomaw, compares planting trees with simply preserving existing groves: “growing existing forests intact to their ecological potential—termed proforestation—is a more effective, immediate, and low-cost approach that could be mobilized across suitable forests of all types.” [end quote]
This in no way supports "letting mature forests continue to grow is the best way to sequester carbon.”
“The Trump administration wants to effectively break up NOAA and end its climate work by abolishing its primary research office and forcing the agency to help boost U.S. fossil fuel production, budget documents show.
"The move, outlined in a memo from the White House Office of Management and Budget, carries forward President Donald Trump’s broader goals of slashing federal spending, gutting climate research and unleashing U.S. energy production. ..."
Would it be prudent to explore the second and third leg of the "3-legged stool" now that the REDUCE EMISSIONS TO ZERO LEG is being amputated.
The only viable remaining legs are the REMOVE LEGACY EMISSIONS LEG and TEMPORARY TRIAGE EXTRAORDINARY COOLING INTERVENTION LEG beginning with research, trials and deployment in the Arctic and Antarctic where Rossby waves, jetstream and vortex can contain plausible cooling measures within the polar regions to preserve and restore the ice caps.
We must not procrastinate research into means to cool the Arctic directly as well as cool the mid-latitude Pacific and Atlantic which are pumping warm water into the Arctic with impending loss of the polar ice cap A/C. irreversible loss of polar albedo must be averted for human survival.
Arctic indigenous peoples must be engaged and participate equally with non-indigenous scientists' assessment of risks, abiding by the principles of FPIC (Free, Prior and Informed Consent), facilitation of which is my personal project at this moment.
Wow, Bill! A phenomenal essay. is the SkyCool film available commercially? The flooding is pitiful, shame we can't export some of that flooding to Mar-a-lago.
In Richard Powers’ novel “Bewilderment”, published in 2021, set around 2025, an authoritarian president has been elected and issues an executive order in response to wildfires exactly like the one you describe. It’s absolutely extraordinary (and disturbing) how prescient this is.
The following was posted yesterday on LinkedIn by a colleague in Amsterdam about E&E News and POLITICO’s piece “Big Banks Quietly Prepare for Catastrophic Warming” (March 31).
[quote]
BIG AMERICAN BANKS QUIETLY PREPARE FOR CATASTROPHIC WARMING
My friend Julia Adams sent me this article that reveals how major U.S. banks like Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase are quietly preparing for a future where global warming exceeds the Paris Agreement’s 2°C limit, anticipating a rise to 3°C.
Rather than using their huge financial power to drive urgent climate action, they are adjusting their strategies to profit from a world in crisis, investing in sectors like air conditioning, which are expected to thrive in increasingly extreme heat. Meanwhile, banks like Wells Fargo are retreating from their climate commitments, exiting initiatives like the Net-Zero Banking Alliance.
REPUGNANT AND SHORT SIGHTED
This behavior is not only morally repugnant: banks have a duty to serve the public good, not profit from collapse. But it’s also unnecessary. By hedging against catastrophe instead of helping to prevent it, banks are prioritizing short-term profits over planetary survival, and treating the collapse of ecosystems and societies as a business opportunity. But what comes after?
FOCUS ON WATER, NOT JUST ON CARBON
But we don’t have to accept this future. We already have the knowledge and tools to cool the planet and stabilize the climate within twenty years. Our Cooling the Climate plan https://lnkd.in/gEW5hc4U calls for ecosystem restoration on land and sea to revive the Earth's natural cooling systems through the water cycles. Investing in the restoration of forests, oceans, and ecosystems to cool the planet will benefit communities everywhere.
MAD MAX OR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE?
We face a clear choice: continue business as usual and descend into ecological collapse, or recognize the biosphere as our greatest asset and restore it, unlocking a future where all can thrive. With AI, clean energy, and a regenerative economy, we can move away from “Mad Max” to a sustainable future.
Regenerating forest on 2.8 million km² alone will bring down global temperatures by 1°C, while tempering extreme weather fast. Restoring forests and ocean ecosystems will increase cloud cover, and carbon capture will stabilize atmospheric CO₂ levels and cool the planet. This will also slow and may even reverse polar melt.
THE GREAT GREEN INVESTMENT WAVE
At a cost of just 0.3 to 0.5 percent of global GDP: around 10-15 cents per person per day we can return to climate stability, ecosystem recovery, and human resilience. Safeguarding the future is not just possible, it is affordable. See my substack article: https://lnkd.in/gb-uPy2n
Instead of planning for failure, banks and investors should be leading this transformation. It is not philanthropy. It’s the smartest, most urgent investment of our time. Let’s stop financing collapse. Let’s restore the only home we got! Support the Cooling the Climate project.
Los Angeles Times “Trump’s order to expand U.S. timber production includes all of California’s national forests” (April 12) was posted on LinkedIn by a Climate Reality colleague yesterday:
[quote]
• A federal order to increase U.S. timber production by 25% will touch all 18 of the Golden’s State’s national forests, officials said.
• The USDA said it does not yet have information about how many acres in each forest will be affected.
California’s national forests are on the chopping block — literally — in the wake of the Trump administration’s April 5 order to immediately expand timber production in the United States.
Last week, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins issued an emergency declaration that ordered the U.S. Forest Service to open up some 112.5 million acres of national forestland to logging.
The announcement included a grainy map of affected forests, which did not specify forest names or the amount of impacted acreage in each. However, U.S. Department of Agriculture officials have confirmed to The Times that the order will touch all 18 of the Golden State’s national forests, which collectively span more than 20 million acres.
I just want to acknowledge out loud that it is so hard for me right now, and at many other times over this past week, and over these past several months, and for these next four years (and perhaps beyond: TrumpMuskVance), to force myself to begin reading pieces like this, let alone finish them. And then I think of how hard it must be for Bill McKibben to write pieces like this, article after article, book after book, year after year, decade after decade. And then I think of my kids. And everyone else’s. And indeed of all the fauna. And flora. And then I read and applaud the article and resolve to embrace the fight more and to eagerly await Mr. McKibben’s next work. Thank you, Bill, for never quitting and for finding ways to inspire us to never do the same.
well, that was kind as heck. thank you
Exactly. I was about to write a “thanks, Bill” note, but this one is perfect.
Just: Ditto. -Bob
amen🌱
They are creating a narrative of fear based on fake emergencies such a hordes of criminals entering the country illegally, while a good many of the REAL emergencies were created by them out of whole cloth. And the rest of the real emergencies, such as the anthropogenic climate change, are being ignored and/or made worse by current policies.
The house is on fire and they are dragging in more fuel, while the rest of us struggle to get enough water in the hose to do any good.
Plastic waste constitutes another emergency that must be dealt with. It appears the fossil fuel industry is planning to make yet more plastic as the world decreases the burning of fossil fuels to address climate change. Microplastics are now present everywhere in the human body and their in vivo levels are increasing. If climate change doesn't destroy us, plastic pollution surely will.
<Cue the theme from "Ozzie & Harriet">
Announcer: "Sigh. Why can't we all just go back to the good old days? You know, when kids rode in the back of dad's pickup truck, we all drank out of the garden hose, nobody worried about silly things like seat belts, fuel economy, workplace safety, pollution, or how hot it's getting? Men were men, women were women, and kids had fun all day long. You know, before all those liberals messed things up?"
More coal?? <Max expletives deleted> While the rest of the world is building and buying renewables at an accelerating rate, we're going back to the stone age? What's next, re-introduction of the '53 DeSoto?
How stupid does it have to get before Americans stop this fawning, knuckle-dragging support for the most corrupt and disastrous presidency in the history of this nation? We're watching the "Beatings will continue until morale improves" meme playing out every day, in real time - and the people getting the beatings are the ones who keep telling us, "It's going to be SO much better - you'll see!!"
Serves us right. Millions of our fellow countrymen thought that the guy who bankrupted casinos and cheated every person he ever did business with would be the financial genius who would stand up for the average Joe and bring down the cost of eggs.
Hey folks, has the Brooklyn Bridge Sales Dept. been in touch with you yet? <insert eye roll>
Bill,
Thank you. For those of you (like me) who find this hard to read, I have a story.
One day many years ago, I was sitting in a branch of the Vancouver public library, waiting for my partner. And I spied a book on the shelf authored by Bill McKibben. So I scanned it. It was Bill's story of taking on a personal project...learning to cross-country ski. He got an Olympic level coach and really learned how to ski long distances.
Bill was training himself in a long-distance event.
Folks, we are all in a long-distance event. So pace yourselves and stay fit for the challenge.
Fred Bass
Of the BYD cars, BM writes, "More importantly, these cars don’t cause pollution." Yes, partially true, but given that China's energy grid is so coal and carbon intensive, it would be more true to write, "the cars don't cause pollution on the road, but their embedded carbon from manufacturing must be considered." Or something more precise.
This would be partially true of Norway and the top EV adopters in Europe too (https://worldstatistics.net/countries-with-the-largest-share-of-electric-cars-ev-sold-20/), since their energy grids are nowhere close to green, or their economies. It’s something I think about now that I live in diesel exhaust pollution lands, the smell is as dirty as the fuel. So I’ll take a BEV using dirty electricity over diesel exhaust whatever the energy grid makeup. We need to connect fossil fuelled & chemical fuelled pollution to the fight for environmental health and well-being. China is keen on getting to a cleaner energy grid (https://www.ft.com/content/43db94f8-c09b-4163-9c7d-e8855cdb46a8) as an industrial policy because solar & wind is energy independence and less costly than the labor and infrastructure of fossil fuels/coal. Whereas EU countries are fighting among themselves over maintaining burning for energy policies and Germany continues to bankroll Russia’s attack on Ukraine by buying Russian fuel.
China is moving as fast as possible away from fossil fuels. It doesn't happen overnight. The fossil fuel make-up of the grid is lowered each day. If we would have started transitioning 40 years ago, when we first become aware of the damage that fossil fuels cause, we would be where we need to be now. It would have much less painful.
Thanks, Bill, for an important "emergency" post and info. The one glaring error I see is your assertion that EVs do not require energy to fuel their cars/trucks. Malarky. Where do you think the electricity comes from? Also, glad to see a tangential admission that solar panels absorb solar heat energy and reradiate it into the environment, although some new coating may overcome that. AS for the disaster in DC, I post daily on the increasing mental disability of Tramp and his MUSKRATS, it's the best this ailing 80yo can do. Thanks for all you do and have done over the years. Have a blessed day.
Bill, I see this as the TRUE EMERGENCY: Why is it that Michael Mann and main stream thought leaders continue to claim that atmospheric and oceanic rising temperatures are not yet determined to be accelerating, and that simply reducing CO2 emissions to zero—or Net Zero—will reduce trillions of tons of accumulated excess anthropogenic emissions and bring temperatures down to the universally accepted Holocene target <350ppm that was established by our mutual friend Jim Hansen et al?
The existential EMERGENCY is the failure of Mann and his disciples to take a cautionary stance and address the worst case that will occur if Hansen is right and Mann is wrong.
If Hansen's assertion “1.5°C is deader than a doornail" and “2°C is on its deathbed" elevate the following to STOP DEAD IN YOUR TRACKS AND CHANGE COURSE EMERGENCY:
"… a near-unbroken spell of record or near-record-breaking temperatures that has persisted since July 2023. Since then, virtually every month has been at least 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) hotter than it was before the industrial revolution when humanity began burning massive amounts of coal, oil and gas." (FRANCE24, by [anonymous pseudonym] France24_en, April 8, 2025 )
To curtail the accelerating rise in global atmospheric and oceanic temperatures requires putting the genie back into the bottle (putting the carbon back into the Earth).
But how … limited forest preservation or perhaps mega-massive ocean restoration?
Would you please reconsider your statement “... as we now understand that letting mature forests continue to grow is the best way to sequester carbon,” which is a reference to your New Yorker piece dated January 22, 2021 which admits, "it takes decades for those forests to regrow and suck up that carbon—decades that we don’t have.”
Restoring the depleted flora and fauna of the ocean food chain from the lowly algae, phytoplankton and krill to small and large fisheries, mammals and whales will sequester carbon in their populations as well as in their carbon-rich poop that sinks into the abyss.
Ocean equilibrium and saturation are now undermining conventional understanding that informs many "main stream" assumptions built into climate models and scientists' dogma.
The documents you referenced simply [quote] compares planting trees with simply preserving existing groves: “growing existing forests intact to their ecological potential—termed proforestation—is a more effective, immediate, and low-cost approach” [end quote]
For context, and to refresh your memory, this is the entire paragraph: [quote] A pair of recent scientific studies in the journal Frontiers in Forests and Global Change make even clearer the utter folly of what we’re doing: one, conducted in the Pacific Northwest, by researchers, including Beverly Law’s team at the Oregon State University College of Forestry, shows that big trees are superb carbon sinks (three per cent of the largest trees contain almost half the forest’s carbon); the other, led by the eminent climate scientist William R. Moomaw, compares planting trees with simply preserving existing groves: “growing existing forests intact to their ecological potential—termed proforestation—is a more effective, immediate, and low-cost approach that could be mobilized across suitable forests of all types.” [end quote]
This in no way supports "letting mature forests continue to grow is the best way to sequester carbon.”
Best regards,
Doug
Bad news, Bill 😥
E-mail from a colleague down under in Oz just now received ...
White House outlines plan to gut NOAA, smother climate research
POLITICO 4/11/2025 | 2:08 PM EDT
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/11/white-house-plan-guts-noaa-climate-research-00286408
“The Trump administration wants to effectively break up NOAA and end its climate work by abolishing its primary research office and forcing the agency to help boost U.S. fossil fuel production, budget documents show.
"The move, outlined in a memo from the White House Office of Management and Budget, carries forward President Donald Trump’s broader goals of slashing federal spending, gutting climate research and unleashing U.S. energy production. ..."
Would it be prudent to explore the second and third leg of the "3-legged stool" now that the REDUCE EMISSIONS TO ZERO LEG is being amputated.
The only viable remaining legs are the REMOVE LEGACY EMISSIONS LEG and TEMPORARY TRIAGE EXTRAORDINARY COOLING INTERVENTION LEG beginning with research, trials and deployment in the Arctic and Antarctic where Rossby waves, jetstream and vortex can contain plausible cooling measures within the polar regions to preserve and restore the ice caps.
We must not procrastinate research into means to cool the Arctic directly as well as cool the mid-latitude Pacific and Atlantic which are pumping warm water into the Arctic with impending loss of the polar ice cap A/C. irreversible loss of polar albedo must be averted for human survival.
Arctic indigenous peoples must be engaged and participate equally with non-indigenous scientists' assessment of risks, abiding by the principles of FPIC (Free, Prior and Informed Consent), facilitation of which is my personal project at this moment.
Wow, Bill! A phenomenal essay. is the SkyCool film available commercially? The flooding is pitiful, shame we can't export some of that flooding to Mar-a-lago.
In Richard Powers’ novel “Bewilderment”, published in 2021, set around 2025, an authoritarian president has been elected and issues an executive order in response to wildfires exactly like the one you describe. It’s absolutely extraordinary (and disturbing) how prescient this is.
Oh, Bill, so much to think about here. Thank you for this rift on the word "emergency," and for laying out our current scenario so wisely and calmly.
So much here. https://open.substack.com/pub/gregorypettys?r=f1gey&utm_medium=ios
Not a happy Monday morning, Bill!
The following was posted yesterday on LinkedIn by a colleague in Amsterdam about E&E News and POLITICO’s piece “Big Banks Quietly Prepare for Catastrophic Warming” (March 31).
[quote]
BIG AMERICAN BANKS QUIETLY PREPARE FOR CATASTROPHIC WARMING
My friend Julia Adams sent me this article that reveals how major U.S. banks like Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase are quietly preparing for a future where global warming exceeds the Paris Agreement’s 2°C limit, anticipating a rise to 3°C.
Rather than using their huge financial power to drive urgent climate action, they are adjusting their strategies to profit from a world in crisis, investing in sectors like air conditioning, which are expected to thrive in increasingly extreme heat. Meanwhile, banks like Wells Fargo are retreating from their climate commitments, exiting initiatives like the Net-Zero Banking Alliance.
REPUGNANT AND SHORT SIGHTED
This behavior is not only morally repugnant: banks have a duty to serve the public good, not profit from collapse. But it’s also unnecessary. By hedging against catastrophe instead of helping to prevent it, banks are prioritizing short-term profits over planetary survival, and treating the collapse of ecosystems and societies as a business opportunity. But what comes after?
FOCUS ON WATER, NOT JUST ON CARBON
But we don’t have to accept this future. We already have the knowledge and tools to cool the planet and stabilize the climate within twenty years. Our Cooling the Climate plan https://lnkd.in/gEW5hc4U calls for ecosystem restoration on land and sea to revive the Earth's natural cooling systems through the water cycles. Investing in the restoration of forests, oceans, and ecosystems to cool the planet will benefit communities everywhere.
MAD MAX OR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE?
We face a clear choice: continue business as usual and descend into ecological collapse, or recognize the biosphere as our greatest asset and restore it, unlocking a future where all can thrive. With AI, clean energy, and a regenerative economy, we can move away from “Mad Max” to a sustainable future.
Regenerating forest on 2.8 million km² alone will bring down global temperatures by 1°C, while tempering extreme weather fast. Restoring forests and ocean ecosystems will increase cloud cover, and carbon capture will stabilize atmospheric CO₂ levels and cool the planet. This will also slow and may even reverse polar melt.
THE GREAT GREEN INVESTMENT WAVE
At a cost of just 0.3 to 0.5 percent of global GDP: around 10-15 cents per person per day we can return to climate stability, ecosystem recovery, and human resilience. Safeguarding the future is not just possible, it is affordable. See my substack article: https://lnkd.in/gb-uPy2n
Instead of planning for failure, banks and investors should be leading this transformation. It is not philanthropy. It’s the smartest, most urgent investment of our time. Let’s stop financing collapse. Let’s restore the only home we got! Support the Cooling the Climate project.
[end quote]
https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews/2025/03/31/big-banks-predict-catastrophic-warming-with-profit-potential-00259938 😱
More bad news, Bill.
Los Angeles Times “Trump’s order to expand U.S. timber production includes all of California’s national forests” (April 12) was posted on LinkedIn by a Climate Reality colleague yesterday:
[quote]
• A federal order to increase U.S. timber production by 25% will touch all 18 of the Golden’s State’s national forests, officials said.
• The USDA said it does not yet have information about how many acres in each forest will be affected.
California’s national forests are on the chopping block — literally — in the wake of the Trump administration’s April 5 order to immediately expand timber production in the United States.
Last week, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins issued an emergency declaration that ordered the U.S. Forest Service to open up some 112.5 million acres of national forestland to logging.
The announcement included a grainy map of affected forests, which did not specify forest names or the amount of impacted acreage in each. However, U.S. Department of Agriculture officials have confirmed to The Times that the order will touch all 18 of the Golden State’s national forests, which collectively span more than 20 million acres.
…
[end quote]
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-04-12/trumps-timber-production-california-national-forests 😱
Bill, you write that a 10C increase is equal to a 50F increase.
Actually it is equal to an 18F increase, which is bad enough. Please correct.
I have no idea how you came up with the number 50.