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Let's make 2020 a year of real climate education and action!

We have a moral, ethical, and survival imperative to learn about climate change / global warming, and to act appropriately and decisively. This imperative derives from people living today and all those who will follow us. We must not have future generations say, of us: "They refused to learn" or "they knew but did not act."

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A Swedish Teenager's Compelling Plea on Climate

What's the Climate Problem? What can We Do?

Global warming, the upward climate change trend of average global temperatures notably since 1975, exists, is due to us humans, and in the absence of substantial action will increase. Climate change / global warming impacts are seen now, and will be increasingly harmful to lives, peace, and justice, worldwide - if we do not act sufficiently. Without action there will be no safe haven, not even for the U.S. The preservation of a livable world for all, climate justice (the poor and vulnerable will get hit hardest), and intergenerational equity (our grandchildren will suffer) are at stake. Lasting solutions to issues of great concern, from food to water to health to immigration to women's rights to national security to species extinctions all require climate action, because climate is interconnected with all these issues.

It is not too late to mitigate global warming/climate change. The worst climate impacts can be avoided if we act now , responsibly and vigorously. It is cheaper and more humane to act now, relieving fellow citizens of the earth now and our descendants later by reducing destructive climate impacts. There are many positive opportunities. We can move into a new era transitioning to non-fossil energies, stimulating economies and creating jobs with better technology, reducing harmful climate impacts due to burning fossil fuels. Some adaptation will also be necessary. The framework being increasingly adopted is Climate Risk Management. Success means implementing a portfolio of climate actions. There is no silver bullet.

People of conscience and faith are acting on climate - CLICK for details

“Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.” (A. Einstein)

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CLIMATE ACTIONS WE CAN DO

Energy Innovation & Carbon Dividend Act HR763 - Call your representative and ask him/her to sign on

Go to: News, Conferences, Action, Business, Education, SDGs, Facts, Science, Contrarians/Trump

CLIMATE PORTAL VISION, MISSION, ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, ABOUT US

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HEADLINE - Video - Climate Change Academy of Risk and Opportunity

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CLIMATE NEWS and ANALYSES

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ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE CLIMATE CHANGE ACADEMY OF RISK AND OPPORTUNITY

HELP BUSINESS LEAD ON CLIMATE CHANGE

What is Climate CARO: The Climate Change Academy of Risk and Opportunity (Climate CARO) is being created to help address the growing awareness in business that climate change poses a real threat to business and society, and that opportunities exist for businesses acting on climate.

Vision – Where Climate CARO is headed: Climate CARO has the vision of viable thriving business environments equipped to reduce climate change risks, with associated opportunities.

Mission – What Climate CARO will do: Climate CARO will help business lead on climate change by catalyzing a new profession - Climate Change Risk and Opportunity Officers (CCROOs). Climate CARO proposes high-standard guidelines for CCROO interdisciplinary competence needed for climate change risk management and opportunities (see guidelines). Climate CARO encourages universities and practitioners, with their curricula and faculty, to offer training (see resources/gap worksheet). Demand for CCROOs in risk management and sustainability is expected to grow quickly and dramatically, and to be supported at the C-Suite level. Students will increasingly flock to the CCROO field, an exciting future of risk management.

Opportunities: Businesses (expertise in coping with climate risk and enjoying opportunities in the 21st century economy), Job hunters (a new solid profession), Universities (placing graduates at high demand).

Personal Invitation: If you and/or your business or organization would like to be a founding member or to be listed as a supporter of the idea to create CCROOs, please respond to: [email protected]. Climate CARO is non-profit, envisioned to become an umbrella consortium with wide practitioner and academic support. I look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,

Jan Dash PhD, Founder of Climate CARO

Guidelines for Competencies... by Jan Dash on Scribd

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MADRID COP25 CLIMATE CONFERENCE

Climate Change Paper for CO... by Jan Dash on Scribd

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MORE ACTION ON CLIMATE

H.R.763 - To create a Carbon Dividend Trust Fund for the American people in order to encourage market-driven innovation of clean energy technologies and market efficiencies which will reduce harmful pollution and leave a healthier, more stable, and more prosperous nation for future generations.

US Climate Alliance Report - States Take the Lead

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Solar Energy Deployment

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BUSINESS AND CLIMATE ACTION - CLICK

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EDUCATION on CLIMATE CHANGE

KIDS' corner, BIG KIDS' corner, TEACHER resources

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The Sustainable Development Goals SDGs and Climate Change

Climate Action is interconnected with Environmental & Social Justice

Climate change presents the single biggest threat to development, and its widespread, unprecedented impacts disproportionately burden the poorest and most vulnerable. Urgent action to combat climate change and minimize its disruptions is integral to the successful implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. (Report of the Secretary-General, "Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals", E/2016/75)

Climate Action and the Sustainable Development Goals Seminar -VIDEO

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CLIMATE SCIENCE CORNER

(Graphic by Robbie Andrew)

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VIDEO: 168 years of climate change in two minutes - CLICK

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Where has CO2 been coming from and where has it been going?

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GLOBAL WARMING: SCIENTIFIC FACT (NASA SURFACE TEMPERATURE DATA)

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The Tyler Prize is honored to recognize two outstanding climate scientists, who have pioneered innovative scientific investigations and analysis of global change. Michael E. Mann and Warren M. Washington, have the courage and commitment to inform and advance public discourse and policy on climate change, as well as inspire civic engagement to take action to protect the planet and people.

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CLIMATE REPORTS AND ANALYSES

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EDITOR'S CORNER

' Climate Change Risk Management ' (Ch. 53)

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INTERVIEW

Q&A: Here’s what Houston can expect from climate change

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CLIMATE CONTRARIAN/DENIER CORNER

Climate contrarians aka "climate deniers or faux-skeptics" obstruct and/or cancel needed action on climate change, posing substantial risk to humanity. Aided by right-wing think tanks, media and politicians, contrarians/deniers attack climate science and climate risk management. Climate contrarian/denier content is scientifically wrong and is full of blatant logical errors (e.g. faulty generalization from cherry-picked data). Contrarian/denier fake-science fallacies and flimsy arguments made up by mavericks and charlatans are loudly broadcast by right-wing media using earlier tobacco industry propaganda tactics. Contrarian/denier content does not constitute legitimate scientific, economic, or policy discourse. Many deniers of climate science or deniers of climate risk management are and/or have been funded by fossil fuel interests, which are afraid of losing wealth due to stranded carbon assets. Right-wing contrarian/denier ideologues politicize climate science, lowball climate risk, and oppose climate mitigation. The US federal government is now run by destructive climate science deniers and climate risk deniers who ignore fundamental risk management principles. Some contrarians don't know what the severe potential climate risks are (which is bad), others know but willfully ignore risks (which is worse) - both are culpable. Our descendants, if hit by devastating climate impacts that could have been prevented, will regard this contrarian/denier obstruction as criminal.

Contrarians/Deniers - In-Depth Analysis on the Climate Portal - HERE

TRUMP, DENIAL, and DANGEROUS CLIMATE CHANGE: BAD FOR YOU, WORSE FOR YOUR CHILDREN

Trump Admin's Unethical Anti-Climate-Action Policy in Federal Agencies - Click

Trump / Climate Science Denial / Climate Risk Denial

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CLIMATE PORTAL VISION, MISSION, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, ABOUT US

Our VISION is a world with mitigated climate change viable for all of us and for future generations.

Our MISSION is to provide motivation for climate risk-management action.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Thanks to Trunity for providing the software platform, and thanks to our readers for continuing to check out climate information and issues.

ABOUT US: The Climate Portal provides extensive information on climate change and global warming from reliable sources (written, Internet): Topics (click to register, look upper left) and Articles (click, look below). Listed "authors" generally summarize/link content from sources. The Climate Portal doesn't receive outside funding. This site began as the "UU-UNO Climate Portal" in 2009, part of the UU-UNO Climate Initiative.

Dr. Jan Dash is the volunteer Managing Editor (climate bio HERE).

Site disclaimer, terms, usage conditions. Blog comments are subject to moderation. Send communication HERE. Google Analytics. Developers. Website members. Site map. Copyright: J. Dash Consultants LLC. Last update 15Mar2020.

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