“A widespread and intense heatwave is roasting large portions of the U.S. and Canada, shattering daily and monthly temperature records,” Axios reports.
“Winter is the fastest-warming season across the U.S., and the lingering warmth is shortening the snow season in places like Colorado and Montana, where mountain snowpack is a critical source of water during the summer months.”
“California plans to dramatically curtail water delivery next year from its network of canals, pipelines and reservoirs to 27 million Californians and three-quarters of a million acres of farmland because of a two-year drought,” Bloomberg reports.
“Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT), one of his party’s most centrist members, made an intensely personal case for ambitious climate action in the Democrats’ social spending package,” Politico reports.
“He said this summer’s drought led to the worst year on his farm since they began farming in the 1970s and that he ‘longed’ for the day when his tractor could be powered off a battery, instead of diesel fuel.”
Said Tester: “If we don’t do something about climate change and start today with real solutions, there are going to be a lot of hungry people in this world. A lot of hungry people.”
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“In an effort to boost revenue and protect the environment, the Biden administration on Friday laid out plans to make fossil fuel companies pay more to drill on federal lands and waters,” the Washington Post reports.
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“Exhausted negotiators from nearly 200 nations struck a deal Saturday intended to propel the world toward more urgent climate action, but without offering the transformative breakthrough scientists say must happen if humanity is to avert disastrous planetary warming,” the Washington Post reports.
Axios: “However, the talks fell short of meeting developing countries’ demands for access to funding to compensate them for climate-related losses.”
“As international climate talks in Glasgow dragged into deep overtime, organizers released a new draft agreement on Saturday morning that they hope could be the basis for a new global deal to tackle climate change,” the New York Times reports.
“The latest draft, which is broadly similar to one released on Friday, calls on nations to return next year with stronger pledges to cut planet-warming emissions in this decade.”
Washington Post: Why has it been so hard to get fossil fuels mentioned in U.N. climate deals?
“Negotiators at the COP26 conference in Glasgow have blown past their Friday evening deadline for reaching a decision about how the world should fight climate change,” the Washington Post reports.
Sara Goddard: “Even if you’re inclined to dismiss the optics, it’s hard to ignore the equivocating and shell game antics. There’s a greenwashed hue that permeates so much of this conference.”
Sara Goddard is not hopeful.
“Across the world, many countries underreport their greenhouse gas emissions in their reports to the United Nations,” the Washington Post reports.
“An examination of 196 country reports reveals a giant gap between what nations declare their emissions to be versus the greenhouse gases they are sending into the atmosphere.”
“The plan to save the world from the worst of climate change is built on data. But the data the world is relying on is inaccurate.”
As world leaders “blah, blah, blah” — as Greta Thunberg puts it — at COP26, do you think you can’t do anything? Think again.
World leaders each tossed a coin at the Trevi Fountain in Rome for good luck in fighting the climate crisis.
Sara Goddard: Where is the climate leadership in our government?
A new PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll finds 59% of Americans say the global community is doing too little to address climate change.
Daily Beast: “Climate-related warfare is a near-term reality—not some far-off boogeyman—according to leading defense thinkers and military strategists. They are still talking about the importance of fighting climate change, but they’re also making plans to fight other human beings because of climate change.”
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Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
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