THE UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
ORLANDO CHAPTER
2019
CLIMATE ANALYSIS PAGE

CLIMATE CRISIS AND CLIMATE DENIAL

Ambitious actions already underway around the world can offer insight into CRDPs for limiting warming to 1.5°C. For example, some countries have adopted clean energy and sustainable transport while creating environmentally friendly jobs and supporting social welfare programmes to reduce domestic poverty. Other examples teach us about different ways to promote development through practices inspired by community values. For instance, Buen Vivir, a Latin American concept based on indigenous ideas of communities living in harmony with nature, is aligned with peace; diversity; solidarity; rights to education, health, and safe food, water, and energy; and well-being and justice for all. The Transition Movement, with origins in Europe, promotes equitable and resilient communities through low-carbon living, food self-sufficiency and citizen science. Such examples indicate that pathways that reduce poverty and inequalities while limiting warming to 1.5°C are possible and that they can provide guidance on pathways towards socially desirable, equitable and low-carbon futures.
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GLOBAL SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS

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Scientific consensus: Earth's climate is warming
NASA

Climate Change: How do we know?
NASA

Climate Change First Became News 30 Years Ago. Why Haven’t We Fixed It?
Andrew Revkin | National Geographic | July 2018

CLIMATE CHANGE DENIAL

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Climate Denial Homepage
Inside Climate News

Subcommittee Hearing: The Denial Playbook: How Industries Manipulate Science and Policy from Climate Change to Public Health
Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations

​Extreme weather news may not change climate change skeptics’ minds
Ryan Weber | The Conversation | March 27, 2019

Climate Change: How do we know?
NASA
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THE SCIENCE

​Climate warming in the Antarctic is something that we have barely seen so far, however due to the ozone hole pulling the jet stream further south, the Antarctic is becoming dryer and unable to sustain some of its lifeforms. This is concerning as the moss beds that support the majority of life in the Antarctic is finding themselves unable to survive in the dry climate. This will only lead to worse conditions in the Antarctic and a loss of native species. (BBC News)
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Climate change kills Antarctica's ancient moss beds
Victoria Gill| BBC News | 25 September 2018

Climate Action Summit 2019
United Nations

New UN Global Climate report ‘another strong wake-up call’ over global warming: Guterres
UN News | 28 March 2019

World Meteorological Organization
WMO

Bulletin Vol 67
WMO World Meteorological Organization

​World in grip of ‘high impact weather’ as US freezes, Australia sizzles, parts of South America deluged
UN News | 1 February 2019

Save the Plankton, Breathe Freely
National Geographic

4 ways the ozone hole is linked to climate, and 1 way it isn’t
Rebecca Lindsey | Climate.gov | 12 October 2016

THE POLITICS

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Climate Science Report Contradicts Trump Administration Positions
Stephen Leahy | National Geographic | 4 November 2017

Climate and Environment
New York Times

al gore

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CONSEQUENCES OF INACTION

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When will Climate Change Make the Earth Too Hot for Humans?
David Wallace-Wells | New York Mag