TheGreenFront presents: This Day in Climate History August 24, 2005: The New York Times reports: Officials in New York and eight other Northeastern states have come to a preliminary agreement to freeze power plant emissions at their current levels and then reduce them by 10 percent by 2020, according to a confidential draft proposal. The cooperative action, the first of its kind in the nation, came after the Bush administration decided not to regulate the greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming. Once a final agreement is reached, the legislatures of the nine states will have to enact it, which is considered likely. nytimes/2005/08/24/nyregion/24air.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1& August 24, 2006: On the CBS program The Early Show, Mike Tidwell of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network discusses the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, and notes that sequels to Katrina will soon be released if we dont take action to dramatically cut carbon emissions. cbsnews/videos/the-ravaging-tide/ August 24, 2010: MSNBCs Keith Olbermann interviews Lee Fang of Think Progress regarding Fangs coverage of the Koch Brothers. Later, MSNBCs Rachel Maddow interviews New Yorker reporter Jane Mayer regarding her now-famous story about the Kochs. youtu.be/tRbLXN4j7Do video.msnbc.msn/rachel-maddow/38841903 m.newyorker/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer August 24, 2013: MSNBCs Rachel Maddow and Chris Hayes discuss the League of Conservation Voters ad campaign against Congressional climate-change deniers. youtu.be/ntiBmsNYdio August 24, 2014: In the New York Times, Robert Jay Lifton observes: Amercians appear to be undergoing a significant psychological shift in our relation to global warming. I call this shift a climate swerve, borrowing the term used recently by the Harvard humanities professor Stephen Greenblatt to describe a major historical change in consciousness that is neither predictable nor orderly. The first thing to say about this swerve is that we are far from clear about just what it is and how it might work. But we can make some beginning observations which suggest, in Bob Dylan’s words, that something is happening here, but you don’t know what it is. Experience, economics and ethics are coalescing in new and important ways. Each can be examined as a continuation of my work comparing nuclear and climate threats. The experiential part has to do with a drumbeat of climate-related disasters around the world, all actively reported by the news media: hurricanes and tornadoes, droughts and wildfires, extreme heat waves and equally extreme cold, rising sea levels and floods. Even when people have doubts about the causal relationship of global warming to these episodes, they cannot help being psychologically affected. Of great importance is the growing recognition that the danger encompasses the entire earth and its inhabitants. We are all vulnerable. nytimes/2014/08/24/opinion/sunday/the-climate-swerve.html?ref=opinion&_r=0
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