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By intentionally boosting oil and gas production and stymying carbon-free energy, federal officials are violating their constitutional rights to life and liberty, alleges the lawsuit, filed on Thursday.

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Geologists race to collect perishable data as Kentucky residents ‘scared to death’ over floods amid Trump cuts ...

"It doesn’t matter if people don’t believe in climate change; it’s going to wallop them anyway … This is a new world of extremes and cascading hazards"

— Ryan Thigpen, geologist

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At the very end, they remind us:

A study published last year found that the frequency and magnitude of extreme wildfires around the globe had doubled since 2003 due to climate change.

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Climate change is causing the glaciers - frozen rivers of ice - to melt faster and faster, and the permafrost, often described as the glue that holds the high mountains together, is also thawing.

Local news has much more extensive footage

• French Environment Minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher will fly to China on Wednesday night with hopes of moving the EU and China closer on international climate action, as the US refuses to join the global effort.

• Pannier-Runacher wants to see France and China publicly reaffirm their commitment to the deal that was sealed in the French capital in 2015 while she is in Beijing to prepare the ground for an EU-China summit in July.

This is why I say politics matters more than individual action.

Yes, changing the lightbulbs in your house from incandescent to LED is great but it's just a drop in the bucket. Politicians can mandate energy efficient bulbs for everyone as an example, at scale this makes a huge difference.

We all have 24 hours in a day and a lot less of that is free-time, use it to contact your politicians and urge other people to do that.

I really hope after reading this post that you'll consider sending an email, calling or faxing at-least one politician. Your message can be really simple.

For example this could be your message:

Dear (politician),

I'm really worried about the effects on climate change. I believe it's hurting the economy much more than the cost of transitioning to renewable energy such as solar and wind. I'm calling for ending subsidies for fossil fuel companies and a faster transition to renewable energy.

Thank you so much for your consideration,
(Your name)

See that wasn't so hard was it? Sending an email could take just minutes a day and you're message could have a huge impact.

• Climate change is making North America warmer and drier, creating more favorable conditions for wildfires – this is well-established at a continental scale, but a new paper added strong evidence at a regional scale.
• A new study found that human-driven climate change was the main driver of worsening ‘fire weather’ – hot, dry, and windy conditions that help wildfires start and spread – in Western North America over the last 50 years.
• The contributions from human-driven climate change are given as a range; most of that range suggests human-driven climate change is entirely responsible, but even the lowest end of the range shows it’s mostly responsible (81% or more).
• According to scientists we interviewed, these results may suggest that in the absence of human-driven climate change, natural atmospheric conditions would have decreased fire weather in the region over that 50 year period.
• This new paper adds to a growing body of evidence showing that climate change is worsening wildfires – and the conditions driving them – in Western North America.