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January 6, 2020 

The 🦀 Trump 🦕🦖 administration is planning to revise a 50-year-old rule to no longer force agencies to consider climate change when planning major infrastructure projects, news outlets reported last week. The original rule has proven a stumbling block for the administration's push to accelerate 🦖 oil and 🦕 gas projects. The White House is "clearly trying to institutionalize climate denial into federal decision-making," Stephen Schima told the Washington Post.

Australia’s bush fires reveal how Scott Morrison has lost his way

New Decade of Denial Begins With Same Old Dishonesty Regarding 2004 DoD Climate Reporting

Australia will lose to climate change (The Atlantic)

The bush fires raging across Australia have pushed the country into crisis as firefighters battle 136 fires, 69 of them uncontained, with three fires merging to be roughly the size of Manhattan.

The death toll has risen to 24 since fire season began, more than 12 million acres have burned, and an estimated 480 million animals, including a third of the koalas, have perished in fires in the state of New South Wales, which has been hardest hit.

Smoke in Australia's capital is so bad that the agency responsible for emergency management has shut

Australian wildfires are turning the New Zealand sky an apocalyptic orange

66 people now killed by flooding in Jakarta, and more rain appears to be on the way (CNN), after Indonesia's deadly floods, few hear climate 'wake up call' (Reuters)

Climate change is playing havoc with Mexico’s monarch butterfly migration

Madagascar’s lemurs face a grim future because of human activity.

Years of drought threaten South Africa's wildlife industry

Climate change corrodes shark skin
 
What will another decade of climate crisis bring? (The New Yorker, Elizabeth Kolbert essay $)

We are seeing the very worst of our scientific predictions come to pass in these bushfires

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