Nov 21, 2025 James E. Hansen is an American climate scientist and former director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. In 2006, Hansen was named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People. Now Hansen works as Director of Climate Science at Columbia University. In his keynote at ATLAS25, James Hansen warns the audience about the dangerous feedback loops of Earth System Tipping Points (ESTP). Hansen's research and statements have been a controversial talking point among the science community, the media, and even some of the IPCC lead authors. Hansen's message is clear – We're running out of time.
Nov 12, 2025 #AlGore #COP30 #ClimateChange
Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and the Climate Trace Coalition present a groundbreaking briefing at COP30 in Belem, Brazil, revealing the latest data on global warming, extreme weather events, and ocean heat accumulation. Using satellites and AI, Climate Trace tracks man-made emissions across the globe, providing an independent source of climate information. Al Gore highlights the devastating impacts of climate change: record droughts, wildfires, floods, ice melt in Greenland and Antarctica, coral reef degradation, and the emerging threat of climate refugees. The briefing underscores the urgent need for global cooperation, data transparency, and rapid climate action. This COP30 session calls attention to how current policies and fossil fuel subsidies are worsening the climate crisis and emphasizes the importance of independent climate monitoring to hold governments accountable, particularly in light of actions by the Trump administration to stop EPA climate data collection.
BELEM – Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore joined UN Climate Chief Simon Stiell at COP30 to emphasize the critical role of data in driving climate action. Speaking at the Amazon city of Belem, Gore and Stiell highlighted how accurate climate information, tracking emissions, and monitoring progress on national and global targets are essential to achieving Paris Agreement goals. The discussion focused on actionable insights, transparency, and the need for timely international cooperation to tackle global warming.
May 14, 2025
During a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing Wednesday, Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) spoke about the Trump administration's freezing of congressionally appropriated funding.
3-31-24 The Climate Emergency Forum welcomes Bill McKibben in a discussion on the urgency of addressing climate change, noting that the past year has seen record-breaking high temperatures, with 2023 and 2024 being the hottest on record in at least 125,000 years. This video was recorded on March 20th, 2024, and published on March 31st, 2024.
The dialogue features Paul Beckwith, Peter Carter and Charles Gregoire. McKibben emphasizes that the world is now in a climate emergency, with the 1.5°C temperature goal from the Paris Agreement already breached.
McKibben highlights that the key solution lies in rapidly transitioning to renewable energy, as it is now the cheapest form of power generation. However, he criticizes the fossil fuel industry for continuing to deny and delay this transition through various excuses. To overcome this, McKibben says the focus must be on changing the political balance of power, which is why he has founded the "Third Act" movement to organize older Americans to support the climate action efforts of younger generations.
McKibben praises the work of young climate activists, but argues that they need the backing of older, more politically and financially powerful individuals to truly drive the necessary changes. He advocates for strategies like targeting the expansion of liquefied natural gas exports, as well as leveraging the skills and resources of the older generation to complement the energy and idealism of the youth climate movement.
3-28-2023 Peter Carter, the director of the Climate Emergency institute, prepared this video about the IPCC final Synthesis Report of the 6th Assessment. The government approved Summary for Policy Makers shows big economy governments are rapidly destroying the world-literally, by still increasing emissions when they had to be decreasing by 2020, for the 2°C and 1.5°C target.