Susan Hassol, Climate Communication

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Improving understanding of climate change science and solutions for 3 decades. TEDx talk:

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    20 May 2018
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    Thanks! Words matter. There's enough confusion about climate change without introducing words with double meanings. Here's my table with a citation. I've now identified 150 of them!

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    4 hours ago

    Wildfires. Smoke taint. Heat storms. Empty reservoirs. Now, losing access to insurance. In Napa Valley, the lush heartland of America’s high-end wine industry, all is not well.

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    3 hours ago

    If the heat and drought trends worsen, “we’re probably out of business,” said Cyril Chappellet, president of Chappellet Winery, which has been operating for more than half a century. “All of us are out business.” Vivid on-the-ground reporting from

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    21 hours ago

    Climate change also has a mental health toll - ABC News - via

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    12 hours ago

    Rocking the front page, folks:

    In the Sunday NYT, on the front page: "This tragic event is a reminder that, in the climate emergency, no one is safe, whether they live on a small island nation like mine or a developed Western European state."
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    9 hours ago

    A 2018 study suggests that for every dollar the government spends on disaster preparation, it prevents six dollars in future damage.

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    Jul 15

    To underline ’s point here: it’s incredible that mainstream politicians invoke future generations to talk about the debt, and not about the literal threat to our continued existence on earth

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    19 hours ago

    Yesterday Germany, today Austria.

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    19 hours ago

    “The idea that you could possibly die from weather is completely alien,” said Friederike Otto of Oxford University “There’s not even a realization that adaptation is something we have to do right now. We have to save people’s lives.”

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    Jul 17

    You often hear us talk about the wavy jet stream. Here’s a good illustration of how this manifests in extreme weather, connecting the Europe flooding to the Heat Dome in the US West. Some scientists have found a connection between climate change and a more amp’d - wavy jet 1/….

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  12. 23 hours ago

    All major is now affected by human-caused change. And when the wobbles, an extreme in one place is accompanied by extremes of different types elsewhere. It is all connected.

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    Jul 16

    It's tragic to see these climate disasters day after day: flooding, hurricanes, drought, fires, heat waves. People are dying from the climate crisis right now. These disasters are a reminder: Congress needs to act boldly on climate this summer.

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  14. Jul 16

    The true cost of is higher than you think. & consequences cost 3 times as much as food itself, adversely affecting our environment, health & society. What will it take to fix our broken food system?

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    Jul 16

    via : Ohio siting board approves one of the largest U.S. solar projects

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    Jul 16

    Northwest trees sapped by Oregon and Washington heat waves could be vulnerable to fire

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    Jul 16

    "We wouldn’t be seeing this giant ramp up in fire activity as fast as it is happening without climate change,” said Park Williams, a climate scientist at UCLA. “There’s just no way.”

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    Jul 16

    “The press has a vital, even unparalleled role in truth-telling and democratic governance. It is the only profession protected by name in the Bill of Rights.” —Dahlia Lithwick

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    Jul 2

    To journalists reporting on heatwaves: please ask whether climate change is ‘worsening’ these events, rather than ‘causing’ them. As says: “science has shown that every heatwave we experience is now made more intense by human-induced global warming. Every single one.”

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    Jul 16

    Here in Germany, dozens have died in floods, hundreds are missing, thousands have lost their homes. It's devastating. This is the climate crisis unravelling in one of the richest parts of the world — which for a long time thought it would be “safe”. No place is “safe” any more.

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    Jul 16

    New CDC report shows Pacific Northwest heat wave led to a huge spike in emergency room visits, 69 times higher than heat-related visits during the same period in 2019.

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