Severe storms are more evidence that the warming climate is a serious threat and we need to respond quickly
By John Van Leer, Citizens’ Climate Lobby Salt water has flooded out of my street drains in Miami-Dade County, a ...
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Our leaders need to respond to the climate crisis the way they would respond to a terror attack or pandemic
By Claude Gerstle, Citizens’ Climate Lobby Many serious threats to our welfare are not immediately visible until quantifiable damage occurs ...
We are trying to flatten the coronavirus curve, but we also need to flatten the relentlessly rising curve of sea-level rise
My daughter is now 29. Seventeen years ago we snorkeled the Florida Keys’ spectacular fish-filled reefs. Her prudent fearlessness, even ...
We failed to prepare for COVID-19; we must not make the same mistake with the climate crisis
By Jeff Dorian, Citizens’ Climate Lobby We knew this contagion could happen; we didn’t know when and we were unprepared. ...
Voters need to support political candidates who grasp the urgency of the climate crisis
By Louis Merlin and Susan Kaye of Citizens’ Climate Lobby and Mary Cassell of the Sierra Club Every election season, voters ...
The government is giving us cash to help during the Covid-19 crisis; it should use the same tactic to solve the climate crisis
By Mark Reynolds and Susan Kaye, Citizens’ Climate Lobby Covid-19 is a public health crisis, but as it has unfolded, ...
Climate change and COVID-19 are science-based threats that test our ability to work together for the common good
By Chris Wiegard, Citizens’ Climate Lobby In Florida, there is a rapidly evolving understanding of the scale of the sea-level ...
It may sound ugly, but ‘retreat’ is a concept Floridians are going to have to embrace as the water rises
Retreat is such an un-American concept. Rhymes with defeat, and considered synonymous. Yet as we move further and faster into ...
The good news: Florida may have a solution to its overpopulation problem; The bad news: Our kids may all move to Atlanta
People in Florida and along the Southeast coast of the U.S. will be among those most likely to be forced ...
A small victory: Florida used “climate change” in a grant application when three other states avoided the words
Here’s good news: The State of Florida is no longer in the climate-change denier club. Southern coastal states are lining ...
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