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Another scary Guardian article

NY Times article on a just released government report includes:

The report puts the most precise price tags to date on the cost to the United States economy of projected climate impacts: $141 billion from heat-related deaths, $118 billion from sea level rise and $32 billion from infrastructure damage by the end of the century, among others.

LONDON, 31 October, 2018 − A growing number of British academics, writers and activists say they are ready to go to prison in support of their demands for action on the environment.

Scientists are not normally renowned for their political activism, and the UK is hardly a hotbed of determined and risky protest against its rulers. But, if this group of nearly 100 British scientists and their backers is right, all that may be on the brink of changing.

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Link to a Guardian article about this new European movement. The activist group Extinction Rebellion launched a campaign of civil disobedience by demanding a zero-carbon economy by 2025.

Ideas for local actions anyone?

New detailed chart showing many aspects of climate change for different regions

https://interactive.carbonbrief.org/impacts-climate-change-one-point-five-degrees-two-degrees/#

This is also on our Climate News page