The UN Climate Action Summit took place in New York City from September 21st to 23rd against a backdrop of massive youth climate strikes around the world, a hoped-for announcement by large industrialized nations of further reductions of greenhouse gas emissions and a planet that is warming at an alarming rate, even exceeding the projections of recent…

The UN Climate Action Summit is convening over  a three-day-period, September 21st – September 23rd.   UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in advance of the summit that, his generation has largely failed until now to preserve both justice in  the world and to preserve the planet. Representatives of about 60 countries have been invited to address the world body…

 In 156 countries, 4 million young climate activists walked out of school to tell the world that the Climate Crisis is destroying the planet and their future and its time to stop talking and start implementing real changes to avoid the worst disasters of a heating world.  It was the largest environmental protest in history…

Greta Thunberg, 16-year-old Swedish climate activist, joined other youth leaders in the US climate movement to speak to the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis on Wednesday morning.  Thunberg has inspired young people all over the globe to take immediate and direct action to bring awareness of the existential threat of the climate crisis.  As a…

On September 1, 2019 Hurricane Dorian slammed the Bahamas with its devastating category five, 185 mph winds, 225 gusts and 23-foot storm surge.  Its first target was the chain of small Abaco Cays. The Abacos are home to some of the oldest settlements in the Bahamas, dating from the late 1700’s by Loyalists who fled the…

Glacier National Park, Montana. At St. Mary’s on the east side of Glacier National Park we started up the Going-to-the-Sun-Road, that winds for fifty miles through steep, rugged terrain and ends on the west side of the park at West Glacier. There are ten mountain peaks over 10,000 feet, waterfalls that cascade down the sides…

Natural gas is not a bridge to a clean, renewable economy. Its a dead end to a dangerously high level of carbon in the atmosphere. The big green and white Waste Management truck lumbered through the pleasant suburban neighborhood collecting trash from cans that lined the street.  Painted proudly in giant letters across its side was,…

By Brent Probinsky Honolulu, Hawaii – The US Conference of Mayors, representing 1,408 cities across the country, met in Honolulu last week and expressed broad support for local and national measures to address the dangers from the Climate Crisis.  US cities and metro areas account for 88% of the nation’s jobs and 91% of GDP and…

Eleuthera, Bahamas – Throughout the world’s vast oceans, small island countries from the Bahamas, 48 miles off the east coast of Florida, to Samoa in the South Pacific, face an existential threat from sea level rise caused by the Climate Crisis. It’s causing severe droughts in the U.S. Midwest, wild fires in California, major destructive hurricanes…

By Brent Probinsky