The Climate Minute (Mar. 16th, 2019)

A slightly more brisk episode than the previous one.

Here are the bullets points:

Bill McKibben is tweeting out that a new analysis of data suggests that the projected 5 degree centigrade rise in the world's temperature isn't locked in yet, which means there's still time to take action to go from carbon emissions to carbon neutral to carbon negative.

Pew Environment wants to remind us that Canada's Boreal forest is 12 times the size of California, 88% intact, a breeding ground for nearly 3 billion birds, and stores an extraordinary amount of carbon.

ProPublica has a story out on the uphill battle to limit the impact of fracking in West Virginia.

Chesapeake Bay President Will Baker calls the 90% proposed budget cut to the Chesapeake Bay Program a "slap in the face."

The Guardian (and Grist) recently ran a story that noted that artificially "cooling the Earth enough [would] eliminate roughly half of warming, rather than all of it, generally would not make tropical cyclones  more intense or worsen water availability, extreme temperatures or extreme rain. Only a small fraction of places, 0.4%, might see climate change impacts worsened."

Amy Brady has a new piece in Guernica on -- amongst other things -- climate trauma.

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