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UN climate scientists said there needs to be three to six times more investment globally in climate mitigation and adaptation.

Dr Matt Boyd & Prof Nick Wilson* (Syndicated from the Adapt Research Blog) In this blog we briefly review the literature on the probability of nuclear war and what various models estimate to be the potential global climate impacts (eg, of nuclear winter). Although New Zealand is relatively well placed as a major food producer – a range of mitigation strategies could increase the probability of sustaining food security during a recovery period. To get the ball rolling the Government needs to perform a national risk assessment on this topic and commission work on identifying the most cost-...

Buttigieg. watch. >> climate effects we thought were going to happen in the middle of the century are happening right this minute. we don't have time to debate whether it's real or caused by humans or whether we have to do something about it. we have to act. >> how is the administration doing right now in your view? >> look, i think joe biden knows that climate is a legacy issue for him. he's going to be judged on a lot of issues decades from now. no more than climate. he understands that we have a narrow window here where we need to act and that's why his team has put forward a memo of what t...

Administration's commitment to climate? because the crisis is upon us right now. and it is upon your administration to lead us the right way. >> that's right. you know, climate effects that we thought would happen in the middle of the century are happening right this minute. we don't have time to debate whether it is real or caused by humans or whether we got to do something about it. we just have to act. my message to people who care about climate like we do is first of all, this is the biggest investment in these kinds of things that we've had in the history of the republic. and what we're d...

I think that this is a big downpayment. it's big momentum. and we're very proud of having put our priorities forward and fought for them, some of which weren't in the original families plan proposal including medicare expansion. the second piece is we're going to continue to fight for everything that we laid out. we understand that we're not going to get the level of investment that i had hoped that we were going to get. but it's never been about the top-line number. it's always been about what are we going to deliver to people. can we say to americans that we really are going to give them the...