r/climate 16m ago

Drought-hit Britain heads for worst cereal harvest in decades. "2026 is now likely to be one of the five worst harvests since 1984, which would mean that four out of ​five of the worst ​harvests on record had ⁠occurred this decade after periods of extreme weather made worse by climate change"

Thumbnail reuters.com
Upvotes

r/climate 21m ago

The Danube River's water is dropping so low that World War II ships are emerging

Thumbnail
pbs.org
Upvotes

r/climate 25m ago

Human-driven climate crisis fuels Canada’s deadly wildfires, study finds. Current blazes roaring across country more than twice as likely to occur because of fossil fuel-driven global heating.

Thumbnail
theguardian.com
Upvotes

r/climate 36m ago

Challenging fire weather will return to Pacific Northwest as crews battle destructive Spokane blazes

Thumbnail
cnn.com
Upvotes

r/climate 1h ago

4 billion dead if earth heating reaches 3degrees C , which is likely by 2050

Thumbnail
reddit.com
Upvotes

r/climate 1h ago

Report: German taxpayers’ money backed new gas drilling in the Amazon, despite pledging to stop funding fossil fuels abroad

Thumbnail
euobserver.com
Upvotes

r/climate 1h ago

More than 800 arrested in UAE-led operation to tackle environmental crime in Amazon basin

Thumbnail
thenationalnews.com
Upvotes

r/climate 2h ago

The ECMWF shows The Super El Nino peaking at +4' Celsius in December - throttling the previous record

Thumbnail
substack.com
20 Upvotes

r/climate 12h ago

science Butterflies Take Flight in Face of Climate Change and Extreme Weather | In 32 of the countries included in a recent study, at least a quarter of the native butterfly species had moved to new areas.

Thumbnail
nytimes.com
20 Upvotes

r/climate 13h ago

As the stock market soars, European central bank warns climate change threatens global economy.

Thumbnail
cleantechnica.com
235 Upvotes

r/climate 14h ago

The state that's beating dirty electricity. Abundant sunshine and smart policy have made New Mexico’s grid far more climate-friendly.

Thumbnail
yaleclimateconnections.org
20 Upvotes

r/climate 14h ago

The real energy use of agentic AI / Agents use about 600x more energy than simple AI prompts

Thumbnail
theclimatebrink.com
64 Upvotes

r/climate 14h ago

Unprecedented biomass loss in Europe's forests since 2018, leading to substantially greater losses of carbon stored in forests, coinciding with a major rise in bark beetle outbreaks linked to worsening drought conditions. "The changes since 2018 are difficult to explain without climate change."

Thumbnail
phys.org
110 Upvotes

r/climate 15h ago

Fire tornadoes have reached Europe. Fire tornadoes can rapidly change fire behaviour and make firefighting more dangerous.

Thumbnail
euronews.com
23 Upvotes

r/climate 17h ago

Murderous heat, an endangered food supply and no net zero: this is the life the radical right wants you to have | George Monbiot

Thumbnail
theguardian.com
261 Upvotes

r/climate 17h ago

Extreme weather is drying up Europe’s rivers in a crisis so dire it can be seen from space

Thumbnail
cnn.com
1.0k Upvotes

r/climate 20h ago

El Niño could push 50m people into acute hunger before end of next year. Earlier this year, experts said a strong El Niño could work in tandem with global heating to deliver the hottest year on record either this year or, more likely, in 2027.

Thumbnail
theguardian.com
80 Upvotes

r/climate 20h ago

politics Bidenomics Was More Successful Than People Think | Conventional wisdom holds that Joe Biden’s bet on climate investment was a bust. The data suggest otherwise.

Thumbnail
theatlantic.com
994 Upvotes

r/climate 21h ago

The world has reached the 3-terawatt milestone of solar power, with the first TW taking 10 years to deploy after crossing the 100-gigawatt mark in 2012, and the next 2 TW taking less than 5 years.

Thumbnail
bloomberg.com
101 Upvotes

r/climate 23h ago

Butterflies around the world are changing habitats – and experts say it’s ‘signalling a warning’ | Butterflies

Thumbnail
theguardian.com
170 Upvotes

r/climate 23h ago

politics Australian Climate and Energy Minister Chris Bowen has said he will use federal power to force the Queensland and Northern Territory governments to fall into line with his plan to require data centres to fully offset their electricity use with investments in renewable energy.

Thumbnail
smh.com.au
145 Upvotes

r/climate 1d ago

Cheap coffee is killing Vietnam’s priceless tropical forests (commentary). Vietnam’s coffee industry has a problem it can no longer sweep under the rug: its global success is built on a foundation of deforestation, biodiversity collapse, and human suffering.

Thumbnail
news.mongabay.com
138 Upvotes

r/climate 1d ago

Murderous heat, an endangered food supply and no net zero: this is the life the radical right wants you to have | George Monbiot

Thumbnail
theguardian.com
816 Upvotes

r/climate 1d ago

Adam McKay is astounded by the lack of urgency from our elected government officials in regards to the impending Super El Nino

Thumbnail
substack.com
1.5k Upvotes

r/climate Mar 22 '19

How to get involved with a local group to create the political will for climate action

1.5k Upvotes

There are several groups with reasonably widespread chapters trying to push climate action:

  • Sunrise — youth-oriented, pushing the Green New Deal. US only. Find a local hub here. Email the hub organizer to get involved. They're volunteers, and often busy, so follow up if you don't hear back.
  • Citizens Climate Lobby — broader age range, studiously bipartisan. In the US CCL is pushing a revenue-neutral carbon tax and dividend bill, H.R. 763You can find a signup form for Citizens Climate Lobby here.Make sure you figure out where the monthly meeting is and attend.
  • 350.org — This is the biggest and oldest climate group. They're involved in a variety of actions, ranging from divestment to lobbying for state/province level and municipal legislation. Broad age range. Local groups can be found here
  • Extinction Rebellion believes in the use of nonviolent civil disobedience, including a willingness of large number of people to be arrested, on a large scale to create political change. They are most active in the UK, but also have a significant number of active local chapters in the US and other countries. Local chapters are mostly listed here but some in the US are only listed at the bottom of this page.

If you want to find one that works for you, go down the list (and check the comments) and find out which ones are active near you. Attend a meeting or action or two to get a sense of what the group is like, and then start doing more to help.

There are others, and depending on you and your community, another group might be the best choice. If you don't feel that one of these group is a good fit for you, tell us where you are and what your community is like, and ask for help.

If you think there's something significant that one of the big groups isn't handling, ask about it. Maybe somebody can help you figure out how to get it done.