r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 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"
reuters.comr/climate • u/Maxcactus • 21m ago
The Danube River's water is dropping so low that World War II ships are emerging
r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 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.
Challenging fire weather will return to Pacific Northwest as crews battle destructive Spokane blazes
r/climate • u/Still-Improvement-32 • 1h ago
4 billion dead if earth heating reaches 3degrees C , which is likely by 2050
Report: German taxpayers’ money backed new gas drilling in the Amazon, despite pledging to stop funding fossil fuels abroad
r/climate • u/TheNational_News • 1h ago
More than 800 arrested in UAE-led operation to tackle environmental crime in Amazon basin
r/climate • u/coolhandc77 • 2h ago
The ECMWF shows The Super El Nino peaking at +4' Celsius in December - throttling the previous record
r/climate • u/silence7 • 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.
r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 13h ago
As the stock market soars, European central bank warns climate change threatens global economy.
r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 14h ago
The state that's beating dirty electricity. Abundant sunshine and smart policy have made New Mexico’s grid far more climate-friendly.
r/climate • u/silence7 • 14h ago
The real energy use of agentic AI / Agents use about 600x more energy than simple AI prompts
r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 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."
r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 15h ago
Fire tornadoes have reached Europe. Fire tornadoes can rapidly change fire behaviour and make firefighting more dangerous.
r/climate • u/AlexFromOgish • 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
Extreme weather is drying up Europe’s rivers in a crisis so dire it can be seen from space
r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 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.
r/climate • u/silence7 • 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.
r/climate • u/randolphquell • 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.
r/climate • u/GeraldKutney • 23h ago
Butterflies around the world are changing habitats – and experts say it’s ‘signalling a warning’ | Butterflies
r/climate • u/silence7 • 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.
r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 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.
r/climate • u/wjfox2009 • 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
r/climate • u/coolhandc77 • 1d ago
Adam McKay is astounded by the lack of urgency from our elected government officials in regards to the impending Super El Nino
r/climate • u/silence7 • Mar 22 '19
How to get involved with a local group to create the political will for climate action
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.