Top U.S. & World Headlines — August 9, 2021

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‘Stomach-turning’: MAGA Riot’s Confederate Flag Rebuked by Fran Lebowitz | MSNBC Summit Series

MSNBCJul 22, 2021
Writer Fran Lebowitz applies her iconic candor and wit to the insurrection, voter suppression, feminism, the news media, comedy — and why she says she’s not a pessimist, despite her reputation— in this wide-ranging interview, a new installment of The Summit Series with Ari Melber, featuring discussions with leaders at the summit of their fields. The series debuted in 2021 with Melber’s interview with Bill Gates. http://www.thebeatwithari.com » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc

‘100 Times Worse Than Nixon’: Historian Warns Of Trump’s ‘Coup’ In D amning 2021 Emails

MSNBCAug 5, 2021
New evidence concerning Donald Trump’s DOJ pressure campaign to overturn the 2020 election shows DOJ officials rejected their colleague’s attempt to intervene in Georgia’s election certification. Presidential historian Michael Beschsloss joins MSNBC’s Ari Melber to discuss how Trump’s so-called “coup attempt” echoes the Nixon-era “Saturday Night Massacre.” (This interview is from MSNBC’s “The Beat with Ari Melber, a news show covering politics, law and culture airing nightly at 6pm ET on MSNBC.

CBC News: The National | Climate change warning, Border reopens, Fourth wave

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August 9, 2021 | A UN report gives a stark warning about the irreversible changes being caused by climate change and what could come next. Canada reopens its border to vaccinated Americans despite concerns about rising COVID-19 cases. Plus, what should Canada expect heading into a fourth wave.

‘Code red’: Dire warnings from UN climate change report

CBC News: The NationalAug 9, 2021
A report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change offered dire warnings for the future and a stark look at the present, showing global warming could hit 1.5 C by the 2030s and extreme weather events will become more common.

What individuals can do about the climate crisis

CBC News: The NationalAug 9, 2021
Ian Hanomansing talks to a scientist and reporter about climate change warnings from the UN, the hope to be found and what individuals can do to change course.

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What The U.S. Can Do About That Dire Climate Change Report

By Rachel Treisman Posted 9 hours ago

The United Nations just released its landmark climate report, urging countries to urgently cut their greenhouse gas emissions or else face catastrophic consequences.

So what exactly should the Biden administration do?

Climate scientist Allison Crimmins heads the National Climate Assessment, a government report that evaluates how the U.S. is doing on issues related to climate change. She spoke with NPR’s Noel King about her takeaways from today’s new report.

“Climate change isn’t something that’s happening far away to someone else in some far-off future time,” she says. “It’s really happening here and now, to us.”

Crimmins says it’s both the changes and the rate of changes that are so troubling, and unprecedented. And she notes those are things that Americans are already observing in their own backyards: wildfires in the West, flooding in the Midwest and Northeast, hurricane damage in the South and the impact of rising sea levels along the coast.

Every additional bit of warming will affect all of the things we care about in the U.S., from health to transportation to agriculture, she says. But on the flip side, Crimmins says every action and every year counts.

Listen here for Crimmins’ suggestions on what the Biden administration and everyday Americans can do.

“It’s not a policy statement but just a scientific statement that if we want to limit global warming and we want to limit those sorts of impacts that are affecting Americans right now, we need strong, rapid, sustained reductions in carbon dioxide and in methane and in other greenhouse gasses.”

– Allison Crimmins, director of the Fifth National Climate Assessment

A Scientist Highlights What Can Be Done About The Dire Climate Change Report : NPR

Cars drive down the 110 Freeway toward downtown Los Angeles, California in April 2021. President Biden has pledged to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030.

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August 9, 20212:15 PM ET

Rachel Treisman

The United Nations just released its landmark climate report, urging countries to urgently cut their greenhouse gas emissions or else face catastrophic consequences.

So what exactly should the Biden administration do?

Climate scientist Allison Crimmins heads the National Climate Assessment, a government report that evaluates how the U.S. is doing on issues related to climate change. She spoke with NPR’s Noel King about her takeaways from today’s report.

“Climate change isn’t something that’s happening far away to someone else in some far-off future time,” she says. “It’s really happening here and now, to us.”

Crimmins says it’s both the changes and the rate of changes that are so troubling, and unprecedented.

And she notes that Americans are already observing the impacts in their own backyards: wildfires in the West, flooding in the Midwest and Northeast, hurricane damage in the South and the impact of rising sea levels along the coast.

Every additional bit of warming will affect all of the things we care about in the U.S., from health to transportation to agriculture, she says.

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New U.N. Report Warns Climate Change Is Rapid, Intensifying : Consider This from NPR : NPR

People board a ferry prior to an evacuation as a wildfire approaches the seaside village of Limni, on the island of Evia, Greece, on August 6, 2021.

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A landmark new report from the United Nations warns that the world is running out of time to avoid the catastrophic effects of global warming.

Those effects are already becoming clear as extreme weather, drought, and fire become more common. One of the latest examples: wildfires are raging amid a record heat wave in Turkey, Lebanon, Italy and Greece. Durrie Bouscaren reports for NPR from Istanbul.

And, as NPR’s Jeff Brady reports, climate change is also changing lives in subtler ways.

Other reporting heard in this episode came from NPR’s Rebecca Hersher, who’s been covering the new U.N. report on climate change.

In participating regions, you’ll also hear a local news segment that will help you make sense of what’s going on in your community.

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This episode was produced by Brent Baughman. It was edited by Andrea Kissack, Lee Hale and Fatma Tanis. Additional editing from Jim Kane and Jason DeRose. Our executive producer is Cara Tallo.

A Major U.N. Report Warns Climate Change Is Accelerating : NPR

People evacuate from a wildfire north of Athens, Greece, on Friday. A climate-driven heat wave helped create conditions for the fire to burn out of control. Scientists warn that humans are running out of time to curb greenhouse gas emissions and avoid catastrophic global warming. Thodoris Nikolaou/AP

August 9, 20214:00 AM ET
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Rebecca Hersher

Global climate change is accelerating and human-caused emissions of greenhouse gases are the overwhelming cause, according to a landmark report released Monday by the United Nations. There is still time to avoid catastrophic warming this century, but only if countries around the world stop burning fossil fuels as quickly as possible, the authors warn.

The message to world leaders is more dire, and more unequivocal, than ever before.

“It is indisputable that human activities are causing climate change,” says Ko Barrett, the vice chair of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the senior adviser for climate at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “Each of the last four decades has been the warmest on record since preindustrial times.”

The authors — nearly 200 leading climate scientists — hope the report’s findings will be front and center when world leaders meet for a major climate conference in November.

The effects of that warming are obvious and deadly around the world. Heat waves, droughts and floods are killing people and disrupting lives around the world this summer. Wildfires are burning with unprecedented frequency and intensity, including in places that used to rarely burn. Smoke and smog are choking people in cities and towns from Asia to the Arctic. Ocean heat waves are threatening entire ecosystems and supercharging hurricanes and typhoons.

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