{"id":139257,"date":"2024-04-03T14:04:27","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/?p=139257"},"modified":"2024-04-03T14:05:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:05:06","slug":"good-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/good-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising Temperatures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hello Life Protectors, Our Planet Champions,<\/p>\n<p>Below are life changing messages from hopefull Climate Scientists Bill McKibben and Katharine Hayhoe. Links to their good work. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This week the World Meteorological Organization officially <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2024\/mar\/19\/red-alert-last-year-was-hottest-year-ever-by-wide-margin-says-un-report\">certified<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, 2023 as the hottest year in human history. Just to put on the record here what should have been the lead story in every journal and website on our home planet:<\/p>\n<p>Andrea Celeste Saulo, secretary general of the WMO, said the organization was now \u201csounding the red alert to the world.<\/p>\n<p>The report found temperatures near the surface of the earth were 1.45\u00b0C higher last year than they were in the late 1800s, when people began to destroy nature at an industrial scale and burn large amounts of coal, oil, and gas.<\/p>\n<p>Last year\u2019s spike was so scary that NASA\u2019s Gavin Schmidt\u2014Jim Hansen\u2019s heir as keeper of NASA\u2019s climate record\u2014<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-024-00816-z\">wrote<\/a><\/strong><\/span> in Nature this week that it raised the most profound possible implications. Please <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/opinion\/climate-crisis-wisdom-not-ai\">read his words slowly and carefully<\/a><\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<strong>.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bill McKibben speaks to UU\u2019s highlight, <a href=\"https:\/\/uucan.org\/2013\/09\/17\/bill-mckibben-to-unitarian-universalists\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Bill Mckibben to UU&#8217;s: We need you to provide moral leadership<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Climate Scientist and Texas Tech Professor Katharine Hayhoe is a secure connection on hopefulness and climate actions you can choose. The latest on eco-innovations and climate risks from the Aspen Ideas Festival in Miami.<\/p>\n<p>Search for Katharine Hayhoe climate solutions at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AspenInstitute?amp%3B__tn__=-]K*F\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Aspen Institute\u2019s climate summit in Miami<\/span><\/strong><\/a> for the my first time. It was a joy to meet so many incredible people passionate about climate solutions and reminded me once again how much stronger we can be when we work together&amp;quot;.<\/p>\n<p>For Katharine\u2019s free very cool climate solutions oriented newsletter: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">talkingclimatenewsletter@outlook.com&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>For climate solutions here at home put on your calendar the first Tuesday of each month Green Sanctuary hosts Bob and Victoria Hendricks presenting <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sierra Club Climate Crises and Solutions; Howson Hall 6:30 p.m. potluck and 7 p.m. meeting. Free, all welcome.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-139258\" src=\"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-03-at-2.57.02\u202fPM-300x108.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-03-at-2.57.02\u202fPM-300x108.png 300w, https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-03-at-2.57.02\u202fPM-3x1.png 3w, https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-03-at-2.57.02\u202fPM-50x18.png 50w, https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-03-at-2.57.02\u202fPM.png 522w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>** Facebook (https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/katharine.hayhoe\/) ( Facebook has reduced Katharine \u2019s visibility saying her talk about clean and renewable energy is political!?) check it out. From her Facebook page: &#8220;On Easter, we celebrate God\u2019s gift of life. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m convinced that tackling climate change isn&#8217;t just a responsibility\u2014it&#8217;s a way to demonstrate our love for people, for God, and for His creation&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Life Protectors, Our Planet Champions, Below are life changing messages from hopefull Climate Scientists Bill McKibben and Katharine Hayhoe. Links to their good work. \u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;This week the World Meteorological Organization officially certified, 2023 as the hottest year in human history. 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