Bryan Godbe

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✅Progressive NV Dem ✅Solar panels & 2 EVs ✅Join me @ "Progressive Politics for A Small Blue Planet" https://bryangodbe.substack.com/ ✅If you are not part of the Climate solution, you are part of the problem. The solution: www.un.org/en/actnow/ten-actions

A Yale survey found that roughly 66% of Americans are worried about global warming. Climate-hushing is “the climate denial of 2026”. Ignoring the climate crisis is not smart politics, it is dropping the ball on the biggest threat the US and the world faces.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Democrats’ ‘climate hushing’ prompts activists to turn up the volume

Nationwide actions seek to counter view that talking about climate crisis distracts from affordability messaging

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“The rising frequency of natural disasters linked to climate change pose a threat to financial stability. If you destroy nature, you destroy the core on which our economies depend. This is core economics. This is core financial stability, core price stability.” www.theguardian.com/business/202...

ECB official warns climate crisis poses growing threat to ‘core financial stability’

Exclusive: As wildfires rage across Europe, Frank Elderson tells the Guardian nature loss poses a growing risk to the global economy

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“The climate crisis is taking an increasingly large share. Snowmelt that feeds the river is evaporating more quickly, and thirsty soils & plants soak up more water. Flows in the Colorado are down 20% over the last century and precipitation has shrunk by about 7%.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Water cuts loom as US unveils long-awaited response to Colorado River crisis

Federal government plan outlines cuts of roughly 40% to California, Arizona and Nevada but fix is likely to be only temporary

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“England is on track to record its highest ever number of heat-related deaths this summer after the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) announced that an estimated 2,877 people had died in the May and June heatwaves.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

England on track for record heat-related deaths this summer, official data shows

UKHSA estimates 2,877 fatalities during heatwaves in May and June, almost twice that recorded in 2025 season

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“Never in our modern record have we had three bad fire years,” said Mike Flannigan, a professor of wildland fire at Thompson Rivers University. Climate change, caused by the burning of fossil fuels, has led to warming that is fuelling calamitous fire seasons.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Canada’s worst wildfire season fuels calls for national agency to tackle threat

More than 900 fires burning in only G7 country without national emergency agency to coordinate response

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“The climate alarm is blaring, from every direction. Around the world, climate-driven disasters are reaching nightmare proportions, as the costs of humanity’s addiction to burning coal, oil…are now reaching national emergency levels.” www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

​France and Spain race to control wildfires as fresh heatwave hits, as UN warns ‘the climate alarm is blaring’ – Europe live

Spanish prime minister also says the fires serve as a reminder to plan for the ‘worsening’ climate emergency

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“Scientists say climate breakdown is triggering more frequent and more extreme weather events, evaporating soils and waterways, fuelling wildfires and leading to thousands of excess deaths. Europe is heating at about twice the global average rate.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Wildfires force more than 250,000 people to evacuate in France and Spain

Hundreds of firefighters battle blazes as strong winds drive fires towards Bordeaux and smoke prompts health warnings in Madrid

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"The declaration of drought in Wales comes as a new scientific analysis finds that extreme heat, supercharged by the human-caused climate crisis, is sucking Europe dry in summer and intensifying the drought hitting the continent." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Drought declared in parts of Wales as July on course to be driest in nearly 200 years

Government agency confirms status in north Wales and Upper Severn after series of heatwaves and lack of rainfall

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"Extreme highs of 44.7C were recorded on Thursday in Cieza, in the Spanish province of Murcia, according to the Spanish meteorological agency. The Spanish cities of Albacete, Ávila and Teruel broke their July temperatures records with heat as high as 42C." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Thousands flee wildfires in France and Spain as temperatures reach extreme levels in southern Europe

Spain declares national emergency around Madrid, as marine heatwave sees some parts of Mediterranean Sea 5C hotter than normal

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"The French national health agency said on Wednesday that it had recorded 5,764 excess deaths ⁠between ​17 June - 2 July, an excess mortality rate of 36%. Deaths of people aged ⁠75 and older accounting for about two-thirds ​of ​the excess mortality." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

France records more than 5,700 excess deaths during June heatwave

Figures come as large parts of southern Europe endure another record-breaking period of extreme temperatures

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"Up to 13 million people in the UK face the long-term risk of coastal flooding due to the climate crisis, scientists have warned, suggesting the need for the large-scale movement of populations away from a dramatically reshaped coast. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Millions face long-term coastal flooding risk in UK without climate action, scientists warn

A ‘reasonable worst-case scenario’ suggests need for large-scale movement of populations away from reshaped coast

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We can't be blind any longer. "Of 2,500 articles about the extreme heat in the UK’s nine main national daily media publications. But 72% left out any mention of global heating or climate, according to the analysis by the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Most UK media reports on June heatwave failed to mention climate crisis

Exclusive: Analysis of nearly 2,500 articles finds almost three-quarters made no reference to global heating

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