The world is completely off track and heading towards 3°C warming. Read more: https://t.co/m2G2WTwiwA #environment pic.twitter.com/Dq7TMaKpbo
— World Economic Forum (@wef) October 8, 2018
Five things we have learned from the @IPCC_CH report on #globalwarming https://t.co/ZhCRes9FJi 🌏
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) October 8, 2018
The IPCC gives cause for courage: There is no time left to wait for the perfect solution or the perfect moment to enact a grand, top-down strategy.
“All options need to be exercised … the idea you can leave anything out is impossible.”https://t.co/9zfoe4KFVT
— Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) October 8, 2018
'While economic growth continues we’ll never kick our fossil fuels habit': https://t.co/K5fPPspfgC #climatechange pic.twitter.com/QK4O9WwGCe
— Guardian Environment (@guardianeco) October 8, 2018
The latest grim UN report on global warming says that even if world governments somehow keep emissions to target levels that will boost average temperatures by only 1 degree, communities, populations and the environment will suffer severe consequences: https://t.co/ACXTGaga0Q
— CBC News Alerts (@CBCAlerts) October 8, 2018
EPA's response to the grim IPCC climate change report out last night is the equivalent of "Don't @ me bro" pic.twitter.com/qEruWOgs7G
— Miranda Green (@mirandacgreen) October 8, 2018
Trump’s isolationism may be undercut by the environmental policies he pursues https://t.co/gKp9Vr72vv
— VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) October 8, 2018
“Can you imagine anything the scientists would say that would persuade the US administration that it needs to take [climate change] more seriously?” Presenter Evan Davis puts that to former Trump adviser Myron Bell
“No, I can’t.”#newsnight pic.twitter.com/KwnOi1sveY
— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) October 8, 2018
Global warming won't be solved with a "nice jute tote bag" and "more tofu" – activist Ash Sarkar says time has come for serious action on climate change
Read more on IPCC report: https://t.co/csYMAfwPTc #PoliticsLive pic.twitter.com/756IOxfGMi
— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) October 8, 2018
Overwhelmed by climate change? Here's what you can do https://t.co/dEVT5EQGJq
— Guardian Environment (@guardianeco) October 8, 2018
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TRUMPWORLD
"What haranguing to the Kavanaugh famulist violet evesdrop notochord of Fairness, deceptious and duennas Process." pic.twitter.com/ANOw4zNTTK
— splus7bot (@splus7bot) October 8, 2018
As Kavanaugh talks about how the institution isn't political…remember this https://t.co/9A3JllyTuE
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) October 8, 2018
Kavanaugh says SCOTUS is not a political institution… “a team of 9…” lowering the rhetoric after he said at his hearing with Dr Ford that what goes around comes around.
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) October 8, 2018
At end of Kavanaugh swearing in, Trump fist pumps as he walks out of the East Room.
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) October 8, 2018
https://twitter.com/MrFilmkritik/status/1049407013099327488
With Justice Brett Kavanaugh confirmed to #SCOTUS, Trump will now get to choose a nominee for Kavanaugh's seat on the DC Circuit — the major forum for big legal fights over executive power, and historically a springboard to the Supreme Court https://t.co/qVw6mTXgXm
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) October 8, 2018
Brett Kavanaugh’s testimony before the Senate was not about truth, but about power, says @mthomps—and a lesson in who wields it, and at whose expense. https://t.co/Kc2F0suH1K
— Jeffrey Levin (@jilevin) October 8, 2018
Analysis: Trump uses Kavanaugh to embrace another culture war — the backlash to #MeToo and changing gender norms https://t.co/R8TG6xM1hb
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 8, 2018
Latest @Fahrenthold story underscores central question of Trump presidency: What does the president owe, and to whom does he owe it? https://t.co/okUu93ALA9
— David Frum (@davidfrum) October 8, 2018
THIS story: “Why the hell is a #Russian bank communicating with a server that belongs to the #TrumpOrganization , and at such a rate?”: Was There a Connection Between a Russian Bank and the Trump Campaign? #TrumpRussia https://t.co/YDwmhVLDWT
— Maya Wiley (@mayawiley) October 8, 2018
.@realDonaldTrump says he likes Taylor Swift’s music about 25 percent less now pic.twitter.com/n2KeAlYYHq
— Jeff Mason (@jeffmason1) October 8, 2018
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BREXIT BRITAIN
UK position: “30 checks already exist between [GB+NI] … additional checks are a question of expanding what is there, not a breach of principle”
Official: “would be crazy if this whole thing fell apart because of a few extra checks on chicken at Larne”https://t.co/HnhZWh30F0
— David Phinnemore (@DPhinnemore) October 8, 2018
This is really disturbing. How people in NI can rate leaving the EU as more important than peace in NI is completely beyond me. https://t.co/3UIcnnBizL
— Danny Donnelly (@DannyDonnelly1) October 8, 2018
extraordinary @CCC_Research polling findings about the tradeoffs from Leave voters, and Tory voters in particular in tolerating Scottish independence (79%/ 86%) and the collapse of the NI peace process (75%/ 87%) “as the price of Brexit”…
Brexit straining the Union: pic.twitter.com/y6nd33uSoo
— Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) October 8, 2018
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Finally…
A dramatic twilight SpaceX launch freaked out people in L.A. Here's footage of the launch. Video credit: Shane Winter. https://t.co/Ax8GKkBmAL pic.twitter.com/kmKVo5ofIG
— CNBC (@CNBC) October 8, 2018