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Greta Thunberg giving a speech in Berlin (July 2019) Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has been noted for her skills as an orator. Her speech at the 2019 United Nations climate summit made her a household name. Prior to her speaking engagements, Thunberg had demonstrated outside the Swedish parliament, the Riksdag, using the signage Skolstrejk för klimatet (School strike for climate ...
Climate change can also be used more broadly to include changes to the climate that have happened throughout Earth's history. [32] Global warming—used as early as 1975 [33] —became the more popular term after NASA climate scientist James Hansen used it in his 1988 testimony in the U.S. Senate. [34] Since the 2000s, climate change has ...
Gov. Gavin Newsom, left, delivers his speech during the "From Climate Crisis to Climate Resilience" three-day summit organized by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences at the Vatican on Thursday.
Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈɡrêːta ˈtʉ̂ːnbærj] ⓘ; born 3 January 2003) is a Swedish environmental activist known for challenging world leaders to take immediate action to mitigate the effects of human-caused climate change.
A White House fact sheet said the speech will focus on the administration’s “unprecedented progress in tackling the climate crisis, cutting energy costs for everyday Americans, and creating ...
Already AIG, Allstate, Farmer’s and State Farm are exiting parts of the California market. That market response has spread to Florida and other states on the front lines of harsh climate impacts.
He has spoken at the United Nations several times, and he gained popularity after delivering a 2015 speech at the United Nations General Assembly in English, Spanish, and Nahuatl. Martinez was one of 21 plaintiffs involved in Juliana v. United States, a lawsuit filed in 2015 against the U.S. government for failing to act on climate change. [4]
While Leonardo Dicaprio took home his first Oscar Sunday at the 88th annual Academy Awards, he used his speech to discuss climate change, emphasizing that he saw the direct results of the changing ...