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Friend,
A major study from NOAA released this week found that atmospheric CO2 has reached the highest levels in 800,000 years.
Think about that. Eight. Hundred. Thousand. Years.
The study also found that sea levels have reached an all-time high as a result of melting glaciers and ice sheets, and that 2020 was one of the three hottest years on record, despite a La Niña cooling trend.
But in contrast to the response earlier this month to the alarming report from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change—the first IPCC assessment report in eight years—this new report has received almost zero attention whatsoever.
Covering the climate emergency for one day every eight years just isn’t going to cut it.
Common Dreams has covered the climate emergency as the #1 threat to humanity every day for more than 20 years, even when there are other major stories in the news to cover like the end of the war in Afghanistan and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
But traffic to our website has declined sharply in the last year as a result of changes in the algorithms used by Google and Facebook. Fewer readers means fewer donations. Meanwhile, the number of people signing up as recurring donors has dropped in half since Donald Trump left office.
That’s why it’s especially urgent that we meet our Summer Campaign goal of raising $75,000 by the end of the month, so that we can keep publishing and providing the daily coverage of the climate emergency that the corporate media won’t. Please chip in whatever you can afford today, and help reach our goal.
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