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Mark Hertsgaard
@markhertsgaard
Exec Dir @CoveringClimate, enviro correspondent @thenation, author (Big Red's Mercy, HOT, Earth Odyssey, On Bended Knee, The Beatles) and lucky dad.
San Francisco, California
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    Mark Hertsgaard
    @markhertsgaard
    Aug 30, 2021
    The climate emergency is literally exploding on multiple fronts: Louisiana (millions without water and power in 80+ F heat), California (fire forcing Lake Tahoe evacuation), Siberia (massive fires). Journalism MUST inform people that climate change drives this @CoveringClimate
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    Mark Hertsgaard
    @markhertsgaard
    Aug 28, 2019
    More than 170 news outlets across USA and around the world, with a combined audience of hundreds of millions of people, are pledging a week of strong climate coverage before the Sept 23 @UNClimateSummit via our new collaboration, @CoveringClimate Now
    Covering Climate Now signs on over 170 news outlets
    From cjr.org
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    Mark Hertsgaard
    @markhertsgaard
    Oct 22, 2020
    @soledadobrien makes the key point here: TV bookers can just stop featuring people who are going to lie, filibuster or obfuscate.
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    Soledad O'Brien
    @soledadobrien
    Oct 22, 2020
    About time, honestly. But why book people who you know are going to lie. You can just report the news.
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    Mark Hertsgaard
    @markhertsgaard
    Oct 25, 2020
    This should be front page news and leading broadcasts across the country and White House reporters should be demanding comment from president Trump.
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    David Cay Johnston
    @DavidCayJ
    Oct 25, 2020
    A white racist set fire to Minneapolis Police Station during George Floyd protests. FBI says “Boogaloo Boy” from Texas also fired a gun. Donald, news for you: Black people didn’t do it, a white agent provocateur did. Will you acknowledge that? startribune.com/charges-boogal…
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    Mark Hertsgaard
    @markhertsgaard
    Nov 7, 2020
    Donald Trump's defeat is the biggest climate story in years. A second Trump term would have been “game over,” climate scientist @MichaelEMann told me via @CoveringClimate lead partner @guardian: theguardian.com/us-news/2020/o…. Much work ahead, but humanity has dodged a fatal bullet
    A second Trump term would be 'game over' for the climate, says one of the world's top climate...
    From theguardian.com
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    Mark Hertsgaard
    @markhertsgaard
    Oct 29, 2020
    If this isn't a good enough reason to get out and vote, I don't know what is.
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    Covering Climate Now 🦋 @coveringclimate.org
    @CoveringClimate
    Oct 29, 2020
    “@MichaelEMann, one of the most eminent climate scientists in the world, believes averting climate catastrophe on a global scale would be 'essentially impossible' if Donald Trump is re-elected.” - @markhertsgaard #5Days @GuardianUS: theguardian.com/us-news/2020/o…
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    Mark Hertsgaard
    @markhertsgaard
    Dec 5, 2019
    Wow, good catch! Why haven't we seen this on today's mainstream news coverage? Maybe tomorrow?
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    Keith Boykin
    @keithboykin
    Dec 4, 2019
    Today’s Republican witness Jonathan Turley opposes impeaching Trump, yet he supported impeaching Bill Clinton in 1998. Here’s what he told Congress back then: “If you decide that certain acts do not rise to impeachable offenses, you will expand the space for executive conduct.”
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    Mark Hertsgaard
    @markhertsgaard
    Jun 21, 2024
    Kudos to @CoveringClimate partner @MSNBC for giving our esteemed colleague @jeffgoodell the mic to talk about how everything will change in this new climate era. More newsrooms need to understand that our journalism has to change as well. @CoveringClimate is here to help.
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    Morning Joe
    MS NOW
    @Morning_Joe
    Jun 20, 2024
    "Things are not going to go back to normal. We are moving into a completely different climate era. And the implications for that are profound. The way that our cities are arranged and built do not work in an era of extreme warming." — @jeffgoodell on record-breaking heat
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    Mark Hertsgaard
    @markhertsgaard
    Sep 30, 2022
    Fellow journalists covering #Hurricane_Ian, let's get this right: science says climate change IS making hurricanes worse. In fact, climate change is affecting ALL weather on earth now. @MichaelEMann & @ClimateComms give the deets @guardian, lead media partner of @CoveringClimate
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    Mark Hertsgaard
    @markhertsgaard
    Jul 7, 2023
    Disappointing that @BarackObama, who's long cared and acted on climate change, talks as if 2 or 2.5C temp rise is somehow ok. Science has been clear since 2018 that even 1.5C will be horrific (as this week's extreme heat shows), AND that 1.5C is still achievable. @CoveringClimate
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    Barack Obama
    The Office of Barack and Michelle Obama
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    Jul 6, 2023
    Here’s the advice I shared with Malia about what progress looks like – and the work we can do right now to make a difference.
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    Mark Hertsgaard
    @markhertsgaard
    Jul 2, 2021
    "20th century cities are not built for what's coming at them in the 21st century" is the money quote in this excellent @jeffgoodell piece for @coveringclimate partner @rollingstone: Miami’s Climate Dystopia Gets Real rollingstone.com/politics/polit… via @RollingStone
    Miami’s Climate Dystopia Gets Real
    From rollingstone.com
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    Mark Hertsgaard
    @markhertsgaard
    Feb 1, 2020
    This point can't be made often enough, especially to those acting like missing the #ParisAgreement 1.5C target is no big deal. Journalists, let's get this right. @CoveringClimate Now
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    Michael Flammer #KlimaVor8
    @Jumpsteady
    Feb 1, 2020
    „Climate impacts do not scale in a straight line. The impacts of 2° are not just twice as bad as 1°, they are many times worse. In my view, not meeting the Paris targets would mean a world, tough even for humans to live in.“ — Professor Will Steffen Source: @climatecouncil
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    Mark Hertsgaard
    @markhertsgaard
    Aug 29, 2021
    Any journalists covering this hurricane who do NOT emphasize that this is climate change in action are committing media malpractice. @CoveringClimate has resources to help make that link.
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    Neela Banerjee
    @neelaeast
    Aug 29, 2021
    And climate journalists too.
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    Mark Hertsgaard
    @markhertsgaard
    Mar 13, 2018
    Hard to believe, but Trump's presidency truly is Even Worse Than You Think, as @DavidCayJ explains to me in this @thenation interview. But get out the vote in November and things can change!
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    David Cay Johnston
    @DavidCayJ
    Mar 13, 2018
    Trump's favorite drug trafficker, other issues in my book Its Even Worse Than You Think, in aninterview by @markhertsgaard of @thenation just posted: thenation.com/article/donald…