<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px auto; line-height: 20px; padding-top: 10px;" class=""><b class=""><a id="ct14_0" href="https://info.commondreams.org/acton/ct/33231/s-067c-1907/Bct/q-003a/l-sf-lead-0014:1bc74/ct14_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiiuWKIrY4" style="font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; line-height: 20px;" class="">'Our Pressure Is Working' Says Sunrise Movement as CNN and MSNBC Announce Climate Events for 2020 White House Hopefuls</a></b></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px auto; line-height: 20px;" class=""><div class="clearfix" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px auto; clear: both; overflow: hidden; line-height: 20px;"><div class="inline-image inline inline-image-align-left" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px 15px 5px 5px; display: inline; float: left; width: auto; line-height: 20px;"><br class=""><a id="ct15_0" href="https://info.commondreams.org/acton/ct/33231/s-067c-1907/Bct/q-003a/l-sf-lead-0014:1bc74/ct15_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiiuWKIrY4" style="font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; line-height: 20px;" class=""><img class="" alt="sunrise protesters" style="outline: none; border: none; max-width: 220px;" apple-inline="yes" id="CD28D052-C6A2-455D-81E3-02E43AFE5D04" src="cid:16D2F479-F064-4EC9-8DDC-E4763AEE5825@PK5001Z"></a></div><div class="inline inline-text" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px auto; display: inline; line-height: 20px;"><br class=""><i class="">by Jessica Corbett, staff writer</i> <br class="">The Sunrise Movement celebrated Thursday as CNN and MSNBC announced climate-focused events featuring 2020 Democratic presidential primary candidates, but reiterated its demand that the Democratic Party sponsor a debate solely focused on the White House hopefuls' plans to tackle the global crisis.</div></div></div><div class=""><div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">************************************************</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">A recent Ambio article by some heavyweights in climate sets out the situation well enough. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">A team including the likes of Will Steffen, Paul Crutzen, Veerabhadren Ramathan, Johan Rockstrom, Marten Scheffer and Hans Joachim Schellnhuber begin the <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3357752/" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">abstract of their article</span></a> by saying “Over the past century, the total material wealth of humanity has been enhanced …” </span></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">They end it saying,“we risk driving the Earth System onto a trajectory toward more hostile states from which we cannot easily return.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Their analysis is echoed across the scientists side of the situation. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">But it doesn’t take a scientist to get the drift of what’s going on. </span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">Liam Denning is former investment banker, former editor of one of the Wall Street Journal’s most closely read columns —Heard on the Street — and a former columnist for Financial Times.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> Writing about the Green New Deal for </span><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-02-11/the-green-new-deal-is-unrealistic-get-real" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Bloomberg</span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">, Denning has come to the conclusion that, “We have built our standard of living on forms of energy that we now know pose a threat to our very existence,” and that, “this is a conversation that is long overdue — and necessarily begins with a shout, not a whisper.”</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/02/14/heat-and-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/" class="">https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/02/14/heat-and-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/</a></span></div></div></div></body></html>