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Climate activist Harrison Ford has been photographed yet again piloting one of his gas-guzzling private jets, this time on a cross-country trip to Los Angeles to celebrate his wife Calista Flockhart’s birthday. The Raiders of the Lost Ark star piloted his $18.8 million Cessna Citation Sovereign jet from New York to Tennessee to pick up his mother-in-law and then onto L.A. to celebrate his wife’s 58th birthday, according to a Daily Mail report. The three were reportedly seen disembarking from the plane in L.A. and boarding an SUV. The cross-country plane trip gave off an estimated 10.8 metric tonnes of...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D.-N.Y.) sent out a tweet on Sunday—as a snow storm hit Washington, D.C.—declaring that: “The climate crisis is an emergency.” In his tweet, Schumer called for Biden to declare a national emergency. “President Biden should declare a national emergency on the climate crisis,” Schumer said. “Donald Trump declared a fake emergency for his ineffective, wasteful wall,” Schumer said. “That was no emergency. “The climate crisis is an emergency,” Schumer said.

Secretary of State John Kerry winged his way Monday from New Zealand to the Middle East on the next leg of what may be his longest trip yet, a journey during which America’s top diplomat will account for roughly 16.5 tons of carbon dioxide emissions. That’s more or less the amount of CO2 – one of the key “greenhouse gases” blamed for global warming – produced by the average American in a full year, according to World Bank data [1]. Climate change features prominently on Kerry’s itinerary on his current trip, an eight-day haul from Washington to New Zealand to...