Climate Change

11,000 Scientists Say That The ‘Climate Emergency’ Is Here

November 7, 2019 By Miyo McGinn, Grist.org Resist! Climate Change, Science

“Scientists have a moral obligation to clearly warn humanity of any great existential threat and to ‘tell it like it is,’” begins the “World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency,” published in BioScience. It continues, “On the basis of this obligation … we declare … clearly and unequivocally, that planet Earth is facing a climate emergency.” The declaration was co-written by William Ripple, a professor of ecology at Oregon State University and the founder of the environmental advocacy group Alliance of World Scientists, and undersigned by more than 11,000 scientists and climate experts.

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon Disrupted

November 7, 2019 Staff, Codepink.org Resist! Climate Change, JP Morgan, Protests

On Tuesday, October 29 UCLA hosted a conversation between “Pioneers and Visionaries” Jaime Dimon and Eric Schmidt (the former CEO of Google) to celebrate the internet’s 50th anniversary. We disrupted Jaime Dimon because he is no visionary. In fact, he represents the War Economy to a T: he values greed and profit above people and planet. He uses the tried and true method of hoarding egregious wealth while millions suffer by investing in the world’s top weapons manufacturers and companies contributing to the climate crisis.

Trump’s Paris Climate Accord Divorce: Why It Hasn’t Happened Yet And What To Expect

November 6, 2019 Marianne Lavelle, Insideclimatenews.org Educate! Climate Change, Environment, Reform, Trump Administration

When nations signed on to the Paris Agreement in 2015, agreeing to cut their greenhouse gas emissions enough to keep rising global temperatures in check, one of the provisions was that no nation would be permitted to exit the deal for three years. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo's announcement Monday of the formal U.S. retreat came on the first day that it was possible for the U.S. to make the move. The rules of the treaty also require an additional one-year waiting period for the withdrawal to be finalized—meaning it won't be official until Nov. 4, 2020, one day after the presidential election.

The Flawed Social Science Behind Extinction Rebellion’s Change Strategy

November 6, 2019 By Nafeez Ahmed, Medium.com Strategize! Climate Change, Environment, Extinction Rebellion, Reform

We face a planetary emergency. It is, simultaneously, a national emergency — not just for the UK, where I write this from, but for every country in the world. This emergency has been a core preoccupation of my work, increasingly so over the last decade — to the point that all my work now seeks to enhance our understanding of how the multiple crises we are experiencing intersect with one another as symptoms of a deeper, global civilisational crisis. From this vantage, I am a supporter of Extinction Rebellion, the School Strikes for Climate, the Sunrise Movement...

Rex Tillerson Testifies At Climate Fraud Trial Against ExxonMobil

November 2, 2019 Nicholas Kusnetz, Insideclimatenews.org Educate! Climate Change, Corruption, Courts, ExxonMobil

Former ExxonMobil chief executive Rex Tillerson took the witness stand Wednesday in the company's climate fraud trial and gave the clearest defense yet for his former employer. Tillerson denied that the oil giant misled investors about the risks it faced from future climate change regulations and described a detailed system he had implemented for managing those risks. But he also repeatedly said he was unable to recall key details and events that are central to the case, omissions that a lawyer for New York's attorney general's office returned to again and again.

15 Canadian Kids Sue Their Government For Failing To Address Climate Change

October 29, 2019 Phil McKenna, Insideclimatenews.org Resist! Canada, Climate Change, Lawsuit

Fifteen children and teenagers from across Canada sued their government on Friday for supporting fossil fuels that drive climate change, which they say is jeopardizing their rights as Canadian citizens. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Vancouver, is the latest from young climate advocates around the globe who are increasingly leading public protests and filing legal challenges to make their concerns about their future in a warming world heard. "The federal government is knowingly contributing to the climate crisis by continuing to support and promote fossil fuels and through that they are violating our charter rights," said Sierra Robinson...

Former Exxon Scientists Tell Congress of Oil Giant’s Climate Research Before Exxon Turned To Denial

October 26, 2019 Marienne Lavelle, Insideclimatenews.org Educate! Climate Change, Exxon, Oil

Telling their story before a Congressional committee for the first time, two former ExxonMobil scientists on Wednesday detailed how the oil giant turned its back on the research they did for the company 40 years ago on the looming threat of climate change. They gave their testimony in Washington, D.C., just as Exxon went on trial in New York on allegations that it misled investors about climate change risks, underscoring how political and legal risks have dovetailed for a corporate giant that for years tried to sow doubt about the risks of carbon emissions.

‘Crude Truth’ Protest At National Portrait Gallery BP Awards Exhibition.

October 23, 2019 Staff, Realmedia.press Resist! BP, Climate Change, Exploitation, Protests

The final day of the BP Portrait Awards exhibition at London’s National Portrait Gallery was interrupted by protesters from various campaign groups working together to highlight BP’s part in the exploitation and repression of frontline communities, especially in the Global South, as well as its role in the climate and ecological crisis. The National Portrait Gallery flaunts its 30 year relationship with BP, but recently the RSC announced that it was ending its association with BP, and the National Gallery has also jettisoned Shell...

Exxon And Oil Sands Go On Trial In New York Climate Fraud Case

October 22, 2019 Nicholas Kusnetz, Insideclimatenews.org Resist! Climate Change, Exxon, Fraud, Oil Sands

NEW YORK, New York — In late 2013, ExxonMobil faced increasing pressure from investors to disclose more about the risks the company faced as governments began limiting greenhouse gas emissions. Of the many costs climate change will impose, oil companies face a particularly acute one: the demand for their product will have to shrink. For years, Exxon had been using something called a proxy cost of carbon to estimate what stricter climate policies might mean for its bottom line.

‘We Must Grow This Movement’: Youth Climate Activists Ramp Up the Pressure

October 19, 2019 Kristoffer Tigue, Insideclimatenews.org Resist! Climate Change, Reform

A new wave of climate protests hit cities around the world this week—this time aimed at shocking people with civil disobedience, fake blood on the pavement and bodies lying in the streets under signs that read: "Stop funding climate death." The Extinction Rebellion demonstrations have a harder edge than the student-led climate strikes that have brought millions to their feet around the world demanding leaders do more to slow climate change. While the school climate strikes end with students returning to class, these protests have often led to arrests.

Extinction Rebellion Sweeps The World

October 18, 2019 By Robert Hunziker, Counterpunch.org Resist! Climate Change, Environment, Extinction Rebellion, Reform

Extinction Rebellion, XR est. October 31, 2018, has become a powerful force across the globe, almost overnight!!! It is the fastest-growing environmental movement ever. As such, it is only too obvious that “people get it” when it comes to climate change/global warming because they’re jumping aboard like swarms of locusts. In fact, XR’s truthful exposure of the climate crisis/global warming is single-handedly turning average citizens of the world into fighting mad radicalized eco-warriors. People who ordinarily do not get involved in politics or advocacy of any kind are suddenly eco-warriors.

Global Climate Strike: From Protest To Power?

October 15, 2019 By Mike Miller, Counterpunch.org Strategize! Climate Change, Protests

Climate justice advocates enthusiastically report that the recent Global Climate Strike involved 7.6 million people in 6,500 events that took place in 185 countries, supported by 8,500 websites, 3,000 companies, and 73 trade unions. Behind the headlines is this fact: with the exception of Morocco, no country in the world is complying with its Paris Climate Accord commitment, and the U.S. has dropped out of the international agreement. There is undoubtedly a climate justice movement, especially among young people who will pay the highest price for failure to heed nature.

Scientists Endorse Mass Civil Disobedience To Force Climate Action

October 14, 2019 Matthew Green, Reuters.com Resist! Civil Disobedience, Climate Change, Science

LONDON (Reuters) - Almost 400 scientists have endorsed a civil disobedience campaign aimed at forcing governments to take rapid action to tackle climate change, warning that failure could inflict “incalculable human suffering.” In a joint declaration, climate scientists, physicists, biologists, engineers and others from at least 20 countries broke with the caution traditionally associated with academia to side with peaceful protesters courting arrest from Amsterdam to Melbourne. Wearing white laboratory coats to symbolize their research credentials...

Too Poor To Live Free, Rebel Scientists And These Elections Don’t Matter

October 10, 2019 Eleanor Goldfield, Popular Resistance Resistance Report Climate Change, Electoral Politics

How high can you go --- the costs of health insurance continue to rise sharply. Our push to build power, reach out to others and rattle thrones must escalate in kind. Next, climate and environmental experts fired for researching and spreading the truth. Are we gonna let their voices be silenced? Finally, Nora Barrows-Friedman joins us to talk about her recent trip to Palestine.

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