Climate Change

Defying Dystopia: Shaping The Climate Future We Want

September 3, 2019 By Nick Buxton, Roarmag.org Strategize! Climate Change, Science

We live in an age of dystopias on demand. Whether it’s Black Mirror, The Hunger Games or The Handmaid’s Tale, there is no limit to satiating our desires for dark, apocalyptic visions of the future. Unfortunately the scariest experience does not involve the world of the imaginary; it just requires reading the latest climate science. In one such piece in July 2017, New York Magazine managed to pull together all the possible worst-case climate scenarios in a longread called “The Uninhabitable Earth.”

The Last Act Of The Human Comedy

September 3, 2019 Chris Hedges, Truthdig.com Educate! Climate Change, Environment, Global Warming

There is nothing new to our story. The flagrant lies and imbecilities of the inept and corrupt leader. The inability to halt the costly, endless wars and curb the gargantuan expenditures on the military. The looting of a beleaguered populace by the rich. The destruction of the ecosystem. The decay and abandonment of a once-efficient infrastructure. The implosion of the institutions, from education to diplomacy, that sustain a functioning state. The world has seen it before.

Ecosystems And Ecological Breakdown

September 2, 2019 UK Youth Climate Coalition, Theecologist.org Educate! Climate Change, Ecology, Environment

The first of the 'system change' blog series from the UK Youth Climate Coalition. Ecosystems - defined as ‘all the living things in an area and the way they affect each other and the environment’ - are central to how the natural world functions. They depend on something referred to as ‘dynamic equilibrium’ for stability. That is to say, through constant rebalancing, a stable ecosystem can thrive. The threats to balance in an ecosystem may be a natural disaster or the spread of disease, for example...

The Politics Of Ecosocialism

September 2, 2019 By Ian Angus, Rebelnews.ie Strategize! Climate Change, Ecosocialism

Marx and Engels were deeply concerned about capitalism’s destruction of the natural world, including river and urban pollution, and the degradation of the soil that all life depends on. For them, the word ‘socialism’ included those concerns and the need to overcome them. But in the 20th Century, most socialist organisations treated such matters as secondary, if they addressed them at all. Some even viewed massively destructive projects such as damming major rivers and plowing virgin soils as progressive in some sense.

Can We Reach 100 Percent Renewable Energy In Time To Avert Climate Catastrophe?

August 30, 2019 Daniel Ross, Earth | Food | Life, a project of the Independent Media Institute. Create! Climate Change, Renewable Energy

Ten years ago, two climate scientists, Mark Jacobson and Mark Delucchi, published a groundbreaking article in Scientific American outlining a road map for becoming 100 percent reliant on energy generated by water, wind and sun by 2030. This was something that needed to be done “if the world has any hope of slowing climate change,” the researchers warned at the time. The article proved incendiary. “First of all, nobody believed it when we put out that paper in 2009,” Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University, told Truthout. “It was a very pie-in-the-sky thought.

Flare Up Like A Forest Fire

August 30, 2019 Bue Rübner Hansen, Roarmag.org Resist! Amazon Rainforest, Climate Change, Wildfires

Watching the Amazon burn, it is hard not to feel despair. But we have to remind ourselves that social transformations can take off as rapidly as a forest fire. The climate and ecosystems all have tipping points. For instance, it is estimated that 20 percent tree loss in the Amazon will change rainfall conditions, and push the forest into irreversible decline. And as temperatures rise, the thawing permafrost will enter a positive feedback loop in which melting releases the greenhouse gas methane, heating the atmosphere and accelerating the disappearance of the permafrost.

Climate Groups Will Shut Down D.C. With Mass Nonviolent Civil Disobedience

August 29, 2019 By Kaela Bamberger, DC Climate Strike Resist! Climate Change, climate crisis, Climate Justice

Youth leaders from around the world have called for a Global Climate Strike and week of action from September 20-27. Youth have led the way so far, but now they are calling on everyone to take action alongside them. In Washington, D.C. we are answering that call in a major way: on September 23, we are going to Shut Down D.C. While countries deliberate the fate of the world at the U.N. Climate Action Summit in New York City, a coalition of climate groups and allies will bring traffic and business as usual to a standstill in the nation’s capital. Parents, workers, students and everyone who is concerned about global heating will skip work and school and put off their other responsibilities to take action on the climate crisis.

What Does ’12 Years To Act On Climate Change’ (Now 11 Years) Really Mean?

August 29, 2019 Bob Berwyn, Insideclimatenews.org Educate! Climate Change, Reform

We've been hearing variations of the phrase "the world only has 12 years to deal with climate change" a lot lately. Sen. Bernie Sanders put a version of it front and center of his presidential campaign last week, saying we now have "less than 11 years left to transform our energy system away from fossil fuels to energy efficiency and sustainable energy, if we are going to leave this planet healthy and habitable." But where does the idea of having 11 or 12 years come from, and what does it actually mean?

Climate Denial Is Reported More Than Science

August 27, 2019 Tim Radford, Climatenewsnetwork.net Educate! Climate Change, Science

LONDON, 22 August, 2019 − Rich and poor countries see the challenge of the growing crisis quite differently: for the wealthy it revolves around climate denial, while for those in poverty it’s a matter of life and death. In the developing world, climate news is presented by the media as an international problem. In the rich world newspapers, broadcasters and websites tend to see it as a political issue, according to researchers at the University of Kansas. And in the richest country of all, climate news is presented as a contentious issue.

Scientists Conclude: Climate Change Has No Natural Cause

August 26, 2019 Tim Radford, Climatenewsnetwork.net Educate! Climate Change, Science

LONDON, 19 August, 2019 – European and US scientists have cleared up a point that has been nagging away at climate science for decades: not only is the planet warming faster than at any time in the last 2,000 years, but this unique climate change really does have neither a historic precedent nor a natural cause. Other historic changes – the so-called Medieval Warm Period and then the “Little Ice Age” that marked the 17th to the 19th centuries – were not global. The only period in which the world’s climate has changed, everywhere and at the same time, is right now.

The Case For Climate Rage

August 24, 2019 Amy Westervelt, Popula.com Educate! Climate Change, Environment

I expressed concern recently, on a listserv for climate nerds, over Senator Elizabeth Warren’s military-focused climate plan. It seemed weird to me that one of the first climate policies she’d announce would focus on greening the military; it seemed like a ploy to win over “never Trump” Republicans, centrists and “progressives” who are somehow still pro-military action. I couldn’t understand why someone so famous for holding corporate execs to account wouldn’t burst out the gate with guns blazing at the fossil fuel companies. “I think we need to avoid emotional responses to these policies,” one man sniffed.

U.S. Seen As Climate Risk With Two-Thirds Of New Oil And Gas

August 24, 2019 Alex Nussbaum, Bloomberg.com Educate! Climate Change, Oil, United States

The U.S. will account for for almost two-thirds of the world’s new oil and natural gas output in the decade ahead, making it a critical obstacle to stopping climate pollution, a London-based advocacy group says. Propelled by the shale boom, the U.S. will pump out the equivalent of 88.9 billion barrels of oil from new fields in the 2020s, Global Witness, an environmental and human rights group, said in a report Tuesday that cites data from industry consultant Rystad Energy.

On Day One, The Next President Should Declare A Climate Emergency

August 23, 2019 By Howie Hawkins, Nationofchange.org Create! Climate Change, Reform

The next president should declare a Climate Emergency, which will give the president powers to act rapidly and decisively to confront the climate crisis. The president should also create a cabinet-level Office of Climate Mobilization for the coordination of all federal agencies in mobilizing the nation’s resources to achieve zero greenhouse gas emissions and 100% clean renewable energy by 2030. On July 29, I signed the 350 Action’s Day One Pledge, which asks presidential candidates to take four steps their first day in office...

Protests Break Out After DNC Committee Votes Against Holding 2020 #ClimateDebate

August 23, 2019 By Jessica Corbett, Commondreams.org Resist! Climate Change, DNC, Protests

Sparking immediate protests at the Democratic National Committee's summer meeting in San Francisco Thursday, the organization's Resolutions Committee voted down a resolution that called for a climate-focused debate among 2020 presidential primary candidates. The committee's 8-17 vote on the resolution outraged members of the youth-led Sunrise Movement in attendance, who stood on their seats and sang the union protest song "Which Side Are You On?" before walking out.

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