Climate Change

The Great Flood

July 31, 2019 Chris Hedges, Truthdig. Educate! Climate Change, Flooding, Sea level rise

How many times will we rebuild Florida’s cities, Houston, coastal New Jersey, New Orleans and other population centers ravaged by storms lethally intensified by global warming? At what point, surveying the devastation and knowing more is inevitable, will we walk away, leaving behind vast coastal dead zones? Will we retreat even further into magical thinking to cope with the fury we have unleashed from the natural world? Or will we respond rationally and radically alter our relationship to this earth that gives us life?

‘Everyone Should Mobilize’: Climate Leaders Urge Massive Turnout For Global Climate Strikes

July 29, 2019 By Andrea Germanos, Commondreams.org Resist! Climate Change, Protests

Organizers of upcoming global climate strikes hope their demands for a rapid end to business as usual and a swift start to climate justice will be too loud to ignore. The strikes, which are set for September 20th and 27th—with additional actions slated for the days in between—are planned in over 150 countries thus far, and over 6,000 people have already pledged to take part. It has the potential to be the biggest climate mobilization yet, said organizers.

Fortress Europe And Climate Apocalypse

July 29, 2019 Ruth London, Theecologist.org Create! Climate Change, Europe

A good friend told me that however hopeless things feel we have to keep fighting, even if there is just one chance in a million of preventing runaway climate breakdown. I’ve known him since 2008, when we camped next door to one another at a planned coal-fired power station. I agree - but it is not just climate breakdown that we are fighting. The climate crisis is not a one-off event - it's incremental, bit by bit. When scientists estimate how many lives will be lost for each degree of warming, each tonne of CO2, they are also telling us how many lives can be saved by each gas power station shut down for a day...

Environmental Damage Is A War Crime, Scientists Say

July 27, 2019 Jordan Davidson, Ecowatch.com Resist! Climate Change, Environment, United Nations

Two dozen prominent scientists from around the world have asked the UN to make environmental damage in conflict zones a war crime. The scientists published their open letter in the journal Nature. The letter, titled "Stop Military Conflicts from Trashing the Environment," asks the United Nations' International Law Commission to adopt a Fifth Geneva Convention when it meets later this month. The UN group is scheduled to hold a meeting with the aim of building on the 28 principles it has already drafted to protect the environment and lands sacred to indigenous people, according to The Guardian.

The Politics And Potential Of The Green New Deal

July 27, 2019 Johanna Bozuwa, Onlinelibrary.wiley.com Create! Climate Change, Green New Deal, New Economy, Reform

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), we have less than 12 years to slash our emissions in half to stand a chance of staying under 1.5 degrees Celsius average global temperature rise. It’s worth noting that those are global emissions – which means that, to keep the transition equitable, the Global North should be moving to cut emissions much faster still. “There is no documented historic precedent”, for the rapid action and scale necessary to curb climate change, wrote scientists in the report.1

Following Berkeley’s Natural Gas Ban, More California Cities Look To All-Electric Future

July 27, 2019 Phil McKenna, Insideclimatenews.org Create! Ban, California, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Fossil Fuels

Berkeley has become the first city in the United States to ban the use of natural gas in new low-rise buildings, and it isn't the only California community looking for ways to shift its buildings away from burning fossil fuels. Cities and towns across the state are considering measures to encourage developers to use only electric appliances in new buildings—and skip installing natural gas lines for stoves, furnaces and water heaters. Ken Davies, interim deputy director of Climate Smart San Jose, a unit within the city of San Jose's environmental services department, estimates about 60 cities and towns across the state—including San Jose...

Climate Change References Are Disappearing From U.S. Government Sites

July 26, 2019 Jordan Davidson, Ecowatch.com Educate! Censorship, Climate Change, EPA, Fossil Fuels

It's no secret that the Trump administration has championed fossil fuels and scoffed at renewable energy. But the Trump administration is trying to keep something secret: the climate crisis. That's according to a new analysis from the watchdog group Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) who found that more than a quarter of the references to climate change on .gov websites vanished. The watchdog group found some disturbing trends since Trump took office in January of 2017.

The Cheapest Way To Save The Planet Grows Like A Weed

July 26, 2019 EllenBrown, Truthdig.com Create! Climate Change, Environment, New Economy

For skeptics who reject the global warming thesis, reforestation also addresses the critical problems of mass species extinction and environmental pollution, which are well-documented. A 2012 study from the University of Michigan found that loss of biodiversity impacts ecosystems as much as does climate change and pollution. Forests shelter plant and animal life in their diverse forms, and trees remove air pollution by the interception of particulate matter on plant surfaces and the absorption of gaseous pollutants through the leaves.

Fossil Fuels On Trial: Where The Major Climate Change Lawsuits Stand Today

July 26, 2019 David Hasemyer, Insideclimatenews.org Resist! Climate Change, Courts, Fossil Fuels, Lawsuit

A wave of legal challenges that is washing over the oil and gas industry, demanding accountability for climate change, started as a ripple after revelations that ExxonMobil had long recognized the threat fossil fuels pose to the world. Over the past few years: Two states launched fraud investigations into Exxon over climate change, and one has followed with a lawsuit. Nine cities and counties, from New York to San Francisco, have sued major fossil fuel companies, seeking compensation for climate change damages.

The Danger Of Identity Politics In Climate Change + The Truth About Iran

July 25, 2019 Eleanor Goldfield, Occupy.com Resistance Report Climate Change, Identity Politics, Iran

Good news from the Grand Canyon and the problem with conflating environmental protection with indigenous issues. Next, updates from the fight against the Mountain Valley Pipeline and new research that shows just how vital stopping the fracking industry is. Finally, Iranian-American peace activist Leila Zand joins us to talk about the situation in Iran and recent developments.

Extinction Rebellion Calls On Congress To Declare A Climate Emergency Using Superglue

July 24, 2019 Staff, Extinctionrebellion.us Resist! Activism, Climate Change, Reform

Washington, D.C., July 23 – Following the weekend’s “heat emergency” and a slew of flash floods in D.C., the climate group Extinction Rebellion (XR) brought business-as-usual to a halt in Congress Tuesday with an unprecedented act of mass civil disobedience. Activists used superglue to physically attach themselves to key passages in the House Office buildings, blocking members of Congress just before a vote in the Capitol building. The climate activists demanded the speedy passage of the climate emergency resolution, which is currently sitting idle in the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.

The Cost Of Climate Change: Steve Keen Dismantles William Nordhaus

July 23, 2019 By Lambert Strether, Nakedcapitalism.com Educate! Climate Change, Finance and the Economy

DICE stands for “Dynamic Integrated model of Climate and the Economy”. It’s the mathematical model from which Nordhaus derives the results noted in the previous figures. DICE is based on the Neoclassical long term growth model devised by the mathematical prodigy Frank Ramsey in 1928 {Ramsey, 1928 #5029}. This is the same foundation as the mainstream RBC (“Real Business Cycle”) and DSGE (“Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium”) macroeconomic models that completely failed to anticipate the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. That its macroeconomic cousins fared so badly at their chosen task is cause enough for concern.

Climate Change Is A Poor People’s Issue

July 19, 2019 By Mallika Khanna, Otherwords.org Educate! Climate Change, Corporations, pollution

If you’ve read anything about climate change over the past year, you’ve probably heard about the IPCC report that gives a 12-year deadline for limiting climate change catastrophe. But for many parts of the world, climate change already is a catastrophe. Recently in Bihar, one of the poorest states in India, more than 40 people were killed by a severe heat wave in just one day. A study by UNICEF suggests that “in the next decade, 175 million children will be hit by climate-related disasters in South Asia and Africa alone.” Closer to home, Miami’s steady sinking is depleting useable drinking water at an alarming rate.

Energy Commons: From Energy Transition To Climate Justice

July 18, 2019 Cécile Blanchet, Roarmag.org Educate! Clean Energy, Climate Change

Viewing energy as a common-held resource, rather than a privately-owned commodity, directly links production to consumption and re-engages our liability as energy users. In 2019, only oil lobbyists and shabby orange politicians persist in denying the influence of human activities on the Earth’s climate. Scientific evidence is piling up and we know that we must change our ways. The concept of energy transition has become mainstream. However, governments have remained remarkably motionless.

Killer Heat In The United States: Climate Choices And The Future Of Dangerously Hot Days (2019)

July 18, 2019 Staff, Ucsusa.org Educate! Climate Change, Extreme weather, Heat

Extreme heat is poised to rise steeply in frequency and severity over the coming decades, bringing unprecedented health risks for people and communities across the country. The United States is facing a potentially staggering expansion of dangerous heat over the coming decades. This analysis shows the rapid, widespread increases in extreme heat that are projected to occur across the country due to climate change, including conditions so extreme that a heat index cannot be measured. The analysis also finds that the intensity of the coming heat depends heavily on how quickly we act now to reduce heat-trapping emissions.

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