Climate Change

Rising Tide Calls For Call Climate Actions

July 16, 2019 Staff, Risingtidenorthamerica.org Resist! Activism, Climate Change, Natural Disasters

Time is running out. The climate crisis is at our doorstep. Communities around the world are already being battered by the earliest effects of the changing climate–superstorms, floods, wildfires and droughts. And still not moving any closer to actualizing the dramatic transformation of our energy systems and economy that we all know are needed to mitigate the worst effects of climate change. The situation is bleak, but we are hopeful. Around the world, people are stepping up to take bold direct action to confront the climate crisis.

Could Climate Change Spark A Financial Crisis? Candidates Warn Fed It’s A Risk

July 16, 2019 John Lippert, Insideclimatenews.org Educate! Banks, Climate Change, Finance and Economy

A few of the Democrats running for president have started warning about climate change in a way that voters rarely think about yet can profoundly affect their lives. To sum it up: If you think the housing crisis was bad, wait until you see how the climate crisis plays out for financial markets. The candidates are urging the Federal Reserve—the United States' central bank—to work with financial institutions around the world to confront climate risks that could trigger cascading collapses.

Indigenous Resistance As Re-occupation Of Land At The Forefront Of Climate Justice

July 15, 2019 Litsa Chatzivasileiou, Dissidentvoice.org Strategize! Climate Change, Indigenous Peoples, Land

I write as a settler on this land. I am not speaking on behalf of Aboriginal people but rather as an unconditional ally to their struggles. I will specifically address Indigenous resistance in the form of re-occupation of Turtle Island and in particular of so-called Canada. Re-occupation of the land is a kind of resistance and decolonization to dismantle settler relations to the land as commodity or as property. It is a form of what Nishnaabeg Leanne Betasamosake Simpson calls Indigenous resurgence that is based on restoring Indigenous relationships with the land and how to treat the land in a reciprocal and profoundly respectful way...

Rebelling From A Nonviolent Heart

July 14, 2019 By Skeena Rathor, Resurgence & Ecologist magazine Strategize! Climate Change, Extinction Rebellion, Nonviolence

As a movement Extinction Rebellion has consciously used the power of nonviolent civil disobedience as an embodied practice of love asking for the needs of the Earth and all its living splendor to be safeguarded. The work of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, and Marshall Rosenberg’s nonviolent communication or peaceful communication are nourishing reference points for Extinction Rebellion. Modern politics, religious dogma, and culture at large have bred a tremendously violent language. We have become trapped in moralistic judgments implying wrongness or badness on the part of people who don’t act in harmony with our values. With nonviolent language as an essential tool, we can accelerate the realization of our interconnectedness and our remembering of our instinct to protect and nurture what we love and that which loves and sustains us.

Doctors Organize Against Cancer Of Climate Change

July 12, 2019 Staff, Cancerofclimatechange.org Resist! Cancer, Climate Change, Environment

We the undersigned are qualified medical doctors. We are united by our distress at the world’s minimal response to looming environmental disaster, ignoring the early signs of a malignant process. We sympathise with current widespread protest, notably by children who will be the most affected. Peaceful protest can change society. We urge government and media to respond immediately and proportionately.

U.S. Ties Record For Number Of High Tide Flooding Days In 2018

July 11, 2019 Staff, Noaa.gov Educate! Climate Change, Environment, Flooding

July 10, 2019Coastal communities across the U.S. continued to see increased high tide flooding last year, forcing their residents and visitors to deal with flooded shorelines, streets and basements — a trend that is expected to continue this year. The elevated water levels affected coastal economies, tourism and crucial infrastructure like septic systems and stormwater systems, according to a new NOAA report. The report, 2018 State of High Tide Flooding and 2019 Outlook, documents changes in high tide flooding patterns at 98 NOAA tidal gauges along the U.S. coast that are likely to continue in the coming years.

In Terms Of Combating Climate Crisis, Renowned Naturalist David Attenborough Declares: ‘We Cannot Be Radical Enough’

July 11, 2019 By Eoin Higgins, Commondreams.org Educate! Climate Change, Electoral Politics, United Kingdom (UK)

In testimony to British lawmakers Tuesday, famed scientist and environmental advocate Sir David Attenborough said that humanity "cannot be radical enough" in working to stop the ravages of the climate crisis from destroying the planet. Attenborough made the comment during his remarks to Parliament's business, energy and industrial strategy committee. When Attenborough was asked his opinion on a goal of reducing British greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050, he told Tory MP Patrick McLoughlin that the nation should not limit itself to that goal but rather to the furthest-reaching standard possible.

A Fight For The Right To Breathe Begins In South Africa

July 11, 2019 By Ramin Pejan, Earthjustice.org Resist! Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Reform, South Africa

South African environmental justice advocates are suing the government to force it to clean up the air in the country’s Mpumalanga Highveld region. In the mid-1990s, South Africa’s post-apartheid government overhauled the nation’s constitution. Among the reforms, the country’s leaders adopted a bold, sweeping protection for the land and its people: the right to a healthy environment. Now, as scientists warn that all countries must take bold, sweeping action to avert the worst effects of a climate crisis, South African environmental justice advocates are testing that constitutional right. They are suing the government to force it to clean the dirty air that smothers South Africa’s Mpumalanga Highveld region.

New Climate Data Points To Mass Extermination

July 10, 2019 Jennifer Chu, News.mit.edu Educate! Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change, Oceans

In the brain, when neurons fire off electrical signals to their neighbors, this happens through an “all-or-none” response. The signal only happens once conditions in the cell breach a certain threshold. Now an MIT researcher has observed a similar phenomenon in a completely different system: Earth’s carbon cycle. Daniel Rothman, professor of geophysics and co-director of the Lorenz Center in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, has found that when the rate at which carbon dioxide enters the oceans pushes past a certain threshold...

Yes, We Can Resolve The Climate Crisis

July 8, 2019 David Suzuki, Davidsuzuki.org Create! Clean Energy, Climate Change, Reform

Clean-energy technologies, including energy-storage methods, are improving as costs are dropping. Exciting new inventions like artificial photosynthesis, machines that remove atmospheric carbon to create fuels and windows that convert light to electricity show what people are capable of when we put our minds to resolving challenges. It’s critical that we continue to develop, deploy and scale up solutions, so why are we still mired in outdated ways and business as usual? For decades, experts have been warning about the consequences of rapidly burning fossil fuels, yet greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise as the planet heats up faster.

As Climate Chaos Escalates In Indian Country, Feds Abandon Tribes

July 8, 2019 Saul Elbein, News.mongabay.com Educate! Climate Change, Indigenous Peoples

Violent storms known as bomb cyclones usually appear over oceans or coastal areas, not over the U.S. High Plains, but one struck there in March 2019 causing major wind and flood damage. Image courtesy of NASA. Late last March, an unseasonably hot column of air shot suddenly upward from the U.S. Great Plains and collided with the frigid high atmosphere above South Dakota, sending barometric pressure plummeting. In just seconds, the sky erupted like an exploding pressure cooker, bringing devastating wind, storm and flooding.

Climate Activists Disrupt The Advertising Industry Festival, Cannes Lions

July 3, 2019 Staff, Extinction Rebellion Resist! Climate Change, Extinction Rebellion

Climate Actions kicked off with a banner drop over the giant Cannes sign and a red carpet sit-in in front of the ‘Palace’. French rebels jumped the barrier to run up and block the stairs to the main, red-carpeted entrance. They sat, linked together and chanting messages of truth, before being carried off by police down the stairs. Even photographers and onlookers were not safe from the overbearing gendarmes, as rebels were arrested under dubious legality for ‘showing solidarity’ for the protest. The lines between legal and illegal seemed to blur with the police’s efforts to keep XR out of sight of the festival.

On ‘Hottest Day In History Of France,’ World Told ‘Do Not Look Away’ As Police Tear-Gas Climate Campaigners In Paris

July 3, 2019 By Andrea Germanos, Commondreams.org Resist! Climate Change, Extinction Rebellion, Occupation, Paris, Repression

French riot police tear-gassed climate protesters in Paris on Friday as the county sweltered under record heat. Activists with Extinction Rebellion (XR) were occupying a bridge over the Seine to demand the French government declare a climate emergency and take necessary action to avert planetary catastrophe. "We need to civilly disrupt because, otherwise, nothing is going to be done," a British woman who took part in the protest told Euronews. Video shows the police teargassing the protesters at a close range and then forcibly trying to remove them from the scene.

10 Ways Farmers Can Fight Climate Change

July 1, 2019 Brie Mazurek, Cuesa.org Create! Climate Change, Farmers, Food and Agriculture, Renewable Energy

As the largest agricultural producer in the U.S., California is on the frontlines of the fight against climate change. Our state also feels the impacts of climate change acutely through increased drought, extreme weather events, and wildfires. The time to take action is more urgent than ever. In anticipation of the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco next week, we’ve listed (with credit to the California Climate & Agriculture Network)...

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