Climate Change

According To NYT, ‘Relentless Flooding’ In Midwest Just Happens

June 13, 2019 Joshua Cho, Fair.org Educate! Climate Change, Flooding, Natural Disasters, United States

The New York Times’ 2,400+ word report (6/3/19) by Julie Bosman, Julie Turkewitz and Timothy Williams on the historic flooding in the Midwest—amidst the wettest 12 months ever since recording began 124 years ago—is an illustrative example of how not to do disaster coverage. Recalling the Great Flood of 1993 and focusing on the four inundated towns of Davenport, Iowa; Valmeyer and Prairie du Rocher, Illinois; and Clarksville, Missouri, along the Mississippi River...

Court: Climate Impacts Of Pipeline Projects Cannot Be Ignored

June 11, 2019 Karen Savage, Climateliabilitynews.org Educate! Climate Change, Courts, FERC, Pipelines

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, a little-known agency that oversees energy infrastructure, receives far less attention when it comes to climate change than the Environmental Protection Agency. But a recent court ruling upheld that it must consider climate impacts in its decisions to approve certain natural gas infrastructure, hindering Trump administration efforts to speed construction on those projects with no regard to their impact on the climate. The ruling, issued Monday by the District of Columbia Court of Appeals in Lori Birckhead et al v. FERC...

Fracked Gas Is Not ‘Freedom Gas’ As Trump Administration Claims, But Failure Gas

June 7, 2019 Jessica Corbett, Commondreams.org Educate! Climate Change, Fossil Fuels, Fracked Gas, Trump Administration

"These projects aren't just associated with health and safety risks: if even a fraction of them come to fruition, they will condemn the planet to a future of climate chaos." A first-of-its-kind report released Wednesday by Food & Water Watch details the more than 700 new U.S. facilities that have been recently built or proposed for development "to capitalize off of a glut of cheap fracked gas," and the consequences for the planet and its inhabitants if these projects are allowed to continue.

CO2 Just Hit An All-Time Record. But That’s Not The Worst Of It.

June 7, 2019 By Mark Kaufman, Mashable.com Educate! Climate Change, CO2, Global Warming

The Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced Tuesday that the average carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere during May rounded to 414.8 parts per million, or ppm — the highest monthly number on record and the peak of 2019. While Earth's CO2 trend has been skyrocketing overall — compared to both geologic and historic levels — each year the potent greenhouse gas wavers down during the warm growing season, when flourishing trees and plants in the Northern Hemisphere temporarily soak up CO2 from the air (this ever-rising, though saw-like line is called the Keeling Curve).

Kids Face Rising Health Risks From Climate Change, Doctors Warn As Juliana Case Returns To Court

June 6, 2019 By Nina Pullano, Insideclimatenews.org Resist! Climate Change, Courts, Public Health

The 21 children and young adults suing the federal government over climate change argue that they and their generation are already suffering the consequences of climate change, from worsening allergies and asthma to the health risks and stress that come with hurricanes, wildfires and sea level rise threatening their homes. With the case back in court on Tuesday, some of the heaviest hitters in the public health arena—including 15 major health organization and two former U.S. surgeons general—have been publicly backing them up.

A Green New Deal Needs To Fight US Militarism

June 5, 2019 Phyllis Bennis, Jacobinmag.com Create! Climate Change, Environment, Green New Deal, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Militarism and War, Reform

The war on terror unleashed in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attack has led to almost two decades of unchecked militarism. We are spending more money on our military than at any time in history. Endless wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Syria and elsewhere are still raging, more wars are threatened against Iran and beyond, costing the US trillions of dollars and creating humanitarian disasters. Treaties to control nuclear arms are unraveling at the same time that conflicts with the major powers of Russia and China are heating up.

A ‘Green New Deal’ Needs To Be Global, Not Local

June 3, 2019 Andrew Taylora and Harpreet Kaur Paul, Opendemocracy.net Create! Climate Change, Green New Deal, Reform

In the US and the UK, the Green New Deal movement has galvanised hope for transitioning to the more equitable zero carbon world we so desperately need to address poverty and keep global average temperatures to below 1.5°C. But there has also been criticism of an apparent initial focus on jobs in “every town and city across the UK”, rather than on transformational justice globally. The challenge for Green New Deal advocates is to recognise the historical roots of the climate crisis, and avoid being the PR face of ongoing climate colonialism.

Climate Shenanigans At The California Democratic Convention In San Francisco

June 3, 2019 Diablo Rising Tide, Indybay.org Resist! California, Climate Change, Electoral Politics

Climate Shenanigans at the California Democratic Convention in San Francisco. California's biggest secret is that Big Oil continues to dominate the conversation on fossil fuels and climate change in the largest Democratic controlled state in the country. Our goal is to fuck with that. Friday night, a small, but mighty, group of climate trouble-makers put out a whole lot of guerrilla advertising [banners, wheatpastes, projections] calling out California’s Democratic leadership at its convention about its complicity with Big Oil, perpetuating the climate crisis.

Now Impossible To Deny: Human Activity Caused The Climate Crisis

May 31, 2019 Tim Radford, Climatenewsnetwork.net Educate! Climate Change, Global Warming, Science

LONDON, 29 May, 2019 − British scientists have re-asserted an essential reality about global warming: human activity, not slow-acting and so far unidentified natural cycles in the world’s oceans, is its cause. That activity – including ever-increasing combustion of fossil fuels as well as the devastation of the natural forest – is enough to account for almost all the warming over the last century. Researchers from the University of Oxford report in the Journal of Climate that they looked at all the available observed land and ocean temperature data since 1850.

Will The Rich Escape Climate Apocalypse?

May 29, 2019 Tom Whyman, Newint.org Educate! Climate Change, Ruling Class

Each day, it seems, a new headline in a newspaper or social media feed makes clear just how close we are to environmental destruction. And yet politics seems eternally consumed by the same old nonsense, governments whining about migrants or penny-pinching over austerity. Where is the political response to climate change? The disturbing truth is that it’s already here. With the effects of climate change already beginning to devastate the Global South, Western governments are militarizing their borders against anticipated refugees.

War Is War On Mother Earth

May 28, 2019 Richard Moser, Counterpunch.org Educate! Climate Change, Earth, Wars and Militarism

There is the close relationship between war and climate change that can be seen in a cycle of feedback loops creating the interlocking crisis. Take the case of Syria, the perfect example with its direct relationship between war and drought. In an exacting statistical analysis of wars fought between 1980 and 2010 the connection between war and climate change is undeniable. The US military itself has long recognized climate change as a “threat multiplier.” The last three Pentagon Quadrennial Defense Reviewscharacterized climate change as a threat to national security.[1]

The Welsh Village Being Abandoned To The Sea Because Of Climate Change

May 28, 2019 By Robert Harries and Laura Clements, Walesonline.co.uk Educate! Climate Change, Wales

The council says it can't protect the village from the elements forever and, sooner than later, everything must go. “I’m not going anywhere. I’ll be sat in a deckchair in my back garden with the water up to my neck before I move out.” What will your village, town or city look like in half a century? Most of us would probably imagine a more modern, populated and eco-friendly version of the environment we live in today. But for one Welsh village the question is salient and immediate. And they have no idea what the answer is. But there's a chance it won't exist at all.

New Calls For A General Strike In The Face Of Coming Climate Catastrophe!

May 25, 2019 Joe Maniscalco, Laborpress.org Resist! Climate Change, Strikes

There are no good jobs on a dead planet: Hurricane Maria’s devastating impact on Puerto Rico further underscored the urgent need to confront climate change. New York,, NY – Shut. It. Down. Amalgamated Transit Union VP Bruce Hamilton, this weekend, urged U.S. trade unionists to “learn from our past” and start building towards a general strike in a last ditch effort to avert climate disaster. “What we need to understand is that climate struggle is class struggle,” Hamilton told the NY Labor History Association’s Annual Spring Conference at NYU on Saturday. “Workers really do want to engage in radical action with a clear chance of making their lives better.”

Rotten Tomatoes For News + Banning Our Plastic Dumps

May 24, 2019 Eleanor Goldfield, Occupy.com Resistance Report Climate Change, Media Literacy, United Nations

Try as we might, we can't hide from climate change. And now, thanks to a legally binding UN resolution, the US can't hide from its own heaps of trash. Next up, media literacy is a vital skill set – indeed, it shapes how we see every other issue. And now, there may be a way to build media literacy and hold journalists accountable by taking a page from Yelp and Rotten Tomatoes.

Chicago: Indigenous & Climate Activists Disrupt Chase Meeting

May 23, 2019 Staff, Risingtidenorthamerica.org Resist! Chicago, Climate Change, Indigenous Peoples, Protests

JPMorgan Chase is banking on climate change and fossil fuels. We’re banking on fierce resistance to Big Oil, Big Coal and the Wall street banks funding them. Today, Indigenous and climate activists converged at the JPMorgan Chase Tower in Chicago to disrupt the mega-banks annual shareholder meeting. JPMorgan Chase is the worst funder of fossil fuels (oil, gas, coal) in the world. Since the Paris climate talks in 2015, they’ve put almost $200 billion dollars into fossil fuels. (That’s right, $200 BILLION with a big “B.”)

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