Climate Change

Taking Nonviolent Action In Defense Of Mother Earth

April 20, 2019 By Michele Naar-Obed, Progressive.org Strategize! Climate Change, Nonviolent Action

Our case will be tried before a twelve-person jury, who will decide whether ours was an act of criminality or one of necessity. But the last word will not come from the jury, the judge, or the lawmakers. On February 4 of this year, four farmers and Catholic workers from the Midwest, myself included, attempted to shut off the flow of deadly, poisonous tar sands oil through Minnesota and the treaty territory of several Ojibwe nations. As the “Four Necessity Valve Turners,” we felt compelled to take this necessary, nonviolent action in the face of the imminent threat of the climate crisis – which, according the United Nations’ October 2018 report, requires an immediate response.

A Path To Democratic Socialism Means A Path To Climate Justice

April 20, 2019 By Thea N. Rio Francos, Inthesetimes.com Strategize! Climate Change, Democratic Socialism

While the question of whether we should address capitalism first or climate change first is often posed in sequential terms, it is a false choice—though a compelling one. One can cogently argue, as Tobita does, that the timeline to avert the worst of climate chaos is exceedingly short, much shorter than the time it would take to overthrow and replace capitalism. But one can also argue, as Ashley does, that the climate crisis is historically a symptom of capitalism, and that this has intensified since the post-war Great Acceleration of globalized production and consumption.

Edinburgh Science Festival To Ban Fossil Fuel Firm Sponsorship Deals

April 19, 2019 Brian Ferguson, Edinburghnews.scotsman.com Create! Climate Change, Fossil Fuels

Organisers of the Edinburgh Science Festival are to impose a blanket ban on sponsorship deals with fossil fuel companies - claiming the oil and gas sector is “not moving fast enough” to meet climate change targets. They will sever links with firms backing the 2019 event due to feeling “increasingly compromised” by the conflict between accepting sponsorship from fossil fuel companies and programming events scrutinising climate change. The move has been revealed days after activists in the “Science Unstained” campaign met organisers to protest about newly-announced sponsorship deals with ExxonMobil and Total for educational projects.

Activists Scale FERC Building, Demand Congress Replace It With FREC

April 18, 2019 Beyond Extreme Energy, Popular Resistance. Resist! Climate Change, FERC, Renewable Energy

Washington DC: Two activists scaled the precarious awning over the front door to FERC, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, early this morning. The action was taken by Beyond Extreme Energy on behalf of millions of affected citizens who are frustrated by years of FERC's approvals of pipelines and other fossil fuel infrastructure, and alarmed by Donald Trump’s recent Executive Orders to further expedite pipeline approval. “The Federal Energy Regulation Commission, FERC, has for years been overseeing a major expansion of the destructive fracked gas industry,” said Ted Glick

‘The Time For Excuses Is Over’: Extinction Rebellion Protests Shut Down European Cities

April 16, 2019 By Eoin Higgins, Commondreams.org Resist! Climate Change, Europe, Protests

"One day I want to have kids. But I don't think I can. I don't see a future that's livable at the moment." Activists across Europe blocked off major streets and public areas Monday as they called for immediate action from world leaders to deal with the climate crisis. The movement, Extinction Rebellion (XR), is holding protests across the world from April 15 to 22 for an "International Rebellion" against a climate crisis that is escalating rapidly.

Climate Catastrophe And Extinction Rebellion

April 13, 2019 Paul Street, Counterpunch.org Strategize! Climate Change, Global Warming

In the last years of his life, Dr. Martin Luther King spoke against what he called “the triple evils that are interrelated” – economic inequality, racism, and militarism. If King were alive today, he’d be talking about the five evils that are interrelated, adding patriarchy and Ecocide, the destruction of livable ecology. He’d also be noting the dangerous rise of a new national and global fascism linked to the presidency of a malignant racist who glories in accelerating humanity’s environmental self-destruction while the media obsesses over matters of far slighter relevance.

In The Wake Of Cyclone Idai, The North Has A Climate Debt To Pay

April 12, 2019 By William Minter, Fpif.org Educate! Climate Change, Mozambique, Natural Disasters

Weeks after Cyclone Idai struck the coast of Mozambique, near Beira, the flood waters have receded to reveal a shattered landscape. Houses and roads were washed away; crops awaiting harvest were destroyed. Confirmed deaths number in the high hundreds across Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Malawi, with the total still unknown. Emphasis has shifted from the rescue of survivors clinging to treetops and rooftops to provision of food, housing, and medical care for hundreds of thousands left homeless.

The Rise Of The Rights Of Nature

April 12, 2019 Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance Create! Climate Change, Environment

Recent assessments show one third of freshwater fish species under threat of extinction alongside at least one quarter of local livestock breeds, and large numbers of the bees, bats and birds which pollinate crops. Linked to the decline of species, in the last two decades alone around 20 percent of the land we use to grow food has become less productive. Responding to these and other threats to nature, as well as high-profile campaigns like Extinction Rebellion, initiatives are increasingly taking root from the United States to India, and Ecuador to Bolivia, Turkey and Nepal, that give rights to nature.

New Report Focuses On Using Science To Accelerate Climate Change Action

April 8, 2019 Staff, Climateassessment.org Create! Climate Change, Science

On April 4th, 2019, the Independent Advisory Committee for Applied Climate Assessment (IAC) released its recommendations. These recommendations represent a year-long process from the IAC, funded by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and the Earth Institute at Columbia University. See below for access to the report and more about the new Science for Climate Action (SCAN).

Time To Sue The Banks For Underwriting The Climate Crisis

April 7, 2019 By Steve Rushton, Occupy.com Resist! Climate Change, climate crisis

"Banks are funding a future that will cost the lives of the next seven generations of life and beyond… Any financial institution that cannot read the writing on the wall should be stripped of its social license to operate and be held accountable for their investments because those investments are threatening our very lives.” Tom Goldtooth, executive director of the Indigenous Environmental Network, writes these stark words to accompany the 2019 report, Banking on Climate Change.

Friends Of The Earth Netherlands Submits Legal Summons In Historic Climate Case Against Shell

April 6, 2019 Staff, Foei.org Resist! Climate Change, Courts, shell

In the court summons, Friends of the Earth Netherlands outlines why it is bringing this groundbreaking climate litigation case against Shell, highlighting the company’s early knowledge of climate change and its own role in causing it. Despite acknowledging that the fossil fuel industry has a responsibility to act on climate change, and claiming to “strongly support” the Paris Agreement, Shell continues to lobby against climate policy and to invest billions in further oil and gas extraction. This is incompatible with global climate goals.

Extinction Rebellion Calls On Edinburgh Science Festival To End Relationship With EDF Energy

April 5, 2019 Sean Bell, Commonspace.scot Resist! Climate Change, Fossil Fuels

This follows this week’s release of a new sponsorship policy by Edinburgh Science, the charity behind the Edinburgh Science Festival, which confirmed that it will now avoid accepting funds from “fossil fuel companies and their primary trade bodies,” effectively ending its prior financial relationship with organisations and companies such as Exxon, Total and the Scottish Oil Group. While welcoming the announcement, Extinction Rebellion Scotland highlighted on Twitter that the festival continues to be sponsored by EDF Energy, which they argued contravenes the festival’s own policy.

US Judge Halts Hundreds Of Drilling Projects In Groundbreaking Climate Change Ruling

April 2, 2019 Cassidy Randall, Theguardian.com Resist! Climate Change, Courts, Drilling

In the first significant check on the Trump administration’s “energy-first” agenda, a US judge has temporarily halted hundreds of drilling projects for failing to take climate change into account. Drilling had been stalled on more than 300,000 acres of public land in Wyoming after it was ruled the Trump administration violated environmental laws by failing to consider greenhouse gas emissions. The federal judge has ordered the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), which manages US public lands and issues leases to the energy industry, to redo its analysis.

62 Million People Impacted By Extreme Climate Weather In 2018

March 31, 2019 Staff, World Meteorological Organization Educate! Climate Change, climate crisis, Flooding

The WMO Statement on the State of the Global Climate in 2018, its 25th anniversary edition, highlights record sea level rise, as well as exceptionally high land and ocean temperatures over the past four years. This warming trend has lasted since the start of this century and is expected to continue. In 2018, most of the natural hazards which affected nearly 62 million people were associated with extreme weather and climate events. Floods continued to affect the largest number of people, more than 35 million.

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