Climate Change

Sunrise Movement Plans National Tour To Build Grassroots Support For Green New Deal

January 8, 2019 Alexander C. Kaufman, Huffingtonpost.com Organize! Climate Change, Electoral Politics, Environment, Reform

It’s been a whirlwind two months since the youth activists of the Sunrise Movement staged protests in Democratic leaders’ offices, bringing into the mainstream calls for a Green New Deal ― a sweeping federal policy that would mandate 100 percent renewable energy and provide good-paying sustainable jobs to millions of Americans. Now the Sunrise Movement, likely the nation’s fastest-growing climate advocacy group, is planning a 14-stop tour meant to drum up grassroots support for a Green New Deal across multiple states, HuffPost has learned. It’s the first leg of the group’s effort to make the policy the defining issue of the 2020 election.

A Surge Of Climate Lawsuits Target Human Rights, Damage From Fossil Fuels

January 5, 2019 By Nicholas Kusnetz, Insideclimatenews.org Resist! Climate Change, Fossil Fuels, Human Rights, Lawsuit

A climate denier is in the White House, pushing policies that will boost emissions. Congress is doing nothing to stop him. So citizens and local governments who are facing the impacts of rising seas, worsening heat waves and extreme weather are increasingly looking to the courts for help. The past year saw a surge in new lawsuits filed against fossil fuel companies, and major developments in cases pressing governments for action in the United States and abroad. And while the plaintiffs haven't secured any substantial victories in U.S. courts, they may be scoring a different victory by drawing attention to the inaction of Congress and the Executive Branch, said Michael Gerrard...

How Climate Change Forces Central American Farmers To Migrate

January 5, 2019 Edgardo Ayala, Towardfreedom.org Educate! Central America, Climate Change, Farmers, Migration

CANDELARIA DE LA FRONTERA, El Salvador (IPS) – As he milks his cow, Salvadoran Gilberto Gomez laments that poor harvests, due to excessive rain or drought, practically forced his three children to leave the country and undertake the risky journey, as undocumented migrants, to the United States. Gómez, 67, lives in La Colmena, in the municipality of Candelaria de la Frontera, in the western Salvadoran department of Santa Ana. The small hamlet is located in the so-called Dry Corridor of Central America, a vast area that crosses much of the isthmus, but whose extreme weather especially affects crops in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.

Most Important 2018 Environmental Stories, Point To Our Work In 2019

January 4, 2019 Maureen Nandini Mitra, Earthisland.org Educate! Climate Change, Environment, Wildfires

I don’t know about you, but it to seems to me as though 2018 swept by in a blur of mostly dismal news. As I began drawing up our annual list of the most important environmental stories of the year at the Journal, which, no surprise, skews on the negative side, I couldn’t help but note that even outside the environmental news cycle, the pace of unhappy developments has been unrelenting this past year. From tragic mass shootings, to migrant children being forcefully separated from their families at the border, to Brett Kavanagh’s Supreme Court appointment process that was triggering for so many sexual abuse victims, to the endless chipping away at our democracy by Trump and his cohort...

Ocasio-Cortez Rips Dem Leadership For Treating Planet-Saving Green New Deal As ‘Controversial’

January 2, 2019 By Andrea Germanos, Commondreams.org Resist! Climate Change, Electoral Politics, Environment, Reform

"We simply don’t have any other choice. If it's radical to propose a solution on the scale of the problem, so be it." Incoming Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took aim at the Democratic Party on Monday over the newly-announced climate crisis committee—a body she and other progressives say lacks the teeth needed to avert planetary disaster. In a Twitter thread, Ocasio-Cortez said that her proposal for a select committee on a Green New Deal—a key demand of the youth-led Sunrise Movement—contained "3 simple elements: 1. No fossil fuel money on climate cmte 2. Offer solutions for impacted communities 3. Draft sample #GreenNewDeal."

U.S. Taxpayers On The Hook For Insuring Farmers Against Growing Climate Risks

January 1, 2019 Georgina Gustin, Insideclimatenews.org Educate! Climate Change, Farming, Taxes

Like every Midwestern farmer, Jerry Peckumn relies on a few things going right every season. Rain, but no deluge. Sunshine, but no heat wave. A timely cycling of the seasons. Peckumn is a progressive, conservation-minded farmer who's deeply concerned about the impact of the changing climate on his farm. He knows nature isn't controllable and the weather is getting more erratic. So, like hundreds of thousands of American farmers, he relies on federal crop insurance.

Winning The Green New Deal

January 1, 2019 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Clearing the FOG. Podcast Climate Change, Democrats, Green New Deal, Green party

The Green New Deal, a plan to transform the economy to one based on clean, renewable energy sources and other measures to adapt to the climate crisis and protect human rights, gained widespread attention in 2018. We speak with Howie Hawkins from New York, who brought the concept of the Green New Deal to the United States, about what the plan involves, where it is now and what it will take to win it. Hawkins, a long time activist, unionist and political candidate, also puts this struggle in the context of political history and the role of third parties.

Democratic Leadership Blocking Green New Deal

December 31, 2018 Christopher D. Cook, Nationofchange.org Educate! Climate Change, Electoral Politics, Environment

As House Democratic leaders prepare to reclaim power this January, they are clamping down on insurgent progressive initiatives like the Green New Deal, which could be sidelined in favor of a broader climate committee with limited powers. Despite pledges from at least 43 Democrats to support a Green New Deal select committee – including prominent representatives like Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) and John Lewis (D-Ga.) – incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) derailed the move on Thursday by creating a climate committee with no explicit commitment to crafting a Green New Deal. Thursday afternoon, The Huffington Post reported that Pelosi picked Florida Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Fla.) to head the new climate committee, which may include members who take campaign money from the fossil fuel industry.

Ten Ways 2018 Brought Us Closer To Climate Apocalypse

December 29, 2018 By Dahr Jamail, Truthout.org Educate! Climate Change, Natural Disasters

The 20 warmest years ever recorded have been within the last 22 years, and the four warmest of those have been 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The WMO has stated that if these trends continue (and there is no reason to believe they won’t), global temperatures may rise from between 3-5 degrees Celsius (3-5°C) by 2100. The organization warned that if humans exploit all known fossil fuel reserves, “the temperature rise will be considerably higher” than even those catastrophic levels.

Top 10 Climate Change Disasters Cost $85 Billion In 2018

December 29, 2018 Staff, Mediacentre.christianaid.org.uk Educate! Climate Change, Natural Disasters

All of these billion-dollar disasters are linked with human-caused climate change. In some cases scientific studies have shown that climate change made the particular event more likely or stronger, for example with Hurricane Florence and the summer’s heatwaves in Europe and Japan. In other cases, the event was the result of shifts in weather patterns - like higher temperatures and reduced rainfall that made fires more likely or warmer water temperatures that supercharged tropical storms - that are themselves consequences of climate change.

Ten 2018 Extinction Awards

December 26, 2018 By Bill Quigley, Popular Resistance Educate! Climate Change, Environment, Environmental Destruction

One person did more in 2018 to advance the extinction of the human race than any other. While space makes it impossible to list all the ways he acted to damage the earth, a look at just a few of the highlights from 2018 gives a clear snapshot. In 2018, he made it easier for coal plants to pollute, made it easier for industry to engage in hazardous air pollution, announced the US will be pulling out of a twenty-year-old nuclear weapons treaty, started to roll back vehicle mileage standards, opened up oil and gas drilling on millions of acres of protected public lands, vigorously opposed the rights of children in the US to challenge the federal government for its role in global warming, and is making it easier for oil and gas companies to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Russiagate Smashes Human Survival Attempts

December 25, 2018 David Swanson, American Herald Tribune Educate! Climate Change, Nuclear War, RussiaGate

Humanity faces climate and nuclear threats to its existence, spearheaded by the U.S. government. Survival proposals, or what your television calls fringe leftist schemes backed by Vladimir Putin (who, for the most part, does not back them), face many hurdles just to be heard. Unless you're a 15-year-old girl from Sweden or the Pope or have found some other magic loophole, there are many things that you just cannot say in U.S. corporate media: the earth's dying; the U.S. government is an oligarchy; meat and dairy are deadly; nuclear apocalypse is highly likely...

At Last, Divestment Is Hitting The Fossil Fuel Industry Where It Hurts

December 25, 2018 By Bill McKibben, The Guardian Resist! Climate Change, Divestment

The list of institutions that have cut their ties with this most destructive of industries encompasses religious institutions large and small (the World Council of Churches, the Unitarians, the Lutherans, the Islamic Society of North America, Japanese Buddhist temples, the diocese of Assisi); philanthropic foundations (even the Rockefeller family, heir to the first great oil fortune, divested its family charities); and colleges and universities from Edinburgh to Sydney to Honolulu are on board, with more joining each week. Forty big Catholic institutions have already divested; now a campaign is urging the Vatican bank itself to follow suit. Ditto with the Nobel Foundation, the world’s great art museums, and every other iconic institution that works for a better world.

Earth To Congress: “All I Want For Christmas Is A Green New Deal”

December 24, 2018 By John Zangas, Dcmediagroup.us Resist! Climate Change, Congress, Electoral Politics, Environment

Washington, DC — Activists from several organizations flashed a light show on the Rayburn House Office Building on Saturday, December 22. The phrase “All I Want for Christmas Is a Green New Deal” was displayed with a high-powered projector in a green hue on the Congressional building for about five minutes. The light show was staged to draw attention to the environmental initiative being championed by Congresswoman-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The Democratic Party has yet to adopt or endorse the Green New Deal as part of its platform. U.S. Capitol police responded about 10 minutes later. The activists had already turned off equipment and were preparing to go home.

Democrats Block Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal Committee

December 22, 2018 Staff, Telesurenglish.net Educate! Climate Change, Electoral Politics, Revisionism

Despite weeks of protests demanding Democrats to push for a Green New Deal, the Democratic leadership blocked Thursday a proposal by congresswoman-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to form a committee that would have drafted the New Deal project. Instead, they've decided to back a plan by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to revive a global warming panel lead by representative Kathy Castor. The move sparked controversy because Castor has dismissed calls to bar people who accept money from fossil fuel companies from serving on the committee, saying it would violate the right to free speech.

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