Climate Change

Green New Deal Has Overwhelming Bipartisan Support, Poll Finds. At Least, For Now.

December 18, 2018 Alexander C. Kaufman, Huffingtonpost.com Educate! Climate Change, Congress, Electoral Politics, New Economy

Eighty-two percent of Americans say they have heard “nothing at all” about the sweeping proposal to generate 100 percent of the nation’s electricity from clean sources within the next 10 years, upgrade the United States’ power grid, invest in energy-efficiency and renewable technology, and provide training for jobs in the new, green economy. But when asked “how much do you support or oppose” the aforementioned suite of policies, 81 percent of registered voters say they either “somewhat support” or “strongly support” the plan, according to new survey results shared exclusively with HuffPost from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and George Mason University.

COP 24 Deal Is Morally Unacceptable And Inadequate For Climate Crisis

December 16, 2018 By Julia Conley, Common Dreams Educate! Climate Change, climate crisis, COP 24

COP 24 was another failed and inadequate climate agreement. Advocates for bold, concrete reforms and directives—outlined in the People's Demands for Climate Justice—said the required sense of urgency for avoiding the climate catastrophe that the world's top scientists warn could take hold by 2030, was missing from the deal.

12 Reasons Labor Should Demand a Green New Deal

December 16, 2018 By Jeremy Brecher and Joe Uehlein, In These Times Educate! Climate Change, Green New Deal, Labor Movement

The Green New Deal is poised to become a factor in the 2020 elections. Labor unions should take this opportunity to embrace the proposal—and fight to make sure it’s a strong vehicle for advancing workers’ rights. While current proposals for a Green New Deal align with workers’ interests, organized labor brings traditions and insights that can make them even more compelling. Incorporating worker demands in the Green New Deal program will pay benefits long before they can be implemented at a national level.

World’s Biggest Investors: Tackle Climate Change Or Face Financial Crash

December 16, 2018 Damian Carrington, Occupy.com Educate! Banking and Finance, Climate Change

Global investors managing $32 trillion issued a stark warning to governments at the UN climate summit on Monday, demanding urgent cuts in carbon emissions and the phasing out of all coal burning. Without these, the world faces a financial crash several times worse than the 2008 crisis, they said.

Tackling Climate Change Means Addressing Inequality And Building Resilience To Climate Change

December 15, 2018 Staff, Gofossilfree.org Strategize! Climate Change, Inequality

The Gilets Jaunes movement sprung up in France, responding to a decision by the French government to increase taxes on fuel starting in 2019, officially to finance incentives for the purchase of electric vehicles. In reality, only a fraction of the money collected from the tax would have gone to finance green programs: most of this tax would’ve been used to bridge the gap in the budget that the cancellation of the tax on the highest incomes has created. Rather than holding accountable those most responsible for causing the climate crisis – for instance, French fossil fuel giant Total – the French government seemed to want to force the less privileged to pay for the consequences of climate change.

Revealed: FBI Kept Files On Peaceful Climate Change Protesters

December 15, 2018 Adam Federman, Theguardian.com Educate! Climate Change, FBI, Protests, Surveillance

On 15 May 2016 three friends from Fairfield, Iowa, made the five-hour drive to an oil refinery on the shores of Lake Michigan to participate in what was part of a series of protests and acts of civil disobedience in the fight against climate change. They had every intention of getting arrested. What they didn’t expect was to end up in an FBI file for taking part in a peaceful protest. But according to documents obtained by the Guardian through a Freedom of Information Act (Foia) lawsuit, the file on the Iowa protesters was part of a larger effort by the FBI to assess the danger posed by the climate change activist group 350.org in the run-up to a series of actions that were part of the Break Free from Fossil Fuels campaign. The FBI released seven pages and withheld 25.

Congress And States Should Enact A Green New Deal

December 14, 2018 Mark Dunlea, Popular Resistance. Create! Climate Change, Green New Deal, Green party, New Economy

While many candidates in 2018 used the phrase the Green New Deal to highlight that a transition to renewable energy would help create living wage jobs, AOC’s proposal for a plan for 100% clean energy by 2030, single payer health care and other economic measures comes much closer to the GND developed by the Green Party. What is still left out is the necessity of reducing the size of the Military Industrial Complex and termination of its imperial agenda. AOC’s proposal also needs to be expanded, including an immediate halt to any new fossil fuel infrastructure, a focus on public ownership and democratic control of the energy systems, and paying for it by enacting a cut of 50% or more in the military budget.

The Green New Deal Should Address Militarism

December 14, 2018 Medea Benjamin and Alice Slater, Popular Resistance Educate! Climate Change, Nuclear Weapons, Wars and Militarism

Environmentalists need to contest the Pentagon’s staggering global footprint. The U.S. military is the world’s largest institutional consumer of fossil fuels and the largest source of greenhouse gases, contributing about 5 percent of global warming emissions. Almost 900 of the EPA’s 1,300 Superfund sites are abandoned military bases, weapons-production facilities or weapons-testing sites.

We Have To Make Sure The “Green New Deal” Doesn’t Become Green Capitalism

December 13, 2018 Sarah Lazare, Inthesetimes.com Create! Capitalism, Carbon, Climate Change, Environment

Incoming Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made waves in late November when she called for a Green New Deal (GND)—a plan to “transition” the U.S. economy to “become carbon neutral” over the course of 10 years. In a draft resolution, she proposes the formation of a Select Committee to develop a plan for massive public works programs, powered by a jobs guarantee and public banks, with the goal of “meeting 100 percent of national power demand through renewable sources.” According to Ocasio-Cortez, the plan aims to eliminate poverty, bring down greenhouse gas emissions...

Welcome To The Eocene, Where Ice Sheets Turn Into Swamps

December 13, 2018 By Eric Holthaus, Grist.org Educate! Climate Change, Global Warming

Our current rate of warming will quickly lead us back to a climate that predates the evolution of modern humans, according to a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. That kind of rapid change has no direct comparison in all of Earth’s multi-billion year history. “The only thing that comes to mind is a meteorite impact,” says co-author Jack Williams, a paleoecologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The researchers analyzed the current, near-past, and near-future climates for every part of the planet, and then compared them to what likely existed during similar warming periods of the distant past. The results were shocking, even to Williams.

Protest Breaks Out At COP24 Speech After US Announces No Change To Climate Policy

December 11, 2018 By Amy Chung, Euronews.com Resist! Climate Change, COP 24, Policy, Protests

Protesters at the COP24 climate conference made sure US President Donald Trump's energy advisor knew they were not happy with the US' unwillingness to change its climate policy. Demonstrators erupted in song while Wells Griffith said the US will not be rejecting coal mining or fossil fuel use in the future during a speech in Katowice, Poland, where the conference is being held. “The reality is, countries will continue to use fossil fuels to ensure they meet basic power, transportation, and the industrial needs of their citizens. "The nuclear power industry will also continue to provide large amounts of emission-free baseload power.

Shell Oil Executive Boasts That His Company Influenced The Paris Agreement

December 10, 2018 Kate Aronoff, Theintercept.com Educate! Climate Change, Paris Agreement, Shell Oil

The executive, Shell’s Chief Climate Change Adviser David Hone, made his comments at the international climate change conference COP 24 on Friday. Hone was candid about just how much of a hand his company — through their involvement with the International Emissions Trading Association — had in writing the Paris agreement. The agreement is the centerpiece of the conference in Poland, where delegates are trying to draft a rulebook for how to implement it. IETA is a business lobby comprised of corporations including fossil fuel producers that pushes for “market-based climate solutions,” including at United Nations climate talks.

Don’t Do Anything About Climate Disaster

December 9, 2018 Miranda Spencer, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. Educate! Climate Change, Green New Deal, Media

“Democrats Will Push on Climate Change,” declared the lead story on the front page of the November 27 USA Today. (The online version bore the more verbose headline, “Once Democrats Take Charge of the House, Addressing Climate Change Will Become Top Priority Again.”) You might think the story was about the Green New Deal, the nascent environmental and social justice agenda that would include a special congressional committee on climate change, championed by incoming Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and endorsed by at least a dozen co-sponsors.

Activists Denied Entry To Poland For Climate Summit

December 9, 2018 Natalie Sauer, Climate Change News. Educate! Activists, Climate Change, COP 24, Poland

Members of the network attributed this to Poland’s controversial anti-terror legislation passed ahead of the UN climate summit Cop24, which gives authorities the power to “collect, obtain, gather, verify, process and use information, including personal data about persons posing a threat to public safety and order, including outside the borders of the Republic of Poland”. The environmental umbrella group, which represents over 1,200 NGOs worldwide campaigning on climate change, voiced fears that the Polish authorities may have compiled a “blacklist” of activists.

An Ecosocialist Path To Limiting Global Temperature Rise To 1.5°C

December 7, 2018 By Richard Smith, Commondreams.org Create! Climate Change, Global Warming, New Economy

The much-awaited report from the U.N.’s top climate science panel describes the enormous gap between where we are and where we need to be to prevent dangerous levels of global warming. The 2015 Paris climate accord committed industrial nations to reduce their emissions sufficiently to keep global temperatures within a 2°C rise over pre-industrial levels. In the final accord, highly vulnerable island nations and faith communities represented at the UN pressed the authors to include the 1.5°C limit as an aspirational target in the final draft of the accord with 2°C as the backup target.

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