Climate Change

Frightening Numbers: Biosphere Heating Accelerates

July 7, 2020 Manuel Garcia Jr. from his blog. Educate! Climate Change, climate crisis, Fossil Fuels, Socialism

At this time, the Biosphere is warming at a rate of 3.03×1015 Watts, which is equivalent to a temperature rate-of-rise of 0.0167°C/year. The warming rate has been increasing steadily since the 19th century when it was on average “zero” except for natural fluctuations (plus and minus) that were hundreds of times smaller than today’s warming rate. The total energy use by the United States in 2019 was 100 quadrillion BTU (British Thermal Units), which is equivalent to 1.055×1020 Joules. Averaged out over the 31,557,600 seconds in a year implies a use rate of 3.34×1012 Watts during 2019. From the above two observations, we can deduce that the current rate of Biosphere warming on a yearly basis is equivalent to the yearly energy use in 2019 of 907 United States of Americas.

The Democrats’ Disastrous, Militarist Climate Plan

July 5, 2020 David Swanson, World Without War. Educate! Climate Change, Congress, Democrats, militarism

Don’t believe for a minute that the Democrats climate plan even means what it says. Its solutions include disastrous scams like “biofuels” and nuclear energy. It proposes no fundamental change in lifestyle, no reduction in personal consumption, and no halt or reduction in eating meat (but renewable energy production on land used for livestock, so that the same land can mitigate the unacknowledged damage it is doing). It offers no proposed federal budget with any major moving of the money to where it’s needed, and no plan to extract any resources from billionaires and corporate giants. This plan has been criticized for largely ignoring 96% of humanity in order to address a global problem as an isolated country. That’s not quite right. It’s actually a plan built around hostile violence toward the world and the imperative to occupy the world with military forces. Here’s a bit of it: “The U.S. military is the world’s largest consumer of energy from fossil fuels. Among federal agencies, the Department of Defense (DOD) is responsible for 77% of the federal government’s total energy use.”

George Floyd, Coronavirus And Inequality Stealing Black Lives

June 14, 2020 By Susan Smith Richardson, Public Integrity. Educate! Climate Change, Inequality, Police violence, Rebellion2020

Several Black protesters have said, “If the police don’t get you, the coronavirus will.” Floyd pleaded for mercy as Officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into his neck until Floyd could no longer breathe. His death triggered the protests of the past week. But the issues that have driven people to the streets are the same as those identified in the 1968 Kerner report. Over the years, the report has become a benchmark for racial progress. Though it is typically cited for indicting a white, paternalistic perspective in the news media, it also proclaimed “white racism” as the catalyst for the unrest, condemned police brutality and proposed destroying structural barriers to racial equality.

Regime Change And Climate Change: Connecting The Dots

On May 23, Popular Resistance hosted the webinar: Regime Change And Climate Change: Connecting The Dots. The goal of the webinar was to deepen the understanding of the connections between US militarism and imperialism and the climate crisis and encourage greater collaboration between the anti-war/anti-imperialist and climate justice movements. The focus of the webinar was on Iran and Venezuela, two countries with the largest oil reserves in the world and that are being targeted by the United States.

Amazon Fires Employees Who Spoke Out About COVID-19 And Climate Change

April 16, 2020 Zoya Teirstein, Grist. Resist! Amazon, Climate Change, COVID-19, Worker Rights

Amazon is trying to establish itself as the most essential of essential businesses during the coronavirus outbreak. But the tech giant is struggling to keep a lid on internal turmoil, both at its warehouses, where workers say they’re not being adequately protected from COVID-19, and at its corporate offices, where a showdown between tech employees and management over the company’s climate policies reached a tipping point last week. Last Friday afternoon, Amazon fired two of its tech employees after they publicly criticized its coronavirus policies. Those employees, Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa, both user experience designers with 21 years of service at the company between them, were among the leaders of an internal worker group formed in December 2018 with the aim of pressuring Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to commit to more ambitious climate targets.

This Crisis Can Be A Gateway To Climate Action

April 5, 2020 Christine MacDonald, In These Times. Organize! Climate Change, COVID-19, Green New Deal

As the COVID-19 pandemic has left most of the country sheltering in place and bracing for hundreds of thousands of deaths and economic fallout that could sideline as much as a third of the U.S. workforce, climate justice warriors took to the Internet this past week to build an online mass movement that they are constructing as they go. Propelled by anger over the $500 billion “corporate slush fund” included in the $2 trillion bailout rushed through Congress and signed by President Donald Trump last month, hundreds of environmental and social justice organizations have joined forces to demand that the next economic stimulus package Congress is expected to pass prioritize regular people over corporations and invest in long-term fixes to poverty and climate change.

Polluting Industries Cash In On COVID-19, Add To Climate Crisis

April 1, 2020 Georgina Gustin, James Bruggers, Kristoffer Tigue, Dan Gearino, Inside Climate News Educate! Climate Change, climate crisis, COVID-19, Environment

Airlines, farmers and plastic bag makers look for relief amid the pandemic. But the coal industry, and wind and solar energy concerns, lose out in the relief bill. With the attention of lawmakers and government agencies focused on the global coronavirus pandemic, polluting industries have seized on the opportunity to advance their own interests.

Saving Humanity From Coronavirus And Climate Change

March 30, 2020 By Mark Dunlea, Gelfny.org Create! Climate Change, Coronavirus, COVID-19

The coronavirus, a threat at the microscopic level. is galloping towards us. It is predicted that as many as half of us will contract it. It is especially deadly for the elderly and those with underlying health problems. Poverty and racism make it worse, a lot worse. But all of us are threatened. There is a growing demand for equality in how we help people but the wealthy still dominated the pending federal bailout. The swamp is churning.

Locust Swarms Are Eating Their Way Across Two Continents

March 26, 2020 By Bob Berwyn, Insideclimatenews.org Educate! Africa, Climate Change, Insects, Locusts, Middle East

As giant swarms of locusts spread across East Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and the Middle East, devouring crops that feed millions of people, some scientists say global warming is contributing to proliferation of the destructive insects. The largest locust swarms in more than 50 years have left subsistence farmers helpless to protect their fields and will spread misery throughout the region...

Activists Urging Barclays To ‘Stop Funding The Climate Emergency’ Shut Down Nearly 100 Branches Across UK

March 13, 2020 By Jessica Corbett, Commondreams.org Resist! Activists, Climate Change, Finance, United Kingdom (UK)

In a coordinated action to pressure Barclays to stop financing climate destruction, Greenpeace activists on Monday morning shut down 97 of the British investment bank's branches across the United Kingdom. "Barclays must stop funding the climate emergency; that's why we've taken action today," Morten Thaysen, climate finance campaigner at Greenpeace U.K., said in a statement.

Teens Convince Their Minnesota Town To Go Solar

March 12, 2020 Staff, Yaleclimateconnections.org Create! Climate Change, Minnesota, Youth

In 2018, the city of Saint Louis Park, Minnesota, made the commitment to become carbon neutral. The decision was the result of pressure from local high school students. “They felt passionate, like a lot of youth around the country do, that there is an urgency,” says Jessi Wyatt of the Great Plains Institute. “And so they brought the urgency to their city council in the form of letters...

Global Warming Is Not Waiting For The SIgnatories Of The Paris Accord, It’s On A Rampage

March 12, 2020 By Robert Hunziker, Counterpunch.org Educate! Climate Change, Global Warming

Global warming is not waiting around for the signatories to the Paris climate accord ‘15 to go to net zero emissions 2030/50. Sorry, those bold plans are way too little way too late. Already, across the board, the planet is on a hot streak that defies all projections. It’s starting to look downright scary!

It’s Official: Chicago Has Declared A Climate Emergency. Now What?

March 5, 2020 By Patty Wetli, News.wttw.com Create! Chicago, Climate Change

On Wednesday, members of City Council approved a climate emergency resolution introduced last month that calls on the city to “initiate a Climate Mobilization to reverse global warming and the ecological crisis.” “We join over 1,300 other jurisdictions in sounding the alarm,” said Ald. George Cardenas (12th Ward), a co-sponsor of the resolution. Sounding the alarm and responding to it, however, are two different matters.

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