Climate Change

Changing Everything

April 10, 2016 Steve Gorelick, www.localfutures.org Create! Capitalism, Climate Change, Energy, Renewable Energy

By Steve Gorelick for Local Futures. It seems that a transition to renewable energy might not be as transformative as some people hope. Or to put it more bluntly, renewable energy changes nothing about corporate capitalism. Which brings me to the new film, This Changes Everything, based on Naomi Klein’s best-selling book and directed by her husband, Avi Lewis. I saw the film recently at a screening hosted by local climate activists and renewable energy developers, and was at first hopeful that the film would go even further than the book in, as Klein puts it, “connecting the dots between the carbon in the air and the economic system that put it there.” But by film’s end one is left with the impression that a transition from fossil fuels to renewables is pretty much all that’s needed – not only to address climate change but to transform the economy and solve all the other problems we face.

Tribes Organize Against North Dakota Oil Pipeline

April 3, 2016 Nicky Woolf, www.theguardian.com Resist! Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Indigenous Rights, Oil and Gas, Pipeline

By Nicky Woolf for The Guardian. Standing Rock Nation - Dozens of tribal members from several Native American nations took to horseback on Friday to protest against the proposed construction of an oil pipeline which would cross the Missouri river just yards from tribal lands in North Dakota. The group of tribal members, which numbered around 200, according to a tribal spokesman, said they were worried that the Dakota Access Pipeline, proposed by a subsidiary of the Dallas, Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners, would lead to contamination of the river. The proposed route also passes through lands of historical significance to the Standing Rock Lakota Sioux Nation, including burial grounds.

Obama Admin About To Kneecap Own Efforts To Reform Coal Leasing

April 2, 2016 David Roberts, www.vox.com Educate! Barack Obama, Climate Change, Coal Mining

By David Roberts for Vox - Over the past year or so, the Obama administration has shown increasing sympathy toward the new climate activism mantra: "Keep it in the ground." In November, Barack Obama rejected the Keystone XL pipeline, saying, "If we’re going to prevent large parts of this Earth from becoming not only inhospitable but uninhabitable in our lifetimes, we’re going to have to keep some fossil fuels in the ground."

Antarctica At Risk Of Runaway Melting, Scientists Discover

April 1, 2016 John Upton, www.climatecentral.org Educate! Antarctica, Climate Change, Global Warming

By John Upton for Climate Central - The world’s greatest reservoir of ice is verging on a breakdown that could push seas to heights not experienced since prehistoric times, drowning dense coastal neighborhoods during the decades ahead, new computer models have shown. A pair of researchers developed the models to help them understand high sea levels during previous eras of warmer temperatures.

Coal And Gas Investment Fall To Less Than Half Clean Energy

March 27, 2016 Fiona Harvey, www.theguardian.com Create! Climate Change, Coal, Oil and Gas, Renewable Energy

By Fiona Harvey for The Guardian. Global investment in coal and gas-fired power generation plants fell to less than half that in renewable energy generation last year, in a record year for clean energy. It was the first time that renewable energy made up a majority of all the new electricity generation capacity under construction around the world, and the first year in which the financial investment by developing countries in renewables outstripped that of the developed world. Catherine Mitchell, professor of energy policy at the University of Exeter, said the developments were “extremely significant” and showed a new trend. She said: “We are looking at serious sums of money being invested in clean energy, with the dirtiest forms of fossil fuels the losers. This is the direction of travel that we need to see to have a chance of escaping the worst impacts of climate change.”

Activists Occupy Superdome, Call For No New Oil Leases!

March 24, 2016 Staff, www.risingtidenorthamerica.org Resist! Climate Change, Climate Justice, Occupation, Protests

By Staff of Rising Tide North America - Currently, hundreds of climate and social justice activists are occupying the Superdome in New Orleans in a mass protest calling to keep 43 million acres of oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico. Today, the Obama administration is auctioning off those 43 million acres to the oil and gas industry. Courageous activists have taken a stand to say a resounding “NO” to further oil extraction by the same people that brought us the BP Oil Disaster in 2010 and continue to decimate communities and ecosystems along the Gulf Coast.

Could Climate-Change Warnings On Gasoline Pumps Work?

March 21, 2016 Heather Smith, www.grist.org Create! Climate Change, Gas

By Heather Smith for Grist - Later this year, someone stopping to fuel up in North Vancouver will be the first customer to see the controversial warning labels. They’ll be wrapped around the gas pump handles. The exact wording isn’t settled yet, but here’s the gist of it: Every time you pump gas, you’re contributing to air pollution and climate change. What will they look like? We don’t know that, either, but here’s one candidate considered by the city council that voted in the new warning-label law:

Tipping Point On US Public Opinion On Climate Change

March 21, 2016 Oliver Milman, www.theguardian.com Educate! Climate Change, Policy, United States

By Oliver Milman for The Guardian - A record number of Americans believe global warming will pose a threat to their way of life, new polling data shows, amid strengthening public acceptance that rising temperatures are being driven by human activity. “I think a shift in public opinion and consciousness has been underway for several years now,” Michael Mann, a prominent climate scientist at Pennsylvania State University, told the Guardian. A spokesman for 350 Action, the political arm of climate activist group 350.org, said meanwhile that politicians who cast doubt on climate science would soon have to take such polling into account.

Earth Enters New Era Of Climate Change

March 20, 2016 Sharmini Peries, www.therealnews.com Educate! Climate Change, Extreme weather, Floods, Global Warming

By Sharmini Peries for The Real New - Last week storms battered the Southwest in the United States and in Louisiana, which was the hardest hit state, three people lost their lives and thousands lost their homes and businesses. The Sabine River on the border of Louisiana and Texas hit the highest water level on record, surpassing the previous record set in 1999 by over 5 feet. Climate scientists are saying we are not only in a period of global warming, we are now entering a global climate change emergency. As NOAA recently confirmed, February surpassed all records in terms of temperatures. January 2016 also broke all-time records for above average temperatures, but the extent to which February broke temperature records alarmed many scientists, the month was more than 0.2°C warmer. Now many scientific studies have linked extreme weather events to climate change.

Climate Change And How Political Activism Can Help Us Find Happiness

March 14, 2016 Dayton Martindale, www.inthesetimes.com Strategize! Activism, Climate Change

By Dayton Martindale for In These Times - In a dispatch from Paris for Harper’s, writer and activist Rebecca Solnit called the recent climate agreement negotiated there “miraculous and horrible.” This tension between the exciting and the awful, the transformative and the terrifying, motivates her book Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities. Initially written in response to the Iraq War, the book will be re-released this month with a new section on climate change.

Duke Energy Versus Solar Energy

March 13, 2016 Alex Kotch, www.desmogblog.com Resist! Climate Change, Democracy, Duke Energy, Solar Energy

By Alex Kotch of DeSmog Blog. Around the nation, big utility companies are successfully lobbying lawmakers and regulators to restrict individual and corporate access to solar power, denying people significant savings on electricity bills and the opportunity to take part in the growing green energy economy. In third-party solar financing, a non-utility company installs solar panels on a customer’s property at little or no up-front cost, sometimes selling the solar energy back to the customer at rates typically lower than a utility would charge. Duke Energy, the largest utility in the U.S., has so far succeeded in keeping third-party solar illegal in North Carolina, but conservative and liberal factions alike are trying to change that, in different ways. At least four states—Florida, Kentucky, Oklahoma and North Carolina—currently ban third-party sales of solar energy.

Newsletter: The Times Are A-Changing

March 12, 2016 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter 2016 Elections, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Climate Change, Drug War, Education, Nuclear Power, Solar Energy, Trade, Wealth Ineqaulity

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers. Sometimes, when in the midst of transformational change, it is difficult to recognize that it is happening. We are in a transformational moment now. The new political culture that erupted with the occupy movement in 2011, but which has roots going back decades, and its evolution into activism on key fronts of struggle such as wages, racism, trade, militarism, capitalism and other issues, has grown to be so impactful that it is fracturing the two corporate political parties. A lot of change is occurring on many fronts. That should encourage all of us to keep building the movement of movements so we can create the transformation we need.

BP To End Tate Sponsorship After 26 Years

March 12, 2016 Nadia Khomami, www.theguardian.com Resist! BP, Climate Change

By Nadia Khomami for The Guardian - BP is to end its 26-year sponsorship of the Tate next year. The oil firm blamed the “extremely challenging business environment” rather than years of protest against the sponsorship, the Independent reported. Last summer protesters spent 25 hours scrawling climate change messages in charcoal on the floor of Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. In November activists occupied part of Tate Britain, where they started to tattoo each other with the numbers of the CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere in the year they were born.

Oregon To Replace Coal With Clean Energy

March 11, 2016 Mary Anne Hitt, www.sierraclub.org Create! Climate Change, Coal, Solar, Wind

By Mary Anne Hitt for the Sierra Club. The “Clean Electricity and Coal Transition Plan", will move Oregon completely off coal by 2030 - including phasing out coal power being imported into the state on the grid - and ensure that most of that power is replaced by clean energy by doubling the state’s Renewable Portfolio Standard to 50 percent by 2040. It was passed with bipartisan support from Republicans and Democrats, and it’s an historic victory for climate and clean energy leadership. Oregon coal plants make of 25 percent of the state’s greenhouse gas emissions. Analysis of the legislation’s expected impact has shown that the plan will reduce carbon pollution across the western states by 30 million metric tons - the equivalent of taking 6.4 million cars off the road. It also includes measures to keep electricity prices affordable and ensure reliable electric service.

Did Shell’s Failure To Disclose Climate Risks Break The Law?

March 8, 2016 David Hasemyer, www.insideclimatenews.org Educate! Climate Change, Environment, Law, Shell Oil

By David Hasemyer for Inside Climate News - Three members of Congress have asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate whether Shell Oil Co. violated securities laws by failing to adequately disclose material business risks from climate change. Members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, led by California Democrat Ted Lieu, said in a letter to the SEC that Shell understood the consequences of climate change and made business decisions based on that knowledge.

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