Climate Change

Specter Of Geoengineering Haunts Paris Climate Agreement

February 22, 2016 Daniel Tanuro, www.climateandcapitalism.com Educate! Climate Change, COP21

By Daniel Tanuro for Climate and Capitalism - Although the Paris Climate Conference (COP21) Agreement was described by negotiators and the media as ambitious and historic,[1] the document is actually little more than a statement of intent that confirms the target set in Copenhagen in 2009: to keep the temperature rise this century to less than 2°C above the pre-industrial level. Under pressure from the most threatened countries, the Paris deal adds a hope to keep the increase under 1.5°C, a goal already envisaged in 2010, at the Cancun COP.

As Part Of Fossil Fuel Auction Protest, Author Buys Parcels

February 17, 2016 Canyon Rising Tide, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Climate Change, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Oil and Gas

By Canyon Rising Tide. Salt Lake City, UT - Today, over one hundred people erupted into song and disrupted the Utah Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) oil and gas lease sale in Salt Lake City, Utah. The auction was then closed to the public as the entire audience was escorted outside. Activist and author, Terry Tempest Williams, attended and purchased several parcels totaling 1,751 acres in Grand County, Utah through a company she formed called Tempest Exploration. One was an 800 acre parcel 14 miles from and within view of Arches National Park that was leased for $1.50 / acre / year. The group of grassroots organizations, representing a broad-reaching alliance of community members, packed and overflowed the auction room.

Why 2016 Will Be The Best Year Yet For Climate Justice

February 16, 2016 Kari Malkki, www.news.trust.org Resist! Climate Change, Climate Justice

By Kari Malkki for Thomson Reuters Foundation - Already in 2016, communities around the world have been forced to confront climate disasters of all sorts. Latin American countries are working with a sense of urgency to prevent transmission of the Zika virus, which spreads increasingly quickly in rising temperatures. From Indonesia to Malawi, people are grappling with the effects of what NASA estimates may be the worst El Niño on record. Severe flooding in some regions and dire water shortages in others have resulted in food crises, mass migration, and economic mayhem.

Healthy Ground, Healthy Atmosphere: Recarbonizing Soils

February 15, 2016 Nancy Averett, www.ehp.niehs.nih.gov Create! Carbon, Climate Change, Soil

By Nancy Averett for EHP - On a bright October morning Dave Brandt tromps through the middle of his central Ohio wheat field. The grain was harvested months ago, but there isn’t an inch of bare dirt anywhere. Instead, more than 10 varieties of plants, including crimson clover, pearl millet, and Austrian winter peas, form a “cover crop cocktail” that stretches all the way to the road bordering his property. “This will be here all winter,” Brandt says. “And in the spring, we’ll plant corn right into this.”

Energy Company Skirts The Law, Again

February 14, 2016 SCRAM, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Climate Change, Democracy, health, Oil and Gas

By Sullivan County Residents Against Millennium.Highland, NY - In 2012, the Sullivan County Town of Highland adopted new zoning ordinances that explicitly prohibit fracking and gas-related infrastructure projects, including compressor stations. Despite this clear expression of the community's will, the Millennium Pipeline Company has announced that it intends to build a large (22,400 horsepower) compressor station right in heart of this rural township that borders the Delaware River. Millennium can override Highland's local laws because a 2015 federal court decision determined that infrastructure projects licensed by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) are free to ignore local laws and ordinances.

Louisiana Tribe Now Officially Community Of Climate Refugees

February 14, 2016 Chris DAngelo, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! Climate Change, Gulf of Mexico, Indigenous Rights, Refugees

By Chris DAngelo for Huffington Post. Isle de Jean Charles, LA - Deep in the bayous of Louisiana, about 80 miles southwest of New Orleans, lies the Isle de Jean Charles, a tiny swath of land that's all but vanished into the Gulf of Mexico. Over the last half-century or so, the island has fallen victim to irresponsible oil and gas extraction practices and the effects of climate change. Many of its residents -- members of the Isle de Jean Charles Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Native Americans -- have been forced to flee. "What you see of the island now is just a skeleton of what it used to be," Chris Brunet, a tribal council member and lifelong island resident, told The New York Times in a mini-documentary called Vanishing Island in 2014.

The FERC Valentine Project

February 12, 2016 Staff, www.beyondextremeenergy.org Resist! Climate Change, communicide, FERC, Oil and Gas

By Beyond Extreme Energy. This Valentine's Day, Beyond Extreme Energy, front line communities and allies everywhere will send a message to the FERC commissioners. We protect what we love and we expect FERC to do the same. Take a moment to print copies of the BXE valentine or create your own and mail them to the FERC commissioners. Home is where the heart is so we encourage you to send these messages to the FERC commissioner's homes (addresses below). This is no secret love, so before you drop your valentines in the mail, declare your love to the world! If you made your own valentine, snap a pic and then share your pic or the valentine we provided on Facebook or Twitter.

How To Finance A Trillion-Dollar Climate Change Opportunity

February 10, 2016 Danny Kennedy and Ken Locklin, www.greentechmedia.com Create! Climate Change, Investment

By Danny Kennedy and Ken Locklin for Green Tech Media - Pulling the world back from the brink of catastrophic climate change cannot be done for free. Changing the way the world is powered means big spending -- and huge investment opportunities -- as new clean energy infrastructure is built across the world. And that’s catching the attention of the global financial community. This week, from New York to California to Abu Dhabi, business and political leaders have been talking about the costs and opportunities inherent in the historic pledge that the nations of the world made in Paris last month to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius.

San Diego Says No New Gas!

February 10, 2016 San Diego Rising Tide, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Climate Change, Fracking, Oil and Gas

By San Diego Rising Tide. San Diego, CA - Tuesday, February 10th at 2:30pm, activists with Rising Tide San Diego occupied the Sempra Energy building to call for a moratorium on new natural gas exploration in California. Carrying large painted clouds representing methane, or natural gas, and an open letter to SoCal gas, as subsidiary of Sempra Energy, Governor Brown and a list of local representatives, the organizers hope to make the Porter Ranch Crisis a wake-up call for the true costs of California's natural gas industry. The protest comes nearly four months after workers at a SoCal gas storage facility near LA noticed a substantial leak originating in an underground storage well. As of late January, the well has reportedly leaked over 86,00 metric tons of methane and counting.

Climate Change False Solutions Damage Land & Livelihoods

February 10, 2016 Staff, www.biofuelswatch.org.uk Educate! Biofuels, Climate Change, Environment, pollution

By BioFuelsWatch. 115 civil society organisations and networks from across the globe have published a declaration today, calling for bioenergy to be excluded from the next EU Renewable Energy Directive (RED) [1]. The declaration is being submitted to a consultation into the renewal of the directive for 2020 onwards [2]. The EU intends industrial bioenergy, i.e. biofuels and wood-based biomass, to continue playing a major part in its new renewable energy strategy. Campaigners say this will exacerbate the grave impacts already being experienced because of current support for biofuels and wood-based bioenergy in the EU. Bioenergy already accounts for around two-thirds of energy classed as renewable in the EU.

Five Climate Angels Arrested For ‘Watching Over’ Santos CSG

February 10, 2016 Thom Mitchell, www.newmatilda.com Resist! Climate Change, Fossil Fuels, Protesters Arrested, Protests

By Thom Mitchell for New Matilda - Five women aged between 50- and 75-years-old have been forcibly dragged from the road and arrested by police this morning at a Santos coal seam gas development near Narrabri, in north west New South Wales. The protestors are part of the ‘Climate Guardians’, a group of theatrical activists who assume the guise of angles to create awareness of the need to keep fossil fuels in the ground.

Newsletter: Global Solidarity Is Rising

February 7, 2016 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Newsletter Banking and Finance, Blockades, Climate Change, Extraction, Exxon, FERC, Flint, Fracking, Groundwater, Indigenous Peoples, Lead, Leonard Peltier, Pipelines, Police violence, Uranium

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. A key ingredient of previous successful campaigns to stop 'free trade' agreements is cross-border solidarity. Uniting struggles globally, as well as locally, is critical for other issues as well. Via Campesina, a movement started by peasants in 1993, has grown to become a global movement that recognizes the intersectionality between food security, land rights, the climate crisis and transnational corporate power. They work together to both resist harmful policies and to create necessary alternatives by organizing seed exchanges and impacting public policy. Similarly, global solidarity is increasing around the climate crisis.

How Strong Is Legal Case Against Exxon/Mobil On Climate Denialism?

February 4, 2016 Reynard Loki, www.alternet.org Resist! Climate Change, Exxon

By Reynard Loki for AlterNet - For the past few months, New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has been investigating ExxonMobil to determine if the world's largest publicly traded international oil and gas company lied to the public or investors about the risks of climate change to its future business, based on the firm’s own internal studies. In November, Schneiderman issued a subpoena demanding a wide range of documents, including emails and financial documents.

Fight Fracked Gas: Cove Point Spring Break

February 2, 2016 Staff, www.wearecovepoint.org Resist! Climate Change, Fracking, health, Oil and Gas

By We Are Cove Point. Lusby, Maryland - We Are Cove Point and SEED (Stopping Extraction and Export Destruction) are organizing an action camp in Cove Point over Spring Break. The Dominion Cove Point liquefied natural gas export terminal is the centerpiece of the fracked-gas infrastructure build-out currently underway in the mid-Atlantic US. The gas industry is tying much of its financial future to exports, and Cove Point, Maryland, is the place it has selected to liquefy the gas, put it on tankers, and bring it around the world. However, a broad movement has been fighting the gas industry every step of the way — to stop this export terminal at Cove Point, the tangled web of pipelines and compressor stations, export terminals in other places, and where the gas is pulled from the ground.

Dispossessed In The Name Of ‘Security’

January 31, 2016 Robert J. Burrowes, www.PopularResistance.org Educate! Climate Change, Corporatism, militarism

By Robert J. Burrowes for Popular Resistance. 'The Secure and the Dispossessed: How the Military and Corporations are Shaping a Climate-Changed World' brings together a thoughtful collection of scholars, journalists and activists to explain the pre-eminence of the military and corporations in shaping the global response to the climate catastrophe as an 'opportunity'. The book examines how for the security/military-industrial complex 'climate change is just the latest in a long line of threats constructed in such a way as to consolidate its grip on power and public finance.' For corporations, the risk posed by climate change is an opportunity for profit as they promise us 'food security', 'water security', 'energy security' … even if it is at the expense of equity and justice and has 'disastrous implications for the security of human lives and dignity'. For the security industry, for example, it is an opportunity to offer governments an endless supply of resilience and disaster-related services that have little to do with human security, if your concern is ordinary people.

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