Climate Change

Nukes Are Not Needed To Solve World’s Climate Crisis

January 5, 2016 Mark Jacobson, www.ecowatch.com Educate! Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Nuclear Energy

By Mark Jacobson for Eco Watch - Nuclear is an opportunity cost relative to clean, renewable wind, water and solar energy because of a. the significant lag time between planning and operation of a nuclear plant relative to a wind, solar, or geothermal plant; b. higher carbon emissions of nuclear per unit energy; and c. nuclear weapons proliferation risks, meltdown risks, waste disposal risks, and uranium mining risks. As such, the only basis for nuclear growth is if 100% wind, water and solar is not possible.

To Change Everything, It’s Going To Take Everything We’ve Got

January 3, 2016 John Foran, www.thischangeseverything.org Resist! Climate Change, Environment, Finance and the Economy, System Change, Wars and Militarism

By John Foran for This Changes Everything. OK, here’s the idea. We’re in a crisis so deep, so knotted, so unprecedented, and so urgent that, well, we have to change everything, pretty much. Or else. And there’s no one to do it for us. There’s just us. Just-us. Justice. And who are we? We are everyone, everywhere, who wants to do this. Everyone, everywhere, who cares what happens to everything—each other, humanity, Mother Earth, nature, the planet, the future creatures for whom what we do this day—this year—will make a difference. Possibly all the difference. And what do we have to do? To repeat: we have to change most of the systems in which we live, whether we are in comfort or not, whether we have other preoccupations or not, whether we are happy or not, whether we have enough time, money, resources, or not. And we have to be radical.

Refugee Crisis Leaves Deepest, Cruelest, Mark On 2015

January 3, 2016 Bill Boyarsky, www.truthdig.com Educate! Climate Change, Human Rights, Refugees, Wars and Militarism

By Bill Boyarsky for TruthDig. So what was the most significant event of 2015? It wasn’t a single event. Rather, it was a worsening of something that started several years before. It was the fast-increasing, huge migration of immigrants—many running for fear of their lives—making their dangerous and often fatal way by land and across the Mediterranean, the Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea and the oceans of Asia. It is the greatest forced mass movement of refugees since World War II, caused by the confluence of civil war, brutal regimes, sectarian and ethnic hatred, and climate change all coming together in a world too weak and preoccupied to deal with such powerful forces. It is not a made-for-television disaster. It doesn’t have the immediacy of a video-cam shot of a police killing or saturation coverage of the aftermath of a white racist or Islamist terror murderous assault—all compelling fare for the cable news channels.

Newsletter – In With The New!

January 2, 2016 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter Climate Change, Empire, Food and Agriculture, Housing, Internet, Media, Neoliberalism, New Economy, Renewable Energy, TPP

By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese for Popular Resistance. For the new year, we thought we would start with a newsletter that highlights a critical task of the movement for transformation - the creation of alternative systems to replace the current dysfunctional systems. There are exciting advances in this work. There were many actions of resistance this past week, especially around the holidays, and you can read about them here. In addition to stopping harmful policies and practices, people are creating alternatives that may mature to a place where they replace the current systems and the current systems of capitalism, oppression, militarism, racism, etc, will wither away. We call this combination "Stop the machine, create a new world".

Climate Activists Can Learn A Lot From Black Lives Matter

January 2, 2016 Kate Aronoff, www.wagingnonviolence.org Strategize! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Climate Change

By Kate Aronoff for Waging Nonviolence - Yesterday afternoon, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty told a cramped room of reporters that no officers would be tried for the killing of Tamir Rice. The announcement came just over a year after the 12-year-old was gunned down by police for waving around a toy rifle in a Cleveland park. Within two seconds of arriving at the scene, officer Timothy Loehmann had fired two very real bullets at Rice — including the one that killed him. Calling Rice’s death a “perfect storm of human error, mistakes and miscommunications by all involved that day,” McGinty spent several minutes laying out the ways in which the child should have known better than to play in a park while being black.

The Paris Climate Agreement: Hope Or Hype?

December 31, 2015 Brian Tokar, www.PopularResistance.org Strategize! Climate Change, COP21

By Brian Tokar for Popular Resistance. Clearly, it will require more than statements of ambitious climate goals to corral the overarching capitalist imperative to grow and expand, or even to rein in political pressures to keep diverting public funds to support fossil fuel corporations. This, of course, is where the worldwide climate movement comes in. My earlier discussion highlighted the potential convergence of “Blockadia” and “Alternatiba” that public actions in the lead-up to Paris were designed to symbolize. Opposition to new fossil fuel infrastructure has spread throughout the world in recent years, as have an impressive array of practical, grassroots alternatives to business as usual. The 350.org network and its global allies are now planning a worldwide mobilization against the fossil fuel industry for May of 2016. It will be preceded by countless local and regional rallies, marches, and direct actions, culminating in a unified focus on the world’s most destructive sites of fossil fuel extraction. Perhaps if enough people are in the streets to say no to continued fossil fuel dependence and yes to community-centered alternatives, grassroots pressure can succeed where diplomacy continues to fall short.

2015: The Year Methane Leaked Into The Headlines

December 30, 2015 Lisa Song, www.insideclimatenews.org Educate! Climate Change, Methane

By Lisa Song for Inside Climate News - Scientists made significant progress in 2015 measuring methane emissions from the natural gas industry, continuing a years-long quest to quantify the industry's contribution to climate change. What they found adds to a growing body of evidence that methane leaks are sporadic, difficult to predict, and often far larger than existing government estimates. Many of the studies came from the Environmental Defense Fund's $18 million project. Launched in 2011, it aims to measure emissions from every sector of the industry, including production, storage, transmission and natural gas vehicles. The project has drawn praise for its scope, vision and scrupulous methods.

Terror, Climate Chaos, Financial Crisis: Costs Of ‘Doing Business’

December 29, 2015 Nafeez Ahmed, www.middleeasteye.net Educate! Climate Change, Finance and Economy, Terrorism

By Nafeez Ahmed for Middle East Eye - Fifteen years into the 21st century, humanity has made little progress in addressing major threats to civilisation. In fact, on terrorism, climate change and the economy, we’re not making progress at all, but making things worse. The "war on terror" has been waged for 14 years since 9/11, but far from terror being defeated, it has metastasized into a regional quasi-state occupying parts of Iraq and Syria. Despite the much-lauded "binding" climate accord agreed in Paris, the governments most responsible for carbon emissions are still avoiding the reductions necessary to prevent us breaching crucial tipping points into dangerous climate change.

Newsletter: Looking Back And Ahead

December 27, 2015 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter Black Lives Matter (BLM), Climate Change, Elections, Local Economy, New Economy, Podemos, Racism, TPP, Venezuela

By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese for Popular Resistance. As we look back over 2015, we see progress and, as we look forward to 2016, we see continued challenges ahead. Overall, the strategic path of resisting harmful policies and practices and building alternative systems to replace the current dysfunctional ones, known as 'stop the machine, create a new world,' is being taken by a growing number of people. The movement continues to grow on multiple fronts and is unifying around issues, like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) that impact us all. We are on our way to the 3.5% of activated people necessary to defeat the plutocracy, but there is still much to do. And we must be prepared to face even more difficult times before we break through the current paradigm and transform our economic, social and political systems.

Views Not Represented: The Invisible Jungle Of Calais

December 27, 2015 Cherri Foytlin, www.bridgethegulfproject.org Educate! Climate Change, Refugees, Wars and Militarism

By Cherri Foytlin for Bridge the Gulf. Over 7,000 people from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Ethiopia and Eritrea, live in the now 15-year-old encampment. The asylum seekers usually stay for several months while trying to relocate to a new home somewhere in the world. In The Jungle, most are trying desperately to reach England, where it is rumored that applications are processed faster and work is more easily available. Calais is the closest point to that destination. Many are killed along the way. I submit to you below my testimony as a witness to what I learned during my visit. Many of the residents of the Jungle had promising careers in their homelands. Walking around the camp, we spoke with a dentist, a physicist, two attorneys, a professor, a nutritionist, and an artist, among other professionals. Mehti, who we met while helping in the kitchen, had been a music producer in Iraq. When we began to talk, he started by apologizing for his English, which was actually quite good. The soft-spoken and handsome 25-year-old told us of his enjoyment of music and of his hope to join his brother soon. He expressed his appreciation of reading, and how doing so helped him with his English. Unfortunately, he had no books, so a friend of ours – the artist - gave him the one she had carried with her to the camp.

Huge Gas Leak Undermines California’s Climate Change Plans

December 27, 2015 Pete Spotts, www.csmonitor.com Educate! California, Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Gas

By Pete Spotts for the Christian Science Monitor. A two-month-long natural gas leak that has caused local evacuations and Federal Aviation Administration flight restrictions in southern California is highlighting the need to better control methane emissions from United States oil and gas production and storage. On Oct. 23, Southern California Gas Company discovered the leak from a storage well at the utility's Aliso Canyon facility in the Santa Susana Mountains at the northwestern end of the San Fernando Valley. At its peak in late November, the leak from the fifth-largest underground gas storage facility in the US was releasing 58 metric tons of methane an hour, according to preliminary estimates from the California Air Resources Board. By mid-December, the release had eased to 36 metric tons an hour. Although methane is lighter than air, winds in the area can move some of the gas downhill into populated areas. Residents have reported illnesses, and the leak has triggered an exodus from the community of Porter Ranch, about 1,200 feet below the site and roughly a mile away. So far, Southern California Gas has relocated more than 2,000 families from Porter Ranch, with another 2,600 reportedly awaiting help relocation help from the company. The effect of the leak on the state's greenhouse-gas emissions is comparable to adding 7 million cars to the road.

17 Of The Worst Corporate Crimes In 2015

December 27, 2015 Phil Mattera, www.DirtDiggersDigest.org Educate! Big Banks, Big Pharma, Bribery, Climate Change, Corporate crime, Finance, Food and Agriculture, Oceans, Oil and Gas, pollution, Wage Theft, Workplace hazards

By Phil Mattera for Dirt Diggers Digest. The ongoing corporate crime wave showed no signs of abating in 2015. BP paid a record $20 billion to settle the remaining civil charges relating to the Deepwater Horizon disaster (on top of the $4 billion in previous criminal penalties), and Volkswagen is facing perhaps even greater liability in connection with its scheme to evade emission standards. Other automakers and suppliers were hit with large penalties for safety violations, including a $900 million fine (and deferred criminal prosecution) for General Motors, a record civil penalty of $200 million for Japanese airbag maker Takata, penalties of $105 million and $70 million for Fiat Chrysler, and $70 million for Honda. Major banks continued to pay large penalties to resolve a variety of legal entanglements. Five banks (Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland and UBS) had to pay a total of $2.5 billion to the Justice Department and $1.8 billion to the Federal Reserve in connection with charges that they conspired to manipulate foreign exchange markets.

Bye Bye To Shell’s Polar Pioneer

December 27, 2015 John Servais, www.nwcitizen.com Resist! Arctic drilling, Climate Change, Environment, Oil and Gas, Shell Oil

By John Servais for Northwest Citizen. Merry Christmas and Seasons' Greetings. The Grinch has left the building. We can all breath a bit easier. The huge Shell Oil floating drill platform is - as I write this - going west out the Straits of Georgia, leaving us for good at a speed of 11 mph. Bye bye. The Port Angeles newspaper, the Peninsula Daily News, has been watching and reporting on the oil rig for the past week and you can read the full story there. There are links to the specific articles below this post. The photo above shows actually two vessels - the yellow legged Shell drilling rig Polar Pioneer that normally floats and is towed by tugs - and the Dockwise Vanguard, one of the largest vessels in the world that is carrying the drilling rig.

The Climate Movement Is Dead: A Report Back From COP21

December 25, 2015 Ducky Slowcode, www.medium.com Strategize! Climate Change, Climate Justice, COP21

By Ducky Slowcode for Medium. The climate talks, as to be expected, were a total failure. Negotiations were held up in large part by the United States and Saudi Arabia, both of which have a vested interest in the continuation of our global addiction to fossil fuels. Saudi Arabia in particular has a history of working to water down or entirely dissolve global climate talks in an attempt to maintain its standing as one of the top oil-producing countries in the world. Likewise, the USA, whose military is the single largest emissions producer in the world and an intimidating global presence, and whose rich history of human rights violations would entirely derail this article were I to get into them, stood to lose a lot in the negotiations, and fought to remove human rights provisions from the finalized agreements. The finished product has the member nations agreeing to hold global temperature increase to “2°C…and efforts to limit…to 1.5°C”, but provides no measures for accountability to this figure. Rather, the agreement holds member nations to a “facilitative, non-intrusive, non-punitive” framework. This is not the climate policy we need from global “leaders”, but I can’t say I’m surprised.

NY: Santa, Grinch And Elves Blockade Crestwood Gas Storage

December 23, 2015 Staff, www.wearesenecalake.com Resist! Clean Energy, Climate Change, New York (NY), Protests

By Staff of We Are Seneca Lake - December 21, 2015 – Watkins Glen, NY – The Grinch, Santa, and his elves took a short break from their Christmas preparations today to visit the gates of the Crestwood gas storage facility to warn the company that Santa—and the world—is watching. His elves and local friends held signs saying, “Dirty energy = naughty, clean renewables = nice” and “Here comes the sun, go solar!” Santa and twelve others, including the Grinch, were arrested for disorderly conduct while stopping a truck pulling construction equipment. Their message: there’s still time to get on Santa’s “nice” list.

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