Climate Change

Climate Change On Trial: Can The Courts Save The Planet?

December 25, 2019 Who. What. Why. Resist! Climate Change, Courts, Youth Activism

Can ordinary citizens use the courts to force their leaders to fight climate change? In the most revolutionary climate ruling to date, the Supreme Court of the Netherlands delivered an emphatic “yes” on December 20, upholding a court order forcing the Dutch government to cut national carbon emissions. In the wake of the decision, a group of children and young people in the US is hoping to gain traction in a similar legal battle (Juliana v. United States) as they claim the right to live in the same climate as previous generations.

Every Country Can Have A Green New Deal

December 25, 2019 Phys.org Create! Clean Energy, Climate Change

Ten years after the publication of their first plan for powering the world with wind, water, and solar, researchers offer an updated vision of the steps that 143 countries around the world can take to attain 100% clean, renewable energy by the year 2050. The new roadmaps, publishing December 20 in the journal One Earth, follow up on previous work that formed the basis for the energy portion of the U.S. Green New Deal and other state, city, and business commitments to 100% clean, renewable energy around the globe—and use the latest energy data available in each country to offer more precise guidance on how to reach those commitments.

Chile’s Warning To The World + The Untold Story Of Fracking

December 19, 2019 Eleanor Goldfield, Act Out! Resistance Report Chile, Climate Change, Fracking

COP 25 is over and the people have spoken – from Chile to Madrid, largely indigenous-led protests are highlighting the uselessness of these climate summits and the danger of falling for greenwashed false solutions in the age of climate chaos. Next, you've likely heard of fracking, but do you know about frac sand mining? Ted Auch from Frac Tracker takes us into this seldom-discussed world of environmental destruction.

Earth’s Hottest Decade On Record Marked By Extreme Storms, Deadly Wildfires

December 19, 2019 Bob Berwyn, Inside Climate News Educate! Climate Change, Global Warming, Wildfires

Deadly heat waves, wildfires and widespread flooding punctuated a decade of climate extremes that, by many scientific accounts, show global warming kicking into overdrive. As the year drew to a close, scientists were confidently saying 2019 was Earth's second-warmest recorded year on record, capping the warmest decade. Eight of the 10 warmest years since measurements began occurred this decade, and the other two were only a few years earlier. Arctic sea ice melted faster and took longer to form again in the fall.

COP25 Climate Summit Ends In ‘Staggering Failure Of Leadership’

December 16, 2019 By Adam Vaughan, Newscientist.com Educate! Climate Change, COP25, Reform

The UK faces the task of breaking the deadlock on international climate negotiations next year, after the COP25 talks ended in Madrid yesterday with no new ambition and little progress. The meeting overran to become the longest climate summit yet as delegates from nearly 200 countries struggled to reach agreement on key issues on the framework underpinning the Paris climate deal. Drawing up rules on a carbon market between countries has been deferred until next year, when the UK hosts a landmark climate summit in Glasgow.

Last Remaining Glaciers In The Pacific Will Soon Melt Away

December 16, 2019 Staff, Sciencedaily.com Educate! Climate Change, Global Warming

The last remaining tropical glaciers between the Himalayas and the Andes will disappear in the next decade -- and possibly sooner -- due to climate change, a new study has found. The glaciers in Papua, Indonesia, are "the canaries in the coal mine" for other mountaintop glaciers around the world, said Lonnie Thompson, one of the senior authors of the study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "These will be the first to disappear; the others will certainly follow," said Thompson...

Climate Models Got It Right On Global Warming

December 16, 2019 By Chelsea Harvey, Scientificamerican.com Educate! Climate Change, Climate Science, Global Warming, greenhouse gases

There’s a favorite argument among doubters of mainstream climate science: Climate models overestimate the rate at which the Earth is warming. That claim surfaces time and again and is frequently based on single examples of uncertainty or cherry-picked data. Various studies have gone back and closely examined individual climate models in recent years and have generally found that they’re working pretty well. A study released yesterday has taken the exercise to the next level. The research takes a comprehensive look at all the global climate models published from the 1970s to 2007...

The U.S. And Other Rich Countries Stonewalled $300 Billion Climate Relief Fund

December 14, 2019 By Christine MacDonald, Inthesetimes.com Resist! Climate Change, Reform

MADRID—With climate-related disasters happening “at the rate of one a week,” according to the United Nations, more than 150 civil society organizations around the world are using the UN climate negotiations this week to stand with the Global South. They are pushing for demands set out in an open letter to negotiators in November, including a new global climate fund to aid poor countries in the midst of climate catastrophes. The organizations say it’s about time for a rethink of climate financing as climate-related disasters like extreme storms...

Coal Resupply Train Blockaded In Two States

December 13, 2019 By Jay O'Hara, Climatedisobedience.org Resist! Blockades, Climate Change, Coal

This weekend across two states, a community of climate activists stopped 10,000 tons of coal in its tracks in three successive train blockades. This is the next step in a campaign that started in August to shut down the Merrimack Generating Station in Bow, New Hampshire - the last large coal-fired power plant in New England without a shut-down date. There is no justification for burning coal in 2019: it’s far too late for that. And taking responsibility in 2019 means taking action.

‘We Are Unstoppable, Another World Is Possible!’: Young Climate Activists Storm COP 25 Stage

December 12, 2019 By Andrea Germanos, Commondreams.org Resist! Climate Change, Protests, Youth

Protesters with Fridays for Future demand world leaders at the global climate summit urgent address the planetary emergency. Young activists took over and occupied the main stage at the COP 25 climate conference in Madrid, Spain Wednesday and demanded world leaders commit to far more ambitious action to address the ecological emergency. "Nobody has ever done an action like this before," said youth climate striker Dylan Hamilton of Scotland, "the times are changing."

What It Pays To Starve The People + German Reflections

December 12, 2019 Eleanor Goldfield, Occupy.com Resistance Report Climate Change, Germany, Hunger

There's only so much you can take from someone. And with the recent plans to starve some 700,000 Americans, we may have reached that threshold. We dive to the bottom line to uncover the real impetus behind such legislation and the horrifying ways in which we spend money that could - and should – go to we the people. Next up, We don't shut up, we shut down – a message, parallels and lessons from a recent climate court case in Germany

Generation Z Ranks Climate Change Highest As Vital Issue Of Our Time In Amnesty International Survey

December 12, 2019 Staff, Amnestyusa.org Educate! Climate Change, Youth

Climate change leads as one of the most important issues facing the world, according to a major new survey of young people published by Amnesty International today to mark Human Rights Day. With the findings published as governments meet in Spain for the UN Climate Change Conference, the organization warns that world leaders’ failure to address the climate change crisis has left them out of step with young people.

The Centuries-Long History Of Extractive Greed

December 10, 2019 By Josue De Luna Navarro, Inequality.org Educate! Capitalism, Climate Change, History, Indigenous Peoples

Two years after spilling 407,000 gallons of oil in South Dakota, the Keystone Pipeline erupted again. In November, a North Dakota portion of the pipeline leaked another 380,000 gallons – adding to the millions of gallons of crude oil that have spilled from pipelines over the last decade, as Undark has reported. As the climate crisis worsens, the fossil fuel industry has clearly messaged its apathy by continuing to pollute the planet. But these horrific leaks aren’t simply one-off “incidents.” They reveal a long history of oppression on communities of color and the planet.

The #ClimatePresident Action Plan: 10 Steps For The Next Administration’s First 10 Days

December 10, 2019 Staff, Climatepresident.org Create! Climate Change, Electoral Politics, Reform

This step will communicate the urgency of the climate crisis and unlock specific statutory powers to help accomplish the necessary response. Reinstate the crude oil export ban and promote rapid clean energy development per emergency powers; all other actions in this plan can be accomplished under the President's regular executive powers. Direct relevant federal agencies to reverse all Trump administration executive climate rollbacks and replace with sufficiently strong action as described below.

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