Bayer/Monsanto Silencing Journalists, Activists, and Scientists
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-08-13
Investigative reporter Carey Gillam talks about Bayer/Monsanto's efforts to discredit her work and deflect criticism about cancer-causing glyphosate, a major ingredient in Roundup pesticide…
therealnews.com/stories/bayer-monsanto-silencing-journalists-activists-and-scientists

Climate Strike: Downtown Palo Alto
Peninsula Peace & Justice Center | indybay.org | 2019-08-13
Lytton Plaza, intersection of University Ave. & Emerson Street, Palo Alto 94301…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/12/18825432.php

The Biggest News of the 21st Century
James A Haught | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-13
What's the most significant occurrence so far in the 21st century? Worsening weather calamities caused by global warming? Endless suicide bombings and massacres by religious fanatics in the Islamic "cult of death"? Snowballing acceptance of gays as equal humans? Kakistocracy (government by the worst) under a ludicrous president who has told 10,000 countable lies? Recurring…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/13/the-biggest-news-of-the-21st-century/

Salmon advocates slam Trump rules slashing Endangered Species Act protections
Dan Bacher | indybay.org | 2019-08-13
"Here in California we're likely to see salmon, sturgeon, steelhead trout, wolves, wolverines, kit fox and many others all slide towards extinction as a result of today's action by the Trump White House," said John McManus, Executive Director of the Golden Gate Salmon Association.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/13/18825452.php

The Once Common Republican Environmentalist Is Virtually Extinct
John Nichols | thenation.com | 2019-08-13
The Once Common Republican Environmentalist Is Virtually Extinct…
thenation.com/article/republican-environmentalist-virtually-extinct/

Crisis, which crisis? climate change and capitalism
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-08-13
The essays compiled in this special issue of Key Words address the theme of crisis. But which crisis? | Source…
mronline.org/2019/08/13/crisis-which-crisis-climate-change-and-capitalism/

Educator Workshop: Climate Science & Solutions for K-12 Classrooms
Rahus-Solar Schoolhouse | indybay.org | 2019-08-13
Sebastopol Grange, 6000 Sebastopol Avenue, Sebastopol, CA 95472…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/12/18825429.php

Learning Walk: Redwoods & Climate Change at Henry Cowell State Park
Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks | indybay.org | 2019-08-13
Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, 101 N Big Trees Park Rd, Felton, CA…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/12/18825418.php

Mother Nature: A Drag Show for the Climate (San Francisco)
Sunrise Movement Bay Area | indybay.org | 2019-08-13
El Rio bar, 3158 Mission St, San Francisco, California 94110…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/12/18825426.php

MPs urge PM to remove barriers to new onshore wind schemes
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-08-13
Dozens of Tories are among more than 150 MPs who have signed a letter to the Prime Minister calling on him to remove barriers to new onshore wind farms. | The letter, co-ordinated by campaign groups 10: 10 Climate Action and Power for People, has been signed by 157 Members of Parliament, including 35 Conservatives, urging the Government to change course on onshore wind. | Boris Johnson has pledged to ensure the UK meets its recently agreed legal target to cut greenhouse gas emissions to "net zero" by 2050. | The letter from the cross-party group of MPs welcomed the pledge and said new onshore wind, which is effect…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2019/08/13/mps-urge-pm-to-remove-barriers-to-new-onshore-wind-schemes/

Climate Concert: It's Getting Hot in Here (And That's A Crisis) Fundraiser
PianoFight SF | indybay.org | 2019-08-13
PianoFight, 144 Taylor St, San Francisco, CA 94102…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/12/18825419.php

Climate Change Town Hall in Napa
Rep. Mike Thompson | indybay.org | 2019-08-13
Napa Valley Unified School District Auditorium,, 2425 Jefferson St…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/12/18825420.php

Film Screening: "Paris to Pittsburgh" Climate Change
LWVSC | indybay.org | 2019-08-13
Cambrian Branch Library Community Room | 1780 Hillsdale Ave, San Jose, CA 95124…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/12/18825428.php

Climate Fair: Take Action on Climate Change! (Los Gatos)
APJCC Los Gatos | indybay.org | 2019-08-13
Addison-Penzak Jewish Community Center | 14855 Oka Road, Suite 201, Los Gatos, CA 95032…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/12/18825416.php

Youth Empowerment Climate Dance "March"
2020 or Bust | indybay.org | 2019-08-13
San Jose's Municipal Rose Garden, Dana Ave & Naglee Ave, San Jose, CA 95112 | then Dance "March" to SAP's Arena Green West and back…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/12/18825425.php

Climate Politics Meetup hosted by Green Change (Mill Valley)
Green Change | indybay.org | 2019-08-13
Good Earth Natural Foods, 201 Flamingo Road, Mill Valley, CA 94941 | The classroom is next to UPS, in the south corner of the building.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/12/18825417.php

Climate Change Town Hall in Bencia
Rep. Mike Thompson | indybay.org | 2019-08-13
Benicia Senior Center, 187 E L St, Benicia, California 94510…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/12/18825427.php

How Climate Activists Can Benefit from Solidarity with Kentucky Coal Miners
Ryan Driskell Tate | progressive.org | 2019-08-12
As fossil-fuel workers lose their jobs today, the urgency of what climate activists call the "just transition" becomes all the more apparent.
progressive.org/dispatches/climate-activists-benefit-from-solidarity-with-coal-miners-tate-190812/

Hottest July on record signals accelerated climate change
wsws.org | 2019-08-12
Global warming is rapidly approaching the point of causing irreversible climate disruption, threatening human existence.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/12/heat-a12.html

Deniers deflated as climate reality hits home
David Suzuki | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-12
Climate science deniers are becoming desperate as their numbers diminish in the face of incontrovertible evidence that human-caused global warming is putting our future at risk. Although most people with basic education, common sense, and a lack of financial interest in the fossil fuel industry accept what scientists worldwide have proven through decades of research, some media outlets continue to publish inconsistent, incoherent opinions of people who reject climate science. | Over the past few weeks, Canada's Postmedia chain has run columns denying or downplaying the seriousness of climate change by Fraser I…
nationofchange.org/2019/08/12/deniers-deflated-as-climate-reality-hits-home/

Bayer Gets Help from Donald Trump as US Regulators Veto Warnings Its Roundup Weedkiller Causes Cancer
Theron Mohamed | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-12
Embattled Bayer is getting a helping hand from Donald Trump. | The German pharmaceuticals titan is currently inundated with lawsuits claiming Roundup, a weedkiller owned by its Monsanto subsidiary, causes cancer. The Trump administration is refusing to approve product labels …
globalresearch.ca/bayer-gets-help-donald-trump-us-regulators-veto-warnings-roundup-weedkiller-causes-cancer/5686208

Trump Administration Overhauls Endangered Species Protections
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-08-12
WASHINGTON–The Trump administration on Monday rolled out some of the broadest changes in decades to enforcement of the landmark Endangered Species Act, allowing the government to put an economic cost on saving a species and other changes critics contend could speed extinction for some struggling plants and animals. | Interior Secretary David Bernhardt and other administration officials contend the changes improve efficiency of oversight, while protecting rare species. | "The best way to uphold the Endangered Species Act is to do everything we…
truthdig.com/articles/trump-administration-overhauls-protections-for-endangered-species/

Trump Administration Exacerbates Extinction Crisis
commondreams.org | 2019-08-12
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commondreams.org/newswire/2019/08/12/trump-administration-exacerbates-extinction-crisis?cd-origin=rss

Trump Administration Weakens Protections for Threatened Species
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-12
The Trump Administration took steps on Monday to significantly weaken the U.S. Endangered Species Act, prompting state attorneys general and conservation groups to threaten legal action to protect at-risk species. | RELATED: | Save Nature to Save Ourselves, UN Report Pleads | The 1970s-era Act is credited with bringing back from the brink of extinction species such as bald eagles, gray whales and grizzly bears, setting limits for drilling and mining companies, and other industries with new lis…
telesurenglish.net/news/Trump-Administration-Weakens-Protections-for-Threatened-Species-20190812-0023.html

Trump Extinction Plan Guts Endangered Species Act
commondreams.org | 2019-08-12
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commondreams.org/newswire/2019/08/12/trump-extinction-plan-guts-endangered-species-act?cd-origin=rss

When Americans Act Like Millionaires
Paul Haeder | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-08-12
Words, and spin, and the Mad Men and Mad Women of this perverse consumerism and cultural wasteland tied to Predatory Capitalism, Celebrity Culture and Americans who have perpetual ennui because of their perpetual dumb-downing, perpetual swallow of exceptionism as a core value of the American Project To Take Over the World. So many, and they …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/08/when-americans-act-like-millionaires/

University bans beef burgers to do its part in the fight against climate chaos
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-08-12
Beef burgers have been banned by a university as part of efforts to tackle the climate emergency.Goldsmiths, University of London said it will remove all products containing beef from sale from next month as the institution aims to become carbon neutral by 2025.Students will also face a 10p levy on bottles of water and single-use plastic cups when the academic year starts to discourage use of the products.The college's new Warden, Prof Frances Corner, said staff and st…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2019/08/12/university-bans-beef-burgers-to-do-its-part-in-the-fight-against-climate-chaos/

Deniers Deflated as Climate Reality Hits Home
David Suzuki | commondreams.org | 2019-08-12
Those who continue to spread doubt and confusion about climate science are starting to look even more ridiculous with their many conflicting, insubstantial arguments. (Photo: dullhunk/flickr/cc) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/climate-deniers-deflated.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2019/08/12/deniers-deflated-climate-reality-hits-home?cd-origin=rss

"Empowering women and indigenous peoples" will help us more effectively combat climate change says UN report
Alexandra Jacobo | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-12
Recognizing indigenous lands rights and empowering women and indigenous communities is crucial if we are to fight climate change, says a new UN report released last week. | In the special report released by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), scientists call for policy changes in land use, farming, and eating habits in order to help cut emissions that are heavily contributing to the warming of the Earth. | The report calls for: "Policies that enable and incentivise sustainable land management for cli…
nationofchange.org/2019/08/12/empowering-women-and-indigenous-peoples-will-help-us-more-effectively-combat-climate-change-says-un-report/

Regenerative Agriculture Is Key for a Sustainable Climate and Food System
Kristin Ohlson | commondreams.org | 2019-08-12
Demonstrators spotlight the power of soil at a march in Oakland, California on November 21, 2015. (Photo: Peg Hunter/Flickr/cc) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/soilnotoil-a.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2019/08/12/regenerative-agriculture-key-sustainable-climate-and-food-system?cd-origin=rss

The Need for a Climate Action Plan That Puts Forests Front and Center Is Clearer Than Ever
Pablo Pacheco | commondreams.org | 2019-08-12
Forests are a key piece of the land and climate puzzle. (Photo: scott.zona/flickr/cc) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/forests-climate.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2019/08/12/need-climate-action-plan-puts-forests-front-and-center-clearer-ever?cd-origin=rss

Our Vanishing World: Rainforests
Robert J. Burrowes | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-12
Rainforests are a crucial feature of Earth's biosphere. Apart from being critical to Earth's climate and vital carbon sinks, the major player in Earth's hydrological (water) cycle, a massive producer of oxygen and home to most of the world's species, …
globalresearch.ca/our-vanishing-world-rainforests/5686159

Our Vanishing World: Rainforests
Robert J. Burrowes | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-08-12
Rainforests are a crucial feature of Earth's biosphere. Apart from being critical to Earth's climate and vital carbon sinks, the major player in Earth's hydrological (water) cycle, a massive producer of oxygen and home to most of the world's species, rainforests are the home of a large Indigenous human population. They are also the source …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/08/our-vanishing-world-rainforests/

Climate change reports warn of a world on the brink
wsws.org | 2019-08-12
The only solution to the climate change crisis lies in the struggle against capitalism.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/12/pers-a12.html

Global sea-level rise began accelerating '30 years earlier' than previously thought
Ayesha Tandon | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-12
The study, published in Nature Climate Change, introduces a new technique to more accurately determine historical global sea levels by combining two different statistical approaches. | It was found that the southern hemisphere, home to many developing small island nations, experienced the majority of the observed sea level rise, the lead author tells Carbon Brief. | The implication of this work is that ocean heat uptake will "likely increase again in the near future, further increasing the rate of current sea level rise", another scientist tells Carbon Brief. | Measuring our rising seas: | Global sea l…
nationofchange.org/2019/08/12/global-sea-level-rise-began-accelerating-30-years-earlier-than-previously-thought/

In First-of-Its-Kind Survey, Greenlanders Report Fear and Anxiety Over Effects of Climate Crisis
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-08-12
Although Greenland's proximity to the Arctic Circle means scientists pay close attention to changes in sea ice and temperatures in the island country, few have remarked on the effects of the climate crisis on the 56,000 people who live there—until now. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/5517455866_2a8e45dcd6_o11.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2019/08/12/first-its-kind-survey-greenlanders-report-fear-and-anxiety-over-effects-climate?cd-origin=rss

FROM THE FIELD: 'Eco-warriors' fight climate change in South Africa
United Nations | un.org | 2019-08-11
Schools in South Africa have been designating students as "eco-warriors" as part of an initiative supported by the UN Development Programme (UNDP), to drive environmental and climate change awareness amongst the young and old in their communities.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/08/1044101

Is 'political correctness' threatening freedom of speech?
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2019-08-10
"As a result of the cultural-left's long march through the institutions … political correctness involving identity politics, privileging victimhood and virtue signalling dominate public policy and debate", whined Kevin Donnelly, Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Catholic University, in the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH). | "Like never before Free Speech is facing extinction in Australia", exclaimed conservative activist group Advance Australia…
greenleft.org.au/content/political-correctness-threatening-freedom-speech

New IPCC Report Warns of Vicious Cycle Between Soil Degradation and Climate Change
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-08-09
Greenpeace's Diana Ruiz discusses the new IPCC Climate report, "Climate Change and Land," which issues a dire warning about how climate change and destructive land use reinforce each other, leading to serious threats for human survival…
therealnews.com/stories/new-ipcc-report-warns-of-vicious-cycle-between-soil-degradation-and-climate-change

Socialist seminar discusses anti-capitalist solutions
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-08-09
Socialism. Today. was the theme of a lively day-long seminar about critical issues facing the movements for social and ecological change, hosted by the Socialist Alliance on August 4. | Extinction Rebellion and Student Strike 4 Climate activist Parker Craig said support for the September 20 student climate strike is growing, despite attempts by some school authorities to stifle it. | Maritime Union of Australia activist and author Penny McCall Howard said the recent student climate strikes had helped shift politics, including in the union movement. | She said: "We now face the task of building a class-conscious e…
greenleft.org.au/content/socialist-seminar-discusses-anti-capitalist-solutions

Documents Reveal Monsanto Surveilled Journalists, Activists & Even Musician Neil Young
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-08-09
Explosive new documents reveal the U.S. agribusiness giant Monsanto ran a "fusion center" to surveil and discredit journalists and activists who criticized or wrote damning reports about Monsanto, as well as legendary singer-songwriter Neil Young, who released an album in 2015 called "The Monsanto Years." Monsanto monitored Young's Twitter activity and even analyzed the lyrics of his album. The fusion center also surveilled journalist Carey Gillam, who has done extensive research and writing about Monsanto and its popular pesticide Roundup, which has been linked to cancer. The corporation also targeted the nonpro…
www.democracynow.org/2019/8/9/monsanto_fusion_center_surveillance_of_critics

Supersizing Climate Change: U.N. Says Meat Production Destroys Land & Diminishes Key Water Sources
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-08-09
The United Nations' top panel of climate scientists warns that humans are consuming land and water resources at an unprecedented rate, with the destructive effects of the climate crisis increasingly threatening the planet's biodiversity and the food security of hundreds of millions of people. In its latest climate change and land special report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that without dramatic action, extreme weather and rising temperatures will turn even more fertile land into desert, shrinking the global food supply, even as the world's population rises to more than 7.5 billion people.
www.democracynow.org/2019/8/9/ipcc_report_climate_change_and_land

Tell Greyhound: Keep ICE and CPB cops off buses!
Makasi Motema | workers.org | 2019-08-08
The state is waging war on migrants and refugees. As they flee from violence, political instability and the growing climate crisis, the U.S. is doubling down on a cruel, white supremacist policy of exclusion. Immigration and Custom Enforcement and Customs and Border Patrol agents are rounding up migrants, placing them . . . | Continue reading Tell Greyhound: Keep ICE and CPB cops off buses! at Workers.org…
workers.org/2019/08/08/tell-greyhound-keep-ice-and-cpb-cops-off-buses/

Thursday's Daily Brief: Climate crisis and food risks, fresh violence threat for millions of Syrians, calls for calm in Kashmir
United Nations | un.org | 2019-08-08
Thursday's top stories: food security risk from climate crisis, fresh violence threat for millions of Syrians, UN chief urges "maximum restraint" in Jammu and Kashmir, calls for investigations into "brutal abduction" of Libyan politician.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/08/1043971

World food security increasingly at risk due to 'unprecedented' climate change impact, new UN report warns
United Nations | un.org | 2019-08-08
More than 500 million people today live in areas affected by erosion linked to climate change, the UN warned on Thursday, before urging all countries to commit to sustainable land use to help limit greenhouse gas emissions before it is too late.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/08/1043921

We Must Change Land Use to Save Humanity
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-08-08
What you need to know about the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's new Special Report…
therealnews.com/stories/we-must-change-land-use-to-save-humanity

California Legislature Climate Watchdog Committee Has Little Bite
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-08-07
The California Legislature's Joint Committee on Climate Change Policies was formed in 2016 as a watchdog on state climate policy. But activists say that, so far, it has failed to live up to its potential.
therealnews.com/columns/california-legislature-climate-watchdog-committee-has-little-bite

Climate Change Is a Key Issue for a Growing Number of Young Republicans
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-08-07
Republican strategists know the party will need to shift its climate platform to retain young voters, but federal Republican officials haven't caught up to the new trend, says The New York Times' Lisa Friedman…
therealnews.com/stories/climate-change-is-a-key-issue-for-a-growing-number-of-young-republicans

Puerto Rico in Political Crisis: Senate Sues over Appointment of New Governor Pierluisi
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-08-06
The political crisis in Puerto Rico continues as its Senate has sued against the appointment of Pedro Pierluisi as the new governor following Ricardo Rosselló's resignation last week. Pierluisi was sworn in despite not having been confirmed by the Puerto Rican Senate. But he argues that he is in the line of succession for governor after being nominated as secretary of state by Rosselló last week. San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz also sued after his swearing-in. We speak with Democracy Now! co-host Juan González for his analysis of the current political climate.
www.democracynow.org/2019/8/6/juan_gonzalez_puerto_rico_pedro_pierluisi

Climate System "Getting Unhinged" as Massive Heat Wave Causes Record Melting of Greenland Ice Sheet
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-08-02
The massive heat dome that shattered all-time temperature records across much of Europe last week has settled in over Greenland, driving temperatures across the vast region to as much as 30 degrees Fahrenheit above normal. In July, Greenland's ice sheet lost 197 billion tons of ice, the equivalent of around 80 million Olympic swimming pools. This comes as the World Meteorological Organization said Thursday that July was the warmest month in recorded human history. It followed the hottest June on record, as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels climbed to a record high of 415 parts per million earlier this year. We sp…
www.democracynow.org/2019/8/2/greenland_melting_climate_crisis_jason_box