Global Warming and the Ozone Layer: What's More Dangerous, CO2 or Nuclear War?
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-27
Prof. Max Gluckman (1911-1975) showed how ritualized forms of rebellion against those in power "through a controlled expression of hostility" ultimately leads to the reinforcement of the established structures of authority. Is that not what is happening today? The movement against capitalism is funded and supported by capitalism.
globalresearch.ca/global-warming-and-the-ozone-layer-whats-more-dangerous-co2-or-nuclear-war/5690216
We're Still Waiting for 'Early and Often' Climate Debate Questions
Julie Hollar | fair.org | 2019-11-27
As the Democratic Party prepared for its first presidential primary debates in June, climate activists pushed the DNC to schedule a single-issue debate on the climate crisis, given the urgency of the problem and the lack of attention given to it in previous debates. DNC chair Tom Perez refused, saying he had "the utmost confidence" that climate disruption would be discussed in the debates "early and often" (FAIR.org, 6/18/19). | Now that seven nights of debates have passed, and multiple…
fair.org/home/were-still-waiting-for-early-and-often-climate-debate-questions/
How Empowering Women and Girls Can Help Solve the Climate Crisis
Jimmy Carter, Karin D. Ryan | commondreams.org | 2019-11-27
Making sure girls receive equal access to education and professional opportunities will unleash the untapped creativity that could produce needed breakthroughs. (Photo: Greenpeace) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/greenpeace_0.jpeg …
commondreams.org/views/2019/11/27/how-empowering-women-and-girls-can-help-solve-climate-crisis?cd-origin=rss
Polar Bears in Arctic Forced to Feed on Plastic
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-27
A quarter of what polar bears eat is made up of plastic waste, Russian scientist Ivan Mizin warned Tuesday as the animals are more frequently approaching human settlements due to the climate crisis. | RELATED: | How Taricaya Turtles Try To Save the Amazon | "When polar bears visit landfills, up to 25 percent of their stomach and excrement contents is [made up of] various plastic waste: bags, wrappers, etc," Mizin told Russian news agency Interfax. | The expert explained polar bears have been for…
telesurenglish.net/news/Polar-Bears-in-Arctic-Forced-to-Feed-on-Plastic-20191127-0013.html
Oil and gas industry rebukes fracking ban talk as UN shows just how much fossil fuel plans are screwing climate limits
Dana Drugmand | nationofchange.org | 2019-11-27
"The time to begin planning for a wind-down of gas production is, as with other fossil fuels, already upon us."
nationofchange.org/2019/11/27/oil-and-gas-industry-rebukes-fracking-ban-talk-as-un-shows-just-how-much-fossil-fuel-plans-are-screwing-climate-limits/
National Climate Strike & March for Green New Deal (San Francisco)
Youth VS. Apocalypse, 350 | indybay.org | 2019-11-27
BlackRock HQ, 400 Howard St, San Francisco, CA 94105…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/25/18828413.php
Australian bushfire crisis spreads as PM denies climate change link
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-11-27
Even before summer has begun, bushfires and toxic smoke have threatened the lives, health and homes of millions of people in nearly every Australian state and territory this week. The fire emergencies that first erupted two weeks ago in two states have spread across the country, worsened by dust storms, asthma alerts and electricity blackouts. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/11/26/australian-bushfire-crisis-spreads-as-pm-denies-climate-change-link/
Meet the Men Fueling the Climate Crisis
Ben Ehrenreich | thenation.com | 2019-11-27
Meet the Men Fueling the Climate Crisis…
thenation.com/article/climate-criminals/
National Climate Strike in Oakland
Youth vs. Apocalypse and others | indybay.org | 2019-11-27
Oakland City Hall, 1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Oakland, CA, 94612…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/25/18828415.php
Midwest Dispatch: Trying to Feel Thankful in the Era of Climate Change
Sarah Lahm | progressive.org | 2019-11-27
Recent headlines have been poking holes in any feelings of joy or gratitude I've had regarding the upcoming holiday.
progressive.org/dispatches/trying-to-feel-thankful-in-the-era-of-climate-change-lahm-191127/
National Climate Strike at UC Davis
Sunrise Movement Davis | indybay.org | 2019-11-27
UC Davis Quad, 1 Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/27/18828438.php
Establishing Fossil-fuel Free (FFF) Communities
Emanuel Pastreich | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-27
The response to the increasing awareness of the threat of continuing a fossil-fuel driven growth and consumption economic model is a ruthless effort to block out serious reporting on climate change in the media and to downplay is seriousness …
globalresearch.ca/establishing-fossil-fuel-free-fff-communities/5695767
National Climate Strike in San Rafael
350Marin, Sierra Club, and others | indybay.org | 2019-11-27
San Rafael City Plaza, 1000 4th Street, San Rafael, CA 94960…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/27/18828431.php
National Climate Strike: Die-ins, March, Vigil in Santa Rosa
Sonoma County Sunrise Hub | indybay.org | 2019-11-27
Old Courthouse Square, 3rd & Santa Rosa Ave and 4th & Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, CA 95404…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/27/18828435.php
UC Berkeley Climate Strike: UC Green New Deal
Students For Climate Action | indybay.org | 2019-11-27
Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley, Bancroft Way, Berkeley, California 94720…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/25/18828407.php
UN report calls for "radical transformations" to avert global climate catastrophe
wsws.org | 2019-11-27
Rising global greenhouse gas emissions demonstrate the inability to address climate change under capitalism.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/27/clim-n27.html
National Climate Strike in Sonoma
Sonoma High School Earth Club | indybay.org | 2019-11-27
Sonoma Plaza, 453 1st St E, Sonoma, CA 95476…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/27/18828437.php
National Climate Strike in Palo Alto
350 Silicon Valley | indybay.org | 2019-11-27
Lytton Plaza, intersection of University Ave & Emerson Street, Palo Alto 94301…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/25/18828414.php
National Climate Strike in San Ramon
Sunrise Movement San Ramon | indybay.org | 2019-11-27
Tri Valley area: San Ramon City Hall, 7000 Bollinger Canyon Rd, San Ramon 94582…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/27/18828430.php
Black Friday Climate Strike at State Capitol Sacramento
Fridays For Future Sacramento | indybay.org | 2019-11-27
California State Capitol, North Steps, 1100 L Street, Sacramento , CA 95814…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/27/18828433.php
National Climate Strikes in Mill Valley
two events | indybay.org | 2019-11-27
11 AM @ Depot Plaza Mill Valley, 87 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley, CA 94941 | 3 PM @ The Redwoods Corner, Miller Ave & Camino Alto, Mill Valley, CA 94941…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/27/18828432.php
'The Law Is on Our Side': Extinction Rebellion Celebrates Dropped Charges Against 105 Climate Activists
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-11-27
Extinction Rebellion and its supporters celebrated Wednesday after the agency that conducts criminal prosecutions in England dropped charges against 105 activists who were arrested in London last month for participating in the environmental movement's "Autumn Uprising" actions. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-11761931601.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2019/11/27/law-our-side-extinction-rebellion-celebrates-dropped-charges-against-105-climate?cd-origin=rss
The 'Climate Crisis Is a Health Emergency': New Report Warns US Fracking Boom Making People and Planet Sick
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-11-27
"The actions we take now by extracting, transporting, and liquefying fracked gas will determine the health of generations to come." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/ban_fracking.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2019/11/27/climate-crisis-health-emergency-new-report-warns-us-fracking-boom-making-people-and?cd-origin=rss
'Not Enough to Declare Climate Emergency': Ahead of EU Vote, Demand for Action Not Just Words
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-11-27
Ahead of an expected vote Thursday by European Union lawmakers to declare "an environment and climate emergency in Europe and globally," green groups are emphasizing that the symbolic declaration must accompany ambitious action. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/screen_shot_2019-07-12_at_10.57.37_am_0.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2019/11/27/not-enough-declare-climate-emergency-ahead-eu-vote-demand-action-not-just-words?cd-origin=rss
School Strike 4 Climate WA: 'We are heading for a cliff and fossil fuel companies want to put their foot on the gas'
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2019-11-27
Climate School Strike 4 Climate WAIssue 1247 Australia School Strike 4 Climate PerthNovember 27, 2019School Strike 4 Climate WA sent the following letter to Western Australia Premier Mar…
greenleft.org.au/content/school-strike-4-climate-wa-we-are-heading-cliff-and-fossil-fuel-companies-want-put-their
Beijing says developed countries doing too little to curb global warming
rt.com | 2019-11-27
China on Wednesday accused developed countries, including the US, of doing too little to curb global warming, ahead of a UN summit discussing issues including climate compensation. | The world's second-largest economy and the biggest emitter of carbon dioxide, China, has repeatedly argued that developed nations should lead on tackling international climate obligations, AFP said. | "Developed countries' insufficient political will to provide support" is the biggest problem currently facing international climate efforts, said Vice Minister of Ecology and Environment Zhao Yingmin. | An environment ministry report…
rt.com/newsline/474497-china-developed-global-warming/
A Cattle Industry and Local Control Power Grab: Inside the Malheur Owyhee Public Lands Bill
Katie Fite | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-26
In early November, Oregon Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley introduced the Malheur County Empowerment for the Owyhee Act, an astonishingly awful public lands and wilderness Bill. It is aimed at enriching ranchers and other local interests. It is the Vale Project reborn from the weed wastelands and wildlife deserts that were generated by that…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/26/a-cattle-industry-and-local-control-power-grab-inside-the-malheur-owyhee-public-lands-bill/
UN emissions report: World on course for more than 3 degree spike, even if climate commitments are met
United Nations | news.un.org | 2019-11-26
Even if countries meet commitments made under the 2015 Paris Agreement, the world is heading for a 3.2 degrees Celsius global temperature rise over pre-industrial levels, leading to even wider-ranging and more destructive climate impacts, warns a report from the UN Environment Programme, released on Tuesday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/11/1052171
We're Grateful for the Constitution
David Cole | aclu.org | 2019-11-26
Thanksgiving is here: that time of year when we pause to take stock of all we're grateful for. At the ACLU, we're saying thanks for all the crucial wins from our legal teams — and for the Constitution. | In just the last few months, we've racked up many essential victories in the ongoing battle to protect civil liberties and civil rights. The scope of these victories is breathtaking: they span criminal justice, privacy, religious freedom, reproductive rights, due process for immigrants, racial justice, LGBTQ rights, and the right to protest the Keystone pipeline, among others. We've won crucial victories…
aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/were-grateful-for-the-constitution
Firefighters union leader: 'There are no climate sceptics on the end of a fire hose'
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2019-11-26
Climate Greg McConvilleIssue 1247 Australia bushfires United Firefighters Union (UFU) CanberraNovember 26, 2019United Firef…
greenleft.org.au/content/firefighters-union-leader-there-are-no-climate-sceptics-end-fire-hose
Fish addiction studies & Bob Dylan sculpture: Rand Paul exposes Feds' latest extravagant spending of US taxpayer millions
rt.com | 2019-11-26
The federal government is finding new and creative ways to spend US tax dollars, even as public debt soars into the trillions. Fiscal hawk Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) took aim at some of the most absurd programs out there. | Issued on Monday, the libertarian-leaning lawmaker's quarterly report on government waste tracks some of the more outrageous uses of federal cheese, totaling over $230 million, ranging from academic studies on drug-addicted fish to, well, literal cheese. |
rt.com/usa/474313-federal-spending-waste-rand-paul/
Make the world pay for it? 'Green New Deal' sponsor wants to sanction everyone for climate change 'crimes'
rt.com | 2019-11-26
Green New Deal sponsor Senator Ed Markey (D-Massachusetts) is seeking to expand US sanctions under the Global Magnitsky Act to foreign individuals and companies involved in "significant actions that exacerbate climate change." | While Democrats have denounced President Donald Trump's plan to build a wall on the southern US border and make Mexico pay for it, Markey's proposal seems to take that approach and apply it to the entire world, when US climate change efforts are concerned. | "As we fight to enact a Green New Deal here at home, we must use all of the tools or our foreign policy to change the behavior of…
rt.com/usa/474312-markey-climate-magnitsky-sanctions/
Monday's Daily Brief: Colombia marches, major mine action summit, violence against women a barrier to peace, South Sudan update
United Nations | news.un.org | 2019-11-25
A recap of Monday's stories in brief: ‚ÄØGuterres holds "focused and frank" informal talks over Cyprus, responds to Colombia protests; Violence targeting women impedes peace; UN Mission, community condemn South Sudan violence; UN weather watchdog sounds climate alarm; Norway hosts anti-landmine summit.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/11/1052161
Climate change: Another year of record gas emissions, warns UN meteorological agency
United Nations | news.un.org | 2019-11-25
Levels of the three main heat-trapping gases emitted into the atmosphere — carbon dioxide (CO2), methane, and nitrous oxide — have reached yet another high, the UN meteorological agency, WMO, said on Monday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/11/1052111
Police Raid Egypt's Last Independent News Outlet Mada Masr Amid "Increasingly Hostile" Media Climate
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-11-25
Egyptian security forces raided the office of Mada Masr, the country's last independent media outlet, and arrested three of its journalists this weekend. The raid began Sunday afternoon, when nine plainclothes security officers entered the Mada Masr office in Cairo, seizing phones and laptops and holding the staff in the building for more than three hours. They then arrested editor-in-chief Lina Attalah, managing editor Mohamed Hamama and reporter Rana Mamdouh. It came just a day after security forces arrested senior editor Shady Zalat at his home. All four journalists were released from detention Sunday night. T…
www.democracynow.org/2019/11/25/mada_masr_egypt_media_sharif_kouddous
Nine new titles for an ecosocialist bookshelf
Stuart Munckton | greenleft.org.au | 2019-11-25
books ecosocialism Ian AngusIssue 1247 Australia ecosocialist bookshelfNovember 25, 2019The red and green shelf is overflowing! Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus looks at nine important new books…
greenleft.org.au/content/nine-new-titles-ecosocialist-bookshelf
Fighting for social change in a time of climate crisis
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2019-11-22
Climate capitalism Jacob AndrewarthaIssue 1246 AustraliaNovember 22, 2019As the climate crisis pushes the planet past certain tipping points, inequality between the rich and the poor continues to grow. At the same time, we are also witnessing a resurgence in protests and…
greenleft.org.au/content/fighting-social-change-time-climate-crisis
Climate action: Why only the most radical approach will work
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2019-11-22
Climate Dave HolmesIssue 1246 AustraliaNovember 22, 2019The climate crisis is the greatest threat ever faced by humanity. The survival of the human race is at stake. The reality of the heating of the planet can no longer rationally be denied. | Carbon dioxide emissions continue to rise. The atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide is now ab…
greenleft.org.au/content/climate-action-why-only-most-radical-approach-will-work
We need a just climate transition
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2019-11-22
Climate Meghan StreetIssue 1246 AustraliaNovember 22, 2019The climate movement has to take up the issues of refugees, war and global inequality to ensure a just climate for all. | The climate crisis is generating instability and a scarcity of resources via rising sea levels and more intense and extreme weather events, such as floods, storm s…
greenleft.org.au/content/we-need-just-climate-transition
Unions campaign for a jobs-rich energy transition
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2019-11-22
Climate workers' rights Pip HinmanIssue 1246 AustraliaNovember 22, 2019Together with the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU), the Electrical Trades Union (ETU), the Gippsland Trades and Labour Council and the Victorian Trades Hall Council, the Maritime Union…
greenleft.org.au/content/unions-campaign-jobs-rich-energy-transition
Palestine is a climate justice issue – Israeli apartheid is not "green"
patrick | bdsmovement.net | 2019-11-20
Palestine is a climate justice issue – Israeli apartheid is not "green": Update Click to download and print this Fact Sheet.November 21, 2019 | By: | | Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) …
bdsmovement.net/news/palestine-climate-justice-issue-israeli-apartheid-not-green
Sanders' Plan to Fight Global Climate Disaster Too Ambitious, Says NYT
Julie Hollar | fair.org | 2019-11-20
When Sen. Bernie Sanders announced his $16.3 trillion climate plan, corporate media were quick to throw cold water on it, arguing that the Democratic presidential candidate's plan was too expensive, and logistically and politically impossible (FAIR.org, 9/6/19). As Sanders fleshed out his plan in more detail, the media pushback continued: "Sanders' Climate Ambitions Thrill Supporters, but Experts Aren't Impressed," annou…
fair.org/home/sanders-plan-to-fight-global-climate-disaster-too-ambitious-says-nyt/
What the Frack? New Mexico Wants to Recycle Radioactive Wastewater
Frances Madeson | progressive.org | 2019-11-19
The state's famous green chiles may be hot for a whole new reason.
progressive.org/dispatches/what-the-frack-new-mexico-recycle-radioactive-wastewater-madeson-191119/
Take Action — Some actual, SANE legislation
Jon Rainwater | peaceaction.org | 2019-11-07
Trump has plans to spend nearly $2 TRILLION over the next 30 years on unneeded and unnecessary nuclear weapons and delivery systems. This makes no sense. This is insane. That's nearly $100 million wasted every day for thirty years on weapons we are supposed to be getting rid of. To put that amount in perspective, …
peaceaction.org/2019/11/07/take-action-some-actual-sane-legislation/