Naomi Klein: Climate Solutions That Neglect Inequality Are Doomed to Fail
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-06
California has warmed by approximately 3 degrees Fahrenheit (3 ∞F) over the last century. Heat waves are more common and increase the risk of wildfires in the state. What does climate justice look like, therefore, and for whom? Will cities grappling with environmental disasters consider the racial and economic inequalities that intersect with climate change action? Author and activist Naomi Klein has a few thoughts. | Laura Flanders: It's been a year since the Camp Fire. You went back th…
truthout.org/articles/naomi-klein-climate-solutions-that-neglect-inequality-are-doomed-to-fail/

We're saved! Golden Globes serving plant-based meals to 'send a signal' about climate change
rt.com | 2020-01-06
The Golden Globes will be serving its first exclusively vegan menu at its ceremony on Sunday night, and many are wondering if it's another empty, virtue-signaling move from the limousine and private jet loving stars. | The goal of serving an en vogue meatless menu to guests before the televised ceremony is to "send a signal" about the potential dangers of climate change. | "If there's a way we can, not change the world, but save the planet, maybe we can get the Golden Globes to send a signal and draw attention to the issue about climate change," Hollywood Foreign Press Association president Lorenzo Soria said…
rt.com/usa/477538-golden-globes-climate-change/

Is California's Climate Progress Going Up in Smoke?
Climate One | indybay.org | 2020-01-06
The Commonwealth Club, 110 The Embarcadero, Taube Family Auditorium, San Francisco 94105…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/04/18829430.php

After another weekend of devastation, Australia faces weeks more of unprecedented fires
wsws.org | 2020-01-06
A discernable shift is underway in how masses of people view the political parties and institutions that have downplayed or denied the reality of climate change.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/06/fire-j06.html

Australia's climate change-denying prime minister tries to dodge blame for fires
Morning Star | peoplesworld.org | 2020-01-06
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison insisted that "blame doesn't help anybody" on Sunday among increasing uproar over Australia's apocalyptic wildfire outbreak. "Now is the time to focus on the response," he said. "Overanalysis of these things is not a productive exercise." Morrison also denied that his government had not acknowledged the link between climate change …
peoplesworld.org/article/australias-climate-change-denying-prime-minister-tries-to-dodge-blame-for-fires/

CA District 13 Senate Race: Candidates Forum on Climate & Environment
Citizens Climate Lobby and others | indybay.org | 2020-01-06
Menlo-Atherton High School Theatre, 555 Middlefield Road, Atherton, CA 94027…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/04/18829429.php

'We Have to Bust In and Insist That Power Be Shared in a Different Kind of Way' – Best of CounterSpin 2019
Janine Jackson | fair.org | 2020-01-05
The December 27, 2019, episode of CounterSpin was the Best of CounterSpin 2019–featuring excerpts of Janine Jackson's interviews with Carey Gillam on Monsanto's manipulation of science, Arun Gupta on normalizing concentration camps, Sasha Abramsky on…
fair.org/home/we-have-to-bust-in-and-insist-that-power-be-shared-in-a-different-kind-of-way/

Australia: Climate change and the bushfire crisis
wsws.org | 2020-01-04
"Long-term climate change in Australia is an undeniable reality."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/04/clim-j04.html

Ruling class bereft of answers while catastrophic fires escalate across Australia
wsws.org | 2020-01-04
The criminal indifference of the Australian ruling elite to the threat of climate change has its parallels around the world.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/04/fire-j04.html

'This country is a tinderbox': Australia braces for more devastation as gov't denies climate crisis
Amy Goodman | nationofchange.org | 2020-01-04
As thousands of evacuees fled to the beaches, conservative Prime Minister Scott Morrison is facing growing outrage for his inaction on climate and close ties with the coal industry.
nationofchange.org/2020/01/04/this-country-is-a-tinderbox-australia-braces-for-more-devastation-as-govt-denies-climate-crisis/

Russian pranksters strike again: Fake Greta Thunberg convinces eager US politician that she has dirt on Trump
rt.com | 2020-01-03
US Congresswoman Maxine Waters has allegedly fallen for a prank call in which she thought activist Greta Thunberg was offering her a tape of Donald Trump confessing to pressuring Ukraine into investigating his political rivals. | YouTube pranksters Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexey Stolyarov, who go by the names Vovan and Lexus, are claiming they tricked Waters (Dem-Calif.) into thinking she was speaking to teen climate change activist Greta Thunberg. | Vovan and Lexus made names for themselves by previously pranking Congressman Adam Schiff (Dem-Calif.) into thinking there were nude photos of US President Donald T…
rt.com/usa/477425-maxine-waters-greta-prank/

Read All About It!
Peter Kuper | thenation.com | 2020-01-03
Newsflash: The climate crisis is upon us.
thenation.com/article/read-all-about-it/

"This Country Is a Tinderbox": Australia Braces for More Devastation as Gov't Denies Climate Crisis
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-01-03
Australia is bracing for what is expected to be the worst weekend yet in an already devastating climate-fueled wildfire season that has ravaged the southeastern part of the country, killed at least 18 people and nearly half a billion animals, and destroyed 14.5 million acres of land. As thousands of evacuees fled to the beaches, conservative Prime Minister Scott Morrison is facing growing outrage for his inaction on climate and close ties with the coal industry. As fires blazed in December, the prime minister went on a holiday to Hawaii. He told reporters this week that fighting the fires — not climate chan…
www.democracynow.org/2020/1/3/this_country_is_a_tinderbox_australia

Australia Wildfire Coverage Is Long on Koalas, Short on Causes
Neil deMause | fair.org | 2020-01-03
by Neil deMause Fires making their own weather are interesting (The Hill, 12/30/19)–but not as important as humans making their own climate. | If you've only been following the bushfires ravaging Australia through the headlines popping up on your social media feeds — which, let's face it, is more popular than reading newspapers these days [md…
fair.org/home/australia-wildfire-coverage-is-long-on-koalas-short-on-causes/

Greta Thunberg, Eco-Warrior
Béatrice Coron | thenation.com | 2020-01-02
We have our work cut out for us.
thenation.com/article/greta-thunberg-eco-warrior/

2019: The UN News year in photos
news.un.org | 2019-12-31
From sustainable development to economic development, and human rights to humanitarian aid, UN News provides daily coverage across all of the Organization's key issues — health, migration, climate change and so much…
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/12/1054401

Fossil Fuel Industry Shifts from Climate Denial to "Youthwashing"
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-12-31
For decades, the fossil fuel industry funded climate change denial campaigns aimed toward young people to sow seeds of doubt on climate science. As the climate crisis has worsened, it has made a subtle shift to what critics call "youthwashing.".
therealnews.com/stories/fossil-fuel-industry-shifts-from-climate-denial-to-youthwashing

Farewell to Australian hero Bill Ryan 1922-2019
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-12-28
obituary David LoweIssue 1248 Australia coal seam gas Environment climate emergencyDecember 28, 2019One of Australia's foremost env…
greenleft.org.au/content/farewell-australian-hero-bill-ryan-1922-2019

Climate Conference Was a Great Success–for the Fossil-Fuel Industry
David Kupfer | progressive.org | 2019-12-27
Despite growing evidence of global climate disruption, little was accomplished beyond a watered-down text that kicks most of the big issues down the road.
progressive.org/dispatches/climate-conference-was-a-great-success-for-the-fossil-fuel-industry-kupfer-191227/

Year in Climate Crisis: Fossil Fuels Expansion, Scary Science and Global Activism
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-12-26
The Real News Network's Steve Horn and Dimitri Lascaris talk about the 2019's biggest climate stories.
therealnews.com/stories/year-in-climate-crisis-fossil-fuels-expansion-scary-science-and-global-activism

Millions Wasted on Charter Schools
Jeff Bryant | progressive.org | 2019-12-16
The Network for Public Education calls the findings in its recent report "nothing short of a national scandal."
progressive.org/op-eds/millions-wasted-on-charter-schools-bryant-191216/

A New Report Finds Massive Waste and Abuse in Federally Funded Charter Schools
Jeff Bryant | progressive.org | 2019-12-12
During the eight years that these federal grants were available, $504,517,391–28 percent of the total amount given out–went to charter schools that never opened or that have already closed.
progressive.org/public-school-shakedown/new-report-waste-abuse-charter-bryants-191212/

The Case for a Green New Deal
Naomi Klein | zcomm.org | 2019-12-10
Interview on the case for a Green New Deal that tackles the causes and impacts of climate change while confronting racial and economic inequality…
zcomm.org/zvideo/the-case-for-a-green-new-deal/

Real climate action requires cutting coal exports
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-12-10
climate emergency Zane AlcornIssue 1248 Australia coal exports Adani Carmichael coal mineDecember 10, 2019On December 9, Labor leader Anthony Albanese reaffirmed his party's support f…
greenleft.org.au/content/real-climate-action-requires-cutting-coal-exports