SFUSD Speak-out: Protect our Children from Contamination and Cancer
Defend Public Education NOW! | indybay.org | 2020-01-26
San Francisco Unified School District | 555 Franklin St. San Francisco…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/23/18830048.php
EU carbon tax more about political wrangling than tackling climate change, analysts tell RT
rt.com | 2020-01-26
The new European Commission president has been trying to make fighting climate change the hallmark of her presidency. However, her proposals could further split the bloc and backfire, hurting the EU itself, analysts believe. | Since taking office in December, Ursula von der Leyen has been pushing for the Green Deal, aiming to make Europe the "world's first climate-neutral continent by 2050." The approach includes tax on imports from non-EU countries with less-strict ecological rules. By doing this, Brussels claims it wants to prevent so-called carbon leakage, so importers from countries with "lower ambition fo…
rt.com/business/479055-eu-carbon-tax-about-money/
2020 Is Off to a Terrifyingly Hot Start
Staff | truthdig.com | 2020-01-26
The year is less than four weeks old, but scientists already know that carbon dioxide emissions will continue to head upwards
Auschwitz: The Role of IG Farben-Bayer
Vera Sharav | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-26
GR Editor's Note | January 27, 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops. Rarely mentioned by the media, the I. G Auschwitz concentration camp was a private undertaking owned by I. G. Farben
Cropping out a Black climate activist from a press photo was no accident
Afroze Fatima Zaidi | thecanary.co | 2020-01-25
The Associated Press (AP) has come under fire for cropping a Black activist out of a group photo taken at the Davos 2020 climate summit. | Vanessa Nakate, a 23-year-old climate activist from Uganda, was heartbroken by the incident, as she told Buzzfeed: I cried because it was so sad not just that it was racist, I was sad because of the people from Africa. | It showed how we are valued. It hurt me a lot. It is the worst thing I have e…
thecanary.co/trending/2020/01/25/cropping-out-a-black-climate-activist-from-a-press-photo-was-no-accident/
Greta Thunberg Needs No Defense: Why We Must Keep Climate Striking
Massimo Paciotto Biggers , Jeff Biggers | commondreams.org | 2020-01-25
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg attends a session at the Congres center during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, on January 21, 2020. (Photo: Fabrice Coffrini / AFP / Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/greta_thunberg_defenders.jpg …
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A Climate Time Bomb With Trump's Name Inscribed
Robert Hunziker | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-01-25
Thwaites, in West Antarctica, is the world's most dangerous glacier. As of January 15th, scientists have labeled it: "A Climate Time Bomb." Thwaites is crumbling apart on the underneath side where warm ocean currents circulate, which is clear evidence that global warming is really, truly hitting its stride even as America, obeying President Trump's orders, …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/01/a-climate-time-bomb-with-trumps-name-inscribed/
Doomsday clock moves to 100 seconds before midnight due to threats of nuclear war and climate change
Olivia Rosane | nationofchange.org | 2020-01-25
"We ask world leaders to join us in 2020 as we work to pull humanity back from the brink."
nationofchange.org/2020/01/25/doomsday-clock-moves-to-100-seconds-before-midnight-due-to-threats-of-nuclear-war-and-climate-change/
World's super rich meet in Davos to discuss the climate change problem they created
Alan MacLeod | mronline.org | 2020-01-25
Research has shown that the people most responsible for a warming planet were disproportionately the same people attending the summit and an increasing number of observers see climate change, inequality and capitalism as bound together. | Source…
mronline.org/2020/01/25/worlds-super-rich-meet-in-davos-to-discuss-the-climate-change-problem-they-created/
XR: the case for deliberative democracy
Alex Bradbury | zcomm.org | 2020-01-25
Climate Assembly UK begins this weekend. It's a good start, but does not meet XR's third demand for a Government-commissioned Citizens' Assembly…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/xr-the-case-for-deliberative-democracy/
World's super rich meet in Davos to discuss the climate change problem they created
Alan MacLeod | mronline.org | 2020-01-25
Research has shown that the people most responsible for a warming planet were disproportionately the same people attending the summit and an increasing number of observers see climate change, inequality and capitalism as bound together. | Source…
mronline.org/2020/01/25/worlds-super-rich-meet-in-davos-to-discuss-the-climate-change-problem-they-created/
Closer than ever: It is 100 seconds to midnight
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-01-25
Humanity continues to face two simultaneous existential dangers–nuclear war and climate change–that are compounded by a threat multiplier, cyber-enabled information warfare, that undercuts society's ability to respond. | Source…
mronline.org/2020/01/25/closer-than-ever-it-is-100-seconds-to-midnight/
Doomsday Clock Closer Than Ever to All-Out Global Annihilation
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-25
The Doomsday Clock was reset Thursday to just 100 seconds before midnight, marking the closest humankind has ever been to total nuclear annihilation and extinction of life due to climate change, according to the researchers who set the metaphorical time. | RELATED: | UK, France Reiterate Commitment to Maintain Iran Nuclear Deal | "It is 100 seconds to midnight. We are now expressing how close the world is to catastrophe in seconds
Forty Years After "Baby Beluga," Here's Why I'm Enlisting in War World III to Defeat the Climate Crisis
Raffi Cavoukian | commondreams.org | 2020-01-24
A youth holds a placard as she participates in a climate strike to protest against governmental inaction towards climate breakdown and environmental pollution, part of demonstrations being held worldwide in a movement dubbed "Fridays for Future" in Hyderabad on September 20, 2019. (Photo: Noah Seelam/AFP/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/climate_change_war_world_3_mobilization_raffi.jpg …
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A Climate Time Bomb With Trump's Name Inscribed
Robert Hunziker | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-24
Thwaites, in West Antarctica, is the world's most dangerous glacier. As of January 15th, scientists have labeled it: "A Climate Time Bomb." Thwaites is crumbling apart on the underneath side where warm ocean currents circulate, which is clear evidence that global warming is really, truly hitting its stride even as America, obeying President Trump's orders,…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/24/a-climate-time-bomb-with-trumps-name-inscribed/
A Climate Time Bomb With Trump's Name Inscribed
Robert Hunziker | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-24
Thwaites, in West Antarctica, is the world's most dangerous glacier. As of January 15th, scientists have labeled it: "A Climate Time Bomb." Thwaites is crumbling apart on the underneath side where warm ocean currents circulate, which is clear evidence that global warming is really, truly hitting its stride even as America, obeying President Trump's orders,…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/24/a-climate-time-bomb-with-trumps-name-inscribed/
National Trust warns 73% of special natural sites threatened by climate crisis
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-01-24
Almost three-quarters of special natural areas cared for by the National Trust are under threat from the climate crisis.The trust has conducted its first climate audit of 101,000 hectares (250,000 acres) of priority habitat across England, Wales and Northern Ireland including rivers, fens, and saltmarshes.It discovered that 73% of the land, ranging from upland oak woods to globally rare peatland, was considered to be sensitive or highly sensitive to increasingly turbulent weather events, rising seas and higher temperatures.The trust is calling for immediate action to cut emissions, restore natural habitats and de…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/01/24/national-trust-warns-73-of-special-natural-sites-threatened-by-climate-crisis/
The terrifying fallout from the Australian fires that is about to hit the whole world
Tracy Keeling | thecanary.co | 2020-01-24
When it comes to the climate, our obsession with national borders is immaterial. The world has watched in horror as Australia has burned over the last five months. But the fires aren't solely affecting those in their immediate and devastating path or, indeed, those choking on the smoke from them in near (or far) countries. | As the UK's…
thecanary.co/discovery/analysis-discovery/2020/01/24/the-terrifying-fallout-from-the-australian-fires-that-is-about-to-hit-the-whole-world/
Closer than Ever: It Is 100 Seconds to Midnight. The Dangers of Nuclear War
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-24
To: Leaders and citizens of the world | Humanity continues to face two simultaneous existential dangers–nuclear war and climate change–that are compounded by a threat multiplier, cyber-enabled information warfare, that undercuts society's ability to respond. The international security situation is dire, | …
globalresearch.ca/closer-100-seconds-midnight/5701635
Will the Extinction of Delta Smelt Be Governor Gavin Newsom's Environmental Legacy?
Dan Bacher | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-24
The Delta smelt, once the most abundant species on the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, continues its steep slide towards extinction. For the second year in a row, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife in its annual fall midwater trawl survey in 2019 found zero Delta smelt during the months of September, October, November and December.
counterpunch.org/2020/01/24/will-the-extinction-of-delta-smelt-be-governor-gavin-newsoms-environmental-legacy/
'We Have So Much More to Do,' Youth Climate Activists Declare as Global Elite Close Out Davos Forum
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-01-24
commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/thunberg-nakate-wef-last-day.jpg …
What are toxic 'forever chemicals' & should Americans be worried there are more of them in the water supply than we thought?
rt.com | 2020-01-23
American drinking water is far more contaminated than previously estimated
Only a radical Green New Deal can save humanity as Trump's axis of climate catastrophe advances
Fiona Edwards | thecanary.co | 2020-01-23
2020 is a pivotal year for humanity. It's the year where the outcome of the US presidential election could either accelerate the world towards climate catastrophe with Donald Trump or embrace the opportunity of a radical Green New Deal with Bernie Sanders. It's also…
thecanary.co/discovery/analysis-discovery/2020/01/23/only-a-radical-green-new-deal-can-save-humanity-as-trumps-axis-of-climate-catastrophe-advances/
'Abolish the billionaires' say high school climate activists
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2020-01-23
Climate Pip HinmanIssue 1250 AustraliaJanuary 23, 2020″It is time to abolish billionaires … because we cannot afford them, the planet cannot afford billionaires," Kenyan climate activist Njoki Njoroge Njehu told 10,000 protesters in Lausanne, Switzerland on January 17. She is right. It is the billionaire class that is blocking moves to make t…
greenleft.org.au/content/abolish-billionaires-say-high-school-climate-activists
Fund manager signals change, but can it be believed?
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2020-01-23
Climate Margaret GleesonIssue 1250 AustraliaJanuary 23, 2020 Larry Fink, CEO of the world's biggest fund manager BlackRock, made a pitch on January 14 for a "more sustainable and inclusive capitalism" because of the threat posed by global climate change.
greenleft.org.au/content/fund-manager-signals-change-can-it-be-believed
Smoke in the city: The dire health implications
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-01-23
climate emergency Meghan StreetIssue 1250 Australia bushfires Doctors for the Environment MelbourneJanuary 24, 2020Looking o…
greenleft.org.au/content/smoke-city-dire-health-implications
Open letter to Anthony Albanese: what would Labor do about climate change?
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2020-01-23
Climate Illawarra Knitting Nannas Against GreedIssue 1250 Australia Anthony AlbaneseJanuary 23, 2020The following open letter to Antony Albanese is being circulated by Illawarra Knitting Nannas Against Greed. They are asking people to sign-on an…
greenleft.org.au/content/open-letter-anthony-albanese-what-would-labor-do-about-climate-change
World's Super Rich Meet in Davos to Discuss the Climate Change Problem they Created
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-01-22
Research has shown that the people most responsible for a warming planet were disproportionately the same people attending the summit and an increasing number of observers see climate change, inequality and capitalism as bound together.
mintpressnews.com/worlds-super-wealthy-davos-discuss-climate-change-problem/264269/
World's Super Rich Meet in Davos to Discuss the Climate Change Problem they Created
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-01-22
Research has shown that the people most responsible for a warming planet were disproportionately the same people attending the summit and an increasing number of observers see climate change, inequality and capitalism as bound together.
mintpressnews.com/worlds-super-wealthy-davos-discuss-climate-change-problem/264269/
Greta Thunberg: 'My generation will not give up without a fight'
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2020-01-22
climate action Greta ThunbergIssue 1250 Switzerland World Economic Forum climate emergency DavosJanuary 22, 2020Followi…
greenleft.org.au/content/greta-thunberg-my-generation-will-not-give-without-fight
Why Australia's 1.3% emissions matter
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-01-22
climate emergency Alex BainbridgeIssue 1250 Australia carbon dioxide emissionsJanuary 23, 2020Prime Minister Scott Morrison is fond of saying that Australia only produces 1.3% of global greenhouse emissions. He says this to bolster his climate deniali…
greenleft.org.au/content/why-australias-13-emissions-matter
Pushing for climate action is the alternative to eco-fascism
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-01-22
climate emergency Alex BainbridgeIssue 1250 Australia eco-fascism bushfires our common causeJanuary 23, 2020News that the Austr…
greenleft.org.au/content/pushing-climate-action-alternative-eco-fascism
Greta Thunberg Addresses Global Elite at Davos: Our House Is Still on Fire
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-01-21
The 17-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg delivered a speech Tuesday to the world leaders and global elite gathered in Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum, one year after she first condemned the forum for its inaction on climate change. "We don't need a 'low-carbon economy.' We don't need to 'lower emissions.' Our emissions have to stop," Thunberg said. "And until we have the technologies that at scale can put our emissions to minus, then we must forget about net zero. We need real zero."
www.democracynow.org/2020/1/21/greta_thunberg_davos_speech_2020
Poem: Winter Is Near
Stuart Munckton | greenleft.org.au | 2020-01-20
poetry Climate environment Camille BarrIssue 1249 AustraliaJanuary 20, 2020The winter of humankind draws near | Science has spoken in alarm | The day may be warm, unseasonal | Land whips at our faces…
greenleft.org.au/content/poem-winter-near