Climate emergency: Indonesia faces catastrophic floods, disappearing islands
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-02-12
While the stark reality of the global climate emergency struck home in Australia with its worst bushfire season, its neighbour Indonesia faced catastrophic floods and islands disappearing below the rising sea. Green Left's Peter Boyle interviewed Yuyun Harmono, the climate change campaigner of Friends of the Earth Indonesia (Wahana Lingkungan Hidup Indonesia

Berkeley Screening Of "Fukushima Speaks" By Journalist and Videographer Toshikuni Doi'
No Nukes Action | indybay.org | 2020-02-12
Berkeley Main Library | 2090 Kittredge St, Berkeley, CA 94704…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/11/18830602.php

New York state bail reform prompts backlash from Democrats and Republicans
wsws.org | 2020-02-12
While the Democrats wasted no time jettisoning their facade of 'progressive' politics in the face of resistance from the NYPD and other law-and-order advocates, the Republicans have taken the opportunity to push their fascistic appeals.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/12/bail-f12.html

'We Need to Reinvent BP' Says New Chief Executive as He Plans to Halve Carbon Emissions
sputniknews.com | 2020-02-12
Bernard Looney, who was born in Ireland, has taken over as chief executive from Bob Dudley. Last week BP shut down its head office in London after climate change protesters tried to block the entrance.
sputniknews.com/business/202002121078295305-we-need-to-reinvent-bp-says-new-chief-executive-as-he-plans-to-halve-carbon-emissions/

5.2-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Off Coast of Honshu, Japan – Reports
sputniknews.com | 2020-02-12
Japan is located in a seismically active zone known as the Ring of Fire and regularly suffers from powerful earthquakes. In 2011, a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and the following tsunami killed over 15,000 people and caused the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster.
sputniknews.com/asia/202002121078294946-52-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-off-coast-of-honshu-japan—reports/

'Stand down now', RFS volunteer tells Morrison
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-02-12
bushfires Robynne MurphyIssue 1253 Australia firefighters climate emergencyFebruary 12, 2020Rural Fire Service (RFS) volunteer truck driver Robynne Murphy has been on the New South Wales fire frontli…
greenleft.org.au/content/stand-down-now-rfs-volunteer-tells-morrison

Extinction Foretold, Extinction Ignored
Guy R. McPherson | counterpunch.org | 2020-02-11
Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.

Clean Economy Act Fails to Fully Confront the Climate Crisis
commondreams.org | 2020-02-11
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commondreams.org/newswire/2020/02/11/clean-economy-act-fails-fully-confront-climate-crisis?cd-origin=rss

Climate Is on the Ballot in New Hampshire
John Nichols | thenation.com | 2020-02-11
Climate Is on the Ballot in New Hampshire…
thenation.com/article/politics/climate-crisis-new-hampshire/

Climate Change Wipes out Chinstrap Penguins off Antarctica
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-11
The number of chinstrap penguins in some colonies in Western Antarctica has fallen by as much as 77 percent since they were last surveyed in the 1970s, say scientists studying the impact of climate change on the remote region. | RELATED: | 'Tim the Tusker Elephant Dies in Kenya, Among Last of Its Kind | "The declines that we've seen are definitely dramatic," said Steve Forrest, a conservation biologist who joined a team of scientists from the two U.S. universities of Stony Brook…
telesurenglish.net/news/Climate-Change-Wipes-out-Chinstrap-Penguins-off-Antarctica-20200211-0020.html

Menace on the Menu in Post-EU Britain
Colin Todhunter | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-02-11
Environmentalist Dr Rosemary Mason has just written the report 'Bayer Crop Science rules Britain after Brexit

How climate change is driving food insecurity
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-02-11
Food security Pat BrewerIssue 1253 Australia East Africa desert locustsFebruary 11, 2020Along with extreme fires, a feature of a rapidly changing climate, Australia is experiencing droughts, floods, and…
greenleft.org.au/content/how-climate-change-driving-food-insecurity

Will the apocalyptic bushfires be a turning point in Australia's climate emergency?
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2020-02-11
bushfires Climate change Pip HinmanIssue 1253 Australia Australia's bushfire crisis climate emergencyFebruary 11…
greenleft.org.au/content/will-apocalyptic-bushfires-be-turning-point-australia-climate-emergency

Climate Change and Rebellion: an interview with John Molyneux
Leo Zeilig | mronline.org | 2020-02-10
In an interview with the socialist writer and activist, John Molyneux, ROAPE's Leo Zeilig asks him about climate change, capitalism and socialist transformation. In an important initiative John has recently founded the Global Ecosocialist Network (GEN) which brings together activists and researchers from across the Global North and South. | Source…
mronline.org/2020/02/10/climate-change-and-rebellion-an-interview-with-john-molyneux/

Climate crisis: Antarctic continent posts record temperature reading of 18.3 ∞C
news.un.org | 2020-02-07
Fresh fears of accelerating damage to the planet's ice sheets and sea level rise have been fuelled by confirmation from the UN's weather agency that the Antarctic likely saw a new temperature record of more than 18 ∞C on Thursday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/02/1056902

Animal rights groups' attempt to hijack climate movement rejected
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2020-02-07
Climate Jacob Andrewartha Sue BoltonIssue 1252 Australia MelbourneFebruary 7, 2020Animal rights activist in Melbourne have harmed the climate movement and their own cause by attempting to stack mee…
greenleft.org.au/content/animal-justice-party-attempt-hijack-climate-movement-rejected

Rebuilding resilient communities amid climate-induced drought and bushfires
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2020-02-07
Climate Elena GarciaIssue 1252 AustraliaFebruary 7, 2020The federal government is pouring billions of dollars into its attempts to deal with the worst impacts of a climate crisis it prefers to ignore. But this money will never achieve its stated aim nor reach those who need it most. | The federal Coalition government's Drought Response, Resil…
greenleft.org.au/content/rebuilding-resilient-communities-amid-climate-induced-drought-and-bushfires

Blaming overpopulation lets climate criminals off the hook
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2020-02-07
Climate refugee rights Chloe DSIssue 1252 AustraliaFebruary 7, 2020The burden of responsibility for the climate crisis is often placed on poorer nations. But the reality is that the main culprits continue to be the rich and powerful 1%. | Within the climate movement, some sec…
greenleft.org.au/content/blaming-overpopulation-lets-climate-criminals-hook

Communities left financially devastated in wake of bushfires
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2020-02-07
Climate Graham MatthewsIssue 1252 Australia bushfiresFebruary 7, 2020The bushfires that have torn through the south coast of New South Wales and Ea…
greenleft.org.au/content/communities-left-financially-devastated-wake-bushfires

Extreme weather demands better working conditions
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2020-02-07
workers' rights and unions Climate Leo CrnogorcevicIssue 1252 AustraliaFebruary 7, 2020Faced with a still-unfolding summer from hell, in which catastrophic bushfires have caused 34 deaths, destroyed 11 million hectares of land and wiped out more than a…
greenleft.org.au/content/extreme-weather-demands-better-working-conditions

NSW-federal energy deal a con job
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2020-02-06
Climate Margaret GleesonIssue 1252 AustraliaFebruary 6, 2020Prime Minister Scott Morrison's energy deal with the New South Wales government seeks to benefit fossil fuel company Santos

What Will it Take to Prevent Climate Collapse?
Brian Tokar | zcomm.org | 2020-02-02
Perhaps we can even begin to realize the dream of a liberated and truly interdependent global community of communities. The future of life on earth may depend on our ability to do just that…
zcomm.org/zmagazine/what-will-it-take-to-prevent-climate-collapse/

Could the Climate Crisis Be "The Good News of Damnation"?
Lawrence Wittner | zcomm.org | 2020-01-26
On August 12, 1945, six days after the U.S. government obliterated the city of Hiroshima with a single atomic bomb, Robert Hutchins, the president of the University of Chicago, delivered a remarkable public address. Speaking on his weekly radio program, the Chicago Roundtable, Hutchins observed that Leon Bloy, a French philosopher, had referred to…
zcomm.org/zblogs/could-the-climate-crisis-be-the-good-news-of-damnation/