How did Michael Moore become a hero to climate deniers and the far right?
George Monbiot | zcomm.org | 2020-05-10
The filmmaker's latest venture is an excruciating mishmash of environment falsehoods and plays into the hands of those he once opposed…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/how-did-michael-moore-become-a-hero-to-climate-deniers-and-the-far-right/
As Oil Price Plummets, Call to Nationalize Industry Rises
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-09
The price of oil dropped below zero, prompting new subsidies from the Federal Reserve. Progressive voices in the U.S. and Canada have a different idea: nationalization as a way to wind down the sector, tackle the climate crisis and create a just economic transition.
therealnews.com/stories/as-oil-price-plummets-call-to-nationalize-industry-rises
As Oil Price Plummets, Call to Nationalize Industry Rises
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-09
The price of oil dropped below zero, prompting new subsidies from the Federal Reserve. Progressive voices in the U.S. and Canada have a different idea: nationalization as a way to wind down the sector, tackle the climate crisis and create a just economic transition.
therealnews.com/stories/as-oil-price-plummets-call-to-nationalize-industry-rises
"Reopen the Economy": the Republicans' Nero Decree
Mike Lofgren | commondreams.org | 2020-05-09
GOP policies aren't "mistaken." They're a conscious waste of lives for deceitful purposes.
commondreams.org/views/2020/05/09/reopen-economy-republicans-nero-decree?cd-origin=rss
Visions of a Post-Covid-19 World
John Davis | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-08
While we, perforce, sit at home, inured to many decades of sleep-walking towards the climate apocalypse, the skies cleared, the price of oil dropped to negative $40 a barrel (rebounding to just short of positive $20 at the time of writing) and a global reduction in carbon emissions of nearly 8% is forecast for the year. We are living the dream of effectively confronting our egregious consumption of fossil fuels. From a global warming perspective, our social isolation has been highly efficacious – the pernicious, growth-driven habits of exploitation, extraction and habitat destruction have been put on hold. A wind…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/08/visions-of-a-post-covid-19-world/
Climate Crisis: False Techtopia, Tariffs Accounting, Orphan Wells, And The Dead Cow
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-08
Recent studies debunk the false techtopianism in climate science models, U.S. import tariffs failed climate accounting, and Argentina's shale industry is flailing. As fracking goes bust, what happens to orphaned wells?
therealnews.com/columns/climate-crisis-false-techtopia-tariffs-accounting-orphan-wells-and-the-dead-cow
The 'staggering' fall of global fossil fuel demand
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-05-08
By Kieran Cooke: One of the pillars of industrial society is tottering: global fossil fuel demand is buckling, with only renewable energy expected to show any growth this year. Oil prices are going through the floor. The market for coal and gas is shrinking fast. And global emissions of climate-changing greenhouse gases are set to …
truepublica.org.uk/global/the-staggering-fall-of-global-fossil-fuel-demand/
Stir Crazy! Episode #31: Cancel Corporate Media
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-08
On today's show: TRNN climate reporter Aman Azhar, The Progressive Army founder Ben Dixon, and TRNN Executive Producer Lisa Snowden-McCray. Hosted by Kim Brown.
therealnews.com/stories/stir-crazy-episode-31-cancel-corporate-media
No, Mr. Biden, Climate Change Is Not a 'Crisis' Like This One
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-08
The calls for us to be worried and outraged all the time have to stop. Once this has passed, we need to grab hold of those things in our economy that are in our favor and explore them as much as possible, not divert our efforts into tackling some new, half century old crisis.
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/05/08/no-mr-biden-climate-change-is-not-a-crisis-like-this-one/
Climate Crisis: False Techtopia, Tariffs Accounting, Orphan Wells, And The Dead Cow
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-08
Recent studies debunk the false techtopianism in climate science models, U.S. import tariffs failed climate accounting, and Argentina's shale industry is flailing. As fracking goes bust, what happens to orphaned wells?
therealnews.com/columns/climate-crisis-false-techtopia-tariffs-accounting-orphan-wells-and-the-dead-cow
Stir Crazy! Episode #31: Cancel Corporate Media
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-08
On today's show: TRNN climate reporter Aman Azhar, The Progressive Army founder Ben Dixon, and TRNN Executive Producer Lisa Snowden-McCray. Hosted by Kim Brown.
therealnews.com/stories/stir-crazy-episode-31-cancel-corporate-media
Attacking the Messenger
Pete Dolack | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-08
When it comes to global warming, there continues to be plenty of magical thinking going on. And such magical thinking is not exclusive to the conservative side of the political spectrum. It is easy to take apart conservative denial of global warming, based as it is on ideology and a total lack of scientific grounding.
counterpunch.org/2020/05/08/attacking-the-messenger/
California And Trump Push Geoengineering–A Fraught Climate Crisis Fix
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-06
California has endorsed the use of direct air capture to reverse engineer the climate crisis with technology. The controversial method already has Big Oil's support–and the Trump administration's.
therealnews.com/stories/california-trump-geoengineering-direct-air-capture-technology
Disease-carrying mosquitoes could be common in Europe by 2030
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-05-06
Climate change could mean mosquitoes that can carry diseases like dengue, zika and yellow fever become established in southern Europe within 10 years.
imperial.ac.uk/news/197333/disease-carrying-mosquitoes-could-common-europe-2030
New PSL book: 'Climate Solutions: Beyond Capitalism'
Sunil Freeman | liberationnews.org | 2020-05-05
"It is a small book, but expansive in outlook in a way that echoes the holistic eco-socialist society we will need…"
liberationnews.org/new-psl-book-climate-solutions-beyond-capitalism/
New PSL book: 'Climate Solutions: Beyond Capitalism'
Sunil Freeman | liberationnews.org | 2020-05-05
"It is a small book, but expansive in outlook in a way that echoes the holistic eco-socialist society we will need…"
liberationnews.org/new-psl-book-climate-solutions-beyond-capitalism/
Climate Crisis: KXL Legal Precedent, War and Climate, Slow Streets
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-05
A legal ruling on the Keystone XL Pipeline has sent shockwaves through the energy industry. Meanwhile, new studies show that war is worsening climate change, and 'slow streets' gains policy momentum.
therealnews.com/columns/climate-crisis-kxl-legal-precedent-war-and-climate-slow-streets
Climate Crisis: KXL Legal Precedent, War and Climate, Slow Streets
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-05
A legal ruling on the Keystone XL Pipeline has sent shockwaves through the energy industry. Meanwhile, new studies show that war is worsening climate change, and 'slow streets' gains policy momentum.
therealnews.com/columns/climate-crisis-kxl-legal-precedent-war-and-climate-slow-streets
Planet of the Humans: a muddy cocktail of valid criticisms, disinformation and defeatism
Stuart Munckton | greenleft.org.au | 2020-05-02
Climate crisis Environment Film & theatre Zane AlcornIssue 1264 Michael MooreMay 2, 2020 Planet of the Humans | Directed by Jeff Gibbs | Planet of the…
greenleft.org.au/content/planet-humans-muddy-cocktail-valid-criticisms-disinformation-and-defeatism
Roaming Charges: Ain't Living Long Like This
Jeffrey St. Clair | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-08
+ The detestable rationalizations liberals make for sticking with Biden despite Tara Reade's convincing story can't come as any surprise. It's the same ritual contortions they've made about the Iraq war, fracking, abortion, the drug war, Anita Hill, social security, segregation, climate change, health care, deportations, a living wage, student debt, the Patriot Act, pipelines, the Libyan coup, climate change. To be a Democrat is to live in a constant state of denial, self-contradiction and moral hypocrisy.
counterpunch.org/2020/05/08/roaming-charges-aint-living-long-like-this/