(2020-03-02). Day of Protest: 300 At Chase in Santa Cruz. indybay.org Five Arrested and Bank Closed in Extinction Rebellion Protest…
(2020-03-02). Jenny Offill's Novel of Climate Dread. thenation.com Jenny Offill's Novel of Climate Dread…
(2020-03-02). First U.S. Union-Authorized Climate Strike? zcomm.org On Thursday February 27 thousands of Minneapolis cleaning workers walked off their jobs and struck their downtown commercial high-rises. Among their key demands was that their employers take action on climate change…
(2020-03-02). Above-average temperatures 'likely in many parts of the world in coming months'. thecanary.co Many parts of the world are likely to see above-average temperatures over the next few months — even without a natural "El Niño" effect which pushes up the mercury, experts said. | The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) warned that the signal from human-induced climate change was now as powerful as the natural phenomenon which drives warmer temperatures. | The WMO said there was a 60% chance of a "neutral" situation, without an El Niño or its opposite La Niña, over the months from March to May. There is only a 35% chance of an El Niño developing and just 5% for a La Niña. | The El Niño Southern Oscilla…
(2020-03-02). XR Flash Mob Dance and Action 2-28-2020. indybay.org "TELL JPMORGAN TO STOP FUNDING CLIMATE DESTRUCTION!" | "Chase is by far the worst banker of fossil fuels and fossil fuel expansion by far a wide margin!"
(2020-03-02). Noah, New and Improved: the Endangered Species Act Under Trump. counterpunch.org So now the Trump administration has got a stranglehold on the Endangered Species Act and is going to "modernize" extinction and "update" endangerment — kind of like me modernizing your home by taking a chainsaw and flamethrower to it and then updating your family by running a bulldozer over them. Not unlike how the EPA
(2020-03-01). California's Primary Season Comes Amid a Dramatic Battle Over Nuclear Energy. truthout.org California's Super Tuesday primary on March 3 comes amid an atomic struggle whose outcome will hugely impact the nation and world, including the global climate crisis, the Green New Deal and the outcome of the 2020 election. | Ground Zero is Diablo Canyon, nine miles west of San Luis Obispo. Ringed by earthquake faults, the two big atomic reactors there are less than 50 miles west of the infamous San Andreas Fault. Since their mid-1980s opening, the Diablo Canyon reactors have become a symbol…
(2020-03-01). Labour leads calls for Priti Patel to resign. thecanary.co Home Secretary Priti Patel faces calls for her to resign following a fall-out at the top of the Home Office. | Philip Rutnam, the department's most senior civil servant, quit on Saturday after accusing Patel of orchestrating a "vicious" campaign against him, of lying about her involvement in it and of creating a climate of fear among her officials. | Labour has ramped up the pressure on the under-fire home secretary, with shadow chancellor John McDonnell suggesting she could be forced to resign. | McDonnell, when asked if Patel could stay in her post, told Sky News' Sophy Ridge on Sunday: "I can't see it, it's bi…
(2020-03-01). Did We Just Witness the First Union-Authorized Climate Strike in the United States? commondreams.org Thousands of Minneapolis cleaning workers walked off their jobs and struck their downtown commercial high-rises. Among their key demands was that their employers take action on climate change. Quite possibly the first union sanctioned strike in the U.S. for climate protection demands. (Photo: SEIU Local 26) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/1200x630_seiu_1.png …
(2020-02-29). Climate change and the class divide. mronline.org 
No, we're not all in it together. Our rulers are responsible for the system that's creating an ecological catastrophe. As that crisis intensifies, it's exposing and intensifying the divide between us and them. |
(2020-02-28). After Bloomberg, climate was public enemy no. 2 at Nevada Democratic debate. peoplesworld.org 
If you're reading this, congratulations! You've made it to the ninth — yes, the NINTH — Democratic primary debate. With each new debate, a shrinking cohort of presidential contenders has had the opportunity to make their climate pitch before millions of Americans, moderators' questions permitting. The candidates have grown increasingly adept at weaving issues like rising …
(2020-02-28). Donald Trump's Climate Policy: 'Get Your Mops and Buckets Ready'. thenation.com Donald Trump's Climate Policy: 'Get Your Mops and Buckets Ready'
(2020-02-28). State-Sponsored Commercial Espionage. The Global Theft of Ideas. globalresearch.ca After digesting its massive theft of ideas, things and people from Paperclip following the end of World War II, the US wasted no time in designing and implementing the world's largest network of commercial espionage that has ever existed, and …
(2020-02-27). How the Climate Crisis Is Making the Spread of Infectious Diseases Like Coronavirus More Common. democracynow.org 
Sonia Shah is an investigative science journalist and author of "Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond." Her new book is titled "The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move" and will be published in June. She says the climate crisis is making outbreaks of infectious diseases more common, with the destruction of natural animal habitats and the changes in migration bringing humans and animals into ever-closer contact and making new pathogens more likely. Her latest article, published in The Nation, is titled "Think Exotic Animals Are to Blame for the Coronavirus? Th…
(2020-02-27). The climate crisis can't wait: 2050 is too late. greenleft.org.au 
(2020-02-27). Blacktown Council declares climate emergency. greenleft.org.au 
Activists from Cool Down Western Sydney organised petitions and c…
(2020-02-25). More funding needed to combat locust swarms 'unprecedented in modern times'. news.un.org Along with climate shocks, conflict and acute food insecurity, the East Africa region now faces a hunger threat from desert locusts, top UN relief officials warned on Tuesday, saying action now, will avert a major food crisis later.
(2020-02-21). Paul Paz y Miño, Saqib Bhatti & Beverly Bell on Environmental Justice & Cross-National Solidarity. fair.org 
There will only be an increasing number of frontline struggles between extractive, climate-disrupting industry and those willing to stand up to it. Corporate media's inadequate attention, and unwillingness to truly call out the moneyed interests causing present and future harms, make them more often part of the problem than the solution.
(2020-02-02). What Will it Take to Prevent Climate Collapse? zcomm.org 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…
(2020-01-26). Could the Climate Crisis Be "The Good News of Damnation"? zcomm.org 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 "the
(2019-11-07). Take Action — Some actual, SANE legislation. peaceaction.org 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, …