(2020-11-18). Sunday 11/22: "The Condor & The Eagle" Film & Discussion w/ Indigenous Frontline Climate Leaders. indybay.org Online screening (FREE or donation)…
(2020-11-18). The Dead And Those About To Die: Climate Protests And The Corporate Media. dissidentvoice.org 
The Roman poet Horace famously declared: Dulce et decorum est pro patrie mori. It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. Wilfred Owen, the great English poet of the First World War, described this phrase as 'the old Lie' in his famous war poem, 'Dulce et decorum est'. Patriotism so often means 'honouring' …
(2020-11-18). The Climate Threat From Arctic Methane Releases. counterpunch.org 
A friend, who is an intelligent person with no science background, asked me to explain simply what the concern expressed with alarm by many scientists and (anti) climate change activists is about the increasing rate of methane gas emissions in the Arctic. That attempted explanation follows. From even before the extinction of the dinosaurs by
(2020-11-18). I Am Greta isn't about Climate Change. dissidentvoice.org 
Erich Fromm, the renowned German-Jewish social psychologist who was forced to flee his homeland in the early 1930s as the Nazis came to power, offered a disturbing insight later in life on the relationship between society and the individual. In the mid-1950s, his book The Sane Society suggested that insanity referred not simply to the …
(2020-11-18). Thursday 11/19: African Diaspora and Climate Change from Kenya to New Orleans. indybay.org Online via livestream…
(2020-11-18). Why COVID-19 Testing Is a Tragic Waste. globalresearch.ca From the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the clarion call has been to test, test and test some more. However, right from the start, serious questions arose about the tests being used to diagnose this infection, and questions have only …
(2020-11-18). "I Am Greta" Isn't About Climate Change. It's About the Elusiveness of Sanity in an Insane World. globalresearch.ca Erich Fromm, the renowned German-Jewish social psychologist who was forced to flee his homeland in the early 1930s as the Nazis came to power, offered a disturbing insight later in life on the relationship between society and the individual. | In …
(2020-11-18). I Am Greta isn't about climate change. It's about the elusiveness of sanity in an insane world. zcomm.org Society could become so pathological, so detached from a normative way of life, that it induced a deep-seated alienation and a form of collective insanity among its members…
(2020-11-17). Minnesota Permits for Line 3 Pipeline approved. Indigenous and Climate Leaders are left outraged. nationofchange.org Environmental and Indigenous groups say this construction threatens the water where Native Americans harvest wild rice and also would be a factor in increasing climate change.
(2020-11-17). 'Disaster for Climate and Indigenous Rights': Coalition Urges Bank of America to End Financing of Arctic Drilling. commondreams.org "Despite risks to the climate, Indigenous rights, and their own bottom line, Bank of America is the only big U.S. bank that hasn't ruled out funding for drilling in the Arctic Refuge," noted the Sierra Club. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/15-ags-trump-plan-anwr_0.jpg …
(2020-11-17). Can we electrify our way out of climate change—or do the rich also need to consume less? mronline.org 
As the Artic sea ice rapidly melts and the communities across the world suffer dire consequences, we are experiencing the tragedies from emitting greenhouse gases from human activities into the atmosphere.
(2020-11-17). Greenpeace Releases Far-Reaching 'Just Recovery Agenda' to Tackle Interlocking Crises of Inequality, Racial Injustice, Covid-19, and Climate Chaos. commondreams.org We must "shift from an economy that is extractive and exploitative to one that regenerates and repairs," the new report says. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/greenpeace_justice_agenda.jpg …
(2020-11-17). Warning Concerns Respirator Decontamination System. jamanetwork.com The FDA has warned the Battelle Memorial Institute, a research and development company in Columbus, Ohio, that its adverse event reporting process for an N95 respirator decontamination system is deficient.
(2020-11-17). Environmental activists come out to protest Line 3 oil pipeline. fightbacknews.org St. Paul, MN – Over 500 protesters picketed outside Minnesota Governor Tim Walz mansion, November 14, to protest his decision to grant permits to allow Enbridge to build Line 3, a pipeline that would carry nearly a million barrels of tar sands a day from Alberta, Canada to Superior, Wisconsin through Minnesota. The event was organized by MN 350, and included other groups that have organized against Line 3. | The Climate Justice Committee (CJC) joined to protest Walz's decision. Katherine Gould, a CJC member explained, "We demand the people of Minnesota and Native people have a say in Line 3, not corporations tha…
(2020-11-17). UN releases $100 million to guard against famine. news.un.org The United Nations released $100 million of emergency funding on Tuesday to stave off the risk of famine in seven countries most at risk from a hunger epidemic fueled by conflict, economic decline, climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic.
(2020-11-17). These freshman House Republicans might actually care about climate change. salon.com Republicans made gains in Congress. But it's not all bad news for future climate legislation…
(2020-11-17). Kim Stanley Robinson Bears Witness to Our Climate Futures. thenation.com Kim Stanley Robinson Bears Witness to Our Climate Futures…
(2020-11-17). Climate change is causing hurricanes to stay strong for longer, move further inland. peoplesdispatch.org Due to warming oceans, a hurricane will move further inland after making landfall and stay strong for a longer time, thus causing more destruction, a recent paper in Nature says…
(2020-11-16). Scientists say net zero by 2050 is too late. mronline.org 
Climate scientists now believe their predictions about the rate of the global temperature increase have been too conservative, and stronger and more decisive action is needed to reduce dangerous greenhouse gas emissions.
(2020-11-16). Companies with 'green ambitions' unveiled as COP26 climate summit sponsors. thecanary.co 
Energy firms National Grid, SSE and ScottishPower, along with NatWest Group, have been unveiled as the first sponsors of UN climate talks in the UK next year. | The key COP26 climate summit was due to take place this month in Glasgow, but it has been postponed to next November because of the Covid-19 pandemic. | The government said all sponsors, who will help shoulder the costs of the talks, have committed to the "Science Based Targets" initiative. This initiative sets ambitious goals to cut emissions and aims to draw up credible action plans to achieve them. | Plans must be in line with what the science says is…
(2020-11-16). Greenpeace Urges Joe Biden To Reject Ernest Moniz and Choose Climate Champions for Cabinet. commondreams.org ______________________________…
(2020-11-16). Climate change: UN chief calls for 'great leap' towards carbon neutrality. news.un.org As countries work to defeat the COVID-19 pandemic, they also have the chance to "get it right" on climate change, the UN Secretary-General told a virtual gathering of influential leaders on Monday.
(2020-11-16). Legal Protest Blasts Plan for 430 Square Miles of Fracking Leases in Wyoming. commondreams.org ______________________________…