Daily Archives: August 22, 2021

2021-08-22: News Headlines

_____ (2021-08-22). "Paul Wolfowitz" tells Newsmax The Afghanistan War Has Wasted Two Trillion Dollars. popularresistance.org NewsmaxTV today allowed a fake Paul Wolfowitz to spend 11 minutes telling its hundreds of thousands of viewers that the $2.1T war in Afghanistan, begun by his administration in 2001, was a complete waste of money. "The next time we have two trillion dollars lying around, let's spend it on something useful like health care or education," said "Wolfowitz" to Tom Basile, live on the air.

Bryan Ellis (2021-08-22). Sarasota rally for climate, care jobs demands $3.5 trillion reconciliation package. liberationnews.org Sarasota activists urge Vern Buchanan to pass the full economic recovery plan that invests in climate justice, new jobs and the care economy.

Staff (2021-08-22). It's Not Just Manchin: Top House Energy Democrat Also Has Fossil Fuel Conflicts. truthout.org This article was produced by Amid the mounting climate emergency, the House Democrat who chairs the committee overseeing energy policy benefits from investments in large U.S. greenhouse gas polluters. Environmen…

Lucas Alden (2021-08-22). Opportunities, Denialism, "Liberty," Movements — Climate Catastrophe/Covid — A Final Act for Humanity? zcomm.org Have existing left formations seized the uncommon opportunities left to us by previous generations and collaborated on a participatory level to provide a popular and unified response to a pandemic and climate catastrophe?>

Leon Kunstenaar (2021-08-22). Art Mural Action in San Francisco's Dolores Park. indybay.org Sunrise Bay Area and and CA GND Coalition paint "Seal The Deal" mural for climate, jobs, care and justice…

Staff (2021-08-22). Tech "Solutions" Are Pushed by Fossil Fuel Industry to Delay Real Climate Action. truthout.org This month, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world authority on the state of Earth's climate, The IPCC has been publishing rep…

rebekah (2021-08-21). Advocates Call on Congress to #SealTheDeal for Care, Climate, and Justice. inequality.org

Richard Lane (2021-08-21). [Perspectives] Ollie Jay: managing heat, improving health. thelancet.com "Our work is all about driving multidisciplinary efforts to help find solutions to complex health problems arising from the impact of heat stress, all within the context of increasing extreme weather events as a result of climate change", explains Ollie Jay, Professor of Heat and Health in the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney, Australia. Jay is also Director of the Thermal Ergonomics Laboratory within the Sydney Heat and Health Research Centre. "We have a rich research environment with many opportunities to work across broad sections of academia, industry, and in our collaborations with…

Julia Conley (2021-08-21). Nearly half the world's children at 'extremely high risk' for facing effects of climate crisis, report finds. nationofchange.org "The climate crisis is a child rights crisis."

news.un (2021-08-21). Climate change and hunger in Madagascar: a UN Resident Coordinator blog. news.un.org In the south of Madagascar, known as the Grand Sud, hundreds of thousands of people are suffering from one of the worst droughts in the region in 40 years, the most senior UN official in the country has said, warning that the population is facing a severe humanitarian crisis.

The Lancet (2021-08-21). [Editorial] Health in a world of extreme heat. thelancet.com The heatwaves and wildfires that swept across southern Europe and the USA this summer have been traumatic and deadly. 600 excess deaths were reported in the Pacific Northwest in the USA alone. According to the Sixth Assessment Report of Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which synthesises the latest scientific evidence on climate change, global temperature is expected to reach or exceed 1 ∑5 ∞C of warming, averaged over the next 20 years. The report predicts that these record-breaking temperatures will be more frequent, intense, and last longer because of human-induced cli…

Staff (2021-08-21). Methane Is Flaring Out of Control. Biden Administration, Congress, Must Step In. truthout.org This summer, methane got a nickname that stuck. Climate scientists and policy analysts have been calling the greenhouse gas a "low-hanging fruit" for years, but the term seems to have caught on more broadly among world leaders, journalists and organizers, due in part to a major United Nations

John Feffer (2021-08-21). Two Koreas need to work together to fight climate change. zcomm.org They can compose a peninsular plan to transition together to a clean energy future…

Editor (2021-08-21). On the brink—the scenario that the IPCC is not modelling. mronline.org Daniel tanuro responds to the recently released IPCC Physical Basis Report, which is a contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report on climate change.

Nick Cunningham (2021-08-21). As wildfires ravage British Columbia, Wall Street tells investors to buy stock in Canada's tar sands. nationofchange.org New pipelines could help Canada export more tar sands, boosting the bottom lines of Alberta's oil producers. But experts warn that Canada is charting a 'path to climate crisis.'

Staff (2021-08-21). Methane Is Flaring Out of Control. Biden Administration, Congress Must Step In. truthout.org This summer, methane got a nickname that stuck. Climate scientists and policy analysts have been calling the greenhouse gas a "low-hanging fruit" for years, but the term seems to have caught on more broadly among world leaders, journalists and organizers, due in part to a major United Nations

_____ (2021-08-21). Study Measures Fracking's Impact On Nearby Surface Water Quality. popularresistance.org A new study correlates poorer surface water quality with nearby hydraulic fracturing but finds that the impacts aren't major enough to be considered harmful by federal regulators. However, the researchers noted they weren't able to study "potentially more dangerous" substances related to fracking because of a lack of data. | While some published studies have already linked groundwater contamination with hydraulic fracking activity, one of the researchers behind the study, Christian Leuz of the University of Chicago, said through a press release that their work was the "first large-sample evidence showing that hyd…

H. Patricia Hynes (2021-08-21). The Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Near-Meltdown is a Lasting Tragedy. zcomm.org Decades of research have shown that there is no safe level of radiation, according to the National Academy of Sciences. Any exposure to radiation increases an individual's risk of developing cancer…

Titlefukushima: A Lasting Tragedy (2021-08-21). Fukushima: A Lasting Tragedy. commondreams.org It's not even important that wars be won but that they be eternally prepared for by buying ever-greater numbers of ever-more complex and ever-more useless weapons systems.

Colin Todhunter (2021-08-21). Science, Salvation and Heretics: From Monsanto to Pfizer, Same Old Playbook. dissidentvoice.org Why are numerous 'independent alternative' media outlets and writers not questioning the COVID-19 vaccine rollout? If anything, they are promoting it without even considering the serious concerns being voiced by top scientists. When there are experts like cardiologist and epidemiologist Professor Peter McCullough, Dr Robert Malone (credited with inventing mRNA vaccine technology), former vice president …

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