(2021-11-10). Greta Thunberg at COP26: No more green-washing, we need action. greenleft.org.au Political leaders continue to ignore the consequences of their inaction, but history will judge them poorly and we will not accept it, argues Greta Thunberg.
(2021-11-10). The U.S. Is Reneging On Its Climate Commitments. dailyposter.com 
(2021-11-10). COP26: Military pollution is the skeleton in the West's climate closet. mronline.org 
Leaders at the COP26 summit have no intention of tackling the growing environmental impacts caused by their 'defence' spending.
(2021-11-10). HSBC: A Climate-Pledge Cautionary Tale. scheerpost.com 
By Julia Conley / Common Dreams An effort by global financial giant HSBC to water down an industry climate pledge exemplifies the fact that banks and other profit-driven companies "cannot be trusted" to end their complicity in the human-caused climate emergency, critics charged on Tuesday. According to new reporting by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (BIJ), HSBC …
(2021-11-10). COP26: Net zero 2050 and 1.5 ∞C are not compatible. greenleft.org.au David Spratt argues that there is a dangerous underestimation of the condition of the climate at COP26 and that 2025 and 2030 needs to be the focus.
(2021-11-09). The Laura Flanders Show: "The Way Forward" with AOC & Noam Chomsky. roarmag.org In this historic, inter-generational meeting of minds, Laura Flanders brings together New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY Representative 14th District) and MIT professor emeritus Noam Chomsky — for the first time ever — to discuss the way forward for people, politics and the planet. From labor strikes to racial uprisings to climate action to the Great Resignation, they reflect on the renewed power of collective organizing and the changing tide in economic thinking and electoral politics. | Their insights demand that we think differently about everything from our nation's history and…
(2021-11-09). COP26 warned on fossil fuels: 'We're investing in our own demise'. peoplesworld.org 
"You may as well bomb our islands instead of making us suffer, witnessing our slow and fateful demise," Palau President Surangel S. Whipps, Jr., told the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow. In those few words, Whipps summed up the desperation felt by small Pacific Islands and a number of other developing countries. The rich G20 …
(2021-11-09). Should Humans Try to Modify the Amount of Sunlight the Earth Receives? independentmediainstitute.org Click here for photos that you may use to accompany the article (captions and credits can be found in each image's description field). Desperate times call for desperate measures, as the saying goes. As scientists, policymakers and politicians keep one increasingly startled eye on climate change's ticking clock and the other on the ongoing, upwardly …
(2021-11-09). Climate Change Will Harm All, But Will Disproportionately Impact Various Demographic Groups. cepr.net The findings from the EPA report have two major implications. First and foremost, people of color are not part of a monolithic group. Second, the EPA report should help guide policy decisions in responding to climate change.
(2021-11-09). "A Crime Against Humanity": The "Greenwash Festival" Of COP26. dissidentvoice.org 
One of the most damning assessments of COP26, the UN climate conference being held in Glasgow, came from Greta Thunberg, the Swedish climate activist: '#COP26 has been named the must excluding COP ever. This is no longer a climate conference. This is a Global North greenwash festival. A two week celebration of business as usual …
(2021-11-09). Should Humans Try to Modify the Amount of Sunlight the Earth Receives? | Take Action Tuesday @EarthFoodLife. independentmediainstitute.org 
Managing solar radiation through technology is possible, but there are ethical and political concerns. By Daniel Ross, Independent Media Institute 8 min read Desperate times call for desperate measures, as the saying goes. As scientists, policymakers and politicians keep one increasingly startled eye on climate change's ticking clock and the other on the ongoing, upwardly …
(2021-11-09). "Uproot the System!" — Save the Planet, End Capitalism. liberationnews.org 
Brian Becker, Esther Iverem, Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek discuss how tens of thousands of people marched in Glasgow and all over the world last weekend, chanting "uproot the system!" and demanding the transformation of the world economy to combat the climate crisis.
(2021-11-09). Headlines for November 9, 2021. democracynow.org Climate Activists Blast COP26 Draft Statement for Failing to Phase Out Fossil Fuels, Police Raid Glasgow Squat Housing Climate Activists Protesting COP26, Coronavirus Cases Surge to Record Highs Across Some European Nations, As U.S. Opens Borders to Vaccinated Travelers, Asylum Seekers Remain Trapped in Mexico, Poland Mobilizes Thousands of Troops to Belarus Border to Bar Entry to Refugees, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Wins Fourth Term After Arresting Opponents, Crushing Dissent, Israeli Spyware Found on Phones of Six Palestinian Human Rights Activists, Justice Department Brings New Charges Against Ransomwa…
(2021-11-09). Glasgow First Draft Text Revealed. popularresistance.org Glasgow, Scotland — The first draft of the Glasgow final decision text at COP26 completely fails to mention fossil fuels, despite expert consensus on the need to end new coal, oil and gas immediately to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement 1.5C goal. | Thanks to blocking by fossil fuel interests, the first version of the official text, published by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, fails to acknowledge that fossil fuels are driving the climate crisis, nor does it make any commitment to tangible actions to end global reliance on coal, oil and gas. The text is just 850 words long.
(2021-11-09). COPOUT 26 Left Out the Topics and People It Needed. warisacrime.org 
By David Swanson, Labour Hub, November 9, 2021 I'm not sure what we should have expected from a 26th UN climate meeting after 25 previous meetings had generated the opposite of the purportedly intended result. What we got was a festival of greenwashing that included in the meetings more fossil fuel lobbyists than the delegates …
(2021-11-09). Indigenous-Led Action In Memory Of MMIW And Relatives. popularresistance.org As climate chaos rages forward, Indigenous communities and land defenders continue to remain on the frontlines challenging the continued expansion of major contributors to the climate crisis. According to the Front Line Defenders 2020 report, the three most targeted sectors of human rights defence were: land, environmental and Indigenous Peoples' rights (21%), LGBTIQ+ rights (14%), and women's rights (11%). Of the 331 human rights defenders killed in 2020, 26% were working on Indigenous Peoples's rights. | In 2016, the international community was horrified when Berta Caceres, a Lenca Indigenous rights fighter, co…
(2021-11-09). Julian Assange's Fiancée Stella Moris: WikiLeaks Helped Expose Climate Change Hypocrisy & War Crimes. democracynow.org 
Britain's High Court is expected to decide in the coming weeks whether to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States, where he faces up to 175 years in prison under espionage charges for publishing classified documents exposing U.S. war crimes. We get an update from Assange's partner, Stella Moris, who is in Glasgow as part of her campaign to free Julian and to highlight how WikiLeaks has also revealed evidence of how corporations and states have undermined the goals of prior climate summits. Moris says WikiLeaks is an "extraordinary tool … to understand the relationships between the states…
(2021-11-09). Military pollution is the skeleton in the West's climate closet. dissidentvoice.org World leaders gathered in Glasgow last week for the COP26 summit in a bid to demonstrate how they are belatedly getting to grips with the climate crisis. Agreements to protect forests, cut carbon and methane emissions and promote green tech are all being hammered out in front of a watching world. Western politicians, in particular, …
(2021-11-09). COP26: Emitters Sue To Chill Climate Measures. popularresistance.org International negotiators are meeting in Glasgow, Scotland, to develop solutions to the climate change threat. But one major obstacle to global sustainability is largely absent from the discussions: the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) system. | This system gives transnational corporations the power to sue governments over actions — including policies to address climate change — that reduce the value of their foreign investments. Allowing corporations to continue to wield this power could undermine whatever agreements might be reached in Glasgow. | How does this system work? Clauses in more th…
(2021-11-09). US Military Is Fueling Climate Crisis — It Emits More Carbon Than 140 Nations. truthout.org 
Image Credit: @codepink | Climate activists protested outside the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow Monday spotlighting the role of the U.S. military in fueling the climate crisis. The Costs of War project estimates the military produced around 1.2 billion metric tons of carbon emissions between 2001 and 2017, with nearly a third coming from U.S. wars overseas. But military carbon emissions have largely been exempted from international climate treaties dating back to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol after lo…
(2021-11-09). Path to extinction or path to a livable future? greenleft.org.au In a new book, Stan Cox dismisses the anti-science and racism of climate denialists such as Donald Trump, strips bare the insincerity of the early Joe Biden administration, and uncovers the lurking dangers of energy denial, writes Don Fitz.
(2021-11-09). Disastrous –°limate –°onsequences for Africa and the Glasgow Conference. journal-neo.org 
Recently, various media reports on the manifestation of climate change in the world have become more and more like battlefield reports. These changes are affecting rich countries as well as poorer ones. Climate change in Africa is a growing threat to Africans as Africa is one of the most vulnerable continents to climate change. According …
(2021-11-09). Feel Like NPR Is Spewing Corrupt Propaganda? Here's Why. warisacrime.org 
NPR posted a story called "Feel like you don't fit in either political party? Here's why." Of course I knew why. Neither party supports anything remotely close to my views on government budgets, climate, environment, taxation, militarism, healthcare, retirement, housing, education, transportation, or any other significant policy area. But NPR's story was about a Pew …
(2021-11-09). UN turns to world leaders and the wealthy to help with world hunger. nationofchange.org "We've got conflict, climate change, and Covid-19 driving up the numbers of the acutely hungry, and there are now more than 45 million people marching towards the brink of starvation."
(2021-11-09). COP26 climate summit ends in failure. wsws.org The world's major capitalist powers and giant corporations have no solution to the climate emergency they have created.
(2021-11-09). COP26: Saudi Arabia and China resist climate deal over emissions data. middleeasteye.net 
COP26: Saudi Arabia and China resist climate deal over emissions data | Both countries stall efforts at climate conference over concerns about sharing economic growth data | Tue, 11/09/2021 – 11: 20 | Employees of Aramco oil company work in Saudi Arabia's Abqaiq oil processing plant on 20 September 2019 (AFP) | Saudi Arabia and China have been accused of blocking progress at COP26 in Glasgow after refusing to…
(2021-11-09). War Helps Fuel the Climate Crisis as U.S. Military Carbon Emissions Exceed 140+ Nations. democracynow.org 
Climate activists protested outside the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow Monday spotlighting the role of the U.S. military in fueling the climate crisis. The Costs of War project estimates the military produced around 1.2 billion metric tons of carbon emissions between 2001 and 2017, with nearly a third coming from U.S. wars overseas. But military carbon emissions have largely been exempted from international climate treaties dating back to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol after lobbying from the United States. We go to Glasgow to speak with Ramón Mejía, anti-militarism national organizer of Grassroots Global Justice Allian…
(2021-11-09). Political dinosaurs and the gas-led 'recovery'. greenleft.org.au As Scott Morrison wipes the egg from his face following his dismal performance at COP26, Sue Bull argues that climate campaigners have to step up their campaign to force a just transition.
(2021-11-09). Chilly winter due to global warming: Expert. ecns.cn Massive snowstorms and a blast of chilly air swept across northern China over the weekend, leaving many people shivering in the freezing cold.
(2021-11-09). Thousands of Tons of COVID-Related Waste Pollutes Oceans: Study. washingtoninformer.com The earth's oceans are polluted with over 25,000 tons of coronavirus-related plastic waste, according to a study in the journal PNAS. | Since the start of the pandemic, the world has generated over 8 million tons of related waste. Hospitals generate much of this waste and it accumulates on beaches and coastal sediments, PNAS reported plastic waste poses a major threat to marine life and ecosystems. The researchers of the study said the coronavirus only increased the d…
(2021-11-09). Tunisia police fire tear gas at protesters demanding closure of rubbish dump. middleeasteye.net 
Tunisia police fire tear gas at protesters demanding closure of rubbish dump | Interior ministry denies report that a young protester was killed during protests in the southern town of Agareb | Tue, 11/09/2021 – 08: 01 | The closing of the controlled landfill in Agareb earlier this year caused thousands of tonnes of household waste to accumulate for about a month in the streets of Sfax (AF…