2022-06-12: News Headlines

Richard Horton (2022-06-11). [Comment] Offline: Why science is not enough. thelancet.com "Listen to the science." The distinguished climate scientist, Thomas Stocker, was speaking at the Science7 Dialogue Forum in Berlin, Germany, on . The occasion was the publication of statements from the science academies of G7 nations on antiviral drugs for pandemic preparedness, decarbonisation, oceans and the cryosphere, and One Health. Since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb 24, 2022, the G7 has assumed greater political importance as a forum for influencing global affairs. The G20 has been paralysed by Russia's promise to attend its meeting in Bali, Indonesia, later this year.

_____ (2022-06-11). As US LNG Expands In Europe, A Hidden Threat Grows. popularresistance.org In March, President Biden and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced a joint task force with the goal of getting Europe off Russian gas and onto more of America's fracked gas. Most Russian gas reaches Europe via pipeline, so getting U.S. gas to Europe will involve liquifying it and then shipping it across the Atlantic. And as shipments of liquified natural gas (LNG) from the United States increase, so too do the threats from an unwelcome intruder inherently part of America's natural gas mix — radioactivity. | That's because government figures indicate that much of the gas that will be…

_____ (2022-06-12). Model-based net-zero scenarios, including those of the IPCC, aren't worth the paper they are written on. popularresistance.org World-leading economists have blown a hole right through the middle of the main tool used to produce the net-zero scenarios embraced by climate policymakers. | In a new paper, Sir Nicholas Stern, Nobel Laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz and Charlotte Taylor conclude that climate-energy-economy Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs), which are the key tool in producing emission-reduction scenarios, "have very limited value in answering the two critical questions" of the speed and nature of emissions reductions and "fail to provide much in the way of useful guidance, either for the intensity of action, or for the policies th…

____ (2022-06-12). Southeastern European countries call for acceleration of European integration. ecns.cn Leaders from southeastern European countries have called for the acceleration of the European integration process and voiced commitment to jointly enhance energy security, and address security issues and climate change.

____ (2022-06-12). BRI offers massive opportunities for China-Britain cooperation, says experts. ecns.cn China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) offers massive opportunities for China-Britain cooperation in areas like business, climate change, personnel exchanges, education and tourism, experts said here during a three-day conference concluded on Friday.

_____ (2022-06-11). Minneapolis Fights For Community-Owned Sustainable Urban Farm. popularresistance.org Minneapolis, Minnesota – 25 community members and organizers entered Mayor Jacob Frey's office, June 6, to demand that the city stop stifling the East Phillips neighborhood's efforts to build a community-owned sustainable urban farm on the site of an unused Roofing Depot plant in their neighborhood. The coalition was led by the Climate Justice Committee and the East Phillips Neighborhood Institute (EPNI). | The site, which has decades' worth of toxic arsenic waste in its soil and structures, is slated to be demolished by the city to accommodate more public works facilities. This would throw all of these toxins in…

_____ (2022-06-11). To Save The Salmon, We Have To Slow Climate Change. popularresistance.org No one in the Pacific Northwest is exempt from the impacts of climate change. | Rising global temperatures are intensifying floods, droughts and warming waters. Last summer's heat dome led to temperatures in western Washington as high as 110 degrees. We didn't just break records — we obliterated all-time records over an incredibly hot four-day period. The ocean, the rivers and the streams ran hotter than ever. Thousands of salmon died, and the people and animals that depend on them suffered. | As salmon disappear, so do dozens of other species dependent on the nutrition they provide. It is as my mentor Bill…

Staff (2022-06-11). Iran's Mazandaran; Opportunity for job-creating in greenhouse. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 11 (MNA) — Mazandaran province of Iran with its suitable climate located in the north of Iran is a good place for construction of greenhouses and creating a lot of jobs.

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