2023-07-18: News Headlines

ecns.cn (2023-07-18). Xi stresses key tasks on environment. ecns.cn President Xi Jinping has called for stronger efforts to build a Beautiful China and to underpin the nation's high-quality growth with a high-quality ecological environment, saying that Beijing will remain unwavering in honoring its climate commitments.

Civil Disobedience for the Climate (2023-07-18). Protesters Separated from Locking Cuffs at Wells Fargo Protest. indybay.org 30 second mp.4 video by Peg Hunter of fire fighters cutting away the lockboxes from protesters' arms.

CCL San Mateo Chapter, Youth Group (2023-07-18). Saturday 8/5: Climate Emergency: March & Rally for Climate Justice in San Mateo. indybay.org Central Park | 50 East 5th Avenue | San Mateo, CA 94401…

Rebecca Burns (2023-07-18). Insurers Exploit Climate Crisis To Gut Consumer Protections. levernews.com

teleSUR (2023-07-18). Colombia and Portugal Join Forces to Produce Clean Energy. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, the president of Colombia Gustavo Petro agreed with the Prime Minister of Portugal Antonio Costa a roadmap for the production of clean energy. | RELATED: | Within the framework of the summit of the European Union and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), which is taking place in Brussels, they met under the common purpose of facing the consequences of climate change and to move forward t…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-07-18). Climate Instability Worldwide: Does the US Military "Own the Weather"? "Weaponizing the Weather" as an Instrument of Modern Warfare? globalresearch.ca Weather-modification, according to the US Air Force document AF 2025 Final Report, "offers the war fighter a wide range of possible options to defeat or coerce an adversary", capabilities, it says, extend to the triggering of floods, hurricanes, droughts and earthquakes…

ecns.cn (2023-07-18). Wang Yi: China ready to work with U.S. on climate change. ecns.cn China stands ready to strengthen communication with the United States to jointly tackle climate change, senior diplomat Wang Yi said in Beijing on Tuesday, urging the U.S. to adopt a China policy that is reasonable, pragmatic and positive.

ecns.cn (2023-07-18). Nation's CO2 trading efforts seen spurring renewables, climate action. ecns.cn China's carbon emissions trading scheme will play a critical role in reducing costs of carbon reduction and spur the development of renewable energy resources in the country.

David Helvarg (2023-07-18). The Climate Catastrophe Is Already Here. progressive.org From wildfires and floods to record heat, it's clear we're at the point of needing to save what we can while we can.

Mike Walter (2023-07-18). The Heat: China-U.S. Climate Talks. america.cgtn.com Record breaking heat waves, wildfires, devastating flooding. As millions of people across the globe cope with extreme weather, critical talks get underway in Beijing between the United States and China. Can the world's top economies find common ground on the climate crisis? China's special envoy …

Rhoda Wilson (2023-07-18). Climategate: BBC's propaganda falls apart under scrutiny. expose-news.com In a rare moment of honesty, in 2009 the BBC published an article that admitted that no increase in global temperatures had been observed for 11 years even though carbon dioxide continued …

Rhoda Wilson (2023-07-18). Climate and the state of the World. expose-news.com In his latest passing observations, Dr. Vernon Coleman enlightens us about climate and the state-of-the-World today. His observations on climate include: "Any teacher who tells children that global warming is real is …

Editor (2023-07-18). Catching heat from Big Brother: Education and climate in MAGAland. mronline.org "In Real Time" is a monthly series on our blog by Stan Cox, author of The Path to a Livable Future and The Green New Deal and Beyond. The series follows the climate, voting rights, and justice movements as they navigate America's unfolding crisis of democracy. Read previous "In Real Time" dispatches here. Listen to the "In Real Time" …

ecns.cn (2023-07-18). Expectations high as China-U.S. climate cooperation talks begin. ecns.cn Experts have expressed high expectations for climate-themed technological cooperation between China and the United States, saying this will greatly reduce the cost of the world's efforts to cope with the global climate crisis.

Amy Goodman (2023-07-17). China Sees Record-Breaking Temperatures as Europe Faces Historic Heat This Week. truthout.org The world is in the grips of a dangerous heat wave that has sent temperatures skyrocketing to deadly levels throughout Asia, Europe and the Americas. Unless urgent action is taken to reduce carbon emissions, the United Nations says, Earth could pass a temperature threshold in the next decade when climate disasters are too extreme to adapt to. We speak with longtime climate journalist Jeff Goodell… |

imperial.ac.uk (2023-07-17). UK nominates Professor Jim Skea for top climate science position. imperial.ac.uk Professor Jim Skea, Professor in Sustainable Energy at Imperial, may be elected to be the next Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The Lever (2023-07-17). üéß LEVER TIME PREMIUM: Investing Against Climate Change. levernews.com On this week's bonus episode of Lever Time Premium, exclusively for The Lever's supporting subscribers, producer Jared Jacang Maher sits down with Will Wiseman and Alba Forns, co-founders of the green energy investment app Climatize.After attending the global climate strikes in Barcelona in 2019, Will and Alba decided to turn that collective energy into tangible impact. That's when they came up with the idea for Climatize — a mobile app that allows users to invest in solar and green energy projects, many of which are focused on underserved communities.Jared chats with Will and Alba about the genesis of t…

Walter Smolarek (2023-07-17). Three things a socialist government would be doing RIGHT NOW to tackle the heat wave. liberationnews.org If the government and the economy were controlled by the people instead of the billionaires — socialism — then we could immediately get to work on solutions.

Roselena Ramirez (2023-07-17). Life After Lake in Bolivia Dried Up. america.cgtn.com When it comes to climate change, experts focus mainly on future events. But higher temperatures already have very noticeable consequences in the Andes Mountains. Harris Whitbeck went to Bolivia to report on how the country's second-largest lake dried up in a blink of an eye …

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-18). Dumping doubts: Releasing Fukushima's waste water. greenleft.org.au

Sharon Zhang (2023-07-18). House Wastes No Time Crafting Pro-Israel Resolution After Jayapal Criticism. truthout.org The House is set to vote on a resolution today pledging the U.S.'s allegiance to Israel in perpetuity and outright denying Israel's human rights violations, seemingly in order to isolate and punish Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Washington) over a comment criticizing the state over the weekend. The one-page resolution, introduced by Rep. August Pfluger (R-Texas), states that "Israel is not a racist or… |

WSWS (2023-07-18). US flying blind amid warnings of new COVID-19 surge. wsws.org Times writer David Leonhardt omits the words "variant," "evolution," "Long COVID," "cases," "testing" and "wastewater" from his article, because each of these facets of the pandemic shows that it is ongoing and remains a threat to masses of people globally.

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