Daily Archives: January 13, 2023

2023-01-13: News Headlines

John Leake (2023-01-13). A Remunerative Religion. Understanding the Climate Cult. globalresearch.ca

Roselena Ramirez (2023-01-13). A Brazilian Take on Solutions to Traffic and Climate Change. america.cgtn.com They're sophisticated, electric-assisted tricycle taxis. They're manufactured in Shanghai and assembled in Brazil. Many believe they're precisely what Rio de Janeiro hopes will help its commitment to eliminate fossil fuels by 20 . Lucrecia Franco has more on the trikes that are providing employment and bringing …

Roselena Ramirez (2023-01-13). Climate Change and Migration Threatening El Salvador's Food Security. america.cgtn.com Drought, global inflation, and heavy migration. Those factors created a perfect storm in Central America for food insecurity. Alasdair Baverstock went to El Salvador to report on its high prices and food scarcity.

Ethan Huff (2023-01-13). "Prevent Global Warming", Ban Gas Stoves, Restaurants Everywhere Will Fail. globalresearch.ca

Robert Hunziker (2023-01-13). The Invisible Global Heat Danger Zone. dissidentvoice.org NASA claims that 2022 was one of the hottest years ever recorded with record-breaking heat waves around the world, as major commercial waterways, like the Danube, Po, Rhine, Yangtze, and Mississippi rivers temporarily dried up leaving humongous river barges choking in mud. But that was merely global-warming-lite. The real global warming threat is invisible. It's …

infobrics (2023-01-13). Rosneft Wants to Supply Gas to Power-of-Siberia 2 Pipeline. infobrics.org Russian oil major Rosneft wants to supply natural gas from its fields in the Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk regions to the Power-of-Siberia 2 pipeline that will supply China via Mongolia…

ecns.cn (2023-01-13). Japan's contentious plan to dump Fukushima radioactive water into sea to start in spring or summer. ecns.cn The Japanese government on Friday said a controversial plan to release radioactive wastewater from a crippled nuclear plant in Japan's northeast into the Pacific Ocean will start in the spring or summer.

3 Bay Area & climate partners (2023-01-12). Friday 1/20: Biden: Declare a Climate Emergency! Joye Braun Day of Action Bay Area Rally. indybay.org San Francisco Federal Building | 90 7th Street | San Francisco, CA 94103…

WSWS (2023-01-12). The California floods and the climate crisis. wsws.org Millions have been left to fend for themselves, climbing into attics and onto roofs to escape the rising floodwaters to survive in whatever way they could.

_____ (2023-01-12). Why The Climate Justice March In South Korea Could Be A Game Changer. popularresistance.org On September 24, 2022, more than 30,000 people occupied the main roads of downtown Seoul, South Korea, for the nation's largest climate justice march. The sheer turnout of people from all walks of life and the participation by a wide range of advocacy groups were a testament to the impact of climate change on every aspect of life: human rights, women's rights, religion, food insecurity, and labor rights. For many of these advocacy movements in Seoul, recent crises like COVID-19 have brought home the urgent need to address the climate crisis. | Opening with a rally in Namdaemun Plaza at 3 p.m., the two-hour march…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-01-12). Russia and its National Arctic Passage: Pushing Trade Frontiers Eastward. libya360.wordpress.com Karin Kneissl Ice-free Arctic routes created by climate change have opened up the first new global shipping route in a century. The Russian-developed water passage is bound to disrupt the lengthier Atlantic-centric routes for global commerce. The Arctic region has long been a source of interest for offshore drilling, particularly during times of high commodity prices….

Mike Ludwig (2023-01-12). Rush to Export Gas Is Making Gulf Coast an Industrial Wasteland, Residents Say. truthout.org Local residents and environmentalists warn that the rush to export fracked gas to energy-strapped allies in Europe and the rest of the world threatens to create an "industrial wasteland" in southern Louisiana. At least two export terminals near the Gulf Coast are already releasing toxic air pollution as massive ships are loaded with liquified natural gas, or LNG. The climate crisis demands a steep… |

Olivia Rosane (2023-01-12). Biden admin announces first-of-its-kind roadmap to decarbonize US transit by 2050. nationofchange.org "The domestic transportation sector presents an enormous opportunity to drastically reduce emissions that accelerate climate change and reduce harmful pollution."

Sharon Zhang (2023-01-12). Study Reveals Exxon Accurately Predicted Global Warming Decades Ago. truthout.org The latest study from Harvard researchers who analyzed internal documents showing the extent to which Exxon Mobil knew about the climate crisis decades ago has found that Exxon's climate studies were incredibly accurate in predicting the effects of global warming as early as 1977 — further confirming that Exxon knowingly perpetuated a decades-long campaign to deny the existence of the climate… |

W. T. Whitney Jr. (2023-01-12). Warning: U.S. capitalism is lethal (and bad for your health). peoplesworld.org Under capitalism, industrial production and consumer buying expand. Greenhouse gases fill the atmosphere, the climate changes, and people die. U.S. leadership of global capitalism leads to wars and from there, potentially, to nuclear annihilation. There is extra dying in the United States now. According to provisional government statistics released in August, life expectancy at birth …

WSWS (2023-01-12). Green Party organises police violence against climate activists in Làºtzerath, Germany. wsws.org The forced evacuation of the village of Làºtzerath to enable open cast mining is being organised by the self-proclaimed "environment party." The state government, a coalition of the Christian Democrats and Greens, has mobilised thousands of police officers from throughout Germany to brutally crack down on the climate protesters.

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