Monthly Archives: January 2023

2023-01-15: News Headlines

Dongsheng News (2023-01-14). China Reopens Its Borders. dissidentvoice.org This week's News on China in 2 minutes. | ‚Ä¢ China reopens its borders | ‚Ä¢ COVID-19 frontline rural doctors | ‚Ä¢ Jack Ma gives up Ant Group | ‚Ä¢ China moves to climate-adaption…

Binoy Kampmark (2023-01-14). ExxonMobil: Suppressing Science and Climate Change. dissidentvoice.org Villains often have the best tunes. In some cases, they also have the best evidence. The tendency in the latter is to suppress or distort that evidence if it is contrary to their interests. Exxon, now ExxonMobil, the world's largest oil and gas company, has revealed, much like tobacco companies of the past, that excellent …

3 Bay Area & climate partners (2023-01-14). 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…

_____ (2023-01-14). The Poor Are Bearing The Brunt Of California's Storms. popularresistance.org Since late December, the West Coast of the United States has been battered by torrential rain of up to eight inches, strong winds reaching 70 mph that have knocked down power lines and ripped trees from the soil, and forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate. US President Joe Biden has declared a state of emergency in California. The "parade of cyclones," as read the National Weather Service warning, is predicted to cost USD$1 billion in damages. Thus far, 18 people are dead as a result of these storms. | As these storms, heightened in frequency by climate change, wreak havoc in California, many wonder, what…

Anonymous103 (2023-01-14). ExxonMobil, Suppressing Science and Climate Change. southfront.org Illustrative Image | Written by Dr. Binoy Kampmark | Villains often have the best tunes. In some cases, they also have the best evidence. The tendency in the latter is to suppress or distort that evidence if it is contrary to their interests. Exxon, now ExxonMobil, the world's largest oil and gas company, has revealed, much like tobacco companies of the past, that excellent research that might prove costly to profits is best suppressed. Destroying ecological systems and ravaging mother nature are secondary consider…

Common Dreams Staff (2023-01-14). Thousands Rally to Protest Destruction of German Village for Coal Mine Expansion. truthout.org Thousands of people demonstrated in the pouring rain on Saturday protesting the clearance and demolition of a village in western Germany that is due to make way for the expansion of the coal mine Garzweiler. Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg joined the demonstrators as they protested the clearance of Luetzerath, walking through the nearby village of Keyenberg. Protesters chanted "Every… |

Editor (2023-01-14). The California floods and the climate crisis. mronline.org The death toll from the ongoing storms and flooding across California and parts of Arizona, Nevada and Oregon rose to at least 18 on Wednesday.

Tina Landis (2023-01-14). Atmospheric rivers, weather whiplash and the class struggle. liberationnews.org Despite scientists' warnings for decades, capitalist governments have failed to act in any meaningful way to avert climate catastrophe despite the many tools available to humanity.

ecns.cn (2023-01-14). 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.

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2023-01-14: News Headlines

3 Bay Area & climate partners (2023-01-14). 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…

Binoy Kampmark (2023-01-14). ExxonMobil: Suppressing Science and Climate Change. dissidentvoice.org Villains often have the best tunes. In some cases, they also have the best evidence. The tendency in the latter is to suppress or distort that evidence if it is contrary to their interests. Exxon, now ExxonMobil, the world's largest oil and gas company, has revealed, much like tobacco companies of the past, that excellent …

Dongsheng News (2023-01-14). China Reopens Its Borders. dissidentvoice.org This week's News on China in 2 minutes. | ‚Ä¢ China reopens its borders | ‚Ä¢ COVID-19 frontline rural doctors | ‚Ä¢ Jack Ma gives up Ant Group | ‚Ä¢ China moves to climate-adaption…

Common Dreams Staff (2023-01-14). Thousands Rally to Protest Destruction of German Village for Coal Mine Expansion. truthout.org Thousands of people demonstrated in the pouring rain on Saturday protesting the clearance and demolition of a village in western Germany that is due to make way for the expansion of the coal mine Garzweiler. Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg joined the demonstrators as they protested the clearance of Luetzerath, walking through the nearby village of Keyenberg. Protesters chanted "Every… |

ecns.cn (2023-01-14). 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.

_____ (2023-01-13). Exxon's Early Climate Models Were Creepily Accurate, New Study Finds. popularresistance.org Today, a group of researchers from Harvard University and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research released a first-of-its-kind study that shows just how excellent the predictions of Exxon's scientists were — and how the company's leadership went on to undermine those findings to our collective peril. | The new study is the first-ever systematic, peer-reviewed analysis of the fossil fuel industry's climate modeling and projections — and its authors say it could have big implications for efforts to hold Exxon and other oil companies accountable for their deceit. | Harvard researchers Geoffrey…

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

Julia Conley (2023-01-13). 'You couldn't make it up': Head of UAE oil company appointed chair of UN climate summit. nationofchange.org "This appointment risks further undermining the credibility of global climate talks and threatens the action and leadership needed for a rapid and equitable phase out of all fossil fuels."

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…

JANET (2023-01-13). Stop Israel's racist genocide! Free Palestine! iacenter.org By Otis Grotewohl January 10, 2023 The racist, apartheid government of Israel wasted no time in starting off the new year by murdering two young Palestinian men, while threatening further Zionist settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank. Israeli forces murdered 22-year-old Mohammad Samer Hoshiyeh and 25-year-old Fouad Mohammad Abed on Jan. 2 in Kufr Dan, a town northwest of Jenin in the West Bank. The killings occurred after Zionist officers raided the community to demolish the homes of two other Palestinians, who had been shot down at a Jamaleh checkpoint last September. Additionally, Israeli occupiers kil…

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