teleSUR (2023-05-19). Climate Change Increasing La Niña & El Niño Severity. telesurenglish.net A study published in the journal Nature Reviews Earth and Environment on Thursday shows that global climate change is driving an increase in the severity and frequency of La Nina and El Nino events. | RELATED: | A team of researchers from several countries, including China and Australia, found evidence that the El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), a major climate driver, has become more intense as a result of incre…
Editor (2023-05-19). The terrifying math of the incoming El Niño. mronline.org 
We are, right now, living in a dangerously warmed climate.
Editor (2023-05-19). Even at Ground Zero of the Climate Crisis Denial Remains the Norm. scheerpost.com 
As much talk about nuclear war instills fears of the world ending for many, climate disaster ominously looms in the background, eating away at the environment around us.
Alex Bainbridge (2023-05-18). Budget fails on serious measures for climate transition. greenleft.org.au It was notable that Treasurer Jim Chalmers didn't mouth the words "climate action" while spruiking the budget. Alex Bainbridge argues that's because it didn't contain a plan for the climate transition we need.
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, EcoWatch. (2023-05-18). El Niño, Greenhouse Gas Emissions To Push Global Temperatures Into 'Uncharted Territory' Soon. popularresistance.org We're fast approaching the threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels that we've been warned about. | According to the latest Global Annual to Decadal Climate Update, produced by the United Kingdom's Met Office and issued by the United Nations' World Meteorological Organization (WMO), there is a 66 percent likelihood that between 2023 and 2027 the yearly average global temperature will be more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels for at least one year, a press release from WMO said. | "[I]t's the first time in history that it's more likely than not that we will exceed 1.5C," said…
Editor (2023-05-18). Climate breakdown, extinction and 'the most stupid boast'. mronline.org 
Hyde—or Marina Elizabeth Catherine Dudley-Williams, as she prefers not to be known—was, in fact, making 'the most stupid boast' that could be made by a journalist, to quote George Seldes (1890-1995), the U.S. press critic.
Maddi Johnson (2023-05-18). How capitalism drives climate catastrophe. workers.org 
Portland, Oregon Since I moved to Oregon, all I've been hearing is: "This weather isn't normal. It's too hot in the summers, too cold in the winters." You hear the same story all across the globe. Every year, everywhere, new weather records are broken. Anecdotes aside, the data is indisputable. . . . |
Rhoda Wilson (2023-05-18). The Great Reset is not about achieving their dystopia it's about creating massive chaos which would put them in charge. expose-news.com The Great Reset is a multi-prong attack. "It was decades of trends that led to this. And our whole climate debate now is no longer in the democratic realm — at least …
Sharon Zhang (2023-05-18). GOP Tax Cut Plan Would Add $3.5T to Deficit, Congressional Budget Office Finds. truthout.org As Republicans threaten to tank the entire U.S. economy in order to force through massive cuts to federal programs and climate initiatives, supposedly to reduce the national debt, a new report finds that one of the GOP's parallel efforts to make permanent a deluge of massive tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy would undo all of the "savings" from their debt limit package and pile trillions… |
Staff (2023-05-18). Headlines for May 18, 2023. democracynow.org U.N. Warns Global Heating Is Poised to Set Records and May Exceed 1.5 ∞C Within Five Years, Eight Killed as Torrential Rains Bring Massive Flooding to Northern Italy, Burma's Government-in-Exile Says Death Toll from Cyclone Mocha Has Topped 400, Climate Activists at Africa Energies Summit in London Demand End to Fossil Fuel Projects, U.N. Appeals for $3 Billion in Emergency Aid to Sudan as Humanitarian Disaster Spirals, Accusations of Voting Issues in Turkey as Erdoƒüan's Rival Appeals to Nationalists Ahead of Runoff, Florida Signs Draconian Anti-Trans Laws, as Texas GOP Advances Bill…
Bill Kitchen (2023-05-18). Pipeline Companies Use Expired Materials to Cut Costs, Flouting Regulations. truthout.org "Ductile" is not a word you come across very often. It means flexible, and it's written in the federal register as a result of the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968, which required the Department of Transportation (DOT) to develop and enforce minimum safety regulations for the transportation of gases by pipeline. Those regulations became effective in 1970. For more than half a century there'… |
Jacques Lochard, Rethy K Chhem (2023-05-20). Correspondence] Lessons from Fukushima: the power of culture as storytelling. thelancet.com According to Oxford Reference,1 culture is the "way of life of people, including their attitudes, values, beliefs, arts, sciences, modes of perception, and habits of thought and activity". A culture provides imaginary points of support for practical life and practical points of support for imaginary life.2…
Editor (2023-05-19). Why is AOC Parroting Nuclear Industry Propaganda? scheerpost.com 
By Linda Pentz Gunter / CounterPunch Note: During a visit to Japan, including to the destroyed Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant site, US Representative, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, an outspoken Democrat from Queens, New York, made a series of Instagram posts. Despite being loaded with errors of fact and science, her pronouncements were seized upon by the nuclear power …
Bryant Arroyo (2023-05-19). Voices from behind the walls. workers.org 
Workers World received the poem and letters below from prisoners. 'America, America' An Anatomy of America's Wasteful Prison Industrial Complex America, America Land of the free, A society filled with justice and equality. This is a clear example of hypocrisy, unless they forgot to include me, and millions of others . . . |
Matthew Daly (2023-05-18). EPA rule would force clean-up of toxic coal ash dumped in landfills, ponds near power plants. peoplesworld.org 
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency is strengthening a rule aimed at controlling and cleaning up toxic waste from coal-fired power plants. A proposal announced Wednesday would for the first time require safe management of so-called coal ash dumped in hundreds of older landfills, "legacy" ponds, and other inactive sites that currently are unregulated …
Editor (2023-05-19). Why is AOC Parroting Nuclear Industry Propaganda? scheerpost.com By Linda Pentz Gunter / CounterPunch Note: During a visit to Japan, including to the destroyed Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant site, US Representative, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, an outspoken Democrat from Queens, New York, made a series of Instagram posts. Despite being loaded with errors of fact and science, her pronouncements were seized upon by the nuclear power …
Bryant Arroyo (2023-05-19). Voices from behind the walls. workers.org Workers World received the poem and letters below from prisoners. 'America, America' An Anatomy of America's Wasteful Prison Industrial Complex America, America Land of the free, A society filled with justice and equality. This is a clear example of hypocrisy, unless they forgot to include me, and millions of others . . . |
Matthew Daly (2023-05-18). EPA rule would force clean-up of toxic coal ash dumped in landfills, ponds near power plants. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency is strengthening a rule aimed at controlling and cleaning up toxic waste from coal-fired power plants. A proposal announced Wednesday would for the first time require safe management of so-called coal ash dumped in hundreds of older landfills, "legacy" ponds, and other inactive sites that currently are unregulated …
Screengrab, via Youtube. | Late on May 19, a mysterious blast rocked a natural gas pipeline in the northern Iraqi province of Kirkuk causing a massive fire. | The pipeline is reportedly operated by Iraq's North Oil Company. The blast took place near the town of Bajwan, a few kilometers to the north of Kirkuk city. Video footage that surfaced online showed a massive fire that erupted after the blast. | Civil defense in Kirkuk said in a statement that the fire was quickly put down, a…