Monthly Archives: September 2023

2023-09-29: News Headlines

Art 4 Action (2023-09-29). Mighty Band The Climate Strikers Fights for Planet. indybay.org Youth and age together in action! Palo Altans plus students from distant parts of the Bay Area took part in global day of action on Sept 15.

Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, EcoWatch. (2023-09-29). Students Across The US Launch Green New Deal For Schools. popularresistance.org Students at more than 50 high schools across the United States are launching a Green New Deal for Schools campaign, with the hope of getting climate policies enacted that will require school districts to add climate education to their curriculums and plan for climate disasters. | The ultimate goal of the initiative, organized by the youth climate justice organization Sunrise Movement, is for federal legislation to be enacted to implement climate education policies in schools nationwide. | "The Green New Deal for Schools will transform public schools in America to face the climate crisis and ensure all students re…

It's Going Down (2023-09-29). Portland, OR: Industrial Timber Conference Disrupted by Protesters; Windows Busted Out. itsgoingdown.org In so-called Portland, Oregon, protesters mobilized this week to disrupt the "Who Will Own the Forest Conference," which according to Oregon Live, brought together such corporate interests as "leading names in the timber industry…[like] Weyerhaeuser, and international investment firms like J.P. Morgan." According to the website set up for a counter-conference, "Forests Over Profits," the…

No 2 APEC Climate Bloc (2023-09-29). Sunday 10/8: No 2 APEC: Direct Action Training in Berkeley. indybay.org ARC West‚Ä¢ 2414 Sixth Street, Berkeley, CA 94710 US…

No 2 APEC Climate Bloc (2023-09-29). Sunday 10/29: No APEC! Direct Action Training in San Francisco. indybay.org 518 Valencia‚Ä¢ 518 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110 US…

No 2 APEC Climate Bloc (2023-09-29). Sunday 11/5: No APEC! Direct Action Training in Berkeley. indybay.org ARC West‚Ä¢ 2414 Sixth Street, Berkeley, CA 94710 US…

No 2 APEC Climate Bloc (2023-09-29). October and November: Direct Action Trainings to Say "No 2 APEC" indybay.org Get trained before APEC – there are opportunities every week in the East Bay and San Francisco. See you there!

Paige Bennett (2023-09-29). Switzerland loses 10% of glacier volume in just two years. nationofchange.org "Glaciers are the ambassadors of climate change. They make it very clear what is happening out there because they respond in a very sensitive way to warming temperatures."

Robert Hunziker (2023-09-29). Antarctica Hits Records as Global Heat Looms Large for 2024. dissidentvoice.org "Climate breakdown has begun. Our climate is imploding faster than we can cope," UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. (Source: "2024 Likely to be Hottest Year on Record," Phys.org, September 6, 2023) A report from the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) released by the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting in Berlin in the spring of 2023 …

sputnikglobe (2023-09-29). Scientists Recover 630,000 WWII-Era Records to Remedy Gap in Climate Data. sputnikglobe.com At least 4,000 volunteers transcribed more than 28,000 logbook images from the US Navy fleet that was stationed in Hawaii between 1941 and 1945. The new data set is expected to help show whether or not unusually warm temperature recordings during World War II were in fact valid.

sputnikglobe (2023-09-29). US Capitol Police Arrest 18 Climate Activists Occupying House Speaker's Office. sputnikglobe.com WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – Eighteen members of the Sunrise Movement were arrested at House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's office during a climate funding demonstration, the activist group said in a statement.

Staff (2023-09-29). Headlines for September 29, 2023. democracynow.org Ahead of Shutdown, Biden Says GOP Extremists Are Trying to "Burn the Place Down", Biden Warns Trump & MAGA Movement Are a Threat to Democracy, Activist Disrupts Biden Speech, Urges Him to Declare Climate Emergency, 18 Youth Climate Activists Arrested for Occupying Speaker McCarthy's Office, GOP Witnesses Admit No Evidence Yet to Support Impeaching Biden, GOP Lawmakers Refuse to Say Trump Should Be Held Accountable If Convicted, NY Appeals Court Rejects Trump Effort to Delay Civil Fraud Trial, Dozens Killed in Two Blasts in Pakistan, U.N.: Over 2,500 Migrants Have Died or Gone Missing This Year T…

Alex Bainbridge (2023-09-28). Mission Zero: 'Game on, not game over' says Climate Council. greenleft.org.au A new report from the Climate Council (CC) reaffirms the need for Australia to reduce carbon emissions by 75% by 2030 and aim for net zero by 2035, writes Alex Bainbridge.

Isabella Kaminski (2023-09-28). Youth challenge 32 European nations in 'truly historic' climate trial. nationofchange.org Lawyers representing six Portuguese young people said the youth were being discriminated against by state inaction in cutting greenhouse gas emissions, the effects of which have been "foreseeable for decades."

Kelly Hayes (2023-09-28). To Fight Big Tech, We Must Seize the Means of Computation. truthout.org "If you've never tried to organize a movement without the internet, I'm here to tell you, it's really hard. We need to seize the means of computation, because while the internet isn't the most important thing that we have to worry about right now, all the things that are more important, gender and racial justice, inequality, the climate emergency, those are struggles that we're going to win or… |

No 2 APEC Climate Bloc (2023-09-28). Sunday 10/8: No 2 APEC: Direct Action Training in Berkeley. indybay.org ARC West‚Ä¢ 2414 Sixth Street, Berkeley, CA 94710 US…

No 2 APEC Climate Bloc (2023-09-28). Sunday 10/29: No APEC! Direct Action Training in San Francisco. indybay.org 518 Valencia‚Ä¢ 518 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110 US…

No 2 APEC Climate Bloc (2023-09-28). Sunday 11/5: No APEC! Direct Action Training in Berkeley. indybay.org ARC West‚Ä¢ 2414 Sixth Street, Berkeley, CA 94710 US…

No 2 APEC Climate Bloc (2023-09-28). October and November: Direct Action Trainings to Say "No 2 APEC" indybay.org Get trained before APEC – there are opportunities every week in the East Bay and San Francisco. See you there!

imperial.ac.uk (2023-09-29). Climate awards and dangerous jobs: News from Imperial. imperial.ac.uk Here's a batch of fresh news and announcements from across Imperial.

| Anadolu Agency | (2023-09-28). 'Double victim': UN chief urges support for Pakistan as floodwater has 'receded but needs have not'. tribune.com.pk The UN secretary general has urged for support for Pakistan, which continues rebuilding in the wake of last year's devastating floods, calling the country a "double victim" of "climate chaos" and "unjust" global financial system. | "Pakistan is a double victim — of climate chaos, and of our outdated and unjust global financial system that prevents middle-income countries from accessing much needed resources to invest in adaptation and resilience," said Antonio Guterres in an address at the UN headquarters in New York on Wednesday. | Triggered by torrential monsoon rains, the 2022 floods submerged one thir…

channelnewsasia (2023-09-29). Private sector crucial in the battle against climate change: ADB special advisor. channelnewsasia.com There is increasing interest from the private sector on investing in sustainable developments, green initiatives and climate-friendly adaptations, he said.

Erika Schelby (2023-09-29). The Beef Industry is Destroying the American West and Worsening the Climate Crisis. counterpunch.org When conservationist Aldo Leopold persuaded the U.S. Forest Service in 1924 to establish the nation's first federally approved wilderness of more than 500,000 acres around the headwaters of the Gila River in southwestern New Mexico, he did not anticipate that this priceless pristine land would be invaded by cattle. This problem would take root around

Farrah Hassen (2023-09-29). Suing for a Livable Climate. counterpunch.org Across the globe, people are turning to the courts to combat the worsening climate emergency. Since 2015, cases around the world have doubled to over 2,000, according to a recent United Nations report. They are also on the rise in the United States. In a landmark trial in Montana, a judge ruled this summer that the state had violated the young plaintiffs'

Robert Hunziker (2023-09-29). Antarctica Hits Records as Global Heat Looms Large for 2024. counterpunch.org "Climate breakdown has begun. Our climate is imploding faster than we can cope," UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. (Source: 2024 Likely to be Hottest Year on Record, Phys.org, September 6, 2023) A report from the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) released by the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting in Berlin in the spring of 2023

teleSUR (2023-09-29). Kenya To Boost Green Drive, Innovative Climate Financing. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Kenya called on development financial institutions to devise innovative climate financing frameworks to drive green growth. | Related: | Njuguna Ndung'u, cabinet secretary of the National Treasury and Economic Planning, said that the new financial architecture would help Africa access financing for its green initiatives. | "The call for reforms in the international financing architecture would align wi…

teleSUR (2023-09-29). Puebla Group Holds Its 9th Meeting in Mexico. telesurenglish.net From Friday to Sunday, the Puebla Group will hold its 9th Meeting in Puebla, Mexico, where former presidents and progressive Ibero-American intellectuals will present foreign policy proposals. | RELATED: | More specifically, the Group will analyze its international agenda to fight hunger, economic blockades, the climate crisis, and deglobalization. | Other topics under debate will be the creation of a Latin American commo…

teleSUR (2023-09-28). Zambia: Confident on Concluding National Climate Adaptation Plan. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, the Zambian government expressed confidence that it will be able to finalize the country's national climate adaptation plan in time for the 28th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP28) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). | Related: | Official data shows that the 28th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP28) is scheduled to be held in Dubai, the most p…

Evaggelos Vallianatos (2023-09-28). Climate Chaos and the Deserts. counterpunch.org Deserts have a biocrust that acts like our skin. The "skin" of the desert soils is "essential to life in dry places." This "biocrust" is a mixture of fungi, blue-green algae, lichens, mosses, and a variety of other microbes. All together, these microorganisms keep water and create food for themselves and other microbes. Rising temperatures, however, destroys the skin-biocrust of desert soils, thus precipitating the spread of deserts. This is a large global harm as the biocrust-skin of the desert soils makes up 12 percent of all land on the planet. Its health is essential to the integrity of the health of the Eart…

Howard Lisnoff (2023-09-28). The Only Way Out is Through Protest. counterpunch.org Carl Sagan, an astronomer and a humanist, would have been heartened by the march of tens of thousands in Manhattan as a pushback against climate destruction. Sagan was immersed in the humanities and a public intellectual. He held his banner high for action to stop the heating of the planet by burning fossil fuels and the folly

Evaggelos Vallianatos (2023-09-28). Climate Chaos and the Deserts. counterpunch.org The planet is shifting Deserts have a biocrust that acts like our skin. The "skin" of the desert soils is "essential to life in dry places." This "biocrust" is a mixture of fungi, blue-green algae, lichens, mosses, and a variety of other microbes. All together, these microorganisms keep water and create food for themselves and

Newswire Editor (2023-09-28). Biden's Offshore Drilling Plan Would Be a Climate Nightmare. commondreams.org Bloomberg is reporting that the Interior Department will release a plan that envisions offshore oil drilling auctions over the next five years. The administration reportedly ruled out a plan that would have blocked any further auctions.In response, Food & Water Watch Executive Director Wenonah Hauter issued the following statement: "The only way to avert the worst impacts of the climate crisis is by stopping new fossil fuel projects. The Biden administration knows this, and yet is making the outlandish and irresponsible decision to increase oil production for decades to come. Approving new offshore drilling is…

Newswire Editor (2023-09-28). "The GOP Hates Gen Z:" Teenagers Occupy Majority Leader McCarthy's Office to Demand He Avoid a Government Shutdown and Fund Climate Action. commondreams.org This morning, over a hundred and fifty teenagers from around the country flooded into House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's office to demand he support bridge funding to keep the government open, including funding FEMA to respond to climate disasters. They held signs that said, "The GOP Hates Gen Z" and "McCarthy: Aren't you ashamed". Thirty young people are currently risking arrest blocking the entrance to his office until Speaker McCarthy agrees to a deal.

"We are fed up and we won't take it any more," said Adah Crandall, 17, a Sunrise Movement organizer currently inside the speaker's office. "As storms ra…

sputnikglobe (2023-09-29). Russia's UNSC Draft Statement Calls for Condemnation of Nord Stream Terrorist Attack. sputnikglobe.com UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) – Russia has circulated in the UN Security Council a draft statement by the Council's president calling for condemnation of last year's terrorist attack on the Nord Stream gas pipelines, Russia's First Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Dmitriy Polyansky said on Telegram.

Editor (2023-09-28). Hersh reveals U.S. motive for destruction of Nord Stream pipelines. mronline.org Seymour Hersh just published a new piece about the bombing of the Nord Stream pipelines.

TASS (2023-09-28). Gazprom resumes pumping via Power of Siberia after planned maintenance. tass.com In accordance with the gas purchase and sale agreement, maintenance of equipment and systems of the Power of Siberia gas pipeline is carried out twice a year: in spring and autumn…

sputnikglobe (2023-09-28). Japan's Seafood Exports to China Dive 75.7% Over Fukushima Water Release. sputnikglobe.com TOKYO (Sputnik) – China's seafood imports from Japan decreased by 75.7% in August year-on-year after Beijing introduced a blanket ban on Japanese marine product imports in response to the Fukushima wastewater release, Japanese news agency Kodo reported, citing updated data from the Japanese Finance Ministry.

teleSUR (2023-09-28). Japan To Begin Second Round of Fukushima Water Release. telesurenglish.net Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, announced Thursday that the second phase of the plant's water release to the ocean will begin on October 5 | RELATED: | "Preparations for the discharge will begin on October 3. In the event that no deviations are detected, it is expected that the release will begin on October 5," TEPCO specialists said in statements to the press.

TASS (2023-09-28). Great cleanup in Khatanga. How to rescue Arctic village that dates back to 400 years ago. tass.com The plans are not just to clean Khatanga from man-made waste, but, literally, to revive the village that used to be a prosperous place: to protect the coast from collapses, to develop the scientific and tourist potential…

Newswire Editor (2023-09-28). Sham Impeachment Hearings Huge Waste of Time, Republicans Should Focus on Averting Shutdown. commondreams.org Today, the House Oversight Committee kicks off its sham impeachment inquiry against President Biden. Recent

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2023-09-25: News Headlines

Luis Linares Petrov (2023-09-25). El Salvador faces complex problems. plenglish.com A recent study conducted by the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC) showed that El Salvador needs to invest 5.3 percent of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) each year to solve the losses caused by climate change, which is equivalent to 1.6 billion dollars. | According to the study, El Salvador's GDP could be reduced between nine and 12 percent in 2050 if there is no investment response to the current challenges. | The climate will harm agriculture above all, and if climatic phenomenon, such as El Niño, continue to impact the country without an adequate response, by 2050 the agricultural yield of beans w…

Brett Wilkins (2023-09-24). Island Nations Back Fossil Fuel Treaty at Global Citizen Festival. truthout.org Two island nations on Saturday joined the growing bloc of countries endorsing a fossil fuel nonproliferation treaty amid a worsening climate emergency and continued inadequate action by the larger and wealthier polluters most responsible for causing the planetary crisis. Answering United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres' exhortation at this week's Climate Ambition Summit for countries to… |

JANET (2023-09-24). 10 myths, counter-narratives and contradictions vs. the West neocolonialist war in Niger. iacenter.org By Julia Wright September 21, 2023 With all the imperial onslaughts against the Global South, their wars are increasingly fought at the level of disinformation and manufactured narratives to create a climate of smoke and mirrors — the better to cloak the real strategies. Amilcar Cabral, assassinated exactly 50 years ago. The West African independent state of Niger experienced a coup d'etat on July 26, 2023 (the anniversary of the [attack on the] Moncada Barracks in Cuba), bringing to power a group of military officers who, although trained by the United States, not only deposed U.S. and French-supported str…

JANET (2023-09-24). Role of U.S./NATO war in Libyan flood. iacenter.org By John Catalinotto September 19, 2023 A close look at the catastrophic flood that hit the port city of Derna in northeastern Libya Sept. 9 shows that it was no natural disaster. Nor was its scale due only to the climate crisis. Those Western leaders who ordered the 2011 U.S./NATO war that destroyed the then-existing Libyan government are responsible for the vast number of victims. At budget demonstration in New York City, March 21, 2011, activist hits NATO war against Libya. (Photo: John Catalinotto) News media of all types have reported on the destruction of Derna, on the 11,300 deaths reported by Sept. 17 and…

Patricia Harrity (2023-09-24). "There is No Climate Emergency," says Nobel Prize winner Dr. John F. Clauser. expose-news.com John F. Clauser, winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on quantum mechanics, has decided to sign the World Climate Declaration of Clintel with its central message "There …


Rachel Sherrington, Hazel Healy, DeSmog. (2023-09-24). A Guide To Six Greenwashing Terms Big Ag Is Bringing To COP28. popularresistance.org As some of the biggest companies — in particular meat and dairy firms — grow more concerned about their climate-villain images, they are turning to greenwashing techniques: well-known tactics deployed by oil and gas industries to shift the debate away from meaningful action. Often valid concepts in and of themselves, the problem lies in how they are touted as enviro-friendly actions while companies fail to cut their contribution to global heating. | The agriculture industry has a lot to be worried about. Meat emits around a third of global emissions of methane, and action to cut this greenhouse gas ha…

Justin Nobel, DeSmog. (2023-09-25). Plan To Clean Up Radioactive Fracking Waste Ends In Monster Lawsuit. popularresistance.org In rural West Virginia, largely hidden among steep hills, stands a $255 million facility designed to transform fracking waste into freshwater and food grade quality salts. Proponents hailed it as one of the most important environmental projects undertaken by the oil and gas industry in recent U.S. history. But local conservation groups and residents remained skeptical from the start, warning that the plant could leak toxic waste into water and air, harming human health and ecosystems in a largely forested region where tight-knit communities live close to the land. | The facility, called Clearwater, was built by t…

Ashli Blow, Next City. (2023-09-25). They Halted A Pipeline; Now Can They Get Clean Drinking Water? popularresistance.org In 2019, energy companies announced a plan to route a major crude oil pipeline through Boxtown and other mostly Black communities in southwest Memphis. The location had been chosen, a company representative stated then, because it was the "point of least resistance." | But residents came together, proving the company wrong. In 2021, a powerful grassroots movement shut down the pipeline, which would have been built through a historic neighborhood founded by emancipated people and atop the world-famous Memphis Sand Aquifer. | Now, two years later, the same activists are working to get reliable, safe drinking water…

Megan O'Matz (2023-09-24). Gerrymandering in Wisconsin Alters Political Landscape and Raises Impeachment Threats. truthout.org In the northwest corner of Wisconsin, the 73rd Assembly District used to be shaped like a mostly rectangular blob. Then, last year, a new map drawn by Republican lawmakers took effect, and some locals joked that it looked a lot like a Tyrannosaurus rex. The advent of the "T. rex" precipitated dark times and perhaps extinction for local Democrats. The new map bit off and spit out a large chunk of… |

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-24). Protesters call on Labor to protest Fukushima nuclear waste dumping. greenleft.org.au




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