(2025-01-13). Targeting Climate Change Protests. counterpunch.org 
Climate change, like any crisis afflicting earth and humanity, is bound to bring out the best and the worst of a species that soils its nest, salts the earth, and poisons its nourishing rivers. For those benefiting from plunder and bounty, change is a hard thing to accept. Kleptocrats and the extractive industries, renters of land, and
(2025-01-13). Democracy Now! 2025-01-13 Monday. democracynow.org Headlines for January 13, 2025; Untold Stories of L.A. Fires: Incarcerated Firefighters, Black Altadena & Octavia Butler's Warning; "Tinderbox": How Fossil Fuel Companies & Electric Utilities Intensified L.A. Wildfires, Climate Chaos; "Journalism Is Not a Crime": Gaza Reporter Slams International Press as Journalist Death Toll Rises; "Seeking Justice": How the Hind Rajab Foundation Pursues Israeli Soldiers for War Crimes | Headlines for January 13, 2025; Untold Stories of L.A. Fires: Incarcerated Firefighters, Black Altadena & Octavia Butler's Warning; "Tinderbo…
(2025-01-13). Chris Hedges: Fire Weather. scheerpost.com 
A Final Toast — by Mr. Fish By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost The apocalyptic wildfires that have erupted in the boreal forest in Siberia, the Russian Far East and Canada, climate scientists repeatedly warned, would inevitably move southwards as rising global temperatures created hotter, more fire-prone landscapes. Now they have. The failures in California, where Los Angeles has …
(2025-01-13). Vermont Faces Legal Challenge From Big Oil Over New Law. popularresistance.org In a move that could set a precedent for climate accountability laws across the United States, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Petroleum Institute (API) have filed a lawsuit against the state of Vermont. The lawsuit challenges Vermont's groundbreaking law that requires fossil fuel companies to pay for damages caused by climate change, which has increasingly devastated the state through extreme weather events. | The law, passed in 2024, makes Vermont the first state in the nation to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for a share of the financial burden caused by climate change.
(2025-01-13). Ethiopia and Brazil strengthen agricultural and food security cooperation. tvbrics.com 
Officials discussed several initiatives aimed at fostering partnerships in agriculture, food security, and tackling climate change…
(2025-01-13). "Tinderbox": How Fossil Fuel Companies & Electric Utilities Intensified L.A. Wildfires, Climate Chaos. democracynow.org 
We speak with Leah Stokes, a researcher on climate and energy policy, who says the scale of the Los Angeles wildfires is a result of burning fossil fuels and destabilizing the planet's equilibrium. "The ultimate driver here is climate change," says Stokes. She says that as people begin to consider rebuilding their communities, they should think about how to build more resilient homes or whether the risk is simply too great in some areas. "Are these places where people really want to be building back at that same density, with that same risk?" she asks. "We do have to be asking…
(2025-01-13). Supreme Court Rules Against Big Oil in Landmark Hawaii Climate Lawsuit. truthout.org Climate campaigners and scientists on Monday welcomed the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to reject attempts by fossil fuel giants to quash the Hawaii capital's lawsuit aiming to hold the major polluters accountable for the devastating impacts of their products. "This is a significant day for the people of Honolulu and the rule of law," Ben Sullivan, executive director and chief resilience… |
(2025-01-13). How Big Developers Crushed Regulation That Could Have Mitigated LA Fires. truthout.org Back in 2019, a California state climate task force issued a stark warning: Endless development in the state's high-risk wildfire zones was magnifying wildfires and putting more people in their path. It was a call that has echoed in the state for decades from environmentalists, urban planners, and policymakers, even as developers pushed to build ever more homes in zones designated as "very… |
(2025-01-13). 6 of the Largest U.S. Banks Leaving Net Zero Alliance Ahead of Trump. pressenza.com Retreat From Climate Pledges Deemed 'a Lily-Livered Effort to Avoid Criticism' Six of the largest banks in the United States have bowed out of the global Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA), with the inauguration of Donald Trump predicted to bring political backlash concerning climate action, reported The…
(2025-01-13). Net Zero/2050 Fantasy or Reality? pressenza.com Net Zero/2050 Fantasy or Reality | May be the Most Significant Issue of the 21st Century | Net Zero refers to the balance between the amount of greenhouse gas (GHG), such as CO2, that's produced and the amount that's removed from the atmosphere. It can be achieved through a combination of emission reduction and emission removal. | The relationship between CO2 and a warmer/hotter climate is basic science: For example, according to Climate.gov: "The relationship between carbon dioxide (CO2) and global temperatures is directly proportional: As CO2 levels in the atmosphere increase, so do global temperatures, primar…
(2025-01-13). Politico and The Guardian Falsely Blame California Wildfires on Climate Change. wattsupwiththat.com By refusing to discuss the true causes of wildfires, outlets like Politico and The Guardian are complicit in hindering meaningful action. It's time for journalists to do their jobs: report facts, ask hard questions, and hold policymakers accountable. Until they do, they will remain part of the problem, not the solution.
(2025-01-13). Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #626. wattsupwiththat.com Quote of the Week: I have approximate answers and possible beliefs in different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything. — Richard Feynman (1981)…
(2025-01-13). Global temperatures in 2024 shattered records, soaring past 1.5 ∞C as extreme weather devastated millions. nationofchange.org Deadly heatwaves, rising seas, and collapsing ecosystems signal a climate emergency at 1.5 ∞c…
(2025-01-13). US media refuses to connect LA fires to climate chaos—or the billionaires responsible for it. therealnews.com 
In his 2009 paper Worst-Case Scenarios, Harvard professor Cass Sunstein coined the term the "Goldstein Effect" to describe a government's "ability to intensify public concern, by giving a definite face to the adversary, specifying a human source of the underlying threat." His basic argument was that in the instance of the "War on Terror," the …
(2025-01-12). The Fires In Gaza Are The Fires In LA. popularresistance.org Earlier on Wednesday, January 8th, I saw a prominent Zionist commentator and Twitter/X User post, "Has Greta Thunberg taken her keffiyeh off to address the fires in LA yet or are there too many Jews living here for her to be concerned?" The weird implications about a mythical antisemitic malice that climate activist Greta Thunberg has to supposedly fuel her anti-genocide and ecocide beliefs aside,…
(2025-01-12). Climate change threatens the mental well-being of youths. Here's how to help them cope. grist.org 
We've all read the stories and seen the images: The life-threatening heat waves. The wildfires of unprecedented ferocity. The record-breaking storms washing away entire neighborhoods. The melting glaciers, the rising sea levels, the coastal flooding. | As
(2025-01-12). An overview of the nefarious activities of the "Mutton Crew": From Brexit to covid to climate change and Ukraine. expose-news.com The "Mutton Crew" is an organisation with pharmaceutical and financial interests. Although it has links to the British Army, it is not a military unit but its operatives may have been trained …
(2025-01-12). Study: 'Not a Single Natural Disaster' Can be Blamed on 'Climate Change'. Frank Bergman. globalresearch.ca A group of Italian researchers has debunked globalist claims that "climate change" is causing natural disasters. | The researchers conducted a Italian researchers Gianluca Alimonti and Luigi Mariani observed trends in climate …
(2025-01-12). UK's Climate and Nature Bill will write extreme Net Zero demands of the climate change cult into law. expose-news.com Supporters of the Climate and Nature ("CAN") Bill are claiming that "the people have spoken and now everyone needs to act." They are claiming a public mandate when none exists. The CAN …