2023-08-06: News Headlines

Amanda Rice (2023-08-06). Call for Global Day of Action supporting worldwide transition to clean energy. indybay.org Join people across the world in making climate movement history on 3-4 November, by taking part in this special day of action. Everything you need to know to organise an event, join an action in your area, or add your voice online to demand our leaders power up renewables and power down fossil fuels.

Binoy Kampmark (2023-08-06). Water Wars: Cooling the Data Centres. dissidentvoice.org Water. Data centres. The continuous, pressing need to cool the latter, which houses servers to store and process data, with the former, which is becoming ever more precious in the climate crisis. Hardly a good comingling of factors. Like planting cotton in drought-stricken areas, decisions to place data hubs in various locations across the globe …

greenleft.org.au (2023-08-06). Climate conference slams Labor for supporting fossil fuel industry. greenleft.org.au

Editor (2023-08-06). The Climate Movement Has a Recruiting and Retention Problem — Here's How We Fix It. scheerpost.com

JP Sottile (2023-08-06). There Is a Climate Conspiracy — But Not the One Climate Denialists Are Peddling. truthout.org Imagine, if you will, a plot. It's an evil plot concocted by a power-hungry global elite determined to ensnare all of mankind in its dystopian, totalitarian net. Even more ominously, it's specifically designed to deny the planet's "freest" people — Americans — their god-given rights. If successful, this plot will force them to live within walking distance of schools and shopping and work and… |

Editor (2023-08-05). Anxious about the climate? there's a solution. mronline.org Mental health challenges are rising alongside temperatures. Research suggests that taking action can help.

Julia Conley (2023-08-05). Ocean Surface Temperatures Break Global Record Set in 2016. truthout.org Climate scientists on Friday said the rapidly rising temperature of the planet's oceans is cause for major concern, particularly as policymakers in the top fossil fuel emissions-producing countries show no sign of ending planet-heating oil and gas extraction. The European Union's climate agency, Copernicus Climate Change Service, reported this week that the average daily global ocean surface… |

Kwolanne Felix (2023-08-05). State-Level GOP Measures Focus on Adapting to Climate Crisis, Not Preventing It. truthout.org This summer is breaking records, with many days becoming the hottest in recorded human history, and Americans across the aisle are feeling the heat. Conservative-dominated states are not spared from the effects of climate change, yet conservative politicians are struggling to respond to the needs of their constituents as they experience climate disasters. On the national level… |

krish-rad_ind (2023-08-05). Polluters Rely on Old Rhetoric to Block Clean Energy Future. desmog.com

Peter Abrams (2023-08-05). Add Homo sapiens to the Endangered Species List. dissidentvoice.org Preventing extinction of species is a major concern of many countries in the world today. Legislation to accomplish this is usually based on an endangered species list. Such a list should include any animal or plant species that has been deemed likely to go extinct in a few generations. Listing would normally trigger protective actions to …

WSWS (2023-08-05). COVID-19 wastewater levels and hospitalizations continue to rise across the US. wsws.org The latest summer surge, which is the fourth in four years of the pandemic, upends all the lies that COVID-19 is now "endemic" and equivalent to the cold or flu.

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