(2023-10-10). China, U.S. climate envoys hold video conference. ecns.cn Xie Zhenhua, China's special envoy for climate change, held a video conference with John Kerry, the United States' special presidential envoy for climate on Monday, according to the Ministry of Ecology and Environment.
(2023-10-10). How efforts to restrict democracy in Ohio make it harder to fight climate changeÔøº. nationofchange.org Gerrymandering, voter suppression, dark money and other moves insulate policymakers from accountability when they prop up fossil fuels at the expense of clean energy.
(2023-10-10). Every Degree Matters: Why We Can't Give Up On Climate Action. popularresistance.org As the impacts of the climate crisis become more evident, people are understandably struggling with how to respond. Clearing the FOG speaks with climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann, author of "Our Fragile Moment: How lessons from Earth's past can help us survive the climate crisis," about the reality of our current situation and how major climate changes in the past have shaped the world and human societies. Mann urges people to avoid a doomsday mindset and explains that the actions we take now to stop fossil fuels and to develop resilient systems, no matter how bad it gets, matter for the future of humanity.
(2023-10-09). Saturday 11/4: #ClimateCrisis: No Costco Mega Gas Station in Novato March & Rally. indybay.org Rowland Blvd – Park and Ride parking lot | Novato, CA 94945 | RSVP for exact address details, please…
(2023-10-09). Dismantling Columbus's Legacy Requires More Than Changing a Holiday's Name. truthout.org On September 28, 2023, a little over a week before Indigenous Peoples' Day, an Akimel O'odham and Hopi climate activist, Jacob Johns, was shot by a Trump supporter at a vigil in northern New Mexico confronting the political support for bringing back monuments of colonizers that had been removed during the 2020 mass movement against racial violence. The community rally was expressing discontent… |
(2023-10-09). No Charges For Georgia Troopers Who Killed Manuel 'Tortuguita' Terán. popularresistance.org Stone Mountain, GA — A Georgia prosecutor announced Friday, Oct. 6, that six Georgia State Patrol SWAT troopers — Brylend Myers, Jerry Parrish, Jonathan Salcedo, Mark Lamb, Ronaldo Kegel, and Royce Zah — will not face criminal charges in the January 18, 2023 shooting death of Manuel 'Tortuguita' Esteban Paez Terán, a nonbinary indigenous Venezuelan climate protester. Terán's family and fellow activists believe they were murdered that day in the South River Forest near Atlanta, and much of the publicly available evidence from the incident casts doubt on the official narrative. | Stone Mountain Ju…
(2023-10-09). The World Faces a Great Unraveling. If We Ignore Indigenous Wisdom, We Are Lost. truthout.org We are living amidst Earth's hottest year ever recorded. Given the severity and acceleration of climate breakdown, we are in an unprecedented time of crisis. While it has been known for a long time that Arctic Sea ice is melting rapidly, recent data show sea ice in the Antarctic, which scientists believed would be shielded from climate impacts for decades, at dramatic all-time lows. New Orleans… |
(2023-10-09). How the Fossil Fuel Industry Came to Love Climate Change. libya360.wordpress.com Gloria Guillo Has Carbon Taxation Become an Expedient Way to Redistribute Wealth, Cover Up Environmental Crimes, Promote Hazardous Energy Policies, and Control the Working Class and Developing Nations? Does the Threat of Climate Change Misdirect the Anti-War Movement? During the early 2000s, only a few left-wing magazines with limited circulation warned about the threat of…
(2023-10-09). Any Antidote To Climate Anxiety Involves Organizing. popularresistance.org I first realized the ameliorative power of organizing when, as a teenager, awareness of the threat of nuclear war gave me overwhelming anxiety. In the 1980s people in the Reagan administration where talking about "fighting and winning" a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. A massive direct action movement rose up in opposition to this in Europe, where the U.S. hoped to station a new generation of "first strike" nuclear weapons, and it eventually rose in the U.S. as well. I threw myself into this movement, marching with 70,000 people in downtown Chicago and over a million in New York City; attending and organizing…
(2023-10-09). Saturday 10/21: Capitalism and the Climate Crisis: Everything to Lose and a World to Win. indybay.org 2727 Event Space, 2727 California Street, Berkeley, CA 94703 | CAN'T JOIN IN-PERSON? JOIN THE EVENT VIA ZOOM | TINYURL.COM/OCTOBER-TH-2023…
(2023-10-09). At the Palestine-Mexico Border: Confronting the Climate Fortress in Southern Arizona. counterpunch.org In late August, I along with a group of people trudged up the gravel road on a hill near Peña Blanca Lake, just outside Nogales, about 10 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. There, members of the Arizona Palestine Solidarity Alliance (APSA) unfurled a banner that resembled the Palestinian flag. It declared, "From the Borderlands
(2023-10-09). Forgotten Mountains. Why Kilimanjaro, Tibet, Himalaya, Greenland Are So Warm? indybay.org Counting from the altitude temperature gradient, the warming of Kilimanjaro's summit — where the snows have just disappeared and the glacier melted — we get warming over a century by about 5 *C. That is, it is four times higher than on average on the Earth's surface at the same time. Global warming on the Earth's sea and land surface of about 1.5 *C for the period 1900 — 2023 is not adequate indicator to the all 3D warming process. The Earth is not flat. The adequate for global warming-vapouring process is the surface virtually hanged three-four kilometers over the sea level line and placed in h…
(2023-10-09). 5 Years After Standing Rock, Native Tribes Still Fight Dakota Access Pipeline. truthout.org Morgan Brings Plenty, now 29 and a digital organizing fellow at Indigenous Environmental Network, was in their early 20s when they first heard about Energy Transfer Partner's Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) in late 2015. A member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, they could feel the tension regarding the pipeline in their community — and they were always close to the action. Their late mom… |
(2023-10-09). MVP Construction Halted In National Forest Due To Pipeline Resistance. popularresistance.org Peters Mountain, VA — On Saturday morning 10/7, pipeline fighter Mickey locked themself to a sleeping dragon blockade on the Virginia side of Peters Mountain, in the Jefferson National Forest. A banner at the site read, "Defend the Forest Everywhere!" Mickey prevented tree clearing on the mountain for the full day. Around 8 PM on Saturday, Mickey was extracted and arrested. They were charged with 3 misdemeanors and bail was set at $2,500. | Mickey stated, "The same thing is happening everywhere right now. Greedy corporations and politicians dirty the water and air for profit, then tell the people it's for their…
(2023-10-09). Defend the Forest Everywhere: MVP Construction Halted In National Forest Due To Pipeline Resistance. itsgoingdown.org 
Report on ongoing resistance to the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) from Appalachians Against Pipelines. On Saturday morning 10/7, pipeline fighter Mickey locked themself to a sleeping dragon blockade on the Virginia side of Peters Mountain, in the Jefferson National Forest. A banner at the site read, "Defend the Forest Everywhere!" Mickey prevented tree clearing on…
(2023-10-09). At the Palestine-Mexico Border: Confronting the Climate Fortress in Southern Arizona. counterpunch.org In late August, I along with a group of people trudged up the gravel road on a hill near Peña Blanca Lake, just outside Nogales, about 10 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. There, members of the Arizona Palestine Solidarity Alliance (APSA) unfurled a banner that resembled the Palestinian flag. It declared, "From the Borderlands
(2023-10-09). Forgotten Mountains. Why Kilimanjaro, Tibet, Himalaya, Greenland Are So Warm? indybay.org Counting from the altitude temperature gradient, the warming of Kilimanjaro's summit — where the snows have just disappeared and the glacier melted — we get warming over a century by about 5 *C. That is, it is four times higher than on average on the Earth's surface at the same time. Global warming on the Earth's sea and land surface of about 1.5 *C for the period 1900 — 2023 is not adequate indicator to the all 3D warming process. The Earth is not flat. The adequate for global warming-vapouring process is the surface virtually hanged three-four kilometers over the sea level line and placed in h…
(2023-10-09). 5 Years After Standing Rock, Native Tribes Still Fight Dakota Access Pipeline. truthout.org Morgan Brings Plenty, now 29 and a digital organizing fellow at Indigenous Environmental Network, was in their early 20s when they first heard about Energy Transfer Partner's Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) in late 2015. A member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, they could feel the tension regarding the pipeline in their community — and they were always close to the action. Their late mom… |
(2023-10-09). MVP Construction Halted In National Forest Due To Pipeline Resistance. popularresistance.org Peters Mountain, VA — On Saturday morning 10/7, pipeline fighter Mickey locked themself to a sleeping dragon blockade on the Virginia side of Peters Mountain, in the Jefferson National Forest. A banner at the site read, "Defend the Forest Everywhere!" Mickey prevented tree clearing on the mountain for the full day. Around 8 PM on Saturday, Mickey was extracted and arrested. They were charged with 3 misdemeanors and bail was set at $2,500. | Mickey stated, "The same thing is happening everywhere right now. Greedy corporations and politicians dirty the water and air for profit, then tell the people it's for their…
(2023-10-09). Defend the Forest Everywhere: MVP Construction Halted In National Forest Due To Pipeline Resistance. itsgoingdown.org Report on ongoing resistance to the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) from Appalachians Against Pipelines. On Saturday morning 10/7, pipeline fighter Mickey locked themself to a sleeping dragon blockade on the Virginia side of Peters Mountain, in the Jefferson National Forest. A banner at the site read, "Defend the Forest Everywhere!" Mickey prevented tree clearing on…
(2023-10-09). Agencies that promote nuclear power are quietly managing its disaster narrative. mronline.org 
Let's start with the total amount of radiation that the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant STILL contains today. The spent fuel at the site contains 85 times more cesium-137 than Chornobyl and 50,000 to 100,000 times more than the Hiroshima bomb.