Climate Crisis: False Techtopia, Tariffs Accounting, Orphan Wells, And The Dead Cow
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-08
Recent studies debunk the false techtopianism in climate science models, U.S. import tariffs failed climate accounting, and Argentina's shale industry is flailing. As fracking goes bust, what happens to orphaned wells?
therealnews.com/columns/climate-crisis-false-techtopia-tariffs-accounting-orphan-wells-and-the-dead-cow
Stop the Money Pipeline for Fossil Fuels: Climate Finance 101 Webinar
#StopTheMoneyPipeline | indybay.org | 2020-05-08
Online via Zoom…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/07/18832862.php
Climate One: Flooding in America's Heartland (online speakers)
Climate One | indybay.org | 2020-05-08
Online via livestream…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/07/18832863.php
Stir Crazy! Episode #31: Cancel Corporate Media
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-08
On today's show: TRNN climate reporter Aman Azhar, The Progressive Army founder Ben Dixon, and TRNN Executive Producer Lisa Snowden-McCray. Hosted by Kim Brown.
therealnews.com/stories/stir-crazy-episode-31-cancel-corporate-media
The 'staggering' fall of global fossil fuel demand
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-05-08
By Kieran Cooke: One of the pillars of industrial society is tottering: global fossil fuel demand is buckling, with only renewable energy expected to show any growth this year. Oil prices are going through the floor. The market for coal and gas is shrinking fast. And global emissions of climate-changing greenhouse gases are set to …
truepublica.org.uk/global/the-staggering-fall-of-global-fossil-fuel-demand/
Visions of a Post-Covid-19 World
John Davis | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-08
While we, perforce, sit at home, inured to many decades of sleep-walking towards the climate apocalypse, the skies cleared, the price of oil dropped to negative $40 a barrel (rebounding to just short of positive $20 at the time of writing) and a global reduction in carbon emissions of nearly 8% is forecast for the year. We are living the dream of effectively confronting our egregious consumption of fossil fuels. From a global warming perspective, our social isolation has been highly efficacious – the pernicious, growth-driven habits of exploitation, extraction and habitat destruction have been put on hold. A wind…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/08/visions-of-a-post-covid-19-world/
Attacking the Messenger
Pete Dolack | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-08
When it comes to global warming, there continues to be plenty of magical thinking going on. And such magical thinking is not exclusive to the conservative side of the political spectrum. It is easy to take apart conservative denial of global warming, based as it is on ideology and a total lack of scientific grounding.
counterpunch.org/2020/05/08/attacking-the-messenger/
Replacing 50% of animal products with plant-based foods could prevent 1.6 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions
Marlee Kokotovic | nationofchange.org | 2020-05-07
"Moving the American appetite from our burger-heavy diet to plant-based eating is a powerful and necessary part of curbing the climate crisis."
nationofchange.org/2020/05/07/replacing-50-of-animal-products-with-plant-based-foods-could-prevent-1-6-billion-tons-of-greenhouse-gas-emissions/
Spills From Outdated Sewers Pose Coronavirus Risk to Drinking Water
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-07
In early April, as much of the East Coast continued to sink into COVID-19 crisis mode, a heavy storm dumped rain across Massachusetts and New Hampshire, overwhelming local wastewater treatment plants. Plant operators would later report that millions of gallons of raw sewage overflowed into the Merrimack River, which supplies drinking water to a half million people and is a po…
truthout.org/articles/spills-from-outdated-sewers-pose-coronavirus-risk-to-drinking-water/
Disease-carrying mosquitoes could be common in Europe by 2030
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-05-06
Climate change could mean mosquitoes that can carry diseases like dengue, zika and yellow fever become established in southern Europe within 10 years.
imperial.ac.uk/news/197333/disease-carrying-mosquitoes-could-common-europe-2030
California And Trump Push Geoengineering–A Fraught Climate Crisis Fix
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-06
California has endorsed the use of direct air capture to reverse engineer the climate crisis with technology. The controversial method already has Big Oil's support–and the Trump administration's.
therealnews.com/stories/california-trump-geoengineering-direct-air-capture-technology
California And Trump Push Geoengineering–A Fraught Climate Crisis Fix
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-06
California has endorsed the use of direct air capture to reverse engineer the climate crisis with technology. The controversial method already has Big Oil's support–and the Trump administration's.
therealnews.com/stories/california-trump-geoengineering-direct-air-capture-technology
New PSL book: 'Climate Solutions: Beyond Capitalism'
Sunil Freeman | liberationnews.org | 2020-05-05
"It is a small book, but expansive in outlook in a way that echoes the holistic eco-socialist society we will need…"
liberationnews.org/new-psl-book-climate-solutions-beyond-capitalism/
Climate Crisis: KXL Legal Precedent, War and Climate, Slow Streets
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-05
A legal ruling on the Keystone XL Pipeline has sent shockwaves through the energy industry. Meanwhile, new studies show that war is worsening climate change, and 'slow streets' gains policy momentum.
therealnews.com/columns/climate-crisis-kxl-legal-precedent-war-and-climate-slow-streets
Planet of the Humans: a muddy cocktail of valid criticisms, disinformation and defeatism
Stuart Munckton | greenleft.org.au | 2020-05-02
Climate crisis Environment Film & theatre Zane AlcornIssue 1264 Michael MooreMay 2, 2020 Planet of the Humans | Directed by Jeff Gibbs | Planet of the…
greenleft.org.au/content/planet-humans-muddy-cocktail-valid-criticisms-disinformation-and-defeatism
Roaming Charges: Ain't Living Long Like This
Jeffrey St. Clair | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-08
+ The detestable rationalizations liberals make for sticking with Biden despite Tara Reade's convincing story can't come as any surprise. It's the same ritual contortions they've made about the Iraq war, fracking, abortion, the drug war, Anita Hill, social security, segregation, climate change, health care, deportations, a living wage, student debt, the Patriot Act, pipelines, the Libyan coup, climate change. To be a Democrat is to live in a constant state of denial, self-contradiction and moral hypocrisy.
counterpunch.org/2020/05/08/roaming-charges-aint-living-long-like-this/