(2021-08-19). Water Protectors Lock Down at Enbridge Line 3: 700 Arrests to Date. indybay.org "We have exhausted every other option," Giniw Collective said today, Monday, August 16. "This morning, four water protectors locked to each other and to machines, halting work at an Enbridge Line 3 worksite near Hay Creek, Minnesota." Now, 700 Water Protectors have been arrested. bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2021/08/water-protectors-continue-to-resist.html…
(2021-08-19). Everyday Climate Catastrophe: Only Mass Action Will Save Us. counterpunch.org How many tragic pictures do we have to see? How many announcements? Climate Code Red, say the world's authoritative climate science group. July the hottest month in history. Shutdown of the Atlantic currents that drive the world's climate a real prospect. Fires ravaging Southern Europe, Siberia, Western North America.
(2021-08-19). Thursday 8/19: San Francisco Art Mural Action: #SealTheDeal for Climate, Jobs, Care & Justice. indybay.org Dolores Park, Dolores St and 19th St, San Francisco, CA | Wear a mask. Please follow all current COVID safety guidelines: covid19.ca.gov/…
(2021-08-19). 'Resounding' Climate Win as Judge Blocks Alaska Drilling Project Defended by Biden. commondreams.org A permanent child tax credit should appeal to Democrats and Republicans alike. Here's why.
(2021-08-19). Everyday climate catastrophe — Living in a schizoid world. zcomm.org Only mass action will save us…
(2021-08-19). Where Best to Ride Out the Climate Apocalypse? zcomm.org The Billionaires' Bunker Fantasies Go Mainstream…
(2021-08-18). The Mediterranean is on fire. therealnews.com 
After experiencing the most severe heatwave in decades, Mediterranean countries like Greece, Turkey, Italy, Algeria, Morocco, and Spain have been in the midst of a wave of destructive and deadly wildfires that have displaced thousands of residents and scorched the landscape. Scientists say there's little doubt that the scope, severity, and regularity of these wildfires are linked to man-made climate change, and the Mediterranean region itself has been designated a "climate change hotspot." TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez talks with Theodota Nantsou in Athens about the toll the fires have taken on G…
(2021-08-18). UN issues another dire report / Time's up on climate change. workers.org 
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a scientific body assembled by the United Nations, released yet another major report on climate change on Aug. 9. Vancouver protest, Sept. 27, 2017 No thinking person needs a U.N. report to know that the climate has changed, and for the worse. The dire . . . |
(2021-08-18). House on verge of votes on infrastructure, budget, voting rights. peoplesworld.org 
WASHINGTON—With heavy lifting scheduled in the U.S. House next week on infrastructure, the budget, and voting rights, progressive groups and their allies are scrambling to put pressure on the majority Democrats to stand by party priorities on those issues. Those priorities include provisions to battle climate change, tax the rich, permanently enact paid family and …
(2021-08-18). A Climate Stat We Can't Afford To Overlook. popularresistance.org Ace researchers dropped two blockbuster reports on us last week. The first — from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC — hit on Monday with a worldwide thunderclap. | UN Secretary-General António Guterres is dubbing this first report's findings "a code red for humanity" — and for good reason. Our global thermometer is already averaging 1.1 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. If current trends continue, we'll reach 3 degrees this century. Where do we need to be? To avert "catastrophe for people and natural systems worldwide," we can't afford to let global temperatur…
(2021-08-18). Podcast: Wildfires, climate action tipping points, and helping stroke patients. imperial.ac.uk In this edition: Art-science collaborations around wildfire research, joining the climate fight, and an app to aid stroke rehabilitation.
(2021-08-18). Where Best to Ride Out the Climate Apocalypse? The Billionaires' Bunker Fantasies Go Mainstream. counterpunch.org The insanity of our current economic reality is well illustrated by a new, self-serving ideological movement among the super-rich. Their emotional investment in their right to remain immensely wealthy is naturally much stronger than the investment of the rest of us in their staying rich. Which is one reason billionaires are capable of coping with much greater levels of cognitive dissonance when justifying the continuation of the current economic order.
(2021-08-18). Climate Change is a Public Health Emergency. counterpunch.org The recent UN report on climate change alerts the world to the dramatic consequences to the environment that increasing global warming trends in our planet pose for our survival. One of these negative consequences is on people's health, particularly in developing countries that don't have the financial resources to deal with them. According to the
(2021-08-18). Yurok Youth Ask Secretary of Interior Deb Haaland About State of North Coast Salmon, Climate Crisis. counterpunch.org On August 11 in the Redwood National and State Park where some of the world's tallest and most majestic trees reach to the sky, Yurok youth Repoy and K'nek'nek Lowry from the Trinidad Elementary Water Protectors met with and asked questions of Secretary of Interior Deb Haaland about the local climate crisis and the state of the salmon on the
(2021-08-18). MIDDAY POSTER: Climate Personnel Is Policy. dailyposter.com 
(2021-08-18). The Sun, Rather than CO2 May be Behind Global Warming. globalresearch.ca
(2021-08-18). Is The Sun, Rather than CO2, Behind Global Warming? globalresearch.ca