(2021-08-21). Nearly half the world's children at 'extremely high risk' for facing effects of climate crisis, report finds. nationofchange.org "The climate crisis is a child rights crisis."
(2021-08-21). On the brink—the scenario that the IPCC is not modelling. mronline.org 
Daniel tanuro responds to the recently released IPCC Physical Basis Report, which is a contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report on climate change.
(2021-08-21). Art Mural Action in San Francisco's Dolores Park. indybay.org Sunrise Bay Area and and CA GND Coalition paint "Seal The Deal" mural for climate, jobs, care and justice…
(2021-08-21). Two Koreas need to work together to fight climate change. zcomm.org They can compose a peninsular plan to transition together to a clean energy future…
(2021-08-21). Methane Is Flaring Out of Control. Biden Administration, Congress, Must Step In. truthout.org 
This summer, methane got a nickname that stuck. Climate scientists and policy analysts have been calling the greenhouse gas a "low-hanging fruit" for years, but the term seems to have caught on more broadly among world leaders, journalists and organizers, due in part to a major United Nations
(2021-08-21). As wildfires ravage British Columbia, Wall Street tells investors to buy stock in Canada's tar sands. nationofchange.org New pipelines could help Canada export more tar sands, boosting the bottom lines of Alberta's oil producers. But experts warn that Canada is charting a 'path to climate crisis.'
(2021-08-21). Climate change and hunger in Madagascar: a UN Resident Coordinator blog. news.un.org In the south of Madagascar, known as the Grand Sud, hundreds of thousands of people are suffering from one of the worst droughts in the region in 40 years, the most senior UN official in the country has said, warning that the population is facing a severe humanitarian crisis.
(2021-08-21). [Perspectives] Ollie Jay: managing heat, improving health. thelancet.com "Our work is all about driving multidisciplinary efforts to help find solutions to complex health problems arising from the impact of heat stress, all within the context of increasing extreme weather events as a result of climate change", explains Ollie Jay, Professor of Heat and Health in the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney, Australia. Jay is also Director of the Thermal Ergonomics Laboratory within the Sydney Heat and Health Research Centre. "We have a rich research environment with many opportunities to work across broad sections of academia, industry, and in our collaborations with…
(2021-08-21). [Editorial] Health in a world of extreme heat. thelancet.com The heatwaves and wildfires that swept across southern Europe and the USA this summer have been traumatic and deadly. 600 excess deaths were reported in the Pacific Northwest in the USA alone. According to the Sixth Assessment Report of Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which synthesises the latest scientific evidence on climate change, global temperature is expected to reach or exceed 1 ∑5 ∞C of warming, averaged over the next 20 years. The report predicts that these record-breaking temperatures will be more frequent, intense, and last longer because of human-induced cli…
(2021-08-21). Fukushima: A Lasting Tragedy. commondreams.org It's not even important that wars be won but that they be eternally prepared for by buying ever-greater numbers of ever-more complex and ever-more useless weapons systems.
(2021-08-21). The Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Near-Meltdown is a Lasting Tragedy. zcomm.org Decades of research have shown that there is no safe level of radiation, according to the National Academy of Sciences. Any exposure to radiation increases an individual's risk of developing cancer…
(2021-08-21). Science, Salvation and Heretics: From Monsanto to Pfizer, Same Old Playbook. dissidentvoice.org Why are numerous 'independent alternative' media outlets and writers not questioning the COVID-19 vaccine rollout? If anything, they are promoting it without even considering the serious concerns being voiced by top scientists. When there are experts like cardiologist and epidemiologist Professor Peter McCullough, Dr Robert Malone (credited with inventing mRNA vaccine technology), former vice president …
(2021-08-20). Afghan-Led Coalition Gives Biden Admin a Blueprint to 'Prevent Further Harm' to People of Afghanistan. commondreams.org "At this rate, we will not be able to keep global warming below 1.5 ∫C, a target defined in the Paris agreement," said the conservation institute Imazon.
(2021-08-20). The US Military Is Driving Collapse Across The Planet. popularresistance.org Summer 2021 has been an alarming season for climate news. Massive fires have raged from California to Europe; countries in the Global South have been hit by deadly droughts and historic winters; and on August 9, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a report confirming what many people already knew: the climate crisis is already here. For the past three years, leading climate scientists have argued that the global average temperature rise needs to remain below 1.5 degrees Celsius in order to avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis. The recent IPCC report suggests that humanity is pas…
(2021-08-20). Korea and the Climate Crisis. counterpunch.org The new UN report on the climate crisis is truly frightening. The report tells us what we already know about the reasons for the current heat waves, flooding, forest fires, ice melt, and extreme weather events sweeping the planet. We humans are causing these changes, primarily by burning fossil fuels in our cars, planes, and
(2021-08-20). A Just Transition Now or Climate Disaster is Inevitable. zcomm.org The key to climate politics is guaranteeing fossil fuel workers no loss in salary as sustainable energy replaces carbon-based fuel — and this would cost "a pittance"
(2021-08-20). On the IPCC's Latest Climate Report: What Does It Tell Us? counterpunch.org If there is a key take-home message, it is that climate science has vastly improved over the past decade in terms of its precision and the degree of confidence in its predictions. Many uncertainties that underlay past reports appear to have been successfully addressed, for example how a once-limited understanding of the behavior and dynamics of clouds were a major source of uncertainty in global climate models.
(2021-08-20). False Equivalence: The Media's Dangerous Bias. commondreams.org "Virtually no child's life will be unaffected" by the climate emergency, said the director of UNICEF.
(2021-08-20). Keepers of the Flame: Climate Chaos and Creeping Authoritarianism. counterpunch.org Our son was born just after midnight on New Year's Day, in the middle of a blizzard and at the apex of a plague. We jokingly call him Kyber Chaosborn, partly in homage to Daenerys Stormborn and partly to deflect from a harrowing labor we're not yet ready to fully process. Kyber was born in
(2021-08-20). On the IPCC's latest climate report. zcomm.org What does it tell us?>
(2021-08-20). We Need to Urgently Regulate Global Meat and Dairy Companies to Cut Methane and Avoid Climate Breakdown. commondreams.org We cannot eat money and there are no winners on a dead Earth.
(2021-08-20). UK: How was the Plymouth mass shooting made possible? wsws.org A law-and-order approach, aimed at further eroding democratic rights, will do nothing to prevent such atrocities. Quite the reverse. It is an integral part of the reactionary climate in which disassociated and dysfunctional personalities can become mass shooters.
(2021-08-20). 'No Contracts, No Snacks': Nabisco Workers on Strike Across US. commondreams.org The science is clear: Regulating global meat and dairy companies, making the cost of business as usual untenable and supporting a transition toward agroecological systems of food production are critical if we hope to stem climate chaos.
(2021-08-20). Our War Against Nature. Humanity's March Toward Extinction? globalresearch.ca