Democracy Now! (2024-07-03). Democracy Now! 2024-07-03 Wednesday. democracynow.org Headlines for July 03, 2024; Science, Not Scaremongering: St. Vincent & Grenadines PM on Hurricane Beryl & Climate Crisis; "This Must End": Israel Orders New Mass Evacuation, Continuing Attacks on Gaza Health System; How to Replace Biden & Beat Trump: Longtime DNC Member Jim Zogby Proposes Process to Pick New Nominee | Headlines for July 03, 2024; Science, Not Scaremongering: St. Vincent & Grenadines PM on Hurricane Beryl & Climate Crisis; "This Must End": Israel Orders New Mass Evacuation, Continuing Attacks on Gaza Health System; How to Replace Biden & Beat Trump: Longtime DNC Member Jim Z…

San Francisco Public Library (2024-07-03). Sunday 7/28: Finding Your Place in the Climate Justice Movement. indybay.org San Francisco Main Library, Latino/Hispanic Meeting Rooms A and B | 100 Larkin St | San Francisco, CA 94102…

tvbrics (2024-07-03). Saudi Arabia plans to turn 3 million metric tonnes of waste into fuel annually. tvbrics.com The Kingdom is implementing the National Environmental Strategy…

greenleft.org.au (2024-07-03). Rising Tide calls Labor out on 'bullshit' climate policy. greenleft.org.au

Judith Deutsch (2024-07-03). Water, Climate, Violence. socialistproject.ca "For Fanon, then, the right to indifference, or to ignorance, does not exist." The doctor's task "was to rise up in revolt, become indignant, show alarm… not to dissimulate the real." — Achille Mbembe Weather whiplashing, unprecedented heat waves, drought, and forest fires, are in the news. Storytelling may begin in the middle of an action such as in John Milton's poem "Paradise Lost," in media res (into the middle of things), as in common reporting about climate change. In this essay I will focus on what is oft…

Eric Toussaint (2024-07-03). Climate and environmental crisis: Sorcerer's apprentices at the World Bank and the IMF. cadtm.org

ecns.cn (2024-07-01). (W.E. Talk) British scholar: A strong government is China's advantage in tackling climate crisis. ecns.cn "China has a very strong government which is one of the advantages that China has in tackling climate crisis."said David McLellan, author of Karl Marx: A Biography, in a recent interview.

Eric Toussaint (2024-07-01). Climate and environmental crisis: Sorcerer's apprentices at the World Bank and the IMF. cadtm.org

George Ochenski (2024-07-01). Down With Dirty Dirt and 'Waste in Place' in Butte. counterpunch.org Time to tip one to a rare victory in the never-ending battle to achieve an actual clean up, not a cover up, of Butte's toxic mining wastes since it was listed as a Superfund site more than 40 years ago. Thanks to the ferocious efforts of a very determined band of citizens who want their inalienable

Tom Engelhardt (2024-07-01). The True Catastrophe of Our Times. counterpunch.org I've been writing about climate change for so many years now but, in truth, it was always something I read about and took in globally. It was happening out there, often in horrific ways, but not what I felt I was living through myself. (It's true that, in past winters, Manhattan's Central Park went 653 days without producing an inch of snow, almost double any previous record, but if you're not a kid with a sled in the closet, that's the sort of thing you don't really feel.)

Leon Kunstenaar (2024-07-01). Protest Against Legalized Insurance Blackmail. indybay.org How insurance companies profit by worsening the climate crisis.

Alexandra Jacobo (2024-07-01). Record number of climate lawsuits target governments and corporations for misleading claims and environmental failures. nationofchange.org

Emilia Cieslak (2024-07-01). The Weekly Round-up: Russian human rights abuses in Ukraine, climate litigation on the rise, Assange pleads guilty and goes free. ukhumanrightsblog.com In UK news Julian Assange has been released from HM Prison Belmarsh after accepting a plea deal with American prosecutors. Assange pleaded guilty to one charge of conspiracy to violate the Espionage Act, for communicating with whistleblower Chelsea Manning and receiving and publishing classified information regarding Guantanamo Bay, the Afghan and Iraq war, and US …

Guest Blogger (2024-07-01). Video: The urban heat island — implications for global warming & climate change. wattsupwiththat.com In this video, we compare rural and urban weather station data to explain "urbanization bias" in cities along with possible solutions to urban heating.

Guest Blogger (2024-07-01). Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #604. wattsupwiththat.com This was the object of the Declaration of Independence. Not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of, not merely to say things which had never been said before; but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take.

Kandy Wong (2024-07-01). Climate, demographics and geoeconomic cracks top challenges: EU economist Rolf Strauch. scmp.com European economist Rolf Strauch touches on climate change, demographic, geoeconomic fragmentation and financial challenges for the global economy.

Agence France-Presse (2024-07-01). Seven dead after severe storms lash France, Switzerland and Italy. scmp.com Scientists say climate change driven by human activity is increasing the severity, frequency and length of extreme weather such as floods and storms.