Australian bushfire crisis spreads as PM denies climate change link
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-11-27
Even before summer has begun, bushfires and toxic smoke have threatened the lives, health and homes of millions of people in nearly every Australian state and territory this week. The fire emergencies that first erupted two weeks ago in two states have spread across the country, worsened by dust storms, asthma alerts and electricity blackouts. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/11/26/australian-bushfire-crisis-spreads-as-pm-denies-climate-change-link/

The Choice Is Ours: Extinction or Rebellion?
Simon Whalley | commondreams.org | 2019-11-26
The capitalists and our corrupt governments are largely to blame for this destruction and the extinctions. (Photo: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/emergency.jpeg …
commondreams.org/views/2019/11/26/choice-ours-extinction-or-rebellion?cd-origin=rss

Newsom freezes new fracking permits, but oil drilling permits outpace 2018
Dan Bacher | indybay.org | 2019-11-26
The FracTracker Alliance and Consumer Watchdog unveiled a new website on November 19 to continually map and update the number of oil and gas wells permitted by the Newsom Administration: www.NewsomWellWatch.com. | "The pace of permitting overall is still on track to beat the total number of permits issued during Brown's final year in office (2018). The number of drilling and rework permits issued in the first ten months of 2019 through November 4 total 4,049. In the same period of 2018, under Governor Brown, the total was 3,723," the groups stated.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/24/18828400.php

National Climate Strike & March for Green New Deal (San Francisco)
Youth VS. Apocalypse, 350 | indybay.org | 2019-11-26
BlackRock HQ, 400 Howard St, San Francisco, CA 94105…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/25/18828413.php

UN emissions report: World on course for more than 3 degree spike, even if climate commitments are met
United Nations | news.un.org | 2019-11-26
Even if countries meet commitments made under the 2015 Paris Agreement, the world is heading for a 3.2 degrees Celsius global temperature rise over pre-industrial levels, leading to even wider-ranging and more destructive climate impacts, warns a report from the UN Environment Programme, released on Tuesday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/11/1052171

UN Warns Only Rapid and Transformational Action Can Stave Off Climate Disaster
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-11-26
An alarming United Nations report released Tuesday said global temperatures are on track to rise as much as 3.9 ∞C by the end of the century, meaning only drastic and unprecedented emissions reductions can stave off the most devastating consequences…
truthout.org/articles/un-warns-only-rapid-and-transformational-action-can-stave-off-climate-disaster/

National Climate Strike in Palo Alto
Sunrise Movement Santa Cruz | indybay.org | 2019-11-26
Lytton Plaza, intersection of University Ave & Emerson Street, Palo Alto 94301…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/25/18828414.php

Melting of Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets: Atmospheric CO2 and The Shift of Climate Zones
Dr. Andrew Glikson | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-26
As the concentration of atmospheric CO2 has risen to 408 ppm and the total greenhouse gas level, including methane and nitrous oxide, combine to near 500 parts per million CO2-equivalent, the stability threshold of the Greenland and Antarctic …
globalresearch.ca/melting-of-greenland-and-antarctic-ice-sheets-atmospheric-co2-and-the-shift-of-climate-zones/5695827

UC Berkeley Climate Strike: UC Green New Deal
Students For Climate Action | indybay.org | 2019-11-26
Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley, Bancroft Way, Berkeley, California 94720…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/25/18828407.php

'Quick Wins' Needed to Keep Climate Goals Within Reach, U.N. Says
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-11-26
"We need to catch up on the years in which we procrastinated," top official says as report shows a hike in greenhouse gas emissions in 2018.
truthdig.com/articles/quick-wins-needed-to-keep-climate-goals-within-reach-u-n-says/

U.N. Issues Climate Report We Can't Afford to Ignore
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-11-26
New data indicate global temperatures are on pace to climb 3.9 degrees celsius by 2100, throwing into relief the need for urgent action.
truthdig.com/articles/u-n-issues-climate-report-we-cant-afford-to-ignore/

Physicians for Social Responsibility Releases Report on "Climate and Health Risks of Liquified Natural Gas"
commondreams.org | 2019-11-26
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commondreams.org/newswire/2019/11/26/physicians-social-responsibility-releases-report-climate-and-health-risks?cd-origin=rss

National Climate Strike in Oakland
Youth vs. Apocalypse and others | indybay.org | 2019-11-26
Oakland City Hall, 1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Oakland, CA, 94612…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/25/18828415.php

The Problem with Israeli Settlements Is Not that They Are Illegal. It's that They Are Immoral
Prof. Peter Beinart | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-26
Yesterday the Trump administration said Israeli settlements in the West Bank don't violate international law. That's absurd. Among international lawyers, the consensus that settlements are illegal rivals the consensus among international scientists that humans contribute to climate change. As …
globalresearch.ca/problem-settlements-not-they-illegal-they-immoral/5695973

Green Strategy: To beat climate change, humanity needs socialism
W. T. Whitney, Jr. | mronline.org | 2019-11-26
It's bad enough to imagine blame and scenarios of dread, as if from science fiction, but add in the presently feeble response to dire threats and we're in a funk. If tools were available, we'd get a lift. Marc Brodine's book Green Strategy, reviewed here, is about tools. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/11/25/green-strategy-to-beat-climate-change-humanity-needs-socialism/

Physicians for Social Responsibility Releases Report on "Climate and Health Risks of Liquified Natural Gas"
commondreams.org | 2019-11-26
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commondreams.org/newswire/2019/11/26/physicians-social-responsibility-releases-report-climate-and-health-risks-0?cd-origin=rss

UN Climate Report Shows Urgent Need for Supply-Side Action
commondreams.org | 2019-11-26
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commondreams.org/newswire/2019/11/26/un-climate-report-shows-urgent-need-supply-side-action?cd-origin=rss

A Cattle Industry and Local Control Power Grab: Inside the Malheur Owyhee Public Lands Bill
Katie Fite | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-26
In early November, Oregon Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley introduced the Malheur County Empowerment for the Owyhee Act, an astonishingly awful public lands and wilderness Bill. It is aimed at enriching ranchers and other local interests. It is the Vale Project reborn from the weed wastelands and wildlife deserts that were generated by that…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/26/a-cattle-industry-and-local-control-power-grab-inside-the-malheur-owyhee-public-lands-bill/

Firefighters union leader: 'There are no climate sceptics on the end of a fire hose'
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2019-11-26
Climate Greg McConvilleIssue 1247 Australia bushfires United Firefighters Union (UFU) CanberraNovember 26, 2019United Firef…
greenleft.org.au/content/firefighters-union-leader-there-are-no-climate-sceptics-end-fire-hose

Make the world pay for it? 'Green New Deal' sponsor wants to sanction everyone for climate change 'crimes'
rt.com | 2019-11-26
Green New Deal sponsor Senator Ed Markey (D-Massachusetts) is seeking to expand US sanctions under the Global Magnitsky Act to foreign individuals and companies involved in "significant actions that exacerbate climate change." | While Democrats have denounced President Donald Trump's plan to build a wall on the southern US border and make Mexico pay for it, Markey's proposal seems to take that approach and apply it to the entire world, when US climate change efforts are concerned. | "As we fight to enact a Green New Deal here at home, we must use all of the tools or our foreign policy to change the behavior of…
rt.com/usa/474312-markey-climate-magnitsky-sanctions/

Fish addiction studies & Bob Dylan sculpture: Rand Paul exposes Feds' latest extravagant spending of US taxpayer millions
rt.com | 2019-11-26
The federal government is finding new and creative ways to spend US tax dollars, even as public debt soars into the trillions. Fiscal hawk Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) took aim at some of the most absurd programs out there. | Issued on Monday, the libertarian-leaning lawmaker's quarterly report on government waste tracks some of the more outrageous uses of federal cheese, totaling over $230 million, ranging from academic studies on drug-addicted fish to, well, literal cheese. |
rt.com/usa/474313-federal-spending-waste-rand-paul/

'The Science Is Screaming': UN Report Warns Only Rapid and Transformational Action Can Stave Off Global Climate Disaster
Jake Johnson, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-11-26
"Failure to heed these warnings and take drastic action to reverse emissions means we will continue to witness deadly and catastrophic heatwaves, storms, and pollution." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/un_climate.png …
commondreams.org/news/2019/11/26/science-screaming-un-report-warns-only-rapid-and-transformational-action-can-stave?cd-origin=rss

Climate Expert Says UN Emissions Report Makes Clear Only Solution Is to 'Cut Off Supply of Fossil Fuels at Their Source'
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-11-26
An annual United Nations report published Tuesday on current and estimated future greenhouse gas emissions shows the "urgent need for supply-side action" to combat the climate emergency, according to the advocacy group Food & Water Action. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/oilpumps_0.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2019/11/26/climate-expert-says-un-emissions-report-makes-clear-only-solution-cut-supply-fossil?cd-origin=rss

Greenhouse gas levels in atmosphere 'reach new record highs'
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-11-25
Levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have reached another record high, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has warned.Concentrations of carbon dioxide, the main gas driving global warming, reached new highs of 407.8 parts per million in 2018, up from 405.5 parts per million (ppm) in 2017, a report by the UN body shows.That is well above the level of around 280 ppm seen before the industrial revolution and the start of large scale burning of fossil fuels for energy and transport, which have driven up carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. | The rise is close to the increase seen between 2016 and 2017 an…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2019/11/25/greenhouse-gas-levels-in-atmosphere-reach-new-record-highs/

Climate change: Another year of record gas emissions, warns UN meteorological agency
United Nations | news.un.org | 2019-11-25
Levels of the three main heat-trapping gases emitted into the atmosphere — carbon dioxide (CO2), methane, and nitrous oxide — have reached yet another high, the UN meteorological agency, WMO, said on Monday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/11/1052111

Nine new titles for an ecosocialist bookshelf
Stuart Munckton | greenleft.org.au | 2019-11-25
books ecosocialism Ian AngusIssue 1247 Australia ecosocialist bookshelfNovember 25, 2019The red and green shelf is overflowing! Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus looks at nine important new books…
greenleft.org.au/content/nine-new-titles-ecosocialist-bookshelf

Police Raid Egypt's Last Independent News Outlet Mada Masr Amid "Increasingly Hostile" Media Climate
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-11-25
Egyptian security forces raided the office of Mada Masr, the country's last independent media outlet, and arrested three of its journalists this weekend. The raid began Sunday afternoon, when nine plainclothes security officers entered the Mada Masr office in Cairo, seizing phones and laptops and holding the staff in the building for more than three hours. They then arrested editor-in-chief Lina Attalah, managing editor Mohamed Hamama and reporter Rana Mamdouh. It came just a day after security forces arrested senior editor Shady Zalat at his home. All four journalists were released from detention Sunday night. T…
www.democracynow.org/2019/11/25/mada_masr_egypt_media_sharif_kouddous

Football fans fume after Yale-Harvard game disrupted by HUNDREDS of pitch-invading climate protesters (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2019-11-23
A football game between two elite Ivy League universities froze for about an hour as a crowd of students and alumni staged a protest against investment in fossil fuels right on the playing field — and sparked an online outrage. | It was after the second quarter of the game at the Yale Bowl, New Haven, Connecticut, when scores of protesters from both colleges stormed the field, carrying banners and placards that accused the two prestigious universities of being "complicit in climate injustice" by investing in fossil fuel companies. | Watch as HUNDREDS of both Harvard and Yale students storm the field in s…
rt.com/usa/474192-yale-harvard-pitch-invaded-climate/

Fighting for social change in a time of climate crisis
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2019-11-22
Climate capitalism Jacob AndrewarthaIssue 1246 AustraliaNovember 22, 2019As the climate crisis pushes the planet past certain tipping points, inequality between the rich and the poor continues to grow. At the same time, we are also witnessing a resurgence in protests and…
greenleft.org.au/content/fighting-social-change-time-climate-crisis

Unions campaign for a jobs-rich energy transition
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2019-11-22
Climate workers' rights Pip HinmanIssue 1246 AustraliaNovember 22, 2019Together with the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU), the Electrical Trades Union (ETU), the Gippsland Trades and Labour Council and the Victorian Trades Hall Council, the Maritime Union…
greenleft.org.au/content/unions-campaign-jobs-rich-energy-transition

We need a just climate transition
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2019-11-22
Climate Meghan StreetIssue 1246 AustraliaNovember 22, 2019The climate movement has to take up the issues of refugees, war and global inequality to ensure a just climate for all. | The climate crisis is generating instability and a scarcity of resources via rising sea levels and more intense and extreme weather events, such as floods, storm s…
greenleft.org.au/content/we-need-just-climate-transition

Climate action: Why only the most radical approach will work
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2019-11-22
Climate Dave HolmesIssue 1246 AustraliaNovember 22, 2019The climate crisis is the greatest threat ever faced by humanity. The survival of the human race is at stake. The reality of the heating of the planet can no longer rationally be denied. | Carbon dioxide emissions continue to rise. The atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide is now ab…
greenleft.org.au/content/climate-action-why-only-most-radical-approach-will-work

Palestine is a climate justice issue – Israeli apartheid is not "green"
patrick | bdsmovement.net | 2019-11-20
Palestine is a climate justice issue – Israeli apartheid is not "green": Update Click to download and print this Fact Sheet.November 21, 2019 | By: | | Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) …
bdsmovement.net/news/palestine-climate-justice-issue-israeli-apartheid-not-green

Sanders' Plan to Fight Global Climate Disaster Too Ambitious, Says NYT
Julie Hollar | fair.org | 2019-11-20
When Sen. Bernie Sanders announced his $16.3 trillion climate plan, corporate media were quick to throw cold water on it, arguing that the Democratic presidential candidate's plan was too expensive, and logistically and politically impossible (FAIR.org, 9/6/19). As Sanders fleshed out his plan in more detail, the media pushback continued: "Sanders' Climate Ambitions Thrill Supporters, but Experts Aren't Impressed," annou…
fair.org/home/sanders-plan-to-fight-global-climate-disaster-too-ambitious-says-nyt/

What the Frack? New Mexico Wants to Recycle Radioactive Wastewater
Frances Madeson | progressive.org | 2019-11-19
The state's famous green chiles may be hot for a whole new reason.
progressive.org/dispatches/what-the-frack-new-mexico-recycle-radioactive-wastewater-madeson-191119/

Take Action — Some actual, SANE legislation
Jon Rainwater | peaceaction.org | 2019-11-07
Trump has plans to spend nearly $2 TRILLION over the next 30 years on unneeded and unnecessary nuclear weapons and delivery systems. This makes no sense. This is insane. That's nearly $100 million wasted every day for thirty years on weapons we are supposed to be getting rid of. To put that amount in perspective, …
peaceaction.org/2019/11/07/take-action-some-actual-sane-legislation/