Climate Change
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Not so Swift, Hackers: Why the scandal sometimes called “ClimateGate” is overblown
The truth, however, is that while the CRU emails don’t always look very good—and not all of them can necessarily be defended—in the end this saga amounts to little more than a distraction from the real and burning issues in climate science and climate policy. Moreover, its suspicious timing—coming just weeks before the U.N. Copenhagen… Continue reading
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Video: Climategate and those hacked E-mails
6 December, 2009 — Climate & Capitalism The least the conspiracy nuts could do would be to actually read the documents they stole… http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/ExternalVideo.904286 more about “Video: Cimategate and those hacked E-…“, posted with vodpod Continue reading
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Global Warming: "Fixing the Climate Data around the Policy" By Michel Chossudovsky
The Copenhagen Summit not only serves powerful corporate interests, which have a stake in the global multibillion dollar carbon trading scheme, it also serves to divert public attention from the devastation resulting from the “real crisis” underlying the process of economic globalization and a profit driven war without borders, which the Pentagon calls “the long… Continue reading
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Video: The Story of Cap and Trade
Host Annie Leonard introduces the energy traders and Wall Street financiers at the heart of this scheme and reveals the “devils in the details” in current cap and trade proposals …. Continue reading
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The real scandal in the hacked climate change e-mails controversy By Rupert Read
It is day six of the ‘scandal’ over the hacked emails from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia’s School of Environmental Sciences, in which a thousand or so private email messages between climate scientists were hacked into and made public. According to the ostriches hoping that Copenhagen will fail, these emails… Continue reading
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Invitation to the 7th International meeting for Climate Justice Action
You are invited to the next international meeting of Climate Justice Action in Copenhagen, Denmark just prior to the UN Climate Conference (COP-15). Climate Justice Action meetings will also be held during the week of the UN meetings (Dec 11 onwards) in order to share information about actions and coordinate plans for the upcoming year… Continue reading
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Climate change email claims ‘rubbish’
Skeptics claim leaked emails suggest Professor Phil Jones altered evidence about climate change Continue reading
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Most Vulnerable Nations Seek Climate Justice
Final Draft of declaration issued November 11 in the Maldives, by the Climate Vulnerable Forum, comprising the 11 countries considered most vulnerable to climate change: Maldives, Kiribati, Bangladesh, Nepal, Vietnam, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Barbados and Bhutan. Continue reading
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A Real Green Deal By Hilary Wainwright and Andy Bowman
Thirty-five years ago, workers at the Lucas Aerospace company formulated an “alternative corporate plan” to convert military production to socially useful and environmentally desirable purposes. Hilary Wainwright and Andy Bowman consider what lessons it holds for the greening of the world economy today. Continue reading
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Anand Naidoo, "Interview with Arundhati Roy"
“It’s beginning to increasingly look as if this urge to the 10% growth rate and democracy are mutually incompatible . . . because this growth has been based on . . . the displacement of millions of people off their land. It’s based on extracting minerals and harnessing rivers in a way that is ecologically… Continue reading
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Cartoon: The Carbon Supermarket By Kate Evans
Don’t know about carbon trading? Don’t care? Here, have a copy of my latest comic. You will. Continue reading
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Denmark Aims to Criminalize Climate Protests
As the Copenhagen climate summit approaches, the Danish government is rushing through a harsh new law that allows preventive detention, increases fines and extends sentences for demonstrators Continue reading
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When the Climate Change Center Cannot Hold By Patrick Bond
The recent Bangkok negotiations of Kyoto Protocol Conference of Parties functionaries confirmed that Northern states and their corporations won’t make an honest effort to get to 350 CO2 parts per million. On the right, Barack Obama’s negotiators seem to feel that the 1997 Kyoto Protocol is excessively binding to the North, and leaves out several… Continue reading
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Kartoon Kate's take on Climate Change
Kartoon Kate’s latest cartoon discusses our chances of getting a workable treaty from the Copenhagen COP 15 UN climate negotiations. And it’s snappier than it sounds from that description. Continue reading
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Fidel: Humanity is an endangered species
I would have liked to talk today about the exceptional Peace without Borders concert that took place in the Jose Marti Plaza de la Revolucion 24 hours ago, but brutal reality obliges me to write about a danger that is threatening not only peace but also the survival of our species. Continue reading
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Video: Catastrophe in the Making
Video: A just-released book describes the most dangerous project built by the US Army Corps of Engineers in regional New Orleans. Catastrophe in the Making describes how the MRGO (Mississippi River Gulf Outlet) put New Orleans and nearby St. Bernard Parish in harm’s way by allowing salt water intrusion that killed protective cypress forests and… Continue reading
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Rich Countries Sabotaging Climate Talks By John Vidal
The US and other developed countries are attempting to ‘fundamentally sabotage’ the Kyoto protocol and all-important international negotiations over its next phase, according to coordinated statements by China and 130 developing countries at UN climate talks in Bangkok today. Continue reading
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YES MEN HONCHO SPRUNG FROM CLINK: "Balls Across America" direct-action campaign launched
At 10am Tuesday, Bichlbaum was arrested and charged with trespassing, after he and 21 “Survivaballs” gathered on New York City’s East River and announced they were to going to “take the UN by storm” from the water, since all the land approaches were sealed. Once at the UN, they would supposedly use the Survivaballs to… Continue reading
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Climate Justice: ‘A potent mix of 46 essays, talks and declarations’
This stimulating book features a potent mix of 46 essays, talks and declarations new, recent and old, from famous politicians and lesser-known activists alike, tackling the issue of Climate Change and Climate Justice, not from the usual, apolitical, mainstream environmentalist angle, but from a left/ecosocialist viewpoint, one which considers global warming an issue of systemic… Continue reading
