Climate Change
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The Woody Biomass Blunder
One of the most controversial fixes for global warming is the use of woody biomass, cutting trees, burning trees to achieve “carbon neutral” status in the worldwide battle to conquer climate change/global warming. Continue reading
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COP26 News Links 14-15 November 2021
15 November 2021 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Revealed: Documents Show Bill Gates Has Given $319 Million to Media Outlets https://www.mintpressnews.com/documents-show-bill-gates-has-given-319-million-to-media-outlets/278943/ Gasbagging In Glasgow: COP26 And Phasing Down Coal https://southfront.org/gasbagging-in-glasgow-cop26-and-phasing-down-coal/ Continue reading
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COP26 News Links 9-10 November 2021
10 November 2021 — The New Dark Age Iran links ‘economic terrorism’ to global warming https://www.rt.com/news/539858-iran-uk-cop26-sanctions/ The Most Basic of All Human Rights: Clean Water https://countercurrents.org/2021/11/the-most-basic-of-all-human-rights-clean-water/ Continue reading
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Glasgow climate summit is an elite farce
The Glasgow summit on climate change has been a media extravaganza. The ruling elites from all continents cooped up in their national capitals due to the raging pandemic, finally got a break to throw away their masks and take to their private jets to fly off to “Global Britain” to display their leadership qualities. Continue reading
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Interacting climate tipping points may fall like dominoes
Cascading changes could move Earth into a dangerous state for the future of humanity and nature Continue reading
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The Origin of the Northern Freeze
Warnings by leading climate scientists regarding the high sensitivity of the atmosphere in response to abrupt compositional changes, such as near-doubling of greenhouse gas concentrations, are now manifest: According to Wallace Broecker, (the “father” of climate science) “The paleoclimate record shouts out to us that, far from being self-stabilizing, the Earth’s climate system is an ornery beast… Continue reading
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Carbon capture and storage won’t work, critics say
One of the key technologies that governments hope will help save the planet from dangerous heating, carbon capture and storage, will not work as planned and is a dangerous distraction, a new report says. Continue reading
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‘Worst case’ emissions scenario is best match for reality
The RCP 8.5 CO2 emissions pathway, long considered a “worst case scenario” by climate scientists, is the most appropriate for conducting assessments of climate change impacts by 2050, according to a paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Continue reading
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JP Morgan Economists Warn of ‘Catastrophic Outcomes’ of Human-Caused Climate Crisis
Climate campaigners on Friday expressed hope that policymakers who are stalling on taking decisive climate action would reconsider their stance in light of new warnings from an unlikely source: two economists at J.P. Morgan Chase. Continue reading
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Extinction Rebellion: Rebellion against whom?
In the past year, we have seen an explosion of the environmental movement. Through the global climate strike and mass demonstrations for the planet launched by Greta Thunberg, an entire generation has gotten a taste of political action, understanding the need for dramatic change to deal with environmental degradation. It is in this context that… Continue reading
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Millions of years of low CO2 … until now By Ian Angus
In Facing the Anthropocene, I showed that CO2 levels are higher than they have been for 800,000 years. New research extends that to 2.6 million years Continue reading
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Veritable Uprising or it’s The (Faux) Real Thing™: Greta and Climate Activism in a Wilderness of Projections
PR: Kenn, recently, this observation of mine provoked a measure of ire: Street demonstrations, even large ones, are apropos of nothing as long as they are manifested as de facto state sanctioned protests. A march proceeds, chants are cast into indifferent air, speechifying comes to pass by the usual gasbags then the assembled head home… Continue reading
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Greta Thunberg and Big-Biz’ Climate Charade
A 16 year old girl is obviously not behind a “global movement” demanding “climate action” from governments. The massive corporate Western media is. And anything the corporate media is behind certainly cannot be described as “grassroots.” Continue reading
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“Extinction Rebellion”, “Green New Deal” and the “Rebranding of Global Capitalism” By Julian Rose
On 20 September students will be mobilizing in a global protest against climate change. Who is supporting this Worldwide endeavour, who is funding it? Is this a real rebellion? Continue reading
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Some Thoughts on Extinction Rebellion – and the Future of the Climate Movement by Paul Arbair
The rise of ‘Extinction Rebellion’ signals that climate activism is moving up a gear. Further radicalisation is probably inevitable. Continue reading
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What the new IPCC report says about climate change and land
Summary of new UN report that documents the impact of climate change on land and agriculture — and how land misuse accelerates climate change. Continue reading
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How fast is the climate changing?
It is clear that there is now quite widespread public awareness of the fact that climate change is a reality and a serious threat to the future of humanity. And this is reflected to some extent in the mainstream media despite their reluctance to treat the issue as a real emergency. However, there is still… Continue reading
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Extinction Rebellion and the Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism
Exactly a month on from the beginning of Extinction Rebellion’s demonstrations in London, the British Parliament has approved Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn’s motion to declare a national ‘climate emergency’ – being one of the group’s three demands. This comes two days after pro-Corbyn campaign group Momentum declared its ‘union’ with Extinction Rebellion in the… Continue reading
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An open letter to Extinction Rebellion
This letter was collaboratively written with dozens of aligned groups. As the weeks of action called by Extinction Rebellion were coming to an end, our groups came together to reflect on the narrative, strategies, tactics and demands of a reinvigorated climate movement in the UK. In this letter we articulate a foundational set of principles… Continue reading
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Killing nature while playing geopolitics By Pepe Escobar
The latest comprehensive report by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), associated with various UN agencies (UNEP, UNDP, Unesco, FAO), is a stark reminder of where global priorities should concentrate. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 