Climate Change
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Western elites who want to play God with the Sun – who are they? 🌞
The UK government has unveiled a £50M ($66.6M) scheme to ‘fight climate change’ via experiments dimming the Sun, from the release of reflective substances mimicking natural aerosols to the use of seawater sprays to ‘brighten clouds’, increasing their reflectivity. Continue reading
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The Climate Intelligence Assessment the Government Doesn’t Want You to See
2008 Assessment Could Fill Critical Gaps in Most Recent 2021 Intelligence Estimate “There’s no secret stuff in here… Just good analysts working with publicly available information and applying good methodological tradecraft” Continue reading
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An Ecological Civilization Will Have to Be Socialist
Ian Angus is editor of the online ecosocialist journal Climate & Capitalism and a founding member of the Global Ecosocialist Network. He is the author of Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System (Monthly Review Press, 2016) and, most recently, The War Against the Commons: Dispossession and Resistance in the… Continue reading
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The rule of the Oligarchs and Machines is here
Ordinary humanity faces an emerging threat from the combined might of the Human Elites (billionaires and the military-political class) working with perhaps the greatest power the planet has ever seen: artificial intelligence. Their combined might has the potential to totally screw us. Happy New Year everyone. Continue reading
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Barbarism of Capitalism
Lenin characterised capitalism in France and Britain as “civilised barbarism,” and referred to the so-called Western civilisation as “capitalist barbarism,” driven by the “stupid avarice of a handful of millionaires” who converted people as “slaves of wealth” during the early twentieth century. He further argued that “civilisation, freedom and wealth under capitalism call to mind the… Continue reading
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The earth can’t endure Nato’s ambitions
NATO’s expansionary military targets are deeply at odds with the need to scale down global emissions to avoid deepening the climate crisis. Nato’s goal of dedicating 2% of GDP to military spending is set to exacerbate climate breakdown by diverting billions of dollars away from essential climate investment and significantly increasing CO2 emissions. Continue reading
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Laundering Carbon and the New Scramble for Africa
Reports suggested that Blue Carbon—a company privately owned by Sheikh Ahmed al-Maktoum, a member of Dubai’s ruling family—had signed deals promising the firm control over vast tracts of land across the African continent. These deals included an astonishing 10 percent of the landmass in Liberia, Zambia and Tanzania, and 20 percent in Zimbabwe. Altogether, the area… Continue reading
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‘On The Highway To Climate Hell’ – The Climate Crisis, Activism And Broken Politics
Last month, the United Nations environment agency issued arguably its starkest warning yet about the climate crisis. The failure by governments around the world to cut carbon emissions means there is ‘no credible pathway to 1.5C in place’. Limiting the rise of global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels was the international agreement at COP21, the UN… Continue reading
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Why There Is No Public Sense Of A Climate Crisis
Increasingly, now, we do have citizens among us: scientists – particularly, climate scientists – who are awakening from their ‘mainstream’ slumber to the reality that they are citizens of a decaying society on a dying planet. Continue reading
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‘There Is No Way To Fool Physics’: Climate Breakdown And State-Corporate Madness
In the terrifying opening to his 2020 novel, ‘The Ministry for the Future’, Kim Stanley Robinson depicts an intense heatwave in India. In an ‘ordinary town’ in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, people are struggling to cope with unbearable heat and humidity. It is the combination of the two, measured by the so-called ‘wet-bulb temperature’,… Continue reading
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COP26 News Links 16 November 2021
16 November 2021 — The New Dark Age COP26: India ends up as fall guy https://www.indianpunchline.com/cop26-india-ends-up-as-fall-guy/ COP26: ‘Walking Inches When We Must Move Miles’ https://countercurrents.org/2021/11/cop26-walking-inches-when-we-must-move-miles/ ‘Standing with Your Feet in the Water’: COP26 Struggles to Succeed https://www.globalresearch.ca/standing-with-your-feet-water-cop26-struggles-succeed/5761689 COP26 and Pope Francis’ “Greening of Christianity” https://www.globalresearch.ca/cop26-pope-francis-greening-christianity/5761604 The Woody Biomass Blunder https://dissidentvoice.org/2021/11/the-woody-biomass-blunder/ Gasbagging In Glasgow: COP26 And… Continue reading
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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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