Climate Change
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EMERGENCY – ESCAPING METHANE GAS IN THE ARCTIC OCEAN
We appeal to you to support our call to put the imminent loss of Arctic summer sea ice and escalation of Arctic methane emissions at the top of the climate change agenda and to support emergency measures to cool the Arctic. Continue reading
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Video: Where is the Urgency About Climate Change?
29 December, 2011 — The Real News Network Patrick Bond: Global elites not interested in changes effective policy requires Continue reading
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Video: Climate Change and the Failure of Market Mechanisms
Patrick Bond: Carbon markets failing and Durban Green Climate Fund doomed – up to activists now Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘A Death Sentence For Africa’
The UN climate summit in Durban, South Africa, ended with one of those marathon all-night cliffhanger negotiations that the media love so much. The outcome was a commitment to talk about a legally-binding deal to cut carbon emissions – by both developed and developing countries – that would be agreed by 2015 and come into… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Climate Crisis – The Collapse In Corporate Media Coverage
The latest round of UN climate talks has just begun in Durban, South Africa, but the world’s richest nations are already planning to prevent any new treaty from taking effect before 2020. Achim Steiner, head of the UN environment programme, has condemned the action as a ‘political choice’, rather than one based on science, calling… Continue reading
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It's a biggie!
If it continues on its projected track, Virginia Beach is going to lose its virginity and then some. NYC has already battened down the hatches. Continue reading
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Stand up for Africa! Stand up for climate justice!
For Africa and its peoples in particular, governments meeting at this year’s United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Durban must end years of unacceptable vacillation, and meet their moral, historical and legal obligations and commitments for action on climate change, in accordance with the requirements of science and the principles of equity. Continue reading
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Fukushima and Capitalist Inhumanity By Pierre Rousset
The Fukushima disaster shows once again that for capitalism, the health and life of workers, neighbouring populations, and the victims of the pollution is just an adjustable variable, like wages Continue reading
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Alarming New Fukushima Reports By Stephen Lendman
Five weeks after Japan’s disaster, reports suggest worse, not improved conditions. It portends serious regional and global trouble ahead, besides what’s already happened. Continue reading
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Cover-up Over Japan's Nuclear Catastrophe | Global Research TV
Following a high-level meeting called by the lame-duck prime minister, Japanese agencies are no longer releasing independent reports without prior approval from the top. The censorship is being carried out following the imposition of the Article 15 Emergency Law. Official silencing of bad news is a polite way of reassuring the public. Continue reading
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Cover-up Over Japan’s Nuclear Catastrophe | Global Research TV
Following a high-level meeting called by the lame-duck prime minister, Japanese agencies are no longer releasing independent reports without prior approval from the top. The censorship is being carried out following the imposition of the Article 15 Emergency Law. Official silencing of bad news is a polite way of reassuring the public. Continue reading
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Japan’s Natural Disasters Are Not So Natural—Nor Limited to Japan By Yoichi Shimatsu
Most people assume that the meticulous Japanese are among the world’s most responsible citizens. As an investigative journalist who has covered the Hanshin (Kobe) earthquake and the Tokyo subway gassing, I beg to differ. Japan is just better than elsewhere in organizing official cover-ups. Continue reading
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BBC News – Massive explosion at Japan nuclear power plant
A massive explosion has struck a Japanese nuclear power plant after Friday’s devastating earthquake. A huge pall of smoke was seen coming from the plant at Fukushima and several workers were injured. Japanese officials fear a meltdown at one of the plant’s reactors after radioactive material was detected outside it. Continue reading
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The Crisis of Civilization – Trailer
The Crisis of Civilization is a documentary feature film investigating how global crises like ecological disaster, financial meltdown, dwindling oil reserves, terrorism and food shortages are converging symptoms of a single, failed global system. Continue reading
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Diego Garcia: Wikileaks confirm Greenpeace-backed `marine protection zone’ was a ruse; Police ban socialist protests
Whistleblower website Wikileaks confirmed the worst of suspicions by releasing a document, as part of the US diplomatic cables leak, that stated the marine reserve was established primarily to legally block attempts by the Chagossians to return to their homeland. Continue reading
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Diego Garcia: Wikileaks confirm Greenpeace-backed `marine protection zone' was a ruse; Police ban socialist protests
Whistleblower website Wikileaks confirmed the worst of suspicions by releasing a document, as part of the US diplomatic cables leak, that stated the marine reserve was established primarily to legally block attempts by the Chagossians to return to their homeland. Continue reading
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Evo Morales’ speech at COP-16 by Ricardo Sequeiros Coelho
For me Copenhagen was not a failure. It may have been for the powers of the world, but not for the peoples of the world who became conscious …. Hope for the peoples of the world is cooling the world, lowering the temperature. Continue reading
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