Climate Change
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Bolivia threatens court action to halt Cancun deal
‘We will file a complaint with the International Court of Justice in The Hague against the text approved in Cancun,’ Boliva’s UN Ambassador Pablo Solon told the government daily El Cambio. Continue reading
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Climate Inaction Conference By Chris Williams
“If Cancún delivers nothing, or not much, then the UN process is in danger.” So said Connie Hedegaard, the European commissioner for climate action, ahead of the UN-sponsored climate change summit taking place in Mexico through December 10. The negotiations are known as COP-16, short for 16th Conference of the Parties. What does the “16”… Continue reading
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Michael E. Mann: A scientist in the crosshairs of climate-change denial
The Penn State climate scientist who helped author the ‘hockey stick’ global warming temperature graph describes the campaign to discredit him following the theft of emails, including some he wrote, from servers at England’s University of East Anglia. Climate-change denial groups said the emails showed unethical conduct, but scientific organizations and academic panels said this… Continue reading
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British militants demand One Million Climate Jobs by Martin Empson
The first edition of the Campaign Against Climate Change’s One Million Climate Jobs Now pamphlet has had a big impact within the British trade union and environmental movements. 8,000 copies have been sold to activists in campaigns and trade unions The central arguments had an immediate resonance in the aftermath of the occupation by workers… Continue reading
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Scientists: Climate change caused Pakistan floods By Rob Crilly
Man-made climate change was a major cause of devastating floods in Pakistan this year, shifting monsoon rains away from flood defences and into areas of the country incapable of dealing with the deluge, according to Pakistani scientists. More than 1,700 people died and millions lost their homes as catastrophic levels of floodwater surged south from… Continue reading
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Atmospheric Geoengineering: Weather Manipulation, Contrails and Chemtrails A Review of the “Case Orange” report By Rady Ananda
At an international symposium held in Ghent, Belgium May 28-30, 2010, scientists asserted that “manipulation of climate through modification of Cirrus clouds is neither a hoax nor a conspiracy theory.” It is “fully operational” with a solid sixty-year history. Continue reading
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Carbon Market ‘Growth’ Mainly Fraudulent, World Bank Report Shows By Oscar Reyes
The global carbon market grew in 2009. Far from signalling a success, this reflects a massive increase in fraud, the dumping of surplus emissions permits by industry, and a rise in financial speculation. Continue reading
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Hoodwinked in the Hothouse – 2nd edition available now
This 28-page booklet provides a close-to-comprehensive overview of false solutions to climate change. Fifteen concise articles—complete with photos and illustrations—cover more than 20 false solutions to climate change, from Clean Coal to Biomass incineration, providing an easy-to-read introduction to the ever expanding market place of climate crisis technofixes. Continue reading
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The Final End of the Hydrocarbon Fuel Paradigm By Dr. Tom Termotto
Please be aware that oil and gas exploration, drilling and extraction have been conducted for many decades in the Gulf. Therefore we know that there are an untold number of vast empty caverns which have been emptied of their oil and gas. We also know that, when a repository has been emptied very quickly, there… Continue reading
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How Three Green Parties Went Wrong By Jim Jepps
The Charter of the Global Greens sees Green Party politics as something far wider than simply caring about the environment. The six core strands are ‘Ecological Wisdom, Social Justice, Participatory Democracy, Nonviolence, Sustainability, Respect for Diversity’ which looks to four movements; ‘the peace movement, the civil rights movement, the environmental movement, and the labour movement.’ Continue reading
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BOLIVIA: Do Indigenous Concepts Help or Hinder in Fighting the World’s Climate Crisis?
The World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth[1], held in Cochabamba, Bolivia in April, has fueled a growing debate in Latin America over the validity and usefulness of traditional Indigenous value systems and forms of organization in resolving the pressing social problems of the region, not least the challenges posed… Continue reading
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Trucking Toward Climate Change By Dahr Jamail
The tar sands mining project in Alberta, Canada, is possibly the largest industrial project in human history and critics claim it could also be the most destructive. The mining procedure for extracting oil from a region referred to as the “tar sands,” located north of Edmonton, releases at least three times the CO2 emissions as… Continue reading
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Report-back from Cochabamba: World Peoples Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth
7 May, 2010 — LeftStreamed http://blip.tv/play/AYHdwkYC View part 1 on Blip.tv website Part 1: with delegates to the Cochabamba climate conference: performance by Red Slam collective Kimia Ghomeshi, Campaign Director, Canadian Youth Climate Coalition (transcript) Ben Powless, Mohawk from Six Nations in Ontario, member of the Indigenous Environmental Network http://blip.tv/play/AYHd5wwC View part 2 on Blip.tv Continue reading
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Earth still needs a chance By Erik Wallenberg
Earth Day came at the end of the 1960s radicalization, but its origins date back to the late 1950s and early ’60s. In the shadow of this latest ecological disaster, it’s worth considering what gave rise to the coordinated collective action of Earth Day. We’ve come a long way since 1970, and yet in some… Continue reading
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Cochabamba Eyewitness: A Great Boost to Ecosocialism By Roger Rashi
I attended the alternative Climate Conference in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba as part of an eight-person Quebec activist delegation. I came back convinced that we witnessed a turning point in the global Climate Justice movement. Continue reading
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Roger Rashi, "Cochabamba Eyewitness: A Great Boost for Ecosocialism"
I attended the alternative Climate Conference in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba as part of an eight-person Quebec activist delegation. I came back convinced that we witnessed a turning point in the global Climate Justice movement. Continue reading
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Cochabamba: Climate Justice Has a New Program and New Hope for Victory By Ian Angus
Following the failed climate negotiations in Copenhagen in December, where Barack Obama tried unsuccessfully to impose a toothless backroom deal, Bolivian President Evo Morales invited “the peoples of the world, social movements and Mother Earth’s defenders, … scientists, academics, lawyers and governments,” to attend a conference “to define strategies for action and mobilization to defend… Continue reading
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Bolivia’s resource dilemma
Historic summit closes in Bolivia, while government grapples with it’s global leadership on environmental issues. Bolivia’s social spending is largely due to destructive exploitation projects. A problem faced by many countries, Bolivia has an answer, it’s called climate debt. Continue reading
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Bolivia's resource dilemma
Historic summit closes in Bolivia, while government grapples with it’s global leadership on environmental issues. Bolivia’s social spending is largely due to destructive exploitation projects. A problem faced by many countries, Bolivia has an answer, it’s called climate debt. Continue reading
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"World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth: Live from Cochabamba"
20 April, 2010 — MRZine/Monthly Review For more information, visit cmpcc.org http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/ExternalVideo.936530 Continue reading
The New Dark Age 