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How vested interests rewrote the IPCC’s latest report
The Summary for Policymakers for the April 2022 Working Group III Report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) — the third part of the IPCC’s 2021-2022 Sixth Assessment Report addressing Mitigation , is according to UN Secretary General António Guterres, “a litany of broken climate promises.… Simply put, they [the vested interests]… Continue reading
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On the brink–the scenario that the IPCC is not modelling
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group 1 has presented its Physical Basis Report as a contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report on climate change, due in early 2022. The report and its summary are written in the precise style and vocabulary of scientific publications that make ‘objective’ statements. However, never before has a… Continue reading
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The IPCC Report: Key Findings and Radical Implications
The UN-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released its latest comprehensive report on the state of the earth’s climate. The much-anticipated report dominated the headlines for a few days in early August, then quickly disappeared amidst the latest news from Afghanistan, the fourth wave of Covid-19 infections in the US, and all the… Continue reading
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Does fighting climate change require postponing the fight for system change?
Should ecosocialists put aside calls for radical social change until after we win reforms that solve the climate crisis within capitalism? 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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The Monkey’s Face. The Climate Crisis is Destroying “Real Environmentalism” By John Steppling
27 June 2019 — Greanville Post “The more reified the world becomes, the thicker the veil cast upon nature, the more the thinking weaving that veil in its turn claims ideologically to be nature, primordial experience.” — Theodor Adorno (Critical Models) “Nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.” — Raymond Williams 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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Why protesters should be wary of ‘12 years to climate breakdown’ rhetoric By Myles Allen
As the relevant lead author of the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C, I spent several days last October, literally under a spotlight, explaining to delegates of the world’s governments what we could, and could not, say about how close we are to that level of warming. Continue reading
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CAPITALISM COULD COST US THE EARTH!
Capitalism, society’s first industrial society, has economically raped this planet in order to maximise profit. Capitalism only recognises costs when they are paid for. Anything which reduces paid costs improves profit margin. One way to reduce cost price is to dump or pump pollution into the planet’s digestive tract, which is free, and hope it… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Tilting At Easy Targets: Climate Change And The ‘Highly Ideological’ Liberal Mindset By David Cromwell
When a senior UN climate official warns that the world is ‘heading for a heart attack’ (The Times, September 23, 2013), there is clearly no time to lose in taking the radical action necessary to avert disaster. But we also have to understand why it is that no matter how many scientific warnings and ‘wake… Continue reading
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Britain: Police justification for Taser killing in Manchester unravels By Tony Robson
Jordan Begley, a 23-year-old factory worker, was shot on July 10 at approximately 8:15 p.m. by officers from the Greater Manchester Police (GMP). The incident took place at his mother’s home where he lived in Beard Road, Gorton. Jordan died within two hours of being shot with the Taser, which carries a 50,000-volt charge. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 4 February 2013: EU: Solidarity or militarisation?
4 February 2013 — Home page: http://www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org 1. EU: Council of the European Union: Visa lists and Intra-Corporate Transferees2. USA: BODY SCANNERS: Rapiscan Backscatter Contract Terminated – Units to be Removed3. EU: Solidarity or militarisation? Proposed ‘solidarity clause’ legislation criticised for lack of clarity and “encouraging armament” Continue reading
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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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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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MEDIA LENS ALERT: GATES OF DELUSION Media Distortions And +Real+ Climate Scandals
Since November last year, the public has been bombarded with the story of stolen emails from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, revealing a supposed “scandal” of scientific malpractice, stupidly and lazily named “climategate”. Further media frenzy erupted over an erroneous Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change statement that 80 per cent… Continue reading
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The Myth of Policing By Consent By Kevin Blowe
The belief that the police are now our servants and their independence from the state guarantees their impartiality and accountability is an enduring one. It is summed up in the most often quoted maxim of Sir Robert Peel, the founder of the Metropolitan Police, that ‘the police are the public and the public are the… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 