Climate Memo Mondays


OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #260, December 22, 2025.

Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/12/omni-climate-memo-mondays-260-december.html OMNI’S FINAL CMM, unless someone will carry on its realistic analyses and ultimate hope.   OMNI continues its resistance to warming by its weekly general newsletter edited by Gladys Tiffany, its local actions, and its many anthologies already published and in preparation).  –Dick. RESISTANCEICN Sunday MorningCapitalism Nature SocialismMark Dunlea.   Putting Out the Planetary Fire.  2023.Green New Deal. Bill McKibben.  Here Comes the Sun.  2025. Recently Published Resistance: Two Magazines and Two Books  ICN Sunday Morning <newsletters@insideclimatenews.org>  12-21-25.  ICN Sunday Morning is now available as a podcast! Listen and subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, and iHeart.    Reader donations make our work […]


OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #259, December 15, 2025

Compiled by Dick Bennett.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/12/omni-climate-memo-mondays-259-december.html [Next week’s CMM will be its last, unless someone continues it.  Even though the online newsletter/anthology is much more needed now than when it arose out of OMNI’s Climate Book Forum that began in 2006—when our study was Climate Change, and our subject is now Climate Emergency–, I must give it up.   Dick] Paris Climate Agreement after 10 Years.EarthJustice.United Nations.Ecosocialism. Climate and Capitalism. Yale Climate Connections. Paris Climate Agreement Today. “Need to know info on climate change.” fran@deane-alexander.com via uark.onmicrosoft.com   12-13-25.       [Orig. pub. The Guardian, forwarded by Fran Alexander.]   ‘A shift no country can […]


OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #258, December 1, 12, 2025

Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/12/omni-climate-memo-mondays-258-december.html NONVIOLENCE ORGANIZATIONS v. CATASTROPHIC SYSTEM OF CLIMATE and WARS:  BREAKING THE REGIME OF FOSSIL FUELS WAR FASCISM. [‘Flu” visited me Thanksgiving, the perfect day for an irony-minded host, and remains my guest today, giving my doctor an opportunity to tell me about real flu victims.  I had gathered several items for the next Memo, then fell behind, and then the following essay appeared in my inbox, perfect for a blog named “War and Warming” (recently amended to include population growth and fascism). –D] “SIGN NOW: Fossil fuels cause war.” Drew and the crew at 198 Methods <drew@198methods.org> Dec […]


OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #257, November 24, 2025

Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/11/omni-climate-memo-mondays-257-november.html  LITHIUM DISCOVERED IN ARKANSASJonathan Neale.  Fight the Fire: Green New Deals and Global Climate Jobs.   2025.Mark Goodale.  Extracting the Future: Lithium in an Era of Energy Transition.    2021. ABBY MARTIN, MILITARISM AND CLIMATE FILMMAKER, EARTH’S GREATEST ENEMY. The transition to green energy does not have to be powered by destructive and poisonous mineral extraction: READ Jonathan Neale’s new book, Fight the Fire.   For a free copy, click the cover image. https://theecologist.org/fight-the-fire Click to download free pdf or ebook. by Jonathan Neale I have spent the last year working on a book called Fight the Fire: Green New […]


OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #256, November 10, 2025

Compiled by Dick Bennett. Yale Climate Connections. US Rejects COP30, China Leads in Renewable Energy.UNIPCC Report on Climate Change and Land, 2019. Friederike Otto.   Climate Injustice. The Living New Deal Yale Climate Connections (11-11-25).   Yale Center for Environmental Communication · 195 Prospect St. · New Haven, CT 06511.The world is on track to overshoot the 1.5 degrees Celsius warming target negotiated in the Paris Agreement 10 years ago. “Current commitments put the world on a path of 2.3-2.5°C of warming by the end of the century. We are very likely to overshoot 1.5°C within the next decade – the priority now […]


OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #255, November 3, 2025

Compiled by Dick Bennett.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/11/omni-climate-memo-mondays-255-november.html Commemorate the End of the Vietnam War.COP30Climate and Capitalism “Commemorate the End of the Vietnam War.”  With Larry Rottmann.    Nov. 1 to Nov. 12 “Faces from Vietnam”: Exhibition of Photographs at FPL top floor.  (Plan time enough to glimpse the people of post-war Vietnam rebuilding.”  Excellent photos, clearly displayed. –D)Tues. Nov. 11, 5:30, “Voices from Vietnam”: Film and discussion with film’s creator and director.Wed., Nov. 12, 6:00, “A Different Vietnam War.”   Narratives of war presented by veterans Larry Rottmann, Tim Burrows, and Eli Redstone.   With live music. More: Go to faylib.org/events (Rottmann presented here sponsored […]


OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #254, October 27, 2025

Compiled by Dick Bennett.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/10/omni-climate-memo-mondays-254-october.html DICK’S SOURCES FOR HIS ANTHOLOGIES AND WEEKLIES  10-22-25   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/10/dicks-sources-for-his-anthologies-and.html INFORMATION ABOUT INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS (10-20-25). Dear ICN Reader,I’m Jamie Smith Hopkins, managing editor at Inside Climate News. I’d like to tell you about how we work and why your donation is so crucial to help us keep going.While visiting our website or opening our newsletter, you may have noticed something that sets us apart from many other news outlets: our news is free to read. That’s because Inside Climate News is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. We do not charge a subscription fee, lock our news behind […]


OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #253, October 20, 2025

Compiled by Dick Bennett       https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/10/omni-climate-memo-mondays-253-october.html Climate & Capitalism: Two Books on Plastics 350.org on COP 30 “Communicating Climate Change.”   Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. Read and Resist! CLIMATE & CAPITALISM  “Ecosocialist Bookshelf,” October 2025.Ecosocialist Bookshelf is a monthly column, hosted by Ian Angus. Books described here may be reviewed at length in future.   Publisher’s description:Plastics, forever chemicals poisoning of the biosphere.POISONING THE WELL:  How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America.  Island Press.PFAS, the ‘forever chemicals’ found in everyday products, from cooking pans to mascara, can now be found in the bodies of just about everyone. The petrochemical knows the danger this poses for […]