Climate Memo Mondays

Compiled by Dick Bennett    https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/03/omni-climate-memo-mondays-223-march-24.html Yale Climate Connections February 28 – March 6, 2025. As the politics of climate change shift, how can ordinary people respond?  Goodbye, Paris Agreement; hello, National Energy Dominance Council, the body tasked with carrying out the Trump administration’s fossil-fuel-forward agenda.   [Here’s another organization fighting back.  –D]Nathaniel Stinnett founded the Environmental Voter Project in 2015, aiming to convince more people who care about climate change to engage with the electoral process. Keep reading. More articles published this weekNOAA Hurricane Hunter layoffs threaten to degrade hurricane forecasts‘We know what it’s like’: How Appalachian towns are learning to help each other after […]

Compiled by Dick Bennetthttps://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/03/omni-climate-memo-mondays-222-march-17.html A Nation Divided? How much?   Over basics? Lertzman.  “The US Has Never Been More Divided On Climate.” Mazza.  “Building Solidarity Around Survival: A Seattle Example.” New Articles and Reviews of Books in Climate and Capitalism. “The US Has Never Been More Divided On Climate” By Dr. Renée Lertzman, DeSmog. Popular Resistance.org (3-10-25).  In the autumn of 2014, I was sitting in a tiny shed at a writing residency in Point Reyes, Northern California. I was there to write my book about the psychology of facing planetary crises. One particularly warm afternoon, I was looking out at Tomales […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/03/omni-climate-memo-mondays-221-march-10.html [The arc of environmental sanity and justice is dipping, but the resistance is planetary, diverse, and indefatigable.  A toast to them!  –D] LOCAL ACTIONS People of all faiths and backgrounds are invited to take part in the Interfaith Climate Retreat, a powerful three-part event designed to inspire, educate, and mobilize our community in response to the climate crisis.  Dates & Times: •       Monday, March 31 6:30-8:30 pm •       Thursday, April 3, 6:30-8:30 pm •       Monday, April 7, 6:30-8:30 pm Location: St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 224 N East Ave, Fayetteville, AR 72701 The Interfaith Climate Retreat is a call […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/03/omni-climate-memo-mondays-220-march-3.html Global Affairs SmartBrief, Feb. 28, 2025.  2 Reports. “Marine heatwaves surged in 2023-24, study shows.” The frequency of marine heatwaves surged over the last two years, which saw ocean temperatures climb above normal levels for three-and-a-half times more days than in any previous year and close to 10% of ocean waters break heat records, a study published in Nature Climate Change indicates. Warmer waters can fuel more intense storms, spark coral bleaching, disrupt fishing and cause billions in damage, experts warn.    Full Story:The Guardian (London) (2/28) .“57 Companies Are Responsible for 80% of Carbon Emissions That Cause […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/02/omni-climate-memo-mondays-219-february.html  From Understanding to ActionErald Kolasi .  The Physics of Capitalism: How a New Political Ecology Can Change the World . Genevieve Guenther.  The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It.  The Physics of Capitalism: How a New Political Ecology Can Change the World by Erald Kolasi.  Monthly Review, 2025.The Physics of Capitalism, by Erald Kolasi, offers a new theoretical framework for understanding the relationship between economic systems and the wider natural world. The economic and demographic growth of human civilization over the last ten thousand years has profoundly impacted natural ecosystems throughout the […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/02/omni-climate-memo-mondays-218-february.html Green New Deal. Kate Aronoff.      Overheated. Greenpeace. Inside Climate News. GREEN NEW DEALKate Aronoff.  Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet—and How We Fight Back.  Bold Type Books, 2021.[Aronoff reflects the long tradition of Utopian thought and practice.  For utopianism means the ability to imagine a better world, without which we can’t get started,–such as with the New Deal of the 1930s.  –D]      “Decarbonizing the global economy and adapting to the climate changed century ahead will be the single hardest and most important thing our species has ever done.* It’s impossible without a big, […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/02/omni-climate-memo-mondays-217-february.html Trump’s Environmental Record Inside Climate News WeeklyProtecting the CommonsA History of the Struggle A Glimpse of TRUMP’S ENVIRONMENTAL RECORD“During his first term in office, Donald Trump worked to weaken the National Environmental Policy Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Endangered Species Act.  He fast-tracked the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines.  He rolled back 85% of protected land in the Bears Ears Monument for drilling; and he destroyed Indigenous sacred sites and burial grounds, including Monument Hill in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument to construct his Mexico border wall. “(NOAAF)  2-10-25 This number of ICNW is packed with information regarding the Trump administration’s onslaught against the climate […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/02/omni-climate-memo-mondays-216-february.html John Clarke.   “A Voice from Canada.” Yale Climate Connections, Climate Crisis and Mental Health(and more) “A VOICE FROM CANADA:  John Clarke, “Truth takes a side.”“The Climate Charade Continues.” Originally published: Counterfire  on January 12, 2024 (more by Counterfire) and Canadian Dimension  on November 7, 2024 (more by Canadian Dimension) . Understanding and truth are our best weapons against an exploitative society based on lies.  With fossil-fuel interests now openly and repeatedly in charge of Cop summits, their failure of legitimacy must be confronted, argues John Clarke.“On the Edge of the ‘Climate Abyss’.”   Originally published: Counterfire  on May 15, 2024 (more by Counterfire).  With scientists warning of imminent catastrophe, it is time […]