Climate Memo Mondays

Compiled by Dick Bennett  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/12/omni-climate-memo-mondays-209-december.html PLANET OVER PROFITPOP is a youth-led climate justice group building people power and using direct action to take on the fossil fuel industry and put Planet Over Profit. Fossil fuel companies – and the banks and asset managers that finance them – are driving us off the cliff of climate collapse.    The wealthiest 1%, with their dirty investments and private jets and yachts, rob us of a livable future while ordinary people struggle to make ends meet and survive.   If our so-called “leaders” won’t act on climate, it’s on us to hold them accountable and reclaim […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/12/omni-climate-memo-mondays-208-december.html More Books from “Ecosocialist Bookshelf”Articles from Climate and Capitalism MORE BOOKS FROM “Ecosocialist Bookshelf, September 2024.”  September 2, 2024.   Climate change silently accumulates a thousand tiny conflagrations, increasing health risks for billions of people, reducing productivity and amplifying inequality in a host of ways. Rob Jackson.  INTO THE CLEAR BLUE SKY: The Path to Restoring Our Atmosphere.  Simon & Schuster.  Jackson, chair of the Global Carbon Project, argues that we must not only slash emissions, but also repair the damage by removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.  Restoring the atmosphere means reducing the amount of greenhouse […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/12/omni-climate-memo-mondays-207-december.html Efforts to Save Our PlanetUN-USA, COP 29UUA Green SanctuaryBook, Beautiful SolutionsMore Books from Ecosocialist Bookshelf COP 29, UNA-USA, UNA TODAY, NOVEMBER 2024 The 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) has concluded in Baku, Azerbaijan. Global leaders, ministers, and representatives from over 30 countries have come together to build on the momentum of last year’s historic Global Cooling Pledge. With climate change fueling extreme heat waves, the demand for sustainable cooling solutions has reached a critical point.  The United Nations Environment Programme’s article delves into the significant progress made at COP29, highlighting key takeaways from […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett   Yale Program on Climate ChangeInside Climate News WeeklyRachel Myslivy.   “Create Climate Justice.”   UUA.    [I’m thankful for Yale Program on Climate Change and Inside Climate News, now my main regular climate news sources.   Tell me of others.  Here are selections from each.  These two reforming sources mainly nibble around the margins.  If we need to change the economic system, to cope with the climate emergency, we must look elsewhere.   ,–D] “Climate Change’s Four Irelands and the 2023 Irish Climate Opinion Maps.”   Yale Program on Climate Change Communication  <climatechange@yale.edu>  Dear Friends, The Irish Environmental Protection Agency commissioned the Yale […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/11/omni-climate-memo-mondays-205-november.html 3 Upbeat Fighting Back Articles from Inside Climate News Inside Climate News:  Election 2024Georgina Gustin.  “Climate Advocacy Groups Say They’re Ready for Trump 2.0.” Disheartened, worried, even scared, activists and strategists are nevertheless better prepared this time around and bracing for a long fight.   Donald Trump has promised to demolish the country’s domestic and international climate policies at a crucial moment, when climate scientists say the window is closing on the world’s ability to avoid the most dangerous impacts of global warming.    Read the full story Wyatt Myskow, et al.  “Despite Likely Setback for Climate Action […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/11/omni-climate-memo-mondays-204-november.html ANDREAS MALM, CONVERGENCE: DON’T FORGET PANDEMICS A decade ago, I named my blog War and Warming, but I have added more crises:   and pandemics, population growth, fascism.   Andreas Malm in Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century (2020) reminds us that pandemics arise from the increasing human activities throughout the planet.   Best known, of course, is the rising temperature from humans burning fossil fuels.    Less known is the increasing spillover of climate-related pathogens from human growth and development (not Chinese labs).   Excellent book.    -D Dick’s Summary of Naomi Klein’s Foreword to Aronoff […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/11/omni-climate-memo-mondays-203-november.html Jill Stein with Latest UN Warning.Inside Climate News.U.S. Educational System Not Teaching the Catastrophic Reality.OMNI Anthologies on Temperature and Refugees. LATEST WARNING FROM THE UN via JILL STEIN The UN’s report this week did not hesitate to get to the point, dedicating the first page of their 100 page report to a single message in big red letters:NO MORE HOT AIR PLEASE!EMISSIONS GAP REPORT 2024 What is evident throughout this report, from the title to the closing citations, is that not a single major, developed nation has accepted responsibility for repeatedly prioritizing corporate profits over […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett .    https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/10/climate-memo-mondays-201-october-28-2024.html ELECTIONS 2024 from Inside Climate News, ICNWith November 5 just weeks away, ICN continues to deliver cutting-edge coverage on what’s at stake for the climate this election season.  Stay current on key Senate, House, and battleground elections, the future of the Inflation Reduction Act, electric vehicles and the energy transition, and more in our dedicated election hub. Energy News from ICNEvery Thursday, ICN reporter Dan Gearino offers a new take on understanding the energy transformation reshaping our world through his newsletter Inside Clean Energy. From grid modernization to electric vehicles to wind and solar plants, Dan provides an accessible approach to complicated issues […]