Climate Memo Mondays


OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #213, JANUARY 13, 2025

Compiled by Dick Bennett https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/01/omni-climate-memo-mondays-213-january.html RESISTING CLIMATE DOUBLESPEAK The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It by Genevieve Guenther. See all formats and editionsPublisher’s description:  A groundbreaking investigation into the propaganda justifying the fossil-fuel economy, The Language of Climate Politics offers readers powerful new ways to talk about the climate crisis that will help create transformative change. “If you want to understand the climate crisis and you only have time to read one book, this should be it.” – Kieran Setiya, author of Life is Hard. “A revelatory study…It’s a breath of fresh air.” Publishers’ Weekly Starred Review In an illuminating […]


OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #212, JANUARY 6, 2025

Compiled by Dick Bennett https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/01/omni-climate-memo-mondays-212-january-6.html  A FEW of the ORGANIZATIONS IN THE NEW YEAR FOR THE PLANET Indigenous People: Native Organizers Alliance Action Fund  Scientists and their allies: Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) One Org.’s Action on Multiple Fronts:  GreenpeaceClimate Resilient Farming:  AFSCReporting on the Calamity:  Inside Climate NewsAnd Yale Climate Connections (All of the anti-nuclear weapons orgs. too.) Indigenous Voices to Preserve Our Planet “Our ancestors have passed down traditional ways that best protect Mother Earth for generations” by Judith LeBlanc, Native Organizers Alliance Action Fund <info@nativeorganizing.org>   Dec 22, 2024. Native peoples view lands, waters, and all living beings on […]


OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #210, DECEMBER 23, 2024

Compiled by Dick Bennett https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/12/omni-climate-memo-mondays-210-december.html THESE ORGANIZATIONS FOR THE CLIMATE ARE USInside Climate NewsUnitarian Universalists for Social Justice Yale Climate Connections Climate Mobilization Project Some other climate organizations reported on in CMM:  Planet Over Profit, Climate and Capitalism, UN Annual COP, Living on Earth (NPR), OMNI Anthologies (Temperature, Refugees, etc.), Greenpeace. Inside Climate News Weekly, December 21, 2024.  Here’s a selection : A Florida Commission Keeps Approving Utility Plans With Lots of Fossil Fuels. Now Young Adults Are Suing. BY AMY GREEN.The plaintiffs claim the Public Service Commission’s practice of approving utility plans based on fossil fuels violates their constitutional […]


OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #209, DECEMBER 16, 2024

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 […]


OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #208, DECEMBER 9, 2024

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 […]


OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #207, DECEMBER 2, 2024

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 […]


OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #206, NOVEMBER 25, 2024

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 […]


OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #205, NOVEMBER 18, 2024

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 […]