Climate Memo Mondays

Compiled by Dick Bennett  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/05/omni-climate-memo-mondays-179-may-20.html CLIMATE CHANGE CALAMITY Aleks Phillips.  Florida, East and Gulf Coasts Under Water.Zack Frye.  Settler Colonialism Destroys Indigenous People and Ecosystems. Assange Extradited? Aleks Phillips.  “Florida map shows where state will become underwater from sea level rise.”  Mronline.org (4-14-24).  Originally published: Defend Democracy Press  on April 12, 2024 by (more by Defend Democracy Press)  |  (Posted Apr 13, 2024) Climate Change, Environment, InequalityAmericas, Global, United StatesNewswireFlorida, Water Earlier in March, astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson published a post on X, formerly Twitter, which showed Florida and much of America’s East and Gulf Coasts consumed by water. The post subsequently went viral, racking up 4.9 million views. The TV […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/05/omni-climate-memo-mondays-178-may-13.html Tom Dispatch and Stan Cox: Stop Wars and Warming or most of us will die or live in HELL. Stan Cox.  “Degrowth Is the Only Sane Survival Plan.”  Move to Amend, H.J.R. 54: Money Is Not Speech. You can hardly miss the news about climate change anymore, or perhaps what I mean is that you (yes, you!) can hardly miss feeling its effects. It’s been startling, to say the least. It doesn’t matter whether it was the month (the last 10 set global heat records, one after another) or the year (2023 was by far the hottest […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/05/omni-climate-memo-mondays-177-may-6-2024.html   Patrick Mazza on Convergences of Ecological Overshoot, Wars, Billionaires.     Friends Committee on National Legislation Knows the Connections and Responds. Convergence of Climate Crisis, Overshoot of Ecological Boundaries, Concentration of Wealth, Expansion of Militarism, Wars.  PATRICK MAZZA.    “A World Going in the Wrong Direction.“ COUNTERPUNCH (MARCH 28, 2024).      The converging crises facing our world today shout out the fact that their roots are systemic. Tinkering around the edges won’t solve these problems, because they are embedded in the systems logic itself. The climate crisis is the signature of this. While definite progress has been made in deploying low-carbon energy technologies, overall carbon […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/04/omni-climate-memo-mondays-176-april-29.html Greta Thunberg for Science Zack Frye on Settler-Colonialism v. Nature     By repeating its superb documentary on Greta Thunberg, PBS has again invigorated global resistance to climate change, and again exposed the hucksters of quack remedies.        Greta is an adult lay scientist, critical thinker, and ethical leader roaming the planet to gather the facts, investigate claims and evidence, and to demand our leaders to take action to save life on earth, as the film shows over and over.  Above all, she tracks the emergency.    Will trees as carbon sinks save us?  Well, yes, but not […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/04/omni-climate-memo-mondays-174-april-15.html Colin Beavan.  No Impact Man.  2009.Nick Dearden.  Climate-Wrecking Energy Charter Treaty.For The Nation magazine’s climate coverage, see The Nation.com/climate-update-signup. Dick’s Review of Colin Beavan.  No Impact Man.  2009.     I’m still unpacking boxes of books and found and reread a unique and inspiring recounting of one person’s attempt with wife and daughter during one year in NYC to do no harm to the environment and climate: no trash, no carbon dioxide emissions, no toxins!  That’s remarkable enough for recommending the book to you:  No Impact Man by Colin Beavan.  But two inseparable aspects of the book […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/04/omni-climate-memo-mondays-173-april-8.html Borenstein and The New Republic:  HeatPeter Uetz.  Overpopulation SETH BOREN­STEIN.  “Greenhouse gases shot up in ’23.”  Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Apr 07, 2024).  Go to:  Greenhouse gases shot up in ’23.      The New Republic.    A weekly reckoning with our overheating planet. Scientists have previously speculated that melting ice sheets dumping vast quantities of freshwater into the ocean could change the currents of the Atlantic Ocean. The new modeling suggested, though, that complete collapse of the Atlantic Ocean’s current system is no longer “theoretical” and could occur much faster and more completely than anticipated. Europe would abruptly get much colder, seasons […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/03/omni-climate-memo-mondays-171-march-25.html NIRS.  Radioactive Documentary Streaming and Three Mile Island Webinar. Ian Angus.  Earth System’s Metabolism. Join Us for the “Radioactive” Streaming Announcement and Three Mile Island Webinar! Nuclear Information & Resource Service  NIRS  (For a Nuclear Free, Carbon Free World)    Mar 22, 2024. Dear Dick, As the Three Mile Island disaster anniversary approaches, we wanted to share some upcoming events and media that shed light on the meltdown and the future of energy in the US.  [And this is Women’s Month.] Firstly, we are eager to announce that “Radioactive” is now available for streaming on Apple TV and […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/03/omni-climate-memo-mondays-170-march-18.html Yale Climate ConnectionsPeter Sainsbury. The Wealthy, the Poor, and Climate Change.Haaken and Praus.   “A two-part documentary on climate resistance.”   Selections from This week on Yale Climate Connections, February 26 – March 1, 2024. ·Zombie climate myths that refuse to die (feat. Bob Henson) .  Michael Mann beat his defamers. But climate scientists are still under attack. We must cut carbon from industry. Here’s how we can do it. What’s behind this winter’s U.S. snow drought? [except in Tahoe! In March]. “The wealthy cause climate change; the poor suffer its consequences.  Editor.  mronline.org (2-28-24).  Published in […]