Climate Memo Mondays

Compiled by Dick Bennett  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/06/omni-climate-memo-mondays-183-june-17.html RESISTANCEKevin A. Young.    Abolishing Fossil Fuels.Melba Newsome.  The Harms of Auto Tires. Greenpeace.  Elect Climate Champions. Kevin A. Young.    Abolishing Fossil Fuels: Lessons from Movements That Won.  PM Press, 2024.  264pp.   Overview    Purchase the e-Book HEREPublisher’s Description Climate destruction is a problem of political power. We have the resources for a green transition, but how can we neutralize the influence of Exxon and Shell? Abolishing Fossil Fuels argues that the climate movement has started to turn the tide against fossil fuels, just too gradually. The movement’s partial victories show us how the industry can be further undermined […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/06/omni-climate-memo-mondays-182-june-10.html RESISTANCE:  why our climate is in crisis and what we can do.Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, The Big Myth.  Fossil Fuel Profits,     Political Ideology, Accountability of Institutions, Lobbyists, and     Corporations Supporting Capitalism.Carly, et al.  “The Fossil Fuels Behind Forest Fires.” Zach, Greenpeace. Electing Climate Champions. Nick Engelfried, Waging Nonviolence, Nonviolent Direct Action v.       Destruction of Forests. United Nations. Diane Bernard.  “The Climate Crisis Is Directly Related To Inequality. “ DeSmog.  PopularResistance.org (6-1-24).      “Climate Change Is Not Just About Fossil Fuel Profits, But Also the Political Ideology Supporting Capitalism.” In an interview with Rachel Donald of the podcast Planet: […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/06/omni-climate-memo-mondays-181-june-3.html Global Briefs, May 28, 2024[This new weather disaster reporting organization with suggestions for individual action looks  helpful.   Let me know what you discover about it. –D] First landfalling cyclone of the season, record-breaking temps, and more DISASTER BRIEFS, MONDAY, MAY 28, 2024  Global Disaster Briefs are your weekly (or more often, if needed) summaries and headlines from around the world about natural and man-made disasters, climate change, disease and health, and international conflict. See endnotes for resources used in putting this report together. Data is retrieved and summarized on the day of publication unless otherwise […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/05/omni-climate-memo-mondays-180-may-27.html Refugees Ecowatch.   “World Breaches 1.5°C for an Entire Year for First Time on Record.” Wennersten and Robbins.  Rising Tides: Climate Refugees in the Twenty-First Century. Todd Miller.  Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security.  The Climate Moment, Stories from this unique moment on Earth ….   “What’s happening with the climate?!  World Breaches 1.5°C for an Entire Year for First Time on Record.” https://www.ecowatch.com/average-global-temperature-record-2024-paris-agreement.html For the first time on record, the average global temperature has exceeded 1.5 degree Celsius over a 12-month period, according to new data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S).   This year 2024 had the hottest January […]

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 […]