Climate Memo Mondays

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/09/omni-climate-memo-mondays-145-september.html Jake Johnson.  US “The ‘Planet-Wrecker in Chief’.”Cristen Hemingway Jaynes.  Six Of Nine Planetary Boundaries Have Now Been Exceeded. Fossil fuel expansion in the U.S. Jake Johnson.  “The ‘Planet-Wrecker in Chief’.”  Consortium News (9-13-23).  Planned fossil fuel expansion in the U.S. accounts for more than a third of new oil and gas extraction projects through 2050, according to Oil Change International.  Read here… https://consortiumnews.com/2023/09/13/the-planet-wrecker-in-chief/   Common Dreams The United States was called “planet-wrecker-in-chief” by a report released Tuesday that points out the nation’s plans for a massive expansion of oil and gas production over the next two and a half decades even as it […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett.OMNI’s War and Warming Newsletter (jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com)  Veterans for Peace Jake Bittle. The Great Displacement.  Bittle has been writing and fact-checking for Popular Science since 2018. Kirkpatrick Sale.   “The Dangerous Contrivance of ‘Climate Change.’”  Sale has written prolifically about political decentralism, environmentalism, luddism and technology.  David Suzuki..   “There’s Still Time to Avoid Climate Catastrophe.”     Suzuki is a science broadcaster, and environmental activist with a PhD in zoology from the University of Chicago. GROWING RECOGNICATION OF DANGEROUS CONVERGENCE OF THE TWO EXISTENTIAL THREATS TO CIVILIZATION AND PLANET:  NUCLEAR WAR AND GLOBAL WARMING VETERANS FOR PEACE 2023 Convention opened with a panel on the Climate Crisis and Militarism Jake Bittle. The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American […]

OMNI’s War and Warming Newsletter: OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #143, SEPTEMBER 4, 2023 (jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com) Art Hobson.  “Ending the nuclear weapons threat: USA and others must support U.N. treaty.”The Shalom Center.  “Maui Wildfires: Elite Origins, Grassroots Response.”Jim Hightower.   “People and the Planet Win Big Victory Over Big Oil!”  GLOBAL WARMING AND NUCLEAR WEAPONSArt Hobson.  “Ending the nuclear weapons threat: USA and others must support U.N. treaty.  NWADG 22 August 2023.” . . . The bad news is that, along with global warming, The Bomb is an existential threat to civilization.  The good news is that the chances of real action on […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/08/omni-climate-memo-mondays-142-august-28.html Earth Overshoot DayJeff Goodell.  The Heat Will Kill You FirstTED HAMILTON.   Beyond Fossil Law:  CLIMATE, COURTS, AND THE FIGHT FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE. Earth Overshoot Day We busted Earth’s budget!     By the Numbers 2022 .  an VIEW 2022 HIGHLIGHTS Calculate your personal Overshoot Day Our mobile-friendly calculator is now available in eight languages. You can use it to measure your Ecological Footprint and determine your personal Earth Overshoot Day. The tool helps users learn about solutions so we can all tread more lightly on the Earth. CALCULATE NOW Earth Overshoot Day is an estimate, not an exact date.  . […]

OMNI’s War and Warming Newsletter: OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #141, AUGUST 21, 2023 (jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com) Greta Thunberg.  The Climate Book.  Penguin, 2023.Hanson and Brown.  Government of and for Its Citizens. Matthew Gindin.  “What is metabolic rift?” Greta Thunberg.  The Climate Book.  Penguin, 2023.  I received this book a few days ago and quickly began to admire its “creation” (as the title-author page unusually declares: “Created by Greta Thunberg.”)  For her presence is essential throughout.   She opens her book with four jolting graphics showing the relationship between CO2 and global warming.   The Table of Contents numbers each of the essays and divides them […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/08/omni-climate-memo-mondays-140-august-14.html NOTES FROM THE EDITORS.  mONTHLY REVIEW.  June 2022 (Volume 74, Number 2) by The Editors (Jun 01, 2022) Topics: Capitalism  Climate Change  Ecology  Political Economy Places: Global [I discovered I had never forwarded this crucial explanation of the IPCC process of two reports for each of the six IPCC assessments—the scientific report produced by hundreds of scientists based upon thousands of published studies, and the redacted government/corporate final report.  If you had wondered why the final assessments had seemed to have understated their findings, you were reading the Ffnal, doctored document of each of the six assessments.  –Dick] Time is running out for the world to […]

OMNI’s War and Warming Newsletter: OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #139, AUGUST 7, 2023 (jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com) KENNY STANCIL.  “Worsening Heatwaves Put Entire Global Food System in Jeopardy, Scientists Warn.”José Seoane.  “The eco collapse we were warned about has begun.” Ian Angus.  “Scientists choose site to mark the start of the Anthropocene.” KENNY STANCIL.  “Worsening Heatwaves Put Entire Global Food System in Jeopardy, Scientists Warn.”   Common Dreams (July 21, 2023). “There are growing risks of simultaneous major crop losses in different regions in the world,” said one scientist. “This is not what we’re seeing right now, but in the coming decades that’s one […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/07/omni-climate-memo-mondays-138-july-31.html RESISTANCESenator Jeff Merkley: Biden Must Stop New Fossil Fuel Projects.Jay Inslee.   “‘The Climate Change Bomb Has Gone Off.”   Marjory Cohn. “Youth Plaintiffs in Court Against Montana.”    Brett Wilkins.   “‘July Should Be a Wake-Up Call’:  Senator Says Biden Must Stop Approving New Fossil Fuel Projects.”   Common Dreams (7-30-23).  “We are in a climate emergency,” said Oregon Democrat Jeff Merkley. “We can’t take a piecemeal approach to the massive crisis we face.” CLIMATE CHANGE, COMMENTARY, HUMAN RIGHTS, INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, LEGAL, U.S.   Jessica Corbett.  “‘The Climate Change Bomb Has Gone Off,’ Says Jay Inslee Amid Extreme Heat.” Common Dreams.  July 23, 2023  “What the scientific community is […]