Climate Memo Mondays

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 […]

 Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/03/omni-convergence-of-catastrophes-wars.html CALLS FOR AWARE AND RESPONSIVE CITIZENS Climate Awareness: Ireland and USA.Neta C. Crawford.  The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War. CLIMATE AWARENESS: IRELAND AND USAYale Program on Climate Change Communication (3-7-24).The Irish Environmental Protection Agency commissioned the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication to help them conduct a nationally representative survey on public climate change awareness.  A few highlights with comparisons with USA: · 95% of the Irish people think climate change is happening. By contrast, our latest national survey in the U.S. found that 72% of Americans think global warming is happening. (Note: The term “climate change” was used […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/03/omni-climate-memo-mondays-168-march-4.html Robert Hunziker.  “Fastest Warming on Earth.”Bendell and Read.  Deep Adaptation. ROBERT HUNZIKER .  “Fastest Warming on Earth.”  Counterpunch FEBRUARY 23, 2024.FacebookTwitterRedditEmail . . .As the massive glaciers recede, space opens at the edge of permafrost, releasing ancient methane. . . .Methane detected in the High Arctic puts a big hole in the Global Methane Pledge of more than 100 countries that agreed to cut emissions 30% by 2030. It’s an add-on that nobody knows how to deal with.  The High Arctic location is Svalbard, Norway (pop. 2,642) which is the fastest warming region of the planet only […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/02/omni-climate-memo-mondays-167-february.html Dana R. Fisher Saving Ourselves: Climate Shocks to Climate Action (on climate inaction).  Julie Hollar.  Grossly Inadequate Reporting by the Mainstream Media of the Climate Emergency. “Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks To Climate Action” By Michaela Herrmann, DeSmog.  PopularResistance.org (2-15-24).   Professor Dana R. Fisher’s new book, Saving Ourselves: Climate Shocks to Climate Action. Dana R. Fisher argues that there is a realistic path forward for climate action―but only through mass mobilization that responds to the growing severity and frequency of disastrous events. She assesses the current state of affairs and shows why public policy and private-sector […]