*US climate scientist Michael Mann wins $1m in defamation lawsuit* against right-wing denialists.
*This is the year of the climate election. Journalists should cover it that way.* I’ve treated the slowly developing climate crisis as crucial since 2000 or before.
*Ugandan climate activists face charges after a month in maximum security jail.* Thugs already brutalized them. Now they could be imprisoned for a year for a nonviolent protest. The law being used to prosecute them was imposed by Britain when Uganda was a British colony. Ironically, Britain is on nonviolent climate defense protesters.
*Repetition has blunted the art museum protests so much that the pumpkin soup assault on the Mona Lisa felt pathetic. More effective tactics are needed.*
*[The saboteur-in-chief’s] allies and advisers have hinted at a more methodical second term: driving forward fossil fuel production, sidelining scientists and overturning rules.*
*World “not prepared” for climate disasters after warmest ever January.* Unprecedented disasters have just occurred in California (extreme rains) and the Valparaíso region (wildfires entering a major city).
*World “not prepared” for climate disasters after warmest ever January.* Unprecedented disasters have just occurred in California (extreme rains) and the Valparaíso region (wildfires entering a major city).
*European politicians weaken climate policies amid farmer protests.* It’s much more comfortable in the short term not to bother preparing to keep climate disaster small enough to survive it. But it is foolish in the long term.
Climate defenders called on the US Department of Agriculture to take account of the contribution to global heating of meat and dairy production.
Fossil fuel companies were warned about the danger of global heating in 1954, from research that they funded to track the level of CO2 in the air.
Global heating is causing sea-level rise. The better-off people in the prosperous parts of Miami (mostly whites) want to move west to higher ground, into neighborhood now inhabited mainly by blacks. To facilitate this, redevelopment projects tear down old housing projects and build new housing, most of which is rented out for more than the […]
*Rampant Biden Administration Oil, Gas Drilling Approvals Continue to Undermine U.S. Climate Commitments.* No amount of renewable electric generation will avert global heating disaster unless it leads to reducing total greenhouse gas emissions. For civilization’s survival, that must be the goal.
*Five examples of the UK’s crackdown on climate protesters.* Has Starmer said that Labour would end this repression, or defend the climate enough to the protests unnecessary? I don’t think so, but I’d like to be reminded if I forgot.
Burning wood indoors for cooking is a bad idea because the wood smoke harms people’s health. Projects to hand out wood-burning stoves in poor countries are supported by “carbon offsets” which are fraudulent in the usual way. I’ve heard of projects to give people inexpensive solar-powered cookers. They don’t cause any pollution; the users don’t […]