Climate Change

By Tharanga Yakupitiyage | (Inter Press Service) | – – UNITED NATIONS, Nov 24 2016 (IPS) – Although U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has hinted he may be softening his stance on climate change, many are still uncertain of what lies ahead concerning climate action within and beyond the United States. A demonstration against the XL […]

Climate Change

Overheated Arctic: Climate Change ‘Vicious Circle’

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TeleSur | – – Ice cover at the top of the globe shrank to its smallest area in 2016 —some 4.14 million sq km (1.6 million sq miles)— on September 16. Freakishly high temperatures in the Arctic driven by heat-packed oceans and northward winds have been reinforced by a “vicious circle” of climate change, scientists […]

Climate Change

DAPL: This Thanksgiving, Time to Listen to Native Americans again on Climate & Survival

Juan Cole

Revised and updated. By Juan Cole | — The popular story about Thanksgiving is an environmental parable that we would do well to remember today. It was a harvest festival in 1621, participated in by the 50 (out of 100) survivors at Plymouth Plantation and 90 Native Americans. Some of these latter, such as Squanto, […]

Climate Change

16-Year-Old Sues Federal Government On Climate Change

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AJ+ | (Video Report) | – – “Indigenous climate activist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez is one of 21 young plaintiffs suing the federal government to demand action on climate change.” AJ+: “16-Year-Old Sues Federal Government On Climate Change”

Climate Change

Four years of Trump could really sink the planet

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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – I argued that President Obama’s carbon-reduction plan wasn’t anything to write home about. He wanted to reduce our annual emissions from 5.4 billion metric tons of CO2 annually from the US to 4.7 billion metric tons by 2030. It isn’t an insignificant reduction, but it doesn’t […]

Climate Change

Get some Climate attitude: Ban Coal and forget about Carbon Capture

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By Lili Fuhr | ( Project Syndicate ) BERLIN – Mainstream politics, by definition, is ill equipped to imagine fundamental change. But last December in Paris, 196 governments agreed on the need to limit global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels – an objective that holds the promise of delivering precisely such a transformation. Achieving […]

Climate Change

Top 5 urgent Climate Change/Election Stories MSM Suppressed

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – I used the word “suppressed” in the title quite deliberately. Corporate television media in the United States is colluding in a cover-up of the threat of climate change, and they have specifically blacked out the climate change issue with regard to this election. The guilty parties […]

China

China’s Wind Co. Profits, share price soar by 60%: 2 Turbines an Hour being Installed

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The South China Post reports some incredible figures about the profitability China’s wind energy companies. A new study by the Bank of China International (BOCI) is foreseeing profits of 25 to 64 percent for the rest of 2016. The reason for this optimism? The government is […]

Climate Change

Clinton brings back Gore, talks Green, but still Opposes Carbon Tax

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – On Tuesday, Hillary Clinton campaigned in Miami with Al Gore, attempting both to shore up her credentials with both environmentalists and Millennial youth. Gore, Bill Clinton’s vice president, very narrowly lost the 2000 election to George W. Bush, mainly because of a disputed Florida count. Gore […]