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By Jane Braxton Little | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Half a mile south of what’s left of the old Gold Rush-era town of Greenville, California, Highway 89 climbs steeply in a series of S-turns as familiar to me as my own backyard. From the top of that grade, I’ve sometimes seen bald eagles soaring […]

Climate Crisis

Half of global Coal Companies continue to develop new Assets

China Dialogue

By Nora Sausmikat and Katrin Ganswindt | – ( China Dialogue —- Bonus Video added by Informed Comment: Al Jazeera English: “Bosnia’s most polluting power plant linked with cancer”

Climate Crisis

Mars Attacks Earth! And we’re the Martians in this Picture

Tom Engelhardt

( Tomdispatch.com) – Who knew that Martians, inside monstrous tripodal machines taller than many buildings, actually ululated, that they made eerily haunting “ulla, ulla, ulla, ulla” sounds? Well, let me tell you that they do — or rather did when they were devastating London. I know that because I recently reread H.G. Wells’s 1898 novel […]

Climate Crisis

If We could Mobilize to Fight COVID-19, why can’t we Ramp up to Combat the Climate Emergency?

Jill Richardson

By Jill Richardson ( Otherwords.org ) – The recent COP26 climate summit in Glasgow was the 26th attempt to get the nations of the world to fix the climate crisis. During the summit, the Washington Post reported that countries have been under-reporting their emissions, so the negotiations are based on “flawed data.” We’ve known about […]

Climate Crisis

Top 5 Things you need to Know about the Glasgow Climate Pact

The Conversation

By Simon Lewis and Mark Maslin | – The COP26 UN climate talks in Glasgow have finished and the gavel has come down on the Glasgow Climate Pact agreed by all 197 countries. If the 2015 Paris Agreement provided the framework for countries to tackle climate change then Glasgow, six years on, was the first […]

Climate Crisis

As Activists sue, Judges are not waiting on Politicians to rule against Carbon Emissions

Clean Energy Wire

By Isabel Sutton | – ( Clean Energy Wire) – A string of landmark rulings forcing governments to step up emission cuts have turned the courts into a new and powerful line of defence in the fight against climate change. An increasing number of judges now consider global warming a human rights issue, and therefore […]

Climate Crisis

Oil and Gas Corporations are waging a Climate Disinformation Campaign on Twitter during COP26

The Conversation

By Jill Hopke | – When oil and gas companies took to Twitter during the first half of the U.N.’s Glasgow climate conference, they often presented themselves as part of the solution to climate change and talked about energy security. In many ways, their messaging on social media provides a window into how these companies […]

Climate Crisis

COP26: Climate Disaster Stalks Morocco even as it Strives for Wind, Solar

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Since the UN Conference of Parties (COP) 26 is meeting in Glasgow this week, we will be looking at climate and energy issues in the Middle East. Today I want to make some remarks about Morocco, which has one of the most ambitious green energy programs in the region, but […]

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The Path to a Livable Future: Or Will Rich Corporations Trash the Planet?

Tomdispatch

By Noam Chomsky and Stan Cox | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – This month will mark a critical juncture in the struggle to avoid climate catastrophe. At the COP26 global climate summit kicking off next week in Glasgow, Scotland, negotiators will be faced with the urgent need to get the world economy off the business-as-usual track […]