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The American warns the world not to use war as an excuse to return to fossil fuels. 06 June 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News 06 June 2022 | Matt McGrath | Yahoo! News! The US envoy on climate change John Kerry has warned that the war in Ukraine must not be used…
Yes, 1985. How many billions of hours, minutes, and seconds have we had to learn the lessons we heard 37 years ago. Photo: Carl Sagan Talking to US Congress about Climate Change 28 May 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News It is indeed telling that the issues mentioned here, the ones Carl Sagan…
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The Great Reset is not about making life better. It is about maintaining control over the billions of people who do not count 25 Maya 2022 | Murray Hunter | Euroasia Review With the World Economic Forum once again meeting at the mountain resort of Davos, Switzerland, one of the most important items on the…
Hydraulic fracturing is banned across most of Europe, but Russian Nord Stream 2 oil will be replaced with fracked LNG ‘freedom oil’ from the US. Photo: Unconventional drilling technology like hydrauklic fracturing, or fracking, has created a boom in so-called shale oil and gas in the US, for which companies are now seeking new markets…
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Ukrainian scientist Svitlana Krakovska says war is ‘closing the window of opportunity’ for the world to prevent the worst impacts of climate change. And now fossil fuel firms are using Russia’s invasion as a convenient opportunity to keep investing in fossil fuels. Photo: Svitlana Krakovska at the Ukrainian Akademik Vernadsky station on Galindez Island in…
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Suzuki: Resolving the climate crisis isn’t just about shifting from one technology to another Photo: Scharfsinn86 / iStock / Getty Images Plus (cropped) 17 November 2021 | DAVID SUZUKI | Now Toronto Resolving the climate crisis isn’t just about shifting from one technology to another; it’s about shifting our ways of thinking and being. It’s…
None of these totals, in the US or most other countries, are included in COP, past or future. But maybe they will all go solar real soon. 12 November 2021 | JANGIRA LEWIS | Earth.org US military pollution is a significant contributor to climate change. If it were a nation state, it would be the…
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On average, they emit over 70 tonnes of carbon dioxide per person every year, 30 times more than we can each afford to release Photo: A superyacht, kept on permanent standby, as some billionaires’ boats are, generates around 7,000 tonnes of CO2 a year.’ Photograph: Valéry Hache/AFP/Getty Images 10 November 2021 | George Monbiot | The…
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Most of the politicians have returned home, many on their private jets, but today we join Mark Stone from Sky News who goes to Texas to talk to people who are monitoring the impact of methane gas on our planet. 03 November 2021 | Mark Stone | Sky News The frontlines of this climate crisis…
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The host is uttering his usual Twain-like witticisms but the rest of us are meant to suffer if COP26 does not succeed. Photo: Sand artwork adorns New Brighton Beach in the UK in May 2021.Christopher Furlong/Getty 01 November 2021 | Richard Hodgkins | The Conversation COP26, which is taking place in Glasgow, is the latest…
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Climate breakdown? In the West, the easy option (for now) is to switch on the AC. That is not an option, even now, in many places of the world. Photo: A rescue worker walks through the mud after flash floods destroyed parts of Bozkurt, Turkey in August 2021 (AFP). 22 October 2021 | Staff |…
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After almost two years of government incompetence and mayhem, the corporations are telling us what the new normal will look like. It is here. Now. We should listen. Photo: Air pollution from fossil fuels accounted for 8.7 million deaths globally in 2018 alone. HINDUSTAN TIMES VIA GETTY IMAGES 24 October 2021 | James Porteous |…
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