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- Has Global Warming Stopped?The next time someone claims that global warming has “stopped,” show them this response from the actual climate scientists at the UK Met Office Global warming goes on (UK Meteorological Office, 23 September 2008) Anyone who thinks global warming has stopped has their head in the sand. The evidence is clear – the long-term trend in global temperatures is rising, ...---READ-->>
- Canadian Politics and Climate ChangeFive Parties, No Solutions By Ian Angus For the environment, there’s good news and bad news in Canada’s current federal election campaign. Good news: for the first time ever, climate change is a central issue in the political debates. Bad news: despite much sound and fury, none of the major political parties is proposing effective measures ...---READ-->>
- Climate Emergency: Building a New Protest MovementIn Australia, a new radical movement against climate change is moving beyond pastel-green lobbying and small direct actions By Ben Courtice From Green Left Weekly, 20 September 2008 In the room are a chemical engineer from a large mining/energy corporation, a solar energy engineer, a psychiatrist, a veterinarian, an artist and a construction worker. Also present are an ...---READ-->>
- Disaster Assistance Urgently Needed in HaitiStatement from Canada Haiti Action Network on the recent disaster in Haiti Ottawa – Haiti has been devastated in recent weeks by a succession of storms, namely Hurricanes Fay, Gustav and and Ike, and Tropical Storm Hanna. Fay was the first to hit, on August 15, and Ike was the last, on September 7. The full scale ...---READ-->>
- Greens and the UK LeftGreens can make a unique contribution renewing the Left in Britain by Sean Thompson from Green Left Blog, September 16, 2008 This is a slightly revised version of a talk I gave to the Green Left Summer Meeting in Headcorn in August 2008. My central argument was (is) that in order to build the mass movement that is ...---READ-->>
- A Frontline Communicator for the Denial IndustryBook Review: Lawrence Solomon. The Deniers: The World-Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political Persecution, and Fraud (and those who are too fearful to do so) Richard Vigilante Books, 2008 Reviewed by George Marshall from www.climatedenial.org There’s a flood of cookbooks out now (and climate-change-denial books too), so let’s start with a recipe: First of all, ...---READ-->>
- Canadian Network on Cuba Appeals for Hurricane AidClimate and Capitalism urges readers in Canada to distribute this appeal broadly and to give as generously as possible Note: This appeal was written before Hurricane Ike swept through Cuba adding to the devastation. Canadian Network on Cuba2 September, 2008 Dear Friends, As you already know, Cuba has suffered the fierce attacks of ...---READ-->>
- Proposed ‘soft targets’ ignore the real dangers of climate changeAustralia’s Labour Party was elected on a platform that promised effective action to fight climate change. Less than a year later, those promises seem destined for the scrapheap By Renfrey Clarke Green Left Weekly, September 13, 2008 On September 5, the government’s climate change advisor, Professor Ross Garnaut, released his recommendations for medium-term cuts to Australian ...---READ-->>
- Help Cuba Recover from Its Worst Economic DisasterMoney for hurricane relief is urgently needed Cuba has suffered “the worst /economic disaster/ in its history,” some news agencies have reported. Damage from hurricanes Gustav and Ike is estimated between $3 and $4 billion. 2.5 million persons (from a population of 11 million) were evacuated and many thousands will remain evacuated because they have lost ...---READ-->>
- Ike Devastates Cuba: An Eyewitness ReportA letter from a Canadian living in Cuba Hola all: Cuba has been, and continues to be, devastated by Hurricane Ike. The only thing, and without question the most important thing, that hasn’t been devastated is the will and determination of the Cuban people to surpass this disaster and go forward. There’s lots of information circulating in the international ...---READ-->>
- Jury says: Direct Action Justified To Stop The Climate Crisis!UK Greenpeace activists acquitted: jury agrees that anti-coal actions were justified by Matt Leonard from It’s Getting Hot In Here Today is a historic day for the climate change movement. A UK Crown Court jury effectively ruled that taking direct action, breaking the law, and even property damage are all justified in the course ...---READ-->>
- Climate Wrongs and Human RightsClimate change will undermine human rights on a massive scale The following is the Executive Summary of Climate Wrongs and Human Rights, published this week by aid group Oxfam International. The report will be submitted to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, which is now reviewing the relationship between international human rights and climate change. ...---READ-->>
- Cuba vs hurricanes: A revolutionary fight against the demonThe final essay written by Cuban revolutionary socialist Celia Hart Santamaria (1962-2008) On September 9, 2008, supporters of the Cuban Revolution were saddened to learn of the sudden deaths of Celia Hart Santamaría and Abel Hart Santamaría, in a car accident in Havana on September 7, possibly caused by the conditions resulting from Hurricane Gustav. Celia and Abel were ...---READ-->>
- The U.S. Military: Enemy of the EnvironmentShutting down the Pentagon is a critical task in the fight to save our planet by Chas Beshears From Freedom Socialist, Aug-Sept 2008 It’s no secret that Planet Earth is wading into heavier environmental disaster by the hour. Be it deforestation, pollution, climate changing greenhouse gas emissions, or species extinction, the global ecosystem has been significantly altered. What’s ...---READ-->>
- Weather and RacismWhat the media chooses to cover … and to ignore Liam Mac Uaid, an editor of the British journal Socialist Resistance, published this in his always-excellent blog today. His comments are equally true of journalism in Canada and other parts of the global north. London, September 7, 2008 — At the moment about 97% of journalists working ...---READ-->>
- Africa: Why the richest continent Is also the poorestThe ecological impact of natural resource exploitation on the lives of the poor in Africa and other regions is not being addressed sufficiently in aid effectiveness and development discussions by Miriam Mannak Inter Press Service, September 5, 2008 “Africa is known as one of the richest parts of the world when it comes to natural resources, yet it ...---READ-->>
- Sea Level Will Rise Faster than PredictedStudy of glacier melting shows that IPCC estimate is a minimum Scientific American, September 5, 2008 Greenland, the world’s largest island, holds enough ice to raise global sea levels by 23 feet (seven meters). Add the ice sheets of Antarctica and the oceans would deepen more than 200 feet (60 meters). Satellite measurements from space and ...---READ-->>
- Argentina: Indigenous Guaraní Resist Eviction by Soya GrowersGovernment-supported agribusinesses assault indigenous farmers An alert issued by Rettet den Regenwald/Rainforest Rescue, Septembr 3, 2008 On 28th July 2008, an infantry squad made up of fifty soldiers, with personal support from the soya entrepreneur Roberto Strisich, attacked the community with bulldozers [and lorries, arriving early in the morning in the fields belonging to the Guaraní community. ...---READ-->>
- Climate change: Market-based policies will not work“Simply using price mechanisms will lead to a policy failure with catastrophic consequences for most people and most species” David Spratt is a policy analyst with the Australian group CarbonEquity, and co-author, with Philip Sutton, of Climate Code Red: The Case for Emergency Action, which Climate and Capitalism will review soon. Spratt was interviewed by Ben ...---READ-->>
- Snatching Food from the Mouths of the PoorA new wave of food colonialism manufactures famine in Africa and Asia By George MonbiotThe Guardian, August 26 2008 In his book Late Victorian Holocausts, Mike Davis tells the story of the famines that sucked the guts out of India in the 1870s. The hunger began when a drought, caused by El Nino, killed the crops ...---READ-->>