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- Ross Gelbspan: It’s Too Late to Stop Climate ChangeBeyond the Point of No Return By Ross Gelbspan From Grist Ross Gelbspan is retired from a 30-year career as an editor and reporter at The Philadelphia Bulletin, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe. He is author of The Heat Is On and Boiling Point, and he maintains the website heatisonline.org. As the pace of global warming kicks ...---READ-->>
- Poor Hit Hardest by Climate ChangeBy Michael Casey Associated Press BALI, Indonesia — Surrounded by rising seas and short of water, the glitzy city state of Singapore has built one of the world’s largest desalination plants and is paying Dutch experts tens of millions of dollars to devise ways to protect their island. Bangladesh, meanwhile, is digging out from a cyclone that killed ...---READ-->>
- Climate Change Debate Fuels Greenwash Boomby Pratap Chatterjee from CorpWatch, December 11th, 2007 On the Indonesian island of Bali, thousands of senior government officials are negotiating a plan to slow global warming. The meeting, which will focus on how to limit the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change, will run for the first two weeks of December and include 192 countries. ...---READ-->>
- Climate Protests Around the WorldReports on the December 8 International Global Warming Protests are starting to arrive. Daniel Tanuro, the ecological correspondent of La Gauche, newspaper of the Belgian Socialist Workers Party, sent C&C a report on a successful action in Brussells. See below. Size estimates for the protest in London England range from 5,000 to 15,000. Derek Wall of ...---READ-->>
- Bog Barons: Indonesia's Carbon CatastropheBy Fred Pearce From New Scientist, December 1, 2007 I am standing in the heart of the world’s second largest tropical peat swamp, the Kampar bog in central Sumatra, watching the swamp’s water drain away along a small canal. Across the western side of the bog there are dozens more drains. The peat bog is bleeding to ...---READ-->>
- Up In Smoke: A Decade of Canadian Inaction on Climate ChangeThanks to Oil Sands Truth for drawing this article to our attention. It originally appeared in Vue Weekly, “Edmonton’s 100% Independent News and Entertainment weekly.” By Scott Harris A decade after the international community agreed to the Kyoto Protocol, and five years since Parliament ratified the agreement, there isn’t a lot of good news about how ...---READ-->>
- Indigenous Peoples Protest Exclusion from Bali TalksNusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia- Indigenous peoples representing regions from around the world protested outside the climate negotiations today wearing symbolic gags that read UNFCCC, the acronym of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, symbolizing their systematic exclusion from the UN meeting. Yesterday a delegation of indigenous peoples was forcibly barred from entering the meeting ...---READ-->>
- Bali 2007 – Voices from the South Demand Climate JusticeBy Joan Martinez-Alier and Leah Temper Joan Martínez-Alier is president of the International Society for Ecological Economics. Leah Temper is a doctoral student at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Kyoto has failed. Despite so many admonitions from the IPCC, the reality is that emissions of carbon dioxide in the world are going up by over 3 per ...---READ-->>
- Ottawa’s Greenhouse Gas Policy Will Reward Tar Sands Companies for PollutingI wrote about Canada’s fraudulent global warming plan in May, added some more data a week later, and then wrote an expanded article that Canadian Dimension magazine published in September. The story just keepsw getting worse. A new analysis shows that the Harper-Baird plan will produce windfall profits for the worst greenhouse gas emitters in Canada. The ...---READ-->>
- Australian Government Lied About Greenhouse Gas Emissions(How long will it be before we read similar reports on the Canadian government?) From The Canberra Times, December 4, 2007 The Howard government misled the United Nations over the scale of its efforts to tackle climate change and meet its Kyoto emission reduction targets, according to senior government sources. They claim Australia’s greenhouse emissions were "considerably ...---READ-->>
- Report Exposes Flaws and Fraud in Kyoto's "Clean Development Mechanism"The Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is set to provide massive subsidies to hydropower developers while increasing greenhouse gas emissions, according to an investigation by International Rivers. As of November 1, 2007, 654 hydro projects had received or applied to receive carbon credits from the CDM. If approved, these credits would provide hydro developers ...---READ-->>
- Quebec Socialists Critique EcoliberalismA presentation from the conference “Vers l’écosocialisme?” held in Montreal on November 10, organized by Gauche socialiste and Masse critique. Que proposent les écosocialistes ? En premier lieu une lutte au gaspillage. En ce sens, il faut aller au-delà des ajustements proposés par les écolibéraux. La solution n’est pas une « limitation » générale de la ...---READ-->>
- As Climate Disasters Accelerate, the Poorest Are Hit HardestAn excerpt from “Climate Alarm: Disasters increase as climate change bites,” a new report published by Oxfam International. Climatic disasters are on the increase as the Earth warms up – in line with scientific observations and computer simulations that model future climate. 2007 has been a year of climatic crises, especially floods, often of an unprecedented ...---READ-->>
- Australia: Aboriginal Communities Will Be Most Hurt By Climate ChangeBy Rosslyn Beeby From The Canberra Times, November 26, 2007 Australia’s northern Aboriginal communities will bear the brunt of climate change, with increases in water-borne diseases and loss of traditional food sources, an international report says. In the Torres Strait Islands, at least 8000 people will lose their homes if sea levels rise by 1m. Community leaders have ...---READ-->>
- Rich Nations Renege on Promised Climate Change AidBy David AdamFrom The Guardian, November 24, 2007A group of rich countries including Britain has broken a promise to pay more than a billion dollars to help the developing world cope with the effects of climate change. The group agreed in 2001 to pay $1.2bn (£600m) to help poor and vulnerable countries predict and plan ...---READ-->>
- Indonesia: Biofuel Threatens Indigenous Farmers and Tropical ForestsFrom The Australian, November 24, 2007 Elderly ethnic Dayak farmer Hussin sits on the raised timber floor of his home, a shack on 6ha of mixed forest, itself nestled in thousands of hectares of oil palm plantation.Hussin (“I’m probably 65 or 70, I’d say”) and his wife, Barnian, are holdouts against the relentless march of Indonesia’s ...---READ-->>
- The Public Route to Sustainable HomesGlyn Robbins is a member of Unite, the largest manufacturing union in Britain, and a supporter of Defend Council Housing. This article is a contribution to the discussion at the coming Trade Union Conference on Climate Change, to be held at the University of London on February 9, 2008. For more information on the Conference, phone ...---READ-->>
- How Can an Effective Climate Change Movement be Built?From Green Left Weekly, Nov. 16 2007 by Kamala Emanuel (Kamala Emanuel is a Socialist Alliance candidate for the Senate in New South Wales, in this week’s election in Australia) November 11’s national Walk Against Warming was an important initiative for the climate change movement. It was smaller than the 100,000 people organizers had hoped for, but ...---READ-->>
- Droughts, floods, hunger, malnutrition, disease, extinctions, fires, storms ….The IPCC Synthesis Report, published November 17, describes these as “some examples of projected regional impacts.” Bear in mind that IPCC reports are consistently conservative. Quoting pages 10 and 11 … Africa • By 2020, between 75 and 250 million of people are projected to be exposed to increased water stress due to climate change; • By 2020, ...---READ-->>
- Conference Report: "From Climate Crisis to Climate Justice"By John Riddell John Riddell is co-editor of Socialist Voice NOVEMBER 17 — Today the Toronto Climate Campaign organized a teach-in called “From Climate Crisis to Climate Justice,” a building action for the December 8 global day of environmental action. About 100 attended — mostly young, and a high proportion engaged in some wing of the environmental ...---READ-->>