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UK’s Met Office Warns Global Temperature Could Soar Beyond 1.5°C Threshold Within Five Years
UK’s Met Office Warns Global Temperature Could Soar Beyond 1.5°C Threshold Within Five Years Breaching the Paris accord’s designated limit temporarily doesn’t mean all hope is lost for the long-term target, experts explain, “but it does ring an alarm bell.” The Met Office reported this week that global average temperature for 2019 to 2023 will […]
‘A Red Screaming Alarm Bell’ to Banish Fossil Fuels: NASA Confirms Last Five Years Hottest on Record
‘A Red Screaming Alarm Bell’ to Banish Fossil Fuels: NASA Confirms Last Five Years Hottest on Record “We’re no longer talking about a situation where global warming is something in the future. It’s here. It’s now.” More than a million acres of land in California were swallowed up by devastating wildfires in 2018, which NASA […]
Calling for ‘Unprecedented and Urgent Action’ to Solve Climate Crisis, Four Organizers Shut Off Valves at Enbridge Lines 3 and 4
Calling for ‘Unprecedented and Urgent Action’ to Solve Climate Crisis, Four Organizers Shut Off Valves at Enbridge Lines 3 and 4 “This is some serious climate leadership.” Four Catholic Workers shut off valves at Enbridge Energy Line 3 and 4 in northern Minnesota on Monday. (Photo: @4necessity/Twitter) Condemning “the imminent and irreversible damage being done […]
Anthropologist Debunks Bill Gates’ BS Narrative That Free-Market Capitalism Has Solved Crisis of Global Poverty
Anthropologist Debunks Bill Gates’ BS Narrative That Free-Market Capitalism Has Solved Crisis of Global Poverty Calling billionaire Microsoft co-founder ‘completely wrong,’ Jason Hickels says “those defending poverty line you should be willing to live on it. Lookin’ at you, Bill.” Contrary to what Bill Gates and other powerful, wealthy Davos attendees say, Jason Hickel writes, […]
Just Like Iraq, Warns Venezuela’s Maduro, US Wants to ‘Get Hands on Our Oil’
Just Like Iraq, Warns Venezuela’s Maduro, US Wants to ‘Get Hands on Our Oil’ “We will not allow a Vietnam in Latin America,” says nation’s president ahead of opposition demonstrations on Wednesday. Pro-government supporters attend a rally against U.S. President Donald Trump in Caracas, Venezuela in 2018. (Photo: Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters) Warning that U.S. military intervention […]
Trump’s ‘Axis of Evil’: Pompeo, Bolton & Abrams
Trump’s ‘Axis of Evil’: Pompeo, Bolton & Abrams ‘This is truly an ominous development for the poor people of Venezuela. NEW YORK, NEW YORK – United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo votes before addressing the United Nations (U.N.) Security Council in a meeting which was requested by the United States to offer a statement […]
Could a Green New Deal Save Civilization?
Could a Green New Deal Save Civilization? To fully and systematically address the climate/energy crisis, the plan will have to be far broader in scope than what is currently being proposed. And while we need to mobilize society as a whole with a World War II-level of effort, the reality is that there’s never been […]
Supreme Court Blocks ExxonMobil’s Effort to Conceal Decades of Documents in Probe of Oil Giant’s Climate Deception
Supreme Court Blocks ExxonMobil’s Effort to Conceal Decades of Documents in Probe of Oil Giant’s Climate Deception The high court’s ruling means the company must hand over records to the Massachusetts attorney general for her ongoing investigation In a win for climate campaigners and Massachusetts’ Democratic Attorney General Maura Healey on Monday, the U.S.Supreme Court rejected […]
Here’s the Dire Climate Report the Trump White House Didn’t Want You to See
Here’s the Dire Climate Report the Trump White House Didn’t Want You to See “The decision to release this damning report when families are beginning to celebrate the holidays and newsrooms are short-staffed is a brazen attempt to bury the truth.” A house burns during the Woolsey Fire on November 9, 2018 in Malibu, California. […]
When It Comes to Sustainability, We’re a Society of Distracted Drivers
When It Comes to Sustainability, We’re a Society of Distracted Drivers We human beings are all, in effect, driving this planet “If we’re asleep at the wheel,” writes Heinberg, “the likelihood of calamity skyrockets.” (Photo: St. Joseph Health/stock) Driving is dangerous. In fact, it’s about the riskiest activity most of us engage in routinely. It […]
Monsanto-Bayer: Eliminating the Name Will Not Erase the History
Monsanto-Bayer: Eliminating the Name Will Not Erase the History We will continue to reclaim citizens’ rights, as well as those of small and medium producers, who, despite being crushed by the current market mechanisms, are the only ones providing us with healthy and nutritious food “According to Reuters, the number of lawsuits brought against Bayer’s […]
In Private Meeting, Facebook Exec Warns News Outlets to Cooperate or End Up Dying in ‘Hospice’
In Private Meeting, Facebook Exec Warns News Outlets to Cooperate or End Up Dying in ‘Hospice’ “Anyone who does care about news needs to understand Facebook as a fundamental threat.” Facebook admitted Wednesday that “most” of its 2 million users likely had their personal information collected by “malicious actors.” (Photo: Legal Loop) During a closed-door […]
Former Bank of Canada Head: Pipeline Protesters May Be Killed. So Be It.
Former Bank of Canada Head: Pipeline Protesters May Be Killed. So Be It. “North American governments have shown the ‘fortitude’ necessary to kill indigenous people often enough that this is no idle threat,” warns Bill McKibben. Protesters at a rally in Vancouver to show opposition to the Trans Mountain pipeline on September 9th, 2017. (Photo: […]
Tripling Its Collection, NSA Sucked Up Over 530 Million US Phone Records in 2017
Tripling Its Collection, NSA Sucked Up Over 530 Million US Phone Records in 2017 “Overall, the numbers show that the scale of warrantless surveillance is growing at a significant rate,” says POGO’s Jake Laperruque. In 2017, the NSA tripled the amount of data it collected from U.S. phones. (Image EFF Photos/flickr/cc) The National Security Agency […]
