Mobilizing for Climate Justice
The Mobilization for Climate Justice was founded to link the climate struggle in the U.S. to the growing international climate justice movement, with an eye toward building for actions around the Copenhagen climate summit and beyond. Its objective is to provide a justice-based framework for organizing around climate change that opens space for leadership by representatives of communities in the U.S. that are most impacted by climate change and the fossil fuel industry.
The increasing urgency of the climate crisis has clearly hit a nerve among people of many walks of life, all around the world. While the outcome of this fall’s events remains highly uncertain, it is clear that such a flowering of creative and determined popular responses is precisely what is needed to reverse decades of willful inaction by the world’s elites and reach beyond the limits of politics-as-usual.
With so many ACES in the Waxman-Markey climate bill, have we been dealt a bad hand?
We need a strong, not just any, climate bill. We need to take what happened yesterday in the House and turn it into something that history will record as not so much the culmination of our many years of hard work but a breakthrough that opened the way for a flood of people power, a broad and deep clean energy revolution in the months and years ahead.
James Hansen’s 23 June 2009 remarks at Coal River Mountain, with the Declaration of the demonstrators
The story of James Hansen’s arrest on 23 June 2009, with his remarks at Coal River Mountain, with the Declaration of the demonstrators
Our Planet, on Climate Life Support
Efforts are underway by a coalition of environmental, climate and other groups to mount an effort to build support for several strengthening amendments to this bill on the House floor. Groups involved are 1Sky, Environment America, Sierra Club, MoveOn, Green for All, ACORN, Oxfam, USAction, Health Care Without Harm, Democracia Ahora and Rock the Vote. This effort is certainly called for and should be supported.
The Link Strong Between Carbon Dioxide and Global Warming
The science is clear: global warming is happening faster than ever and humans are responsible. Global warming is caused by releasing what are called greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. The most common greenhouse gas is carbon dioxide
Obama Insists on Cap and Trade Legislation
Under pressure from the Obama administration, the House Energy and Commerce Committee has put forward its proposal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the US. The plan calls for the creation of a cap and trade market, as the mechanism to begin reduing the United States’ greenhouse gas emissions. But James Handley from the Carbon Tax Center believes that cap and trade is the wrong way to go in general.
To Treat Climate Change Ills, Carbon Removal and GHG Emissions Reduction Must Be Big and Quick
Not only must carbon removal be big enough but it and emissions reduction must together be fast enough to remove us from the danger zones for abrupt climate shifts before something big happens. A serious jolt would cause catastrophic crop failures and food riots within a year, creating global waves of climate refugees with the attendant famine, pestilence, war, and genocide.
I’d say that we must clean up CO2 by 2030. Acquiescing in a slower approach is like playing Russian roulette with the climate gun. Our climate fix must be big and quick.
Endangerment Finding Could Give Obama the Tool He Needs to Control Climate Change
The Endangerment Finding could give Obama sweeping authority to decide how to reduce global warming pollution from power plants, vehicles, and other sources, how much, and how fast.
Three-Quarters of World’s Coal and Oil Cannot Be Used
“To avoid dangerous climate change, we will have to limit the total amount of carbon we inject into the atmosphere, not just the emission rate in any given year,” said Myles Allen from the physics department at Oxford University. “It took us 250 years to burn the first half trillion, and on current projections we’ll burn the next half trillion in less than 40 years.”
Choosing the ethical way to reduce carbon emissions
Exacting a financial penalty from those who are responsible for the scorching of the earth seems to be a requirement of any elemental morality. Higher gasoline prices will encourage the use of public transportation, bicycles and a more sustainable life style.
