Climate Change Trial at The Hague
The stakes are extremely high as the impact of fossil fuels on climate change goes to The Hague for hearings December 2-13, 2024 to determine whether nations are obligated to…
Global Warming
Meltwater from Greenland and the Arctic is weakening ocean circulation, speeding up warming down south
by Laurie Menviel and Gabriel Pontes A vast network of ocean currents nicknamed the “great global ocean conveyor belt” is slowing down. That’s a problem because this vital system redistributes heat around the…
Environmental-Political Collapse Accelerates
The stench of failure emanating from the recently completed COP29 international climate negotiations in gas-rich Azerbaijan is deepening the gloom already enveloping the western world’s managerial class since the (re-)election…
Mysterious Global Hotspots
A worrisome trend in the global climate system has popped up. Specific regions of the world are experiencing repetitive severe heat waves so extreme and so deadly that scientists’ models…
COP29 at Baku, Azerbaijan—We must be hopeful in the midst of ominous signs of global catastrophe
Scientific evidence, long-term economic projections, and moral imperatives, for example, all provide compelling reasons for urgent effort toward climate mitigation, adaptation, loss and damage. Scores of international agreements, the Paris…
Is Carbon Capture Also a Hoax?
Climate change has become a dollars and cents issue, especially for U.S. homeowners. It’s no longer easily ignored or brushed away as a ‘hoax.” Only a fool would suggest that…
Niger Resists in the Crosshairs of Sanctions and Climate Catastrophe
Aboubakar Alassane of the West Africa Peoples Organization (WAPO) explains how Nigeriens are enduring the consequences of unprecedented floods that have devastated their economy already crippled by sanctions. In the…
Reflections on the just transition discourse in India from a feminist and decolonial perspective
Last week, I spent some time in dialogue with some brilliant minds on the potential framework and pathways for a gender just energy transition in India. But before I share…
Stranded by the Floods in South Sudan
The northern parts of South Sudan, particularly Aweil in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State, has been hit hard by relentless flooding, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake. The…
Climate Crisis and Children’s Future: A Grave Challenge
Our irresponsible behavior towards the Earth raises a critical question: What kind of world are we leaving for the next generation? Issues like air pollution, severe water crises, depleting natural…
Emergency Summit re Antarctic Meltdown
“Runaway ice loss causing rapid and catastrophic sea level rise is possible within our lifetimes.” (Source: Our Science, Your Future: Next Generation of Antarctic Scientists Call for Collaborative Action, Australian…
The Crisis of Global Warming: The Need for Shared Responsibility and Collective Efforts
The crisis of global warming is knocking on the doors of nations across the world. In this context, it is unfortunate that the COP-29 summit held in Baku failed to…
Protect This Place: Ladakh, the Planet’s ‘Third Pole’
The Place: Ladakh, India’s cold desert, is located to the east of Jammu and Kashmir at altitudes between 8,800 and 18,000 feet. This mountain enclave is geographically distinct, with unique…
COP29 ends with empty deal, as 2024 set to be warmest year on human record
The final deal coming out of the latest international climate change conference, COP29, which ended Sunday in Baku, Azerbaijan, is another empty agreement. It exposes the inability of the world’s…
What’s On Deck for Climate Change?
Dr. Peter Carter, an Expert Reviewer of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has new information about the status of climate change that meets the IPCC 6th Assessment worst-case…
Climate Crisis Activists Trying to Head Off Trump Destruction
This month’s regular FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) meeting was anything but calm after four climate crisis activists were removed for disrupting the proceedings. That event, along with the regular…
Carbon Farming Won’t Save the Planet
BERLIN – Healthy soil is indispensable to life on Earth, sustaining nearly 60% of all living species. As the second-largest carbon reservoir after oceans, soil is also among our planet’s…
Is the Loss and Damage Fund Becoming an Empty Promise?
WASHINGTON, DC – So far this year, floods, heat waves, droughts, storms, and wildfires have led to thousands of deaths, threatened the health and livelihoods of millions of people, and…
Climate Inaction Farce: COPs Hosted By Major Greenhouse Gas Polluters & True Carbon Price Ignored
The big issues at COP29 are policies to limit global warming and climate financing from the major polluters of the Global North to enable climate change-impacted countries of the Global…
Thank You for Emitting: The Hypocrisies of COP29
COP29 was always going to be memorable, for no other reason than the hosting country, Azerbaijan, is a petrostate indifferent to the issue of emissions and scornful of ecological preachers. …
Azerbaijan Greenwashes Authoritarianism at COP29
ISTANBUL – On November 11, thousands of world leaders, international stakeholders, and civil-society advocates kicked off the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku. With greenhouse-gas emissions rising even…
The Hidden Crisis: Climate Change and Mental Health in India
by Dr Saru Gupta and Dr Miyola Fernandes In contemporary times, climate change affecting the ecosystem and the economy, has secondarily arisen as a key concern for mental health. Rising…
The Planet Under Threat of Breakdown
There’s a new trend in the world that’s working against the planet, you know, the one you’re standing on. This new trend, over the past year or so, spells “thumbs…
Spain’s Climate Catastrophe – A Glimpse Into The Near Future
In the 35 years since we first protested for action against climate change on the streets of London, we have often wondered what it is exactly we are trying to…
Inclusive Finance Is the Key to Climate Action
WASHINGTON, DC – At the top of the list of measures to be agreed at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan, is the New Collective Quantified…
Countries spend huge sums on fossil fuel subsidies – why they’re so hard to eliminate
Fossil fuels are the leading driver of climate change, yet they are still heavily subsidized by governments around the world. Although many countries have explicitly promised to reduce fossil fuel…
2084-The World as It Might Be (Or Do I Mean Might Have Been?)
Honestly, what would George Orwell have written about this planet of ours, four decades after that ominous year 1984 passed from his fiction into history? And yes, in case you…
The Military-Industrial Complex Is Fueling Climate Catastrophe — Let’s Demand Accountability at COP
by Aaron Kirshenbaum and Melissa Garriga As we write, New York City is an unsettling 70 degrees in November. Meanwhile, a cohort of war profiteers, their pockets lined by the…
There Is No Alternative to Multilateral Climate Action
BAKU – Our world is at a critical juncture. The devastating effects of global warming are increasingly evident, and the crisis is deepening. To mitigate it, we must urgently reduce…
From Emissions to Solutions: India’s Approach to Methane at COP29
India's stance on methane at COP29 could present a roadmap for how developing nations can contribute to global climate goals while advancing their own national development priorities The 2024 UN…
Billionaires Own US Climate Policy
Billions of dollars will buy almost anything anybody wants, and on November 5th billions of dollars bought the world’s leading anti-climate-change political administration, aka: the Trump Administration, which is anti-almost-everything,…
The Case for Solidarity Levies
by Emmanuel Macron, Mia Amor Mottley and William Ruto BAKU – From Bridgetown to Nairobi to Paris, no country is immune to the worsening effects of the climate crisis. With…
Climate Change and Human Security: Exploring the Links and Challenges
by Bushra Afreen & Md Tabrez Alam Abstract Climate change significantly impacts essential resources like water, food, and arable land, reducing accessibility and quality. This decline heightens human insecurity, economic…
The Future Is Named Helene
The messages of Hurricane Helene lie inscribed in the muddy debris of Asheville, North Carolina, and other wrecked towns of Appalachia. Helene, powered by warming waters in the Gulf of…
Doubling Down on ‘Too Much Heat’
A recent Arctic News headline d/d October 4, 2024 refers to one of the most significant climate-related studies this year. It describes in detail the worldwide all-encompassing danger of loss…
‘Words Fail’: WMO Report Finds CO2 Accumulating at Record Levels
Climate-heating carbon dioxide is accumulating in the atmosphere more rapidly than at any time since humans evolved. That's just one of the alarming findings from the World Meteorological Organization's (WMO) Greenhouse…
Charting a Course for Coastal Resilience
WASHINGTON, DC – Roughly 40% of the world’s population inhabit coastal areas. In addition to being home to 12 of the world’s 15 largest cities, these regions serve as an essential lifeline…
Proper Climate Response A Sacred Duty, but Imperialism’s Agenda Should be Firmly Rejected
Climate change has emerged fast as an extremely serious problem, and while it is very important for everyone, all countries and all people, to respond in adequate and proper ways…
The All-American Ravages of Extreme Weather
Images of homes that collapsed under mudslides or falling trees, waterlogged farms, and debris-filled roads drove home (yes, home!) to me recently the impact of Hurricane Helene on rural areas in the southeastern United States. That hurricane and the no-less-devastating…
Why Should A Climate-Destroying Dictatorship Host A Climate-Saving Conference COP29?
Civilized nations should boycott this year’s UN Climate Conference, and sanction its genocidal, ecocidal host regime. The petro-dictatorship of Azerbaijan has been awarded hosting honors of this November 11-22’s United…
The Biodiversity Crisis Is a Security Crisis
ADDIS ABABA – Our long-term prosperity and the well-being of future generations are in jeopardy, as biodiversity loss and the collapse of critical ecosystems not only threaten our environment, but…
Outrageous Anti-Protest Laws Can’t Silence the Climate Movement
In August, climate activist and cellist John Mark Rozendaal was arrested and charged with criminal contempt for playing a few minutes of Bach outside Citibank’s headquarters in New York City. Rozendaal, 63,…
COP16: It’s Wild-West Capitalism Versus Life on Earth
All eyes should be on the salsa dancing capital of the world, Cali, Colombia, where representatives of 190 nations are joined by a broad swath of global civil society and…
The Sixth Mass Extinction and Climate Catastrophe
**We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.**—Native American Proverb Global warming or Climate Change is real. Current massive storms and hurricanes and…
The Missing War on Poverty in the Era of Climate Change
It was William Shakespeare who, in Troilus and Cressida, wrote, “One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” And yet, in the polarized news cycle since Hurricane Helene ravaged the southeastern…
Two Words That Haunt So Many Hurricane Victims: ‘Claim Denied’
Do you know that you’re in good hands with Allstate? Or how about State Farm? Do you know that, like a good neighbor, State Farm is there? Of course you…
The Shriveling Mighty Amazon River Drying Out
Fossil fuel CO2 emissions are taking the world’s time-honored ecosystems, like the world-famous Amazon River, down onto their knees. The problem is greenhouse gases like CO2 and CH4 trap heat…
The New Climate Colonialism
Robbing Africa’s Riches to Save the Climate (and Power AI) Considered Angola’s crown jewel by many, Lobito is a colorful port city on the country’s scenic Atlantic coast where a…
Sleepless and Fearful When Hurricane Milton Made Landfall
Since I couldn’t sleep, I figured I might as well write. I couldn’t sleep because of the picture in my mind—that tightly coiled ball of physics we’re calling Hurricane Milton…
Ask (Not) What You Can Do for Your Planet
No one wants a nuclear reactor in their backyard. It’s an eyesore and a health hazard, not to mention the hit to your property values. And don’t forget the existential…
Burn the Planet and Lock Up the Dissidents
The fossil fuel industry, and the politician class they own, have no intention of halting the ecocide. As the climate crisis worsens, so do the laws and security measures to…
Can You Afford Climate Change?
Consumer pocketbooks are taking the heat. Climate change is no longer a theoretical issue that will happen at some distant point in the future, like 2050 or 2100. Already, unprecedented…
Brazil’s Climate Push Must Start at Home
AMSTERDAM – Ever since Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva returned to office in 2023 and told the world that Brazil is “back on the world stage,” the government…
Hurricane Helene devastates a wide swathe of southeastern United States
The largest hurricane to hit the US mainland this year, Hurricane Helene hit the Florida coastline late Thursday as a Category Four storm, devastating much of the Big Bend area…
Climate Week/NYC – Oh, Well!
Climate Week/NYC September 22-29, 2024, is underway and expects 100,000 attendees for cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and expensive rooms in NYC’s ultra-expensive hotels amidst breast-pounding speeches and promises to fix civilizations’…
Forest fires engulf the entire Amazon basin
by Cesar Uco and Don Knowand Forest fires have consumed millions of hectares in the Amazon basin this year, due to global warming, an extreme two-year drought, and the illegal…
Ecological Alternatives to Climate Change
Everyone agrees to the fact that Climate change is caused principally by the burning of fossil fuels. These fuels are consumed by Capital although the industrial development especially during the…
Important climate mitigation information from the Phanerozoic eon
There is a very important new climate science paper which promises to dramatically increase concern about potential impacts and needed mitigation. Bill McKibben titles his review of the paper ‘The…
The Case for a Global Climate Assembly
by Laurence Tubiana and Ana Toni NEW YORK – It has been nearly ten years since countries came together in Paris and agreed finally to get serious about averting a…
Controversy over Bengal Floods Revives Concerns on Role of Dams
Recently on September 20 the Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee wrote a letter to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi in which she stated that at least seven districts…
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