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Research on fracking
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Is nuclear power the solution?
Nuclear Power: The Critical Question; First-hand Reports from the Frontlines of the Nuclear Fuel Chain Originally published in German by Women in Europe for a Common Future (WECF), now available in hardcopy in the U.S. It's a beautiful 40-page, full-color booklet with moving stories and great information. Ordering information from the Nuclear Information and Resource Service.
Climate Action 2019: the movement grows
A Message From the Future With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: article by Naomi Klein and premiere of short video on a world after the Green New Deal
Climate justice now! Climate and Energy 2018
Published on July 27, 2018 by Common Dreams
"Bolstering observations made by at least one media critic this week, Public Citizen showed in a new report on Friday that news reports largely ignore the link between the climate crisis and the extreme heat that is currently enveloping cities and regions all over the world.
The consumer advocacy group's report (pdf), "Extreme Silence," found that from January 1 to July 8, only about seven percent of cable news reports on record high temperatures mentioned the climate crisis. Meanwhile, less than a fifth of such reports in the top 50 most-read American newspapers addressed climate change."...
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Published on Saturday, July 28, 2018, by Common Dreams staff
"According to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 2018 is on pace to be the fourth hottest year on record. Only three other years have been hotter: 2015, 2016 and 2017. "The impacts of climate change are no longer subtle," Michael Mann, a climate scientist and director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State University, told CNN.
"We are seeing them play out in real time in the form of unprecedented heat waves, floods, droughts and wildfires. And we've seen them all this summer," he said." ..
Climate tipping point? The movement grows
Climate justice now! Climate, Energy, Agriculture and Life 2019
Climate disruption and energy 2017
These Corporations Have The Biggest Influence On Climate Policy
By Lorraine Chow, www.ecowatch.com
posted on popularresistance. org, September 16th, 2017
The chart shows how supportive or obstructive a company is towards climate policy aligned with the Paris Agreement, including the analysis of its trade association links. The Engagement Intensity expresses the intensity of this activity, whether positive or negative. InfluenceMap.
"For better or worse, corporations have a major influence on climate change policy. Just look at Koch Industries, a multinational conglomerate owned by conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch that has contributed hundreds of millions to federal candidates and lobbying over the last 25 years.
The "Corporate Carbon Policy Footprint," a new analysis from U.K. nonprofit InfluenceMap, now ranks Koch Industries as the company with the strongest opposition to the Paris climate agreement and most intensely lobbies against policies in line with the landmark global accord.
The InfluenceMap scoring system does not measure a company's actual greenhouse gas emissions. Rather, it measures "the extent to which a corporation is supporting or obstructing the climate policy process." more
Hotter summers, see the graphs
Climate disruption and energy: 2017
Chain ReAction: on Sunday, June 25, 50,000 people formed a 3-nation 90 km (56 miles) chain to close nuclear facilities in the region. Their 50 sec. video asked Are you coming too? Many responded to the call; German organizers called it the largest antinuclear demonstration there since reaction to the Fukushima disaster (March 2011).
As the Trump Era inaugurates a backward movement on energy and much else, the 'facts on the ground' go forward: the Earth is warming, in 2016 more than ever, and more than in 2015 which was more than in 2014... Action is called for and around the world people, communities and some nations are responding. Here we offer a few key stories and links to more information.
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Six years ago, over 15,000 people perished and tens of thousands of people's lives changed forever. Northeastern Japan was hit by a massive earthquake, followed by an enormous tsunami that wiped out coastal towns one after another. Then, in the days t... Read more >
Fukushima on my Mind -- Mina Hamilton for WLOE