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02/11/18
Author: 
Andrea Germanos
Activists gathered under the banner Extinction Rebellion in London on Wednesday to issue their Declaration of Rebellion against the U.K. government's climate inaction. (Photo: Extinction Rebellion)

"We have a right and duty to rebel in the face of this tyranny of idiocy—in the face of this planned collective suicide."

02/11/18
Author: 
Common Dreams staff
"We thought that we got away with not a lot of warming in both the ocean and the atmosphere for the amount of CO2 that we emitted. But we were wrong," Laure Resplandy, a geoscientist at Princeton University who led the new study, told the Washington Post. (Photo: Timo Newton-Syms/Flickr/cc)

"The planet warmed more than we thought. It was hidden from us just because we didn't sample it right. But it was there. It was in the ocean already."

02/11/18
Author: 
Common Dreams staff
"We thought that we got away with not a lot of warming in both the ocean and the atmosphere for the amount of CO2 that we emitted. But we were wrong," Laure Resplandy, a geoscientist at Princeton University who led the new study, told the Washington Post. (Photo: Timo Newton-Syms/Flickr/cc)
[Editor: As expected the UN's IPCC report was too optimistic.]
 
October 31, 2018
"The planet warmed more than we thought. It was hidden from us just because we didn't sample it right. But it was there. It was in the ocean already."
 
30/10/18
Author: 
Nicholas Mainville

Huge Swath of Amazonian Rain Forest Freed Up from Gold Mining

Oct. 29, 2018

30/10/18
Author: 
Niclas Rolander
October 25, 2018
 
  • Swedish prosecutor now in ‘final phase’ of filing charges
  • Lundin executives face charges over actions in southern Sudan
28/10/18
Author: 
Matthew Taylor
 Roger Hallam, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, speaking at a Rising Up conference. Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian

Rowan Williams backs call for mass civil disobedience ‘to bypass the government’s inaction and defend life itself’

A new group of “concerned citizens” is planning a campaign of mass civil disobedience starting next month and promises it has hundreds of people – from teenagers to pensioners – ready to get arrested in an effort to draw attention to the unfolding climate emergency.

27/10/18
Author: 
Mark Z. Jacobson

[Editor: Video of a lecture held on Oct. 25, 2018 in Vancouver well worth watching. According to Penny Tilby of Vancouver-Burnaby Chapter of The Council of Canadians says: "His amazing  talk will make you much more optimistic about the future!  His talk is very clear that this can be done, if we have the political will to carry it forward."

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