UK Indymedia - UK Climate Chaos Newswire Archive

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Rod Coronado Pleads Guilty to expolsives charges

17-12-2007 09:40

High profile 'Earth First' and AR leader accepts plea bargain.

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Rising Tide Rooftop Protest at Newquay Airport - 15.1.08

16-12-2007 13:08

Report from yesterday's action at Newquay airport

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Santas of Excessive Consumption on Oxford Street

15-12-2007 22:02

Santas singing alternative carols on Oxford street in London today (15 December).

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US Intransigence Waters Down Climate Change Road map Agreement

15-12-2007 18:01

Climate Talks concluded in Bali with the United States caving in under pressure of the European Union and the developing world and agreeing to a substantially watered down compromise text in the preamble of "Deep cuts in global emissions will be required" to avoid dangerous climate change. The guideline that rich countries should cut emissions by 25-40 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020 as recommended by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was moved to a footnote at the US delegation's insistence.

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Subversive Singing Santas Spread Seasonal Sanity

15-12-2007 17:50

Today, on one of the busiest shopping days of the year, activists from Norwich Rising Tide dressed up as Santas and visited Chapelfield Mall to sing a different tune to the usual buy, buy, buy madness of the holiday season.

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Climate change protest Newquay airport - Risingtide

15-12-2007 11:59

PRESS RELEASE

Climate Activists Spotlight Newquay Airport

Climate activists from Rising Tide[1] have occupied Newquay airport today. The demonstrators are calling for an immediate halt to expansion of the airport[2] and a public debate on its future. With banners, leaflets and costumes - the peaceful protest calls attention to the airport as an obstacle to sustainable development in the County.

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Heathrow: more lies emerge

15-12-2007 00:45

Heathrow 3rd runway consultation prospectus exposed over number of threatened homes and cost attributed to CO2 emissions

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Video and audio from climate change rally, London, 8 Dec 2007

14-12-2007 23:50

Video and audio clips of most of the speeches and some of the songs performed at the Campaign Against Climate Change rally held outside the US embassy in Grosvenor Square, London, on 8th December 2007.

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Beyond The Point Of No Return -- It's Too Late To Stop Climate Change

14-12-2007 20:36

As the pace of global warming kicks into overdrive, the hollow optimism of climate activists, along with the desperate responses of some of the world's most prominent climate scientists, is preventing us from focusing on the survival requirements of the human enterprise.

The environmental establishment continues to peddle the notion that we can solve the climate problem.

We can't.

We have failed to meet nature's deadline. In the next few years, this world will experience progressively more ominous and destabilizing changes. These will happen either incrementally -- or in sudden, abrupt jumps.

Under either scenario, it seems inevitable that we will soon be confronted by water shortages, crop failures, increasing damages from extreme weather events, collapsing infrastructures, and, potentially, breakdowns in the democratic process itself.

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Bush administration isolated at Bali climate conference

14-12-2007 08:14

The two-week UN-sponsored conference on climate change on the Indonesian island of Bali has been dominated by the intransigence of the Bush administration and the mounting conflicts among the great powers, particularly between the United States and the European Union.

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Future for beech in a changing climate - a change of perception?

13-12-2007 21:20

The native beech is suffering from climate change in the south and removed from woodlands in the north as a “non-native.” It is generally accepted that beech would have made its way north naturally had it not been for fragmentation of the forests.

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Tacking climate change across the East Midlands: Local Government Consultations

13-12-2007 20:35

At these consultation events, they welcomed views on the questions and issues raised in the consultation document "Towards a programme of action on climate change for the East Midlands"

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The Unconventional Action Paper is Out at Last!

13-12-2007 15:10

This paper has all the up to date info on the RNC adn DNC protests next year. Order a free bundle while they last!

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Fuel protest locations revealed

13-12-2007 14:31

Fuel protesters have revealed the locations of their 'legal' protests on Saturday 15th Dec. They are likely to be small, but may gain media coverage. Campaigners against cliamte change may wish to go and hold banners about how climate change is the real crisis, and to talk to the media? Campaign for Better Transport has produced a myth-buster factsheet about fuel tax, which is here:

http://www.bettertransport.org.uk/campaigns/climate_change/roads/facts

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SOCPA cycling.

13-12-2007 11:18

Why are drivers allowed to play their sound systems in the SOCPA zone but not cyclists?

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From Oil Wars to Water Wars

13-12-2007 08:43

The world's leading scientists are predicting climate change to cause water wars and mass migrations from rural to urban areas.

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Peak Oil: Tar Sands vs. Clean Water: Eating the Earth for Cars

12-12-2007 16:26

The tar sands production center in northern Alberta in Canada is one of the clearest signs that the easy-to-get oil is on the wane. Tar sands are a low grade hydrocarbon deposit that requires enormous energy input to process and convert it into something resembling petroleum.

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Seeing REDD

12-12-2007 13:09

Banner Drop and ‘Die-In’ Protest marked launch of World Bank Forest Carbon Partnership Facility which attempts to kick start carbon trading in forests as part of the Reduced Emissions From Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) mechanism promoted by industry and commerce for the post-Kyoto framework.

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What Better Time? Issue One out now!

11-12-2007 23:25

What Better Time? is a free news sheet from the Scottish Climate Activist Network. Issue one is out now, get em while they're hot (actually after the demo on Saturday they're a bit wet and soggy).

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Critical mass

11-12-2007 13:01

this saturday to show the fuel protestors that pedal power is the way forward