CLIMATE CHANGE NEWS - MAY 04
UK CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS ROSE IN 2003
25 March - New Government figures indicate a big increase in greenhouse gas emissions in 2003. The increase was caused by a rise in energy consumption and a return to coal burning.
http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/press_releases/uk_carbon_dioxide_emission_30032004.html
UK FAILS TO SET HIGH EMISSIONS CAPS FOR INDUSTRY - CLIMATE TARGETS DISAPPEAR INTO THE DISTANCE
6 May - The Government's climate policy is in disarray today after its plans to impose limits on industrial emissions of carbon dioxide were watered down. The Government has limited options to get back on track. http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/press_releases/industry_gets_easy_ride_as_06052004.html
GOVERNMENT RENEGES ON CO2 TARGET
7 May - Greenpeace accused Tony Blair of retreating on his commitment to fight global warming after the government scaled back its plans to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 16.3%.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,12374,1211251,00.html
CLIMATE CHANGE WILL CAUSE MASS EXTINCTION BY 2050
8 Jan - One in ten animal and plant species will be extinct by 2050 as the result of climate change from the C02 levels that are in the atmosphere now. Many more are at threat unless we move swiftly to a carbon-free econonmy. http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,12374,1118281,00.html
GLOBAL WARMING WILL PLUNGE BRITAIN INTO NEW ICE AGE 'WITHIN DECADES'
25 Jan - http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp?story=484490
THE PENTAGON TELLS BUSH: CLIMATE CHANGE WILL DESTROY US
http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,12374,1153530,00.html
Key findings of the Pentagon Report (Observer, 22/2/4)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,12374,1153547,00.html
KYOTO MARCH THIS SATURDAY
Campaign Against Climate Change (see below)
GOVERNMENT MUST LISTEN TO TOP SCIENTIST'S WARNING ON AVIATION
30 Mar - The Government must heed its chief scientific adviser, Sir David King, and scrap plans to allow a massive expansion in air travel. Sir David has previously warned that climate change was a bigger threat to the planet than terrorism. http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/press_releases/government_must_listen_to_30032004.html
GREAT NEW BOOK ON CLIMATE CHANGE
High Tide: News from a Warming World by Mark Lynas
www.marklynas.org
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ANNUAL KYOTO MARCH - THIS SATURDAY 15TH MAY
Time to make a stand for the environment
Before Bush takes us the way the dinosaurs went!
(from http://www.campaignagainstclimatechange.net)
The Kyoto March is an annual event that allows people to get together and onto the streets to sound the alarm about the accelerating deterioration of the global environment and in particular the huge threat posed by the catastrophic destabilisation of global climate. It is a chance to make a stand against those with the greatest power who are most to blame: currently George W Bush and his backers in the US fossil fuel industry, who sabotaged the world's efforts to deal with global climate change by dumping the Kyoto treaty now 3 years ago. Our event marks the anniversary of that greatest of environmental crimes.
Our event includes :
'Long March' from ExxonMobil (Esso) HQ, Leatherhead, 20 miles to the US embassy, starts 7.00 am (or join en route). ExxonMobil is the world's largest oil company and Bush's principal anti-Kyoto corporate backer: it has been waging a cynical war of disinformation on climate change, for many years. See www.stopesso.com.
RALLY AT IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM 3.30
pm for the main march (last leg of Long March) through central London to the US embassy.
'Dinosaur Party' at the US embassy from 5.30 pm.
The dinosaurs in the White House and the US fossil fuel industry, with very large bank accounts but very small brains, are taking all of us the way of the dinosaurs. Join us for some MASS-EXTINCTION fun !
Speakers, so far, will include Michael Meacher MP (Environment Minister 1997-2003), Caroline Lucas MEP (Green Party), Norman Baker MP (Lib-Dem Shadow Environment Secretary) and Stephen Tindale (Director, Greenpeace UK).
Route of Long March : From Esso HQ, Ermyn Way, off the A24 just North of Leatherhead (for map to find it click here), follows the A24 , diverging from this for Ewell centre and Wimbledon (Dorset Rd, Hartfield Rd., to centre - Broadway, Merton High St to regain A24); then from Clapham Common via the A3, to Kennington Road, via which to the Imp War Museum.
Timetable : 7.00 am, leave Esso HQ; 8.oo am Epsom Town centre; 10.20 am morden Tube; 11.15-12. 15 Wimbledon Centre (Safeways,Broadway); 2.25 pm Clapham Common Tube; 3.30 pm Rally at Imperial War Museum; 5.30 pm US embassy, Grosvenor Square. For full (printable) timetable click here .
Go the whole way, join in along the way, or at the Rally at the Imperial War Museum for the march through central London......or come to the 'Dinosaur Party' at the US embassy.
Anyone joining us for the whole march who would like overnight accomodation with transport to starting point in the morning please contact us (contacts below).
Why not do the march (or some of it) and raise some badly needed money for CCC too ? For the Kyoto March Sponsorship Form click here.
Dress code theme : Dinosaurs, extinct species, threatened species, Oil/Coal industry Dinosaurs, Bush/Cheney Dinosaurs, Uncle Sam Dinosaurs, or of course just identify yourself as a member of a threatened species ! Plus anything that shows Bush, Uncle Sam, Exxon fat-cats etc ...as climate / environmental villains.
For more info contact : email
info@campaigncc.org or phone 0208 8553327 or 07903 316 331
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT THIS DEMO TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE
UK CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS ROSE IN 2003
25 March - New Government figures indicate a big increase in greenhouse gas emissions in 2003. The increase was caused by a rise in energy consumption and a return to coal burning.
http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/press_releases/uk_carbon_dioxide_emission_30032004.html UK FAILS TO SET HIGH EMISSIONS CAPS FOR INDUSTRY - CLIMATE TARGETS DISAPPEAR INTO THE DISTANCE
6 May - The Government's climate policy is in disarray today after its plans to impose limits on industrial emissions of carbon dioxide were watered down. The Government has limited options to get back on track.
http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/press_releases/industry_gets_easy_ride_as_06052004.html GOVERNMENT RENEGES ON CO2 TARGET
7 May - Greenpeace accused Tony Blair of retreating on his commitment to fight global warming after the government scaled back its plans to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 16.3%.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,12374,1211251,00.html CLIMATE CHANGE WILL CAUSE MASS EXTINCTION BY 2050
8 Jan - One in ten animal and plant species will be extinct by 2050 as the result of climate change from the C02 levels that are in the atmosphere now. Many more are at threat unless we move swiftly to a carbon-free econonmy.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,12374,1118281,00.html GLOBAL WARMING WILL PLUNGE BRITAIN INTO NEW ICE AGE 'WITHIN DECADES'
25 Jan -
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp?story=484490 THE PENTAGON TELLS BUSH: CLIMATE CHANGE WILL DESTROY US
http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,12374,1153530,00.html Key findings of the Pentagon Report (Observer, 22/2/4)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,12374,1153547,00.html KYOTO MARCH THIS SATURDAY
Campaign Against Climate Change (see below)
GOVERNMENT MUST LISTEN TO TOP SCIENTIST'S WARNING ON AVIATION
30 Mar - The Government must heed its chief scientific adviser, Sir David King, and scrap plans to allow a massive expansion in air travel. Sir David has previously warned that climate change was a bigger threat to the planet than terrorism.
http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/press_releases/government_must_listen_to_30032004.html GREAT NEW BOOK ON CLIMATE CHANGE
High Tide: News from a Warming World by Mark Lynas
www.marklynas.org
------------------------------------------------------------
ANNUAL KYOTO MARCH - THIS SATURDAY 15TH MAY
Time to make a stand for the environment
Before Bush takes us the way the dinosaurs went!
(from
http://www.campaignagainstclimatechange.net) The Kyoto March is an annual event that allows people to get together and onto the streets to sound the alarm about the accelerating deterioration of the global environment and in particular the huge threat posed by the catastrophic destabilisation of global climate. It is a chance to make a stand against those with the greatest power who are most to blame: currently George W Bush and his backers in the US fossil fuel industry, who sabotaged the world's efforts to deal with global climate change by dumping the Kyoto treaty now 3 years ago. Our event marks the anniversary of that greatest of environmental crimes.
Our event includes :
'Long March' from ExxonMobil (Esso) HQ, Leatherhead, 20 miles to the US embassy, starts 7.00 am (or join en route). ExxonMobil is the world's largest oil company and Bush's principal anti-Kyoto corporate backer: it has been waging a cynical war of disinformation on climate change, for many years. See www.stopesso.com.
RALLY AT IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM 3.30
pm for the main march (last leg of Long March) through central London to the US embassy.
'Dinosaur Party' at the US embassy from 5.30 pm.
The dinosaurs in the White House and the US fossil fuel industry, with very large bank accounts but very small brains, are taking all of us the way of the dinosaurs. Join us for some MASS-EXTINCTION fun !
Speakers, so far, will include Michael Meacher MP (Environment Minister 1997-2003), Caroline Lucas MEP (Green Party), Norman Baker MP (Lib-Dem Shadow Environment Secretary) and Stephen Tindale (Director, Greenpeace UK).
Route of Long March : From Esso HQ, Ermyn Way, off the A24 just North of Leatherhead (for map to find it click here), follows the A24 , diverging from this for Ewell centre and Wimbledon (Dorset Rd, Hartfield Rd., to centre - Broadway, Merton High St to regain A24); then from Clapham Common via the A3, to Kennington Road, via which to the Imp War Museum.
Timetable : 7.00 am, leave Esso HQ; 8.oo am Epsom Town centre; 10.20 am morden Tube; 11.15-12. 15 Wimbledon Centre (Safeways,Broadway); 2.25 pm Clapham Common Tube; 3.30 pm Rally at Imperial War Museum; 5.30 pm US embassy, Grosvenor Square. For full (printable) timetable click here .
Go the whole way, join in along the way, or at the Rally at the Imperial War Museum for the march through central London......or come to the 'Dinosaur Party' at the US embassy.
Anyone joining us for the whole march who would like overnight accomodation with transport to starting point in the morning please contact us (contacts below).
Why not do the march (or some of it) and raise some badly needed money for CCC too ? For the Kyoto March Sponsorship Form click here.
Dress code theme : Dinosaurs, extinct species, threatened species, Oil/Coal industry Dinosaurs, Bush/Cheney Dinosaurs, Uncle Sam Dinosaurs, or of course just identify yourself as a member of a threatened species ! Plus anything that shows Bush, Uncle Sam, Exxon fat-cats etc ...as climate / environmental villains.
For more info contact : email
info@campaigncc.org or phone 0208 8553327 or 07903 316 331 PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT THIS DEMO TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE
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Climate Change Evening On Thursday 13th - What's On
12.05.2004 12:18
In the run up to the the Kyoto march and ‘An Exhibition of Resistance to BP and Big Oil' there's a Climate Change Evening at the Grand Banks Social Centre at Tufnell Park on Thursday 13th May. The evening will feature films, speakers, discussion, live music, vegan burger café, eco beer bar, climate change infostall, and fun and games.
The evening starts at 7:30pm with:-
- Oil Be Damned - Film about BP's Baku-Ceyhan pipeline project.
- Sakhalin's Black Tears – Film about $22 Billion Shell & Exxon Mobil projects off Russia.
- Larry Lohman (
- Green Gold - Community resistance to toxic dumping in Durban and Carbon Fund greenwash.
- Rising Tide short talk On ‘An Exhibition of Resistance to BP and Big Oil’ and how to get involved.
- Avation and the environment film.
- discussion about issues raised.
Followed by Live Music
Fun and games featuring 'Minature Car & Plane Destruction' (bring your toy cars, planes etc. )
Grafitti The BP Board
Tombola of Armageddon ( amazing prizes (!)
Plus vegan Climate Change Cafe with scrummy burgers, ecobar with organic beer, fresh Zapatista coffee etc.
Grand Banks Social centre, ( Junction Fortess Rd, Junction Rd, Tuffnell Pk Rd.)Tuffnell Park, London, N7.
Transport - easy to get to.
Buses 134, 390, N134, N20, 4.
Tube:- Northern line, Tuffnell park Station. ( Centre opposite )
Walking distance Kentish Town, Archway, Holloway.
Come along, find out about corporate greenwash, the emerging markets in Carbon Trading, oil companies climate-threatening projects, and also have some fun. Thursday 13th May from 7:30pm. Grand Banks Social Centre - phone - 07956975490
mark r ;-)
e-mail:
london@risingtide.org.uk