World | World Climate Chaos Newswire Archive

From Oil Wars to Water Wars

13-12-2007 08:43 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Terror War | World

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

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

12-12-2007 16:26 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | World

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.

Seeing REDD

12-12-2007 13:09 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Social Struggles | World

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.

Bali Demo for Climate Justice

11-12-2007 10:08 | Climate Chaos | Social Struggles | World

My colleague and I are at the Bali COP and we took part in the Day of Global Action here. For the duration fo the COP meeting, the Indonesian Civil Society Forum have been hosting their alternative events, including workshops, discussions and actions.

Global Climate Change March, London Dec 8, 2007

10-12-2007 10:29 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | London | World

The march showed growing public concern about climate change with over 6,000 marchers and several hundred cyclists making their way through the centre of London. It was a one of over 50 world-wide actions before the UN Climate Change talks in Bali. Images are copyright.

Come to Tasmania! (Rainforest Protection)

10-12-2007 08:04 | Analysis | Climate Chaos | Ecology | World

Untouched rainforest, 'old-growth' is being logged for paper, woodchips and profits at an alarming rate. Trees turn carbon into oxygen, rainforests are perhaps our greatest ally against global warming and considered by scientists and ecologists alike to be Planet Earth's 'lungs'. In Tasmania you have
people turning the most beautiful land into a temporary desert for profit, ignoring public opinion, changing laws to suit themselves and a line drawn in the sand.

Pictures from Campaign against Climate Change march in London.

10-12-2007 02:26 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | London | World

Around 10,000? climate campaigners marched from Millbank to the American embassy in Grosvenor square despite the pouring rain.

The Death Knell for Nuclear Power

David Fleming, creator of the concept of Tradeable Energy Quotas and author of the forthcoming and rather wonderful “Lean Logic”, has just published The Lean Guide to Nuclear Energy, which is a thorough demolition of the case for nuclear power being a solution to peak oil. and climate change. You can down load the pdf. for free here

http://www.theleaneconomyconnection.net/downloads.html#Nuclear or you can order printed copies here

http://www.theleaneconomyconnection.net/nuclear/buy.htm . Like much of David’s writing, it patiently yet assertively builds its arguments, backed up by exhaustive research, to build a case against nuclear power that looks pretty much bulletproof to me.

EarthFirst! blockade at coal-fired power plant in Rotterdam, NL

08-12-2007 19:09 | Climate Chaos | Social Struggles | World

On Saturday morning a collective of twenty Dutch EarthFirst! activists blocked the coal conveyor- belt to a plant owned by the German energy giant E.on on the Maasvlakte near Rotterdam. This day, December 8, has been announced as an international actionday in the protest against the coal industry. The growing number of coal-fired power plants worldwide and in the Netherlands at the moment is the biggest threath to the climate. Secondly, this action is part of the protest against the plans for a new E.on coal-fired plant, right next to the existing one on the Maasvlakte.

Peak Oil And The Vision In The Mirror

If you don't know what peak oil is, then, first of all, you are not alone. Most people don't seem to have a clue about it. And, even some that do, don't seem to get the full implications. Let me lay it out for you as succinctly as I can...

Audio: Peak Oil & Climate Change - Twin Crises?

The relationship between Peak Oil and Climate Change was discussed, during a joint meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Groups on Peak Oil and on Climate Change, in the Grand Committee Room in Parliament on 5th December 2007.

Speakers:

Jeremy Leggett, author of `Half Gone' and CEO of Solar Century.

Martyn Williams, Parliamentary Campaigner, Friends of the Earth.

Chris Vernon, the Oil Drum, Europe.

mp3 file (100mb) of the meeting:

http://www.appgopo.org.uk/events/02_051207/APPGOPO2_PO_CC.mp3

http://www.appgopo.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18

International Hoax Targets US Business Consortium Amidst Bali Climate Negotiatio

04-12-2007 12:19 | Climate Chaos | World

Climate activists with the international Rising Tide network embarrassed the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), a lobby group composed of 33 prominent businesses and organizations, by distributing a spoof press release declaring that the consortium’s members had committed to a 90 percent reduction in their greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. In addition, the spoof release called for an immediate moratorium on the construction of all new coal-fired power plants.

What Will We Eat as the Oil Runs Out?

Our global food system faces a crisis of unprecedented scope. This crisis, which threatens to imperil the lives of hundreds of millions and possibly billions of human beings, consists of four simultaneously colliding dilemmas, all arising from our relatively recent pattern of dependence on depleting fossil fuels.

Documentary Film Festival Spain

03-12-2007 21:57 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Globalisation | World

Call for entries for CINESTRAT 08, competition for docs about climate change, peak oil, ecology, nature, etc. Deadline febr. 29 / 2008. Check regulations and get more info at www.cinestrat.es.

The Night Shift : A Parable Of Electricity

30-11-2007 13:07 | Analysis | Climate Chaos | Technology | World

Shutting down coal-fired power stations could be as simple as doing your washing overnight. Making a 90% cut in energy consumption could be just as easy.

The Indians of the Concrete Jungle sabotage 1'000 SUV's in Sweden

24-11-2007 17:54 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | World

A new group calling itself The Indians of the Concrete Jungle has claimed credit for vandalizing more than one-thousand SUVs in order to draw attention to climate change and discourage motorists from driving vehicles that create such a high impact on the environment

Screw Wildlife - Let's Play Golf!

22-11-2007 15:39 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Free Spaces | World

I have just got off the phone after speaking to Neil Hobday, the Project Director for the proposed Trump Golf links golf resort development in eastern Scotland. I would like to say that he seemed a reasonable man, but that would be untrue because despite trying to interest him in the views of the rest of life on the irrepairable damage that will be caused to 1400 acres of pristine sand dune habitat, he was clearly stuck in the lie that the economy was far more important than our life support system.

Muhammad Haque praying for the– animals and humans - hit by cyclone

16-11-2007 10:51 | Animal Liberation | Climate Chaos | Ecology | World

The cyclone that hit the south western coastal regions in Bangladesh early on Friday 16 November 2007 has claimed nearly 1000 people, according to unofficial reports so far.. They are counting the numbers of humans. Many more animals too have perished. But no one is really counting their toll. One of the world’s must precious natural regions housing animals, including tigers, is under threat.

Scientific facts leave no room for delays and empty words on climate change

15-11-2007 10:47 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | World

Calling for a multilateral political approach to climate change during the debate on the upcoming climate change talks in Bali*, GUE/NGL Italian MEP and Vice-President of the European Parliament's Climate Change committee, Roberto Musacchio emphasised the role of the UN and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in formulating future strategies to tackle global warming.

Video of Monbiot & others at recent climate change public meeting

15-11-2007 00:28 | Climate Chaos | London | World

Thursday November 8th saw the Friends Meeting House in London packed out for a tremendous Public meeting organised by Campaign against Climate Change.

http://www.campaigncc.org/
Speakers were George Monbiot - author and journalist, John Sauven - Director of Greenpeace UK, Sophie from the Camp for Climate Action and Phil Thornhill - National Coordinator of Campaign against Climate Change.

World Climate Chaos Newswire Archive

From Oil Wars to Water Wars

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

Seeing REDD

Bali Demo for Climate Justice

Global Climate Change March, London Dec 8, 2007

Come to Tasmania! (Rainforest Protection)

Pictures from Campaign against Climate Change march in London.

The Death Knell for Nuclear Power

EarthFirst! blockade at coal-fired power plant in Rotterdam, NL

Peak Oil And The Vision In The Mirror

Audio: Peak Oil & Climate Change - Twin Crises?

International Hoax Targets US Business Consortium Amidst Bali Climate Negotiatio

What Will We Eat as the Oil Runs Out?

Documentary Film Festival Spain

The Night Shift : A Parable Of Electricity

The Indians of the Concrete Jungle sabotage 1'000 SUV's in Sweden

Screw Wildlife - Let's Play Golf!

Muhammad Haque praying for the– animals and humans - hit by cyclone

Scientific facts leave no room for delays and empty words on climate change

Video of Monbiot & others at recent climate change public meeting

Publish

Publish your news

World Climate Chaos Newswire Archive

World Topics

Kollektives

Encrypted Page

IMCs