UK Climate Chaos Newswire Archive
Actions and Resources for Fossil Fools Day 2009
23-02-2009 16:11
FFD is only five weeks away! We know of various affinity group actions around the UK but thought we’d upload some inspirational public actions you can get involved with on the April 1st and some resources to help inspire you to take action in you local area.Work Stopped at Rosewell Open Cast Coal Minse Site
23-02-2009 14:47
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Action against Scottish Coal open cast mine this morning
23-02-2009 11:52
At 9am today a group of eco-activists began to disrupt theoperations of Scottish Coal at the Rosewell open-cast coal mine in the
Midlothians. Some of the 10 activists stopping work today are local residents.
They climbed onto digging machinery to prevent works and climbed onto trucks to prevent
coal from leaving the Rosewell site for 2 hours this morning. Then police arrived but no-one were arrested.
Climate Change is too important to be left to the polititians
21-02-2009 18:41
As the same tired responses and apparently ludicrous solutions keep on being advocated for climate change, I keep thinking, 'I'm just an amateur, what do I know? It may look wrong to me, but surely there's something those in power know that I don't'. I mean, they wouldn't carry on with these schemes and saying these untrue things otherwise, right? If I've got such a point in fields like medicine and architecture, whenever I dig deep I tend to find that yes, there is indeed some serious thing I was unaware of that disabuses me of my opinion.Earth Day 2009
21-02-2009 16:45
I want you to forget about April 22, 2009. Just do whatever you normally do on that day; don’t write anything in your diary; don’t put a circle round the date on your calendar; don’t make a special effort to talk about the environment. Why should you? If you are not a hypocrite then Earth Day will mean nothing special to you because like all other days it will just be sustainable living as usual.Top Terrorist Threat to Planet Earth
21-02-2009 16:13
The word "persecuted" springs to mind in this article by editor of total liberation and animal rights. Associate professor of philosophy at UTEP, award-winning writer, noted speaker, public intellectual, and seasoned activist. Steven Best engages the issues of the day such as animal rights, ecological crisis, biotechnology, liberation politics, terrorism, mass media, globalization, and capitalist domination.I’ll Get Arrested to Stop the Burning of Coal
21-02-2009 14:35
Coal is killing the planet. It’s as simple as that – so it’s easy to understand why 350.org founder Bill McKibben is willing to risk getting arrested in order to participate in a major act of civil disobedience at a coal-fired power plant next month.Full article | 1 addition | 3 comments
G-20 Bank of England reclaim the streets Party
20-02-2009 23:36
Capitalism has been heating up our world for years, melting the icecaps, burning up the rainforests, pushing the planet to tipping point. Now we're going to put the heat on them. At the London Summit , the G20 ministers are trying to get away with the biggest April Fools trick of all time. Their tax-dodging, bonus-guzzling, pension-pinching, unregulated free market world in meltdown, and those fools think we're going to bail them out. They've gotta be joking!nuke mark lynas
20-02-2009 22:53
Mark Lynas is a seriously well informed person. While many of us use broad phrases like 'climate change impact', he has very precise knowledge.To show that climate change isn't something that's going to happen but is already here, he visited many parts of the world already affected, reporting it in the book High Tide: Notes From A Warming World.
As the global temperature is likely to rise up to six degrees this century, he wrote Six Degrees. Six chapters, each detailing the results of extensive research on what the next degree of warming is likely to cause.
He's also a prolific writer of articles, and has spoken out in favour of radical activists such as the Camp for Climate Action.
So it was surprising when, in May 2005, he came out as a convert to the idea of nuclear power using some questionable lines of thinking.
Third Runway - For and Against in Westminster
20-02-2009 16:42
Square around 20 people turned up for the Modern Movement event, along with a few from Plane Stupid to add a little interest, while on Whitehall around a thousand took their message "3rd Runway - NO WAY!" to Gordon Brown. Pictures Copyright (C) 2009 Peter Marshall, all rights reserved
Upcoming action dates, activist gatherings, & the official meetings en route to
20-02-2009 00:40
Upcoming action dates, activist gatherings, & the official meetings en route to the Copenhagen climate summitCompiled at the recent EF! Winter Moot:
Invitation to the Great Green Film Festival '09
19-02-2009 21:50
*** The Great Green Film Festival 2009! ***
Saturday 14th March, 10 AM
C11, Portland Building, University Park Campus.
Free entry, no need to book, all welcome.
Stop LeedsBradford Airport Expansion
19-02-2009 21:40
Come and hear about thier plans to expand and discuss what we can do to stop it :)Full article | 1 addition | 3 comments
Demo for the 3rd runway - pics
19-02-2009 19:27
Northern Climate Rush - Rush on UK Coal!
18-02-2009 21:16
Cold-hearted cops arrest grandfather for writing in the snow
18-02-2009 18:18
A retired oil refinery worker turned airport campaigner thought he'd take advantage of the recent snowfall to send a seasonal message to passengers departing Aberdeen airport. The local constabulary had other ideas and promptly arrested the 65-year-old and his 25-year-old accomplice for writing "Plane Stupid - you fly, they die" in diluted red ink on a snowy hilltop one-and-a-half miles from the airport.Why I’m hardline on environmental issues
18-02-2009 17:51
A lot of the time, I quote other people simply because they’ve said what I wanted to but never got around to it. I frequently get criticised on here for taking a hardline stance on environmental issues, especially on supporting groups like Plane Stupid, because they’re seen as too alienating. Because Middle England won’t agree, the argument goes, these people are a danger to the cause. I always disagree.
28 Ways Afghan War Harms Animals And Other Stories
17-02-2009 18:30
Plane Stupid turns Southampton Airport into climate refugee camp
17-02-2009 13:37
New article on the Copenhagen climate summit
17-02-2009 10:24
In his article 'Are We Anywhere? Carbon, Capital and COP-15' Pascal Steven looks at the complexities for a mobilization 'against' the UN's COP-15 summit in Copenhagen. Originally published here
http://shiftmag.co.uk/?p=270.