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Planetary Crisis: We are not all in this together

25/05/16
Author: 
Ian Angus
Link: 
Climate and Capitalism

 

I’m sure you’ve heard liberal environmentalists insist that we are all passengers on Spaceship Earth, sharing a common fate and a common responsibility for the ship’s safety. Former US vice-president Al Gore, for example, tells us: “We all live on the same planet. We all face the same dangers and opportunities, we share the same responsibility for charting our course into the future.”

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Capitalism
Climate Change
Ecosocialism
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51 degrees Celsius recorded in India, and punishing drought

21/05/16
Author: 
Muneeza Naqvi
Link: 
Vancouver Sun
NEW DELHI — A city in western India has suffered through the country’s highest temperature in history — a scorching 51 degrees Celsius.

The record was set Thursday in the city of Phalodi, in the western state of Rajasthan. India’s meteorological department said the previous high was 50.6 Celsius, reached in 1956 in the city of Alwar, also in Rajasthan.

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Climate Change
Climate Science
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Searing heat may spark climate exodus

16/05/16
Author: 
Tim Radford
Link: 
Climate News Network
The rising sun is partially obscured by a dawn dust storm in Iraq. Image: Elliott Plack via Flickr

Temperatures in the Middle East and North Africa could reach unbearably high levels that would make some regions uninhabitable and increase the pressures of climate refugees.

LONDON, 11 May, 2016 – Parts of the Middle East and North Africa could become unbearably hot if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise.

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Climate Change
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Watch this visualization of global warming

10/05/16
Author: 
Eric Holthaus
Link: 
Future Tense

Click below for this visualization of the changes in global temperature over the past two centuries.

 

 

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Climate Change
Climate Science
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China wants to build a $50tn global wind and solar power grid

24/04/16
Author: 
Futurism
Link: 
World Economic Forum

 

Tuesday 5 April 2016 - It seems that China likes building big things. Take the Great Wall of China. The country has been constructing bigger (and sometimes better) things than the rest of the world for centuries.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy
Energy
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Bill McKibben On How To Save The Planet

24/04/16
Author: 
Thom Mitchell
Link: 
newmatilda.com
Rounding off a speaking tour at Sydney’ Paddington Town Hall on Thursday, McKibben was blunt: “If we don’t win soon, we don’t win. We’re pretty far behind. The best science indicates that we have a narrow window left in order to keep things from getting absolutely, completely out of control. And it is closing fast.”
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Climate Change
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Climate: Africa’s Human Existence Is at Severe Risk

22/04/16
Author: 
Baher Kamal
Link: 
Inter Press Service

Education vital for healthy, productive ecosystems. One of UNEP’s goals within an integrated ecosystem management framework is to foster the capacity of professionals and develop human capacity across all social strata and genders. Credit: UNEP

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Agriculture
Climate Change
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Extraordinary Heat Wave Sweeps Southeast Asia and Points Beyond

22/04/16
Author: 
Christopher C. Burt
Link: 
Weather Underground

What is most likely the most intense heat wave ever observed in Southeast Asia has been ongoing for the past several weeks. All-time national heat records have been observed in Cambodia, Laos, and (almost) in Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, and Vietnam. Meanwhile extreme heat has resulted in all-time record high temperatures in the Maldives, India, China, and portions of Africa as well. Here are the details.

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Climate Change
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March temperature smashes 100-year global record

16/04/16
Link: 
The Guardian

An illustration shows that 2015 was the hottest year since 1880. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

The global temperature in March has shattered a century-long record and by the greatest margin yet seen for any month.

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Climate Change
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9 figures to help you understand the state of renewable energy

26/03/16
Author: 
Clayton Aldern
Link: 
Grist

Today, you’ll see some headlines touting last year’s record investment in renewables. A new report from the Frankfurt School–UNEP Centre and Bloomberg New Energy Finance shows investment in clean energy grew to $286 billion globally in 2015 — a new world record! — up 5 percent from the previous year. Here’s what the global trend in renewable investment looks like since 2004:

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'Alternative' energy and less energy
Energy
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