Activists plan hunger strikes for climate justice
By Simon Butler 10 October 2009
Climate change is deadly serious. Predicted water shortages, rising sea levels, crop failures and dangerous weather events threaten the lives of billions within decades unless action is taken now.
Australian climate activist Paul Connor is one of many who are deadly serious about stopping it. He will go without food for more than 40 days, fasting on water only, to draw attention to the global warming emergency.
New Analysis Brings Dire Forecast Of 6.3-Degree Temperature Increase
By Juliet Eilperin from the Washington Post
Friday, September 25, 2009
Climate researchers now predict the planet will warm by 6.3 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century even if the world's leaders fulfill their most ambitious climate pledges, a much faster and broader scale of change than forecast just two years ago, according to a report released Thursday by the United Nations Environment Program.
The new overview of global warming research, aimed at marshaling political support for a new international climate pact by the end of the year, highlights the extent to which recent scientific assessments have outstripped the predictions issued by the Nobel Prize-winning U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2007.
Norway announces plans for 40% emissions reductions by 2020
The government of Norway has recently announced that it will adopt a target of 40% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.
The Eco-Digital website (from the international Climate Action Network) has hosted these YouTube videos (reproduced below) and is promising more news to come about this.
Observer: Arctic seas turn to acid, putting vital food chain at risk
With the world's oceans absorbing six million tonnes of carbon a day, a leading oceanographer warns of eco disaster
Penny Wong fiddles while the earth burns
Penny Wong was the target of protesters including the Safe Climate Coalition when she came to Perth on Wed 30 September.
"We're screwed": Media heist blankets city with 'special edition' New York Post
Tabloid Tells Truth About Climate Change and How It Will Affect City, World
Media release by The Yes Men September 21, 2009
Contact: The Yes Men tabloid@theyesmen.org
Fake New York Post: http://www.nypost-se.com/
AOSIS leaders declare ‘island survival’ benchmark for new climate deal
Pacific Press Release – Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)
21 September 2009
AOSIS LEADERS DECLARE ‘ISLAND SURVIVAL’ THE BENCHMARK FOR A NEW CLIMATE DEAL
Island states demand a global warming limit of ‘1.5°C to stay alive’
New York – Leaders of the world’s island states have demanded that the new post-2012 international climate agreement guarantee their countries’ livelihood and survival by ensuring that global warming be kept well below 1.5 degrees Celsius (°C).
"Wake up Kevin" Climate change "flash mob"
"Wake up Kevin" was the message of the September 20 "flash mob" organised by Oxfam outside Perth railway station. Oxfam is calling for at least 40% reductions in Australia's emissions.
See more pictures below.
Switch off Hazelwood, switch on renewables
Sunday 13 September
Approximately five hundred people took part in today's historic action at the Hazelwood coal power station, while 22 people managed to get themselves arrested while attempting to slap a 'Community Decommission Order' on Hazelwood.
