Thousands protest outside COP26 to demand more climate action - CBS News Video NOVEMBER 6, 2021 Roxana Saberi and Justine Redman Thousands of people gathered outside the COP 26 on the streets of Glasgow, Scotland on Friday, raising their voices to call for more action on climate change. Protesters came from around the world to attend the United Nations COP26 Climate Change Conference, where thus far, the promises being made fall far short of the need to cut global emissions in time to stop the exponential rise in climate destruction, extinctions from pristine arctic wildernesses, breath-taking coral reefs, cities and states in the path of recurring hurricanes and floods, towns burning to the ground, thousands year-old giant sequoias, to island nations disappearing beneath the waves. Many of them have grown up personally experiencing the catastrophic impacts of climate change, the insurmountable impossible costs to rebuild restore recover what is lost, and they're terrified for the future of the world. "COP26 is full of false solutions, and we need to make sure they're integrating real solutions, because we just don't have much time," 23-year-old Fridays For Future COP26 protester Rebecca Richie, from California, told CBS News. "We're out of time. We're in a climate emergency right now. This Is Either A Death Knell For The Planet If Any Investment In Drill Or Mining Is Allowed - Or - The Saving Launch of A Vibrant New Life for All Nations and Ecosystems of the World - If Mobilization In Line With IPCC Reports, As outlined in Mission 2020 - Three Years To Save Our Planet - Along with other highly compatible key components of a Comprehensive Climate Plan: Project Drawdown, The Victory Plan, US Green New Deal and EU Green Deal - Are Deployed as a Global Response To The Climate Crisis |
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As COP26 convenes in Glasgow, Scotland, new data shows global carbon emissions continue to rise after a small dip due to the COVID pandemic. Emissions from coal, gas and oil continue to rise, driving catastrophic death and destruction across the globe. The cost of solar and wind energy are now far lower than fossil fuels, yet somehow fossil fuel industrial lobbies still have a death grip on the seats of power in the U.S. Congress.
World’s Biggest Polluters Remain on Sidelines as Over 40 Nations Pledge to Phase Out Coal - Democracy Now The only hope is for Washington to come to its senses before Earth's life support systems spiral completely out of control. UN scientists warn we are on the precipice, with only a 50/50 chance of leaving future generations a livable world. Taking the least costly climate actions now reduces the chances for a viable future even further. Greater decisive action to mobilize and drawdown global warming improves our chances of restoring the balance to nature's life giving air, land, water, ecosystems, biodiversity, better quality of life, and prosperity for all. "There's a real conversation happening around this world about the battle between democracies and autocracies," the Vice President says. "People around the world are looking to the actions of the United States, in order to decide whether a country can be a strong democracy or whether it doesn't actually work, anymore." The only hope is for Washington to come to its senses. Angela Merkel Asks, 'What's Going On' in America? - Newsweek Read More: The Fed's balance sheet just passed $5 trillion for the first time ever - cnbc.com A $10 Trillion Fed Balance Sheet Is Coming - bloombergquint.com The Federal Reserve’s balance sheet is exploding, growing by about $3 trillion since mid-March and now totaling more than $7 trillion, as the central bank buys corporate bonds, municipal securities, makes business loans, while purchasing $80 billion of Treasuries and $40 billion of agency mortgage-backed securities. Wall Street Hits Record Highs |
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Glasgow, Scotland 2021 Democracy Now! November 2, 2021 More than 120 world leaders gathered in Glasgow, Scotland, Monday for the opening of a crucial United Nations climate summit, the outcome of which could determine the future habitability of the planet. The COP26 climate change conference opened with this dire warning from U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres. Secretary-General António Guterres: “Enough of brutalizing biodiversity. Enough of killing ourselves with carbon. Enough of treating nature like a toilet. Enough of burning and drilling and mining our way deeper. We are digging our own graves.” As COP26 got underway, leaders from over 100 countries pledged to end and reverse deforestation by 2030. India also unveiled its plan to reduce carbon emissions to net zero — but only by 2070. The United States is announcing a new plan today to reduce methane emissions. Speaking to the assembled leaders, President Joe Biden reversed the worst decision against humanity - former President Trump’s withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Climate Accord. Biden confirmed that the United States, and other nations who have emitted the vast quantity of greenhouse gases to the earth's choking atmosphere, have overwhelming obligations to help developing countries and island nations address their existential climate emergencies. Biden’s comments came just days after he called on OPEC to increase oil production to lower fuel costs. Thousands of youth protesters have assembled outside the climate summit demanding meaningful action to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius. 19-year-old Mexican climate activist Maria Reyes: “My message for world leaders is that they cannot have a climate negotiation without the people most impacted by the climate crisis present. If we allow them to do that, COP26 is going to be a rich people’s conversation. And rich people are not most affected by the climate crisis. We are.” Democracy Now Headlines | November 02, 2021 Humanity stands at the precipice where a very small number of people decide our fate. If they choose wrongly, all our choices for a bright future in this beautiful amazing world will have past. A Brief History of Climate Change |
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Traditional herders and emaciated cattle cope with the harsh conditions brought on by severe droughts in northern Africa in the final decades of the twentieth century. Prolonged periods of disastrous droughts depleted grazing land, forcing native herdsmen to travel with their animals for weeks or months in search of once plentiful food and water. The droughts brought on years of deforestation and widespread degradation of vegetation and water resources - Leaving ancestral rangelands residents with no plant life or water to sustain their cattle or feed themselves. Photograph - Andrew Heavens https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/Desertification/desertification.php Botswana, Africa 1984 British biogeographer Stephen Prince was among the scientists asked by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization to assess the health of African rangelands. Was drought impacting the land? Was overgrazing occurring? Prince studied photos of vegetation scattered across the country. Struggling to interpret the images of plant growth to assess the health of Africa's huge ecosystem, Prince consulted with a colleague, John Townshend. Townshend had just returned from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, where a new satellite index of global vegetation was being developed. Photos collected by the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer sensors flying on a series of NOAA meteorological satellites revealed how much photosynthesis was happening on the ground. Displayed as a map, it showed the loss of productivity of the grazing land due to the spread of desertification over time. Townshend showed Prince the vegetation index of Africa. “It blew me away that we could see a complete continent at frequent time intervals,” Prince says. Recognizing the satellite-generated vegetation index’s potential, Prince moved to Goddard Space Flight Center to join others in studying the world’s vegetation, ecosystem health - and widening desertification - from space. |
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Global Desertification Alerts World Scientists To Rising Expanding Climate Change Viewing Desertification from NASA Space Satellites Spreading Across Africa, the Middle East, Asia, North and South America Defining Desertification (nasa.gov) |
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The potential for the industrial age fossil fuel emissions to drive global temperatures beyond those needed to support life on earth has been known for 200 years. The reality that it was actively destroying extensive regions and habitats around the world was first reported by NASA scientists in the 1980s. Fifty years later, now we must deliver the final call for climate action as precipitously rising earth temperatures and greenhouse gases choke earth's thin 60 mile high atmosphere. The extremely urgent transition to renewable energy scientists and citizens are calling for, essential for earth's survival, has been under development throughout this time. By the last quarter of the 20th century: - Solar panels were already on the White House generating clean renewable energy. - Electric cars were on the drawing board and driving on the road. - Satellite photos of the earth from space were documenting the loss of viable land as deserts expanded across the globe. - Droughts and desertification in Africa were driving herders and farmers away from their ancestral lands. -Dust plumes from deadly droughts and wildfires were visible from NASA's satellites online, drifting across continents and oceans. - NASA Director James Hansen among many scientists and naturalists were testifying to Congress about the dangers of climate change unfolding with greater frequency and intensity. - Millions suffered as scientists reported to Congress on the causes: Famines in caused by changes in rainfall, desertification, increasing frequency and intensity of catastrophic climate disasters due to the changing climate. NASA Director James Hansen Warns Congress that World is on the Wrong Track to Prevent Runaway Climate Change |
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Dr. James Hansen delivered his famous speech before Congress in 1988. He left his post as NASA Director in order to take on the political and legal battles necessary to save the planet's climate for future generations. NASA's Director James Hansen Leaves Post After 50 Years to Fight Climate Change - commondreams.org “If we burn even a fraction of the fossil fuels, there’s going to be unstoppable changes in the climate of the earth. We’re leaving future generations a catastrophic situation that they have no way left to deal with. The time to avert this crisis is now.” Bill McKibben, co-founder of the climate action group 350.org—the safe upper limit for carbon in earth's atmosphere—350 parts per million—and Hansen went on to launch the global climate justice movement. |
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Solar Energy Industry Association (SEIA) - Advances in Solar and Wind Technologies have left fossil fuels and nuclear in the dust. Solar Power Cost Rapidly Decreasing, Chart Shows (businessinsider.com)
The World Is On The Verge Of An Energy Revolution
The cost of solar power is decreasing rapidly. It is now cheaper than coal, based on the latest analyses. It now costs $50 to produce one megawatt-hour of solar power, according to a new analysis. Wind is even less. Coal costs $102 per megawatt-hour to produce. Nuclear is by far the most expensive. US DOE Study be the National Renewable Energy Laboratory Shows 40 Percent of U.S. Energy Needs Can Be Provided by Rooftop Solar Alone Rooftop Solar Can Provide About 40 Percent Of US Electricity - Solar Power Now (solar-power-now.com) Free Energy from the Sun & Wind Save Utilities on Installation and Operation of New Renewable Power Plants
Appalachian Power's First Solar Energy Project Is Now In Service
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Appalachian Solar Finance Fund – Appalachian Voices (appvoices.org) The sun is finally shining on the energy portfolio of Appalachian Power Co., which for years has relied predominantly on coal and natural gas. In announcing its first utility-scale solar project to go online, Appalachian said Thursday that in August it began purchasing 20 megawatts of electricity — enough to power about 3,600 homes — from a solar farm in Henry County. Two other power-purchase agreements with facilities nearing completion in Campbell and Wythe counties will add another 35 megawatts of solar to the generating capacity of Appalachian, which has about 524,000 customers in Western Virginia. “Solar is a big part of our overall clean energy strategy,” Chris Beam, Appalachian’s president and chief operating officer. Appalachian Power announces first solar energy project is in service | Local News | roanoke.com India says it will reach net-zero emissions by 2070. |
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Biden takes aim at China and Russia at G20 as COP26 climate summit kicks off in Glasgow - ABC News LOOK TO THE MIDWEST FOR U.S. CLIMATE LEADERSHIP With the U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow underway, all eyes are on Washington, D.C. as the nation awaits painstaking negotiations over President Joe Biden's spending plan. But regardless of what happens on Capitol Hill in the coming days, those of us here in the Midwest want the world to know that the U.S is committed to solving climate change—and the Midwest is already making huge strides. America's heartland accounts for nearly a third of the country's greenhouse gas emissions—and it is the fifth-largest carbon emitter in the world. This dubious distinction has driven the region to quietly model climate leadership and innovation. The Midwest leads the nation in producing wind energy, and we're at the forefront of community solar—driving steep cuts in emissions and increasing access to clean energy. We're innovating how we feed the country, practicing sustainable agriculture that removes carbon from the atmosphere. We've put more than 677,000 Midwesterners to work in good-paying jobs producing and installing renewable energy components, vehicles, batteries and efficient technologies to power the economy of tomorrow. We're also seeing bipartisan climate leadership in our city halls and state capitals. From Kansas City to Madison, Cincinnati to Petoskey, Midwestern cities and towns—big and small, red, blue and purple—have enacted 100 percent clean energy commitments. Recently, Illinois enacted "the 'most equitable' climate bill" in the country, committing to transition to 100 percent clean energy by 2050. This landmark law will create tens of thousands of new jobs and improve public health by prioritizing emission cuts in the communities hit hardest by our dependency on fossil fuels. And that's not all. After decades of addiction to coal, major utilities have begun to change direction—a testament to evolving market forces and citizen advocacy. Minnesota-based Xcel Energy was the first major U.S. utility to commit to 100 percent clean energy, and others have followed suit. All this while skilled workers at GM and Ford manufacture electric vehicles that will remake transportation as we know it—and dramatically reduce carbon pollution from the sector responsible for producing the largest share. Still, the climate clock is ticking. Our crops are drying up from prolonged droughts. Our kids are choking on pollution from the worst air quality levels on record. Our lakes are on fire. The Boundary Waters, a chain of pure freshwater lakes in northern Minnesota, were shut down for weeks because of raging wild fires. It's clear we need ambitious changes now. This moment demands historic, unprecedented federal funding and philanthropic and private sector capital to continue forward momentum here in the Midwest, for the good of the country and our planet. If the U.S. wants to lead on climate—and we must—look to the Midwest. Investing in the people and solutions here is the smart and strategic bet. We're ready to scale up our innovative models so America can power its businesses, buildings, homes, cars and farms with clean energy. If we can power our economy with solar and wind, and design efficient buildings and smart grids here—a region of demographically and politically diverse states where temperatures can plummet far below zero—we can do it anywhere. What happens in Washington and in Glasgow will have deep impacts on the Midwest—on our air, cities, towns and kids. Yet, what happens in the Midwest could make or break climate progress the world over. The world needs the U.S. in order to meet its climate goals, and the U.S. needs the Midwest—it's that simple. We're ready to lead, and we hope Washington will join us. Our success in decarbonizing the Midwest is the nation's—and the world's—success! By Tonya Allen and Sarah Christiansen - McKnight Midwest Climate & Energy program. https://www.newsweek.com/look-midwest-us-climate-leadership-opinion-1644713 Auto Stocks Plunge as Trump Promises Steep Tariffs on Metals | Time COP26 coalition worth US $130 trillion vows to put climate at heart of finance - CNA - channelnewsasia.com THE U.S. POISED TO TAKE THE LEAD IN WIND ENERGY'S GREATEST POWER RESERVE |
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The Cost Of Our Children's Future - Too Expensive Or A Bargain? $3.5 Trillion to Leave Our Children A Livable World - $9 Trillion for the Pentagon While $6 Trillion might seem high for a down payment for a livable world, the crippling debate among Democrats over whether to spend $3.5 trillion on infrastructure over ten years, heightens the contrast that we are likely to spend close to ten trillion dollars over ten years on the Pentagon and that somehow doesn’t even require a debate at all. As darkly warned by President Dwight Eisenhower in the 1950s, the American War Machine has taken a life of its own, brazenly costing American and human lives around the world for profit. In his new book Andrew Cockburn, the Washington Editor of Harper’s magazine outlines the terrifying realities whose costs soar ever higher and out of control while the well being of the American people are swept aside and casually ignored. The Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine. |
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Former Bank of England Governor Mark Carney and Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak arrive at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, Britain November 3, 2021. REUTERS/Yves Herman GLASGOW SCOTLAND: Banks, insurers and investors with US $130 trillion at their disposal pledged on Wednesday, Nov 3, 2021, to put combating climate change at the centre of their work, and gained support in the form of efforts to put green investing on a firmer footing. In another development at the COP26 UN climate conference, at least 19 countries are expected to commit on Thursday to ending public financing for fossil fuel projects abroad by the end of 2022, two sources said. COP26 coalition worth US$130 trillion vows to put climate at heart of finance - CNA (channelnewsasia.com) |
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