Prosecuting Climate Change Criminals

by Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse

People from around the world will not sit in silence while the U.S. fiddles with providing real solutions to climate change impacts. There is a growing movement to push for accountability of governments who fail to take action; a fossil fuel industry that peddles widespread death, sickness and the destruction of economies and environment; and climate deniers who obstruct comprehensive climate change laws with campaigns of lies and disinformation.  Citizens are filing lawsuits while countries and activists advocate prosecution of climate change criminals, discuss proposals for international forums for prosecutions and litigation to obtain damages for harm under existing precedent.  

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Night Train: Losing HSR Battles while Winning the Transport War

by BruceMcF

Burning the Midnight Oil for Living Energy Independence

Last week I raised the certainty that Kasich will return $375m of Ohio's $400m grant for laying the 110mph 3C corridor track and running 79mph trains on them ... and the likelihood that Wisconsin's Governor-elect Jobs Walkabout will return all or most of Wisconsin's $810m for the Milwaukee to Madison Emerging HSR corridor.

Thing is, even if the opponents of HSR killed two (or, see inside, three): they had to kill them all. Every HSR line that gets finished will undermine their case, and raise intra-regional and inter-regional jealousies as a force ensuring that HSR funding is provided at the Federal level and matching funds are raised at the state level.

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How to reduce CO2 emissions without really saying so.

by hold tight

The Washington Post had an opinion piece this past weekend that caught my eye. It's about how we can work to reduce CO2 emissions regardless of our acceptance, or lack thereof, of climate change science: "How to stop global warming - even if you don't believe in it".

(h/t to boatsie, whose diary about COP16 included this link. Please visit their diary and recommend.)

This led to me to start blogging about something I've been meaning to for a some time...That is, the efforts happening right now, everywhere, outside the Beltway, to get a handle on GHG's. We'll do it, fer cryin' out loud, even if you won't help us, Senators!

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Is Schwarzenegger the New AlGore?

by Steven D

The Guvernator just announced that California is striking out on its own to enter into greenhouse gas emissions deals with developing countries in partnership with the United Nations.  So, keep reading.  You might be surprised.

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(also available at Booman Tribune)

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dailycancun: #racetothefuture

by boatsie

Climate activists launch an opening salvo in their imaginative and visionary global campaign to inform and awaken the world to the urgency of the November 28-Dec. 10 UNFCCC talks.

"We have lost something very precious. That is an understanding of our interconnectedness with nature and a world beyond the material." - His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales

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On a warm San Franciscan night... (a photo journey)

by citisven

The last two days have been truly gorgeous in the City by the Bay. Warm, almost balmy November nights. Not completely unusual, but after a relatively cool summer and early fall, this has been an unexpected treat.

Now I know that there are a lot of problems in this world and that life can be incredibly difficult at times, but there are those moments when all the heavy burdens fall away and I'm just in awe at the stunning beauty of the planet we live on and how blessed we are to be alive.

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