Dennis Loo | November 3, 2014 The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on Sunday, November 1, 2014, issued its starkest warning to date. As the NYT described it today: Failure to…
Category: Environment
Climate Crisis: The Roots of the Problem
September 20, 2014 This panel (part of the Peoples’ Climate March weekend September 20/21, 2014) examined underlying economic, political and philosophical roots of the climate crisis. The science is clear: what are…
What the Climate March Did and Didn’t Do
Dennis Loo | September 23, 2014 The tremendous outpouring in NYC on Sunday (and it should be added, perhaps more importantly, at Wall Street on Monday (#FloodWallStreet)) over the global climate emergency…
The Gravest Threat to Planet Earth – Ever
Dennis Loo | September 21, 2014 Since Earth’s creation, no natural threats to its existence compare to the danger that it now faces from climate change, caused by human activity. Gigantic meteors…
UN Climate Talks: Criminal Charade in Warsaw
“As the talk shop charades continue at these conferences, the big powers scramble to find and burn even more ‘unconventional’ and carbon polluting fossil fuels.” Orpheus Reed | December 1, 2013 The…
Time to Discard Illusory Hope: A Report from the Climate Justice Rally
by Elizabeth Cook | February 18, 2013 With Rockefeller funded, along with other major corporate funding, big “green” NGOs in control of the climate justice movement, the rally in D.C. yesterday is…
Reportback on Climate Crisis Conference
The Feb 16 Climate Crisis Conference, initiated by World Can’t Wait Chicago and taken up by many other groups, was a sober and an exciting event. The opening presentation by Carl Wassilie,…
Say No to the Keystone XL Pipeline
Rally at the National Mall and then march to the White House! Sun., Feb. 17, 2013 from noon-2:00 pm The climate crisis is creating weather patterns that aren’t just extreme — they’re…
There is a way we can act – for humanity and the planet
by the Chicago Chapter of World Can’t Wait Climate Crisis Conference Saturday, February 16 Haven’t we all felt outraged and frustrated when we read another horror story about the devastating impact of…
Sizing up Sandy
Join the Union of Concerned Scientists for a Webinar on the effects and causes of Hurricane Sandy After the largest Atlantic hurricane on record affected U.S. states from southern Florida to northern…