Bernard Jenkin and climate change

Bernard Jenkin, MP for Harwich and North Essex, has generally voted against measures to prevent climate change according to theyworkforyou.com and source data on PublicWhip.org.uk.

Committee on Climate Change

The UK Gov Committee on Climate Change (CCC) July 2019 report states

Eleven years to limit climate change catastrophe

As reported in the guardian one year ago, the October 2018 report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned that we had 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe, that is, to limit global warming to a maximum of 1.5C.

Don't Even Think About It by George Marshall

Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired To Ignore Climate Change by George Marshall, © 2014, Bloomsbury USA. Read the Chapter Summaries by Jock Gilchrist at climateprotection.org...Dont-Even-Think-About-It-Notes.pdf
More about the book at www.climateconviction.org

Book Group on Peace News

Our Next Read is the last 2 issues of Peace News:

• Issue 2624 - 2625 | December 2018 - January 2019, especially on #XR
• Issue 2622 - 2623 | October - November 2018, especially on Transgender issues

Does #XR have specific, winnable demands?

Does #XR have specific, winnable demands?
Extinction Rebellion has posted a Declaration at rebellion.earth/declaration and Demands at rebellion.earth/demands.

COP21 climate change agreement

Was any binding legal agreement reached at the COP21 climate change summit in Paris?  

growthism

In economics, a recession is a negative economic growth for two consecutive quarters. Anything less than annual three per cent growth in GDP, however, is traditionally also viewed with concern in our times.

Air pollution in Colchester

Letter to Essex County Standard, Friday 4 March 2016

Paris Agreement

Based on report by Alliance for Green Socialism’s Mike Davies on #ParisAgreement our leaders seem to have committed to a limit of 1.5 to 2 degrees C, but not to action to achieve it. See decision II, para 17: 

“Notes with concern that the estimated aggregate greenhouse gas emission levels in 2025 and 2030 resulting from the intended nationally determined contributions do not fall within least-cost 2 ˚C scenarios but rather lead to a projected level of 55 gigatonnes in 2030, and also notes that much greater emission reduction efforts will be required than those associated with the intended nationally determined contributions in order to hold the increase in the global average temperature to below 2 ˚C above pre-industrial levels by reducing emissions to 40 gigatonnes or to 1.5 ˚C above pre-industrial levels by reducing to a level to be identified in the special report referred to in paragraph 21 below;”

The deliberate production of ignorance

Agnotology, says Wikipedia, is the study of culturally induced ignorance or doubt, particularly the publication of inaccurate or misleading scientific data. 

Examples of the deliberate production of ignorance:

• the tobacco industry's conspiracy to manufacture doubt about the cancer risks of tobacco use
• the debate in climate science that we don't have enough evidence yet, we need more research, etc 
• 'The Myth of “Broken Britain”: Welfare Reform and the Production of Ignorance' by Tom Slater, 2012

I guess Adorno would claas these as products of the culture industry. 

Only 100 harvests to go

On current trends and use of agro-chemicals, etc, there are, it is speculated, only 100 harvests to go before the soil packs up. 

2015 is International Year of Soils and every minute we lose the equivalent of 30 football pitches of fertile soil. As around 95% of our food comes from the soil, we need healthy soil to feed the world. See The Soil Association www.soilassociation.org/soilmattersALG to see how you can help.

Climate change will destroy the planet! – Really?

Full of the evangelism of reading This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate by Naomi Klein (for my book group), I made the mistake recently of telling a friend how capitalism and its consequences would destroy the planet. He told me I was wrong. Of course he is right.

Is your money really there?

The government allows profit-seeking private banks to create our money supply as debt. Ninety-seven per cent of all money first enters the economy as debt, when the banks loan it into circulation. The money system now has most of us trapped in debt. Worse still, we need growth in order to find the money to pay the interest we owe the banks. But we cannot have infinite growth on a finite planet. Thus, our money system is directly contributing to the destruction of the eco-systems on which we depend.

Cuadrilla's fracking tests 'likely cause' of earthquakes near Blackpool

It is "highly probable" that shale gas test drilling - aka hydraulic fracturing, or fracking - triggered earth tremors in Lancashire, states a report, commissioned by energy firm Cuadrilla, on earthquakes of magnitude 2.3 on the Fylde coast on 1 April 2011, followed by a second of magnitude 1.4 on 27 May.

Pope Francis calls for action on climate change and capitalism

Go to www.democracynow.org/2014/12/31/pope_francis_calls_for_action_on to hear how Pope Francis is set to make history by issuing the first-ever comprehensive Vatican teachings on climate change, which will urge 1.2 billion Catholics worldwide to take action.

U.N. Climate Panel: Global Warming Threatens "Irreversible Impacts"

democracynow2014/11/3 The world’s top climate panel has issued its direst appeal to date on the need to stop global warming.

Naomi Klein: "Capitalism vs the Climate"

Naomi Klein on Need for New Economic Model to Address Ecological Crisis on Democracy Now! 

contractionism.org - Frank Rotering's Economics of Needs and Limits

Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist. - Kenneth Boulding (18 January 1910 – 18 March 1993), economist, educator, poet, religious mystic and devoted Quaker

Face to Face with Frank Rotering and the Contractionary Revolution

Paris Nov-Dec 2015: United Nations Climate Change Conference

The United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP21 or CMP11 will be held at Le Bourget from 30 November to 11 December 2015.