Climate Actions

Climate action reports or event announcements

Climate action camp - dates & first public meeting announced

Camp for climate action

With the government failing and unable to take action on the greatest issue facing our planet, climate chaos, we have to create a grass roots solution.

A huge camp is being organised to bring people together to:

take action against climate change;
provide information on climate change and its causes;
share and live practical solutions;
network with other people campaigning on all the aspects of climate change.

The camp will be in the North of England from 26th August to 4th September, 2006. Organisation is starting now. If you are concerned about crazy weather and want to start taking action join us!

No to Air Expansion As Climate Issue Hots Up

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/12/329010.html

No to Air Expansion As Climate Issue Hots Up

A coalition of eco-activists, climate change campaigners and local airport residents demonstrated in London outside the gala dinner of the the world's largest aviation industry conference on Tuesday 29th November. The area was heavily policed with mounted officers and dogs and pedestrian access to Tower Bridge bridge restricted. Aviation delegates arriving at London's Tower Bridge Walkways were greeted with a noisy protest and a brief attempt to block the route of delegate coaches was made.

Reports, pictures and video: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | video | Cambridge

Earlier in the day it was reported that Earth First activists distrupted the aviation conference [report]. The campaigners were opposing plans to expand runways and drawing attention to the fact that aviation is one of the fastest growing cause of climate change. The actions also coincided with the begining of the UN Kyoto "COP 11 / MOP 1" Climate Conference in Montreal, Canada, which runs until 9th December [Official website | Climate Justice Convergence Centre | Climate Justice Blog]

On the same day Tony Blair's 'pro-nuclear' energy review speech was also disrupted by Greenpeace activists at the annual CBI conference [GP report | earlier Downing St. 'coal' blockade report]. Campaigners are now preparing for the International Day of Climate Protest this Saturday, 3rd December, with climate demonstrations planned in over 30 countries - see UK Details | International Info. A late summer Climate Action Camp for 2006 has also been recently announced.

Also see: IMC SouthCoast Runway to Ruin Feature (Nov 05)
Indymedia Pre-G8 2005 Climate Change Resources + Reports
SchNEWS on Nuclear Power Craze | PlanetStupid | Stop Climate Chaos Coalition | Pledge To Take Action Against Airport Expansion | Raised Voices: Climate Testimonies | Heathrow's Third Runway challenged by villagers

Residents from groups including HACAN Clearskies, NOTRAG (No Third Runway Group) and Airport Watch who live near to some of the airports earmarked for expansion are set to suffer further effects of noise pollution, traffic congestion and an increase in respiratory illnesses - some are being told their homes may be destroyed to make way for more tarmac.

Earlier in the day Earth First! protestors were reported to have stormed their way through security at the conference. Armed with rape alarms attached to helium balloons which they released into the high ceiling conference suite, the disruption was timed to coincide with a key note speech by a senior executive from British Airways. Ironically, each of the six alarms causes 130 decibels of noise - the equivalent of a jumbo jet taking off.

One of the activists, Richard George, explained, "Aviation is the fastest growing cause of climate change, so we decided to bring the high-flying aviation executives back down to ground. Just as Earth First! disrupted the government's road building programme in the '90s, and stopped the commercialisation of GM crops, we're just as determined to stop airport expansion using direct action."

Another activists, Joss Garman, added, "We're raising the alarm and saying the climate crisis is out of control and aviation expansion just can't go on."

Following the disruption of Blair's 'energy review' CBI speech, Stephen Tindale Director of Greenpeace UK said, "Today Blair is trying to launch a new nuclear age and we are here to stop him. Nuclear power is not the answer to climate change - it's costly, dangerous and a terrorist target."

"Just three years ago Blair conducted the biggest energy review in 60 years - which concluded renewable energy and energy efficiency, not nuclear, is the way forward. Today's new review is simply a smokescreen for pushing his new-found enthusiasm for nuclear power. It's like Iraq all over again Blair makes his mind up then tries to spin his decision to the British people."

"The real solution to climate change and energy security is a mix of efficient, safe and clean energy technologies like wind, wave, and solar. Plus we need to stop wasting energy by generating it closer to where it is consumed - Woking Council have done this and slashed their CO2 emissions by nearly 80%."

He concluded, "Nuclear power is simply a dangerous red herring in this debate. Even if the UK replaced all 23 of its operating reactors, we would only save 10% of our carbon emissions. In contrast the ?56 billion of tax-payers money being used to fund the clean up of the UK's current nuclear sites could buy and install enough wind turbines to meet 20% of the UK's electricity needs."

Dec 3rd Climate Fair in Wellington New Zealand

Dec 3rd Climate Fair in Wellington New Zealand

Pics from the Dec 3rd Climate Fair in Wellington New Zealand.

Indymedia Climate Change film night in west London

with films and talk from London Rising Tide and other climate action networks.

Monday 15th December

from 6pm @ Inn On The Green, 3 Thorpe Close, London W10 (nearest tube is Ladbroke Grove)

free/donation

The Asian Development Bank: Stop bankrolling climate change!

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is responsible for financing climate change in Asia and its policies are contributing to the displacement of communities and the destruction of ecosystems in the region.
What is the ADB?

The ADB stands for the Asian Development Bank. As a development bank, its mandate is to reduce poverty, primarily through lending money for development projects to governments. The ADB claims that environmental considerations are a high priority because sustainable development and conservation is essential to reducing poverty. Part of their environmental statement is to "empower the poor and give them a stake in managing the environment and natural resources."

Vlimate-changing emissions in the global spotlight

Lampang, THAILAND — Delegates at the UN Climate Change Conference in Montreal, Canada today got a first hand view of carbon dioxide emissions coming from Thailand’s Mae Moh coal power plant, the largest and most notorious of its kind in Southeast Asia. Greenpeace activists transmitted to the conference live images of the coal plant as a laser projector beamed messages such as “CLIMATE CHANGE STARTS HERE” and “COAL KILLS” at the facility as it belched thick smoke.
“Delegates at the conference in Montreal must decisively go for drastic cuts in carbon emissions that come from facilities such as the Mae Moh coal plant. Climate change is not a distant problem to be dealt with sometime in the future. In fact we have very little time left to avoid the most catastrophic impacts. Without prompt, decisive action from governments to phase out the use of fossil fuels such as coal we will soon find ourselves riding a runaway train,” said Tara Buakamsri of Greenpeace Southeast Asia.

Weather Control experimants through quantum weapons

found this article surfin around.... don't know how mutch of it is hi-tech paranoia and how much of it is actually true... worth reading anyways...

The following is one example of correspondence between Tom Bearden and persons interested in some of the applications of his Scalar Electromagnetics theories
[Note - Bearden is now calling his system Energetics and refers to it as a subset of Superpotential Theory]

Subj: Re: Anomalous weather worldwide
[Abridged]
Date: 98-05-26 13:39:18 EDT

The anomalous weather worldwide is not accidental. In superpotential theory, which was initiated by a paper by E.T. Whittaker in 1904, it is possible to produce EM force fields and force field energy at a distance. Whittaker 1904 showed that all EM fields and waves can be decomposed into two scalar potential functions. It follows that, by assembling two such scalar potential functions in beams, one can produce a "scalar potential interferometer" where the potential beams intersect at a distance. In that interference zone, ordinary transverse EM fields and energy appear.

WMass/USA WXOJ-LP's Enviro Show calls action

The Enviro Show invites you to "Stroll-in on Climate Disruption"

On Saturday, December 3 at 1pm on Main Street in Northampton the hosts of WXOJ-LP Valley Free Radio's Enviro Show will be observing the International Day of Action on Global Warming with a local call to action. A "Stroll-in on Climate Disruption" invites parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and future parents to promenade up & down Main Street with strollers, rollers, and whatever moves you (don't forget signs against climate change!) in an effort to further the growing campaign against global warming. We'll be on hand to interview participants for the show and to award a prize for the most creative stroller or roller.

Anti-Capitalist Bloc in the Montreal Demo

On December 3, the environmental movement has invited the population to march in the streets of Montreal to show their support to the Kyoto protocol. In the last weeks though, we have noticed the depoliticization of the discourse held by a majority of the environmental movement. We have also witnessed the recuperation of this movement by those that perpetuate the conditions for environmental degradation.

Because we believe that we need more than conferences and management mechanisms, we invite you to join the anti-capitalist bloc on saturday, 11:30 at the statue of Square Dorchester (Peel/René-Lévesque).

AUSTRALIA: Walk Against Warming

Isn't it about time all the people who are concerned about climate change got together and did something? Well here's your chance…

Join the rest of the world in demanding that Australia and the US
ratify the Kyoto protocol and commit to a clean energy future.

Walk Against Warming
International Day of Action
on Climate Change
December 3rd 2005

SYDNEY
11am Sydney Town Hall
walk to Hyde Park North

MELBOURNE
12pm Albert Park Lake
Grebe Picnic Area
St Kilda End, Aughtie Drive
Car free event!

BRISBANE

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