Daily News 06/29
Daily News 06/29
Daily News Archives Since I Got Blocked From Facebook
Thomas Berry, a Catholic priest and outspoken advocate for the rights of Nature, writes that we can choose to enter a new era he names the Ecozoic era, if we seek and achieve a “sustainable balance with humans and the Earth.” He describes this sustainable balance as an intimacy with the Earth for which we needsitivities to see the story of the creation of the universe, culminating in human beings, as one in which we must be present on Earth as partners. If we live well with the Earth, he says, we and the Earth on which we depend will thrive. If we do not and continue in ignorance or in hubris to destroy biodiversity as we are now doing and persist in rapidly accelerating climate change, we doom ourselves and the Earth together to genocide and ecocide. —We Stand at a Critical Moment in Earth’s History
Video: ‘Climate change is running rampant’: Europe’s heatwave ‘virtually impossible’ 50 years ago
Covering the Impact of Climate Change—Without Mentioning Climate Change Severe weather has gripped the globe this week, with record-shattering, deadly heat in Western Europe. In the US, heat, wind and drought conditions fueled wildfires in the Southwest, while heavy thunderstorms, wind and floods caused destruction in eastern and central states. Scientists attribute these extremes to fossil fuel–driven climate change. Europe’s heatwave would have been “virtually impossible to occur at this time of year” 50 years ago, scientists from the World Weather Attribution group reported. The project’s Theodore Keeping of Imperial College London told reporters (EuroNews, 6/26/26): The science of how climate change is worsening heatwaves is settled…. Continued fossil-fuel emissions are directly responsible for the disruption people are experiencing this week in their homes, schools and workplaces.
Greenland’s ice sheet has a definite point of no return — and we’re approaching ItGreenland’s ice sheet has been shrinking for more than four decades. Since the 1980s, the region has lost more than a trillion tonnes of ice. Melting rates over the past decade ran roughly six times higher than earlier records, with an average of 30 million tonnes disappearing every hour.
‘Poised to disintegrate’: Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday Glacier’ is set to lose its ice shelf this year West Antarctica’s “Doomsday Glacier” is on the brink of losing its ice shelf, further compromising the already melting ice mass and threatening to unleash devastating sea-level rises. A vital ice shelf is about to break away from Antarctica’s “Doomsday Glacier,” further destabilizing one of the world’s largest and most vulnerable glaciers. The Thwaites Glacier is nicknamed the “Doomsday Glacier” because its collapse would send so much ice into the Southern Ocean that global sea levels would rise by 2.1 feet (65 centimeters or 26 inches), flooding coastal communities worldwide. This collapse could take centuries, but there is an imminent threat to Thwaites’ eastern ice shelf, which will likely accelerate the glacier’s demise.
Europe heatwave: drought fears in Italy as records tumble around Europe – as it happened Temperature records broken in Germany, Denmark and Slovakia as Europe remains gripped by heatwave
After Decades Capitalist’s Global Warming Denial: ‘A sad inevitability’: after decades of climate warnings, why is Europe so unprepared for rising heat?Scorching summer of 2003 triggered first efforts to deal with the problem but heatwaves still have devastating impact
Why Won’t the Media Call This for What it Is? Trump’s war with Iran is continuing. Today, Iran launched attack drones at Bahrain — which hosts the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet headquarters, a major logistical base for U.S. military operations. Iran also struck an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, its second attack on a ship since Thursday. Those attacks came after the United States carried out overnight airstrikes on Iranian missile and drone sites, in retaliation for Iran firing drones at a container ship on Thursday as it passed through the Strait of Hormuz. The continuing hostilities are exposing the mind-numbing extent of Trump’s lies about “ending” his war — that he’s achieved a lasting peace in the Middle East, that Iran no longer has any capacity to fire missiles and drones, that the Strait of Hormuz is reopen to cargo traffic, that Iran is committed to reducing its stockpile of nuclear material and won’t seek a nuclear bomb, and that, overall, the war he launched on February 28 has made America stronger and safer than we were before he launched it. These lies aren’t on par with his big lies that the 2020 election was stolen from him and that the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 was undertaken by peaceful, patriotic Americans. But his lies about the so-called “end” of his war with Iran could have equally large consequences, because they’re leading many Americans to believe that an end of the war is within sight and that America is stronger and safer as a result of it. Yet the mainstream media (Media Monopoly—R.S.) refuse to call him out on his Iran lies.