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Flood Victims blockade Government Office in Leeds

Sam Nexter | 29-02-2008 15:21 | Climate Camp 2007 | Climate Chaos | Sheffield

Flood victims from Yorkshire and Humberside have taken up temporary residence outside the Government Office in Leeds to protest at its continued promotion of airport expansion. The "Climate Camp" style action used pop-up tents to set up camp and blockade the main entrance.

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A Climate Camp visits the Government Office in Leeds

Sam Nexter | 29-02-2008 09:44 | Climate Camp 2007 | Climate Chaos | Sheffield

Residents from flood stricken areas of Yorkshire and Humberside today blockaded the Government Office in Leeds to protest at its continued promotion of airport expansion. Inspired by last year’s camp for climate action at Heathrow, the protestors from Hull, South Yorkshire and the Calder Valley used pop-up tents to set up camp outside the main entrance.

Climate Code Red: the Case for a Sustainability Emergency

The Reality Report interviews Philip Sutton of the Greenleap Strategic Institute and coauthor of a new report called “Climate Code Red: the Case for a Sustainability Emergency.”

http://www.climatecodered.net/ The report reviews disturbing new data and scientific understanding of climate change, explains why existing institutions have failed to respond adequately to the problem, and outlines an appropriate response.

Sheffield Carbon Rationing / Reduction Action Group Meeting

Sheffield CRAG | 22-02-2008 19:39 | Climate Chaos | Sheffield

We are looking for people who live and/or work in the Sheffield area * who are interested in forming a Carbon Rationing / Reduction Action Group or CRAG. Public Meeting, Blue Moon cafe, 5.45 Thursday 13 March 2008

Tree Protest in Leeds Shows Who the Police Back

Save Our Trees | 22-02-2008 13:24 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Sheffield

The gentrification of Leeds means that more and more urban woodlands and spaces are being sold off by the local council to build flats by corporate developers.

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Latest details: EF! Winter Moot - February 22nd–24th - Notts (starts Friday evening)

Join us for
Activist skill share
Planning radical action on climate change,
Sharing ideas for the Earth First! Summer Gathering
Opposition to the UK genetic crop trials and mega-dams in Iceland
And a chance to share info on your own campaigns

Sheffield Climate Ark

Chocolate Aeroplanes | 18-02-2008 20:43 | Climate Chaos | Sheffield

Campaigning against climate change in Sheffield city centre with an ark.

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NSPM: Climate Change Solutions Conference a Sucess

Despite the last minute cancellation of the centre for alternative technology as a key note speaker, Nottingham Student Peace Movement sucessfully hosted the first Annual Climate Change Solutions Conference at Nottingham University.

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Climate Change Solutions Conference

A day of talks and workshops on climate change solutions.

Sunday, February 10, 2008
10:00am - 6:00pm
Portland Building, Nottingham University Campus

USAF to use Nazi technology to turn coal into jet fuel

The US Air Force has announced plans for a massive $4 billion coal to jet fuel plant -- like the switch from food crop to fuel crops this is another confirmation that peak oil is here.

BP: Climate Policy Will Cause Peak Oil

In a unbelievable presentation to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Peak Oil and Gas on 16th January BP's Special Economic Advisor Peter Davies (no other oil company was prepared to address this group) claimed that "there's a distinct possibility that global oil consumption could peak as a result of climate policies" -- in other words NOT because supply problems but because of a reduction in demand! If you believe that governments around the world are going all out to reduce oil demand and switch to renewables then perhaps you might believe this... Of course they are not...

The APPGOPO Press Release on this presentation, which links to a MP3 of the event, follows, this presentation is being discussed on the PowerSwitch forum:

http://www.powerswitch.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6231

Demonstrate to Save Woodhead - 12th January @ 1.00 p.m.

Navvy | 11-01-2008 20:58 | Climate Chaos | Sheffield

We have called a demonstration tomorrow at the Western entrance to the Woodhead Tunnel in the Peak District, Derbyshire. National Grid are threatening to close it and thereby shut out low carbon alternatives to road transport. This is the start of the fight against their plans.

Does the progressive left really believe in climate change?

There is an interesting thread on the MediaLens discussion board about the following article, "Does the progressive left really believe in climate change?".

While the following article makes good points about the left and climate change the same thing can be said of the left and peak oil — however all these things were brought together in a talk that Nafeez Ahmed gave last November.

One minor thing struck me from the MediaLens discussion, a poster there comments that:

I've seen anarchists on Indymedia arguing fiercely in support of mobile phone companies against residents living near masts who have suffered alarming health problems - on the grounds that they have no scientific proof of their complaints as compared to the mobile companies.

Which appears to indicate to me that she hasn't appreciated the extent that this site is troll'ed...

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Coal, Climate & Environmental Racism - Grassroots Resistance talks!

WEDNESDAY 16th JAN - SUMAC CENTRE
245 Gladstone Street, Nottingham NG7 6HX 0845 458 9595

Nafeez Ahmed: The Hidden Holocaust - Our Civilizational Crisis

Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed speaking on The Hidden Holocaust — Our Civilizational Crisis at a public meeting held on 20th November 2007 at Imperial College, London.

See also the notice of the meeting and the first three parts of a four part write-up of the talk:

The Hidden Holocaust -- Civilizational Crisis, Part 3: The End Of The World As We Know It?

Part three (see part one and part two) of an article by Nafeez Ahmed on the history of imperial genocide follows, the subject of this article was the subject of recent public meeting, The Hidden Holocaust - Our Civilizational Crisis.

How do Community Gardens and Agriculture adapt to Peak Oil and Climate Change

Transition Town | 23-12-2007 15:31 | Climate Chaos | Sheffield

Peak oil will present many different challenges in the coming years but will also offer several opportunities for local growers. A need for localised markets will make community gardens a vital part of the city economy but will we be able to cope with our new found demand.

Save the Woodhead Tunnel//Climate Change demonstration

Save the Woodhead Tunnel | 20-12-2007 11:41 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Sheffield

Save the Woodhead Tunnel have organised a demonstration to further our campaign.
DATE: Saturday, 12th January 2008
TIME: 1.00 p.m. until 3.00 p.m.
PLACE: Woodhead tunnel, Western entrance (map link below)
Speakers (to be confirmed) plus Samba bands. All we need now is clement weather!

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Fossil Fools Day, April 1st 2008

Rising Tide International is calling for a day of action against the fossil fuel industry on April 1st 2008...

FOSSIL FOOLS DAY!

Beyond The Point Of No Return -- It's Too Late To Stop Climate Change

As the pace of global warming kicks into overdrive, the hollow optimism of climate activists, along with the desperate responses of some of the world's most prominent climate scientists, is preventing us from focusing on the survival requirements of the human enterprise.

The environmental establishment continues to peddle the notion that we can solve the climate problem.

We can't.

We have failed to meet nature's deadline. In the next few years, this world will experience progressively more ominous and destabilizing changes. These will happen either incrementally -- or in sudden, abrupt jumps.

Under either scenario, it seems inevitable that we will soon be confronted by water shortages, crop failures, increasing damages from extreme weather events, collapsing infrastructures, and, potentially, breakdowns in the democratic process itself.

Sheffield Climate Chaos Newswire Archive

Flood Victims blockade Government Office in Leeds

A Climate Camp visits the Government Office in Leeds

Climate Code Red: the Case for a Sustainability Emergency

Sheffield Carbon Rationing / Reduction Action Group Meeting

Tree Protest in Leeds Shows Who the Police Back

Latest details: EF! Winter Moot - February 22nd–24th - Notts (starts Friday evening)

Sheffield Climate Ark

NSPM: Climate Change Solutions Conference a Sucess

Climate Change Solutions Conference

USAF to use Nazi technology to turn coal into jet fuel

BP: Climate Policy Will Cause Peak Oil

Demonstrate to Save Woodhead - 12th January @ 1.00 p.m.

Does the progressive left really believe in climate change?

Coal, Climate & Environmental Racism - Grassroots Resistance talks!

Nafeez Ahmed: The Hidden Holocaust - Our Civilizational Crisis

The Hidden Holocaust -- Civilizational Crisis, Part 3: The End Of The World As We Know It?

How do Community Gardens and Agriculture adapt to Peak Oil and Climate Change

Save the Woodhead Tunnel//Climate Change demonstration

Fossil Fools Day, April 1st 2008

Beyond The Point Of No Return -- It's Too Late To Stop Climate Change

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