Friday, August 14, 2026

Tag: IPCC

Humanity on path to climate collapse as study warns 16 tipping...

New research finds current climate policies put Earth on a collision course with multiple environmental tipping points, threatening irreversible damage to global systems.

Corporate promotion of carbon capture and storage contradicts science, study finds

Report shows oil and gas companies are spreading confusion over the science of climate change solutions, leading to “misguided” ideas behind CCS use.

6 things to know about the IPCC climate solutions science report

We need to make sure this report is not shelved. It needs to be talked about in every corner of the world, and most importantly—acted on.

ExxonMobil announces $10 billion oil investment the same day IPCC signals...

“Such investments will soon be stranded assets, a blot on the landscape, and a blight on investment portfolios.”

IPCC report shows need for client action in the world’s cities

The key to securing a liveable future is safeguarding and strengthening nature, the report stated.

Fearing government whitewash, scientists leak draft IPCC report urging bold emission...

"There is no point for us to just observe what a disaster is unfolding if nobody is doing anything about it."

‘Not a report to despair over’: IPCC gives humanity clear directive...

“We have the solutions to prevent further harm to people and the planet—it’s time to implement them,” says 350.org. “We must start by putting an immediate end to fossil fuels.”

IPCC report: How to make global emissions peak and fall –...

It’s at this level that people must focus much of their attention, to outweigh the influence of fossil fuel companies, find novel ways to fund decarbonisation and steer the economic recovery from COVID-19 towards a low-carbon future.

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The west front of the U.S. Capitol. The Protected Time Off Act, pending in Congress, would guarantee full-time workers two weeks of paid annual leave. Photo: Architect of the Capitol (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

US workers average 10 paid vacation days a year, and 33 million get none

Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.

Chris Hedges and Albert Raboteau on ‘American Prophets’ importance in an age of radical...

Watch the two thinkers talk about Raboteau’s book, which discusses the work of religious figures such as Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton and Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Mexicanization of the United States

The destruction caused by neoliberalism is global. The patterns of economic, social, cultural and political assault that Mexico has suffered are afflicting countries from Greece to the United States. Only a worldwide anti-capitalist resistance movement will save us.

Justice Department drops multiple corporate crime investigations

A reported decision to abandon several major corporate crime cases has raised concerns that the federal government is easing pressure on corporate misconduct.

The dark and sinister ideology driving Elon Musk’s actions

The stakes are higher than they’ve ever been, and their power as elected officials sworn to uphold the Constitution is far greater than an unelected billionaire’s artificial power as Donald Trump’s hatchet man.