Stacy Feldman at SolveClimate writes:
| Climate Activism Soars Planetwide Ahead of Copenhagen Climate Talks
A case in point is the TckTckTck campaign, a global alliance of roughly 250 organizations, ranging from green groups to religious organizations to trade unions. In the span of three months, nearly 10 million people have signed on to TckTckTck to tell leaders they're concerned about the future and ready for global climate action. ... While TckTckTck and similar online campaigns have been giving people worldwide a public voice on climate change, activists have increasingly been taking their climate concerns to the streets, with protests and other direct actions aimed at getting their governments to take stronger positions in Copenhagen. ... When the climate summit opens in Copenhagen 10 days from now, up to 30,000 activists are expected to converge on the city, and they are already warning world leaders that they have no intention to sit idle. ... The most disruptive protests are expected on Dec. 16, when Climate Justice Action holds its "Reclaim Power!" march. The group is already warning that it plans to storm the conference and "transform it into a People’s Summit for Climate Justice." "Using only the force of our bodies to achieve our goal, our Reclaim Power! march will ... disrupt the sessions and use the space to talk about 'our' agenda, an agenda from below, an agenda of climate justice, of real solutions against their false ones," the group writes. "Our action is one of civil disobedience: We will overcome any physical barriers that stand in our way, but we will not respond with violence if the police try to escalate the situation." To handle the activist camp, Denmark's parliament on Thursday approved new and controversial anti-riot measures. The policy will allow "preventive arresting," which grants Danish police the power to detain anyone they believe may commit a crime in the future for up to 12 hours, no charges needed. Police will also be able to jail for up to 40 days protesters who obstruct officers. |
Millions of people worldwide are pressing their governments to curb greenhouse gas emissions ahead of next month's Copenhagen climate talks, and the volume of protests has increased as world leaders downplay the significance of securing a global warming agreement this year.• • • • • • •
Green Diary Rescues appear on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. The diary rescue begins below and continues in the jump. Inclusion of a particular diary does not necessarily indicate my agreement with it.
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Josh Nelson told us what he said we needed to know about the scandal he said is misnamed in The SwiftHack (ClimateGate): "First of all, this story should never have been called ClimateGate. Given the similarities between this smear job and the Swift Boat attacks on Senator John Kerry, SwiftHack is a far more appropriate name. ... The scientific consensus that humans are responsible for climate change -- and that we must stabilize concentrations of atmospheric greenhouse gases at 350 parts per million -- remains overwhelming. This latest cybercrime and the private emails it revealed do nothing whatsoever to change that." 
Eddie C posted An Early Thanksgiving Sunset photo diary.
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Oke has posted the Overnight News Digest.
