OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #179, MAY 20 , 2024. Compiled by Dick Bennett
CLIMATE CHANGE CALAMITY
Aleks Phillips.
Florida, East and Gulf Coasts Under Water.
Zack Frye. Settler Colonialism Destroys
Indigenous People and Ecosystems.
Assange Extradited?
Aleks Phillips. “Florida map shows where state will become underwater from
sea level rise.” Mronline.org
(4-14-24).
Originally
published: Defend Democracy Press on April 12, 2024 by
(more by Defend Democracy Press) | (Posted Apr 13, 2024)
Climate Change, Environment, InequalityAmericas, Global, United StatesNewswireFlorida, Water
Earlier in March, astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson
published a post on
X, formerly Twitter,
which showed Florida and much of America’s East and Gulf Coasts consumed by
water. The post subsequently went viral, racking up 4.9 million views.
The TV scientist noted that Florida was relatively flat,
making it “supremely susceptible to sea-level rise during climate change.” Many
of the replies questioned the truth of the projection, or climate change
itself.
So is Florida really going to be entirely consumed by the
Atlantic Ocean as sea levels rise?
Tyson’s map appears to be lifted from the September 2013
issue of the National Geographic, which considered what different
continents would look like if all of the world’s ice melted, causing 216 feet
of sea level rise.
Continue reading at www.msn.com
“Our underwater future:
What sea level rise will look like around the globe.”
The planet is warming rapidly, resulting in historic drought, deadly floods and
unusual melting events in
the Arctic. It is also causing steady sea level rise, which scientists
say will continue for decades.
A new study from Climate Central, a nonprofit
research group, shows that roughly 50 major coastal cities will need to
implement “unprecedented” adaptation measures to prevent rising seas from
swallowing their most populated areas.
The analysis, in collaboration with researchers at
Princeton University and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in
Germany, resulted in striking visual contrasts between the world as we know it
today and our underwater future, if the planet warms to 3 degrees Celsius above
pre-industrial levels. Continue reading
at edition.cnn.com
Zach Frye. “How Settler-Colonialism Kills More Than Just
People.”Black Agenda
Report. PopularResistance.org (3-30-24). The
ideology and praxis of settler-colonialism are widely understood to be one of
the most violent, brutal, and inhumane systems ever constructed by humanity. In
every corner of the globe, dominant Western nations hailing from Europe and
North America have systematically enforced their rule throughout the Global
South by way of coercion, economic dominance, and, most importantly for the
sake of this work, environmental destruction. One of the less focused
aspects of settler-colonialism and its means of enforcement is the
destruction of not only the Indigenous population but the ecosystems as well. -more-
Julian Assange’s Basic Press Freedoms Are Still In Danger [=US
basic press freedoms]
By Chip Gibbons, Jacobin. On
March 26, 2022, the UK High Court issued a decision about whether journalist
Julian Assange could appeal his extradition to the United States. The United
States is seeking to put the WikiLeaks founder and Australian journalist on
trial for exposing US war crimes and abuses of power.
After a nearly five-year legal process, during which a UK judge blocked
Assange’s extradition only for a higher court to reverse, the UK High Court in
February held two days of hearings on whether Assange had the right to appeal
his extradition on a myriad of grounds, including press freedom and free
expression concerns. -more- [Assange is relevant to the struggle to TELL
THE TRUTH ABOUT WARMING AND HOLD MAJOR MALEFACTORS ACCOUNTABLE]