Carbon Emissions Expected to Show an Increase for 2017

Alex Kirby / Climate News Network Nov 13, 2017 After a period of stability, a 2 percent rise is likely to be recorded this year as developing countries burn more fossil fuels—imperiling the Paris climate goals, scientists say. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Why the Paris Climate Summit Will Be a Peace Conference

By Michael T. Klare / TomDispatch Nov 4, 2015 A failure to cap carbon emissions will bring on not just climate shocks, but also worldwide instability, insurrection and warfare. In this sense, the COP-21 in Paris in November should be considered perhaps the most significant peace convocation in history. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Global Warming and Global Warring

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Sep 25, 2014 Hours after 400,000 people joined in the largest climate march in history, the United States began bombing Syria, starting yet another war. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Naomi Klein

BLANK Sep 21, 2014 The aim of her new book on capitalism and climate change -- to rapidly get large numbers of previously unengaged people to agree that the leading wisdom is the very thing that is preventing humanity from saving itself -- is quixotic and urgent.The aim of her new book on capitalism and climate change—to rapidly get large numbers of previously unengaged people to agree that the leading wisdom is the very thing that is preventing humanity from saving itself—is quixotic and urgent. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

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Hillary Clinton’s Spat With NPR and the Looming Gay Trouble

Staff / Truthdig Sep 5, 2014 This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: The perennial presidential favorite has difficulty dropping her anti-gay baggage, Michael Sam has a team, activists upstage the U.N. climate summit and a subprime car loan bubble gets fueled. Plus: Who are the Net neutrality 1 percenters? Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Obama as Unreliable Narrator on Climate Action: From SOTU to NSA Spying at Copenhagen

Juan Cole / Truthdig Jan 30, 2014 When President Obama looked us in the eye and said that the U.S. is not engaged in electronic surveillance for economic reasons, he was lying through his teeth. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

‘Democracy Now!’ Streaming Live Coverage of the U.N. Climate Summit

Staff / Truthdig Nov 20, 2013 All week, "Democracy Now!" is broadcasting live reports from the annual United Nations Climate Change Summit in Warsaw, Poland. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Our Climate Future and the Doha Summit

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Nov 29, 2012 The annual United Nations climate summit has convened, this year in Doha, the capital of the oil-rich emirate of Qatar, on the Arabian Peninsula. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )