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No Escape: #ClimateChange is a growing threat to people already fleeing war
12 November 2024
"People forced to flee war, violence and persecution are increasingly finding themselves on the front line of the global climate crisis, a new report warns, exposing them to a lethal combination of threats but without the funding and support to adapt.
"The report, released today by #UNHCR, the #UNRefugeeAgency, in collaboration with 13 expert organizations, research institutions and refugee-led groups, uses the latest data to show how climate shocks are interacting with conflict, pushing those who are already in danger into even more dire situations.
"Of the more than 120 million forcibly #displaced worldwide, three-quarters live in countries heavily impacted by climate change. Half are in places affected by both conflict and serious climate hazards, such as #Ethiopia, #Haiti, #Myanmar, #Somalia, #Sudan and #Syria.
"According to the report – No Escape: On the Frontlines of Climate Change, Conflict and #ForcedDisplacement – by 2040 the number of countries facing extreme climate-related hazards is expected to rise from 3 to 65, the vast majority of which host displaced people. Similarly, most refugee settlements and camps are projected to experience twice as many days of dangerous heat by 2050.
“ 'For the world’s most vulnerable people, climate change is a harsh reality that profoundly affects their lives,' said UN High Commissioner for Refugees, #FilippoGrandi. 'The climate crisis is driving displacement in regions already hosting large numbers of people uprooted by conflict and insecurity, compounding their plight and leaving them with nowhere safe to go.'
"For example, the devastating conflict in Sudan has forced millions of people to flee, including 700,000 who have crossed into #Chad, which has hosted refugees for decades and yet is one of the countries most exposed to climate change. At the same time, many who fled the fighting but remained in Sudan are at risk of further displacement because of #SevereFlooding that has blighted the country.
"Similarly, 72 per cent of #Myanmar’s refugees have sought safety in #Bangladesh, where natural hazards such as #cyclones and #flooding, are classified as extreme.
" 'In our region, where so many people have been displaced for so many years, we see the effects of climate change before our very eyes,' said #GraceDorong, a #ClimateActivist and former refugee living in #SouthSudan. 'I hope the voices of the people in this report help decision-makers to understand that if not addressed, forced displacement – and the multiplying effect of climate change – will get worse. But if they listen to us, we can be part of the solution, too.' "
#ClimateRefugees #War #Genocide #Flooding #ExtremeHeat #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #USAID #NoHumanIsIllegal #BigOilAndGas #Oiligarchy #ExxonKnew #BPKnew
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Start with the #TrumpAdministration, puh-lease! Give #Trump a taste of his own litigious medicine!
Top UN court says countries can sue each other over climate change
by Esme Stallard and Georgina Rannard
BBC News Climate and Science
July 24, 2025"A landmark decision by a top UN court has cleared the way for countries to sue each other over climate change, including over historic emissions of planet-warming gases.
"But the judge at the International Court of Justice in the Hague, Netherlands on Wednesday said that untangling who caused which part of climate change could be difficult.
"The ruling is non-binding but legal experts say it could have wide-ranging consequences.
"It will be seen as a victory for countries that are very vulnerable to climate change, who came to court after feeling frustrated about lack of global progress in tackling the problem.
"The unprecedented case at the International Court of Justice (#ICJ) was the brainchild of a group of young law students from low-lying #PacificIslands on the frontlines of climate change, who came up with the idea in 2019.
"One of those students, #SiosiuaVeikune from #Tonga, was in #TheHague to hear the decision.
" 'I'm lost for words. This is so exciting. There's a ton of emotions rushing through us. This is a win we take proudly back home to our communities,' he told BBC News.
" 'Tonight I'll sleep easier. The ICJ has recognised what we have lived through - our suffering, our resilience and our right to our future,' said Flora Vano, from the Pacific Island #Vanuatu, which is considered the country most vulnerable to #ExtremeWeather globally.
" 'This is a victory not just for us but for every frontline community fighting to be heard.'
"The ICJ is considered the world's highest court and it has global jurisdiction. Lawyers have told BBC News that the opinion could be used as early as next week, including in national courts outside of the ICJ.
"Campaigners and climate lawyers hope the landmark decision will now pave the way for compensation from countries that have historically burned the most fossil fuels and are therefore the most responsible for #GlobalWarming."
Read more:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce379k4v3pwoArchived version:
https://archive.ph/ZCwvm#ClimateChangeIsReal #ExxonKnew #ExxonLied #BPKnew #CorporateColonialism #BigOilAndGas #Oiligarchy
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Fifteen years after the #DeepwaterHorizon #OilSpill, the #environmental impact is still felt along the #GulfCoast. #Settlement money is also nearing an end, leaving states like Louisiana searching for alternative funding sources for their #CoastalRestoration projects.
Published 12:07 AM EDT, April 20, 2025
#BPKnew #ExxonKnew #BigOilAndGas #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #ThanksBigOil #Oiligarchy #Louisiana #GulfStates #BPIsNotSorry #WaterIsLife
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'Planet Wreckers': 4 Rich Nations Plotting Nearly 70% of New Oil and Gas Over Next Decade | Common Dreams
This is not just hypocrisy," said one climate campaigner. "It is a death sentence for communities on the frontlines of the #ClimateCrisis."
Brett Wilkins
Jun 16, 2025"Four wealthy nations—the #UnitedStates, #Canada, #Norway, and #Australia—account for the majority of planned oil and gas expansion over the next decade, according to new data published by #OilChangeInternational on Monday, the first day of the #BonnClimateChangeConference in Germany.
"Oil Change's analysis, titled #PlanetWreckers, notes that if those four #GlobalNorth nations stopped their planned new oil and gas extraction, 32 billion tons of carbon pollution would stay in the ground instead of being burned and released into the atmosphere, where they fuel planetary heating. That's the equivalent of three times the annual global emissions created by burning coal.
" 'A handful of the world's richest nations remain intent on leading us into disaster. This is not just hypocrisy. It is a death sentence for communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis,' Oil Change International global policy lead Romain Ioualalen said in a statement Monday.
"It is sickening that countries with the highest incomes and outsized historical responsibility for causing the climate crisis are planning massive oil and gas expansion with no regard for the lives and livelihoods at stake," Ioualalen added."
Read more:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/oil-change-report-planet-wreckers#Oligarchy #Oiligarchy #BigOilAndGas #DrillBabyDrill #LeaveItInTheGround #CorporateColonialism #FossilFuels #Fracking #Oil #Pollution #Drilling #Ecocide #USPol #CanadaPol #PetroState #ThanksBigOil #ClimateCatastrophe #BPKnew #ExxonKnew #WaterIsLife #AirIsLife #OilUpTheSwamp #ExtractiveIndustries #NoPipelines #RenewablesNow #FossillFuel #NoJobsOnADeadPlanet
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#BigOil firms knew of dire effects of #FossilFuels as early as 1950s, memos show
Newly unearthed documents contain warning from head of #AirPollutionFoundation, founded in 1953 by oil interests
Dharna Noor
Tue 12 Nov 2024 10.00 EST"Major oil companies, including #Shell and precursors to energy giants #Chevron, #ExxonMobil and #BP, were alerted about the planet-warming effects of fossil fuels as early as 1954, newly unearthed documents show.
The warning, from the head of an industry-created group known as the Air Pollution Foundation, was revealed by Climate Investigations Center and published Tuesday by the climate website DeSmog. It represents what may be the earliest instance of big oil being informed of the potentially dire consequences of its products.
"'Every time there’s a push for #ClimateAction, [we see] fossil fuel companies downplay and deny the harms of burning fossil fuels,' said Rebecca John, a researcher at the Climate Investigations Center who uncovered the historic memos. 'Now we have evidence they were doing this way back in the 50s during these really early attempts to crack down on sources of pollution.'"
Read more:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/12/big-oil-fossil-fuel-warning#GlobalWarming #GlobalBurning #ExxonKnew #BPKnew #ShellOilKnew #ExxonLied #ClimateCatastrophe
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Lest unbedingt diesen Kommentar von @chrisstoecker ! Das Verbrechen an der ganzen Menscheit, das die Fossil-Industrie sehenden Auges und mit vollem Bewusstsein (#ExxonKnew, #BPknew, #ShellKnew, ...) begeht, ist wirklich atemberaubend. Wie Völkermord, nur an der ganzen Menschheit.
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Scientist Rebellion Germany on Instagram: ""In 2015, investigative journalists discovered internal company memos indicating that the oil company @ExxonMobil has known since the late 1970s that its fossil fuel products could lead to #GlobalWarming with «dramatic environmental effects before the year 2050.»" "#Exxon's internal documents, as well as peer-reviewed studies published by Exxon and ExxonMobil Corp scientists, overwhelmingly acknowledged that #ClimatChange is real and human-caused. By contrast, the majority of Mobil and ExxonMobilCorp's public communications promoted doubt on the matter." "#ExxonMobil didn't just know “something” about global warming decades ago—they knew as much as academic and government scientists knew. But whereas those scientists worked to communicate what they knew, ExxonMobil worked to deny it—including overemphasizing uncertainties, denigrating climate models, mythologizing global cooling, feigning ignorance about the discernibility of human-caused warming, and staying silent about the possibility of stranded fossil fuel assets in a carbon-constrained world." ❗#EXXONKNEW❗ [Source: Supran, G., Rahmstorf, S. and Oreskes, N. (2023) 'Assessing ExxonMobil's global warming projections', Science, 379(6628). doi:10.1126/science.abk0063] #raymondlee #fossilfuelindustry #fossilfuelindustries #fossilfuels #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #climatechangedenial #climatedenial #oilindustry #gasindustry #fossilfuellobby #climatescience #climatescientists #climatecrisis #anthropogenicclimatechange #manmade #anthropogenic #thescienceisclear #scientistrebellion #scientistrebelliongermany #climatefacts #climatejustice #climateprotest #endfossilfuels"
7 likes, 1 comments - scientistrebellion_ger on August 17, 2023: ""In 2015, investigative journalists discovered internal company memos indicating that the oil com..."
www.instagram.com"In 2015, investigative journalists discovered internal company memos indicating that the oil company @ExxonMobil has known since the late 1970s that its fossil fuel products could lead to #GlobalWarming with «dramatic environmental effects before the year 2050.»"
"#Exxon's internal documents, as well as peer-reviewed studies published by Exxon and ExxonMobil Corp scientists, overwhelmingly acknowledged that #ClimatChange is real and human-caused. By contrast, the majority of Mobil and ExxonMobilCorp's public communications promoted doubt on the matter."
"#ExxonMobil didn't just know “something” about global warming decades ago—they knew as much as academic and government scientists knew. But whereas those scientists worked to communicate what they knew, ExxonMobil worked to deny it—including overemphasizing uncertainties, denigrating climate models, mythologizing global cooling, feigning ignorance about the discernibility of human-caused warming, and staying silent about the possibility of stranded fossil fuel assets in a carbon-constrained world."
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CwDJA7sM_U6/?igshid=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
[Source: Supran, G., Rahmstorf, S. and Oreskes, N. (2023) 'Assessing ExxonMobil's global warming projections', Science, 379(6628). doi:10.1126/science.abk0063]
#raymondlee #fossilfuelindustry #fossilfuelindustries #fossilfuels #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #climatechangedenial #climatedenial #oilindustry #gasindustry #fossilfuellobby #climatescience #climatescientists #climatecrisis #anthropogenicclimatechange #manmade #anthropogenic #thescienceisclear #scientistrebellion #scientistrebelliongermany #climatefacts #climatejustice #climateprotest #endfossilfuels
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This makes me very angry. Especially after I found out that #Koonin used to work for #BP as their "Chief Scientist"!
Hot weather does not mean climate change
Published 7/25/2023
"[W]hat if we were not in a #ClimateCrisis after all, and trillions of dollars in planned tax credits and #GreenEnergy expenditures are a misuse of taxpayer resources?
"New York University professor #StevenKoonin has presented data in his bestselling book, 'Unsettled,' to show that the science is not as settled as many politicians [???] would have us believe.
"Koonin is a respected academic physicist. He was former undersecretary for science at the U.S. Department of Energy under President Barack Obama when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state. His portfolio included the climate research program and energy technology. He has a bachelor of science in physics from Caltech and a doctorate in theoretical physics from MIT. Koonin taught for 30 years at Caltech and has published 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers."
#BPKnew #ExxonKnew #ClimateChange #ClimateCatastrophe #BigOilKnew #USGovernmentKnew
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When I suggested that the #Heatwave2023 should be known as the #ExxonScourge, I was debating with myself.
The company that pioneered #ScenarioPlanning before and during the #OilPriceCrisis of the 1970s was a clear contender for the top spot. #ShellKnew!
You nailed with that tweet. The #Heatwave2024 shall be known as the #SHellScourge.On that note, it already...
#ExxonKnew
#BigOilKnew
#NationalizeBigOil
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Charleston gets early win in climate change lawsuit vs. ‘Big Oil’
By Clare Fieseler [email protected]
Jul 8, 2023
"A federal judge has given the city of Charleston an early win in its climate change lawsuit against '#BigOil' by ruling the case will stay in #SouthCarolina, where the city wants the issue fought.
"U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel agreed on July 5 that Charleston’s bid seeking to make #FossilFuel companies pay for #climate damages could proceed in state court, where it was initially filed.
"City officials welcomed the decision, which some legal experts say creates a more favorable stage in arguing that the multiple #oil and #gas companies which have operated in the U.S. for decades knew of the #environmentally #hazardous affects of their products.
"'We agree wholeheartedly with him,' said Chloe Field, a city spokeswoman. 'It is time to move towards trial in the Court of Common Pleas where we filed this case nearly three years ago.'
"In 2020, the city of Charleston filed the lawsuit against two dozen major #oil and #pipeline companies, alleging their products and the spread of misinformation about #FossilFuels have caused #ClimateChange leading to repetitive and disastrous #flooding in the city.
"Nationwide, almost two dozen state and local governments are pursuing similar litigation against oil companies seeking climate-related damages. The only government in the South to file such a case is the city of Charleston."
#PetroStates #HexonExxon #ExxonKnew #ShellKnew #BPKnew #LockUpTheRealCriminals #Corporations
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Ummmm...
2017: Ahvaz, #Iran, reached 129 degrees: Earth's hottest temperature ever recorded
Jun 29, 2017 - 1:13 The southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz soared to a brutal 129 degrees Thursday, which is Iran's highest temperature ever recorded. It's also one of the world's hottest reliably measured...At Earth's hottest spots, heat is testing the limits of human survival ...
July 18, 2023 - Persian Gulf International Airport in Iran reported a heat index of 152°F (66.7°C) today at 12:30 pm. Those are intolerable conditions for human/animal life.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/07/18/extreme-heat-record-limits-human-survival/
#ExtremeHeat #ExtremeTemperature #Extinction #ExxonKnew #BPKnew #ShellKnew #ClimateCatastrophe
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A very interesting listen I caught on NPR today. Available as a podcast online.
Climate One: Law and #Oil: Taking #Climate Offenders to Court
Published July 17, 2023 at 9:05 AM EDT
Thursday, July 20, 2023"The last several years have seen a big increase in the number of lawsuits focused on the #ClimateCrisis. Some lawsuits challenge #governments for their support for fossil fuels and for their failure to take #ClimateAction, while other cases target the #FossilFuel companies themselves for knowingly misleading the world about the climate disrupting impacts of burning their products. Some of these cases seek monetary damages, others seek to hold governments accountable to their emissions reduction pledges. As more of these cases get their time in court, how powerful can litigation be in forcing action around the #ClimateEmergency."
#BigOil #ExxonKnew #BPKnew #ShellKnew #Capitalism #Corporatism #Lobbyists #ClimateCatastrophe
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So, it's okay to destroy #Indigenous heritage sites, pollute the planet, and appoint corporate lackeys to advisory boards -- but if you protest and cause disruption, you could face arrest?
The Australian #climate #protesters cast as extremists
By Hannah Ritchie, BBC News Sydney, July 19, 2023
"In May, after several #ExtinctionRebellion protests, the South Australia government introduced a A$50,000 maximum fine and three months jail for anyone 'recklessly' obstructing public spaces, while laws passed in New South Wales last year created a two-year maximum prison sentence for acts disrupting major roads or facilities.
"#England, #Wales and parts of #Canada and the #USA have also adopted similar laws aimed at blocking disruptive climate activism.
"In Western #Australia, climate protesters say they have been 'disabled' by intimidating raids, strict bail conditions and orders which give authorities access to their devices and ban them from communicating with peers.
"According to Ms Grix, these tools were originally intended to deal with gangs and drug dealers.
"'To apply [that]... to climate defenders, who are protesting about environmental concerns, seems to be a massive overreach,' she says."
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-66185377
#PetroStates #HexonExxon #ExxonKnew #ShellKnew #BPKnew #LockUpTheRealCriminals #Corporations #Mockingjay #Protests #ClimateActivism
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näin se kehitys kehittyy 😁😋🍦
tämä on #PiñaColada jäätelöä (ja toinen pallo sitruunaa alla)
ihan kyllä on herkullista 👌
lokkikin tuli fiilaamaan, mutta pysyy onneks muutaman metrin päässä
tää kolmas jakso, Syylliset esiin! pitäis jokasen journalistin ja poliitikon kunnella.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2PIF44xLIUeg8TMTWW5bPV?si=QH-ri7-oQ-61of850N36Mw
#ilmastokriisi #kesä #MikäVapaaAika #media #uutiset #hallitusneuvottelut #ExxonKnew #ShellKnew #ShellsLies
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@w7voa
#BlameCanada is just a #SmokeScreen editorial by #BigOil, who are to blame and charge:
The heirs of #Judas do not sell themselves as cheaply.
House Oversight Committee hearing on Oct. 28, 2021:
#BigOilKnew
#ExxonKnew
#ShellKnew
#Totalnew
#BPKnew
#ChevronKnew
#FordKnew
#GMknew
#BigOil.#PolluterPaysPrinciple and #WindfallProfitTax ->
#NationalizeBigOil to pay for the #ecocide + the #ClimateCrisis
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@w7voa
#BlameCanada is just a #SmokeScreen editorial by #BigOil, who are 2 blame and charge:
The heirs of #Judas do not sell themselves as cheaply.
House Oversight Committee hearing on Oct. 28, 2021:
#BigOilKnew
#ExxonKnew
#ShellKnew
#Totalnew
#BPKnew
#ChevronKnew
#FordKnew
#GMknew
#BigOil#PolluterPaysPrinciple and #WindfallProfitTax ->
#NationalizeBigOil to pay for the #ecocide + the #ClimateCrisis
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No, #BlameCanada is just a #SmokeScreen editorial by #BigOil, who are to blame and charge:
The heirs of #Judas do not sell themselves as cheaply.
House Oversight Committee hearing on Oct. 28, 2021:
#BigOilKnew
#ExxonKnew
#ShellKnew
#Totalnew
#BPKnew
#ChevronKnew
#FordKnew
#GMknew
#BigOil.#PolluterPaysPrinciple and #WindfallProfitTax ->
#NationalizeBigOil to pay for the #ecocide + the #ClimateCrisis
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The heirs of #Judas do not sell themselves as cheaply.
House Oversight Committee hearing on Oct. 28, 2021:
#BigOilKnew
#ExxonKnew
#ShellKnew
#Totalnew
#BPKnew
#ChevronKnew
#FordKnew
#GMknew
#BigOil. -
@davidho @rahmstorf
(1/5)#HouseOversightCommittee hearing on Oct. 28, 2021:
#BigOilKnew
#ExxonKnew
#ShellKnew
#TotalKnew
#BPknew
#ChevronKnew
#FordKnew
#GMknew
#BigOil
#ClimateChange
#ClimateCrisis“👉#BigOil has spent decades and tens of millions of dollars working to deceive the public and spread disinformation about #FossilFuels’ contribution to climate change.👈 Now, in the face of irrefutable evidence that the only way to avert the worst of the climate crisis..."