Calendar – Click on Date for links entered on that Day
Archives
-
-
Recent Posts
- Seeing the World Anew: John W. Hessler, Chet Van Duzer August 7, 2022
- Africa & Middle East Division, LOC | Damon Galgut, South African novelist and playwright, winner of the 2021 Booker Prize August 6, 2022
- Waldseemuller’s Map of America – John Hessler | C-SPAN.org August 6, 2022
- Maps, Geography and Cartography August 6, 2022
- The World of Ptolemy and the Birth of the Cartographic Atlas August 6, 2022
- Webcasts from the Library of Congress II August 6, 2022
- Henricus Martellus’s World Map at Yale August 6, 2022
- Africa & World Historical Cartography: Old Maps, New Technologies, New Questions & New Research Communities | EV & N 445 | CCTV August 5, 2022
- Warping Waldseemuller: Computer Modeling and the Quest to Understand the 1507 and 1516 World Maps | Library of Congress August 5, 2022
- A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa: Howard W. French August 4, 2022
- The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of Eastern Europe: D. Hupchick, H. Cox August 4, 2022
- Chomsky’s Philosophy August 3, 2022
- Noam Chomsky on Moral Relativism and Michel Foucault August 3, 2022
- BBC World Service – Newshour, First ship carrying grain leaves Ukrainian port August 2, 2022
- “Days of Fire” author calls Cheney the “most powerful vice president” of his time August 2, 2022
- Rumsfeld in heated conversation with Al Jazeera August 2, 2022
- Kennedy, Rumsfeld Showdown on Iraq August 2, 2022
- Errol Morris on Donald Rumsfeld: ‘One of the strangest interviews I’ve ever done’ August 2, 2022
- Full Cheney: Working with President Bush ‘the highlight of my career’ | Meet The Press | NBC News August 2, 2022
- ‘Worse Than Watergate’ : NPR | John W. Dean August 2, 2022
- Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. August 2, 2022
- The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq: Christopher Scheer, Lakshmi Chaudhry, Robert Scheer August 2, 2022
- Senate passes 9/11 bill pushed by Jon Stewart August 2, 2022
- Jon Stewart slams Congress over benefits for 9/11 first responders August 2, 2022
- Jon Stewart Slams GOP for Stalling Veteran Health Care Bill August 2, 2022
- ‘Tired of the government denying us’: Veterans pressure senators to vote f or PACT Act during rally August 2, 2022
- Republicans Punish Veterans After Getting Out Maneuvered By Manchin, Schumer August 2, 2022
- Coup Conspiracy Timeline From Nov. To Jan. 6 | The Beat Exposes Trump’s Criminal Intent August 2, 2022
- Trump Fumes As Murdoch’s Fox News Empire Ditches Him For Mini-Trump August 2, 2022
- WARNING: PROFANITY – Stewart slams McConnell after PACT Act stalls August 2, 2022
- Jon Stewart: GOP Using False Talking Point On Veterans Health Bill August 2, 2022
- Jon Stewart, Veterans Protest GOP Senators’ Opposition To Burn Pits Bill August 2, 2022
- The World Is Watching: Woman Suing Harvard for Photos of Enslaved Ancestors Says History Is At Stake August 2, 2022
- Debt, Coups & Colonialism in Haiti: France & U.S. Urged to Pay Reparations for Destroying Nation August 2, 2022
- “The Viral Underclass”: Steven Thrasher on Monkeypox & How Class Impacts Viral Spread August 2, 2022
- The Assassination of Ayman al-Zawahiri: CIA Drone Kills al-Qaeda Leader at Safe House in Kabul August 2, 2022
- Gravitas Plus: The untold truth about Humanitarian Aid August 2, 2022
- UN Chief Antonio Guterres calls for world free of nukes | International News | WION August 2, 2022
- World one misstep from ‘nuclear annihilation’, says UN chief August 2, 2022
- Scientists measure how quickly crucial Antarctica glacier is melting August 2, 2022
- Senate Climate Change Task Force Meeting on SEC Disclosures August 2, 2022
- Food, Inc. August 2, 2022
- James Webb Space Telescope delivers stunning Cartwheel Galaxy views – See in 4K! August 2, 2022
- The Race Gap in the U.S.: Arthur insists he’s not a racist August 1, 2022
- Despotic Dominion: Property Rights in British Settler Societies: John McLaren August 1, 2022
- Trump’s Criminal Intent Exposed: How Jan. 6 Plan Emerged From Military Coup Plot (MSNBC Pt 1) August 1, 2022
- Watch The Beat With Ari Melber Highlights: July 29 August 1, 2022
- BBC World Service – The Climate Question, Are there any ‘easy fixes’ to climate change? August 1, 2022
- “Mother Country Radicals”: Weather Underground’s Bernardine Dohrn & Bill Ayers’s Son Makes Podcast – YouTube August 1, 2022
- BBC World Service – HARDtalk, James Lovelock: The future of life on Earth August 1, 2022
Daily Archives: September 12, 2018
Jonathan Harrington talks about significance of new Arctic route for Chinese trade
Posted in Uncategorized
Mei Fong talks about the impact of China’s One Child policy on an aging population
Posted in Uncategorized
Climate Change Summit In San Francisco
CBS Los Angeles
Published on Sep 11, 2018
Hundreds of scientists and political leaders gathered in San Francisco today ahead of a climate change summit.
Posted in Uncategorized
UN Chief on Climate Change and his vision for the 2019 Climate Change Summit
Published on Sep 10, 2018
In a landmark speech today (10 Sep) United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said, “Climate change is the defining issue of our time – and we are at a defining moment,” adding that “if we do not change course by 2020, we risk missing the point where we can avoid runaway climate change, with disastrous consequences for people and all the natural systems that sustain us.”
Speaking at UN Headquarters in New York, the Secretary-General said “scientists have been telling us for decades. Over and over again. And far too many leaders have refused to listen. And far too few have acted with the vision the science demands.”
He said noted that “as climate change intensifies, we will find it harder to feed ourselves” causing “more and more people will be forced to migrate from their homes as the land they depend on becomes less able to support them.” He added that “this is already leading to local conflicts over dwindling resources.”
Guterres called on governments, businesses, scientists and that will put the planet on a path to a better future.
He said “the commitments made so far by Parties to the Paris Agreement represent just one-third of what is needed. The mountain in front of us is very high. But it is not insurmountable. We know how to scale it. Put simply, we need to put the brake on deadly greenhouse gas emissions and drive climate action.”
Guterres also outlined his vision for a new Climate Summit in 2019, which he will be convening to rally the international community, to step up action in key areas inclusive sustainable energy production, economic growth, green investment and better stewardship of natural resources.
He said, “enormous benefits await humankind if we can rise to the climate challenge” and added that the argument that tackling climate change is expensive and could harm economic growth “is hogwash.” In fact, he said “the opposite is true.”
The call for greater ambition on climate action comes amid record temperature rises and extreme weather events across the globe. The last few months alone saw devastating floods in southern India, wildfires in the United States and extreme heatwaves in Japan.
Guterres said, “we stand at an existential crossroad. If we are to take the right path – the only sensible path — we will have to muster the full force of human ingenuity” and stressed that “technology is on our side in the battle to address climate change.”
He pointed out that “the transition to a cleaner, greener future needs to speed up” and said that infrastructure investment must be “sustainable or we will lock in a high-polluting dangerous future.”
Guterres said “every day we fail to act is a day that we step a little closer towards a fate that none of us wants — a fate that will resonate through generations in the damage done to humankind and life on earth. Our fate is in our own hands. The world is counting on all of us to rise to the challenge before it’s too late.”
When world leaders signed the historic Paris Agreement on climate change in 2015, they pledged to stop temperatures rising by more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, and as close to 1.5 degrees, as possible. But scientists and a major UN study, indicate that the target is already well off-track.
The UN chief’s message also comes ahead of the Global Climate Action Summit, to be held on the west coast of the United States, in San Francisco, from 12-14 September. National, regional and municipal leaders will gather with business people and philanthropic communities to underscore their commitment to climate action.
Posted in Uncategorized
Global climate action summit: business leaders, activists meet in San Francisco
Published on Sep 12, 2018
Posted in Uncategorized
The Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco
climateconference
Published on Aug 16, 2018
The Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS) is taking place in San Francisco from 12-14 September 2018. The Summit organizers are asking all actors to rise to meet 5 key challenges which have major potential to tackle climate change.
Posted in Uncategorized
San Francisco Is Ground Zero For The ‘Global Climate Action Summit’
Published on Sep 10, 2018
The Global Climate Action Summit will bring leaders and people together from around the world. It will also be a launchpad for deeper worldwide commitments and accelerated action from other countries.
Posted in Uncategorized
Climate change summit coming to San Francisco
Published on Sep 7, 2018
Leaders from around the world are gathering in San Francisco next week for the Global Climate Action Summit.
Posted in Uncategorized