‘The US’s largest oil firm is asking the Texas supreme court to allow it to use the law, known as rule 202, to pursue legal action against more than a dozen California municipal officials. Exxon claims that in filing lawsuits against the company over its role in the climate crisis, the officials are orchestrating a conspiracy against the firm’s first amendment rights.’

Source: How Exxon is using an unusual law to intimidate critics over its climate denial | Environment | The Guardian

‘Dr. Lovejoy long ago called for the preservation of biologically diverse ecosystems that store carbon to help fight climate change, but deforestation has continued to erode Amazonian rain forests. In an essay last month in The New York Times, he and John Reid, an economist who helps Indigenous peoples protect their territories, wrote: “Forests continue to disappear — cut and burned into ever smaller patches. This failure challenges all of our climate efforts because unless forests remain standing, the world will never contain global warming.”’

Source: Thomas Lovejoy, Wide-Ranging Ecologist and Amazon Rescuer, Dies at 80 – The New York Times

‘The global climate emergency is spawning catastrophes everywhere, from tornadoes in Kentucky to floods in Uganda. Stemming irreversible climate change is still possible, but only with urgent, coordinated and inclusive action by us all.’

Source: The Climate Catastrophe, From Kentucky to Kampala | Democracy Now!

‘Failed monsoon rains that reignited the southwestern U.S. drought. A spring heat wave in western Europe. Intense Siberian wildfires. Scientists say human-caused climate change made these extreme weather events more likely, according to new research published today in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS). ‘

Source: Report: Climate change contributed to some of 2020’s worst weather | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

‘The legislation provides $555 billion for programs that could significantly curb the fossil fuel emissions that have been heating the atmosphere, fueling deadly and record-breaking wildfires, floods, heat waves and drought. However, the bill faces an uncertain path through the Senate and negotiations between the two chambers may change its form.’

Source: House Passes the Largest Expenditure on Climate in U.S. History – The New York Times

‘In a letter last week, Earthjustice and more than 250 other organizations called on Biden to cancel the Gulf auction amid what Biden himself has warned is a “code red” moment on climate. Going through with it, the groups said, would “make a mockery” of his own commitments on a global stage at the COP26 climate conference this month.’

Source: Biden Administration Plans Massive Auction of Oil and Gas Leases – Mother Jones

‘In an unexpected development, the United States and China on Wednesday announced in a joint statement that they will both do more to cut fossil fuel pollution this decade. The terms of the deal weren’t groundbreaking — but the fact that agreement occurred at all is notable, considering the badly strained ties between Washington and Beijing over trade, human rights, Taiwan and other serious differences.’

Source: China and U.S., at Odds on Many Issues, Agree on a Surprise Climate Deal – The New York Times

‘GLASGOW — Presidents and prime ministers have left town. Now the hard work starts, with diplomats hunkering down in a cavernous tent complex at the U.N. climate talks here for the next week and a half, trying to hammer out deals to cut planet-warming emissions.’

Source: COP26 Climate Summit: What Happened During the First Days – The New York Times

This line caught my attention:

‘We’ve produced more co2 in the 33 years since than in all of human history before.’

Source: Glasgow: where climate wreckage began – by Bill McKibben – The Crucial Years

‘Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor and nuclear disarmament activist Sunao Tsuboi has died at the age of 96, his advocacy group said on Wednesday.’

Source: Hiroshima bomb survivor Sunao Tsuboi dies at 96 | News | DW | 27.10.2021