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This morning at 7:30AM Pacific time, five activists successfully shut down 5 pipelines across the United States delivering tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada in support of the call for International Days of Prayer and Action for Standing Rock. Activists employed manual safety valves, calling on President Obama to use emergency powers to keep the pipelines closed and mobilize for the extraordinary shift away from fossil fuels now required to avert catastrophe.
Shut It Down – Climate Direct Action | 11 October, 2016
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Nationwide – This morning, by 7:30AM Pacific time, 5 activists have successfully shut down 5 pipelines across the United States delivering tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada in support of the call for International Days of Prayer and Action for Standing Rock. Activists employed manual safety valves, calling on President Obama to use emergency powers to keep the pipelines closed and mobilize for the extraordinary shift away from fossil fuels now required to avert catastrophe.
192 nations have agreed that average global temperature should not increase 1.5C° above baseline in order to avert climate change cataclysm. This objective cannot be met, and any hope of keeping temperature below even 2.0°C depends on a total ban on new fossil fuel extractions and an immediate end to oil sands and coal use. In the absence of any political leadership or…
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I’ve read the temperature is changing so fast, my garden is moving 65 ft to the south each day. I have to believe the comment. What used to grow and produce without a problem now withers on the vine. Sunflowers will bloom one day and be dead the next. I’ve completely redesigned my garden for next year.
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I’ve noticed similar changes here in New Plymouth. Spring comes a month earlier and winter a month later than when I first moved here 10 years ago.
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All we need is a super volcano to expedite the matter.
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Either that or a lahar. Such things are common here in New Zealand.
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