Nov 4 (or thereabouts) will see potentially hundreds of thousands of people on the street demanding government action on climate change. Actions range between cyber-actions and "turn-off" boycotts, to street marches to pickets and blockades of carbon-producing industries, as the people of the world see the increasing effects of climate change hitting home.

This week the UN released a report saying the evidence for climate change is "far more robust" than ever before.[1] A landmark report by UK Economist Nicolas Stern [2] has shook up the world with it's dire predictions of economic catastrophe. However dire as the cash-flow effect of climate change might be, we need to remember, as George Monbiot says, that "The principal costs of climate change will be measured in lives, not pounds" [3]

International Actions
- find a rally near you!: www.globalclimatecampaign.org

Heatwave FM - Climate Rescue Radio reporting on events as they happen as the day unfolds. Tune in to the internet stream at www.heatwaveFM.net

Africa Nov 11 actions to coincide with the UN Climate Talks (MOP 2, COP 12) in Nairobi, Kenya from 6th to 17th November 2006.
[UN Climate Change Conference website]

Protesters Occupy Ledge Above Federal Agency
To Demand Action on Global Warming
Standoff with Police Occurs at NOAA Headquarters in Silver Spring, MD; Protesters Block Main Entrance, Denounce Bush Climate Policies

See photos of the ongoing protest at www.climateemergency.org

Activists have dramatically occupied the entrance to a federal building in an act of civil disobedience meant to parallel the great urgency of global warming.

With the impacts of climate change spiraling out of control in the form of wildfires, heat waves, hurricanes, floods, and sea-level rise, protesters gathered this morning at the headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Silver Spring, MD to demand an immediate change in U.S. policy toward fossil fuels.

I recently visited the Carteret Islands, 100 km north east of Bougainville, having heard that they were suffering badly from rising seas caused by global warming. All 6 of the islands in the group are being badly damaged and the islands look like making history as the first atoll to be abandoned due to rising seas. Food crops have been destroyed, houses have been washed away and malaria is now the most common cause of children dying.

Until World War Two the Carterets were seven islands. They were reduced to 6 after one was obliterated in a bombing raid. Now there are 7 again, as one of them – Huene – has been bisected by rising seas.

PLANE STUPID

SERMON ON THE RUNWAY

Sunday 24th September 2006 ~ Baptist Minister leads airport shutdown protest against climate change

Environmental protestors (1) have this morning breached security at Nottingham East Midlands Airport and established a second camp for climate action - this time on an airport taxiway. Their aim is to stop carbon emissions from what they are describing as a “climate change factory.” (2) A

Baptist Minister whose former parish is in Nottingham is leading a remembrance service on the taxiway, in memory of the victims of climate change, reminding his congregation of the Bishop of London’s

By Ted Glick

What do Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium,
Bulgaria, Cameroon, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic,
Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland,
Italy, Kenya, South Korea, Mexico, Nepal, Netherlands, New
Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal,
Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, South Africa, Taiwan,
Turkey, United Kingdom, Northern Ireland and the USA have in
common?

These are all countries where organizing is taking place
toward actions on November 4th or, in Africa, on the 11th as
part of worldwide International Days of Climate Action. This

In the shadow of Drax power station, hundreds of activists have gathered at the Camp for Climate Action. The camp, which started officially on Saturday, August 26th, is based on squatted land and will have over 160 workshops over the course of the week.

Climate Action News: Tues 29th August:
From 8am a group of nine climate change campaigners blockaded the front and back gates of Hartlepool Nuclear Power Station, sending out the message that nuclear power is not the solution to climate change. The blockade was in place for ten hours until the last person was cut out of the arm tubes they had locked themselves into to form the blockade. Police arrested a total of twenty people including non-blockading supporters and a freelance journalist.

August 25th marks the day Katrina reached hurricane strength and slammed into the coast of Florida. It's also the last Friday of the month, widely observed by Critical Mass rides around the country.
A strong scientific consensus agrees that the 2005 hurricane season was hyper charged by global warming -- and the crimes of the oil industry in the Gulf go beyond global warming.
The goal of this ride is to take to the streets with a reminder that the racist tragedy in the Gulf continues, a demand that it never be repeated, and to raise awareness about the role of the oil industry and global warming in environmental injustice. We'll also be fundraising at rides around the continent for advocacy and relief groups in New Orleans.

Gatherings and festivals have been sites of resistance for as long as people have yearned to take back the power that is lorded over them. The anti-nuclear campaign had its peace camps, road campaigners had road camps…this summer, the ever-growing movement against climate change will have the Camp for Climate Action!

The Camp for Climate Action will bring thousands of people together for ten days of action, education and living the alternative world we hope to build. It will be a hub for everything from solar energy workshops and campaign updates to direct action against some of the worst offenders of the fossil fuel economy. (By this we mean refineries, power stations, airports etc., not the people who work in them, with whom we have no quarrel, and for whom we would support a ‘just transition’ into more sustainable jobs, not to mention with far

On July 15th, the "Group of 8" (G8) richest industrialized countries will convene in St. Petersburg, Russia to plot their continued domination and commodification of the planet, this time under the euphemistic banner of "Energy Security." A leaked G8 "Communique on Energy Security" calls for trillions of dollars in new investments in oil, gas and coal production worldwide, plus wide-scale global expansion of nuclear energy. With runaway climate change* looming just over the horizon, such neoliberal business-as-usual poses a direct threat to the continuation of life on Earth as we know it.

July 15th will be an International Day of Action Against Climate Change. As G8 energy ministers promise trillions in new subsidies to the industries destroying our planet and our future, we will take action to shut them down! This is a call for autonomous, decentralized actions appropriate for your town, city, or bioregion. Use this international day of action to support local struggles against oil refineries, gas pipelines, road expansions, strip mines and coal-fired power plants. Disrupt the financial backers of the fossil fuel industry. Host teach-ins to spread sustainable post-petroleum living skills. Find a weak point in the infrastructure of resource exploitation and throw a literal or symbolic wrench in the works. Visit your local polluters and give 'em hell!