Andy Rowell
Andy Rowell is a staff blogger for Oil Change International in addition to working as a freelance writer and investigative journalist who specializes in environmental, health and lobbying issues. Follow him on Twitter: @andy_rowell
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Views Tuesday, December 04, 2018 “Since Our Leaders Are Behaving Like Children, We Will Have to Take Responsibility” Earlier today, the naturalist Sir David Attenborough addressed the UN climate conference in Poland, saying: “Right now, we are facing a man-made disaster of global scale. Our greatest threat in thousands of years. Climate change.” “If we don’t take action, the collapse of our civilisations and the... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, November 27, 2018 Australian Kids Plan “Big School Walkout for Climate Action” The climate rebellion is growing. Over the weekend in London, over 2000 protesters, part of the new Extinction Rebellion (XR) movement, took part in demonstrations, including holding a memorial in the famous Parliament Square to “mark the loss of life our planet is experiencing”. As part of the... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, November 13, 2018 Paradise Lost As the deadliest wild-fires ever to hit California continue to rage, an estimated 31 people are known to have died, with over 200 still missing. Some 250,000 have been forced to flee their homes. Over 100,000 acres of land has been burnt, including luxury homes in Malibu. As California once again... Read more |
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Views Thursday, November 08, 2018 BP’s Blatant Climate Hypocrisy on Show As it “Buys” Vote to Defeat Carbon Tax As millions of people digest the saturated press coverage of the mid-terms, and wonder what the next two-years of a chaotic and destructive Trump Presidency will mean with the Republican loss of the House, it is easy to miss other issues that were also voted on this week. On the Washington State... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, October 31, 2018 Bolsonaro: A Despot Who “Spells Disaster, Not Only for Brazil But for the Planet” “All of the promises made to political groups and the people will be kept,” said a victorious Jair Bolsonaro, the new President of Brazil, after his election victory earlier this week. For many people who have watched in horror at the election of Trump, Bolsonaro is a new kind of evil who has... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, October 30, 2018 Scientists Warn That Canadian Glacial Melting Is “Outside the Scope of Normal” Canadian scientists are becoming progressively alarmed at the increasing rate of melting of the country’s glaciers, warning that climate change is having a severe impact on the region. Anyone concerned about climate change and sea level rise often thinks about melting glaciers in Antarctica and... Read more |
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Views Monday, September 17, 2018 “Only A Matter of Time” Before Category 6 Hurricane Hits U.S. As I write, Typhoon Mangkhut and Hurricane Florence are still making waves on different continents leaving millions of people to pick up the cost of these two destructive storms. In Asia, Typhoon Mangkhut is one of the most powerful storms to hit the region for decades. Although Mangkhut was... Read more |
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Views Monday, September 10, 2018 Across the Globe, Over 250,000 People #RiseforClimate Across the globe, over 250,000 people took part in what was labelled as #RiseforClimate marches, protests and celebrations on 7 continents on Saturday. There were nearly 1,000 events in more than 90 countries. The day of action kicked off with the sun rising over the Pacific islands , with... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, August 28, 2018 Jerry Brown Warns of “Apocalyptic Threat” of Climate Change, But Carries on Drilling Back in April this year, nearly 800 civil society groups formed a coalition to urge California Governor Jerry Brown, to take immediate action against fossil fuel extraction in the state before his term ends. The campaign kicked off five months before Brown’s “Global Climate Action Summit, which... Read more |
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Views Monday, August 20, 2018 After the Fires, Come the Floods Over the last few days, an estimated 350 people have been killed and 800,000 displaced in the worst flooding to hit the Indian state of Kerala for over a century. Thousands remain marooned by unusually intense monsoon rains. Between June 1 and August 17, the southern state has already received 2,... Read more |