Obama’s response to climate change is a hoax
Published on Jun 26, 2014: Excerpt from a speech to the League of Conservation Voters, June 25,2014. Related Poll: Americans Will Vote for Climate Conscious Candidates
Energiewende: Birthing the Solar Age
Published on Jun 29, 2014: A powerful message on the “truly disruptive” nature of solar energy technologies and the profound changes they portent for energy generation and individual customers … drawn from a range of respected energy experts. Peter Sinclair, notes: Everywhere I go, I’m telling people that we are in a stage very much…
The Big Question: Why are we still debating climate change?
In the March edition of our Big Question video series, David Archer of the University of Chicago joins Booth professors Jesse Shapiro and Jane Risen to discuss why the public’s view of global warming is so far from the scientific consensus.
Barry Commoner – Scientist, Candidate and Planet Earth’s Lifeguard
New York Times: Scientist, Candidate and Planet Earth’s Lifeguard Barry Commoner, a founder of modern ecology and one of its most provocative thinkers and mobilizers in making environmentalism a people’s political cause. Wikipedia
Conservative Senator Calls out Hypocrisy of Fossil Fuel Incentives
Published on Apr 3, 2014 Senator Grassley on the importance of renewing the wind energy PTC absent comprehensive energy tax reform. Senator Charles Grassley is known to be a long time fiscal conservative Republican Senator from Iowa. Obviously, the size and scope of the Iowa wind industry belies the anti-renewable propaganda of the science denial…
Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability (IPCC AR5 WG2)
The summary of the report can be read here. Overview AR5 Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability Related UN climate report: Pricing of CO2 emissions critical.
Private enterprise is beginning to take climate change seriously
Nature Editorial (Nature Climate Change doi:10.1038/nclimate2193): Even if some sceptics consider climate science akin to witchcraft and politicians pursue ineffective policies, private enterprise is beginning to take climate change seriously. Climate protection requires no magic solutions, but it does require boldness and resolve from policy makers. Instead, what we have is the kind of political timidity that…
Spot on! Michael Mann: The irreversible impacts from Climate Change
Mike Mann discusses his new piece in Scientific American, which outlines critical thresholds in climate warming in the not-too-far-off future, based on the sensitivity of Earth climate. Scientific American: Most scientists concur that two degrees C of warming above the temperature during preindustrial time would harm all sectors of civilization—food, water, health, land, national security, energy…
Let’s Put a Price on Carbon with Fee and Dividend
By Rolly Montpellier (Boomer Warrior): The science is settled. Our planet is heating up, and carbon pollution from Dirty Energy is to blame. The fossil fuel industry burns oil, coal and gas, sending heat-trapping emissions into the air. Ninety million tons of carbon pollution enters the atmosphere every day. That means a hotter world for all of us. It’s…
Tim Jackson: An economic reality check
Uploaded on Oct 5, 2010: ted.com As the world faces recession, climate change, inequity and more, Tim Jackson delivers a piercing challenge to established economic principles, explaining how we might stop feeding the crises and start investing in our future. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the…
Are You Part of The Climate Problem? Don’t be a Climate Zombie
We all have our share dependent on our carbon emissions footprints. In the following some real problems and what can be done about it. In focus, cars. Are you driving a car which uses fossil fuel or gas? If you can answer this with yes, then you are actively contributing to climate change and with…
EU could afford to lead international climate action
Late-comers face a clear trade-off between lower short term costs and higher transitional challenges PIK (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research) 03/19/2014 (Translation: Artikel in Deutsch) – This week, the heads of the EU member states will meet in Brussels to discuss the adoption of a 40 percent greenhouse gas reduction target for 2030. Despite…
Garbage Warrior (2007)
By Anonymous (IMDB): Imagine a home that heats itself, that provides its own water, hat grows its own food. Imagine that it needs no expensive technology, that it recycles its own waste, that it has its own power source. And now imagine that it can be built anywhere, by anyone, out of the things society throws…
Is Misinformation About the Climate Criminally Negligent?
Is misinformation about the climate criminally negligent? By Lawrence Torcello, Rochester Institute of Technology The importance of clearly communicating science to the public should not be underestimated. Accurately understanding our natural environment and sharing that information can be a matter of life or death. When it comes to global warming, much of the public remains…
Why is there no Manhattan Project to Tackle Climate Change?
We must overcome short-termism, inconvenient truths and cuts to R&D and find the Brunels of low carbon technology By Tom Delay (The Carbon Trust): Here’s a thought. If necessity is the motherhood of invention how come we are so far away from the wholesale deployment of low carbon energy technologies that can redeem humanity from…