Climate Change a Life and Death Issue
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard: Apologizes for America’s lack of . . . You require a Full Access Pass to access this page.
It’s the Dark Snow Project
You can help crowd-fund an important scientific research trip — along with a videographer and journalist to cover it. Climate De-Crocker Peter Sinclair explains: On April 21, 2013, the Dark Snow Project brought a bit of Greenland to Manhattan, to illustrate the importance of this summer’s planned expedition to sample Greenland ice. It kicked off…
Warming Arctic, Changing Planet
On November 12, 2012 The Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Earth Institute, Columbia University and Quebec Government Office presented an exciting discussion about the effects of climate change on the Arctic. Experts highlighted how Arctic sea ice, climate, marine mammals, tundra, and indigenous communities have been affected by and are adapting to climate change. In addition, each…
Melting Sea Ice in the Arctic
Changes in Arctic sea ice coverage are happening at unprecedented rates, with 2012 setting a new record low for sea ice extent. Our ability to predict changes of sea ice loss and understand the impacts on society, from commercial shipping to resource availability, will be driven by further scientific research in the region. Areas for…
Crude – The Incredible Journey Of Oil (2007)
This excellent documentary, directed by Dr. Richard Smith, was first broadcast on 24 May 2007 by ABC TV (Australia) and wan the 2008 Walter Sullivan Award for excellence in science journalism. You can buy the DVD or watch it with extras on this, also excellent, web page: http://www.abc.net.au/science/crude/ The Irony of Oil (taken from the above…
Frontline: Heat (2008)
FRONTLINE Episode: HEAT A far-reaching investigation into America’s energy landscape and what can be done to save our planet – and what it will take. Full version http://video.pbs.org/video/994540147/ (Region locked)
Extreme Ice (2009)
National Geographic Extreme Ice: In the extreme, ice-bound regions of the earth, something unprecedented is happening. Everywhere, glaciers and ice sheets have begun breaking apart, and accelerating towards the oceans at alarming speeds. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1393566 Related World’s Changing Glaciers “Chasing Ice” (2012)
Professor joins fight to save Arctic
By Michelle Wheeler, The West Australian: In a room at the White House next week, an extraordinary meeting of the brightest minds will . . . You require a Full Access Pass to access this page.
Arctic Ocean ‘acidifying rapidly’
BBC: The Arctic seas are being made rapidly more acidic by carbon-dioxide emissions, according to a new report. Scientists from the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) monitored widespread changes in ocean chemistry in the region. They say even if CO2 emissions stopped now, it would take tens of thousands of years for Arctic Ocean chemistry to…
German climate talks: ‘Waiting not an option’ Merkel
DW: At Germany’s annual Petersberg climate talks, German Chancellor Merkel has called for a binding pact by 2015 to reduce carbon emissions. She said inactivity only increased the cost of combating climate change later on. At Monday’s Petersberg Climate Dialogue, as the meeting is officially called, Chancellor Angela Merkel called for an internationally binding climate…
Getting rich off global warming
“Local officials and enviros are making plans for a post-global warming America. And so are profit-seeking companies.” BY ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK / via Salon.com On the opening morning of the inaugural National Adaptation Forum, I was eating breakfast at a stand-up table in the exhibition hall when a mustachioed man of middle age plopped his cherry Danish next…