Dangerous Climate Change’’: Required Reduction of Carbon Emissions to Protect Young People, Future Generations and Nature

2013, Atmosphere, Carbon Tax, Climate Feedbacks, Climate Sensitivity, CO2 Emissions, CO2 Sequestration, Coal, Economy, Education, Emissions Reduction, Energy, Extreme Weather, Global, Greenhouse Gases, Natural Gas, Oil, Policy, Region, Study1 Comment

James Hansen, Pushker Kharecha, Makiko Sato, Valerie Masson-Delmotte, Frank Ackerman, David J. Beerling, Paul J. Hearty, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Shi-Ling Hsu, Camille Parmesan, Johan Rockstrom, Eelco J. Rohling, Jeffrey Sachs, Pete Smith, Konrad Steffen, Lise Van Susteren, Karina von Schuckmann, James C. ZachosPublished: December 03, 2013 | DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081648 | PDF Release URL Abstract We assess climate impacts of global warming using ongoing observations and paleoclimate data. We use Earth’s measured energy imbalance,…

Scientists Call For Radical Economic Overhaul to Avert Climate Crisis

2013, Carbon Tax, CO2 Sequestration, Economy, Emissions Reduction, Energy, Policy26 Comments

Published on YouTube Nov 21, 2013: A pair of climate scientists are calling for what some may view as a shocking solution to the global warming crisis: a rethinking of the economic order in the United States and other industrialized nations. Kevin Anderson and Alice Bows-Larkin of the influential Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research…

Planet likely to warm by 4C by 2100, scientists warn

Climate Sensitivity, Ecocide, Economy, Emissions Reduction, Policy, Study4 Comments

Peter Sinclair: Sherwood’s paper shoots more holes into lingering hopes that climate sensitivity, the amount of warming we expect for a given rise in CO2, might be lower than we thought – that maybe temp rises could be more moderate in the future. One of the last, lingering, tattered bastions of climate denial has been that, somehow,…

200 years of Global Change 1900-2100 Climate Science History & Projections of IPCC-AR5 2013

2013, CO2 Emissions, Coal, Economy, Emissions Reduction, Energy, Greenhouse Gases, History, IPCC, Natural Gas, Oil, Policy, Science Talk, Study, Tar Sands41 Comments

Hans Rosling lecture 19 mins – 28 September 2013 200 years of Global Change, Climate Science, History Projections & the IPCC AR5 Report explained Professor Hans Rosling, Karolinska Institutet of Sweden. Edutainer at www.Gapminder.org their mission: “To fight devastating ignorance with a fact-based worldview everyone can understand.” The first public forum for the launch of…

Why you should be angry and why anger isn’t enough

2013, Economy, Emissions Reduction, Policy, Protest60 Comments

Published on YouTube Aug 20, 2013: About the Speaker: One of the world’s top climate diplomats, John Ashton is now an independent commentator and adviser on the politics of climate change. From 2006-12 he served as Special Representative for Climate Change to three successive UK Foreign Secretaries, spanning the current Coalition and the previous Labour…