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,…

A case for compensation for climate change destruction

2014, Caribbean, Ecocide, Energy, Policy, Protest, Region1 Comment

Release URL | BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Thursday January 2, 2014 | By Sir Ronald Sanders Can the countries of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) take international legal action against the States that are warming the planet with devastating consequences not only for their survival, but in some cases even their existence? This question comes into sharp focus…

Separate Oil and State

2014, Energy, PolicyLeave a comment

The democratic process has been hijacked. Share and like if you agree. Then repeat till we get Democracy back. Annual lobbying on Oil & Gas Industry Profile: Summary, 2013 Total for Oil & Gas: $105,176,582 Total Number of Clients Reported: 182 Total Number of Lobbyists Reported: 724 Total Number of Revolvers: 444 (61.3%) Related Inside Story President Obama’s new Climate…

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,…

Bamboo, Pyrolysis, Bio-Char & Mycorrhizal Fungi: Nature’s Machine to Draw Carbon Down Exponentially

2012, Climate Engineering, CO2 Sequestration, Emissions Reduction, Energy, Films, Lecture, Project, Reforestation9 Comments

Uploaded on YouTube Feb 4, 2012: Charlotte O’Brien, Director of Bio Bamboo and CO2 Drawdown Solutions, explains how to significantly draw down Carbon from the atmosphere and sequester it as a Bio-Char soil conditioner using Bamboo to fuel Pyrolysis. Adding the Bio-Char to depleted soil fosters the spread of Mycorrhizal fungus in the soil, which…