We’ve reached a point where we have a crisis, an emergency

2014, 2018, Climate Change, Communication, Emissions Reduction, IPCC, Policy, Science Talk, SolutionsLeave a comment

David Spratt (Breakthrough Institute), speaks 2014 at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology about climate change, myths, and realities. His latest 2018 report “What Lies Beneath” with a foreword by Hans Joachim Schellnhuber can be read here https://www.breakthroughonline.org.au/publicationshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0Qm3o9vD5k For more visit http://www.climatecodered.org/2018/08/take-unprecedented-action-or-bear.html “We’ve reached a point where we have a crisis, anemergency, but people don’t…

Go 100 % Clean Energy

2018, Climate Change, Communication, Electric Car, Emissions Reduction, Energy, Jet Stream / Polar Vortex, Policy, SolutionsLeave a comment

Mike Mann (Penn State), Kim Cobb (Georgia Tech), Michael Brune (Sierra Club), Andrew Freedman (Axios), connect the dots on our current summer weather and climate. CBS News https://www.cbsnews.com/news/carbon-in-soil-dirt-making-climate-change-worse-study-says NBC News https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news-netcast/video/nightly-news-full-broadcast-august-7th-1294277187944 Democracy Now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Hh-jREctTo

Hothouse Earth Researchers explain Climate Threshold

2018, Climate Change, Communication, Drought, Emissions Reduction, Extreme Weather, Heat wave, Impacts, IPCC, Policy, Solutions, Storms, WildfireLeave a comment

Earth Could Spiral Into A ‘Hothouse’ State Even If We Reduce CO2 Emissions, Warns New Report https://www.inquisitr.com/5019576/earth-could-spiral-into-a-hothouse-state-even-if-we-reduce-co2-emissions-warns-new-report Read the study paper http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/07/31/1810141115 The Climate State of the Holocene and Anthropocene (Rates of Change) https://climatestate.com/2018/08/08/the-climate-state-of-the-holocene-and-anthropocene-rates-of-change Sources RT: Climate Change academic Professor Katherine Richardson on Paris Agreement surviving Trump’s America https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw2JoKRFTjc Channel 4 News: Climate change: How…

HFCs and Methane Emissions are Growing Again

2016, Atmosphere, Chemistry, Emissions Reduction, Energy, Policy, Science Talk, SolutionsLeave a comment

2016 presentation overview of the science and the latest findings on black carbon by Drew Shindell, Chair of the CCAC SAP and Professor of Climate Science at Duke University, and A. R. Ravishankara, Professor of Chemistry and Atmospheric Sciences at Colorado State University, who gives an overview of the latest findings on methane and HFCs.…

Methane Mitigation Opportunities

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Esteemed Short-Lived Climate Pollutant (SLCP) experts, Drew Shindell (Duke University & Science Advisory Panel Chair) and Klimont Zbigniew (IIASA), present the newest knowledge on SLCP emissions, sectors, and mitigation opportunities. From the perspective of what we’ve learned since the publication of the 2011 UNEP & WMO Integrated Assessment of Black Carbon and Tropospheric Ozone, the…

Study suggests Earth may enter Hothouse Climate State

2018, Adaptation, Anthropocene, Biosphere, Clean Tech, Climate Change, Climate Engineering, Climate Feedbacks, Climate Sensitivity, Climate Visuals, CO2 Sequestration, Coal, Communication, Cryosphere, Economy, Emissions Reduction, Energy, Geosphere, Global, Holocene, Hydrosphere, Natural Gas, Oil, Paleoclimatology, Policy, Solutions, Tar SandsLeave a comment

Earth could spiral into a ‘Hothouse’ state even if we reduce CO2 emissions, warns report https://www.inquisitr.com/5019576/earth-could-spiral-into-a-hothouse-state-even-if-we-reduce-co2-emissions-warns-new-report Read the study paper http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/07/31/1810141115 Tipping Elements – the Achilles Heels of the Earth System https://www.pik-potsdam.de/services/infodesk/tipping-elements The Climate State of the Holocene and Anthropocene (Rates of Change) https://climatestate.com/2018/08/08/the-climate-state-of-the-holocene-and-anthropocene-rates-of-change Additional sources Donald Trump’s Paris Exit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ulcj3gkAbLo Rockström: The Earth System…

The Climate State of the Holocene and Anthropocene (Rates of Change)

2018, Adaptation, Anthropocene, Biosphere, Climate Change, Climate Feedbacks, Climate Sensitivity, Climate System, Climate Wiki, Communication, Education, Emissions Reduction, Greenhouse Gases, Holocene, Impacts, IPCC, Paleoclimatology, PolicyLeave a comment

Supplemental of Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene Will Steffen, Johan Rockström, Katherine Richardson, Timothy M. Lenton, Carl Folke, Diana Liverman, Colin P. Summerhayes, Anthony D. Barnosky, Sarah E. Cornell, Michel Crucifix, Jonathan F. Donges, Ingo Fetzer, Steven J. Lade, Marten Scheffer, Ricarda Winkelmann, and Hans Joachim Schellnhuber PNAS August 6, 2018. 201810141;…

The Speech Trump Never Gave

2018, Clean Tech, Economy, Emissions Reduction, Energy, USALeave a comment

Countries at all levels of income now have the opportunity to build lasting economic growth at the same time as reducing the immense risks of climate change. The longer the world waits to do something about it, the harder it will be to transition to a low-carbon economy. https://www.nationalmemo.com/report-climate-change-action-good-economy Climate change action is good for…

What we gonna do about Global Warming? Refugees, Food & Water issues, Stronger Weather mounting

2018, Adaptation, Carbon Tax, Climate Change, Communication, Economy, Emissions Reduction, Energy, Extreme Weather, Impacts, Natural Gas, Policy, USALeave a comment

Noam Chomsky: Global Warming’s Worst Case Projections seem increasingly likely https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4PisLH8J2g Exxon Chairman Rex Tillerson 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IotGLnXvaEk Darren Woods, Chairman & CEO ExxonMobil | Fuelling the Future https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzSwzDNTtVEDarren Woods https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darren_Woods James Hansen on Natural Gas and Climate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHmkxcDbUC8 Jim Hansen on the Rate of Ice Sheet Melt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdw37BeBi_4 Amory Lovins: Natural Gas is worse than…

Noam Chomsky: Global Warming’s Worst Case Projections seem increasingly likely

2018, Climate Change, Communication, Economy, Emissions Reduction, Energy, Permafrost, Policy, USALeave a comment

One of the most cited scholars in history, Noam Chomsky speaks at St Olaff College May 2018, discussing the Epics, Anthropocene, the 6th Extinction and climate change actions. Noam Chomsky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_ChomskyAnthropocene https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AnthropoceneSixth Extinction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction Watch the full lecture with Noam Chomsky at St Olaff College – 4 May 2018 – FULL PRESENTATION https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDQ2fjg0kMM

French President to U.S. Congress: There is No Planet B!

2018, Climate Change, Communication, Emissions Reduction, Energy, IPCC, Policy, Project, SolutionsLeave a comment

“I believe in building a better future for our children, which requires offering them a planet that is still habitable in 25 years,” he says. Macron is confident that “one day” the U.S. will recommit to the Paris climate agreement. After all, as he says in the address, “there is no Planet B.” https://grist.org/briefly/the-french-president-gave-america-the-climate-change-speech-that-trump-never-will Full…