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…

A Nonviolent Insurgency for Climate Protection

2013, Emissions Reduction, Policy, Project, Protest1 Comment

Where the old institutions have failed, insurgent global citizens must now defend the climate directly and preserve the public trust for generations to come. By Jeremy Brecher, December 10, 2013 When 30 climate activists from 18 countries protested drilling at an oil platform operated by Gazprom in the Russian Arctic, they represented the people of the world…

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…

Amazon River Basin Tipping Point

2013, Amazon, Biosphere, Birds, Documentary, Films, Life forms, Mass Extinction, Protest, Reforestation, Region, South America, WildlifeLeave a comment

Published on YouTube Dec 13, 2013: The Amazon River Basin holds 20% of the world ‘s freshwater and produces 20% of the world’s oxygen. And plays a major role in stabilizing the earth’s ecosystem. But the balance is shifting. Production and profit for a fast-growing economy jeopardizes the preservation of Amazonia. As Brazilians-and the world-watch…

Climate change the state of the science (data visualization)

2013, Climate Visuals, Emissions Reduction, Global, Lecture, Region, Science Talk, Sea Level RiseLeave a comment

Published on YouTube Nov 19, 2013: Produced by the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme and Globaia and funded by the UN Foundation. The data visualization summarises and visualizes several of the most significant statements in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) recent Fifth Assessment Report, (Working Group I summary for policymakers, the Physical Science Basis). In…

IPCC Report AR5 September 2013 (WG1) “The Pause”

2013, CO2 Emissions, Emissions Reduction, Greenhouse Gases, IPCC, Model, Policy, Science Talk, StudyLeave a comment

On September 27 2013 the IPCC released the WG1 report of the IPCC AR5 assessment. UN Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon addressed the IPCC at Stockholm on 27 September. He stated that “the heat is on. We must act”. US Secretary of State John Kerry responded to the report saying “This is yet another wakeup call: those who deny the science…

The Truth About Global Warming – Science & Distortion – Stephen Schneider

2012, Denial, Disease, Emissions Reduction, Films, Global, Greenhouse Gases, Health, Policy, Region, Science TalkLeave a comment

Uploaded to YouTube on Jan 2, 2012: Stephen Henry Schneider (February 11, 1945 — July 19, 2010) was Professor of Environmental Biology and Global Change at Stanford University, a Co-Director at the Center for Environment Science and Policy of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and a Senior Fellow in the Stanford Woods Institute for…