James Hansen Talks Climate Justice and Governmental Honesty #COP21

2015, Climate Change, Communication, Policy4 Comments

James Hansen talks at the United Nations Climate Conference (COP21) in Paris, December 1, 2015. Filmed by Paul Beckwith http://paulbeckwith.net Release http://paulbeckwith.net/2015/12/02/james-hansen-talks-climate-change-at-cop21/ Related Isolation of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: Part I http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2015/20150921_IceMeltPredictions.pdf Predictions Implicit in “Ice Melt” Paper and Global Implications http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2015/20151127_Isolation.pdf Ice Melt, Sea Level Rise and Superstorms: Evidence from Paleoclimate Data, Climate Modeling, and…

Nothing less than a ‘space race’ approach to saving the planet

2015, Emissions Reduction, Solutions1 Comment

By Christopher Grainger via TheConversation: In the late 1960s a good chunk of the world’s brightest minds and fanciest labs were devoted to one thing: space exploration. When NASA’s funding peaked in 1966 the organisation employed 400,000 people and consumed more than 4% of the US federal budget. Three years later, after less than a decade of serious…

Research Confirms ExxonMobil and Koch funded Climate Denial

2015, Climate Change, Communication, Denial1 Comment

 Unearthing America’s Deep Network of Climate Change Deniers A new study attempts the first tally of those driving the peculiarly American strain of climate change denial. Bloomberg: The American public has turned away from outright denial of climate change. Sixty-three percent of adults describe the problem as “serious” in the latest opinion poll from the Washington Post and ABC News, a…

Kevin Anderson – Delivering on 2°C: evolution or revolution?

2015, Climate Change, Communication, Emissions Reduction, PolicyLeave a comment

With fourteen of the fifteen warmest years on record having occurred since the year 2000; with oceans both warming and acidifying; and with unequivocal scientific evidence that burning fossil fuels is the principal cause – what can we do to rapidly reduce emissions? This lecture will revisit the mitigation agenda in light of the IPCC’s…

Research links abrupt paleoclimatic change to possible methane hydrate destabilization

2015, Climate Feedbacks, Greenhouse Gases, Hydrosphere, Methane Hydrate, Ocean Heat Content, Ocean Temperature, Oceanography, Paleoclimatology, Pleistocene, Sea Surface Temperature1 Comment

Using a core sample from the Santa Barbara Basin, UCSB researchers decipher the history of paleoclimate change with surprising results By Julie Cohen (UCSB): Global climate change isn’t new — the phenomenon has been around for millions of years. But now, a core from the ocean floor in the Santa Barbara Basin provides a remarkable…