published October 9, 2011 and has No Comments
The climate activism community is now firmly in the Occupy Wall Street fight. 350.org joined in the tens of thousands in the streets of the New York last week; and now Bill McKibben has starkly laid out the links between climate change, the corporations blocking climate action, and the rank effect of the oil industry corrupting the
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published September 15, 2011 and has No Comments
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Enough Climate Denial! 24 Hours of Climate Reality Starts Tonight! (WATCH NOW)
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published May 16, 2011 and has No Comments
This post is an installment in a series about the current state of American climate skepticism. I'll be expanding upon the ideas put forward in my recent Slate piece, Do Climate Skeptics Change Their Minds? , so read that first. True climate skeptics rarely change their minds. If they do so publicly, it's often the cause of a minor ...
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published May 3, 2011 and has No Comments
Dave Roberts writes over at Grist : "We are not going to solve climate change. That's not pessimism -- it's just not the kind of thing that can be "solved." It's already underway." So, he suggests we figure out how to 'manage it' -- via a combination of mitigation, adaptation, and suffering. And then he puts together a pretty ...
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published April 19, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo: Joi / cc Fish have a lot to worry about these days, what with oil spills, Texas-sized islands of floating plastic debris, and overfishing -- but, according to the latest research, rising ocean temperatures are causing them quite a bit of stress as well. Biologists studying a particularly long-living fish in the Tasman Sea have discovered that, as ...
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published April 1, 2011 and has No Comments
Graph via Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature This week, a climate hearing was held in the US House of Reps. Six 'experts' on climate were brought in, but only three were scientists. And it turns out that one of the GOP's star witnesses -- a scientist who's been vocal in his skepticism of global temperature records, the physicist Richard Muller, ...
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published April 1, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo credit: Sharon Smith This guest post was written by Sharon Smith, author of The Young Activist's Guide to Building a Green Movement . Operating through political channels isn't a panacea for solving all of our environmental challenges, but it's certainly a critical part of the package. If you are frustrated with how your political system has failed to ...
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published April 1, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo credit: langalex via Flickr / BY-SA We need to do something. Thus far, the legislative strategy that Democrats have used to advance climate policy has been disastrous. Where other major economies around the world are either passing laws to reign in carbon emissions (the EU) or dumping truckloads of cash into clean energy development (China), the US continues ...
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published April 1, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo by USFWS Pacific via Flickr Creative Commons Last year was touted to be the worst year on record for corals as the temperature of oceans creeped upwards. As waters warm, the symbiotic algae living on corals dies off, causing bleaching from which it is difficult for corals to recover. Last year, the news of bleachings in important coral ...
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published March 29, 2011 and has No Comments
Above, you will find a very reasonable conservative politician discussing climate policy. I'm posting this video to invite you all on a nostalgic journey back to the halcyon days of the American climate debate in politics -- way back in 2008. Way back before even acknowledging that the existence of climate science was taboo in conservative political circles. Back before ...
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