Johann Hari: A fight for the Amazon that should inspire the world
In the depths of the Amazon rainforest, the poorest people in the world have taken on the richest people in the world to defend a part of the ecosystem none of us can live without. They had nothing but wooden spears and moral force to defeat the oil companies – and, for today, they have won.
With so many ACES in the Waxman-Markey climate bill, have we been dealt a bad hand?
We need a strong, not just any, climate bill. We need to take what happened yesterday in the House and turn it into something that history will record as not so much the culmination of our many years of hard work but a breakthrough that opened the way for a flood of people power, a broad and deep clean energy revolution in the months and years ahead.
James Hansen’s 23 June 2009 remarks at Coal River Mountain, with the Declaration of the demonstrators
The story of James Hansen’s arrest on 23 June 2009, with his remarks at Coal River Mountain, with the Declaration of the demonstrators
Rapid, Sustained and Effective Mitigation Needed to Avoid “Dangerous Climate Change”
With unabated greenhouse gas emissions, the world faces a growing risk of ”abrupt and irreversible climatic shifts”. This is one of the conclusions in a scientific synthesis report released Thursday, June 18. Weak targets for CO2 reduction 2020 increase the risk of serious impacts, such as tipping points, and make the task of meeting 2050 targets more difficult and costly.
Dangerous Climate Change Impacts Recognized in U.S. Government Report
The United States Global Change Research Program released a major report called Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States this week summarizing the science and consequences, both current and projected, of climate change in the U.S. United States Global Change Research Program, Global Climate Change Impacts, Climate Change, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Human-induced. Climate change will interact with many social and environmental stresses; thresholds will be crossed, leading to large changes in climate and ecosystems.
Dr. William H. Calvin to Speak at the University of Victoria
Dr. William Calvin, who is widely known for his books on human evolution and climate change, will give a presentation hosted by Sierra Club of British Columbia and the University of Victoria on Thursday, June 18, 2009 at 7PM UVic, in the Bob Wright Earth, Ocean, and Atmosphere Sciences Building.
The Future of Carbon Pricing
George Heyman of the Sierra Club of BC says while the Campbell Government should be acknowledged for its leadership on the carbon tax, it must also do away with contradictory policies. “This Government also continues to promote oil and gas development, the transportation of dirty fuels across the north and down the coast that comes from Alberta and encourages the building of roads which encourages people to take more vehicles on the roads and emit more carbon.” Heyman adds the revenue from the carbon tax should go toward public transit and other green initiatives, instead of cuts to other taxes that make the policy revenue-neutral.
Young People DO Care About Climate Change
After Bonn, a Safe Future For Youth Still in Doubt Posted on ClimateProgress.org June 12, 2009 http://climateprogress.org/2009/06/12/after-bonn-a-safe-future-for-youth-still-in-doubt/ Today’s guest blogger is Kyle Gracey, Chair for SustainUS and a graduate student in public policy and geophysical sciences at the University of Chicago. In 2050, I’ll be 77, and given the pace of the climate talks in [...]
ClimateWizard: A Great Tool For Climate Change Prediction
ClimateWizard enables technical and non-technical audiences alike to access leading climate change information and visualize the impacts anywhere on Earth. The first generation of this web-based program allows the user to choose a state or country and both assess how climate has changed over time and to project what future changes are predicted to occur in a given area. ClimateWizard represents the first time ever the full range of climate history and impacts for a landscape have been brought together in a user-friendly format.
