Kyoto Accord quick tour: Taiwanese animation on Canada’s Kyoto betrayal
Canada is the one who had soup, salad, two appetizers, a full gourmet entree, three side dishes, desert, artisan coffee, an aperitif, a bottle of vintage wine, a glass of port and a brandy. Now that the bill has arrived Canada is insisting that the only ‘fair’ solution is if everyone pays an equal share.
COP17: Climate Change Terrorism is “Politically Pragmatic”
Right, and “Warning: lethally toxic high voltage radioactive explosive” is just a health tip.
Stern’s statement is trivially true; any information is a “guidepost.” This particular guidepost informs us that 2oC is almost certainly catastrophic and knowingly going above it is insane. The cavalier manner with which he tosses the statement out, as though we were talking about highway signs advising motorists about rest stops, is criminally irresponsible.
Beyond ‘dangerous’ climate change: Till We Have Faces
What does it mean to be a young person who is just starting life as the older generations conspire to bring it all crashing down? Being condemned to a Hobbesian nightmare so that we can have drive through Latte Shoppes, Cancun vacations and nose hair trimmers for a few more years?
Brutal numbers and tenuous hope, a MUST read
Global inequity means that a disproportionate share of the climate change problem is caused by very few people. For the moment we don’t really need to worry about changing 7 billion people, the real problem is the global 1%. That includes most of us in the developed world;
Durban COP(Out)17: How to make it work
As such it is in the political interest of every ruling party to delay action to past their current terms of office. That way all upheavals are blamed on the then government rather than those actually responsible (ie the current ruling parties and those of the last 2 decades, all of whom have been doing exactly the same thing).
Back to the Future: 2 Degrees C is Safe for Whom?
There are many, many tens of millions of us in the global North who accept the reality of climate change science. Were we to take meaningful action both personally and politically it would reduce CO2 emissions significantly and shake the political foundations of our societies to the core.
Ethical Oil: A truth that’s told with bad intent
Of the many contradictions and hypocrisies in the Ethical Oil Campaign, one of the most ironic is the fact that while the abuses of human rights and the environment cited by the EOC are permitted by the countries in question, many of the abuses are actually committed by the very oil companies EOC is working on behalf of.
Cohabit Eaarth: We are the 99.999%
Staggering as it may be to imagine that so much wealth is concentrated in the hands of a mere 1% of the population, remember that it refers to 1% of the human population in the United States and/or the Industrialized world. When we recognize that those deserving a fair share must include the entire human population, and that this “wealth” comes at the expense of the natural world on which we all depend, then the inequity and absurdity (insanity?) becomes all the more glaring.
4 Degrees Hotter: Will This Be Our Future Climate?
It is clear that our collective survival depends on the most radical mitigation effort we can imagine. Climate change is already dangerous, it is no longer a future-tense proposition. The hour is late. James Hansen, in a new paper, says that “…goals of limiting human-made warming to 2C and CO2 to 450 ppm are prescriptions for disaster.” At just 0.8C warming so far, he says we have little or no “cushion” left to avoid dangerous climate change.
