Final Episode of BBC World’s “Hot Cities” Available
Los Angeles is one of the most polluting cities in the world thanks largely to its love affair with the car. It is a city built on consumption. Each person produces around 20 tonnes of emissions per year – twice as much as anyone else. Now they are about to reap what has been sown. In LA there has been a big increase in wildfires, water supplies are under threat, rising sea levels could have a massive impact on LA’s huge port and destroy thousands of homes. “Hot Cities” goes to LA just as the city launches its adaptation strategy.
A Outspoken Interview and Strongly Worded Article by Naomi Klein on the Case for Climate Debt
As faith in government action dwindles, however, climate activists are treating Copenhagen as an opportunity of a different kind. On track to be the largest environmental gathering in history, the summit represents a chance to seize the political terrain back from business-friendly half-measures, such as carbon offsets and emissions trading, and introduce some effective, common-sense proposals — ideas that have less to do with creating complex new markets for pollution and more to do with keeping coal and oil in the ground.
Among the smartest and most promising — not to mention controversial — proposals is “climate debt,” the idea that rich countries should pay reparations to poor countries for the climate crisis.
Time to Take Our Foot Off the Pedal and Reduce CO2 Emissions to 350 ppm
The World Clock created by Peter Russell, British author and futurist is a stunning look at what’s happening literally minute by minute on our earth. One look at this clock is all it takes, and it’s worth a million words.
Indecision at Copenhagen Climate Talks in Copenhagen This December Could Cause a “Global Health Catastrophe”
Failure to agree a new UN climate deal in December will bring a “global health catastrophe”, say 18 of the world’s professional medical organisations.
Writing in The Lancet and the British Medical Journal, they urge doctors to “take a lead” on the climate issue.
Will Climate Refugees Be Allowed Safe Haven on James Lovelock’s “Lifeboats?”
Can we create for ourselves in enough time societies governed by a new set of “rules,” a new way of organizing ourselves, a new way of living with the earth and with one another? Can we create a new way that we live as individuals, day-to-day, that builds upon the life examples and teachings of history’s great spiritual leaders, or the life examples of the tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions, who have come before us who gave their lives struggling and sacrificing for a better world for their descendants?
There are many of us all around the world who believe, unlike Lovelock, that we have it in us not just to try but to have a chance of succeeding. But it’s a race against time.
Lack of Water a Present and Future Crisis for Mexican People
Inspired by Oxfam report “Suffering the Science: Climate change, poverty and people,” Canadian writes open letter to Mexican mother about need for climate change mitigation.
Important Resource Material on Climate War Scenarios
Useful links, dating from 2003, to five and a half years of various reports and articles on possible future conflicts related to dangerous climate change, an important reference for governmental and non-governmental decision makers.
Shocking Australian Government Report on Dangerous Climate Change
“Climate Change 2009″ Faster Change and More Serious Risks By Will Steffen Click here to download the full report Executive summary: State of the Science 2009 The IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) is an outstanding source of information on our current scientific understanding of the climate system and how it is responding to the changes in the [...]
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.
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.
