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?
Lying about the science is a “Prescription for Disaster”
Bear in mind they are making that claim about a supposedly “safe” 2oC rise in temperature, a window we have almost certainly already missed thanks to years of the same waffling and foot dragging. As these posts document, we now know that 2oC is NOT safe and that further delay is absolutely suicidal.
Stephen Schneider: Science and Distortion
“A year in the making, this video pays tribute to a critical scientific and academic figure in postmodern history: the late Climatologist and Stanford Professor Stephen Schneider (1945-2010) This video was screened before a live audience by Climate One of the Commonwealth Club of California in downtown San Francisco on Dec 6, 2011 as the [...]
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;
Climate Change, Media Coverage and You
Taken together the stories underscore how vital it is that we pressure media and their advertisers to provide significantly more climate coverage. Further, that they must strive to make the coverage factual and accurate by stopping the farce of “providing balance” to the incoherent ideologues who manufacture claims of scientific controversy, except for the purpose of exposing their frauds and corporate funding.
The Cure for Climate Change Despair
New article by North Island Columnist Ray Grigg.The cure for the “well-informed futility syndrome” is action. But not just any action.
Do, and despair not
Receiving worsening news about climate change, to some extent we choose to be dis-empowered. As Ray Grigg discusses in his post “Well-Informed Futility Syndrome”, for those predisposed to inaction news of this sort is a harbinger of doom. For those inclined to act it is a call to arms. An oversimplification, but as Grigg explains, we do have some choices about which we want to be.
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.
James Hansen Joins With Raffi, Calls For Intergenerational Climate Justice
James Hansen writes that media and governments allowed science and pseudo-science to have equal weight, “fair and balanced”. Relentless repetition of minor flaws in telephone-bookthick IPCC reports created the public impression that the science may be flawed, even while observations of climate change strengthened and the urgency of action increased. He says the essence of the potential climate tragedy is its intergenerational injustice.
