The Moral Choice between Mitigation or Adaptation to Dangerous Climate Change
The world won’t adapt and can’t adapt to dangerous climate change: the only adaptive response to a global shortage of food is starvation. Of the two strategies it is mitigation, not adaptation, which turns out to be the most feasible option, even if this stretches the concept of feasibility to the limits. As Dieter Helm points out, the action required today is unlikely but “not impossible. It is a matter ultimately of human well being and ethics.”
Bill McKibben to be among demonstrators in Washington DC against coal-fired power plants
On March 2, environmentalist Bill McKibben will join demonstrators who plan to march on a coal-fired power plant in Washington D.C. In this article for Yale Environment 360, he explains why he’s ready to go to jail to protest the continued burning of coal.
Holiday Cheer to All on the 350th Day of the Year
“Even a goal of 450 parts per million, which seems so difficult today, is inadequate,” said Gore at the UN Climate talks in Poznan, Poland, adding we “need to toughen that goal to 350 parts per million.”
Carbon Emissions Are Soaring Out of Control
Despite the political rhetoric, the scientific warnings, the media headlines and the corporate promises, he would say, carbon emissions were soaring way out of control – far above even the bleak scenarios considered by last year’s report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Stern review. The battle against dangerous climate change had been lost, and the world needed to prepare for things to get very, very bad.
James Hansen at UK Parliamentary Committee
Video of James Hansen’s important testimony on The Scientific basis for carbon reduction targets before a UK Parliamentary committee
Misleading Title for Important Climate Post
When you notice an article with this title, Joe Romm on Hansen’s Mistakes, Cap’s Limits, posted November 24 on Andrew Revkin’s New York Times blog DotEarth, you might be expect to be bored by it – that is, unless you’re a right-wing global warming denier hoping for yet another opportunity to call the pre-eminent NASA scientist Dr. James E. Hansen [...]
Update on Ocean Acidification
“If carbon dioxide emissions remain unchecked, in 40 years the oceans will be more acidic than anything experienced in the past 20 million years.” Rachel’s Environmental and Health News Editor’s note: Please also see the following articles from Carbon Equity in Australia Southern Ocean close to acid tipping point www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/11/11/2416190.htm Bianca Nogrady, ABC News, 11 November [...]
Our climate unsafe beyond 350 ppm atmospheric CO2
“We need to find ways to remove (CO2) and reach the safe level more quickly.” We did it, we can undo it By Thomas E. Lovejoy, Tim Flannery and Achim Steiner International Herald Tribune Monday, October 27, 2008 In the course of Earth’s history, life collectively has had a strong influence on atmosphere and climate. It [...]
