Although the local and even regional effects of climate change will vary from place to place, natural disasters will likely be exacerbated as global temperatures rise.
Homes found in precarious positions — in wildfire zones, on cliffs, along coasts, and in sinking cities — will have to figure out ways to deal with the looming threats [...]
Maya Lin – Unchopping a Tree from What is Missing? Foundation on Vimeo.
“Ladies and gentlemen, there is no time to waste. America has made our choice. We have charted our course. We have made our commitments. We will do what we say. Now I believe it’s the time for the nations and peoples of the world to come together behind a common purpose.
We are ready to get [...]
“The UK environment secretary said that acidification provided a “powerful incentive” to cut carbon emissions.
Ocean chemistry is changing because water absorbs extra CO2 from the air.
“It affects marine life, it affects coral, and that in turn could affect the amount of fish in the sea – and a billion people in the world depend on [...]
“EL ALTO, Bolivia — When the tap across from her mud-walled home dried up in September, Celia Cruz stopped making soups and scaled back washing for her family of five. She began daily pilgrimages to better-off neighborhoods, hoping to find water there.
The glaciers that have long provided water and electricity to this part of Bolivia [...]
Gore and Danish ice scientist Dorthe Dahl Jensen clicked through two slide shows for a standing-room-only crowd of hundreds in a side event at the Bella Center conference site.
…what’s happening to Greenland’s titanic ice sheet “has really surprised us,” said Jensen of the University of Copenhagen.
She cited one huge glacier in west Greenland, at Jakobshavn, [...]
Thanks to Correspondent Ed Brown for passing this along:
“The past 10 years have been the warmest decade on record and this year has been one of the five hottest, scientists revealed today as negotiators attempt to make progress on a new international deal to combat climate change.”
via Last decade ‘the warmest on record’ – Climate [...]
Copenhagen: The Center for American Progress
Myth # 3: It’s impossible for the world to meet the IPCC’s targets for stabilizing greenhouse gas emissions to prevent a dangerous rise in temperature.
Reality: We are 65 percent of the way there already.
Read this straightforward clarification of what we could achieve in Copenhagen via Myth vs. Reality on the [...]
Thanks to Ed Brown for passing this article along to us:
…Moving by increments: it frustrates the hell out of many of us, and sometimes it’s truly disastrous….When it comes to global warming, however, this is precisely why we’re headed off a cliff…
It’s like nothing we’ve ever faced before — and we’re facing it as [...]
In a wide-ranging interview with Slate, Gore talks about environmental policy, why the Copenhagen meeting matters, and the hacked climate science emails. The emails, Gore stresses, were “taken wildly out of context” and the uproar surrounding them is “sound and fury signifying nothing.”
His frustration with the hacked-email fallout is palpable. “The basic facts are incontrovertible. [...]
