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What if the world can’t cut its carbon emissions? | Energy Matters
What if the world can’t cut its carbon emissions? | Energy Matters. What if the world can’t cut its carbon emissions? Posted on December 29, 2014 by Roger Andrews Many people, including more than a few prominent politicians, accept that global warming must be limited to no more than two degrees C above the pre-industrial mean, or a […]
Heft Notes: Naomi Klein’s “This Changes Everything”
Heft Notes: Naomi Klein’s “This Changes Everything”. Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything (2014) is an important contribution to the discussion of strategy and tactics for climate action. Klein has covered a lot of bases in her description of the importance of climate change as an issue demanding concerted action, the social forces which are contributing to the […]
Satellite Provides Sharper Picture of Shrinking Ice Sheet – Truthdig
Satellite Provides Sharper Picture of Shrinking Ice Sheet – Truthdig. LONDON—Greenland’s ice sheet shrank by an average of 243 billion tonnes a year between 2003 and 2009—a rate of melting that is enough to raise the world’s sea levels by 0.68 mm per year. In what is claimed as the first detailed study, geologist Beata […]
From Bad to Worse: A Roadmap to Global Burning | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
From Bad to Worse: A Roadmap to Global Burning | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community. The “Lima call for climate action” which came out of the recent UN climate talks, establishes a roadmap to a post-2020 agreement that will be weaker than the ongoing Cancun Agreement (for 2012-2020), and […]
Climate: The Crisis and the Movement
Climate: The Crisis and the Movement. Wherein lie the roots of the climate crisis? Allen White, Senior Fellow at the Tellus Institute, talks with writer and activist Naomi Klein, author of the new book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate, about how our economic system has driven us to the point of crisis and how we can […]
Emissions-Cutting Deal Reached at COP 20 Lima, But Will It Help Prevent Catastrophic Climate Change? | Democracy Now!
Emissions-Cutting Deal Reached at COP 20 Lima, But Will It Help Prevent Catastrophic Climate Change? | Democracy Now!. After more than 30 hours of extended talks, a global agreement on climate change was reached over the weekend at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Lima, Peru. Negotiators from nearly 200 countries agreed to a […]
Newspapers Complicit In Selling Phony “War On Coal” | DeSmogBlog
Newspapers Complicit In Selling Phony “War On Coal” | DeSmogBlog. U.S. newspapers are helping conservatives push their misleading “war on coal” narrative, according to a new report.There are a number of reasons why thetide has turned against the coal industryaround the globe. Mining and burning coal for energy poses huge risks for human health and the […]
Weakened deal reached in Peru climate talks – Americas – Al Jazeera English
Weakened deal reached in Peru climate talks – Americas – Al Jazeera English. About 190 nations have agreed upon the building blocks of a deal to combat climate change in 2015 amid warnings that far tougher action will be needed to cut rising world greenhouse-gas emissions. The Lima deal, reached early on Sunday, lays out […]
Fairfax Ipsos poll shows climate change concerns heating up around Tony Abbott
Fairfax Ipsos poll shows climate change concerns heating up around Tony Abbott. Six out of 10 of Australians think Tony Abbott’s Direct Action policy has left the country with an inadequate policy response to the problem of global warming, according to the latest Fairfax Ipsos poll. The finding comes as Foreign Minister Julie Bishop attends […]
Debate heats up on risk of frozen fossil fuel assets
Debate heats up on risk of frozen fossil fuel assets. In a move that’s likely to cause consternation in some of the world’s most powerful corporate boardrooms, the Bank of England has disclosed that it is launching an inquiry into the risks fossil fuel companies pose to overall financial stability. Mark Carney, governor of the […]
ALERT! Tell #COP20 Climate Delegates: If Not Cutting Emissions, You Are Failing | EcoInternet
ALERT! Tell #COP20 Climate Delegates: If Not Cutting Emissions, You Are Failing | EcoInternet. TAKE ACTION to urge immediate and fast emissions cuts at UN climate talks. Abrupt climate change threatens the world with runaway global warming, extreme weather weirding, and global ecosystem collapse unless together we embrace a 1.5° C warming goal and begin […]
2014 Likely ‘Hottest’ Year on Record, Ocean Temps Spike | Environment News Service
2014 Likely ‘Hottest’ Year on Record, Ocean Temps Spike | Environment News Service. LIMA, Peru, December 3, 2014 (ENS) – The year 2014 is likely to go down in the record books as one of the hottest years in modern history, according to estimates released today by the World Meteorological Organization. One cause is record […]
BBC News – World on course for warmest year
BBC News – World on course for warmest year. This year is in the running to be the hottest globally and for the UK since records began, early estimates show. In the first 10 months of 2014, global average air temperature was about 0.57 Celsius above the long-term average. And the first eleven months in […]
In Decades Since Leaders First Got Together On Climate, World Has Gotten Hotter, Weirder
In Decades Since Leaders First Got Together On Climate, World Has Gotten Hotter, Weirder. WASHINGTON (AP) — In the more than two decades since world leaders first got together to try to solve global warming, life on Earth has changed, not just the climate. It’s gotten hotter, more polluted with heat-trapping gases, more crowded and […]
Weather Extremes Will Be the Norm As World Warms – Truthdig
Weather Extremes Will Be the Norm As World Warms – Truthdig. As the planet continues to warm, heat waves and other weather extremes that happen perhaps once in hundreds of years—if ever—would become the “new climate normal”, a World Bank report says. The consequences for development would be severe: failing harvests, shifting water resources, rising […]
