In Conclusion...
A video talk By Ross Gelbspan (14:52 minutes)


QUOTEWORTHY

"Governments are spending $1.4 billion a day to destabilize the climate."

-- Lester Brown, of Earth Policy Institute, on the world's carbon fuel subsidies which will exceed $600 billion a year by 2015

 “The differences in this chamber may be too deep right now to pass a comprehensive plan to fight climate change."

-- US President Barack Obama addressing Congress during his State of the Union address, Jan. 25, 2012

 "With immediate, concerted action at global scale, we have a slim chance to halt climate change at the extremely dangerous level of 2 degrees C. If we delay even a decade . . . we will have no chance."

-- David Roberts, Grist Magazine, Dec. 5, 2011

"It's certainly not the deal the planet needs."

-- Alden Meyer, of the Union of Concerned Scientists, on the outcome of the Durban climate talks

"If there's no action before 2012, that's too late."

-- IPCC chair Rajendra Pachauri, New York Times, Nov. 17, 2007

‎"I know there is a movement that carbon dioxide should be ... managed by the EPA. I disagree with that. I exhale carbon dioxide. I don’t want those guys following me around with a meter to see if I’m breathing too hard.”

-- Mitt Romney in Manchester, N.H.on Nov. 18, 2011, nine years after he implemented the 2002 carbon-neutral Olympics in Salt Lake City.

 ‎"The evidence is what the planet is telling us. These are not political opinions."

-- Katharine Hayhoe, atmospheric scientist at Texas Tech University, Sept. 8, 2011

 "I find it extraordinary that so many political leaders won't actually talk about the relationship between climate change [and] fossil fuels...We didn't used to get tropical storms. We didn't get flash flooding. Our storm patterns weren't like Costa Rica; they were like Vermont."

-- Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin, Aug. 29, 2011

 "In the face of the overwhelming scientific evidence... some deniers...have persuaded a majority of Republicans in the Congress...to sign on to the fiction that climate change is unreal or is unproven. This has now become a dangerous ideology that threatens the survival of the world as we know it."

-- Timothy Wirth, president, U.N. Foundation on the release of the 2011 report on climate change by the National Academy of Sciences

"The news has been screaming that a future of intense, global climate disasters is not the future that we want . . . We cannot afford to face escalating disasters of that kind.”

-- Christiana Figueres, new executive secretary of the UNFCCC, Sept. 2, 2010

"The depression we're all trying to avoid could very well be a prolonged chronic reaction to what we've been doing to...nature and to cities and to whole peoples...partly because this is the soul's reaction to the mourning and grieving that we're not consciously doing."

-- James Hillman, psychologist, author of "Soul's Code"


"Our house is burning down and we're blind to it...The earth and humankind are in danger and we are all responsible...We cannot say that we did not know! Climate warming is still reversible. Heavy would be the responsibility of those who refused to fight it."



-- French President Jacques Chirac, World Summit on Sustainable Development, (Johannesburg, August, 2002)

The Heat Is Online

"Beyond the Point of No Return" 

                    -- Ross Gelbspan

US PRESS COVERAGE:  A DAMNING BETRAYAL OF PUBLIC TRUST

 

GLOBAL                             PROBLEM 

GLOBAL SOLUTION: Rewiring the World with Clean Energy

"Moral Leadership In The Greenhouse"

-- Ross Gelbspan

* NASA animation: 131 years of planetary heating in 26 seconds (Jan. 2012)

* IEA: fossil fuel subsidies to exceed one-half trillion dollars a year by 2015 (Nov, 2010

* Warming is outpacing European bird migrations (Jan. 2012)

* Freshwater pool in Arctic Ocean could chill Europe (Jan. 2012)

*NOAA lists record 11 weather-related 2011 loss events in US exceeding $1 billion  (Jan. 2012)

* 2011 weighs in as 11th warmest year on record (Jan. 2012)

* Climate skepticism surfaces in several state curricula  (Jan. 2012)

* Coal plants generate about three-quarters of US emissions (Jan. 2012)

* Melting tundra yields treasure of prehistoric bones (Dec. 2011)

* News media coverage of climate plummeted in 2011: study (Jan. 2012)

* Huge plumes of methane found escaping from the Arctic Ocean (Dec. 2011)

* Greenland shed 100 billion tons of ice in 2010 (Dec. 2011)

* Canada pulls out of Kyoto Protocol (Dec. 2011)

* Ocean acidification jeopardizes survival of young fish (Dec. 2011)

* Nations agree to binding emissions cuts -- by 2020 (Dec. 2011)    

         * But Durban time frame could spell disaster: IEA (Dec. 2011)   

* US hit by a record 12 weather events costing over a billion dollars in 2011 (Dec. 2011)

* Traditional 2* C target now seen as "prescription for disaster"  (Dec. 2011)

* Nations fail yet again  to curb warming in Durban talks (Dec. 2011)

* Emissions rose 49 percent since 1990 (Dec. 2011)

* Warming has created a "new normal" in the Arctic (Dec. 2011)

* Revised estimate of permafrost emissions indicates an acceleration of warming (Dec. 2011)

* Growing losses mobilize big insurers in climate battle (Nov. 2011)

* WMO: 2011 hottest year ever in a La Nina (cooling) phase (Nov. 2011)

* Big emitters seek big stall in Durban (Nov. 2011)

* Sweden's November was 12.6* F. above normal  while Mexico's drought is its worst in 70 years   (Nov. 2011)

* US, Saudis block climate fund on eve of conference (Nov. 2011)

* Report: handful of multinationals block international action on climate (Nov. 2011)

* New "climategate" release by  desperate skeptics  (Nov. 2011)

* Jump in ghg emissions -- which linger for decades -- exceeds "worst case scenario"  (Nov. 2011)

* Kofi Annan: climate impacts are devastating world food supplies (Nov. 2011)

* IEA:  five year countdown to catastrophe (Nov. 2011)

* IPCC:  Expect more -- and more frequent -- extreme weather events   (Nov 2011)

* World must prepare for large-scale refugee resettlement:  study (Oct. 2011)

* Rising temperatures found shrinking crop yields (Oct. 2011)

*  "Unsafe Warming" in our lifetimes: Scientists  (Oct. 2011)

* Drought-driven 8,000-foot-high dust storm envelops Texas city (Oct. 2011)

* Scientist accuses Texas officials of censoring references to "man-made" warming  (Oct. 2011)

* Prolonged drought, intense heat:  Texas' new normal?  (Oct. 2011)

* Diplomats struggle to keep climate talks alive (Oct. 2011)

* IPCC studies link between warming and earthquake activity   (Oct. 2011)

* Climate negotiators move the goalposts back to 2015 (Oct. 2011)

* Warming oceans are breeding more dangerous bacteria (Sept. 2011)

* Danish government to eliminate funding of archskeptic Bjorn Lomborg   (Sept. 2011)

* Global CO2 emissions up 45 percent a year over 1990 (Sept. 2011)

* Deep oceans are masking earth's heat build-up (Sept. 2011)

* Intense flooding leaves some 300,000 Pakistanis homeless (Sept. 2011)

* Texas endures hottest summer of any state in history, while floods force evacuation of 100,000 in northeastern US (Sept. 2011)

* Increase in weather extremes points to climate shift (Sept. 2011)

* Survey:  Tea Party "least worried" about warming because they are "best informed"    (Sept. 2011)

* Journal editor resigns over "flawed" paper by climate skeptic Roy Spenser (Sept. 2011)

* Texas, gripped by extreme drought, suffers its 80th day of triple digit temperatures (Sept. 2011)

* Irene sets record as tenth billion-dollar loss event in the U.S. in one year (Aug. 2011)

* Climate impacts seen driving mental illness: doctors (Aug. 2011)

* Conflict triggers are embedded in a changing climate (Aug. 2011)

* Intensifying weather extremes:  the new normal  (Aug. 2011)

* Extra meltwater weight on ocean floors, land rebounding from melting glaciers can trigger earthquakes (Sept. 2009)

* Animals move northward faster to escape the heat (Aug. 2011)

* US losses to weather extremes tie record -- with four months left in year (Aug. 2011)

* Coal and oil burning drove half of recent Arctic sea ice loss (Aug. 2011)

* Arctic sea ice melting four times faster than projected by climate models (Aug. 2011)

* Texas drought declared worst in more than a century (Aug. 2011)

* Canada's oil sand development will cancel out its emissions cuts (Aug. 2011)

* World's driest desert receives four years worth of rain in one day (Aug. 2011)

* Koch Brothers, Exxon pay lawmakers to gut state climate laws (July, 2011)

* Insect destruction of US forests rises threefold in five years (July, 2011)

* Methane releases could push climate past "tipping point" by 2030  (July, 2011)

* Computer models cannot anticipate rapid climate snaps (July, 2011)

* Warming waters drive marine migrations not seen in 2 million years (June, 2011)

* US Atlantic sea levels rising faster than any time in last 2,000 years (June, 2011)

* Carbon fuel burning is driving mass ocean extinctions (June, 2011)

* Warming spurs dramatic jump in refugees (June, 2011)

* IEA: 2010 emissions output virtually assures dangerous climate change   (May, 2011)

* Climate impacts have boosted commodity prices by 20 percent since 1980 (May,2011)

* US slammed by a monthly record 292 tornadoes,5,400 extreme events and 337 deaths (April, 2011)

* Arctic plankton blooming 50 days earlier than 14 years ago (March, 2011)

* Thirty percent of species could go extinct from warming (Jan. 2011)

* 2010 emerges as wettest year on record, ties for hottest year recorded (Jan. 2011)

 

CLIMATE NEWS UPDATES: 2000 -- 2009

 

 

* Scientists discover dramatic increase in methane release (Jan. 2011) 

* Study links harsher winters with global warming  (Dec. 2010)

* CCS could trigger earthquakes: scientist  (Dec. 2010)

* Study: temperatures could rise more than 7 degrees F. by 2060  (Nov. 2010)

* Siberian Tundra methane seen as a thawing time bomb   (Nov. 2010)

* Scientists project colder winters even as warming increases (Nov. 2010)

* IEA:  world should eliminate fossil fuel subsidies  (Nov,. 2010)

* Tea Party climate deniers funded by BP and other polluters (Oct. 2010)

* Earth's water cycle is changing rapidly   (Oct. 2010)

* Big oil spent a record $175 million to kill climate bills (Aug. 2010)

* Pakistan's worst flood in recorded history claims some 1,100 lives   (July, 2010)

* Oceans have stored more heat than they released since 1993  (May, 2010)

* IEA:  carbon fuel subsidies reach $550 billion (June, 2010)

* Study shoots down carbon capture as climate remedy (April, 2010)

* Ocean acidity has risen 30 percent in 200 years (April, 2010)

* IPCC understates case for human-induced warming (March, 2010)