US PRESS COVERAGE: A DAMNING FAILURE OF COURAGE
REVIEW-ESSAY OF JOE ROMM'S "STRAIGHT UP"
MORAL LEADERSHIP IN THE GREENHOUSE
"STRADDLING SOLUTIONS AND SURVIVALISM" (2006 talk)
SKEPTICS MEET THE TRUTH SQUAD: DESMOG BLOG.COM
In Conclusion...A video talk By Ross Gelbspan (14:52 minutes)
QUOTEWORTHY
"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"
"There is good evidence that not all climate changes will be smooth and gradual and thus easy to adapt to."
-- Pamela Matson, chair of the NAS 2010 panel on climate change science, May, 19, 2010
“The engineers are disappointed and management is upset Nothing is good, nothing is good.”
--BP technician on his company's failure to stem the US oil spill, The New York Times, May 29, 2010
“Legitimacy has shifted to the side of the climate skeptics, and that is a big, big problem. This is happening in the context of overwhelming scientific agreement that climate change is real and a threat. But the poll figures are going through the floor.”
-- Ben Stewart, a spokesman for Greenpeace, U.K.
“We may not see any substantial effect on polar bear . . .survival until a threshold is passed. At that point reproduction and survival will decline dramatically and very rapidly.”
-- Peter Molnar University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
“We look back and wonder what we were so worried about.”
-- Mayor Lennart Damsbo-Andersen, of Nysted, Denmark, on his town’s initial concern about offshore windfarms, 2007
From 2000 through 2004, 262 million people were affected by climate disasters each year, 98 percent of whom live in the developing world. A resident of a developing country faced 79 times greater risk of being affected by a climate-induced disaster than a resident of an OECD country.
-- UNDP, “Human Development Report 2007/2008. Fighting Climate Change: Human solidarity in a divided world.”
"Methane release from the East Siberian Shelf is underway and it looks stronger than it was supposed [to be]. . . It is important now to understand how fast it is being released and how much is being released."
--Prof. Igor Semiletov, the University of Alaska, Jan. 5, 2010
"The only time...carbon dioxide levels [were] similar to the modern level of 387 parts per million was 15 to 20 million years ago, when the planet was dramatically different."
-- Aradhna Tripati, UCLA departments of Earth and Space Sciences, Oct. 8, 2009
Interpol warned companies that the carbon trading market would be irresistible to criminal gangs. Said one agent: "Absolutely, organized crime will be involved."
-- The Adelaide (Australia) Advertiser, June 12, 2009
"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)
"Beyond the Point of No Return"
-- Ross Gelbspan (Dec. 2008
US PRESS COVERAGE: A DAMNING BETRAYAL OF PUBLIC TRUST (May, 2010)
GLOBAL SOLUTION: Rewiring the World with Clean Energy
"Moral Leadership In The Greenhouse"
-- Ross Gelbspan (March, 2009)
* International study confirms accelerating warming trend (July, 2010)
* Rapid decline in phytoplankton population stuns scientists (July, 2010)
* Flash floods seen increasing as Milwaukee gets eight inches in two hours (July, 2010)
* Senate climate bill collapses (July, 2010)
* Coral reef deaths soar in record ocean heat (July, 2010)
* First half of 2010 was hottest such period on record (July, 2010)
* Carbon lobby launches "CO2 is Green" campaign (July, 2010)
* Massive Greenland glacier retreats one mile in one night (July, 2010)
* Military declares climate change "a catalyst for conflict (June, 2010)
* Investigation clears Michael Mann of fraudulent allegations (June, 2010)
* Malaria soars with small rainforest reductions (June, 2010)
* Oceans have stored more heat than they released since 1993 (May, 2010)
* Climate change is causing "irreversible" destruction of ocean life systems (June, 2010)
* Himalayan glacier melt puts 60 million people at risk of food shortages (June, 2010)
* Warming pushes many small mammal species to the brink (June, 2010)
* Geoengineering clouds could intensify warming: study (June, 2010)
* IEA: carbon fuel subsidies reach $550 billion (June, 2010)
* Britons' Doubts about anthropogenic climate change soar (May, 2010)
* NAS urges deep carbon cuts in US (May, 2010)
* IEA: Solar Can Power one-quarter of the world by 2050 (May, 2010)
* More than 250 NAS scientists strike back at skeptics (May, 2010)
* Nashville inundated with 14 inches of rain in two days (May, 2010)
* Study shoots down carbon capture as climate remedy (April, 2010)
* Ocean acidity has risen 30 percent in 200 years (April, 2010)
* Royal Society links climate changes to geological shocks (April, 2010)
CLIMATE NEWS UPDATES: 2000 -- 2009
* House of Commons clears CRU's Jones of most "climategate" charges (March. 2010)
* CO2-absorbing Algae found toxic to sea life (March, 2010)
* NASA study debunks "global cooling" (March, 2010)
* IPCC understates case for human-induced warming (March, 2010)
* Creationists begin to take aim at climate science as well as evolution (March, 2010)
* Brutal winter storms cut power to millions in the US, Russia and Western Europe (Feb. 2010)
* Rate of ocean acidification unprecedented in last 65 million years (Feb. 2010)
* ExxonMobil funds new blitz by climate skeptics (Feb. 2010)
* Cyberthieves steal millions in fraudulent carbon credits (Feb. 2010)
* Egypt's breadbasket becoming poisoned by saltwater intrusion (Jan. 2010)
* 2000-2009 is the hottest decade on record (Jan. 2010)
* Middle Eastern drought triggers flights of "water refugees" (Jan. 2010)
* Increased leakage of seabed methane startles scientists (Jan. 2010)