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


QUOTEWORTHY

"Why aren't you young people out protesting the mess that's being made of the planet? Why are you not repeating what was done in the '60s? Why aren't you in the streets? And what in the world has happened to the green movement that used to be on our minds and accompanied by outrage and high hopes? What went wrong?"

-- E.O. Wilson, distinguished researcher, age 82, Grist.org, April 30, 2012

“There’s no such thing as clean coal, and shipping it abroad doesn’t clean up the problem. Coal industry ads blur the line between clean coal and clean-coal technology. Improving the efficiency in how much energy you get from burning a pound of coal doesn’t make clean coal.”

---- Bill Ritchie, former manager of several large Montana coal mines, The Missoulian (Mt), April 17, 2012

"Literally a day doesn't go by where I don't have to deal with some of the nastiness that comes out of a campaign that tries to discredit me, and thereby . . . discredit the entire science of climate change."

-- Michael Mann, The Guardian (U.K.), Feb, 17, 2012

 "The melt-off from the world's ice sheets, ice caps and glaciers over eight years of the past decade would have been enough to cover the United States in about 18 inches of water, according to new data" from Nasa Satellites.

-- The Christian Science Monitor, Feb. 8, 2012

"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

 "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

 "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

* Climate change will outpace mammals' race to new habitats (May, 2012)

* Big sponsors flee Heartland Institute (May, 2012)

* Conservative funders take aim at Obama's clean energy agenda (May. 2012)

* Heartland ad likens climate advocates to Manson, Bin Laden and the Unabomber (May. 2012)

* Defense Secretary Panetta stresses security threat of climate inaction (May, 2012)

* Decline in ocean salinity intensifies weather extremes (April, 2012)

* Warming ocean speeds Antarctic melt (April, 2012)

* Climate changes exert biggest influence on corn prices (April, 2012)

* Poll: public is beginning to link  weather extremes to warming  (April, 2012)

* Britain struggles through its worst drought in 36 years  (April, 2012)

* Midwestern US raked by 112 tornadoes in one day (April, 2012)

* Record drought expands from southwestern US across the country   (April, 2012)

* Enhanced CO2 forces early plant growth spurt, followed by inevitable decline  (April. 2012)

* March, 2012: Warmest such month in US history (April, 2012)

* Property insurers cut coverage in the face of intensifying weather extremes (April, 2012)

* Arctic warming is changing global weather patterns (April, 2012)

* GM ditches Heartland Institute (April, 2012)

* IPCC to World's Governments:  plan now for climate disasters (March, 2012)

* Climate is approaching point of permanent shift -- scientists   (March, 2012)

* Mexico's long-term climate future:  thirsty  (March, 2012)

* OECD:  Emissions to rise 50 percent by 2050 (March, 2012)

* Warmer temperatures double number of tree-killing beetles   (March,2012)

* US coastal cities unprepared for sea level rise (March, 2012)

* Loss of Greenland ice may be irreversible (March, 2012)

* Island nation of Kiribati plans to relocate to Fiji (March, 2012)

* Warming will bring earlier tornadoes -- study (March, 2012)

* Oceans acidifying faster than at any time in the last 300 million years (March, 2012)

* Warm US winter, Texas drought confuses migratory birds  (March, 2012)

* Internal documents expose fraudulent anti-science campaign by Heartland Institute (Feb. 2012)

* Campaign includes denialist curriculum funded by Altria, Koch Industries and others:  Desmogblog (Feb. 2012)

* Alaska's ancient yellow cedars fall victim to warming (Feb, 2012)

* New satellite data reveals "colossal" global meltdown  (Feb. 2012)

* Sierra Club took $26 million in contributions from natural gas industry (Feb. 2012)

* Tea Party:  sustainability is a United Nations plot (Feb. 2012)

* Half the authors of Wall Street Journal climate slam are on the take from industry (Feb. 2012)

* 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)

* 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)

* News media coverage of ckimate 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

* Warming oceans are breeding more dangerous bacteria (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)

* 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)

* Climate impacts seen driving mental illness: doctors (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)

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

* 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)

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

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

CLIMATE NEWS UPDATES: 2000 -- 2009

 

* 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)

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