MORAL LEADERSHIP IN THE GREENHOUSE
"Stradling Solutions and Survivalism," Nov. 2006 talk
Skeptics Meet The Truth Squad: The DeSmog Blog
In Conclusion...A video talk By Ross Gelbspan (14:52 minutes)
QUOTEWORTHY
"Copenhagen wasn't what I had hoped it would be… We were about an inch away from a formal agreement. It was basically in our grasp, but it didn't happen. So that was a pity."-–Yvo deBoers announcing his resignation as head of the UNFCCC, Feb. 18, 2010
From 2000 through 2004, 262 million people were affected by climate disasters each year, 98 percent of whom live in the developing world. A person living in 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 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"
“With the coldest winter ever recorded, with snow setting record levels up and down the coast, the Nobel committee should take the Nobel Prize back from Al Gore.”
-– Donald Trump, speaking at Trump National Golf Club, Feb. 15, 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
" We should be building an economy where the purpose is to sustain people and the planet, where social justice and cohesion are prized, and where human communities, nature, and democracy all flourish.
-- James Gustave Speth, The 10th Annual John H. Chafee Memorial Lecture, Jan 21, 2010
"I would rather Copenhagen not happen...This is analogous to the issue of slavery...On those kinds of issues you cannot compromise. You can't say let's reduce slavery, let's find a compromise and reduce it 50 percent...
-- Nasa scientist Jim Hansen, the Guardian (U.K.), Dec. 2, 2009
"The United States must. . .quit carbon entirely within ten years. Other industrial nations must do the same by 2025 to 2030. China only has until 2035, and the world as a whole must be carbon-free by 2050."
-- Study by Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, cited by Mark Hertsgaard, The Nation, Oct. 7, 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
Exxon Mobil is "the only principled oil and gas company I know in the US."
-- Richard S. Lindzen, BBCNews.com (April 26, 2007
"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)
CLIMATE NEWS UPDATES: 2000 -- 2009
"Moral Leadership In The Greenhouse"
-- Ross Gelbspan (March, 2009)
* IPCC process to be reviewed by 15 national science panels (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)
* Arctic seabed methane release startles scientists (March, 2010)
* Inhofe calls for criminal investigation of climate scientists (March, 2010)
* Brutal winter storms cut power to millions in the US, Russia and Western Europe (Feb. 2010)
* De Boer steps down as head of UNFCCC (Feb. 2010)
* BP, ConocoPhillips, Caterpillar leave USCAP (Feb. 2010)
* Rate of ocean acidification unprecedented in last 65 million years (Feb. 2010)
* The New York Times provides a sounding board for climate skeptics (Feb. 2010)
* IPCC errors trigger push for panel's reform (Feb. 2010)
* ExxonMobil funds new blitz by climate skeptics (Feb. 2010)
* BBC finds rise in climate skepticism in UK (Feb, 2010)
* Cyberthieves steal millions in fraudulent carbon credits (Feb. 2010)
* Egypt's breadbasket becoming poisoned by saltwater intrusion (Jan. 2010)
* 2009 matches second hottest year on record (Jan. 2010)
* Recent cooling attributed to stratospheric dry spell (Jan. 2010)
* SEC mandates more climate-risk disclosure from corporations (Jan. 2010)
* Public concern about warming fades (Jan. 2010)
* 2000-2009 is the hottest decade on record (Jan. 2010)
* Middle Eastern drought triggers flights of "water refugees" (Jan. 2010)
* Earth may be entering a new Pliocene era (Jan. 2010)
* Researcher maps shrinkage of northern hemisphere snow cover since 1980 (Jan. 2010)
* Increased leakage of seabed methane startles scientists (Jan. 2010)
* Britain gripped by longest cold snap in 19 years (Jan. 2010)
* Europe plans international grid for mix of renewable sources (Jan. 2010)
* Ecosystems must migrate to keep pace with warming (Dec. 2009)
* Copenhagen: no timetables, no binding cuts, another "Wait till next year!" (Dec. 2009)
* Even "safe" warming could make one-fifth of all species extinct (Dec. 2009)
* Seasonal rains fail in East Africa, leaving millions at risk of hunger (Dec. 2009)
* Disappearing glaciers threaten to overwhelm Bolivia's cities (Dec. 2009)
* 2010 projected to be hottest year on record (Dec. 2009)
* CRU's Jones steps down amidst charges of scientific censorship (Nov. 2009)