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


QUOTEWORTHY

“Those of us who spend our days trawling . . .the scientific literature on climate change are becoming increasingly gloomy about the future of human civilization. We are well past the time of niceties, of avoiding the dire nature of what is unfolding, and politely trying not to scare the public.”

-- Elizabeth Hanna, of the Australian National University, on that country's record heat wave and wildfire epdemic

"The abnormal is the new normal. . . from the United States to India, from Ukraine to Brazil, drought (has) decimated essential global crops. . . No one is immune to climate change -- rich or poor. It is an existential challenge for the whole human race - our way of life, our plans for the future."

-- U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon addressing the climate summit in Doha, Qatar, Dec. 4, 2012

 "We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations. Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms."

-- President Barack Obama, Second Inaugural Address, Jan. 21, 2013

 "Did climate change cause Hurricane Sandy? Absolutely not. Did climate change have anything to do with Sandy being as bad as it was? Absolutely so."

-- Survey of blogs from atmospheric scientists, Discovery.com, Nov. 2, 2012

 “We have spent our entire existence adapting, okay? So we will adapt to this. Changes to weather patterns that move crop production areas around — we’ll adapt to that. It’s an engineering problem, and it has engineering solutions.”

--Rex Tillerson, CEO of ExxonMobil, June 27, 2012

The dominant cause of the warming since the 1950s is human activities. . .The observed warming will be irreversible for many years into the future . . . Avoiding this future warming will require a large and rapid reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions.

-- American Meteorological Society, Aug. 20, 2012

"Our efforts have not lived up to the measure of the challenge. Nature does not wait. Nature does not negotiate with human beings. Our scarcest resource is time. It is running out."

-- Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations secretary general at Rio+20, June 22, 2012

“There’s no such thing as clean coal, and shipping it abroad doesn’t clean up the problem. . .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

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

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

 "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"



The Heat Is Online

GLOBAL SOLUTION: Rewiring the World with Clean Energy

* NASA:  warming oceans are driving Antarctic ice shelf meltdown (June, 2013)

* Britain's wheat production  cut by 30 percent  by extreme weather (June, 2013)

* Global emissions hit record high in 2012   (June, 2013)

* Warming Mediterranean waters drive surge in toxic jellyfish  (June, 2013)

* US extreme events account for two thirds of global ecomonic weather-related losses  (May, 2013)

* Slower rate of warming brings cold comfort   (May, 2013)

* Melting glaciers contribute one-third to sea-level rise   (May, 2013)

* Earth is warming faster than at any time in the past 11,000 years   (May, 2013)

* Aerosols far less effective in cooling atmosphere than previously thought: study  (May, 2013)

* CO2 concentrations hit 400 ppm breaking 300 million year record  (May, 2013)

* Belief in "End Times" thwarts climate action in U.S:  study  (May, 2013)

* Ice loss speeds acidification of Arctic Ocean   (May, 2013)

* Atmospheric CO2 levels approach 400 parts per million    (April, 2013)

* Global carbon intensity fell less than 1 percent in 20 years: IEA (April, 2013)

* Recent global temperatures higher than any time in the past 1,400 years  (April, 2013)

* World's clean energy drive has stalled:  IEA  (April, 2013)

* EU deals potential "death blow" to carbon trading  (April, 2013)

* Geoengineering scheme could trigger lethal drought in Africa (April, 2013)

* 1600-year-old Andes ice melted in 25 years  (April, 2013)

* US led world in financial losses to extreme events in 2012   (April, 2013)

* Recent accelleration in warming is buried in deep oceans --- study  (March, 2013)

* Global impacts of Arctic meltdown raise military concerns  (March, 2013)

* Volcanic eruption results dash hopes for geoengineering scheme  (March, 2013)

* Scientists foresee a doubling of Katrina-strength storms  (March, 2013)

* Top US Admiral calls climate change America's biggest long-term security threat  (March, 2013)

* Global temperature breaks 4,000-year record  (March, 2013)

* "Angry Summer" forces Australians to acknowledge climate change  (March, 2013)

* Slowing air systems may extend extreme heatwaves  (Feb.. 2013)

* Anonymous billionaires spent $120 million to discredit climate science -- The Guardian   (Feb. 2013)

* Watson: the world has lost the chance to hold warming to 2*C  (Feb. 2013)

* Moose populations becoming decimated because of warming:  scientists  (Feb. 2013)

* Effective climate action would cut oil company value by 60 percent -- bank study  (Feb. 2013)

* EXMO, Koch-funded ALEC pushes elementary schools to teach climate skepticism  (Feb. 2013)

* US emissions hit lowest level in 19 years   (Feb. 2013)

* Andean glaciers melting faster than at any time in the last 300 years   (Jan. 2013)

* Climate inaction blamed on "insider" environmentalists  (Jan. 2013)

* New York Times, other US papers, shrink climate coverage  (Jan 2013)

* 2012 hottest year in US by a wide margin  (Dec. 2012)

"Not an Act of God" -- (an op-ed about Hurricane Sandy)

* IEA:  surge in global coal production threatens climate crisis  (Dec. 2012)

* Scientists expose a skeptic's dishonest IPCC critique  (Dec. 2012)

* 36 percent of Americans see "end times" behind extreme weather  (Dec. 2012)

* Climate-driven disasters threaten US federal budget capacity  (Dec. 2012)

"Beyond the Point of No Return"

* Permafrost thaw could lead to runaway warming -- UN  (Nov. 2012)

* Kochs, Exxon move to kill state renewable requirements   (Nov. 2012)

* Climate change seen as major threat to national security  (Nov. 2012)

* How climate change turned Sandy into a monster  (Nov. 2012)

* Atlantic current changes are "rapidly destabilizing" methane beds  (Oct. 2012)

US PRESS COVERAGE:  A DAMNING BETRAYAL OF PUBLIC TRUST

* US newspapers lead the world in climate denial  (Oct. 2012)

* High Arctic summer temperatures unmatched in 1,800 years  (Sept. 2012)

* Study: Fox News, Wall Street Journal falsify cllimate coverage  (Sept. 2012)

* Ocean acidification threatens food supply of many nations   (Sept. 2012)

* Global carbon trading system on verge of collapse   (Sept. 2012)

* Speed of previous ice sheet changes startles scientists      (Sept. 2012)

 "Moral Leadership In The Greenhouse"

* Record West Nile Virus outbreak in US follows record summer heat   (Aug. 2012)

* Climate skepticism trumps heatwave, drought in US corn belt  (Aug. 2012)

* Scientists: widespread annual drought set to become the 'new normal'   (Aug. 2012)

* New carbon credit scam games the system -- but not the atmosphere   (Aug. 2012)

* Exxon Ceo:  We will "engineer" our way out of climate chaos (June, 2012)

* Global emissions up 48 percent in 20 years (June, 2012)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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