Climate Change

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People may imagine that the way climate change will kill us is that we'll get too hot and die of heat stroke or that we'll get flooded. But what's more likely is that as heat rises, the global food supply system will break down because there won't be enough food to go around and it won't be evenly distributed, so war will break out. People getting angry about food may not seem like a “climate change story,” but it's all inter-related.

Articles, Books, Films, and other Thoughts

• NASA’s Hansen: “If We Stay on With Business as Usual,
  the Southern U.S. Will Become Almost Uninhabitable.” (Climate Progress, 29 Sep 2011)
• Top U.S. Scientists To Nation: Global Warming. Really. We Are Not Kidding. (NPR, 16 May 2011)
• Hansen on why he became an activist (Climate Progress, 26 Aug 2010)
  

  “Our planet is close to climate tipping points” and it is “clear that needed actions will happen only if the public, somehow, becomes forcefully involved.”

• Global warming signs unmistakable: report (CBC News, 29 Jul 2010)
• Met Office report: global warming evidence is 'unmistakable' (The Telegraph, 28 Jul 2010)
• Who Cooked the Planet? (Paul Krugman, The New York Times, 25 Jul 2010)
• We’re Gonna Be Sorry (Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times, 24 Jul 2010)
• The New Normal?: Average Global Temperatures Continue to Rise (Scientific American, 22 Jul 2010)
• James Hansen, Today’s Cassandra (NH Gazette, 23 Jun 2010)
• The 11th Hour (Leonardo DiCaprio, Freedom Documentaries, 2010)
• Distinguishing Climate "Deniers" from "Skeptics" (David Brin's blog at Open Salon, 11 Feb 2010)
• Climate Changing Faster Than Expected (Discovery News, 24 Nov 2009)
• Statisticians Reject Global Cooling (EnviroKnow, 27 Oct 2009)
• Four Degrees of Devastation (Common Dreams, 11 Oct 2009)
• The Fall of the Maya: “They Did it to Themselves” (NASA, 6 Oct 2009)
• What Could 4 Degree Warming Mean For The World? (Science Daily, 1 Oct 2009)
• Oil Industry Front Group Releases Misleading Ads About Carbon Dioxide (EnviroKnow, 25 Sep 2009)
• Climate-Change Calculus: Why it's even worse than we feared (Newsweek, 24 Jul 2009)
• Union of Concerned Scientists Debunks Misleading Interpretations
  of Rice University Climate Study (EnviroKnow, 17 Jul 2009)
• Thoreau's Legacy: American Stories on Global Warming (Union of Concerned Scientists, 22 Jun 2009)
• Home (A film by Arthus-Bertrand)
• Is it warm in here? (Rob St. Amant)
• Six Degrees Could Change the World (National Geographic Channel, 2008,
  re-aired periodically, but video available for web site viewing)
• Surveyed scientists agree global warming is real (CNN, Jan 20, 2009)
  
• Examining the Scientific Consensus on Climate Change (Prof. Peter Doran, University of Illinois)
• The Global Climate Change Consensus: My Experiment (Peter Norvig, Google’s Director of Research)
  
• How It Will End (Steve Kirsch)
• Why Global Warming Should Be Every Candidate's #1 Priority (Steve Kirsch)
• An Inconvenient Truth (Al Gore)

Side Effects of Climate Change in an Interconnected World

• Car-Dependent Suburbs May Be Slums of The Future, Says Urban Planning Report (TreeHugger, 7 Feb 2011)
• Are We Selfish Individuals or an Empathic Society?
  The Answer Could Determine Whether We Have a Future (AlterNet, 27 Mar 2010)
• The Logic of Abundance (Intel Daily, 26 Mar 2010)
• No easy way out (Nature Reports, 15 Oct 2009)
• Financial crisis may have been good for the climate (New Scientist, 26 Jun 2009)
• It's too late to be pessimistic
  (Open Salon blog: Marcela K writing for/about Yann Arthus-Bertrand, 6 Jun 2008)
• Climate change displacement has begun—but hardly anyone has noticed
  (Guardian blog: George Monbiot, 8 May 2009)
• The heat to come... (New Scientist, 6 Apr 2009)
• It's both the economy and the environment, stupid (New Scientist, 31 Mar 2009)
• Climate change aims need to be better integrated (Physorg, 26 Mar 2009)
• Odds Of Tipping: Better Than Even Chance Of Major Changes
  In Global Climate System, Experts Predict (Science Daily, 19 Mar 2009)
• Scientists warn on climate tipping points (Physorg, 17 Mar 2009)
• Supplier Awareness Of Climate Change Threats Needs Improvement,
  Supply Chain Report Reveals (Science Daily, 5 Mar 2009)
• Most effective climate engineering solutions revealed (New Scientist, 28 Jan 2009)
• Scientists Rank Global Cooling Hacks (Wired Blogs, 28 Jan 2009)
• Global warming is ‘irreversible’ (BBC, 27 Jan 2009)
• Scientists Agree Human-induced Global Warming Is Real, Survey Says (Science Daily, 21 Jan 2009)
• Climate change to stifle developing nations' growth (New Scientist, 17 Jan 2009)
• How humans cooled the earth -- 500 years ago (Salon.com, 7 Jan 2009)
• Abrupt Climate Change: Will It Happen This Century? (Science Daily, 27 Dec 2008)
• Developing Countries Lack Means To Acquire More Efficient Technologies
  (Science Daily, 24 Dec 2008)
• Hadley Center: “Catastrophic” 5-7°C warming by 2100 on current emissions path
  (Climate Progress, 21 Dec 2008)
• Global Warming Impacts on U.S. Coming Sooner Than Expected, Report Predicts
  (Science Daily, 18 Dec 2008)
• Still time to save the planet ... just (New Scientist, 7 Oct 2008)
• Must-read IEA report explains what must be done to avoid 6°C warming (Climate Progress, 12 Nov 2008)
• Europe should spend now to avoid climate catastrophes (New Scientist, 29 Sep 2008)
• Climate Change Could be Impetus for Wars, Other Conflicts, Expert Says
  (Science Daily, 22 Aug 2008)
• Can This Planet Be Saved? (New York Times, 01 Aug 2008)
• Economics of Catastrophe (New York Times, 29 Jul 2008)
• Why we never need to build another polluting power plant (Salon, 28 Jul 2008)
• Posturing and Abdication (New York Times, 13 Jul 2008)
• If a Tree Falls in the Forest, and No One Is Around to Hear It, Does Climate Change?
  (Science Daily, 13 Jun 2008)
• Global Limits of Biomass Energy (Carnegie Institution for Science, 3 Jun 2008)
• Acidic ‘champagne sea’ nothing to celebrate for corals (New Scientist, 8 Jun 2008)
• Climate Change Could Impact Vital Functions of Microbes (Science Daily, 8 Jun 2008)
• New Zealand seeks to curb livestock's gas emissions (Los Angeles Times, 7 Jun 2008)
• Ocean Life Under Threat From Climate Change (Science Daily, 6 Jun 2008)
• Editorial: The Science of Denial (New York Times, 4 Jun 2008)
• Unique biodiversity hotspot faces destruction (New Scientist, 2 Jun 2008)
• Editorial: Troubled Oceans (New York Times, 31 May 2008)
• Should all Arctic species be red-listed? (New Scientist, 30 May 2008)
• US Struggling to Respond to Climate Shift (New Scientist, 28 May 2008)
• Biodiversity loss costs six percent of world income (Physorg.com, 17 May 2008)
• Indian vultures circling towards extinction (New Scientist, 30 Apr 2008)
• Poison ice (Salon, 30 Apr 2008)
• Even the homeless have large carbon footprints (New Scientist, 29 Apr 2008)
• US ordered to act on polar bear (BBC, 29 Apr 2008)
• Warming ‘affecting poor children’ (BBC, 29 Apr 2008)
• UK tabloids contribute to climate complacency (Physorg.com, 28 Apr 2008)
• Running Out of Planet to Exploit (New York Times, 21 Apr 2008)
• Across Globe, Empty Bellies Bring Rising Anger (New York Times, 18 Apr 2008)
• Ted Turner: Global warming could lead to cannibalism (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 4 Apr 2008)
• Government Reports Warn Planners on Sea-Rise Threat to US Coasts (New York Times, 12 Mar 2008)

Skepticism and Denial

• Cooling the Warming Debate: Major New Analysis Confirms That Global Warming Is Real (Science Daily, 21 Oct 2011)
• Did "No. 1" Climate Change Denier Fake His Résumé? (Mother Jones, 16 Jul 2011)
• Online news service promotes false climate change study (The Guardian, 19 Jan 2011)
• Face facts: Climate change is unfolding as predicted (NJ.com, 3 Sep 2010)
• How much proof do the global warming deniers need? (The Independent, 27 Aug 2010)
• Report: 97 percent of scientists say man-made climate change is real (USA Today, 22 Jun 2010)
• U.K. Panel Calls Climate Data Valid (The New York Times, 30 Mar 2010)
• World may not be warming, say scientists (The Times Online, 14 Feb 2010)
• House Resolution Passed in Utah: Climate Change a Conspiracy (Triple Pundit, 12 Feb 2010)
• Distinguishing Climate "Deniers" from "Skeptics" (David Brin's blog at Open Salon, 11 Feb 2010)
• Climate Wars: Guardian Special Investigation (The Guardian, 9 Feb 2010)
• Climate scientists hit out at 'sloppy' melting glaciers error (The Guardian, 8 Feb 2010)
• California GOP Lawmakers Seek to Suspend California Climate Law (Huffington Post, 4 Feb 2010)
• Global Cooling? The Jellyfish Answer (Consortium News, 16 Jan 2010)