Climate Change

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Regional Effects, Budgets, Reports, Ethics, and Legislation

• Top U.S. Scientists To Nation: Global Warming. Really. We Are Not Kidding. (NPR, 16 May 2011)
• GOP has Voted 110 Times to Block Efforts to Protect the Environment Since January (Treehugger, 1 Aug 2011)
• How the Koch Brothers Fund the Climate Change Denial Machine (GCC News Brief, 19 Mar 2011)
• Climate change to impact those least responsible: Study (The Star, 6 Mar 2011)
• Don't believe in global warming? That's not very conservative. (The Washington Post, 7 Nov 2010)
• Let Ministry of Defense tackle climate, says Lucas (The Independent, 26 Sep 2010)
• Environmentalists stunned by failures of key measures in Legislature
  (The Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep 2010)
• Gore: The United States government as a whole has failed us (The Raw Story, 12 Aug 2010)
• Will Russia's Heat Wave End Its Global-Warming Doubts? (Time, 2 Aug 2010)
• EPA Rejects Challenges on Greenhouse Gas Threat (Scientific American, 30 Jul 2010)
• The White House lamely blames environmentalists for climate bill failure (Think Progress, 23 Jul 2010)
• Best Buy Takes a Stand (Al Gore's Blog, 3 Apr 2010)
• Another Obama Administration Blow to the Environment, and the Taxpayer (Daily Kos, 2 Apr 2010)
• Rep. Grayson Decries Letting Polluters Give Input on Climate Legislation (EnviroKnow, 2 Apr 2010)
• Most Africans Blame Themselves for Climate Change, Poll Finds (treehugger, 17 Mar 2010)
• Utah delivers vote of no confidence for 'climate alarmists' (The Guardian, 12 Feb 2010)
• India backs embattled climate chief Pachauri (BBC News, 5 Feb 2010)
• Few think climate change will hit them, kids (Reuters, 9 Oct 2009)
• Obama envoy warns of ‘no deal’ summit (The Independent, 18 Oct 2009)
• Obama EPA releases Bush-era global warming finding (Yahoo News, 14 Oct 2009)
• Brazil's Lula vows to slow rate of Amazon deforestation (AFP, 14 Oct 2009)
• Gore says ‘tipping point’ close for public push on climate change (Scholars and Rogues, 13 Oct 2009)
• Climate Pledges So Far Are Nowhere Near Enough (New Scientist, 7 Oct 2009)
• Water Scarcity Will Create Global Security Concerns:
  'We Have Very Little Time,' Says Nobel Winner (Science Daily, 6 Oct 2009)
• Now China lays down challenge to Obama on climate (The Independent, 22 Sep 2009)
• UN plans 'shock therapy' for world leaders on environment (The Guardian, 20 Sep 2009)
• Real Men Tax Gas (New York Times, 19 Sep 2009)
• Debate heats up over long-term climate forecasts (New Scientist, 26 Jun 2009)
• All The Carbon Counts: Including Land-based Carbon In Greenhouse Gas
  Control Strategies Lowers Costs And Preserves Forests (Science Daily, 3 Jun 2009)
• Climate change could kill 500,000 a year by 2030 (New Scientist, 29 May 2009)
• Great land giveaway could be disaster for Amazon (New Scientist, 8 May 2009)
• Earth science gets a boost in NASA budget (New Scientist, 8 May 2009)
• Climate sceptic backs carbon study (Science Daily, 2 May 2009)
• Government 'missing own CO2 goal' (BBC, 1 May 2009)
• Kyoto Treat Is ’Failing The World's Poor,’ Say Scientists (Science Daily, 23 Apr 2009)
• Chart of the Day (Mother Jones blog, 21 Apr 2009)
• Green and mean: The downside of clean energy (New Scientist, 21 Apr 2009)
• EPA closer to global warming warning (Update) (Physorg, 23 Mar 2009)
• Americans Support Action On Global Warming Despite Economic Crisis (Science Daily, 18 Mar 2009)
• Did climate conference just confuse the politicians? (New Scientist, 18 Mar 2009)
• The heat is on Bill Gates (Salon, 9 Mar 2009)
• Conservationists deciding which species to survive (New Scientist, 8 Mar 2009)
• Parched China to slash water consumption by 60% (New Scientist, 16 Feb 2009)
• Obama ‘must act now’ on climate (BBC, 12 Feb 2009)
• Scientists plan emergency summit on climate change (The Guardian, 9 Feb 2009)
• UN chief in India climate warning (BBC, 5 Feb 2009)
• Time for a new Australian bushfire policy? (New Scientist, 9 Feb 2009)
• US states may regain control of vehicle emissions (New Scientist, 1 Feb 2009)
• Recession threatens carbon trading (BBC, 29 Jan 2009)
• EU urges US climate commitment (BBC, 28 Jan 2009)
• Climate change to stifle developing nations' growth (New Scientist, 17 Jan 2009)
• Developing Countries Lack Means To Acquire More Efficient Technologies
  (Science Daily, 24 Dec 2008)
• Ambitious climate goals make economic sense (New Scientist, 23 Dec 2008)
• Energy policy expert to be tapped for US science adviser (New Scientist, 19 Dec 2008)
• A Price On Carbon Not Enough To Save Rainforests (Science Daily, 9 Dec 2008)
• Artist releases carbon dioxide in Greenland (New Scientist, 5 Dec 2008)
• Britain ‘needs deeper CO2 cuts’ (BBC, 17 Dec 2008)
• How fast can Obama fix US environment policy? (New Scientist, 14 Nov 2008)
• World Needs Climate Emergency Backup Plan, Says Expert (Science Daily, 7 Nov 2008)
• China tells rich nations to pay up on climate change (New Scientist, 7 Nov 2008)
• West putting climate treaty in jeopardy, China warns (New Scientist, 6 Oct 2008)
• Costs of Climate Change, State-by-state: Billions, Says New Report (Science Daily, 25 Jul 2008)
• Paying to save tropical rain forests could be a way to reduce global carbon emissions
  (EurekAlert, 23 Jul 2008)
• EPA experts list warming's health risks (MSNBC, 14 Jul 2008)
• EPA Releases Greenhouse Gas Document for Public Comment
  (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 11 Jul 2008)
• Cheney's Office Sought to Change Climate Testimony (New York Times, 8 Jul 2008)
• Only seven years left for global warming target: UN panel chief (PhysOrg, 4 Jul 2008)
• Editorial: Another Failure on Climate Change (New York Times, 12 Jun 2008)
• Senate action on climate bill seems doomed (Physorg.com, 5 Jun 2008)
• NASA Office Is Criticized On Climate Reports (New York Times, 3 Jun 2008)
• U.N.’s Pachauri urges caution in biofuel use (Reuters, 26 Mar 2008)
• Summary of McCain-Lieberman Climate Stewardship and Innovation Act of 2005 (Pew Center)

The Courts

• Va. Court Rules That Insurance Doesn't Cover Global Warming Claims (New York Times, 16 Sep 2011)
• Climate Scientist Sues Skeptic for Libel (New York Times, 8 Feb 2011)

Effects on Business and Society

• Billions spent on fossil fuel incentives (The Age, 1 Mar 2011)
• Deutsche Bank, Calpers Urge Climate Action to Avert 20% World Output Cut (Bloomberg, 16 Nov 2010)
• Car-Dependent Suburbs May Be Slums of The Future, Says Urban Planning Report (TreeHugger, 7 Feb 2011)
• Companies fight to keep global warming data secret (USA Today, 28 Oct 2010)
• The Birth of a U.S. Wind Power Manufacturing Industry (Greentech Media, 13 Aug 2010)
• Chamber of Commerce goes after climate dissenters in its ranks (Grist, 3 Aug 2010)
• Italy Beats USA with Three Times the Solar Insalls Using Feed-In Tariffs (Clean Technica, 6 Jul 2010)
• Honda unveils zero-emission electric scooter (Physorg.com, 13 Apr 2010)
• China, Germany Lead the Race Toward a Low-Carbon Economy (Solve Climate, 25 Mar 2010)
• The price of environmental destruction? There is none (The Guardian, 18 Feb 2010)
• Japan pledges $400 million climate change loan to Indonesia (Reuters, 25 Oct 2009)
• AIG Closed Climate Change Program Last Month (Environmental News Network, 16 Jul 2009)
• Airlines want governments to be stricter on emissions (New Scientist, 6 Apr 2009)
• Supplier Awareness Of Climate Change Threats Needs Improvement,
  Supply Chain Report Reveals (Science Daily, 5 Mar 2009)
• Most US organizations not adapting to climate change (Physorg, 2 Dec 2008)
• German automakers denounce EU compromise on CO2 emissions (Physorg, 2 Dec 2008)
• Business chiefs urge carbon curbs (BBC News, 20 Jun 2008)

Organizing and Organizations

• Religious Organizations

  Religion, or the lack thereof, is a deeply personal choice. Personally, I'm not religious. But if you are, that's fine by me—I'll respect your choice if you'll respect mine. We all occupy the same planet, and we all need to work together, whatever our personal inspirations or motivations, to do well by that planet. Here are some resources that seem to me like they might be helpful to people of faith trying to figure out how to integrate their concern about Climate Change with their religion. If you can use them, that's great; if not, feel free to ignore them.

  • Web of Creation. Ecology resources to Transform Faith and Society.
  • United Church of Christ: resolution on Global Warming, Pastoral Letter on Faith and Environment
  • Southern Baptist Leaders Go Green (MSNBC, 10 Mar 2008)

Please feel free to contact me with more suggestions.

Military and Political Tactics

There's a back-and-forth between the parties at the tactical level. It's sad that these things have to be political. Climate Change should be an issue of science, not politics. But this section is for stories related to tactics.

• Climate change 'threatens piece', UN official warns (BBC, 21 Jul 2011)
• Google Takes on Climate Change Skeptics with New Technology Effort (Reuters, 18 Mar 2011)
• Republicans Believe in 'Climate Change,' Not 'Global Warming' (The Atlantic Wire, 3 Mar 2011)
• Another big setback for the global warming deniers (Liberal Conspiracy, 27 Aug 2010)
• How the Mountain of Climate Change Evidence Is Being Used to Undermine the Cause
  (AlterNet, 27 Feb 2010)
• Climate Wars (The Guardian, 9 Feb 2010)

Political Platforms

Much of the following info is from the 2008 Presidential campaign, but may still have some residual value now that he's in office. I'll start to add platform info for 2010 and 2012 if the campaigns start to publish positions.

• McCain says wants 45 new nuclear reactors by 2030 (Reuters, 18 Jun 2008)
• Obama assails McCain over Everglades vote (Los Angeles Times, 7 Jun 2008)
• McCain launches general election bid with eye on oil (Reuters, 3 Jun 2008)
• John McCain outlines a plan to tackle global war (Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2008)
• Barack Obama: A plan for a clean energy future (BarackObama.com)
• Hillary Clinton: Powering America's Future: New Energy, New Jobs (HillaryClinton.com)