Climate change: Check the data yourself
A collaborative online effort allows both skeptics and believers to study and compare the facts.
ESSAY By Debra Peters and William DeBuys
(From High Country News, http://hcn.org, July 13, 2010. Reprinted with permission)
According to opinion polls, a growing number of Americans think that climate change is hogwash.
They’ve been hearing that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change got [...]
The State of the Earth, 2010
We’re in a very bad way. But we also know the solution would make most of us richer—even if not in the ways we are presently accustomed to counting as wealth.
by Rebecca Solnit
These days, I see how optimistic and positive disaster and apocalypse movies were. Remember how, when those giant asteroids or alien spaceships headed directly [...]
Money and Career Opportunities in Climate Change Denial
In his review of the forthcoming book, “Merchants of Doubt,” by historians of science Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, Jeffrey Sachs reports that “today’s campaigners against action on climate change are in many cases backed by the same lobbies, individuals, and organisations that sided with the tobacco industry to discredit the science linking smoking and lung cancer.”
Later, [...]
A.P.P.L.E. Center Water Panel Well Attended
The Nevada City Hall Council Chamber was full to overflowing for last night’s “Water: A Panel Discussion,” sponsored by the A.P.P.L.E Center for Sustainable Living. Let there be no doubt about the passionate interest in water issues among the citizens of Nevada County, nor about the catalytic role that the Sustainability Center is playing in [...]
Who’s Polluting the Climate Conversation?
Published by Yes! Magazine on December 1, 2009
Money, think tanks, and the scientists-for-hire behind the doubt and denial.
by James Hoggan
Scientists now warn that climate change is happening faster, and is a bigger threat, than they predicted just a few years ago. Yet the number of Americans who believe climate change is occurring at all is decreasing. [...]
Climate October Surprise?
Here’s an interesting excerpt from Thom Hartmann’s blog today:
“Could climate change be a thing of violent swiftness? New research indicates it took only months for Europe to freeze solid 12,800 years ago. This new analysis is showing that Europe froze not in a decade-as previously thought from analysis of Greenland ice cores-but in less than [...]
Wonderful Images from the 350.org Campaign
The pictures from the 350.org campaign continue to roll in from around the world.
This is what planetary consciousness looks like.
To see the slide show, click on the image of Yosemite below:
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Economist: Saving the Planet is Very Affordable
Eban Goodstein, an economist and professor at Bard College, along with two of his co-authors of their recent in-depth study of the costs of climate stabilization, has an interesting editorial in today’s Washington Post: “We can afford to save the planet.”
In the editorial, professor Goodstein says:
Some have argued that the worrisome climate news is that the cost [...]
Local “350.org” Event is Part of Unified Global Climate Action
A local event tomorrow, the farmers harvest celebration at the old Alpha Building on 210 Broad Street in Nevada City, from 5pm til 9pm, will include a group photo for inclusion in the worldwide “350.org” campaign, which grew out of the successful 2007 Step It Up campaign founded by Bill McKibben and friends.
What is the [...]
Who Really Toppled Van Jones?
The dominant media narrative seems to be that Glenn Beck got retribution against Color of Change cofounder Van Jones after that organization led a successful campaign to drive advertisers away from the conservative talking head’s Fox News show.
The real backstory is quite different, and even more interesting.
The elements of the case against Jones — pushed [...]
