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Wild weather worsening due to climate change, IPCC confirms

Posted by News, Top Stories 1 Nov 2011

Source: The Guardian. Freakish weather disasters — from the sudden October snowstorm in the north-east US to the record floods in Thailand — are striking more often. And global warming is likely to spawn more similar weather extremes at a huge cost, says a draft summary of an international climate report obtained by The Associated Press. The final draft of the report from a panel of the world’s top climate [...]

Starbucks concerned world coffee supply is threatened by climate change

Posted by News, Top Stories 16 Oct 2011

Source: The Guardian. Forget about super-sizing into the trenta a few years from now: Starbucks is warning of a threat to world coffee supply because of climate change. In a telephone interview with the Guardian, Jim Hanna, the company’s sustainability director, said its farmers were already seeing the effects of a changing climate, with severe hurricanes and more resistant bugs reducing crop yields.

Climate Change and the End of Australia

Posted by Climate change 14 Oct 2011

Source: Rolling Stone. It’s near midnight, and I’m holed up in a rickety hotel in Proserpine, a whistle-stop town on the northeast coast of Australia. Yasi, a Category 5 hurricane with 200-mile-per-hour winds that’s already been dubbed “The Mother of All Catastrophes” by excitable Aussie tabloids, is just a few hundred miles offshore. When the eye of the storm hits, forecasters predict, it will be the worst ever to batter the east coast of Australia.

Oceans on brink of catastrophe

Posted by Climate change, News, Top Stories 21 Jun 2011

Source: The Independent. The world’s oceans are faced with an unprecedented loss of species comparable to the great mass extinctions of prehistory, a major report suggests today. The seas are degenerating far faster than anyone has predicted, the report says, because of the cumulative impact of a number of severe individual stresses, ranging from climate warming and sea-water acidification, to widespread chemical pollution and gross overfishing.

US: Storms Brewing

Posted by Climate change, Opinion 13 Jun 2011

Source: The New Yorker. When President Barack Obama arrived in Joplin, Missouri, on May 29th, the sun was shining. He toured one of the neighborhoods that the previous week’s tornado had destroyed, then spoke at a memorial service for the dead. (By late last week, the official toll was a hundred and thirty-eight people.) At the service, the President’s tone turned brooding.

Gambling with the Planet

Posted by Climate change 20 Apr 2011

Source: Al Jazeera. The consequences of the Japanese earthquake – especially the ongoing crisis at the Fukushima nuclear power plant – resonate grimly for observers of the American financial crash that precipitated the Great Recession. Both events provide stark lessons about risks, and about how badly markets and societies can manage them.

E.O. Wilson Creates Conversation

Posted by Opinion 17 Apr 2011

Source: The Santa Barbara Independent. In 2006 the Harvard entomologist-turned-public-intellectual — and winner of two Pulitzers — decided to reach out to the religious community with a book called The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth. In it Wilson suggests that secular humanists (like himself) and evangelicals (like his childhood self) can find common [...]

The Politics of Climate Change

Posted by Books, Highlights 1 Apr 2011

Exclusive excerpt from Lord Anthony Giddens’s book, “The Politics of Climate Change”. Politics-as-usual, argues Giddens, won’t allow us to deal with climate change, while the recipes of the main challenger to orthodox politics, the green movement, are flawed at source. Giddens introduces a range of new concepts and proposals to fill in the gap, and examines in depth the connections between climate change and energy security.

Lester Brown: ‘We Must Define Security To Match The Threats Of The 21st Century’

Posted by Climate change, News 20 Mar 2011

Source: Radio Free Europe. Lester Brown argues that pressures on the environment — from climate change to soil erosion to deforestation and declining water resources — are rapidly combining to create a “perfect storm” that could result in massive disruptions in food supply, the collapse of the current economic structure, widespread unrest, and worse.

Nicholas Stern: Climate inaction risks a new world war

Posted by Media, Videos 14 Mar 2011

Source: Grist. Lord Nicholas Stern, one of the world’s most prominent climate economists, believes that failure to address global warming could eventually lead to World War III. In 2006, he produced the “Stern Review” on behalf of the British government, clearly laying out the potentially catastrophic economic consequences of failing to address climate pollution.

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