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      . . . about Climate Change / Global Warming

CATEGORY:  ENVIRONMENT (CLIMATE) — 05.FEB.2015

Biodiversity for a Livable Climate / Radio EcoShock

The Planetary Peril in the IPCC's Lowest-Common-Denominator Science — Thomas Goreau's doctorate is in biogeochemistry. He's an expert in areas such as coral reef science and global climate change. Two of the main points Goreau makes are that the IPCC's window of focus is much too narrow—most of the worst climate effects will be beyond its 100-year window—and its conclusions are so "lowest common denominator" that they are greatly underestimating both the data trends and coming impacts. He also says that the "350" goal is far too high—if we accept even that currently politically unattainable goal, we are doomed to a temperature increase of 17-20 degrees C. Goreau says atmospheric CO2 levels need to be rolled back to 260 ppm. He says the essential solution—mostly ignored by global leaders—is to put carbon back in the soil using practices such as biochar.
Watch  |  Download/listen   24:07

GP comment:  Watch if you can—lots of good graphs. Tip o' the hat to Radio EcoShock for pointing out the Biodiversity for a Livable Climate conference videos.

Original Show Pub Date: Nov.2014 ~~ Original title: Thomas Goreau - The Down-to-Earth Solution to Global Warming: How Soil Carbon Sequestration Works

CATEGORY:  ENVIRONMENT — 18.JAN.2015

Living on Earth

Climate and the Collapse of Western Civilization — Science historians Naomi Oreskes of Harvard and Erik Conway of CalTech have taken current climate science and extrapolated it into an apocalyptic new science fiction book, The Collapse of Western Civilization—A View From the Future. Oreskes discusses how democracy, the free market, and science are all failing to protect our future.
Go to page  |  Download/listen   16:28

GP comment:  This dance doesn't include much climate apocalypso, but Oreskes ably lays out the inside-the-envelope view on climate status and action. In reality, any progress made on transitioning out of fossil fuels will come too slowly to make a difference in our future climate. But it will make a difference in many other environmental areas, so it's still worth doing.

Original Show Pub Date: 16.Jan.2015

CATEGORY:  EMPIRE, ENVIRONMENT (CLIMATE) — 18.NOV.2014

Making Contact

This Changes Everything (Or Not) — Naomi Klein argues that while it's too late to stop climate change, we can still take action to save our civilization. But it’s going to take radical steps that will transform the way humans interact with the world. Klein offers her vision of how we can foster a global movement to counter climate change.
Go to page  |  Download/listen   30:00

GP comment:  This is worth listening to because Klein does correctly identify several culprits in the current ecocidal ruling system—the financier class, excessive military spending, corporate hegemony, and the fossil-fuel-friendly political system—as barriers to doing anything real about climate change. But she's got it backwards: The climate crisis is not the threat that will unite people against those elite forces. Instead, uniting the masses to take back power from the elites and reestablish a fair economic system should be the stated political goal. That is Job 1, and trying to superimpose a divisive issue like climate on top of it is brainless.

Original Show Pub Date: 29.Oct.2014

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VIDEOS
      . . . about Climate Change / Global Warming

FUNNY   OGG AND UCK — ALL WASHED UP Cavemen Ogg and Uck discuss the science of collapsing ice sheets and sea level rise. Are some ice sheets gaining mass as others lose mass? Is the sea level really ...glug, glug, glug ....  Watch funny video on ice sheets melting.  (2:00)   SERIOUS   THE REAL THIRD RAIL OF CLIMATE CHANGE The two stereotypical sides of the climate debate are (a) climate change is a potential planet-killer and MUST be addressed; and (b) climate change is nothing to worry about, it's all part of a natural cycle. Guy McPherson reviews the scientific evidence that there is a third scenario: Climate change has already entered a runaway-feedback mode and there is now nothing humans can do to reverse the catastrophic level of warming that's coming—and coming soon. The good news? McPherson delivers his dark news clearly, with a great sense of humor, and with excellent insights into the human condition.  Watch climate feedback loop video.  (1:51:49) See all  videos on climate change

MOVIES
      . . . about Climate Change / Global Warming

Age of Stupid, The (2009)

Starring: Pete Postlethwaite

A man living alone in the devastated future world of 2055 looks at film footage from 2008 and asks: why didn't we stop climate change when we had the chance?

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Category 7: The End of the World (2005)

Starring: Gina Gershon, Cameron Daddo

REVIEW: Super-severe tornados and hurricanes set about wiping out the world's major cities. Is global warming to blame? Well, it's a little more complicated that that, but the answer and the action are presented in an engaging way, albeit with the normal amount of over-Hollywooded silliness. If you enjoyed The Day After Tomorrow, you'll like this too.

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Day After Tomorrow, The (2004)

Starring: Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal

REVIEW: What happens if the most pessimistic predictions of the gloomiest global-warming doomsayers turn out to be right? See for yourself in this movie! It's a Hollywood-ization of the climate-change problem, for sure, but the overdramatization and over-compressed timeline of the disastrous effects can be excused—the special effects and shear epic-ness of the presentation are well worth the viewing time.

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Inconvenient Truth, An  (2006) (Documentary)

REVIEW: Whatever you thought of Al Gore as a politician, you'll have to give him credit here for being a great teacher. He spends most of his time in An Inconvenient Truth guiding us through the data and science of climate change, demonstrating cause and effect and noting the impacts, both present and future—and doing so with wit, charm, and only an occasional (though deserved) political barb. Though this is largely a speaker-on-stage style documentary, it's backed by great pictures, charts, and graphs, with cutaways to on-site footage and personal annecdotes, all woven together in a way that makes the whole thing very watchable. Gore's three-decade-long study of climate change shows in his seemingly effortless presentation of the material. The result is 100% convincing, showing climate change to be not just an environmental issue, but a threat to our way of life—perhaps even to life itself. This is the last nail in the coffin of the climate skeptics.

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ARTICLES ON THIS SITE
      . . . about Climate Change / Global Warming

	GLOBAL WARMING CONSPIRACIES   (Climate Change Article #209)		01-NOV-2009
		YOUR TIN FOIL HAT WON’T SHIELD YOU FROM CLIMATE DISRUPTION Global Warming Hoaxes and Conspiracies
	BIOFUELS/BIOMASS AND GLOBAL WARMING   (Article #203)		01-MAY-2009
		BIOMASS ONLY LOOKS GREAT IN A FUN-HOUSE MIRROR Biomass and Sustainability — Why Biofuels Can't Replace Oil
	GLOBAL WARMING & MELTING ICE   (Climate Change #194A)		05-AUG-2008
		CLIMATE-CHANGE SKEPTICS’ ARGUMENTS MELTING AWAY LIKE ARCTIC ICE Global Warming, Melting Ice, and the Catastrophic Implications
	GLOBAL WARMING SKEPTICS   (Global Warming Article #192)		10-JUN-2008
		THE BI-POLAR BEAR HIBERNATED IN HIS FACT-FREE DEN Climate Change Scientists or "Stupid Global Warming Idiots"?
	GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTIONS   (Climate Change Article #156)		03-JUN-2008
		THE HEAT IS ON ... YOU ... TO TAKE ACTION Global Warming Solutions – Actions You Can Take to Mitigate Climate Change
	GLOBAL WARMING HISTORY   (Global Warming Issue #181)		26-AUG-2007
		“AND HOW ’BOUT THE GLOBAL WARMING FROM THAT RAY GUN, PAL?” The Day The Earth Stood Still — A Global Warming Comic Strip
	GLOBAL WARMING & TAX SHIFTS   (Global Warming Article #176)		05-JUN-2007
		ALCOHOL, CIGARETTES, AND BTUS: MOVING BEYOND SIN TAXES TO SHIFTING TAXES Global Warming & Tax Shifting
	GLOBAL WARMING & AGRICULTURE   (Climate Article #175)		08-MAY-2007
		OLD McDONALD HAD SOME GAS, E-I-E-I-O Effects of Global Warming on Agriculture — and Vice Versa
	GLOBAL WARMING / CLIMATE CHANGE TERMINOLOGY   (#166)		02-JAN-2007
		“GLOBAL WARMING VS. CLIMATE CHANGE” — A KNOCK-OUT IN ROUND 1? The Important Differences Between "Climate Change" and "Global Warming"  ....
	GLOBAL WARMING MYTHS/FACTS   (Climate Change Article #133)		21-JUN-2005
		MYTH MANNERS THINKS ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE WOULD BE RUDE Global Warming Myths and Facts – Challenging the Global Warming Skeptics
	MOVIE SCIENCE vs. REAL SCIENCE  (UPDATED)   (Issue #SE1)		19-JAN-2009
		WHETHER WE CAN WEATHER THE WEATHER Global Warming and The Day After Tomorrow – Science or Hollywood Fiction?
	CLIMATE CHANGE, MICHAEL CRICHTON & FICTION   (Article #119)		15-MAR-2005
		TODAY THE TREES, TOMORROW THE WORLD! Environmentalists in Fiction — The New Bad Guys?
	POLITICS AND GLOBAL WARMING   (Article Climate Change #87)		17-AUG-2004
		“SENATOR PINOCCHIO, MEET BARON MUNCHAUSEN” Political Lies, Political Truth, and Global Warming
	OVERVIEW OF GLOBAL WARMING DATA   (Climate Change #37)		27-JAN-2004
		THERE IS SUCH A THING AS "TOO MANY HOTTIES" The Data on Global Warming is Conclusive  (pt 1 of 2)
	GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTIONS   (Climate Change Article #38)		29-JAN-2004
		HOT CHILD IN THE CITY — AND EVERYWHERE ELSE TOO? Presenting Solution Number One to the Global Warming Problem  (pt 2 of 2)

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BOOKS       . . . on Climate Change / Global Warming

For more reviews or purchase info, click on any title to go to Amazon.com   Straight Up   America's Fiercest Climate Blogger Takes on the Status Quo Media, Politicians, and Clean Energy Solutions (by Joseph J. Romm) In Straight Up, physicist and climate expert Joseph J. Romm explain the dangers of and solutions to climate change—frank thoughts that you won't find in newspapers, in journals, or on TV. Romm shows how a 20% reduction in global emissions over the next quarter century could improve the economy; how we can replace most coal with alternative energy technologies; why Sarah Palin wears a polar bear pin; and why controversial, emerging technologies like biochar have to be part of the basket of solutions.     No Rain in the Amazon   (by Nikolas Kozloff) How South America's Climate Change Affects the Entire Planet Acting as the planet's air conditioner, the rainforest sucks up millions of tons of greenhouse gases and stores them safely out of the atmosphere. South America's deforestation threatens to unleash a kind of "carbon bomb" that will add to our already deteriorating climate difficulties. As he travels across Peru and Brazil, recognized South America expert Nikolas Kozloff talks to locals, scientists and activists about the rainforest and what should be done to avert its collapse.     The Biochar Debate   (by James Bruges) Charcoal's Potential to Reverse Climate Change and Build Soil Fertility Proponents say biochar—a fine-grained charcoal used as a soil supplement—has the promise to both to sequester carbon dioxide and improve farming outcomes. But critics say adding biochar to the various global carbon-credit trading schemes could have disastrous outcomes, threatening poor communities with displacement by foreign investors seeking to profit through seizure of cheap land. The Biochar Debate covers the essential issues, from the experimental and scientific aspects of biochar to fairness and efficiency in the global economy.   See more climate change books Or search Amazon.com for more... Books DVD Video CDs MP3s Electronics All Products

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QUOTES
      . . . about Climate Change / Global Warming

"It's very important to understand that climate change is not just another issue in this complicated world of proliferating issues. Climate change is THE issue which, unchecked, will swamp all other issues."

— Ross Gelbspan, author of Boiling Point

"Climate change is for real. We have just a small window of opportunity and it is closing rather rapidly. There is not a moment to lose."

— Dr. Rajendra Pachauri

"The good news is we know what to do. The good news is, we have everything we need now to respond to the challenge of global warming. We have all the technologies we need; more are being developed. And as they become available and become more affordable when produced in scale, they will make it easier to respond. But we should not wait, we cannot wait, we must not wait."

— Al Gore

"The ice caps are melting, Leonard. In the future, swimming won't be optional."

— Sheldon, in The Big Bang Theory (TV Series)

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CARTOONS
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Grinning Planet Jokes-Cartoons on Climate Change / Global Warming

A FEW AUDIENCE COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE MOVIE “THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW” A FEW DEDICATED PEOPLE’S STRATEGIES FOR HELPING SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT         Semi-Related: Scientific Integrity Cartoon

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OTHER SITES AND RESOURCES
      . . . for Climate Change / Global Warming

ClimatePrediction.net

Donate your PC's spare computing power to help run global climate models

Climate Science Watch

Dedicated to holding public officials accountable for the integrity and effectiveness with which they use climate science and related research in government policymaking

Geoengineering Watch

Works to track the disastrous impact of geoengineering on climate change and the future of the planet

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Global panel established to assess scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant to understanding climate change, causes, potential impacts, and solutions

National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

US R&D center dedicated to exploring and understanding our atmosphere and its interactions with the sun, the oceans, the biosphere, and human society

Ocean and Climate Change Institute (part of Wood's Hole Oceanographic Inst)

Goal is to evaluate and understand the role of the oceans in climate change with the objective of improving long-term climate forecasts

RealClimate

Public forum to discuss the science of climate change and the evidence for global warming, and to correct misperceptions and misinformation about the subject

Pew Center on Global Climate Change

Brings together business leaders, policy makers, scientists, and other experts to try new approaches to solving the climate change issue; produces analyses of key climate issues

Union of Concerned Scientists Global Warming Section

Includes analysis, solutions, and successes

United Nations Framework on Climate Change

"The Kyoto Protocol" — the agreement, status and ongoing activities

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