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WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future
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Tuesday, Jan 6
USDA Office of Ecosystem Services and Markets
As people around the world await the inauguration of U.S. President-Elect Barack Obama on January 20, it seems that every week brings news and controversy that heightens expectations for 2009 to be a turning point in the American response to climate change. We recently learned of yet anoth...
Monday, Jan 5
Climate Will Change Everything
Although it is already vital that we act quickly, there are a few events that could change how rapidly and forcefully we should take on this challenge. Geoscientists have identified seven “sleeping giants” -- events like the disappearance of the summer ice sheets over the Arctic Ocean --...
Saturday, Jan 3
Year in Review 2008: Best in Politics
Climate, Energy and Environment Secretary? By Alex Steffen October 9 Inaugurate Change Worldchanging Team November 6 Charting a Course for the First US CTO By Nancy Scola November 18 Jim Hansen's Letter to Obama By Alex Steffen November 24
Monday, Dec 29
What if Climate Change is Not an Energy Problem?
Given that a large percentage of greenhouse gasses comes from the burning of fossil fuels, it seems odd to contend that climate change is not a problem created by our energy choices. Certainly, no one with any credibility denies that coal, oil and gas use is changing the climate, and I don't...
Friday, Dec 26
Chu, Browner, Holdren, Lubchenco: the Climate Superfriends
Jane Lubchenco -- a leader on climate change and a strong advocate for marine reserves -- to head NOAA: Lubchenco has actively encouraged fellow scientists to better communicate their research to the public and has urged controls on greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global w...
Friday, Dec 19
State Agency Calls for Ideas to "Climate-Proof" the Bay Area
Climate change is happening, and we now need innovative solutions for how to deal with its increasingly disastrous effects. One example of a way to help spur creative answers to climate change comes to us from California. The Bay Conservation and Development Commission, a state agency, i...
Thursday, Dec 18
Global Warming Animated
But many people are still at varying levels of understanding when it comes to climate change: the science behind it, how it will affect our daily lives, the policies being proposed and what do to about it. Climate Change Superheroes from Loub101 on Vimeo.
Tuesday, Dec 16
Australia Pledges to Cut Emissions by up to 15%
Both these targets fall short of the the cuts of 25%-40% by 2020 demanded by the scientists contributing to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in order to avoid a high risk of catastrophic climate change. But Rudd said the global economy could not excuse failing to act on g...
Monday, Dec 15
Poznań, Days 8, 9 & 10: The Grand Finale
Amanda Chiu reports from the 14th Conference of Parties (COP 14) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Poznań, Poland. Posted by WorldChanging Team in Politics at 3:50 PM) WorldChanging TeamAmanda Chiu reports from the 14th Conference of Parties (CO...
Hansen to Obama: Support a Carbon Tax
Hansen was the first climate scientist to state publicly that greenhouse gas emissions were causing climate change, at a hearing before the U.S. Senate 20 years ago. He has since become a leading voice on the severity of climate change, urging world leaders to discontinue support for coal a...
Friday, Dec 12
Sea Level Rise: We Decide How Much
Without international political action to cap carbon emissions, the warming climate will cause the ice caps, icebergs and glaciers of the earth to melt, raising global sea level. This poses a serious threat to tens of millions of people living in cities along the coast of every continent.
Thursday, Dec 11
Poznań, Days 6 & 7: More Cash for Adaptation?
Amanda Chiu reports from the 14th Conference of Parties (COP 14) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Poznań, Poland. Photo courtesy Amanda Chiu Protest march on Saturday, the Global Day of Action for Climate Change.
Wednesday, Dec 10
Mid-Point, Poznań: Risky Business
A climate change demonstrator at the on going conference in Poznań, Poland On Day 4 of the international climate change negotiations, discussions continued to move briskly. Highlights included a workshop that examined climate change risk and vulnerabilities.
Friday, Dec 5
Yes, We Can Take Swift Action On Climate Change
If Obama has the power to unite humanity and halt climate change, says McEwan, then is it not only because he has told the world that he could do so, but also because the world believes in him. With our collective thoughts giving him, and therefore ourselves, a vote of confidence, we just migh...
Tuesday, Dec 2
Why Does Poznan Matter?
UN-led climate-change talks in Poland this week are a key step in one of the most important – and complex – negotiations the world has ever seen. Posted by WorldChanging Team in Climate Change at 4:51 PM) WorldChanging Team UN-led climate-change talks in Poland this week are a key step in on...
Monday, Dec 1
Andy Revkin: Climate Change Is Not the Story of Our Times
Q. Obviously climate change is the biggest story on your plate right now, but looking ahead what do you see? Posted by Alex Steffen in Imagining the Future at 8:36 AM) Alex SteffenAndy says, as we say here, it's all one big problem with millions of interlocking solutions needed to solve it: Q....
Monday, Nov 24
Climate Protests Escalate Worldwide
In the United States, 11 protesters who formed a human barrier to a power plant construction site in Virginia in September faced 10 criminal charges and a maximum penalty of 14 years in prison, until a plea bargain was reached last month. Hansen again offered his support.
Geoengineering, Caldeira and Politics
Yet note how in his email Caldeira posits exactly three plausible positions: equivocation (might work, might not), a "hearty endorsement" of climate engineering, or do nothing ("let the ice caps melt"). Conspicuously absent is the best idea, which is rapid progress towards the elimin...
Thursday, Nov 20
Campaign Round-Up: Carbon Regulations, Transportation, E-Waste and More
The Financial Times and Forum for the Future have teamed up to search the globe for the most innovative new solution to the effects of climate change. That standout innovation could be a new technology, system or service, novel organization or business model. One winner will receive a $75,...
Geoengineering 'No Substitute' for Climate Targets, UK Minister Warns
The remarks by Joan Ruddock, a minister in the Department of Energy and Climate Change, appear to be a thinly veiled dig at the Bush administration, whose delegation attempted to insert a section into last year's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on developing te...
New Thinkers Series: Joshua Wolfe and the GHG Team
One of the biggest obstacles to the debate about climate change, Wolfe says, is the inequity in basic background knowledge of the issue. "If you're a reporter covering climate change, you always have to start at Point A," he says, and it's tough to introduce really intricate concepts when...
Ecosystem Services of Tropical Forests to be Protected with Precedent-Setting Memorandum
Posted by Sarah Kuck in Biodiversity and Ecosystems at 1:11 PM) Sarah Kuck Earlier this week California, Illinois and Wisconsin joined forces with six states in Brazil and Indonesia to fight climate change in an unprecedented way:...
Wednesday, Nov 19
Resource: Into a Warming World
I was wrong. State of the World 2009 is a research masterpiece, the single most important reference guide to climate change yet published. Posted by Alex Steffen in Features at 12:25 PM) Alex SteffenThe world is awash in climate change books, many of them bad, boring or both. It's all too comm...
Monday, Nov 17
Climate Futures: Predicting Where Our Actions Now Might Lead
Growth in carbon dioxide emissions flatlined in 2020 and began to fall slowly. When the news broke, there were celebrations all around the world. Yes, the effects of climate change were still being felt, and from Bangladesh to Florida the world’s poor were still suffering. But the impetus t...
