Paul Gilding on the Great Disruption
Paul Gilding is calling for a complete reset on the climate debate, saying we will not get a global agreement on climate change and it’s a waste of time to think we ever will.
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“The Most Obdurate Bully in the Room”: U.S. Widely Criticized for Role at Climate Talks
But unfortunately, the United States is like the most obdurate bully in this—in this room. It is the elephant in the room that we don’t want to talk about. And it is the elephant that refuses to recognize the fact that it is living in a world that is interdependent.
ODAC Newsletter Dec 7
If last week’s energy bill announcement was about building the low carbon power system of the future, this week’s gas strategy and autumn statement felt like a blast from the past.
Sustainable cities? – Dec 5
•Imagining Cities That Can Save The Planet: Alex Steffen Talks About Carbon Zero •Wean transport off fossil fuels, or grind to a halt •Build inter-city cooperation to stave off resource fights – experts •Sustainable cities will be more resilient in extreme weather
The Doha Perplex
"Those of us who have been attending these meetings for the past 20 or more years have felt very frustrated by the slow progress and the lack of an international treaty. Exemplary work by Wackernagle, Rees, Meadows, Daly, Costanza, Rockstrom and others points a direction forward, but it always comes around to some international agreement. What will it take to get that?
Carbon Math: Bill McKibben versus John Hofmeister
Is Superstorm Sandy a game changer for the national conversation about climate disruption? In the wake of the hurricane, activist Bill McKibben and oil industry veteran John Hofmeister face off on the topic of global warming.
The History of Climate Change Negotiations in 83 seconds
What it says on the tin…
The Capitalism Papers: Fatal flaws of an obsolete system
The Capitalism Papers: Fatal Flaws of an Obsolete System takes on the task of interpreting and re-interpreting our capitalist economic system while exposing the degree to which we’ve lost our way within it.
The new future of energy policy
Flood myths are common to human culture. Swollen rivers, tidal storms, and tsunamis make their appearance frequently in literature. But Hurricane Sandy, which has drawn newly etched high-water marks on the buildings of lower Manhattan (and Brooklyn), has shifted the discussion from storytelling to reality.
World Energy Report 2012
Rarely does the release of a data-driven report on energy trends trigger front-page headlines around the world. That, however, is exactly what happened on November 12th when the prestigious Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) released this year’s edition of its World Energy Outlook.
Tackling emissions – Nov 27
•Cornucopia of Prosperity Can Flow From Carbon Tax [Craig Comstock]•The economics of carbon taxes Beyond carbon policy: A national feed-in tariff [Chris Nelder]•The economics of carbon taxes [Video presentationts]
A suit for the emperor
In a recent iconoclastic talk at the University of Bristol, a leading British climate scientist invoked the lad in Hans Christian Andersen’s story of the emperor’s new clothes.
