California First
California in the Great Drought is once again Exhibit A, a living diorama of how the future is going to look for a lot of us.
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Farms and Food in an Era of Climate Change: Resilient Agriculture
Our current state is hazardous and our impending reality is escalating intensity.
Does One of the World’s Most Abundant Animals Need Protection from our Appetite?
Barely longer than your thumb, weighing under an ounce and nearly translucent, delicate crustaceans known as krill are vital to ocean ecosystems around the world.
Snatching Defeat
It isn’t that we expect the parchment won’t get inked, but rather that the document won’t actually accomplish its task even if the conference is a complete success.
Cecil the lion: understanding the secret of a supermeme (and its relevance to climate change communication)
"Cecil the lion" is having so much success because it has the three basic characteristics that make a meme a supermeme. These are 1) Be simple, 2) Have a villain, 3) Be reassuring. From these considerations, we can probably understand why it is so difficult to create effective climate memes that carry the right message: climate science is not simple, the villain is us, and the story is disquieting, rather than reassuring.
Naomi Klein: Obama Makes Strides Toward Reducing Coal—But We Still Have a Long Way to Go
As scientists warn 2015 is on pace to become the Earth’s hottest year on record, President Obama has unveiled his long-awaited plan to slash carbon emissions from U.S. power plants.
Re-Imagining Climate Justice at the COP: Finding Our Frontlines at a Gathering in Bellagio, Italy
We should be trying to identify the strategies that give us the best chances of creating “tipping points” in the climate wars. I dream of a movement that can create a non-linear trajectory into the future… One idea … is a COP21-focused campaign for “Just Climate Futures: Saying No in Paris.” The best “outcome” for the COP would be NO treaty/agreement.
Obama Climate Plan: Testament to People Power, but Much More to Do
President Barack Obama on Monday officially unrolled the first-ever federal plan to limit power plant emissions of greenhouse gases, in a move that environmental campaigners are alternately calling "significant" and "not enough."
Mysteries of Eleuthera
What kind of force can leave a four million pound rock on top of a cliff? According to the oceanographers, it was waves. "
World’s Oceans Could Rise Higher, Sooner, Faster Than Most Thought Possible
New research shows that consensus estimates of sea level increases may be underestimating threat.
Why the Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement May Ultimately Win
The fossil fuel divestment campaign has so far persuaded only a handful of universities and investment funds to change their policies. But if the movement can help shift public opinion about climate change, its organizers say, it will have achieved its primary goal.
Low-Tech Living as a “Demand-Side” Response to Climate Change and Peak Oil
Energy is often called the ‘lifeblood’ of civilisation, yet the overconsumption of fossil energy lies at the heart of two of the greatest challenges facing humanity today: climate change and peak oil.
