The Transformative Power of Climate Truth
Climate truth is not easy news to receive or deliver, and it takes fortitude to spread it. However, it is a message that people are increasingly ready to hear.
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It’s Time to ‘Do the Math’ Again
A new report released today explains why contemporary climate change policy-making should be characterised as increasingly delusional.
Resilient Urban Systems: Where We Stand Now and Where We Need to Go
This paper draws on case studies from across the globe to assess the current innovative approaches that cities are undertaking to make their infrastructure systems more resilient in order to better cope with future uncertainties.
Climate change: can the Seneca effect save us?
A Seneca shaped production curve would considerably reduce the amount of fossil carbon that can be burned in the future.
The Carbon Divide
NYT’s Andrew Revkin on American attitudes about climate change and related policy.
Divest From Fossil Fuels Movement Explodes Across the U.S.
Many students have vowed to ramp up their divestment campaigns at universities across America this spring.
Crisis, Opportunity and Climate Austerity in Drought-Stricken California
In the midst of a severe drought, California Gov. Jerry Brown has enacted the state’s first mandatory water cuts.
Looking for Some Answers
Jason Heppenstall looks for some ways to deal with the psychological aspects of collapse.
The Essentials of Resilience in a World of Growing Chaos
The most urgent question today is what must be done now and in the near future to achieve major mitigation of carbon emissions.
What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming
A Conversation with Per Espen Stoknes.
How the climate change debate got hijacked by the wrong standard of proof
Everyone loves a courtroom drama–especially one that pits a feisty, but a determined criminal defense attorney against the awesome power of a prosecutor who has the resources of the state behind him or her. We see such David and Goliath stories every week on television.
Shale Gas and Fracking: The science behind the controversy: Review
In conclusion, the central theme of this book evokes a world where issues are decided on by politicians and the public guided by neutral scientists who deliver the facts. But this fairy tale for the children begs all the difficult questions.
