Show me the money: Adaptation Finance
Cities and poor people living in cities are often forgotten in climate adaptation planning. How can we fix that?
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Climate, politics & money – headlines
•Climate change is here now and it could lead to global conflict •Kerry: Climate change as dangerous as WMDs •UK newspapers are talking more about climate change and flooding •From Occupy to Climate Justice: Merging Economic Justice and Climate Activism •Heatwave frequency ‘surpasses levels previously predicted for 2030’ •Arctic thaw significantly worsens global warming risk •Carbon divestment is a shining example
Fantasizing About California, or Already Here: 5 Shocking Drought Facts to Make You Rethink the Golden State
There are likely a lot of East Coasters wishing they lived in sunny, dry (and comparatively warm) California right now. But Californians know their weather is anything but a blessing these days with a drought that’s being called “unprecedented.”
The Gravitational Pull of Planet Carbon
A series of recent developments highlight the way we are losing ground in the epic struggle to slow global warming.
“This Should Not Come as a Surprise”: Bill McKibben on Global Extreme Weather from U.S. to Sochi
While governors have declared states of emergency from Louisiana to New Jersey due to the massive snow and ice storm, other examples of extreme weather are being seen across the globe.
Peak Oil and the socio-economic impact of depleting fossil fuel resources
Progressive Radio’s Gary Null talks peak oil, climate change, economy, culture, policy and much more with Kurt Cobb and Nate Hagens.
Climate change – headlines
•The End of Snow? •The ‘pause’ in global warming is not even a thing •"We Can’t Trust Capitalism to Just Fix This" Global Warming Mess •Tunisia embeds climate change in constitution •Climate change: Rainforest absorption of CO2 becoming erratic •Discovering a Legal Tool to Curb Climate Change •Six Decades of a Warming Earth •Met Office report spells out climate change link to UK storms and flooding
The Purposely Confusing World of Energy Politics
Today it is especially difficult for most people to understand our perilous global energy situation, precisely because it has never been more important to do so. Got that? No? Okay, let me explain.
Energy Crunch: no end to the storms
It took major storm damage and record floods to get energy prices off the front pages, but any ministers hoping for a brief respite on the turmoil over energy policy will be no doubt disappointed.
Key Analysis Seems to Go KXL’s Way—Or Does It?
The U.S. State Department released its final environmental impact study of the proposed Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline Friday, and although some scientists and advocates who have spent years making the case that it would be an environmental disaster don’t much like the results, other pipeline opponents have found it encouraging to their cause.
Energy Investing: The Indigenous Rights Bubble
In case you haven’t been able to keep up with all the details and implications of ever-spiralling global energy use, the financial risks are increasingly varied.
Ending the world the human way: Climate change as the anti-news
Here’s the scoop: When it comes to climate change, there is no “story,” not in the normal news sense anyway.
