Bill McKibben’s Posts

• We need more than rhetoric and excuses

  Mr. President: Time to quit fibbing and spinning 10

  Posted 1 week, 1 day agoPresident Obama has, at least for now, punted on the hard questions around climate, as evidenced by the announcement from the APEC meeting in Singapore that next month's Copenhagen climate talks will be nothing more than a glorified talking session.

• What a difference a day makes

  Day of Climate Action shows power of web organizing. Join us! 2

  Posted 1 month agoThe 350.org campaign has gone viral in recent weeks, in the lead-up to the International Day of Climate Action. There will be more than 4,000 events in almost 170 countries on Oct. 24—pretty much every place that isn’t Burma or North Korea. Join author/activist Bill McKibben, Grist founder Chip Giller, and people around the globe to demand real climate action.

• A big day

  Pachauri's call for 350 ppm is breakthrough moment for climate movement 13

  Posted 3 months ago

  Amazing news just arrived at 350.org headquarters.  Rajendra Pachauri, the U.N.'s top climate scientist, has endorsed a target of 350 parts per million of CO2 in the atmosphere.

• Oh, Here It Is!

  Four years after my pleading essay, climate art is hot 12

  Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago

  Four years ago, you'd have been hard-pressed to find a song, or a photo, or a play about climate change. All that's changed, as artists of every stripe confront our greatest global challenge.

• Kicking Congress' ash

  Snow doesn't dampen turnout for anti-coal rally in D.C. 5

  Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago

  The day's scorecard:

  1) Largest anti-coal action yet in the United States: Thousands and thousands of people flooding the streets around the Capitol Hill power plant.

  2) Largest demonstration in many years where everyone was wearing dress clothes: The point was to stress that there's nothing radical about shutting down coal-fired power. In fact, there's everything radical about continuing to pour carbon into the air just to see what happens.

  3) Smallest counter-protest in world's history: By my count, the Competitive Enterprise Institute managed to muster four demonstrators for its "Read More

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  David, you'll be happy to know 350.org is working with others to mount a series of vigils outside Senatorial offices in this country on the weekend of Dec. 12, and at consulates and embassies overseas. Your point about the Senate is of course correct, but that doesn't make it the only point. Obama is a great communicator and he has not been turning it loose on climate in any way; his team has been unwilling to bring up the latest science; and it strikes me as useful to keep some pressure on him to make the whole thing a priority. By the way, some of us both write about this stuff and organize about it. Why don't you coordinate a vigil outside your senator's office--or help make one happen outside Max Baucus's. We could definitely use your help!On Is Bill McKibben right to be angry with Obama? posted 1 week ago 36 Responses

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  This piece, not surprisingly given its author, is exactly right on. The cap is what we need; all else is commentary.

  
  As to Ken Johnson's excellent question, the answer to that is something less than an atmospheric concentration of 350 ppm. Which would explain 350.org. Check it out

  On Climate policy question #1 is simple: "Are we in?" posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago 4 Responses

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  350

  Interesting post as always.

  One slight correction. Jim Hansen's announcement that 350 is the new number has not been met with an entirely deafening silence. Those of us who ran the domestic StepItUp effort last year have now started a global campaign, 350.org, which will officially launch next month but has already organized actions in a dozen states and a dozen countries, and been widely discussed in major articles in the LA Times and Washington Post. If I was better at linking, I'd send you to the piece that originated last week at tomdispatch.com, and was carried widely around the blogosphere, including in Grist. In any event, you can check out the website at 350.org, and more to the point you can help join in the battle. Not easy to do, a global movement, but at least we're trying (and in 14 languages!).On The Climate Policy Paradigm has reached its endgame posted 1 year, 6 months ago 21 Responses