Climate Change Adaptation

Letter from Europe

Global climate pact may hinge on EU summit 3
Posted 3 weeks, 2 days ago On Thursday and Friday European heads of government, meeting in Brussels, will struggle to come up with proposals on how to finance measures in poor countries to cut emissions and adapt to the devastating effects of climate change -- the most critical of all the outstanding issues in the official negotiations on the new agreement that is supposed to be struck in the Danish capital.
I will SurvivaBall!

SurvivaBall: Your individual climate-change adaptation strategy 3
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago The world's most upstanding corporate citizens, like Halliburton, Monsanto, and ExxonMobil, take climate change seriously. It's a serious opportunity for profit. That's why, in addition to spending millions to perpetuate the energy, environmental, and subsidy policies that sustain their ongoing operations, they've created this "gated community for one" -- the SurvivaBall.
Ask Umbra at the Age of Stupid premiere 0
Posted 1 month, 4 weeks ago
The nightingale scenario

HSBC team outlines possible post-Kyoto compromise 2
Posted 1 month, 4 weeks ago In a new report entitled The Emperor, the Nightingale and the Phoenix, a team of HSBC experts suggests the outlines for a post-Kyoto climate framework that could be agreed to at Copenhagen.
'Unease Is No Excuse for Inaction'

Obama’s climate speech to the U.N. 6
Posted 1 month, 4 weeks ago As international pressure mounts for true progress on climate change, President Obama addressed the United Nations today. Find out what he said.
Show Me the Money!

U.N. climate chief: $300B needed each year in global climate fight 3
Posted 3 months ago
The global community should be investing $300 billion annually to combat global warming, according to U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer.
...or, how we fight over the kids, housework, and money like everyone else!

Love in a time of cataclysm 4
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Everyone told us that building a house could wreck a relationship. And from past experience, we knew it to be true. But we plunged ahead despite our fundamentally different ways of navigating this warming world.
Source Material

Climate and energy sections of G8 statement 0
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
The energy and climate section of the official G8 statement released on July 8, 2009.
Letter from Europe

Britain’s battered leader is set on saving the world 0
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Prime Minister Gordon Brown is widely expected to lose Britain's next national elections, but that's not stopping him from pushing hard to break the logjam over negotiations for a new international climate treaty.
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U.S. is starting to make a down payment on funding international climate change efforts 0
Posted 5 months ago
This past Wednesday, the Appropriations Subcommittee of the House of Representatives passed a bill with funding for a "down payment" in helping developing countries deploy clean energy, reduce global warming pollution from tropical deforestation, and support adaptation in the most vulnerable populations around the world.
It Could Be Verse

Climate-news poem: apocalypse edition 0
Posted 5 months ago
Did you hear about that climate report that came out? That 196-page report that, even though it's in layman's terms, is still ... 196 pages? Here's five lines to tell you what it's all about.
Give this Gaia break

Gaia proponent Lovelock says it’s time to adapt to inevitable global heating 6
Posted 5 months, 1 week ago
What is it with Preeminent Thinkers and intensely bleak public lectures? On Monday night in Seattle, British scientist James Lovelock gave an prediction of the effects of climate change that was even more dire. Efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions are just fine, he said. They just won't amount to much.
Deforestation & Adaptation Texting for Copenhagen

Part 3: Draft negotiating text proposed for Copenhagen agreement 0
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
A look at the deforestation emissions reduction efforts and adaptation assistance provisions in the draft Copenhagen climate treaty.
It Could Be Verse

A climate-news poem for the week of May 11 0
Posted 6 months, 1 week ago
All the climate news you need, now in a convenient rhyming format.
Prudent planning

President of Maldives wants to move his island nation 0
Posted 6 months, 1 week ago
The New York Times Magazine has a pretty good piece on the Maldives, "Wanted: A New Home for My Country."
It Could Be Verse

A climate-news poem for the week of May 4 1
Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Think nothing rhymes with Waxman-Markey? C'mon, now, that's just malarkey.
Evo's Crusade

Bolivia’s leader pushes rich nations for climate adaptation funds 1
Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Evo Morales, the one-time coca farmer and llama herder who rose to become Bolivia's president, is now wading into the ring of global climate negotiations to embark on his grandest crusade to date.
Letter from Europe

Running out the climate clock 0
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago
Boldly labelled "Countdown to Copenhagen," the clock perched on the podium at the latest round of international climate talks ticked off the days, hours, minutes and seconds to the start of the Copenhagen summit in December, widely billed as the last chance to strike a deal to stop global warming from running out of control.
Joe Barton is dumber than you thought possible

Top Republican on House energy committee: “when it’s hot we get in the shade” 1
Posted 8 months ago
Expanding on Barbara Boxer’s principles for climate legislation 10
Posted 9 months, 1 week ago