Climate Change Impacts

Discover how climate change is affecting our world 1
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
2 degrees of Earth bakin'

47 groups urge Obama to endorse 2-degree C warming threshold 5
Posted 5 months ago
A broad coalition of environment, science, and faith-based groups sent a letter to President Barack Obama recently asking him to pursue a goal of keeping global warming to less than 2 degrees in upcoming international meetings.
There is no right word for doom if it's on page 13

We are what we think: Why the press fails us and how to fix it 6
Posted 5 months, 1 week ago
Why has climate change not galvanized us? Why are there "pro" and "con" positions on insuring a livable planet?

The press must accept some of the blame.
A Thoreau report

Anthology features Americans’ personal stories of global warming 2
Posted 5 months, 1 week ago
A joint project by Union for Concerned Scientists and Penguin Classics, "Thoreau's Legacy" explores the subtle and overt ways that global warming is changing the United States. The anthology is available for free online.
Publication of the UK Climate Impact Projections 0
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
White House Releases Landmark Climate Change Report 0
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
What's so funny about drought, blight and coastal flooding?

White House hopes new climate report is a ‘game-changer’ 7
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
The Obama team rolled out a major report on the impacts of climate change in the United States, which they hope will up the pressure on Congress to act this year. But many are wondering why we haven't heard more from Obama himself on this issue.
Climate ... it's everywhere

What the U.S. climate report says about your state 1
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Here's a rundown of what the Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States report says will happen in other regions of this great (for now!) American land.
Change we need to hear about

Obama’s voice absent from release of big climate report 1
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
On a day when the executive branch released a major report on the effects of climate change already underway in the United States, where was President Obama?
Climate change in living color 0
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Energy and the risks to U.S. national security 0
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Climate change modeling key to disaster preparations 2
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Give this Gaia break

Gaia proponent Lovelock says it’s time to adapt to inevitable global heating 6
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks 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.
Local warming

Pacific Northwest says goodbye to salmon, skiing; hello to heat waves 3
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
What could a 10-degree temperature change mean for life in the Northwest? The U.S. report on climate change impacts has some scary regional predictions.
(FALLING OFF THE) CLIFF NOTES

UPDATED: A roundup of news coverage on the climate change impacts report 0
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Check back here for updated coverage of the U.S. climate change impacts report released today.
High Waters Ahead

Greenland ice sheet could raise East Coast sea levels 20 inches by 2100 - to over 6 feet 4
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
The eastern United States must plan on the very real possibility that total sea level rise by 2100 will exceed 6 feet on our current emissions path.
You want me to paint you a picture?

Burning Embers design contest seeks new ways to illustrate climate change 0
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Now here’s a great idea: The student-driven non-for-profit Artist as Citizen has a design competition inviting student artists to find new ways to portray climate change trends, causes, and effects.
Exclusive!

New NSIDC director on “death spiral” Arctic ice 5
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago
I interviewed by email Dr. Mark Serreze, recently named director of The National Snow and Ice Data Center. Partly I wanted him to explain his “death spiral” metaphor for Arctic ice. And partly I wanted his reaction to the blog WattsUpWithThat, the quintessential victim of anti-science syndrome (ASS), who called his appointment “Bad News.”
Dispatch from Bonn: Population Action International

Powerful injustice at the Bonn climate talks 3
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Over the past few days at the Bonn climate negotiations, the issue of inequity has come up in many different contexts. Today, I am thinking about the ways that inequity rears its head in mundane but powerful ways.
Media matters

‘The Next Wave’ chronicles the climate change refugees 0
Posted 5 months, 4 weeks ago
"The Next Wave" by Jennifer Redfearn and Tim Metzger follows the Carteret islanders as they take steps to relocate their South Pacific community in the face of rising seas.