Climate Change Impacts

this will be the hottest decade on record

NOAA puts out “El Niño Watch”—record temperatures are coming 0
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago
NOAA says conditions are favorable for a transitionto El Niño conditions during June − August 2009. This is potentially a very big deal for the climate debate, as the La Niña conditions over the past 18 months helped temporarily mute the strong human-caused warming signal.
End of the fossil-fuel era

90 months and counting 0
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago
With the clock running in the climate change countdown, post-Enlightenment faith in technological fixes may not be enough.
Nature: Hurricanes ARE getting fiercer — and it’s going to get much worse 1
Posted 5 months, 4 weeks ago
Hurricane season officially begins tomorrow, so I’m updating one more 2008 post on the science.
Study underscores humanitarian effects of global warming 0
Posted 6 months ago
Three Degrees of Speculation

Can human rights be the climate movement’s moral guide? 7
Posted 6 months ago
Arguments that climate is, more than anything, a rights issues, from speakers at the Three Degrees conference in Seattle.
The Climate Post: Something wrought in the state of Denmark? 1
Posted 6 months ago
A roundup of the week's climate news, from Copenhagen to China to Russia.
Earthjustice video explains black carbon’s effect on climate 0
Posted 6 months, 1 week ago
Gore on CNN 4
Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Al Gore discusses climate change on CNN.
"Climate change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century"

New Lancet report on health and social effects of climate change 1
Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago
A major new report details the complex web of social and health problems climate change will produce in the 21st century.
Gloom and/or Doom

Report: Climate change will bring big problems for small number of countries 1
Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Here’s one way to break down the effects of fiercer storm surges that will be wrought by climate change: Most land lost: Latin America. Most people displaced: Middle East and North Africa. Most economic losses: East Asia
Prudent planning

President of Maldives wants to move his island nation 0
Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago
The New York Times Magazine has a pretty good piece on the Maldives, "Wanted: A New Home for My Country."
fuzzy geometry

The environmental inverted pyramid, corrected 1
Posted 7 months ago
538.com's Nate Silver says a fascinating new poll shows American's are concerned about climate change "only in the abstract." He's partly right.
A Moral Issue

Catholic Climate Covenant seeks aid for world’s poor 3
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago
Citing dual obligations to care for God’s creation and the world’s poor, a broad coalition of Catholic groups today announced a new commitment to take action to help those people most affected by climate change.
Climate reality check

Another 125 million? 0
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago
This week, a new Oxfam report forecasts the number of people affected by climate-related humanitarian disasters to rise to an average of 375 million a year by 2015, threatening to overwhelm emergency response and humanitarian aid systems. This means more suffering and more poverty, and we are already seeing these consequences in the communities where Oxfam works.
On thin ice with the billionaire 5
Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago
The billionaire told me that the public, you and I, do not really matter when it comes to global warming. It is all about technology, he said. People will always chose the cheapest, most convenient way.
Listen to your elders...

A few (green) minutes with Andy Rooney… 2
Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Andy Rooney, the chief grouch at CBS' "60 Minutes," says he's worried about global warming.
The karma of coal?

Climate change hits Australia with a vengeance 2
Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Climate change-driven drought in Australia is leaving depression, despair, and suicide in its wake. The U.S. doesn't get this. Yet.
Here's to you, Mr. Robinson

Fellow Washington Post columnist challenges George Will’s climate denial 1
Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Another Washington Post staffer has joined the pile-on against columnist George Will's climate-change denial. Fellow columnist Eugene Robinson lambasted Will on the Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC Wednesday night, and also called out the editors who let him get away with it.
Recursive rebuke

Washington Post reporters call out George Will for lying in Washington Post 10
Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Today, in a news story on Arctic sea ice, Washington Post reporters Juliet Eilperin and Mary Beth Sheridan explicitly call out Washington Post op-ed writer George Will for lying about climate change ... in the Washington Post.
Public awareness: Global warming 0
Posted 7 months, 4 weeks ago