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Hog heaven, part 2 Climate action requires leadership beyond political 'reasonableness'	Joseph Romm	15 Jul 2008	Gristmill
This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Bill Becker, executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project. Let's face it: The Bush Administration has made a mess of things, as noted in 'Hog heaven, part 1.' It is now clear, if it hasn't been all along, that by the time George Bush leaves office, the White House will have wasted eight years of leadership on the Mother of All Issues. If those eight years are a profound disappointment looking backwa ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, politics (all these topics)

Costly climate The Freakonomists weigh in on the effects of warming	Ryan Avent	09 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Manzian (as in Jim Manzi) climate policy skepticism stems in part from a fairly simple idea: The cost of legislation is unlikely to be justified given likely savings from averted warming effects. In other words, warming, in the short-term, just isn't going to cost that much. But what does that mean? Well, for one thing, it means that near-term bad effects from warming will be overwhelmingly concentrated in poor nations, and luckily for us, making the poor much w ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, economy (all these topics)

The thing you really never hear	David Roberts	27 Apr 2008	Gristmill
This column from Newsweek editor Evan Thomas is largely a witless recitation of conventional wisdom, but it does raise one point I want to make. It seems to me that every mainstream media figure in the world is out there saying a) tackling global warming is going to be horrendously expensive, involving great sacrifice and hardship on the part of ordinary families, and b) no one else has the courage to say A. But obviously everybody has the courage to say it. It's c ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, messaging, politics (all these topics)

350 sense McKibben kicks off 350.org, a new international grassroots climate campaign	Guest author	18 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Bill McKibben is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College, and author of a dozen books, most recently The Bill McKibben Reader. ----- If only atmospheric chemistry gave you points for trying. A year ago this week, we were celebrating. I and six college-age colleagues of mine, joined by thousands of organizers across the country, had managed to pull off 1,400 simultaneous demonstrations against global warming in all 50 states. Though we didn't have much in the w ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, grassroots activism (all these topics)

Faint Nicholas Nicholas Stern says climate change worse than he thought		17 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 10:23 AM on 17 Apr 2008 Nicholas Stern, the British economist known for a major report in which he declared that combating climate change would cost less than ignoring it, has announced that he was wrong -- about how bad the problem is. "We badly underestimated the degree of damages and the risks of climate change" in the Oct. 2006 report, he said in a speech Wednesday. "All of the links in the chain ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, news (all these topics)

Is 450 ppm (or less) politically possible? Part 1 We'll need a lot of Socolow and Pacala's wedges	Joseph Romm	01 Apr 2008	Gristmill
The short answer is: 'Not today -- not even close.' The long answer is the subject of this post. Regular readers know that the nation and the world currently lack the political will to stabilize atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide at 450 ppm or even 550 ppm. The political impossibility is also obvious from anyone familiar with Princeton's 'stabilization wedges' [PDF] -- and if you aren't, you should be (technical paper here [PDF], less technical one here [ ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, climate change adaptation, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Soldiering On Prince Charles, Richard Branson compare climate crisis to war		14 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 4:40 PM on 14 Feb 2008 Prince Charles warned in a speech on Thursday that if a "courageous and revolutionary" approach to tackling climate change is not undertaken, "the result will be catastrophe for all of us but with the poorest in our world hit hardest of all. In this sense it is surely comparable to war." Also this week, Virgin Group big gun Richard Branson suggested at a United Nation ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, news, Richard Branson (all these topics)

The high costs of doing nothing, part I Spending on adaptation and mitigation now is an investment, spending later is a waste	Joseph Romm	09 Jan 2008	Gristmill
This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Bill Becker, executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project. ----- A dirty little secret of climate change is that somebody wants us to pay much higher taxes and higher energy bills. But it's not the advocates of climate action. It's the other guys. Make no mistake: The costs of switching to clean energy and an energy-efficient economy are far less than the costs of doing nothing. A study release ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, economy, severe weather (all these topics)

Experts agree: We should all lie. A lot. About important stuff. Nobody fights for change unless they see there's a problem	John McGrath	29 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Ugh. So my local paper decided to print its own local blend of Nordhaus-Shellenberger drivel. Did you know that "it's time to stop blaring dire warnings about the perils of climate change and, instead, start enthusiastically proclaiming solutions"? I sure didn't. It's not as if people like Amory Lovins, Paul Hawken, Bill McKibben, or I dunno, Gar Lipow have spent years talking about exactly that. It's not like the central message adopted by successful c ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, climate change skepticism, environmental movement, messaging (all these topics)

Save the children Stop dwelling on the climate change nightmare and dream about change	Joseph Romm	25 Oct 2007	Gristmill
This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Bill Becker, executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project. ----- When I was a child in the 1950s, I went about my business with a little cloud hanging over my head. It didn't matter whether I was playing in the backyard, studying in my bedroom or suffering from my first romantic crush (Annette on the Mickey Mouse Club). The cloud was always there. It was the fear of nuclear war. We ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

Climate equity: Wolfgang Sachs Climate change is about equality among nations and fundamental human rights	David Roberts	22 Oct 2007	Gristmill
((equity_include)) This is a guest essay by Dr. Wolfgang Sachs, author and research director at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, and Energy. Sachs (together with Timan Santarius et al) has just published a collection of essays called Fair Future: Resource Conflicts, Security, and Global Justice. This is part of a series on climate equity. ----- Tulun and Takuu, two tiny islands off the coast of Papua New Guinea, are close to being swallowed ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, climate equity (all these topics)

Alan Greenspan is very overrated: Part II Greenspan on climate change	Joseph Romm	22 Sep 2007	Gristmill
If you thought Greenspan was confused about energy, his discussion of global warming in The Age of Turbulence is downright stupefying. He opens well (p. 454): There can be very little doubt that global warming is real and man-made. But the next sentence is (I kid you not): We may have to rename Glacier National Park when its glaciers disappear, in what now looks to be 2030, according to park scientists. That's what all the fuss is about -- we'll have to r ...
Topics: books, carbon trading, climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

Hurricane Katrina and the myth of global warming adaptation When it comes to climate change, prevention is more important than adaptation	Joseph Romm	29 Aug 2007	Gristmill
G. Gordon Liddy's daughter repeated a standard Denier line in our debate: Humans are very adaptable -- we've adapted to climate changes in the past and will do so in the future. I think Hurricane Katrina gives the lie to that myth. No, I'm not saying humans are not adaptable. Nor am I saying global warming caused Hurricane Katrina, although warming probably did make it more intense. But on the two-year anniversary of Katrina, I'm saying Katrina showed the limitati ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, Louisiana, severe weather (all these topics)

In the shadow of Mount Everest Small countries are going green	Maywa Montenegro	23 Aug 2007	Gristmill
While the western media focuses primarily on what the developed world is doing to solve the climate crisis, there's some great coverage on how Third World countries are greening too. SciDev's 'Science in the Himalayas,' a series of editorials and features, gives credence to the notion that local, community efforts can be just as effective as large-scale centralized ones. And low-tech solutions are often just as good as their high-tech counterparts. Nepal's succes ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, Nepal (all these topics)

Climate change: From 'know how' to 'do now' Renowned ecological economist Herman Daly says climate action can't wait	Grist	15 Aug 2007	Gristmill
This guest essay comes from Herman E. Daly, an ecological economist and professor in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, College Park. He's one of the experts featured in Leonardo DiCaprio's new eco-documentary The 11th Hour, which opens in L.A. and New York on Aug. 17 and in other spots around North America on Aug. 24. The recent increase in attention to climate change is very welcome. Most of the attention seems to be given to complex climate ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

Desert Flowers Legendary Burning Man festival gets an eco-conscience	Judith Lewis	03 Aug 2007	Main Dish
Armen Zeitounian leads the way up the staircase of the house he's living in, a two-story colonial nestled in the smoggy hills north of Los Angeles, complete with a view and a pool and a black Ford Explorer in the driveway. In a room on the top floor, a two-by-six-inch plank, painted white, protrudes about five feet through a hole halfway up the wall; in the next room, the other half of the plank emer ...
Topics: art, carbon offsets, climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, green living, Nevada, recycling (all these topics)

First grants from $100 million Duke Foundation Climate Initiative announced The winners? ED, NRDC, The Pew Center for Climate Change, and other familiar faces ...	Ken Ward	17 Jul 2007	Gristmill
The first round of grants (PDF) from the $100 million climate fund established last year by the Doris Duke Foundation were announced last week. Funding priorities and grant recipients were identified in an exhaustive 18-month process of extensive literature reviews and interviews with more than 75 distinguished scientists, economists, environmental leaders, investors, energy industry representatives, and public policy experts. The result? A total of $3.6 million ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

As Long As the Sox Are OK Study says climate threatens Northeast icons like lobsters and foliage		13 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
As Long As the Sox Are OK Study says climate threatens Northeast icons like lobsters and foliage Imagine the Northeast without lobsters, snow, cranberries, and colorful foliage. Without that, you'd have -- what, white churches and crusty old lumberjacks? But all those natural icons are at risk from climate change, says a report the Union of Concerned Scientists put ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, New England, New York, news (all these topics)

Seven truths about China and climate change That you won't hear in the mainstream media	David Roberts	20 Jun 2007	Gristmill
China has officially passed the U.S. as the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases. This is likely to prompt a lot of misinformation and obfuscation from the usual quarters. So here are some simple truths about China and global warming that everyone should remember as the debate proceeds. 1. The U.S. still vastly outpaces China in terms of per-capita GHG emissions, and will for the foreseeable future. That's because the U.S. is a much more industrializ ...
Topics: China, climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

MoJo's math poetry The precise mathematical formula for despair	JMG	19 Jun 2007	Gristmill
The latest Mother Jones (July/August 2007, according to the the weird dating schemes of dinosaur media) has a great last-page feature titled 'The New Math of Global Warming' -- short, poetic mathematical expressions on our plight. I'd link to it but the MoJo site seems to be missing some of its mojo right now ... the link to the slideshow gives you a 'not found' error. But it's probably for sale at a local indie newsstand near you. As Joe Bob would say, 'Check it out.
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

Don't discount the Stern Review Discount rates: Boring but important	Joseph Romm	18 Jun 2007	Gristmill
This post will address two questions. What exactly is the discount rate? Did Sir Nicholas Stern, a former chief economist with the World Bank, use the wrong discount rate in his landmark 2006 report, the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change? These may seem like abstruse economic questions, but for analyzing the cost-benefit analysis of climate action -- whether we must act urgently or at leisure -- the discount rate is probably the single most importan ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

Western civilization? What a nice idea	James Dailey	15 Jun 2007	Gristmill
If Gandhi were around today, I think he would be less reasonable and tractable about the climate crisis; instead, he would challenge the moral integrity of so-called western civilization. The galvanizing march to the salt flats (the famous 'Salt March') would be a tour of threatened island nations: Inuit seeking redress for loss of habitat, mountain people facing bewildering change, deluges in Bangladesh, landslides in the Philippines, and masses of people in the Indus- ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, energy, environmental justice, severe weather (all these topics)

Worse than a prisoner's dilemma The cost of acting first on climate change vs. the cost of not acting	Joseph Romm	27 May 2007	Gristmill
'Lose-lose: the penalties of acting alone stall collective effort on climate change' is an article the Financial Times ran a while back. While the piece gives a panoramic analysis of the international prisoner's dilemma, there are two other angles that are missing. The first is the penalties of no one acting. According to the UK's environmental minister, the economic rationale for inaction is that the first country to act risks undergoing some degree of economic h ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

Biofuels and the poor The former: Not good for the latter	Maywa Montenegro	22 May 2007	Gristmill
How climate change will disproportionately affect the world's poor is a message making the rounds of late, after the publication of the second IPCC report earlier this year. How climate change policies, such as carbon taxes, will either help or hurt the poor is also a topic we've been discussing of late. Now researchers at the University of Minnesota have assessed the impact of an increased dependence on biofuels on the developing world ... and the outlook isn't ...
Topics: agriculture, biofuels, carbon tax, climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, energy, IPCC (all these topics)

How do we restrain global warming? Will it be adaptation, mitigation ... or neither?	Kit Stolz	11 May 2007	Gristmill
Despite a lot of talk, this nation has done little to restrain global warming, either in terms of mitigating carbon emissions or adapting to the climate changes that will come. Some nations around the world -- wealthy nations such as Australia and the Netherlands -- are beginning to adapt, while poorer nations -- such as Malawi and India -- can't afford to. In a superb piece of reporting last month in The New York Times, four writers reported on "the climate d ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, environmental justice (all these topics)

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