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Full Boris London mayor releases plan for adapting to climate change		29 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 1:45 PM on 29 Aug 2008 London Mayor Boris Johnson unveiled a draft plan Friday to help the city mitigate and adapt to climate change. Johnson put special attention to water conservation, calling for mandatory metering, increased efficiency, improved drainage, and rainwater harvesting. He also envisions more trees and green space. Environmentalists said the adaptation strategy was a good step, but said measures to cut ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate change mitigation, London, news, placemaking, water crisis (all these topics)

At Least Buy Us All Umbrellas Science orgs plead for more funding for severe-weather preparation		21 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 8:30 AM on 21 Aug 2008 More floods, storms, and droughts are a-comin', and the U.S. lacks funding to predict and prepare for 'em, say eight scientific organizations. The groups, including the American Geophysical Union and American Meteorological Society, made a plea Wednesday for Congress and the next U.S. president to double the current budget for climate research and forecasting between ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate change impacts, climate science, news, severe weather (all these topics)

Unpopular Science Feds cut program that helped poor countries adapt to climate change		07 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 2:54 PM on 07 Aug 2008 The National Center for Atmospheric Research is eliminating a program that helped developing countries anticipate and deal with droughts, floods, and other realities of a changing climate. The now-defunct Center for Capacity Building, which had an annual budget of about $500,000, was reputable in the international climate community for its unique approach to the human side of c ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate science, news (all these topics)

Bonn of Contention Yet another international climate meeting gets rollin'		02 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 3:19 PM on 02 Jun 2008 Yet another round of international climate talks has kicked off, this time in Bonn, Germany. More than 2,000 delegates from 162 countries will chit-chat over the next two weeks about the details of an agreement to succeed the Kyoto Protocol. But no significant steps forward are expected out of Bonn; most major decisions on the next treaty have been put off until 2009, when the U.S. delegat ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate change mitigation, international treaties, news (all these topics)

F*ck the Earth Day	David Roberts	23 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Warning: video below contains naughty words. Cover your ears.
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, funnies, green living, holiday (all these topics)

'Bombshell'? Really? RPJr.'s latest achievement in getting huge news coverage for saying very little	David Roberts	03 Apr 2008	Gristmill
I don't want to get too far into the kerfuffle over the Nature commentary from Pielke Jr. et al. Just a few quick and I guess fairly cynical thoughts: The trend toward "spontaneous" technology development and efficiency has been going on for centuries, only to pause during the last few years thanks to a burst of new dirty coal plants in the developing world. The whole commentary is premised on the idea that this is the new norm -- that "spontaneous&quo ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate change mitigation, energy, energy efficiency, tech (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)

Air capture 101 Potentially a long-term option for putting waste heat to use	Joseph Romm	01 Apr 2008	Gristmill
RealClimate has a good introductory post on air capture, which they explain as: The idea would be to let people emit the carbon dioxide at the source but then capture it directly from the atmosphere at a separate facility. This is going to be a relatively expensive and complicated strategy for decades -- and, of course, you need a place to put the carbon dioxide. That said, a lot of work is going on to see if one can do air capture driven by heat. Why does that matte ...
Topics: climate change adaptation, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, renewable energy (all these topics)

The adaptation trap 2: The not-so-honest broker More on Roger Pielke, Jr.	Joseph Romm	31 Mar 2008	Gristmill
In Part 1, we saw that ... Adaptation as primary strategy for dealing with climate change is widely oversold. This is especially true as atmospheric CO2 concentrations approach 800 to 1,000 ppm, a likely outcome if we listen to either the delayers or deniers. A leading adaptation advocate and apparent delayer-1000, Roger Pielke, Jr., 'labels adaptation what is in fact mitigation, and his idea of mitigation is apparently research into adaptation.' Let me ela ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate change mitigation, climate change skepticism, greenhouse-gas emissions, IPCC (all these topics)

The adaptation trap and the nonskeptical delayers (like Roger Pielke) -- Part 1 Pielke labels adaptation what is actually mitigation	Joseph Romm	31 Mar 2008	Gristmill
The wheels may be falling off the media's climate discussion, if a recent L.A. Times piece is any evidence. The piece, 'Global warming: Just deal with it, some scientists say,' is really an article about not dealing with it. The L.A. Times, with the help of the delayer-1000 du jour, Roger Pielke, Jr., has brought to prominence (and fallen for) what I call the 'adaptation trap': The adaptation trap is the belief that 1) 'it would be easier and cheaper to adapt than fig ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate change mitigation, climate change skepticism, greenhouse-gas emissions, IPCC (all these topics)

Aspen Env't Forum: Big ideas Thinkers and doers exchange grand visions in the scenic Rockies	Lisa Hymas	28 Mar 2008	Gristmill
The first full day of the first-ever Aspen Environment Forum kicked off Thursday morning with a handful of the impressive invitees taking a couple minutes each to share a 'big idea.' Throughout the day, others tossed their sizeable thoughts into the ring. A sampling: Majora Carter. Majora Carter, founder and head of Sustainable South Bronx: 'Make the invisible places visible.' Carter talked about how her home borough and other low-income or minorit ...
Topics: climate change adaptation, climate change impacts, CSAs, farmers markets, food, green living, waste (all these topics)

Down the rabbit hole with Roger L.A. Times mischaracterizes Pielke Jr.'s arguments in such a way as to make them newsworthy	David Roberts	27 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Early in this L.A. Times piece, reporter Alan Zarembo characterizes Roger Pielke Jr.'s views as follows: His research has led him to believe that it is cheaper and more effective to adapt to global warming than to fight it. Instead of spending trillions of dollars to stabilize carbon dioxide levels across the planet -- an enormously complex and expensive proposition -- the world could work on reducing hunger, storm damage, and disease now, thereby neutral ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

A Widening Gulf? Army Corps climate efforts in New Orleans may not be enough	Mike Tidwell	20 Mar 2008	Grist Feature
No one wants to see this again -- but can post-Katrina protection efforts keep the Big Easy safe? Photo: NOAA Here's the good news: The Army Corps of Engineers is "racing" to complete a comprehensive levee system for metropolitan New Orleans by 2011 that actually takes into account global warming, at least in terms of sea-level rise. Here's the bad news: the levee system under devel ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, climate, climate change adaptation, Louisiana, Mississippi River, placemaking, severe weather, special series (all these topics)

Making a Splash Large water utilities form climate alliance		26 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 4:37 PM on 26 Feb 2008 Eight of the largest water agencies in the U.S. have formed the Water Utility Climate Alliance to strategize about dealing with climate change. Together, the eight members provide water to more than 36 million people, whose slaked thirst is endangered by "diminishing snowpack, bigger storms, more frequent drought, and rising sea levels," according to WUCA Chair Susan Leal. sources:� Associated ...
Topics: business, climate, climate change adaptation, climate change impacts, news, water crisis (all these topics)

Not just an environmental issue Climate change is as much a social priority as an environmental concern	Alan Durning	25 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Climate change is a universal menace, threatening hardships for everyone. But it's not an egalitarian menace: everyone will not suffer equally. Perversely, those people and nations least to blame for causing it are most vulnerable to its impacts. Climate disruption heaps misfortune on the less fortunate, whether in low-lying Bangladesh, the Ninth Ward of New Orleans, or the flood plains around Chehalis, Wash. In the aftermath of climate change, the less you have, the ...
Topics: climate change adaptation, climate equity, environmental justice, climate change impacts, climate (all these topics)

If You Build It, They May Not Come Maldives builds higher-altitude island, can't attract residents		11 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 3:44 PM on 11 Jan 2008 The tiny island nation of Maldives is at high risk of being swamped in years to come: it rises a mere three feet above sea level. So officials are building Hulhumal�, a human-made island with an altitude of more than six feet, capable of housing as many as 150,000 of the nation's 369,000 inhabitants. There's only one problem: Very few people want to move there. In ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, Maldives, news, placemaking (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)

We won't even help our own For mitigation over adaptation: the argument from cynicism	David Roberts	04 Sep 2007	Gristmill
The second anniversary of Katrina has passed, marked by me only with craven silence. There are three Katrina tidbits I wanted to pass along, though, as they are germane to the argument over whether humanity can or should adapt to ongoing climate change. The first is from a year ago. Jim Rusch, who was then acting governor of Idaho and who is likely to take over Larry Craig's recently vacated Senate seat, said this: Here in Idaho, we couldn't understand how peopl ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate change mitigation, Louisiana, politics, severe weather (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)

A Jolly Good Rockefeller Rockefeller Foundation offers climate aid to Asia, Africa		10 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
A Jolly Good Rockefeller Rockefeller Foundation offers climate aid to Asia, Africa Comin' on over to the dirty-hippie side, the Rockefeller Foundation has announced an investment of $70 million over the next five years to help communities in Asia and Africa withstand the effects of climate change. The foundation will focus on developing adaptation strategies for affected pop ...
Topics: Africa, Asia, climate, climate change adaptation, climate change impacts, news (all these topics)

Hope There's a High Ceiling for the Kangaroos Australia to build 1,740-mile corridor for wildlife affected by climate change		09 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Hope There's a High Ceiling for the Kangaroos Australia to build 1,740-mile corridor for wildlife affected by climate change State and federal leaders in Australia have agreed to create a 1,740-mile wildlife corridor spanning the east coast of the continent -- in part to allow plants and animals to flee the effects of global warming. "The effects of climate change will likely be less sev ...
Topics: Australia, climate, climate change adaptation, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Oxfam: Rich must pay the bulk of climate change bill Wealthy nations should be held accountable for their actions	Tom Athanasiou	31 May 2007	Gristmill
Oxfam has just taken a big step -- it wasn't easy, and they deserve heaps of kudos for it. It has called for a mandatory, global adaptation-funding regime, one that's on the right scale, or at least the right order of magnitude. It would make national obligations to pay -- to help poor and vulnerable communities adapt to the now inevitable impacts of climate change -- contingent on historical responsibility for the impacts of climate change, and on ability to pay. ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, international politics (all these topics)

Global warming and the vision thing Concrete images of a greener society	Jon Rynn	21 May 2007	Gristmill
Global warming activists have often advocated policies based on numerical goals or painted scary scenarios of the future. But there is a third way to advocate for long-term policies: propose solutions that contain a positive vision of a fossil fuel-free society. The importance of this approach was underlined to me when I heard Betsy Rosenberg of the radio show Ecotalk interview Chip Heath, an author of the business-oriented book, Made to Stick. She asked Heath what he ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, energy, innovation, placemaking (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)

Eventually, politicians give the people what they want So keep it up	Adam Browning	03 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Think about this article -- descriptively titled "Legislature flooded with bills about climate crisis; poll driven politicians see need to tackle global warming" -- the next time you get an email asking you to call or email your representative on an environmental issue. You keep it up long enough and they get it: Few issues are hotter in the Capitol this year than global warming.Lawmakers have introduced more than 60 bills on the topic, and no wonder. Poll ...
Topics: cars, climate change adaptation, Congress, electric vehicles, grassroots activism, politics, Prius (all these topics)

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