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Ice, ice, maybe (not) Must-see ice-sheet TV	Joseph Romm	28 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Do you want the latest data -- some not yet published -- and the best post-IPCC scientific predictions on the stunning collapse of Arctic ice and unexpected shrinking of the Greenland (and Antarctic) ice sheets? Then you should definitely watch this C-SPAN video of yesterday's American Meteorological Society seminar (see note on link below). The seminar is by three of the world's top cryosphere experts: Dr. Mark Serreze (NOAA), Scott Luthcke (NASA), and Dr. Konrad ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science (all these topics)

I Don't Think You're Ready for This Jelly Northern Ireland and Japan plagued by jellyfish		27 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 10:34 AM on 27 Nov 2007 We're sure you have plenty of fodder for eco-nightmares, but let us add another: killer jellyfish. Last week, a horde of jellies covering an area of 10 square miles (!) attacked Northern Ireland's only salmon farm, killing some 100,000 fish. The mauve stinger jellyfish were well north of their favored Mediterranean habitat, thanks to warmer-than-normal water. Another type, ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, fishing, insanity, Ireland, Japan, news, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

Breaking News: Climate Changing IPCC synthesis report confirms global warming is a force to be reckoned with		16 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 2:43 PM on 16 Nov 2007 And now, ladies and gents, the moment you've all been waiting for. The Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, with input from delegates of more than 140 countries, has synthesized three previous reports into one 70-page summary document and a 20-page summary of that summary, meant to be an "instant guide" to policymakers ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, IPCC, news (all these topics)

Work It Climate change could put millions out of work, says U.N.		13 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 10:15 AM on 13 Nov 2007 Not only is climate change not a hoax manufactured by dirty hippies who hope to put every American out of a job, global warming is real enough to, um, put millions of people out of jobs, United Nations officials said yesterday. At a meeting of the International Labor Organization, the heads of the U.N. climate and weather agencies noted that work in the tourism and fisheries industries could be par ...
Topics: business, climate, climate change impacts, green jobs, news, United Nations (all these topics)

Murkowski condemns Rush to judgment Alaska Senator defends young constituent against Limbaugh's attacks	David Roberts	08 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Lisa Murkowski. Those of you who don't read the comments under our posts may have missed this. Two days ago Nathan Wyeth brought news that talk radio gasbag Rush Limbaugh has been mocking a young Yup'ik Eskimo from Alaska who came to testify to Congress about the accelerating loss of her people's traditional way of life due to climate change.During her testimony, she broke down in tears. Said Limbaugh: 'Wah, wah, wah, wah.' You should know that Sen. Lisa ...
Topics: Alaska, climate, climate change impacts, politics (all these topics)

'Global Warning: The Security Challenges of Climate Change' New report examines the impact of climate change on national security	Joseph Romm	06 Nov 2007	Gristmill
John Podesta and Peter Ogden of the Center for American Progress have written a chapter titled 'Global Warning: The Security Challenges of Climate Change,' for a report called 'The Age of Consequences: The Foreign Policy and National Security Implications of Global Climate Change.' They describe their work as follows: During the course of the past year, a high-level working group of foreign policy experts, climate scientists, historians, and other specialists has met ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate equity, international politics, national security, politics (all these topics)

The blame game Who is at fault for the fires in SoCal?	Kit Stolz	02 Nov 2007	Gristmill
After burning nearly half a million acres, the devastating wildfires of this past week in southern California have been put down. Controversy raged with the flames; now that the air is beginning to clear, it's time to comb through the wreckage for some insight worth remembering. And there's a lot to examine, as experts of all types came forward with reactions -- some to lead, some to offer insight, and some to smear. The San Francisco Chronicle had uncharacteristically ...
Topics: sprawl, urban planning, California, climate, climate change impacts (all these topics)

If you worry about the impact of climate mitigation on the poor ... CBPP launches a climate equity program	Joseph Romm	30 Oct 2007	Gristmill
You'll be glad to know The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has launched a major climate program whose goals are to ensure that: the increased energy prices that are an essential part of climate-change legislation do not drive more households into poverty or make poor households poorer; and climate-change legislation generates sufficient revenue both to protect low-income households and to address other needs related to the fight against global warming, ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate equity, energy (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	30 Oct 2007	Gristmill
'I've been a Republican my whole life, but I'll be doggoned if Al Gore isn't right. Is it fair for you and me -- this generation -- to pollute for all the generations to come when we're already seeing the effects -- global warming, mercury, particulate matter?' -- newly minted environmentalist Sammy Prim
Topics: air pollution, climate, climate change impacts, quotables (all these topics)

Suffer the Little Children Pediatricians warn climate-change health effects worse for kids		30 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 7:28 AM on 30 Oct 2007 Just in time for Halloween, there's yet another danger to children for frazzled parents to fret about. For those of you keeping track at home, dangers include strangers, tainted candy, strangers with tainted candy, razorblades, pedophiles, smut, the dark, and now ... the health effects of climate change, at least according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. The academy ...
Topics: climate change impacts, news, parenting, scientific research (all these topics)

Friedman asks the wrong question It's not whether we're responsible, but whether we're prepared that counts	David Roberts	29 Oct 2007	Gristmill
I've been meaning to write something about the questions prompted by the California wildfires. The Mustache helped me this weekend by picking out what is, in my view, exactly the wrong question: "Did we do that?" Most news stories and blog posts that tried to connect the wildfires with climate change were constructed around that question. Many column inches were expended trying to calibrate the exact degree of responsibility human fossil fuel emissions migh ...
Topics: California, climate, climate change impacts, 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 change impacts, climate change skepticism, climate, messaging, environmental movement, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

Colbert: Will this eventually affect Planet America?	David Roberts	28 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: climate, climate change impacts, funnies, TV (all these topics)

What You Talkin' 'Bout, Dana? White House spokesfolks play up health benefits of climate change		26 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 1:34 PM on 26 Oct 2007 Recent Senate testimony on the public-health impacts of climate change by the director of the Centers for Disease Control was watered down because the White House wanted "to focus that testimony on public health benefits," White House spokesperson Dana Perino said this week. She went on to state that U.S. experts are attempting to determine "what are go ...
Topics: Centers on Disease Control and Prevention, climate, climate change impacts, dumbassery , health, news, White House (all these topics)

A nice rundown in layman's terms Physical chemist on climate change	JMG	26 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Turns out that my friend's brother is a physical chemist who has a lot of interesting things to say in response to the abrupt /cd548f8acf0efbe28525736900689456?OpenDocument'climate change modeling grant posting that the feds just put out. He sent this great rundown on how things look from his point of view: Yes, this has been going on for a while now, and it is for real. (I haven't looked at the link yet.) There are many possible non-linear effects which are only starting t ...
Topics: climate change impacts, climate, climate science (all these topics)

Earth still round; sky, blue	David Roberts	25 Oct 2007	Gristmill
IPCC: climate change will hit poor hardest.
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate equity, IPCC (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	25 Oct 2007	Gristmill
'Well, there are public health benefits to climate change, as well, both benefits and concerns ...'-- White House spokeswoman Dana Perino
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, dumbassery, health, quotables (all these topics)

Wild Thing, I Think I'll Miss You Photos of species threatened by climate change	Gary Braasch	25 Oct 2007	Grist Feature
The following photos and excerpt -- highlighting the threats posed to animals and plants by climate change -- are drawn from Gary Braasch's new book Earth Under Fire: How Global Warming Is Changing the World, published by the University of California Press, � 2007. Featuring more than 100 photographs, Earth Under Fire shows species, cultures, and entire ecosystems at risk due to rapid cl ...
Topics: biodiversity, books, climate change impacts, wildlife (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 change mitigation, climate change impacts, climate (all these topics)

Wanted: climate disaster rapid response Greens should talk about climate disasters when people are listening	Glenn Hurowitz	24 Oct 2007	Gristmill
As Matt Stoller pointed out at Open Left, environmental groups haven't been very quick off the mark in responding to the California wildfires and framing them as a climate disaster. Whether it's Katrina, Rita, the 2003 wildfires, 2004 Florida hurricanes, or any of the numerous other climate disasters of recent years, environmental groups have been slow. It's true that you can't tie any particular climate disaster directly to global warming -- but it's easy enough to ...
Topics: environmental movement, severe weather, climate, climate change impacts (all these topics)

You're Getting Warmer, Warmer ... Sprawling homes susceptible to flames in California		24 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 3:27 PM on 24 Oct 2007 The impact of the still-raging California fires on humans and their homes is tragic and lamentable -- but far from unexpected, thanks to homeowners' tendency to sprawl out and nestle right up to the fire line. Some two-thirds of new building in southern California in the past decade was on tinder-dry, fire-susceptible land, says historian Mike Davis. "You might as well be ...
Topics: California, climate, climate change impacts, news, placemaking, severe weather, sprawl (all these topics)

A taste of what's to come Global warming and the California wildfires	Joseph Romm	24 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Global warming makes wildfires more likely and more destructive -- as many scientific studies have concluded. Why? Global warming leads to more intense droughts, hotter weather, earlier snowmelt (hence less humid late summers and early autumns), and more tree infestations (like the pine beetle). That means wildfires are a dangerous amplifying feedback, whereby global warming causes more wildfires, which release carbon dioxide, thereby accelerating global warmin ...
Topics: climate change impacts, severe weather, California, climate (all these topics)

Pearce on Gore	David Roberts	24 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Socially progressive publishing house Beacon has a new blog, Beacon Broadside, where its authors post. One of the first posts is from Fred Pearce, author of, among other books, With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change. It's called "Al and Me,' and defends Gore against the charge that he exaggerated the dangers of climate change in his movie. Quite the contrary, says Pearce.
Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, climate, climate change impacts, websites (all these topics)

Armenia and global warming Climate change signals in the Caucasus Mountains	Grist	24 Oct 2007	Gristmill
The following is a guest essay from Eric Pallant, professor of environmental science at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pa., and codirector of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Integrated Water Resources Management. He is reporting from the National Disasters and Water Security conference in Yerevan, Armenia. ----- October 20, 2007 The last time there was dramatic climate change in Armenia, Noah built an ark, floated for 40 days and nights, and disembarked on Moun ...
Topics: Armenia, climate, climate science, climate change impacts (all these topics)

Those Who Repeat the Past Are Doomed to Know It Study of fossil record predicts climate change could fuel mass extinction		24 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 7:42 AM on 24 Oct 2007 Photo: iStockphoto Climate change may fuel a mass extinction in which half of all plant and animal species could -- how to put this delicately? -- exit stage left, according to a new study. If the past 520 million years of fossil records are any predictor of the future, a globally warmed world will not bode well for biodiversity, researchers ...
Topics: biodiversity, climate change impacts, news, scientific research (all these topics)

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