Global Climate Change

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The world is likely to build so many fossil-fuelled power stations, energy -guzzling factories and inefficient buildings in the next five years that it will become impossible to hold global warming to safe levels, and the last chance of combating dangerous climate change will be "lost for ever", according to the most thorough analysis yet of world energy infrastructure. Anything built from now on that produces carbon will do so for decades, and this "lock-in" effect will be the single factor most likely to produce irreversible climate change, the world's foremost authority on energy economics has found.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/nov/09/fossil-fuel-infrastructure-climate-change

World headed for irreversible climate change in five years, IEA warns | Environment

The consensus in American politics today is that there’s nothing to be gained from talking about climate change.

The brutal logic of climate change

Press Release: CANADIAN YOUTH EJECTED FROM COP17 « CYD-DJC

Arctic sea ice volume: The death spiral continues

On Sunday, Democracy Now! attended the corporate-sponsored World Climate Summit in Durban that advocates a market approach to solving the climate crisis.

Entrepreneur: Capitalism Will Save World from Climate Crisis to Preserve Markets for iPads, Coke

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/12/8/entrepreneur_capitalism_will_save_world_from

A number of protests are being held today at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban to protest the failure of world leaders to agree to immediately agree to a deal of binding emissions cuts. Anjali Appadurai, a student at the College of the Atlantic in Maine, addressed the conference on behalf of youth delegates. Just after her speech, she led a mic check from the stage — a move inspired by the Occupy Wall Street protests.

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/12/9/get_it_done_urging_climate_justice

"Get It Done": Urging Climate Justice, Youth Delegate Anjali Appadurai Mic Checks U.N. Summit

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/12/9/lauding_collapse_of_global_warming_movement

Lauding "Collapse of Global Warming Movement," Sen. Inhofe Tells U.N. Summit "You Are Being Ignored"

While no members of the U.S. Congress attended the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban, Republican Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma recorded a video message that was aired at a press conference of climate change deniers here at the summit on Wednesday. "Tossing out any remote possibility of a U.N. global warming treaty is one of the most important things we can do for the economy," Sen.