Informative eBook On Extreme Weather And Our Changing Climate. Bioregional Website. The images and text you see above are the current content displayed on electronic signs in the downtown and in Prospect Elementary.
The goal is to share, celebrate and empower the understanding, ideas, insights and actions of community members who are working to promote Among other things, images in the database that are used for environmental messaging are assigned to one of six categories: “Neighbors”, “Our Downtown”, “Serving Our Community”, “Next Generation”, “Heritage”, and “Natural Oberlin”. The Six Kinds of Messages. Don’t market yourself, market your message.
Fabrizio De Andrè - La Canzone dell'Amore Perduto. Secret funding helped build vast network of climate denial thinktanks. The End of the Industrial Revolution - Paul Gilding - Independent writer & advisor on sustainability. U.S. Effort on Ocean Acidification Needs Focus on Human Impacts. A federal plan to tackle ocean acidification must focus more on how the changes will affect people and the economy, according to a review of the effort by a panel of the National Research Council.
"Social issues clearly can't drive everything but when it's possible they should," said George Somero, chair of the committee that wrote the report and associate director at Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station. "If you're setting up a monitoring station, it should be where there's a shellfish industry, for example. " Acidification is one of the larger problems associated with greenhouse gas emissions, as oceans serve as a giant sponge for carbon dioxide. When carbon dioxide is dissolved in seawater, water chemistry changes and acidity increases. Coal Consumption Booms Amid Rising Climate Concerns: IEA Coal Report 2012. In a report destined to frustrate advocates for global action on climate change, the Paris-based International Energy Agency projected Tuesday morning that in five years' time, the amount of coal burned around the globe every year will increase by an additional 1.2 billion metric tons -- an amount roughly equivalent to the current annual coal consumption of the U.S. and Russia combined.
The uptick, virtually all of it attributable to rapid economic expansion in China and India, comes even as the U.S. continues to experience decreases in coal use for electricity generation amid the availability of cheap and plentiful natural gas -- which has a smaller carbon footprint than coal when burned. Without even including India and China, however, the drop in U.S. coal consumption is easily negated by a commensurate uptick in coal use elsewhere in the world. By almost any measure, China is now fully industrialized, accounting for the highest share of global greenhouse gas emissions. Bill Nye Makes Talking Climate Science Simple.
The best way you can advocate for climate action is to talk about climate science and the need for governments to cut carbon pollution.
Talk about warmer temperatures, talk about extreme weather, talk about rising sea levels. Talk to your family, your neighbors, your elected officials. David Roberts gave progressives a simple map for talking climate change and now Bill Nye and the Climate Reality Project are making it even simplerer with Climate 101: You don't have to know all the answers to know we need to take climate action now. NOAA Announces Astounding Planetary Heat Record. From NOAA NCDC NASA data shows that November 2012 globally was the second warmest on record, surpassed only by 2010.
NOAA keeps a second record and has November 2012 as 5th warmest. NOAA also announced that this past climatological autumn (Sep-Nov) was the second warmest on record and that this is (astonishingly) the 333 month in a row with global temps. above the 20th century average. A Contrarian Spin on the Next Big Climate Report. Some Green readers have probably heard by now that a draft of the next big United Nations report on climate change has leaked.
Science@NASA The agent of the leak is a rather colorful climate contrarian named Alec Rawls, who essentially claimed, on the basis of a single sentence in the draft, that the entire edifice of climate science is about to collapse. In his interpretation, the group putting the report together, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, is about to acknowledge the validity of a longstanding fringe theory: that cosmic rays have a huge influence on the earth’s climate. We know where the carbon is. Let's go get it. Van Jones on Obama: Climate will be the issue he is judged on. Van Jones is a leading environmental and human rights advocate, President Obama's former "green jobs" special advisor, a CNN contributor, and the New York Times bestselling author of The Green Collar Economy and Rebuild the Dream.
Chris Mooney spoke with him by phone as part of our ongoing coverage of how President Obama can tackle the climate issue—and lead—in his second term. Mother Jones: Obama and global warming—decode his signals for us. Is he really going to take the lead here in the next 4 years, and prioritize this issue? Van Jones: I think it's not clear sometimes how America is prioritizing the issue. Should I Buy a Fake Christmas Tree or a Real One? Growing up, I never owned a real Christmas tree. When I was about 14 and living in the Pennsylvania suburbs, my mom bought a fake, pre-lit, easy-to-assemble one from the local department store for our apartment. We've kept it for more than a decade since. Each winter when we'd bring the tree out of the box I'd feel proud that our holiday cheer didn't require chopping down a tree. But a part of me envied the rich pine scent that filled my friends' living rooms.
So last week, when one of my roommates proposed that we buy a real Christmas tree for our home of four in San Francisco, I was tempted. Obama on Climate Policy: Not Just Now, Thanks. European Pressphoto Agency“Working through an education process”: President Obama at his news conference on Wednesday. Environmental advocates have expressed frustration with the lack of discussion of climate change in the presidential race this year, a reticence that persisted even after the devastation of Hurricane Sandy.
On Wednesday, in his first post-election news conference, President Obama offered his most extensive remarks on climate change in months. They did not particularly thrill environmentalists. The president said that it was impossible to attribute a specific weather event to global warming, but noted there have been an extraordinary number of severe weather events in North America and around the globe. “And I am a firm believer that climate change is real, that it is impacted by human behavior and carbon emissions,” he said. He said that in his first term he had ratcheted up fuel economy standards for vehicles and doubled the production of renewable energy.
Mr. On Climate Change, the U.S. Is Doing Better Than Europe. Never mind what people believe — how can we change what they do? A chat with Robert Cialdini. When it comes to energy, policymakers are often confronted with human behavior that seems irrational, unpredictable, or unmanageable.
Advocates for energy efficiency in particular are plagued by the gap between what it would make sense for people to do and what they actually do. Efforts to change people’s behavior have a record that can charitably be described as mixed. Why climate change doesn’t spark moral outrage, and how it could.