These are some of the most valuable references on climate change issues, both primary (reports and research directly from an array of internationally renowned scientists) and secondary (reporting from some of the best investigative journalists). Utilize these resources in daily conversation or for your own research–perhaps you’ll spark some interest in this all-important topic.
And now, for a veritable panorama of climate change pieces:
Why IPCC Targets on Degree Rise are Wrong. Dr. James Hansen, thirty-year director off NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, arguably the world’s best known climatologist; UT-Austin’s Dr. Camille Parmesan, lead author of the 2001 IPCC report; Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, Director of Columbia University’s Earth Institute, and fifteen other well-respected scientists. Their summary–a rise of two degrees (the goal of the 2015 UN Paris Climate Conference) would be a catastrophe leading to even higher temperatures and catastrophic climate change. They recommend a one-degree rise.
www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a9791/climate-scientists-ipcc-is-wrong-we-need-a-1-degree-limit-on-warming-16228387
Bill McKibben (co-founder of 350.org) on Disturbing New Math on Climate Change
newrepublic.com/article/136987/recalculating-climate-math
Bill McKibben, not an activist by nature, thought he could write his book and foment change. But that’s not how change happens.
www.livescience.com/41690-2-degrees-of-warming-too-much.html
VIDEO: Author/activist Naomi Klein: Capitalism and climate, this changes everything
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ew1BUgRTJg
Dahr Jamail: climate disruption dispatches—honest reporting about climate change
www.truth-out.org/news/item/22521-climate-disruption-dispatches-with-dahr-jamail
Exxon’s climate cover-up just got bigger: all major oil giants have lied since 1970s
www.democracynow.org/2015/12/31/exxons_climate_cover_up_just_got
Scientists are expecting methane “burp” leading to 5 or 6 degree rise (for an explanation of temperature rises of that severity, please read the next article after this)
truth-out.org/news/item/28490-the-methane-monster-roars
Mark Lynas: Explanation of what happens as temperature rises
www.theguardian.com/books/2007/apr/23/scienceandnature.climatechange
Is the Texas State Climatologist doing his job?
www.texasobserver.org/texas-state-climatologist-job
Dr. Hansen on why CO2 Concentration Target Not Sufficient. The research that resulted in 350.org
www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/apr/07/climatechange.carbonemissions
Why the IPCC Always Underestimates by Joe Romm, Former Assistant Director of the US Department of Energy
thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/03/30/3420723/climate-breakdown-of-food-systems
New Study Shows Climate Change Largely Irreversible for 1000 Years
www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2009/20090126_climate.html
Royal Society (The US equivalent of the Academy of Sciences) Special Issue details “hellish vision” of 7 degrees, by Joe Romm, former Asst Director of the US Dept of Energy
thinkprogress.org/climate/2010/11/29/207097/royal-society-special-issue-4-degrees-world/
“The limits for human adaptation are likely to be exceeded in many parts of the world…”
Rex Tillerson (former CEO ExxonMobil and former Secretary of State under Donald Trump) thinks cutting emissions won’t work “because the planet lives on oil”
thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/05/30/2076751/exxon-ceo-what-good-is-it-to-save-the-planet-if-humanity-suffers/?mobile=nc#
As emissions pass 400ppm, why do fossil fuel subsidies continue?
www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/05/14-7
Isn’t it time to ask the question?
CO2 emissions are being “outsourced” by rich countries to rising economies
www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/19/co2-emissions-outsourced-rich-nations-rising-economies
Greenhouse gas output of China, elsewhere, increased by making goods exported to the US and Europe