climate change

Quoted: Global warming could devastate the ski resorts of Europe within decades, especially in lower-lying areas, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said on Wednesday. “Of the countries studied, Germany is most at risk,” the OECD said in a statement.

Quoted: Participants must be clothed and sober to board the bus...

K&C, you might not want to share too much about the event with M&D...

Quoted: Some 220 square miles of ice has collapsed in Antarctica and an ice shelf about the size of Connecticut is "hanging by a thread," the British Antarctic Survey said Tuesday, blaming global warming.

Quoted: Carbon Conscious Consumer (C3) is a national climate campaign sponsored by the Center for a New American Dream that challenges individuals to establish climate-friendly daily habits and inspire their friends to do the same. Participants who most creatively and effectively spread the word will win prizes.

good article and a good start to the climate justice discussion.

Quoted: Randy Poplock, guest columnist: In the Pacific Northwest, climate justice must be considered in policy decisions and public dialogue. Every environmental issue poses a social justice concern, and climate change is no exception.

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Excellent video about Global Climate Change risk of inaction. But, I don't agree with the analysis for several reasons:

- The cost of action is greater than he portrays. Column "A" includes massive world-wide deaths through starvation and exposure.

- Column "A" has no "smiley face": outcome. Even if we are "right", the scale of economic sacrifice is paid on both row 1 and row 2 -> he'd avoiding saying that though I'm sure he knows it's true (this was just dishonest on his part).

- Column "B" worst-case scenario is not as bad as he portrays it. The effects of global temperature increase are likely those we can accommodate - and some of those effects are actually GOOD!

- Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, we may not have ANYTHING we can actually do to significantly reduce the human output of CO2 emissions. Our real choice is more like "how much should we spend to marginally slow the increase of human emissions of greenhouse gases over the next 100 years". There is no plan that can actually create significant reductions that will have ANY effect (short of mass executions/sterilization of humans).

A public art project to show Brooklyn City Dwellers what happens when the city floods by 10 feet as a result of climate change.

Quoted: high water line

Glacier retreat in the himalayas...this is really sad!

Quoted: Studying Indian glaciers offers a snapshot of the consequences of global warming for India and raises vital questions about how the country will respond to them.

very odd.

Quoted: Wanted: volunteers willing to take their clothes off and have their picture taken on a freezing cold Alpine glacier.