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Jason Dillon

Climate Disruptions, Close to Home - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • the main reason neither Congress nor much of the American public cares about global warming is that, as problems go, it seems remote. Anyone who reads the latest National Climate Assessment, released on Tuesday, cannot possibly think that way any longer.
  • The study, produced by scientists from academia, government and the private sector, is the definitive statement of the present and future effects of climate change on the United States. Crippling droughts will become more frequent in drier regions; torrential rains and storm surges will increase in wet regions; sea levels will rise and coral reefs in Hawaii and Florida will die. Readers can pick their own regional catastrophes,
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Jason Dillon

Bill McKibben to Obama: Say No to Big Oil | Moyers & Company | BillMoyers.com - 0 views

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    In the second half of this interview, McKibben addresses the need to make urgent modifications to our systems of energy production. Video and written transcript are accessible: "We've been given the warning by our scientists who have done a terrific job at reaching consensus on a different problem in physics and chemistry. They've told us that we're in deep trouble. They've told us what we need to do, get off fossil fuel. The question now is whether we're actually going to respond to that. And it's like a sort of, well, it's like a kind of final exam for the question, was the big brain a good adaptation or not, you know? We're going find out in short order."
  • Jason Dillon on 27 Feb 14
     
    http://billmoyers.com/spotlight/climate-change/ Moyers has gathered a whole bunch of journalism on climate change.
Jason Dillon

Gardening for Climate Change - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Taken alone, the small-scale transformation in my yard doesn’t matter all that much. But a constellation of small patches of milkweed, connecting one neighborhood to the next, might mean the difference between life and death for the monarchs. We need to start thinking not just about what used to be, but what could be. It’s going to take a lot of work. But it sure beats despair. The author of “My Backyard Jungle: The Adventures of an Urban Wildlife Lover Who Turned His Yard Into Habitat and Learned to Live With It,” and an associate professor of creative writing at the University of South Carolina.
James Linzel

IPCC finally weighs in on how to avoid further climate change | Ars Technica - 0 views

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  • growth is accelerating.
  • from 1970-2000 was about 0.4 billion tons more each year
  • three-quarters of these emissions come from fossil fuels
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  • rest come from things like deforestation, livestock production, and industrial pollutants.
  • much is due to economic growth and the rising use of coal in places like China.
  • population growth
  • Combining all anthropogenic climate forcings—including greenhouse gases, land use changes, and sunlight-reflecting aerosol particles—gives a net result equal to a CO2 concentration of around 430 parts-per-million
  • it must come back down to 450 parts-per-million by the end of the century
  • it’s clear that low-carbon options like renewables, nuclear energy, and fossil fuels with carbon capture will need to account for more than three-quarters of all electrical generation by 2050 if we’re going to meet that two degree Celsius target
  • Despite strong urban growth in many places, energy use in buildings could level off or decrease by the middle of this century if the right choices are made in terms of efficiency
  • long-lasting infrastructure we put in place now can determine, to a large degree, how much energy residents of a city will need to use
  • And while we’ve made some progress on deforestation, there’s potential there as well—forests and agricultural lands could be pulling CO2 out of the atmosphere, rather than releasing more, by the end of the century
James Linzel

Gavin Schmidt: The emergent patterns of climate change - YouTube - 0 views

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    This is a great talk about the use of modeling to predict future occurrences. Great for science and math.
Jason Dillon

The 14-Year-Old Voice of the Climate Change Generation | BillMoyers.com - 0 views

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  • In October, in his keynote address to the 2014 National Bioneers Conference in San Rafael, California, he told the assembled crowd, “In the light of a collapsing world, what better time to be born than now? Because this generation gets to rewrite history, gets to leave our mark on this earth.… We will be known as the generation, as the people on the planet, that brought forth a healthy, just, sustainable world for every generation to come. … We are the generation of change.”In December, HBO will debut the music video “Be the Change,” by Martinez’ hip-hop group, Voice of Youth.
Jason Dillon

China Confronts Its Coal Problem - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • tate-owned news outlets reported this month that the government would ban the use of coal in Beijing and other urban areas by 2020 in an effort to reduce the noxious air pollution that chokes many cities. In July, a Chinese academic who is also a senior lawmaker said the government was considering a national cap on coal use as soon as 2016.
  • But he and other officials have provided few details — and, indeed, have sent conflicting, even disturbing, signals about their plans. Some measures China is considering could actually exacerbate climate change. One particularly misguided plan, for instance, would involve building 50 large industrial facilities in western China to convert coal into synthetic natural gas.
Jason Dillon

Jane Goodall on New Gardens for a Changing World | Blog, Perspectives | BillMoyers.com - 1 views

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  • It is exciting to think that our gardens can be part of a growing effort to restore health to our planet. To this end, enormous efforts are also being made by young people all around the world through the JGI Roots & Shoots program.
Jason Dillon

Ten Ideas For How We Can Save the Planet | Perspectives | BillMoyers.com - 0 views

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  • We reached out to a handful of scientists, policy experts, writers and activists to ask: “If you could require America to do just one thing — any one thing — to combat climate change in 2014, what would it be?” Here’s what they said:
  • Take Action in Your CommunitiesAnnie LeonardExecutive director, Greenpeace USA; creator, The Story of StuffIf I could require Americans to do one thing, it is to get active!
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