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[http://books.google.com/books?id=bxTmIB-xPXAC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false ''Beyond Smoke and Mirrors'']: ''Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century'' By Burton Richter (recommended in 81C course). [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0UiqV0kTPU Short video] and [20 min [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu095o1pcpI video interview] 2010) | [http://books.google.com/books?id=bxTmIB-xPXAC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false ''Beyond Smoke and Mirrors'']: ''Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century'' By Burton Richter (recommended in 81C course). [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0UiqV0kTPU Short video] and [20 min [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu095o1pcpI video interview] 2010) | ||
| − | [http://www.grist.org/article/2010-03-11-jeff-goodell-geoengineering/ How to Cool the Planet] on geo-engineering, [http://www.grist.org/article/2010-03-11-jeff-goodell-geoengineering/ interview] with author (text) . [http://hacktheplanetbook.com/safetycard/ Video overview] from ''Hack the Planet'' [http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/03/hack-the-planet-excerpt/ excerpt] and [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127245606&ft=3&f=1020,1032,1035,1136,1138 audio interview] NPR.org 5/10. | + | [http://www.grist.org/article/2010-03-11-jeff-goodell-geoengineering/ How to Cool the Planet] on geo-engineering, [http://www.grist.org/article/2010-03-11-jeff-goodell-geoengineering/ interview] with author (text) . [http://hacktheplanetbook.com/safetycard/ Video overview] from ''Hack the Planet'' [http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/03/hack-the-planet-excerpt/ excerpt] and [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127245606&ft=3&f=1020,1032,1035,1136,1138 audio interview] NPR.org 5/10. [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/opinion/sunday/geoengineering-testing-the-waters.html Geoengineering: Testing the Waters] By NAOMI KLEIN. |
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[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/18/climate-change-farmers-adapt_n_1151707.html?view=print&comm_ref=false Farmers adapt to AGW] report and (slideshow) 1/12 | [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/18/climate-change-farmers-adapt_n_1151707.html?view=print&comm_ref=false Farmers adapt to AGW] report and (slideshow) 1/12 | ||
| − | [http://www.grist.org/list/2011-09-14-scientists-are-about-to-test-a-scheme-to-cool-the-earth New geo-engineering scheme] 9/11 | + | [http://www.grist.org/list/2011-09-14-scientists-are-about-to-test-a-scheme-to-cool-the-earth New geo-engineering scheme] 9/11. [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/opinion/sunday/geoengineering-testing-the-waters.html Geoengineering: Testing the Waters] By NAOMI KLEIN. |
[http://www.boingboing.net/2011/07/21/why-we-need-to-keep.html Loss of Arctic ice ] isn't just a threat to polar bears. Climate scientist James Hanson has just published a science brief on the NASA website about why those ice sheets are so important (besides providing an habitat for polar bears) and why we need to keep funding research that uses satellites to monitor the state of the world's ice sheets. 7/11. | [http://www.boingboing.net/2011/07/21/why-we-need-to-keep.html Loss of Arctic ice ] isn't just a threat to polar bears. Climate scientist James Hanson has just published a science brief on the NASA website about why those ice sheets are so important (besides providing an habitat for polar bears) and why we need to keep funding research that uses satellites to monitor the state of the world's ice sheets. 7/11. | ||
Revision as of 17:08, 28 October 2012
In the years since the Industrial Revolution, the planet's average temperature has been increasing more or less steadily. Most scientists attribute this phenomenon, referred to as Global Warming or Climate Change, to the increased use of fossil fuels and the heat-trapping greenhouse gases that they produce when burned. Because of its continuing progress and potentially harmful implications, Global Warming has become one of the hottest (no pun intended) topics of discussion in the scientific community.
The ongoing debate about this topic is mostly covered in Environmental Science and Skeptical Challenges. See also Ocean and Forests. For solutions, see Energy Page.
Contents
News Sites
Real Climate.org info from actual climate scientists.
Climate Science Watch tracks the debate.
Climate Activism from Orion magazine.
Scientific American coverage of issue, including Copenhagen talks.
Pew Center has great info.
Environmental News Network has GW news, including a recent story about a CO2 burp that may have ended the last ice age.
Climate Watch is a blog that list a variety of media, including NPR's Climate Connections. Includes coverage of carbon, as well as fire and water issues. See also "fun" stats
The Climate Desk, a unique journalistic collaboration dedicated to exploring the impacts—human, environmental, economic, and political—of a changing climate. Climate Desk participants include Mother Jones, Slate, Wired, The Atlantic, PBS’s Need to Know, Grist, and the Center for Investigative Reporting.
Climate Central blog.
PBS Newshour's Coping with Climate Change
Headlines
An Illustrated Guide to the Science of Global Warming Impacts: How We Know Inaction Is the Gravest Threat Humanity Faces/ 10/12.
Seminal Study Finds ‘Climate-Change Footprint’ In North America, ‘Continent With The Largest Increases in Disasters’ 10/12 see also Frankenstorm
Arctic Methane Leak Research Looks For Signs Of Accelerating Climate Change 10/12.
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Rise With GDP But Slower To Fall During Recession, Study Finds 10/12.
Climate Change To Shrink Fish By 2050 As Oceans Warm 10/12.
Global Warming's Terrifying New Math: Three simple numbers that add up to global catastrophe - and that make clear who the real enemy is by Bill McKibben 7/12.
Explaining the ’100 million to die from climate change’ claim 9/12.
US Megadrought 9/12.
California Temperature forecasts.
GOP 2012 sees climate as punch line, Obama rebuts, but could do more 9/12
California starts cap and trade; alternative: Carbon tax demystified
Oxfam environmental justice report 9/12.
The Arctic Ice Crisis Greenland’s glaciers are melting far faster than scientists expected (so much for HimalayaGate etc) 8/12 9/12 update.
Climate Change, Extreme Weather Link Becoming More Apparent7.12
GDP Cannot Capture the Economics of Climate Change; an alternative measure 7.12
The earth’s water cycle is speeding up twice as fast as climate models predicted, which means more droughts and more floods. 4/12
"Weather Weirding": The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found that March's "meteorological madness" with record-setting highs was due mostly to freakishly random factors, with only a small assist from human-induced climate change. IPS calls this "extreme weather" the new normal, and there may be more crazy weather in our future. The changes are causing some scientists to look to the ice. More
A paper now out in Nature shows how increased CO2 in the atmosphere led to a series of sudden and extreme global warming events that occurred between about 55.5 and 52 million years ago. 4/12.
Microsoft founder Myhrvold and climate scientist Caldeira have shown in pretty stark terms that, if we’re not willing to substantially reduce population growth or economic growth, we’re going to need an absolutely gargantuan amount of zero-carbon energy, without delay. Link 3/12.
| World headed for irreversible climate change in five years, IEA warns | |
| 2/14 | Reposted: 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. If this is not rapidly changed within the next five years, the results are likely to be disastrous. "The door is closing," Fatih Birol, chief economist at the International Energy Agency, said. "I am very worried – if we don't change direction now on how we use energy, we will end up beyond what scientists tell us is the minimum [for safety]. The door will be closed forever." If the world is to stay below 2C of warming, which scientists regard as the limit of safety, then emissions must be held to no more than 450 parts per million (ppm) of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere; the level is currently around 390ppm. But the world's existing infrastructure is already producing 80% of that "carbon budget", according to the IEA's analysis, published on Wednesday. This gives an ever-narrowing gap in which to reform the global economy on to a low-carbon footing. More Related Dept of Energy study: The global output of heat-trapping carbon dioxide jumped by the biggest amount on record, the U.S. Department of Energy calculated, a sign of how feeble the world's efforts are at slowing man-made global warming. The new figures for 2010 mean that levels of greenhouse gases are higher than the worst case scenario outlined by climate experts just four years ago. "The more we talk about the need to control emissions, the more they are growing," said John Reilly, co-director of MIT's Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. The world pumped about 564 million more tons (512 million metric tons) of carbon into the air in 2010 than it did in 2009. That's an increase of 6 percent. That amount of extra pollution eclipses the individual emissions of all but three countries — China, the United States and India, the world's top producers of greenhouse gases. It is a "monster" increase that is unheard of, said Gregg Marland, a professor of geology at Appalachian State University, who has helped calculate Department of Energy figures in the past. Extra pollution in China and the U.S. account for more than half the increase in emissions last year, Marland said. |
Other Resources
Climate Justice bibliography by Tracy Perkins UCSC Sociology
See also California Page for local impacts. To take action, see MIT's Climate CoLab.
List of CO2 emissionsby country. In a new study, University of Michigan researchers accounted for both climate and GDP when looking at total emissions from each country. 7.12
Excellent video overview of our current status: Human growth has strained the Earth's resources, but as Johan Rockstrom reminds us, our advances also give us the science to recognize this and change behavior. His research has found nine "planetary boundaries" that can guide us in protecting our planet's many overlapping ecosystems. TEDtalk
Online course (video): Jim Lee teaches in the School of International Service at American University and his courses combine cutting edge issues with new technologies. Trade, environment, and conflict are the bases for thought, built with web-programming and video production skills. He has recently focused on issues of geographic indications and climate change and conflict.
UCSC research on GW. UC Lizard research shows early effects. 5/10. More links(audio) on Sinervo's work.
Early Warning Signs from all over the world from Slate and NPR Living on Earth. See also Bangladesh article. Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting provides a view from Bangladesh, a nation already reeling from the impact of climate change.12/09
The MIT Climate Collaboratorium allows you to come up with plans, or vote on existing ones.
Scientists and other experts rattle off options for averting climate catastrophe 02 Jan 2009 London's Independent newspaper asked climate scientists to answer a simple question: should humanity "prepare a 'Plan B' to curb the worst effects of global warming?" Well, ask 40 eggheads a question, and you'll get a very diverse set of responses. Geo-engineering is the answer! No, focus on carbon sequestration. Wrong again, it's all about adapting to the new climate reality! Check out all the responses here.
Meanwhile, the mysterious Edge Foundation released its annual question for 2009, asking smart folks of all disciplines to name what new idea or technology will "change everything." Responses range all over, but there are a few climate-related responses, including British novelist Ian McEwan's prediction that solar technology will really take off and Stanford climatologist Stephen H. Schneider's guess that rapid melting of Greenland's ice sheets will wake up the world to the need to take concerted action on curbing C02 emissions. Read the full list of responses at Edge.org
NASA's Goddard Center, global temperature data 1/10.
New sea level rise reporthas interactive maps and Sea Level Rise data.
2010 Nature article on sea level rise higher than IPCC.
Floating buildings to deal with sea level rise.
New numbers on carbon sinks worrying. 7/10
Study shows that worries about economy affect environmental thinking. 7/10
Permafrost melt releases methane (GHG). audio 8/10 Update 1/12
The coming Mega-Drought pdf 10/10
New Stanford study of effect on food production.
New study shows migration due to AGW will be problematic. 2/12
The so-called Himalayagate scandal is just another example of trying to discredit climate change based on small errors and outright distortion. Now it turns out the mountains are losing ice quickly. 3/12
Interactive Websites/Maps
New NASA heat maps show wildfire pattern 7.12
Heat Wave Shattering Records 3/12
New map shows 4 of 5 Americans affected by climate disasters 2/12
Interactive Global Warming maps from Union of Concerned Scientists.
Cal-Adapt was built specifically to address projections about climate change in California, designed by Google, in collaboration with the California Energy Commission, the U.S. Geological Survey, several California universities and others.
Google Earth guided tour of global warming impacts.
World Health Organization map of 150K of people who are killed annually by climate change. Link to study pdf
CAKE map of projects adapting to climate change. CAKE is a joint project of Island Press (Slug!) and EcoAdapt. It is aimed at building a shared knowledge base for managing natural systems in the face of rapid climate change.
New Interactive maps and images 4/10.
World map of Co2 emissions (now and projected)
World Map of emissions targets
Timeline of legislation/treaties
Calculate your carbon footprint.
New sea level rise report 3/12 has interactive maps see also Rising Ocean Levels interactive maps.
Monitor CO2 and other greenhouse gases
CA water map (reservoir levels)
Books
Michael Lemonick's Global Weirdness: Severe Storms, Deadly Heat Waves, Relentless Drought, Rising Seas, and the Weather of the Future (audio interview and excerpt). 2012
Nnimmo Bassey is and activist and poet, the executive director of Environmental Rights Action (ERA), Nigeria and elected chair of Friends of the Earth International. He is one of Time Magazine's Heroes of the Planet 2009 and co-winner of the 2010 Right Livelihood Award (the Alternative Nobel Prize). His books include To Cook a Continent (excerpt), Oilwatching in South America and Genetically Modified Organisms: the African Challenge. video interview. (See also Africa Page).
Jim Hansen at NASA risked his career by refusing to be muzzled on climate change by the Bush Administration. He has a new book, Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity, reviewed here. He has also recently come to the defense of Tim DeChristopher above. New TEDtalk video 3/12. Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity by James Hansen of NASA.
New books on climate change from Island Press: Heatstroke: Nature in an Age of Global Warmingby Anthony D. Barnosky. Climate Savvy: Adapting Conservation and Resource Management to a Changing World Climate Savvyby Lara J. Hansen and Jennifer R. Hoffman. Climate and Conservation: Landscape and Seascape Science, Planning, and Action Climate and Conservation, Edited by Jodi A. Hilty, Charles C. Chester, and Molly S. Cross.
Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth Excerpt by Mark Hertsgaard. Radio interview 3/11. Here's an hour-long talk. Mark spoke here at College 8 for a number of years when his Earth Odyssey was required reading.
The Global Warming Reader, edited by Bill McKibben, pulls together seminal texts of the climate change debate with the goal of creating a complete picture. Selections range from a 19th-century treatise to images from Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, and include a few unexpected gems like Senate floor statements from climate change denier James Inhofe (R-Okla.).
In Christine Shearer's new book Kivalina: A Climate Change Story, global warming moves off the pages of science and into the lives of everyday people.
"Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence" By Christian Parenti. 2011
Climatopolis is an economic approach for thinking about climate-change adaptation.
With Speed and Violence: why scientists fear tipping points in climate change by Fred Pearce. UCSC owns. 2007
Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century By Burton Richter (recommended in 81C course). Short video and [20 min video interview 2010)
How to Cool the Planet on geo-engineering, interview with author (text) . Video overview from Hack the Planet excerpt and audio interview NPR.org 5/10. Geoengineering: Testing the Waters By NAOMI KLEIN.
Finding higher ground : adaptation in the age of warming / Amy Seidl UCSC S&E Stacks QH546 .S453 2011.
A World Without Ice, a book by Henry Pollack who was a winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on climate change. Google talk video 2009
The Carbon Age by Eric Roston, Duke Univ.
Island Press reader on global warming (free download).
James Lovelock is creator of the Gaia Hypothesis (the earth as self-regulaing superorganism) [1] is author of The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning, video of talk. 9/10 [2]. radio interview (also includes Stewart Brand on climate change and nuclear energy).
Local Author Chuck Tremper's Book on Global Warming
Hot, Flat, and Crowded. Thomas L. Freidman, author of The Lexus and the Olive Tree, and The World Is Flat, explains how America can lead the green revolution in the 21st century (audio and video too).
2006 Overview and review of several books (NY Review of Books) by Jim Hansen, Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Adjunct Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. Here is a followup discussion with the author. 60 Minutes interview (video).
The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back - and How we Can Still Save Humanity (2006) is a book by James Lovelock.
Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning by George Monbiot
review
The Heat is On by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Ross Gelbspan see on skeptic scams Newer book is Boiling Point; here's an excerpt. Here's a video of the author at the World Affairs Council, moderated by Hertsgaard (Sponsored by Global Exchange, founded by a slug, and others).
Bill McKibben The End of Nature
Hell and High Water: Climate Change, Hope and the Human Condition, by Alastair McIntosh
Video
Bill McKibben talk 6/12. **** Lauded by Time Magazine as the planet's best green journalist, McKibben, founder of 350.org movement, is the author of dozens of books about the environment brings deep insight into the human dimensions of climate change. 60 min. PowerShift 2011.
Overview TEDtalk by Michael Mann. 12/11
Food and Climate change 2008 panel discussion. CA 2012 Heat and Harvest(audio panel discussion)
TEDtalk on how to prepare 10/12.
climate modeling expert Guillermo Auad explains the various kinds of models that researchers use to understand and forecast climate scenarios and how this science has impacts well outside of the research community.
Tipping point (amplifying feedback) is one of the scariest aspect of climate change, including what happens if the frozen methane in the deep ocean melts. Methane Hydrates: Natural Hazard or Natural Resource?
Three new PBS shows on energy and climate: EARTH: The Operators' Manual, Energy Quest USA and Powering the Planet. 4/12.
How sea level rise will affect CA and NY 4/12
Susan Solomon, a scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, gives the keynote address at the meeting of the Materials Research Society. Solomon discusses the evidence of changes in the Earth's climate and the causes of those changes. 2008.
Eyewitness to climate change alt link. Will Steger is an explorer and science communicator who has won the National Geographic Society's John Oliver La Gorce Medal.
Melting Sea Ice (faster than predicted) 10/11
Pine beetle infestation could be part of feedback loop to accelerate climate change. Also explains carbon sinks 12/11
In Carbon Nation, "director Peter Byck covers an impressively wide range of ground within his film's compact running time as he introduces us to a stirring cross-section of pioneers, researchers and innovators committed to helping the world reduce its carbon footprint."
Hot Politics FRONTLINE and the Center for Investigative Reporting go behind the scenes to explore how bi-partisan political and economic forces prevented the U.S. government from confronting what may be one of the most serious problems facing humanity today. 2007. Heat 2008 on energy and Global Warming.
Conflict in Africa because of water scarcity.
Hot Cities series by the BBC.
The Skeptical Environmentalist and The Sierra Club: Lomborg and Carl Pope Tackle Climate Change Commonwealth Club debate10/10.
Capitalism in an Era of Climate Change Commonwealth Club panel discussion 4/11.
Generation Hot If the US is to have any chance to break the stalemate, young people must get involved and force their voice to be heard, said a panel of activists, including Hertsgaard, convened by Climate One on Wednesday, March 9, 2011 in San Francisco. Commonwealth Club.
Wetlands play a key role in preserving biodiversity and have valuable carbon storage capacities. Turkey is home to 135 of these areas, but recent years have seen many of these wetlands degraded as a result of non-sustainable use. Drainage of wetlands for land reclamation and extraction of groundwater to irrigate agricultural land have had an extremely negative impact. Global 3000 12/10
Saul Griffith talk : Climate Change Recalculated '09. Griffith is a MacArthur Genius grant recipient, a pioneer in high altitude wind generation. This is a LongNow talk. Grist says this talk will rock your world. Both a big picture overview, and a personal scale account. **** Must see.
James Brew discusses how small changes to your house can make huge changes in our environment. TEDx video 12/10
Jared Diamond speaks about his book Collapse video
Rob Dunbar hunts for data on our climate from 12,000 years ago, finding clues inside ancient seabeds and corals and inside ice sheets. His work is vital in setting baselines for fixing our current climate -- and in tracking the rise of deadly ocean acidification. TEDtalk
Science columnist Lee Hotz describes a remarkable project at WAIS Divide, Antarctica, where a hardy team are drilling into ten-thousand-year-old ice to extract vital data on our changing climate. TEDtalk video 7/10
Photographer James Balog shares new image sequences from the [Extreme Ice Survey, a network of time-lapse cameras recording glaciers receding at an alarming rate, some of the most vivid evidence yet of climate change.TEDtalk 9/10 update audio)
The Carbon Hunters (PBS Frontline documentary) is part of the Carbon Watch series. What is a carbon credit? And why are so many people so interested in buying and selling something that didn't even exist five years ago? It's a question Schapiro has been traveling the globe to investigate. Link
Climate One is a speaker series sponsored by the Commonwealth Club. For example, Carbon - Cap and Charade? Would capping and trading carbon pollution create a prosperous clean energy economy? Or would it be a boondoggle for Wall Street and scammers in developing countries? While touted as a market-based way to put a price on carbon, cap and trade is increasingly questioned by environmentalists and regulators. Yet the state of California and many companies have a lot invested in a cap and trade system. Will it die a slow death? Should it? Panelists weighing in on these issues include Michael Shellenberger of The Breakthrough Institute; Kristin Eberhard, legal director for Western Energy and Climate, NRDC; and Larry Goulder, chair of the Department of Economics at Stanford University. KQED Public Radio -- Thu, Apr 29, 2010 watch online
PBS NewsHour talks to a Nobel Prize winner about his perspective on the links between climate change and biodiversity. DR. ERIC CHIVIAN, Center for Health and the Global Environment Director, Harvard Medical School: "There are natural extinctions way before humans showed up. But it is clear that the extinction rate now is 100 to 1,000 and even more times what it was before..." 12/09
Next Wave(2009) 8 min The Carteret islanders struggle to relocate as some of the world's first climate change refugees. The Next Wave presents the human face of climate change and a people faced with the loss of a land in which their identity is rooted. It is a portrait of a community and a critical moment in history.
A World Without Ice link Dr. Henry N. Pollack, author of A World Without Ice, explains why our cold natural wonders are disappearing while humans are prospering. 10/09
Living Climate Change has a Video Challenge which invited participants to show us their vision of a future shaped by climate change, as we move along the path toward reduced carbon emissions. More green videos
Eyewitness to Global Warming The fourth person ever to reach both poles, Will Steger is known by many titles - educator, activist, photographer, and former Explorer-in-Residence for National Geographic. He presents a visual account of the global warming induced changes that he's witnessed firsthand in Arctic regions over four decades of polar exploration. (#15420) 5/4/2009 57 minutes.
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting provides a view from Bangladesh, a nation already reeling from the impact of climate change.12/09
Tonga is another low-lying nation already coping with climate change. video 3/10
Inuit culture threatened by sea level rise (text and audio) 9/10
PBS Now program "On Thin Ice" includes Extreme Ice Survey. 4/09
The Burning Season. "Dorjee Sun, a young entrepreneur, believes there's money to be made from saving rainforests in Indonesia and making a real impact on climate change. Armed with a laptop and a backpack, he sets out across the globe to find investors in his scheme. Meanwhile another burning season gets underway. A small-scale farmer wrestles with the dilemma of clearing his land. In Borneo, a wildlife carer battles overcrowding and despair as more orangutans are rescued from the fires.."
California at the Tipping Point KQED 4/9
UCTV has a wide range of videos on global warming and its effects.
Cities Meet Nature: Responding to a Changing ClimateThe effects of a changing climate cut a broad swathe across the landscape, as sea levels rise, rainfall patterns change, and storm events intensify. Climate-change challenges have provided impetus for rethinking urban landscapes, structures, and infrastructure and their relationship to surrounding lands and waters. (#18189) 3/1/2010 58 minutes
Human Rights in the Age of Environmental Devastation and Climate Chaos First Aired: 3/16/2009 55 minutes Chief of the Cardiology Division of the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Richmond, California Jeffrey Ritterman explores the consequences of climate change and environmental destruction on our health. (UCTV Program #15577)
13th Tipping Point ForaTV 2007. Julia Whitty of Mother Jones 2006 on fate of the oceans.
Geo-engineering: Environmental scientist David Keith talks about a cheap, effective, shocking solution to climate change: What if we injected a huge cloud of ash into the atmosphere, to deflect sunlight and heat? As an emergency measure to slow a melting ice cap, it could work. Keith discusses why it's a good idea, why it's a terrible one -- and who, despite the cost, might be tempted to use it. video
Climate has enormous impacts on the marine life off California, influencing its major fisheries and the abundance of krill, seabirds and mammals. Join Tony Koslow as he shows how a 60-year ocean observation program, the California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (or CalCOFI) is unraveling the impacts of the El Niño/La Niña cycle and human-induced climate. UCTV First Aired: 3/15/2010 52 minutes.
UCTV talk on carbon capture/sequestration. UC's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientist Julio Friedmann discuss carbon capture and storage. 10/6/2008 49 minutes.
Atmospheric Particulates: Global and Regional Challenges. As climate change increases the likelihood of wildfires in California, megacities in developing countries burn more fossil fuels and coastal cities striving to meet air quality standards deal with rising amounts of particulate emissions from ships, what does the future hold for the air we breathe? Three prominent atmospheric chemistry experts at UC San Diego discuss their latest research on atmospheric aerosols and explain how these microscopic particles in the atmosphere affect our health, environment and global climate change. (#14856) 9/29/2008 56 minutes.
Global Warming leads to ocean acidification. The ocean absorbs almost half of the carbon dioxide emitted by human activities, changing its chemistry in ways that may have significant effects on marine ecosystems. Join Scripps marine chemist Andrew Dickson as he explains what we know --- and what we don't --- about this emerging problem. (#15754)UCTV talk video. 3/30/2009. 56 minutes.
Redwoods and climate change is a UC project. 6/11
11th Hour excerpt
The Great Warming Link
Inconvenient Truth DVD4065
Al Gore's followup to Inconvenient Truth TEDtalks
Strange Days on Planet Earth 2005 McHenry Library DVD2812 240 min. Online
Who Killed the Electric Car? DVD4064
Audio
Geo-engineering discussion 5/12
Wild Weather: 2011 has been marked by extreme weather. In the U.S. alone, a record dozen disasters caused more than $1 billion in damage. This, and the release last month of a special UN report on extreme weather, was the backdrop for a Climate One panel on December 13 featuring three leading climate scientists.
[http://www.prx.org/pieces/66505 RISE: Part I Sounding the Waters Series]: RISE: Climate Change and Coastal Communities. Sea level rise, includes Bay Area.
Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth Excerpt by Mark Hertsgaard. Radio interview 3/11. Here's an hour-long talk. Mark spoke here at College 8 for a number of years when his Earth Odyssey was required reading. 3/11
A new study has found that that often war is associated with global climate change. According to the report, there are links between the climate phenomenon El Niño and outbreaks of violence in countries from southern Sudan to Indonesia and Peru. The scientists find that El Niño, which brings hot and dry conditions to tropical nations, doubles the risk of civil war in up to 90 countries, and may help account for a fifth of conflicts worldwide during the past 50 years. We speak with the report’s lead author, Solomon Hsiang, a postdoctoral researcher at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. 8/11
L. Hunter Lovins, President and Founder, Natural Capitalism Solutions; Author, Climate Capitalism: Capitalism in the Age of Climate Change. The time when businesses could operate without regard for their environmental impact is long past. Many companies now calculate their carbon footprint, minimize their packaging, switch to efficient energy sources wherever possible, and some even purchase carbon offsets. The U.S. is no longer in a race to the bottom with Asian manufacturing giants, but a race to sustainability and efficiency. Innovative companies are looking beyond the costs of climate change and toward business strategies that capitalize on new opportunities, innovate and spur economic growth. Time Magazine Hero of the Planet Lovins argues that moving aggressively to solve global warming, peak oil and weaknesses in our energy infrastructure will give us a stronger economy and higher quality of life. Get the inside scoop on sustainable approaches and what corporations of the present and future will need to do to remain competitive. 4/12/11 Link.
Anna Lappe Author, Diet for a Hot Planet 5/18/11 Founding Principal, Small Planet Institute; Author, Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It. With as much as one-third of total greenhouse emissions related to food production, the cost of our eating habits on the environment has never been more apparent. Lappe highlights the hidden cost of America’s culinary culture and outlines seven principles for a climate-friendly diet.recorded Audio.
New ice island breaks off (audio) 8/10
Video overview from Hack the Planet book excerpt and audio interview NPR.org 5/10
Ray Anderson: Carbon Footprint Zero link (free Realplayer download required)
California - Carbon = A Cleaner World? GOVERNOR ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER. Recorded Sep 24 2009 Link (free Realplayer download required)
Hopenhagen: Public Support for a Deal in Copenhagen ADAM WERBACH, SETH FARBMAN, JON KROSNICK, GREG DALTON. Recorded Sep 15 2009. Link(free Realplayer download required)
Farmers in Burkina Fosa are fighting global warming (audio with Mark Hertsgaard).
Oceans Rising. Sea levels may rise twice as much by the end of this century than was previously predicted. That's according to an announcement last week by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Also last week, the Oakland-based Pacific Institute released a study finding that hundreds of thousands of people and billions of dollars of California infrastructure and property will be at risk if ocean levels rise 55 inches. What should we do to prepare? Mon, March 16, 2009
Dying Trees, Shifting Seasons and Climate Change. Forum discusses two climate change-related studies released this week. First, if your favorite flower is blooming earlier than usual, a new UC Berkeley study may help explain why. Seasons are now arriving two days earlier. Meanwhile, trees in old-growth forests in the Western U.S. are dying at double the usual rate, and researchers say climate change may be to blame. Fri, January 23, 2009
Articles/Reports
Wild Weather(audio): 2011 has been marked by extreme weather. In the U.S. alone, a record dozen disasters caused more than $1 billion in damage. This, and the release last month of a special UN report on extreme weather, was the backdrop for a Climate One panel on December 13 featuring three leading climate scientists.
Should We Move Creatures Threatened by Climate Change? 1/12
Farmers adapt to AGW report and (slideshow) 1/12
New geo-engineering scheme 9/11. Geoengineering: Testing the Waters By NAOMI KLEIN.
Loss of Arctic ice isn't just a threat to polar bears. Climate scientist James Hanson has just published a science brief on the NASA website about why those ice sheets are so important (besides providing an habitat for polar bears) and why we need to keep funding research that uses satellites to monitor the state of the world's ice sheets. 7/11.
National security implications 3/11
Roman Empire may have been taken out by climate change, as have many other civilization by eco-collapse of various kinds (See Diamond's Collapse).
Overview of California Plan to deal with GW from Need to Know (PBS).
Profile of EPA chief Lisa Jackson, including climate change actions.
Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman on why dealing with Global Warming will be good economically 4/10
A new report, "America’s Hottest Species", highlights a variety of American wildlife that are currently threatened by climate change from a small bird to a coral reef to the world’s largest marine turtle. "Global warming is like a bulldozer shoving species, already on the brink of extinction, perilously closer to the edge of existence," said Leda Huta, executive director of the Endangered Species Coalition which produced the report. "Polar bears, lynx, salmon, coral and many other endangered species are already feeling the heat." More. New study finds some corals do better than others.
Low lying island nations such as those in Melanesia, for example Vanuatu will be hit first and hardest, but in general it will be developing countries that will have the hardest time coping. This in large part was what was at stake in the recent Copenhagen summit. See here for more on effects on food and migration. UPDATE 9/12.
More on early effects on islands by Julia Whitty at MoJo (see related).
More actions you can take.
20 by 2020, California's plan to cut energy and water waste.
Black carbon may be the proverbial low hanging fruit in the fight against AGW, since a large source is charcoal cookstoves in developing countries (which ties with diahrea as the number one killer of kids under 5). Amy Smith (TEDtalk video and demo) at MIT and Engineers Without Borders among others are working on the problem (see also terra preta).
Images
Google unveils Street View imagery from Antarctica, including South Pole Telescope, Shackleton sites. 7.12
NASA visualization of temperature change since 1880. 1/12
James Balog's Extreme Ice Survey. Photographer James Balog shares new image sequences from the [Extreme Ice Survey, a network of time-lapse cameras recording glaciers receding at an alarming rate, some of the most vivid evidence yet of climate change.TEDtalk 9/10 update audio). PBS Nova segment
Pictures of sea level rise etc.
Local Resources
UCSC Research
Patrick Chaung studies pollution in the atmosphere, which may help refine global warming models.
Maxwell Boykoff has worked in North America, Central America, South Asia and Europe. He was a Peace Corps volunteer when Hurricane Mitch hit Honduras, where he continued to work for a week before being evacuated by helicopter. This sparked his research in climate change policy at UCSC,the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, Colorado-Boulder Environmental Change Institute (ECI) as well as the Oxford University Centre for the Environment. He co-authored an important study on how press misrepresented climate change.
Brent Constantz developed technology to make "green" cement that could help slow global warming and ocean acidification based on a revolutionary product for healing broken bones inspired by the research on coral reefs he had conducted as a UCSC graduate student.
Winifred F. Frick (B.A. ENVS Porter '98), in a study published in the August 6 issue of Science, writes that a disease is spreading quickly across the northeastern U.S. and Canada and now affects seven bat species. NPR.org interview Update: NSF grant with A.M. Kilpatrick who has tracked effect of global warming on West Nile virus. Update 5/12.
Gemma Givens will attend the United Nations international conference on climate change as a "backpack journalist, will also represent the Indigenous Environmental Network as part of their Native Youth Delegation. Youth Grabbing the Wheel: Young Leaders Speak Up on Driving Down Carbon Commonwealth Club talk 5/4/10.
Undergraduates Laurel Hunt and Galen Licht saw the effects of climate change during a research expedition to the Peruvian Andes.
A new book by UC Santa Cruz geologist Gary Griggs offers a fascinating guide to the beaches and coast of California, published by UC Press, Introduction to California's Beaches and Coast. He helped create a guidebook for local government agencies to help them make the difficult the decisions ahead regarding sea level rise. More.
Marm Kilpatrick (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) researches climate change impact on West Nile Virus. 7/10 update.
A Fierce Green Fire by Slug filmmaker Mark Kitchell is in production. It is a history of US environmentalism.
Osprey Orielle Lake, College 8, is a lifelong advocate of environmental justice and societal transformation, Director of the Women’s Earth and Climate Caucus, on the governing Board of Praxis Peace Institute and an advisor to the International Eco-Cities Standards initiative. Osprey has traveled to five continents studying ancient and modern cultures while making presentations at international conferences and universities. She is the Founder/Artist of the International Cheemah Monument Project, creating 18 foot bronze sculpture monuments for locations around the world.
Climate Justice bibliography by Tracy Perkins UCSC Sociology.
Global Warming research is being done by Christina Ravelo, a professor of ocean sciences and James Zachos, professor of Earth and planetary sciences. Christina Ravelo, professor of ocean sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is coauthor of a study that indicates that the sensitivity of Earth's temperature to increases in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is greater than has been expected on the basis of climate models that only include rapid responses. Update: Ravelo led a nine-week expedition of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) to the Bering Sea last summer. Deep sediment cores retrieved from the Bering Sea floor indicate that the region was ice-free all year and biological productivity was high during the last major warm period in Earth's climate history. "Evidence from the Pliocene Warm Period is relevant to studies of current climate change because it was the last time in our Earth's history when global temperatures were higher than today," Ravelo said. More 12/10. Update 6/12.
Barry Sinervo and students are creating games to teach about lizard behavior. Recent research shows early effects of global warming 5/10. More links(audio) on Sinervo's work. He also co-wrote a paper showing how rock-scissors-paper dynamic works in biology.
Lisa C. Sloan, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Director of the Climate Change and Impacts Laboratory, has a new paper on effect of irrigation cooling, and a map of Santa Cruz sea level rise.
Mark Snyder researches climate change. Radio interview 09
Slawek Tulaczyk investigates effects of global warming on ice sheets in Anarctica. Tulaczyk and Andrew Fisher, both professors of Earth and planetary sciences, will drill through a half-mile of ice to penetrate subglacial Lake Whillans and study hidden processes that govern the dynamics of the West Antarctic ice sheet. Link. 9/12 update on frozen methane, which could set up global warming feedback loop.
UCSC Fullbright scholars study global warming, agroecology, and biodiversity.
Shaye Wolf, Staff Biologist, at the Center for Biological Diversity, works with the Center’s Climate Law Institute. She graduated with a bachelor’s in biology from Yale University and received a doctorate in ecology and evolutionary biology and a master’s in ocean sciences from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she examined the effects of ocean climate change on seabird populations. During her graduate studies, Shaye worked with the biodiversity protection groups in México and California; before that she was a wildlife biologist on projects with seabirds, songbirds, raptors, and spiders.
Jonathan Zehr, professor of ocean sciences and his team has found an unusual microorganism in the open ocean may force scientists to rethink their understanding of how carbon and nitrogen cycle through ocean ecosystems. This may have implication for global warming.
California (See also California Page)
Climate Watch is a blog that list a variety of media, including NPR's Climate Connections. Includes coverage of carbon, as well as fire and water issues. See also "fun" stats.
California Temperature forecasts 9/12.
CA water map (reservoir levels)
California at the Tipping Point KQED 4/9
UCTV has a wide range of videos on global warming and its effects.
Climate has enormous impacts on the marine life off California, influencing its major fisheries and the abundance of krill, seabirds and mammals. Join Tony Koslow as he shows how a 60-year ocean observation program, the California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (or CalCOFI) is unraveling the impacts of the El Niño/La Niña cycle and human-induced climate. UCTV First Aired: 3/15/2010 52 minutes.
California - Carbon = A Cleaner World? GOVERNOR ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER. Recorded Sep 24 2009 Link (free Realplayer download required).
Santa Cruz
Climate Action City of Santa Cruz.
SC sea level rise map by UCSC Climate Change Research lab.
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