Category:Global Warming

Global warming is mostly covered in Environmental Science and Skeptical Challenges

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

Climate Watch is a blog that list a variety of media, including NPR's Climate Connections

Books

Island Press reader on global warming (free download)

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 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

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.

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)

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

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

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