Category:Global Warming

Global warming debate is mostly covered in Environmental Science and Skeptical Challenges

UCSC research

Real Climate.org info from actual climate scientists.

Climate Science Watch tracks the debate

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.

Scientific American coverage of issue, including Copenhagen talks.

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 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.

NASA's Goddard Center, global temperature data 1/10.

Sea Level Rise data

Interactive Websites/Maps

World Health Organization map of 150K of people who are killed annually by climate change. Link to study pdf

New Interactive maps and images 4/10

Calculate your carbon footprint.

Rising Ocean Levels interactive maps

Monitor CO2 and other greenhouse gases

Books

How to Cool the Planet on geo-engineering. Video overview from Hack the Planet

The Carbon Age by Eric Roston, Duke Univ.

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 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

Hot Cities series by the BBC.

Climate One is a speaker series sponsored by the Commonwealth Club.

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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.

Local Resources

Climate Action City of Santa Cruz