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"Beyond The Point of No Return" -- Ross Gelbspan (Dec.2007)     
   CLIMATE NEWS UPDATES: 2000 -- 2008  
                         GLOBAL PROBLEM  
                         GLOBAL  SOLUTION:
                 Toward A Real Kyoto Protocol:  
     Three integrated policies to tame the global climate
* Arctic melt may signal warming is "unstoppable" (Sept. 2008)
 
* Canadian ice shelves shrink by 25 percent over summer (Sept.2008)
 
* Temperatures in last decade unmatched in 1300 years (Sept.2008)
 
* Old grids limit clean energy development in US (Aug. 2008)

* Permafrost holds far more CO2 than previously thought  (Aug.2008)

* Carbon Lobby spent $427 million to tilt policy in first half of 2008(Aug. 2008)   

* Strong La Nina makes for a cool first half of 2008 (Aug. 2008) 

With recent news about Iowa under water, parts of California on fire and Hurricane Gustav forcing the largest evacuation in U.S. history, we post an op-ed on Hurricane Katrina that was published in The Boston Globe on Aug. 30, 2005. (Sept. 2008)

* Temperatures in last decade unmatched in 1300 years (Sept.2008)
 
* Warming is outpacing European bird migrations (Aug. 2008)

 

* Trees, plants migrate north into Canadian Arctic (Aug. 2008)

 

* Scientists dismayed by speed of Arctic meltdown  (Aug. 2008)  

 

*Carbon seqestration's hidden costs outweigh benefits (Aug. 2008)

 

* World Bank-funded plant will emit more than Tunisia (Aug. 2008)

 

* US kills plan to help poor countries with climate impacts (Aug. 2008)

 

* Watson: prepare for a rise of 4* C (Aug. 2008)

        Sixteen urgent Wake-Up Calls From World's

           Scientific, Political and Religious Leaders

* Warming climate intensifies downpours (Aug. 2008)

 

* Cost of Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site soars (Aug. 2008)

 

* McCain vows to build 45 new nuclear plants (Aug. 2008)

 

* Prehistoric deep freeze occurred in one year  (Aug. 2008)

 

* Warming implicated in jellyfish explosion (Aug. 2008)

 

* ExxonMobil posts  biggest quarterly profit in corporate history (July, 2008)

 

* Warming is driving a global bird migration (July, 2008)

 

* Canada loses eight square miles of ice shelf (July, 2008)

 

* Al Gore calls for carbon-free US electrical grid by 2020 (July, 2008)

* Climate change is greatest national security challenge faced by U.S. (Nov. 2007)  

* 11 Admirals and Generals cite climate as top security threat (April 2007)

* Arctic oil reserves can meet world demand for three years (July, 2008)

 

* Bush slams the door on warming action (July, 2008)

 

* Administration ignores Supreme Court order on greenhouse gases (July, 2008)

 

* G-8 vows "aspirational goal" of halving current emissions by 2050

-- Large developing countries reject non-binding G-8 plan (July, 2008)

 

* EPA official: Cheney censored CDC over climate health impacts (July, 2008)

 

* UN Chief to G-8: warming is driving food crisis (July, 2008)

 

* Administration reverses month-old ban on solar plants (July, 2008)

 

* Sea-ice loss threatens meltdown of permafrost (June, 2008)

 

* Carbon capture and storage: not anytime soon (July, 2008)

 

* IEA: Energy demand to surge by 50 percent by 2030 (June, 2008) 

 

* New intelligence report restates climate-security link (June, 2008)

 

* Hansen: Oil, coal execs commit "crimes against humanity" (June, 2008)

 

* Scientists amazed by speed of ancient "climate snaps" (June, 2008)

 

* NOAA: Expect more weather extremes  as temperature rises (June, 2008)

 

* EU experience raises deep doubts about carbon trading (June, 2008)

 

* Earth's oceans have warmed 50 percent faster than estimated (June, 2008)

 

* Texas cotton crop devastated by extreme heat, sandstorms (June. 2008)

 

* IEA urges $45 trillion non-carbon energy revolution (June, 2008)

 
* Cheney: drill to the last drop (June, 2008)
 
* Germany resists G-8's rush to a nuclear future (June, 2008)
 

* Island nation likely "doomed" by climate change (June. 2008)

 

* US climate chief affirms America's "Can't Do" spirit (June, 2008)

 

* ExxonMobil defunds nine skeptic organizations, continues funding

 28 others  (May,  2008)

 

* US Report details breadth of current US climate impacts (May, 2008)

 

* Melting ice sheets triggered ancient methane burst (May, 2008)

 

* UN halts algae-seeding plan to lower emissions (May, 2008)

 

* Clean coal's costs put it on life support (May, 2008)

 

* Offsets "deeply flawed" -- Christian Science Monitor (May, 2008)

 

* Scientists shocked by extent of ocean acidification (May, 2008)

 

* US climate inaction could cost $3.8 trillion per year -- Study (May, 2008)

 

* Warming will spawn fewer -- but more intense -- hurricanes (May, 2008)

 

* Ocean warming is expanding marine "dead zones" (May, 2008)

 

* Greenhouse gas levels highest in 800,000 years (May, 2008)

 

* DOE: Wind can produce 20 percent of electricity by 2030 (May. 2008)

 

* Worst drought in 60 years forces Barcelona to import drinking water (May, 2008)

 

* UN warns of one billion climate refugees by 2050 (April, 2008)

 

* Stern: Report badly underestimated coming damages (April, 2008)

 

* Sun-reflecting aerosols would speed ozone destruction (April, 2008)

 

* Thawing permafrost may be driving surge in greenhouse gases (April, 2008)

 

* Freshening Antarctic waters threaten current changes (April, 2008)

 

 

 

 

 

 


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QUOTEWORTHY

"The depression we're all trying to avoid could very well be a prolonged chronic reaction to what we've been doing to the world, a mourning and grieving for what we're doing to nature and to cities and to whole peoples...partly because this is the soul's reaction to the mourning and grieving that we're not consciously doing."."

-- James Hillman, psychologist, author of "Soul's Code"

"A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I'm not one though who would attribute it to being man-made."

-- GOP Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin, interviewed on Aug. 29, 2008

"We're toast if we don't get on a very different path. This is the last chance."

-- NASA scientist James Hansen, interview with The Associated Press, June 23, 2008

"We underestimated the risks ... we underestimated the damage associated with temperature increases ... and we underestimated the probabilities of temperature increases."

-- Sir Nicholas Stern, author of "The Stern Report," April 17, 2008

"The Arctic is often cited as the canary in the coal mine for climate warming. Now as a sign of climate warming, the canary has died."

--NASA scientist Jay Zwally, the Associated Press, Dec. 12, 2007

"We are 25 years too late. If the object is to avoid dangerous change, we've already had it. The object now is to avoid really dangerous change."

--Dr. Stephen Schneider, Scientific American, Nov. 26, 2007

"Technological measures are important, but equally important is . . . a consciousness of the commonality of all living beings and an emphasis on shared responsibility."

--Former Czech President Vaclav Havel

"If the rainy season starts late, crops fail and people suffer. Children eat leaves. In that situation, only God can help us."."

--Kasko Ajikara, farmer and father, Gadabedji village, Niger

"The report shows -- and this is encouraging -- that ambitious climate protection is economically manageable."

-- German government spokesman Ulrich Wilhelm, on the findings of IPCC Working Group III (May, 2007)

"It's not five minutes to midnight. It's five minutes after midnight."

 -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel, on the urgency of combatting climate change (March 8, 2007)

"We don't have a difference of views that it's an important issue. We have differences about what we know and what we don't know."

-- ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson (May 30, 2007)

Exxon Mobil is "the only principled oil and gas company I know in the US."

-- Richard S. Lindzen, BBCNews.com (April 26, 2007)

"A broad array of...experts said the latest analysis was the most sobering view yet of a century in which thousands of years of relatively stable climate conditions will suddenly be replaced by a new normalcy of continual change."

-- Andrew Revkin, The New York Times on IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (Feb. 2, 2007)

"We've known for some time that we have to worry about the impacts of climate change on our children's and grandchildren's generations. But we now have to worry about ourselves as well."

-- Margaret Beckett, British Secretary of State for Environment (April, 2002)


"To me the question of the environment is more ominous than that of peace and war...I'm more worried about global warming than I am of any major military conflict."

-- U.N. Weapons Inspector Hans Blix, (March 14, 2003)


"The most populous and wealthiest of the world face a moral challenge greater than colonialism or slavery. They are failing in that challenge. Men have lost reason in the fossil fuel economy. . . Inhabitants of small islands have not agreed [to be] sacrificial lambs on the altar of the wealth of the rich."

-- Ambassador Lionel Hurst, of Antigua-Barbuda (March, 2003)


"Our house is burning down and we're blind to it...The earth and humankind are in danger and we are all responsible. It is time to open our eyes. Alarms are sounding across all the continents . . . We cannot say that we did not know! Climate warming is still reversible. Heavy would be the responsibility of those who refused to fight it."

-- French President Jacques Chirac, World Summit on Sustainable Development, (Johannesburg, August, 2002)


"Prehistoric and early historic societies--from villages to states or empires--were highly vulnerable to climatic disturbances. Many lines of evidence now point to climate forcing as the primary agent in repeated social collapse."

-- Harvey Weiss and Raymond S. Bradley (Science, Jan. 26 2001)