What If We Named Catastrophic Hurricanes After Climate Change Deniers? fastcoexist.com We give hurricanes such friendly, blameless names. What did Sandy ever do to anyone? An advocacy group wants to name disastrous storms after the politicians who are blocking effective climate policy. Spare a thought for people named Ivan,… http://flip.it/SKXvC Related articles What If We … Continue reading What If We Named Catastrophic Hurricanes After Climate Change Deniers?
For the price of the Iraq War, the U.S. could have gotten halfway to a renewable power system David Roberts, grist.org Discussions of how to respond to climate change often involve Very Large Numbers — the needed investments to transition to a fully renewable energy system are in the hundreds of billions. The brain sort … Continue reading For the price of the Iraq war we could have built a renewable energy system
Whole Foods CEO John Mackey knows what’s best for you, and fighting climate change ain’t it By Philip Bump, grist.org You’d think that by now John Mackey would have learned to shut up. The Whole Foods CEO and cofounder would no doubt be incensed at my saying so, of course, since — in classic hyper-entitled, … Continue reading Whole Foods CEO John Mackey perceptions about climate
Is Climate Change Self-Correcting? Australia’s Heatwave Stops Gasoline Sales By Shaunacy Ferro, popsci.com At high outback temperatures, gasoline vaporizes too quickly to pump. Continuing Australia’s trend of being majorly unpleasant this week, it got so hot in the Outback town of Oodnadatta a few days ago that you couldn’t even pump gas. RT @PopSci: Good … Continue reading Is Climate Change Self-Correcting?
The 10 Countries Where Climate Change and Pollution Is Killing the Population Timon Singh, inhabitat.com When you hear about the effects on climate change on global populations, some of the places that might immediately spring to mind might include the low-lying island of Tuvalu or Haiti, which is increasingly bearing the brunt of ever-more powerful… … Continue reading Countries where climate change kills
discovermagazine.com Like the debate on climate change and other societally important issues caught in the maw of our culture wars, the discourse on guns and violence has had a depressing, unchanging quality. Here’s President Obama two years ago: You see, when a trage… http://flip.it/R8QPz How Cultural Cognition Can Inform the Gun Conversation Related articles Climate … Continue reading How Cultural Cognition Can Inform the Gun Conversation
Green Blog: What’s Your Meme? Changing the Climate Change Conversation By RACHEL NUWER, nytimes.com What’s the counterpoint to “Drill, baby, drill”? In the emerging field of meme science, researchers try to figure out what language and ideas resonate when it comes to the warming of the planet. What’s Your Meme? Changing the Climate Change … Continue reading Why sustainability is not appealing and what else to call it
Banks consider quitting food speculation due to role in global hunger By Brandon Keim, wired.co.uk Business Financial giant Barclays is considering an end to food speculation, a controversial practice linked to sudden, dangerous spikes in global food prices. Rich Ricci, head of Barclays’ corporate and investment banking… http://flip.it/eCcTF Related articles Millions face starvation as world … Continue reading Bankers realize food speculation is causing global food insecurity
Phil Plait, slate.com I was thinking of writing a lengthy post about climate change denial being completely unscientific nonsense, but then geochemist and National Science Board member James Lawrence Powell wrote a post that is basically a slam-dunk of debunking. His… http://flip.it/ag9vG Why Climate Change Denial Is Just Hot Air Related articles Two Documentaries on … Continue reading Why Climate Change Denial Is Just Hot Air
Concept Of “Purity” Makes Conservatives Care About Environmental Issues By Rebecca Boyle, popsci.com Re-framing environmental rhetoric so it appeals to conservatives can really work, a study finds. It’s not that political conservatives don’t care about things like climate change, recycling and deforestation—it’s that they don’t care ab… RT @PopSci: Pro tip: Framing environmental issues in … Continue reading How to describe environmental science to conservatives
Behold: The Largest Iceberg Breakup Ever Caught on Film Eric Liu, theatlantic.com The effects of climate change, in one gorgeous, terrifying video So, wow. Wowwowwow. A group of filmmakers, making a movie called, aptly, Chasing Ice, have captured what they claim to be the largest iceberg calving ever filmed.… RT @megangarber: This is *literally* awesome: … Continue reading Climate change caught in action in iceberg destruction
By Eric Roston, bloomberg.com In the halting, measured language we’ve come to expect from his impromptu public remarks, President Obama posed a core dilemma of climate change yesterday at his first post-election press conference. Explaining the possible… Blame Wimpy for Slow U.S. Response to Climate Change Related articles Keystone XL will "lock in" more climate … Continue reading Blame Wimpy for Slow U.S. Response to Climate Change
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