Living Dangerously
It’s happening again, a TV presentation intended to wake people up to the challenge of the age.
climate change
Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change – headlines
What’s in the latest IPCC report?
IPCC Discovers Infographics – Communicates Climate Change
Working Group II put out their state of the climate for AR5 this March and finally worked out how to communicate climate change.
Making the most of climate change?
Those who follow climate change in the news will know that the latest IPCC report on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability to climate change does not paint a very rosy picture.
The Facts are not enough
Can an IPCC report or a star-studded Showtime mini-series change the way people talk and think about climate change?
On Fracking Front, A Push To Reduce Leaks of Methane
Scientists, engineers, and government regulators are increasingly turning their attention to solving one of the chief environmental problems associated with fracking for natural gas and oil – significant leaks of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.
Energy and the Financial System: What Everyone Needs to Know… and Work Darn Hard to Avoid
"Once you accept that growth will cease, all of the current ‘common sense’ assumptions about investing, such as the assumption of making money from money, cease to be true."
Reachable Moments: Transition-Interfaith Dialogue
The hundreds of millions of Americans affiliated with organized religion, 40 % of whom self-identify as "conservative," will be as affected as anyone else by accelerated climate change.
Climate Change: Preponderance of the Great
I should be grateful that climate change is at long last making the news, that more and more people who constitute the fabric of my everyday life are finally curious about what has obsessed me for so many years.
Apres Moi le Deluge
“The American way of life,” George H.W. Bush infamously declared in 1992, “is not-negotiable.” This presents a problem if the American way of life is also unsustainable.
Business as usual is planetary suicide. Time to slay Zombie Big Oil
It’s now increasingly recognised that the transition into the post-carbon era must involve not simply "adaptation" and "mitigation" but entail radical transformation of our societies at multiple levels.
Climate change: “the biggest diplomatic challenge of all time”
By 2020, we have to switch from increasing emissions across the world at 1.8% per annum to decreasing at 3.2% per annum. That’s a very big challenge, but that is what margin we’re left with in managing this very very important problem.