Articles on Global warming (pick two)
Articles on Impacts (pick two)
Cap and Trade v Carbon Tax v Green New Deal v Divestment v Geo-engineering (pick six),
General
Carbon Tax
Cap and Trade
Green New Deal and a Marshall Plan
Divestment from fossil fuels
Geo-engineering the planet
Sample Student paper from Fall, 2020
Agricanto library of climate change articles by topic area.
- We Are Destroying our life support system
- Global Warming's New Math
- Saskia Sassen on Climate Change
- Scientists from around the world declare climate emergency
- 2019 Capped the World's Hottest Decade in History (WaPo 1/15/20)
- Seven Points You need to Know About Climate Change
Articles on Impacts (pick two)
- Landmark UN report warns sea levels will rise faster than projected by 2100
- Sea Level Rise in LA
- Climate Change Nightmares are Already Here
- NPR: 5 crops will be lost to climate change
Cap and Trade v Carbon Tax v Green New Deal v Divestment v Geo-engineering (pick six),
General
- Greenhouse Gas Tax vs Cap and Trade
- Memo Explains difference between Carbon Tax and Cap and Trade
- Cost Of Decarbonizing U.S. Power Grid Put At $4.5 Trillion (6/27/19, Forbes)
- July 27 Cenk Uygur and Al Gore talk carbon tax and cap 'n trade (mp4)
Carbon Tax
- Yellen, top pick for Treasury, sees carbon tax as a solution
- The Problem with Putting price on the End of the World
- A simpler, more useful way to tax carbon 8/17/20
- Carbon pricing is the way to rectify runaway climate change
- Voters like taxing carbon as long as you don’t say ‘carbon tax’
- Republican Elders Call for New National Carbon Tax
- Carbon Tax? Yes!
- The carbon tax opportunity (Brookings) 5/6/20
- How to Cut US carbon emissions by 40% in 10 years (a carbon tax)
- Exxon and all agree re carbon tax!
Cap and Trade
- Cap and Trade Explained
- Cap and trade isn't cutting it LAT
- Can California’s Cap and Trade Actually Address Environmental Justice?
- Do Carbon Offsets Work? WaPo 9/24/20
- Is California a Leader or a Loaner on Cap and Trade?
- California Cap and Trade Faces Daunting Hurdles
- Enviro Justice Matters in Cap and Trade
Green New Deal and a Marshall Plan
- "Chomsky and Pollin: A Global Green New Deal Is the Only Way to Avert Disaster" 1/7/21
- Money manager calls for climate Marshall Plan
- The Green New Deal explained
- The world wasn't ready for a Green New Deal in 2009. Today, it may be
- The Green New Deal would create nearly 30 million jobs
- Ocasio-Cortez says we need a WW2 plan
- "Hasan and AOC Discuss The Green New Deal" YouTube
Divestment from fossil fuels
- Markets are flying blind on climate change 9/16/20
- Global investors develop net zero investing framework
- An Open Letter to the CalSTRS Board
- Climate Lawsuits Increase Risk to CalPERS Portfolio
- 42 faith groups in 14 countries announce divestment from fossil fuels
- 11/25/20: New Yorker, McKibben, "Climate Crisis: the banks"
- 12/9/20: 12/9/20: NYT, McKibben, "You Should Have Listened, New York Tells Big Oil"
Geo-engineering the planet
- DW: Geo-engineering 10/20: 42 minutes (YouTube)
- Geoengineer the Planet? More Scientists Now Say It Must Be an Option
- Harvard's Solar Geoengineering Research Program
- University of California TV: What is Geoengineering and Can It Save the Planet? (youtube 3 mins)
- Geoengineering carries ‘large risks’ for the natural world, studies show
- A Start-Up’s Unusual Plan to Suck Carbon Out of the Sky
Sample Student paper from Fall, 2020
Agricanto library of climate change articles by topic area.