Assignment 2 (click here for instructions)

Articles on Global warming (pick two)

• The Fifth National Climate Assessment, 2023
  
• ‘We Are Afraid’: Scientists Issue New Warning As World Enters ‘Uncharted Climate Territory’
• ​35 Years After Addressing Congress, James Hansen Has More Climate Warnings (.docx)
• The Road to Dubai: The latest round of international climate negotiations is being held in a petrostate. What could go wrong?
• 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
• Gulf Stream Could Collapse Between 2025 and 2095 (.docx)
• ​Sea Level Rise in LA
• Climate Change Nightmares are Already Here
• NPR: 5 crops will be lost to climate change
• Ocean temperatures are off the charts. Here’s where they’re highest.
• How Do We Feel About Global Warming? It’s Called Eco-Anxiety

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
• Cap and Trade Explained by Annie Leonard (YouTube)
• Carbon offsetting is not warding off environmental collapse – it’s accelerating it, George Monbiot

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
• 3/20/22: "After February’s Dire IPCC Report, the Green New Deal Is More Urgent Than Ever" Truthout

Divestment from fossil fuels

• 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
• Will California’s largest pensions, CalPERS and CalSTRS, divest from fossil fuels? (.docx)
• 8/24/20: "Major investment firm dumps Exxon, Chevron and Rio Tinto stock"
• Two Economies Collide Divestment_October 2022
• McKibben on Blackrock (.docx)

Geo-engineering the planet

• Dimming the Sun to Cool the Planet Is a Desperate Idea, McKibben 11/22/22
• 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
• The rotten core of the new IPCC report (YouTube)

Command and Control

• EPA: Economics of Climate Change
• Britannica: Command and Control Legislation
• A 'law of nature' - The command-and-control approach
• Economic Incentives: EPA
• The Successful International Response to Stratospheric Ozone Depletion
• The right climate for central planning

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Sample Student paper from Fall, 2020
Agricanto library of climate change articles by topic area. 

DW: "Why carbon offsets are worse than you think", 15 mins

10/1/21: the Economist. "How do carbon markets work?" 10 mins

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