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​Climate Crisis Politics
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​​​"Global Warming"​
  • 11/5/22: "The World’s Peatlands Are Climate Bombs Waiting to Detonate" NYT
  • 10/10/22: "World bank continues financing fossil fuels despite climate crisis"
  • 4/13/22: "‘Historic’: global climate plans can now keep heating below 2C, study shows" Guardian
  • 4/7/22: "Methane Emissions Soared to a Record in 2021, Scientists Say" NYT
  • 2/9/22: "Soaring Methane Levels Has Scientists Concerned Climate Feedback Loop Is Here" 
  • 8/17/21: "What The Heck is a Gigaton of Carbon?"
  • 8/9/21: "To Address the Climate Crisis, Focus on More Than Carbon Dioxide" NYT
  • 8/9/21: "Latest IPCC Report Is ‘Code Red for Humanity’"
  • 8/9/21: "Climate Change 2021; The Physical Science Basis" the full IPCC report
  • 8/9/21: "Worst polluting countries must make drastic carbon cuts, says Cop26 chief"
  • 8/9/21: "Humans have pushed the climate into ‘unprecedented’ territory, landmark U.N. report finds" WaPo
  • 8/9/21: "A Hotter Future Is Certain, Climate Panel Warns. But How Hot Is Up to Us"  NYT
  • 8/9/21: "Summary report, 26 July – 6 August 2021
  • 7/5/21: "The scientists fighting to save the ocean’s most important carbon capture system" WaPo
  • 6/30/21: "The Food System’s Carbon Footprint Has Been Vastly Underestimated"
  • 6/7/21: "Despite pandemic, carbon dioxide level in atmosphere hits record high" WaPo
  • 5/21/21:" Study Warns That Arctic Has Been Warming 3 Times Faster Than Rest of Earth"
  • 5/4/21: "Hawaii declares a climate emergency"
  • 4/27/21: "Climate change has been altering Earth's axis for at least 30 years"
  • 4/13/21: "World's wealthiest 'at heart of climate problem"
  • 3/22/21: "Seafloor Trawl Fishing May Release as Much Carbon as Air Travel"
  • 3/17/21: "Why a powerful planet-warming gas is surging in Earth's atmosphere" (CH4)
  • 3/8/21: "China's Five-Year Plan 'Underwhelming' on Climate"
  • 3/4/21: "In the Atlantic Ocean, Subtle Shifts Hint at Dramatic Dangers" NYT
  • 2/16/21: "A Glimpse of America’s Future: Climate Change Means Trouble for Power Grids" NYT
  • 2/15/21: "What Exactly Is the Polar Vortex?"
  • 2/9/21: "Did the Climate Crisis Enable the Coronavirus Pandemic?"
  • 2/3/21: 'The Terrifying Warning Lurking in the Earth’s Ancient Rock Record: Our climate models could be missing something big." Atlantic Monthly March 2021
  • 1/25/21: "Earth Has Lost 28 Trillion Tons of Ice since the Mid-1990s" Scientific American 
  • 1/12/21: "The carbon skyscraper: A new way of picturing rapid, human-caused climate change"
  • 12/11/20: Where We Stand on Climate, McKibben in the New Yorker
  • 12/21/20: Five Climate Change Lessons From 2020 UCS
  • 12/15/20: Menacing Methane – An Analysis
  • The good, bad, and ugly from the UN's stark climate report 12/20
  • 11/13/20: "Are We Really Past the Point of No Return on Climate? Scientists Respond To Controversial New Study"
  • 10/19/20: Driver of the largest mass extinction in the history of the Earth identified​
  • 10/19/20: Study finds Arctic verging on permafrost collapse
  • 10/14/20: The number of global methane hot spots has soared this year despite the economic slowdown
  • 9/20/20: NYT: "How Climate Migration Will Reshape America"
  • 9/15/20: "New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States"
  • 9/2/20: NYT "Earth is overheating. Millions are already feeling the pain."
  • 8/7/20: "Earth is overheating. Millions are already feeling the pain." NYT
  • 7/14/20: "Methane levels have hit a scary record high, new studies say" 
  • 7/13/20: "Earth Could Hit Critical Climate Threshold in Next Five Years"
  • 7/14/20: "Global Methane Emissions Reach a Record High" NYT
  • 7/10/20: "Coronavirus pandemic prompts record drop in global emissions, study finds"
  • 7/10/20: "Worrisome Signs Emerge for 1.5-Degree-C Climate Target"
  • 7/7/20: "The Arctic Is on Fire and Warming Twice as Fast as the Rest of the Earth"
  • 6/24/20: Clouds may explain why climate models are predicting a warmer future
  • 6/21/20. WaPo: Hottest Arctic temperature record probably set with 100-degree reading in Siberia
  • 6/18/20: World has six months to avert climate crisis, says energy expert 
  • 6/8/20: WaPo: Earth’s carbon dioxide levels hit record high, despite coronavirus-related emissions drop
  • 6/4/20: NYT "‘Like Trash in a Landfill’: Carbon Dioxide Keeps Piling Up in the Atmosphere"
  • 4/27/20: US Oil and Gas Methane Emissions Are 15 Percent Higher Than We Thought
  • Emissions are way down.  No, that's not All Good News for the Environment
  • 10 Myths about climate change that need debunking.  
  • Climate Models Are Running Red Hot, and Scientists Don’t Know Why
  • The only uncertainty is how long we last 2/15/20
  • 2019 Capped the World's Hottest Decade in History (WaPo 1/15/20)
  • Why Boiling Methane in Arctic Seas Should Scare the Crap out of us
  • The Arctic may have crossed key threshold WaPo 12/12/19
  • Nature-Tipping points-too risky to bet against 11/28/19
  • Carbon Dioxide Reaches Highest Recorded Levels In Human History 11/30/19
  • In bleak report UN says drastic climate action needed now 11/26/19
  • The USA is more responsible for climate change than any country 3/18/19
  • The Three Most Important Graphs in Climate Change 6/3/19
  • The 1000 year ouch 2/19/19
  • Global leaders are facing one of the scariest years of climate change yet, 11/9/19
  • Soil in the Arctic Is Now Releasing More Carbon Dioxide Than 189 Countries 10/23/19
  • World Scientists Call for Global System Change to Address Climate Emergency 11/12/19
  • The Climate Emergency Has Already Begun as Earth Systems Collapse 12/7/19
  • How Scientists Got Climate Change So Wrong
  • Seven Points You need to Know About Climate Change
  • In 2039, How Will the US Military Fight a Climate Crisis Reality?
  • Scientists from around the world declare climate emergency
  • ‘Untold human suffering’: 11,000 scientists from across world unite to declare global climate emergency
  • A New Study Pinpoints With Incredible Specificity the Places Most at Risk on a Warming Planet
  • LAT Editorials on Climate, 3 parts, 9/15/19
  • Global heating made Hurricane Dorian bigger, wetter – and more deadly 9/4/19
  • Human influence on the seasonal cycle of tropospheric temperature 7/28/18
  • Climate Disaster Looms as Earth Burns Up 8/26/19
  • Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate Change 8/19/19
  • The Arctic Permafrost is Melting and that Affects Us All. Sept 2019 NG
  • There is time to avoid the worst of climate change 8/5/19
  • 4 climate tipping points the planet is facing 8/2/19
  • Climate scientists drive stake through heart of skeptics' argument
  • We've Exceeded 415ppm of Carbon Dioxide for the First Time Since the Pliocene (RSN 5/13/19)
  • This graphic explains why 2 degrees of global warming will be way worse than 1
  • Opinion The World Solved the Ozone Problem. It Can Solve Climate Change NYT OpEd
  • Changes in Earth’s Orbit Likely Kickstarted One of the Hottest Periods in History
  • Damage to the ozone layer and climate change forming feedback loop
  • Climate change is destroying a barrier that protects the US East Coast
  • How Humans Derailed the Earth
  • Climate Crisis- North Pole Temp is 50 F Above Normal
  • New Report Warns Planet May Be Warming Twice as Fast as Expected
  • We Are Destroying Our Life Support System
  • 'The Very High Costs of Climate Risk
  • Glacier Retreat, NYT
  • McKibben on IPCC Report
  • Climate Refugees 10/2018
  • PNAS: Earth Sciences and the Anthropocene
  • The Uninhabitable Earth, 2017
  • World no way near preventing warming beyond 1.5C
  • Feedback Loops are Driving Runaway global warming
  • Red Hot Planet, WaPo, seven maps, 2018
  • Planet at Risk of Heading Towards Apocalyptic, Irreversible ‘Hothouse Earth’ State
  • After a 3 year lull, CO2 emissions are peaking again. 
  • CO2 levels increasing in the atmosphere despite decline in emissions, NYT
  • CO2 highest in 800,000 years
  • 20,000 scientists warn humanity on climate change. 
  • We have set the climate back 12 million years
  • McKibben "Winning Slowly is the Same as Losing"​
  • Bill Moyers Interviews Bill McKibben
  • UN Study Says Climate is Warming
  • NYRB on climate change
  • Study Settle Issue on CO2 and previous warm periods.
  • ​​WaPo: "we have three years to get climate change under control"
  • Hopes of Mild Climate Change Dashed in Light of New Research
  • NASA- 2016: the hottest year on record (graphic tiff)​​
  • Scientists Warn World Will Miss a Window to Act on Climate​
  • Global Warming’s Terrifying New Chemistry
  • Bill McKibben Turns up the Heat
Divestment, Carbon Tax & Cap n' Trade​ & the Green New Deal
  • 10/27/22: "Faculty Wants Pensions Out of Fossil Fuels"
  • 10/13/22: "Two economies collide: Competition, conflict, and the financial case for fossil fuel divestment" 
  • 6/30/22: "California assemblyman kills fossil fuel divestment bill" 
  • 6/26/22: "As CalPERS Doubles Down on Private Equity, New Analysis Finds CalPERS’ Private Equity Returns “Based on a Mirage;” Another Study Reaffirms that Private Equity Drags Down Performance"
  • 5/26/22: "People in US and UK face huge financial hit if fossil fuels lose value, study shows" Guardian
  • 5/20/20: "The University of California has fully divested from fossil fuels. It’s the largest school in the US to do it"
  • 3/30/22: "Despite Net-Zero Promises, Big Banks Are Dumping Trillions Into Fossil Fuels" 
  • 2/9/22: "EXCLUSIVE New York pension fund to divest half its shale companies"  Reuters
  • 9/1/21: "IPCC Findings Illustrate Need for Banks and Insurers to Divest From Fossil Fuels" 
  • 8/20/21: "Lawmakers Question California Cap and Trade Policies, Citing ProPublica Report" 
  • 8/17/21: "BlackRock names 2 stock sectors that will get a big boost from a major climate push over the next 5 years - and lists 2 areas to avoid"
  • 8/11/21: "The carbon price conundrum" Brookings
  • 6/21/21: Petition - "Tell CalPERS and CalSTRS to Divest!"
  • 5/29/21: "Geoengineer the Planet? More Scientists Now Say It Must Be an Option" 
  • 5/21/21: "It’s Time to Bust the Myth That Endless Economic Growth Is Good for Us"
  • 4/8/21: "‘Wall Street is a primary villain’ in climate crisis, analysis shows"
  • 3/20/21: "How Electric Utilities' Climate Pledges Are Falling Short" 
  • 3/19/21: "Study finds renewable stocks posted vastly better returns than fossil fuels in past decade"
  • 3/9/21: "Big U.S. Banks May Curb Lending to Fossil Fuel Companies" Scientific American
  • 3/4/21: "One of America’s biggest pension funds is backing a bolder climate policy. Other investors should get on board" Fortune
  • 2/22/21: "Why Texas Republicans Fear the Green New Deal" Naomi Klein, Opinion, NYT
  • 2/3/21: "Fossil fuels will lead us to extinction: BLACKROCK STILL HEAVILY INVESTS IN COAL, OIL, AND GAS
  • 2/6/21: "Is Carbon Capture The New Biofuels?" Forbes
  • 2/5/21: "Melting Glacier Study Could Establish Legal Liability for Climate Polluters"
  • 2/3/21: "U.S. Could Reach Net-Zero Emissions by 2050 With More Benefits Than Costs"     
  • 1/26/21: "BlackRock Chief Pushes a Big New Climate Goal for the Corporate World"
  • 1/26/21: "Enormously Big Deal: Fed creates climate committee" 
  • 1/7/21: "Chomsky and Pollin: A Global Green New Deal Is the Only Way to Avert Disaster"
  • 12/10/20: NY Pension Fund Will Divest From Fossil Fuels
  • 12/1/20: Bank of America Promises It Won't Fund Arctic Drilling
  • 11/25/20: New Yorker, McKibben, "Climate Crisis: the banks"
  • 11/20/20: Can California’s Cap and Trade Actually Address Environmental Justice?
  • 11/3/20: Money manager calls for climate Marshall Plan
  • 10/30/20: :"In 'Road Map for a More Sustainable Future,' NY Regulator Tells Banks to Consider Climate Risks in Planning"
  • 10/29/20: "How 'Net-Zero' Targets Disguise Climate Inaction"
  • 9/25/20: "What’s the Future of the Carbon Tax?"
  • 9/7/20: "Managers Of $40 Trillion Make Plans To Decarbonize The World" Forbes
  • Markets are flying blind on climate change 9/16/20
  • Global investors develop net zero investing framework
  • 8/26/20: The End of the Oil Age Is Upon Us​
  • 8/24/20: "The End of Oil Is Near:
  • 8/24/20: "Major investment firm dumps Exxon, Chevron and Rio Tinto stock"
  • A simpler, more useful way to tax carbon 8/17/20
  • "Hasan and AOC Discuss The Green New Deal" YouTube
  • 8/2/20: "Steel And Chemical Companies Are Preparing To Decarbonize, But They Want Governments To Commit"
  • 8/1/20: "Carbon Pricing: Correcting Climate Change's Market Failure"
  • Energy firms urged to mothball coal plants as cost of solar tumbles (6/2/20) Guardian
  • 6/20/20 Modeling the Climate Crisis Action Plan
  • 6/20: Congressional Climate Crisis Action Plan Would Decarbonize US and add 58 trillion in benefits by 2050.pdf, (Forbes) 
  • 6/15/20: We Need a Green New Deal to Confront the Economic Crash and Climate Crisis
  • Guardian 6/1/20 Covid-19 has given us the chance to build a low-carbon future 
  • The world wasn't ready for a Green New Deal in 2009. Today, it may be
  • 4/24/20: Here’s what a coronavirus-like response to the climate crisis would look like
  • The Drawdown Project: Climate Solutions (PDF report)
  • The Short List Of Climate Actions That Will Work 9/29/19
  • The fastest way to cut carbon emissions is a ‘fee’ and a dividend, top leaders say 2/13/20 WaPo
  • Cap and trade isn't cutting it LAT
  • What Wall St. wants- A way to price carbon
  • Towards a circular economy, Piketty
  • Goldman Sachs Announces It Will Stop Financing Arctic Oil
  • Goldman Sachs will no longer fund drilling in Arctic refuge sacred to First Nations
  • From linear to circular—Accelerating a proven concept
  • What’s ‘Fair’ When It Comes to Carbon Emissions?12/4/19
  • How to Cut US carbon emissions by 40% in 10 years (a carbon tax)
  • Voters like taxing carbon as long as you don’t say ‘carbon tax’
  • Carbon pricing is the way to rectify runaway climate change
  • The Green New Deal explained
  • The Green New Deal would create nearly 30 million jobs
  • Ocasio-Cortez says we need a WW2 plan
  • Landowners Are Earning Millions for Carbon Cuts That May Not Occur
  • Companies See Climate Change Hitting Their Bottom Lines in the Next 5 Years
  • Carbon tax v capntrade, which is better? (Guardian 2013)
  • The Problem With Putting a price on carbon
  • Carbon Tax?  States considering
  • Making Carbon Pricing Work for Citizens
  • The Story of cap 'n trade (video)
  • The Future Of Cap n trade in CA
  • California Gov - a climate bill full of giveaways to polluters
  • What to do? 
  • Exxon and all agree re carbon tax
  • Republican Elders Call for New National Carbon Tax
  • California has an ambitious plan to tackle climate change
  • Exxon Mobil Is Now Lobbying for a Carbon Tax
  • Cap and Trade CA and the US

Ice Melt, Sea Level Rise and Ocean Acidification
  • 11/12/21: "See how the huge ozone hole over Antarctica has grown in 2021 in this NASA video"
  • 8/20/21: "Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' is fighting an invisible battle against the inner Earth, new study finds" 
  • 6/3/21: "Earth's cryosphere loses enough ice to cover Lake Superior every year"
  • 5/24/21: "World’s Largest Iceberg Breaks off From Antarctica"
  • 5/5/21: "‘Uncertainty is not our friend’: Scientists are still struggling to understand the sea level risks posed by Antarctica" WaPo
  • 5/5/21: "Emissions Cuts Could Drop the Impact of Melting Ice on Oceans by Half" NYT
  • 4/30/21: "Antarctic ‘doomsday glacier’ may be melting faster than was thought", Guardian
  • 1/25/21: "Earth is now losing 1.2 trillion tons of ice each year. And it’s going to get worse." WaPo
  • YouTube: Atlas Pro on Sea Level Rise, 20 mins
  • 10/19/20: Study finds Arctic verging on permafrost collapse
  • Melting Antarctic ice will raise sea level by 2.5 metres – even if Paris climate goals are met, study finds
  • 9/20/20: "Charleston aims to force fossil fuel companies to pay $2bn to combat climate crisis"
  • 9/14/20: "Two major Antarctic glaciers are tearing loose from their restraints, scientists say" WaPo
  • 8/17/20: "'Canary in the Coal Mine': Greenland Ice Has Shrunk Beyond Return, Study Finds"
  • 6/3/20: High Temperatures Set Off Major Greenland Ice Melt—Again
  • New Study Shows Global Warming Intensifying Extreme Rainstorms Over North America
  • Oceans Likely to Heat up at Seven Times Their Current Rate, New Study Finds 
  • Climate change is turning parts of Antarctica green, say scientists 
  • NYT May 14/20 ‘It Could Happen Anytime’: Scientists Warn of Alaska Tsunami Threat
  • 5/8/20 Sea levels could rise more than a metre by 2100, experts say 
  • Ocean temperatures hit record high as rate of heating accelerates 1/13/20
  • Greenland ice loss has septupled WaPo
  • Arctic Report Card 2019
  • What We Do in The Next 5 Years Will Affect Sea Levels For Several Centuries
  • Melting Ice Could Unleash Hazardous Waste From Cold War
  • Major Climate Report Warns of Severe Damage to the World's Oceans 9/26/19
  • New Report on Ocean Oxygen Loss Gives
  • These 20 Companies Caused More Than One-Fifth of Ocean Acidification Since 1965
  • "Ghost Forests" inland as sea level rises in US.  NYT 10/8/19
  • Landmark UN report warns sea levels will rise faster than projected by 2100
  • UN draft climate report warns oceans rising  8/29/19
  • Iceland PM Ice is Leaving NYT 8/17/19
  • Alaska's Sea Ice Has Completely Melted Away
  • Historic Greenland Melt Is a “Glimpse of the Future” 8/2/19
  • Glacial melting in Antarctica may become irreversible 7/9/19
  • Seawalls to protect US against rising oceans could cost $416bn by 2040
  • Arctic Is Thawing So Fast Scientists Are Losing Their Measuring Tools
  • ​Oceans Might Lose Ability to Absorb Carbon
  • Greenland is Falling Apart, April 2019
  • Tracking melting Ice w new NASA satellite
  • LAT Ocean Acidification 
  • Flooding From Sea Level Rise Threatens Over 300,000 US Coastal Homes
  • NASA animation on Antarctic glacial melt (mp4)
  • BBC: Arctic's irreversible warming
  • NYT: Interactive web article on Greenland ice melting. 
  • WaPo: New Science Shows Sea Levels Rising Much faster than we thought​​
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