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"Global Warming"
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
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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
F
eedback 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
U
N 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
1/26/21: "BlackRock Chief Pushes a Big New Climate Goal for the Corporate World"
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?"
Markets are flying blind on climate change 9/16/20
Global investors develop net zero investing framework
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"
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
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
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
COPs and IPCC and global roles
9/27/20: "World leaders pledge to halt Earth’s destruction ahead of UN summit"
9/24/20: "Vanessa Nakate: America Needs to Lead on Climate Change"
"Trace" emerges as a real time way to measure greenhouse gad emissions, promoted by Al Gore.
Amid pandemic, UN cancels global climate conference
COP25 climate summit ends in staggering failure of leadership
COP25 Midway Webinar 12/9/19
COP25 Dec 5 update
Paris Agreement Targets Need to Be 5 Times Stronger to Actually Work
IPCC 1.5 degree report has a silver lining 10/10/19
IPCC Report on Climate Change and the Oceans and the Cryosphere. 9/25/19
Climate change - do more now or risk catastrophe: IEA
Planet has only until 2030 to stem catastrophic climate change
Landmark UN report warns sea levels will rise faster than projected by 2100
Countries must triple climate emission cut targets to limit global heating to 2C
The U.S. left a hole in leadership on climate. China is filling it.
IPCC 8/8/19 Report on the Land and Climate Change
Climate Negotiation in Katowice COP24
IPCC October 2018 Report! NYT
Half US Spending Power Remains on Paris COP21 Accord
World Can Reach Net Zero by 2060
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The Slow Violence of Climate Change (COP21)
WB-IFC on COP21 successes
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