I’ve been commenting on the social impacts and responses to the evidence for climate change for 5 years. Before that, I toyed with the idea of building a global dashboard on the Web where all the parameters relevant to the warming situation could be checked daily. But things were changing so slowly – I thought then [...]
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How do you share critical knowledge across a large scale distributed network of organizations? I believe we have a great model in the work of an organization known as ICLEI (“ick-lee”), which was founded almost 20 years ago by the United Nations to develop sustainability practices for local governments. Today its mission has expanded to [...]
The Pew Center on Global Climate Change has released another great report, this one addressing businesses and how they should consider the potential impacts of climate change on their operations, their models, their strategies and their planning. While ICLEI serves as a guide for local governments and various activist groups such as the Post Carbon [...]
Al Gore speaks again
Apr 9
The trends toward new climate are steepening, and Al has renewed his presentation with this fresh, passionate talk at last month’s TED conference. In it he speaks to the need for us to make changes at the political level, to insist that our government respect the urgency of the situation and act to immediately reduce [...]
Climate change will vary in its degree and impact from location to location, so the scientific models that cover the whole planet don’t tell us very much about the regions where we live and plan our futures. Ireland’s government commissioned its weather service and the University College of Dublin to come up with a model [...]
The closer you get to the poles, the greater the deviation of temperature from its historic averages. So, Alaska leads all other states in the degree of impact from current climate changes. For them, the writing on the wall is much plainer than for the Lower 48 and Hawaii.
Alaska’s Climate Impact Assessment Committee issued its [...]
Joshua Busby is an assistant professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He wrote an essay for the Washington Post based on a special report he wrote for the Council on Foreign Relations. The main point of the essay was that “homeland security will require readiness against [...]
