Al Gore hasn’t been resting on his laurels since An Inconvenient Truth. His substantial new book Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis has grown out of the more than 30 lengthy and intensive “Solution Summits” he has organised to enable leading experts from round the world ... keep reading
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Oxfam’s messages on the battering effects of climate change on poorer countries continue with the publication this week of their report Bolivia: Climate Change, Poverty and Adaptation. Poverty and injustice in many countries of the world is what Oxfam works on, and this focus has inevitably led to concern ... keep reading
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“The future of our planet can be found now, on the frontiers of climate change.” That’s how freelance journalist Stephan Faris frames his new book Forecast: The Surprising – and Immediate – Consequences of Climate Change. He visits and talks with people in regions already experiencing some of the early effects ... keep reading
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“It is all too possible that we will fail to achieve sustainability, and that the blind watchmaker will once again...reset the balance of a severely diminished living Earth.” That’s the possibility that Tim Flannery hopes we can yet avoid. He makes the statement early in his essay Now ... keep reading
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We need to have it spelt out. Africa will be hit hard as the effects of climate change fall disproportionately on the world’s poorest people and countries. Camilla Toulmin’s book Climate Change in Africa surveys those effects and focuses on the adaptation measures needed to lessen the impact ... keep reading
Written by Bryan Walker this month, about Agriculture & Food, Children and Families, Climate Change, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Economics, Education, Environmental Disasters, Health, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Philosophy & Religion, Politics & Government, Population, Poverty & Development (3 comments)
Wind, solar and water sources are sufficient to provide the world’s energy by 2030. The Scientific American has a front cover article coming up in November to claim that. Written by Mark Jacobson and Mark Delucchi, it’s heartening information according to a Stanford University report. Turning away from ... keep reading
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“This is a story of betrayal, a story of selfishness, greed, and irresponsibility on an epic scale.” That’s how James Hoggan opens his newly published book Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming. Hoggan initially thought there was a fierce scientific controversy about climate change. Sensibly he did ... keep reading
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How does Lester Brown manage to stay optimistic? Newly published is Plan B 4.0 the fourth in a series of Plan B volumes which started six years ago. In those six years atmospheric CO2 levels have continued to rise alarmingly, the global population has carried on expanding, aquifer depletion ... keep reading
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Novels aren’t often reviewed on websites like Celsias. But when Doubleday offered a review copy of Margaret Atwood’s latest, The Year of the Flood, it didn’t take long to say yes. Atwood is a celebrated writer, but she’s also a concerned environmentalist and active supporter of ... keep reading
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Yet another pre-Copenhagen report has been released, this time jointly from the influential Center for American Progress, the progressive think tank headed by John Podesta, President Clinton’s former chief of staff, and the United Nations Foundation, the body founded with Ted Turner’s $1 billion gift in 1998 to ... keep reading
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