2 month ago
philgyford : Back to the Garden: 1958 TV show on Global Warming! - It's more than a little galling to see a TV programme from 1958 explaining global warming. We're only doing something about it now!? (via Boing Boing)
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7 month ago
Rod Begbie : The Question of Global Warming - Outstanding and thoughtful article by Freeman Dyson. [via] #
philgyford : The Question of Global Warming - The New York Review of Books - I found this Freeman Dyson article interesting because it isn't written from one of the two usual polar extremes of the global warming arguments.
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9 month ago
Rod Begbie : We Can Solve It | Unlikely Alliance - I have to admit, this commercial made my jaw drop a little. Al Sharpton and Pat Robertson side by side, in a spot for climate change prevention. #
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14 month ago
Richard Rutter : Edenbee – Global Swarming - Sign up for this ecological social network (designed by Clearleft).
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19 month ago
WillPate : Climate Anomalies Mar - May 2007 - yikes
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22 month ago
plasticbag : There's a sort of interesting article on BBC News about Global Warming and Al Gore... - I'm a bit puzzled by the responsibility of organisations like the BBC to report on 'critics' who disagree with the overwhelming climate change consensus. If it was a gay issue that I felt strongly about, I might feel differently I suppose...
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24 month ago
WillPate : 10 years to save world - 10 years to reverse surging greenhouse gas emissions or risk runaway climate change that could make many parts of the planet uninhabitable.
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24 month ago
jkottke : A report encompassing the work of thousands of climate experts says that "global warming will happen faster and be more devastating than previously thought" - A report encompassing the work of thousands of climate experts says that "global warming will happen faster and be more devastating than previously thought". "The really chilling thing about the IPCC report is that it is the work of several thousand clima
plasticbag : The Guardian reports on the IPCC report on Climate Change and it's ... well frankly it's scary ... - The specifics of the weather changes are one thing, but the significant pressures on the world's populations, the wars and the terrorism and migration it's all going to cause - that's the stuff that's really worrying...
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25 month ago
plasticbag : Planting trees in cooler climates may actually speed up climate change - The more you hear—if you believe it of course—the more it seems that this really is one of those situations where the world either has to operate together or where there have to be some seriously good incentives for poorer countries to do th
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27 month ago
jimray : Go on an eight-week carbon diet - Slate magazine and treehugger.com have come up with a way to assess your current carbon output and suggest ways to reduce your emissions. Awesome!
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27 month ago
plasticbag : A Terrifying Message from Al Gore (via Futurama) - "The movie that could make you feel like you should probably do something"
Rod Begbie : YouTube - A Terrifying Message from Al Gore - Trailer for An Inconvenient Truth made by the chaps at Futurama. Your first (and only?) chance to hear Al Gore say the words "hybrid pimpmobile" [via] #
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28 month ago
philgyford : July 2006 - Issue 391 | New Internationalist - Why carbon offsets and buying trees aren't the answer to global warming. This is my instinct too but I'd like to find a more objective and scientific source. (via Haddock)
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28 month ago
plasticbag : Breathing Earth - I'm not normally one for large Flash visualisations, but this representation of people being born, dying and the different countries of the world expelling CO2 is quite extraordinarily beautiful and informative...
jkottke : Breathing Earth is a map of the earth that shows, in realtime, births, deaths, and carbon dioxide consumption of the world's countries - Breathing Earth is a map of the earth that shows, in realtime, births, deaths, and carbon dioxide consumption of the world's countries. Mesmerizing to watch. (via snarkmarket) [via]
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29 month ago
kellan : "...airline passengers are still advised not to bring storms on board aircraft with them, even tropical depressions you might believe would be harmless." - "And now back to your regularly scheduled security theater." #
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30 month ago
cameron : Global Warming -- Signed, Sealed and Delivered - Los Angeles Times - Global warming article refuting last week's WSJ editorial, by the author of a climatology meta-study. Good stuff.
deusx : Global Warming -- Signed, Sealed and Delivered - Los Angeles Times - "There is continuing debate in the scientific community over the likely rate of future change: not "whether" but "how much" and "how soon.""
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30 month ago
deusx : Whiskey Bar: An Inconvenient Al - "I'd hate to think that Gore, who has better contacts and knows more about the science and the politics of climate change than I do, is as pessimistic as I am."
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33 month ago
philgyford : The New York Review of Books: The Coming Meltdown - I underlined this review of two books on environmental disaster when I read it. Not sure why now, but still.
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35 month ago
WillPate : 30 Days of Sustainability - 30 days of "a combination of business, social, education and awareness programs" during March 2006 in Vancouver. Website by Raincity Studios.
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36 month ago
jimray : Evangelical ‘call to action’ on warming - Shocker: James Dobson and Chuck Colson oppose this plan
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36 month ago
jimray : Outrage at attacks on NASA science - It seems that some punkass 24 year old kid from Texas A&M is now dictating NASA's science policy. This is sheer lunacy.
deusx : Bad Astronomy Blog » Blog Archive » Outrage at attacks on NASA science - "NASA is not in the business of teaching religion. They should be teaching science, and the Big Bang is definitely science."
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36 month ago
jimray : Climate Expert Says NASA Tried to Silence Him - The top climate scientist at NASA says the Bush administration has tried to stop him from speaking out since he gave a lecture last month calling for prompt reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases linked to global warming.
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36 month ago
WillPate : Amazon.com: "Boiling Point" by Ross Gelbspan - Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Ross Gelbspan's book about climate change, oil industry lobbying, PR spinsters, politicians and lazy journalists.
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36 month ago
WillPate : Ross Gelbspan's blog | deSmogBlog - Author of "Boiling Point" is blogging on the deSmogBlog, a blog about PR spin and climate change, and Raincity Studios client site
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jimray : Bush Threatens U.N. Over Clinton Climate Speech - “It came through loud and clear from the Bush people—they wouldn’t sign the deal if Clinton were allowed to speak.â€
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