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Showing posts with label Economic Suicide. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Economic Suicide. Show all posts
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Friday, February 8, 2013
Fossil fuel subsidies and tax breaks are still rising The Guardian
| The Guardian (blog) | - |
Last week the OECD published two new reports which shine a light on our complex and confused relationship with fossil fuels.
The first looks at how we subsidise them, the second at how we tax
them. The picture they paint can be summed up in two words: ...
Thursday, February 7, 2013
***** Head of IMF: climate change is 'the greatest economic challenge of the 21st ... Mongabay.com
| Mongabay.com | - |
Climate change not debt or austerity is "the greatest economic challenge of the 21st Century," according to Christine Lagarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
IMF Chief: 'Unless We Take Action On Climate Change, Future Generations Will ... ThinkProgress
| ThinkProgress | - |
At
the World Economic Forum in Davos, she said, “the real wild card in the
pack” of economic pivot points is “Increasing vulnerability from
resource scarcity and climate change, with the potential for major social and economic disruption.” She called ...
Climate change means catastrophe in UK, not café culture says professor. Telegraph.co.uk
| Telegraph.co.uk | - |
Professor Kevin Anderson, Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, said Government and local authorities are failing to grasp the risks to Britain for global warming.
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Fossil Fules more valuable as fertilizer, medicines, clothing and other vital goods. Truthdig
| Truthdig | - |
LONDON—Burning fossil fuels
for energy is a disastrous waste of natural resources preventing their
use for the manufacture of fertilizer, medicines, clothing and other
vital goods, according to a German think tank.
How climate change spells disaster for UK fish industry The Guardian
| The Guardian | - |
When
Graham Hall started out as a trawlerman, the port of Grimsby was
crammed with so many boats that local legend had it you could walk from
deck to deck across the entire harbour.
***** 1.27.13 Leading Economist Stern: 'I got it wrong on climate change – it's far, far worse.' The Guardian
| The Guardian | - |
Lord Stern, author of the government-commissioned review on climate change
that became the reference work for politicians and green campaigners,
now says he underestimated the risks, and should have been more "blunt"
about the threat posed to the ...
See realtime coverage »
Stern Review - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change is a 700-page report released for the British government on 30 October 2006 by economist Nicholas ...
Saturday, January 26, 2013
Due to Criminal US Apathy: China and Australia top list of 'carbon bomb' projects. Guardian
China and Australia top list of 'carbon bomb' projects.
China and Australia top a global list of
planned oil, gas and coal projects that will act as "carbon bombs" and
push the planet towards catastrophic climate change, a Greenpeace report
warned on Tuesday.
The Guardian
How high could the tide go? NYT
How high could the tide go?
The question of just how high the oceans
might rise in a warmer world has taken on new urgency in the aftermath
of Hurricane Sandy, which caused coastal flooding that scientists say
was almost certainly worsened by the modest rise of sea level over the
past century.
New York Times
Sandy, is the Future. SF Chronicle
Is rebuilding in hurricane zones wise?
Sandy is the future. As carbon dioxide
emissions blast past worst-case scenarios, rising sea levels and storm
surges will reshape every U.S. coastline. But it is only beginning to
dawn on Americans, half of whom live on the coasts, that their future is
a battle against the sea.
San Francisco Chronicle
Friday, January 25, 2013
Drought points up critical role of waterways. NYT
Drought points up critical role of waterways.
If drought does emerge as a more prominent
facet of life on the Mississippi and navigation is impeded, the effect
on national and even global commerce will undoubtedly be felt. If the
river got so low that navigation had to stop, grain exports and the
other commodities could get a lot more expensive very quickly.
New York Times
Saturday, January 19, 2013
A FRACTION of the growth needed: US Installed Record 13.2 Gigawatts Of Wind Energy In 2012 Forbes
| Forbes | - |
With a key federal tax incentive about to expire, the U.S. installed a 5.5 gigawatts of wind power in December to cap off a year that saw a record 13.2 gigawatts of wind energy come online, according to a report released Friday by research firm ...
Friday, January 18, 2013
***** Severe droughts in Amazon linked to climate change, says study. CBS
»
| CBS News | - |
The
prolonged drought, which began in 2005, has caused widespread damage to
the area and may possibly be a sign that the rainforest is showing the
first signs of large-scale degradation due to climate change. A research team, led by NASA's Jet ...
Climate Assessment Warns Of Devastating 9°-15°F Warming Over Most Of U.S. ClimateProgress
Climate Assessment Warns Of Devastating 9°-15°F Warming Over Most Of U.S.
Posted: 11 Jan 2013 02:34 PM PST
The
rule in Washington, DC is if you want to bury news, release it late on a
Friday afternoon. So one can only assume the climate silence crowd
prevailed in the release this afternoon of the draft U.S. Climate Assessment.
Perhaps
it’s this chart they don’t want folks talking about, from the “Newer
Simulations for Projected Temperature” in Chapter 2:
Projected rise in average U.S. surface air temperature 2071-2099 relative to 1971-2000. This is RCP 8.5, “a scenario that assumes continued increases in emissions,” with CO2 levels hitting about 940 parts per million. It is close to the emissions path we are currently on — but not the worst-case scenario and not where still-rising temperatures would end up post-2100.
The
Assessment, put together by dozens of the country’s top climate
experts, makes clear that if we stay anywhere near our current emissions
path, we are headed towards a devastating 9°F to 15°F warming over most
of the United States (this century), with ever-worsening extreme
weather, heat waves, deluges and droughts. As the report notes
“generally, wet [areas] get wetter and dry get drier.” Future
generations will be wishing for the boring “moist” and “cool” days of
2012 (when they aren’t cursing our names).
Cost of combating climate change surges [cost to our children of our delay Tsunamis] as world delays -study. Reuters
Seems hugely low... $240/ton at the LEAST unless conclusive evidence to the contrary, however, interesting -
| Carbon price of $30 needed to avoid 2°C climate target Responding to Climate Change Riahi told RTCC their research indicates a $30 price signal would give a 60% chance of limiting warming below the agreed UN limit of 2°C warming above ... |
| Delaying Climate Action To Later Is More Costly: Study CleanTechnica ... warming below 2°C. This would also help to limit the worst effects of global warming, including: rising sea levels, floods, droughts, and severe heat. |
| Cost of combating climate change surges as world delays -study Reuters UK Quick measures to cut emissions would give a far better chance of keeping global warming within an agreed UN limit of 2 degrees Celsius (3.6F) above ... |
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