A reaction to Rosenthal's NYT piece, in which she ignored the failures of the media, and ClimateGate, as explanations for the lack of action in the US regarding climate change.

Bill McKibben explains that we should not connect the dots between the multitude of points that is the latest barrage in natural disasters and climate change.

The challenges of making climate code and data open.

Amory Lovins' little essay on the costliness and market inadequacy of nuclear power

Empowering Nonviolent Action -- started by Tim DeChristopher (Bidder 70)

To sum up: climate research doesn't pay well, the amount of money dedicated to it has been shrinking, and if the researchers were successful in convincing the public that climate change was a serious threat, the response would be to give money to someone else. If you come across someone arguing that scientists are in it for the money, then you can probably assume they are willing to make arguments without getting their facts straight.

After all, it was Marx who said that above 350 parts per million carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, we can't have a planet "similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on Earth is adapted." No, wait, those were NASA scientists. The same people who faked the moon landing. This is a complicated world; I'm going back to the baseball game.

Steve's summary of James Garvey's book, "The Ethics of Climate Change"

"...systems thinking starts when we begin to see the world through other people’s eyes, and the idea of multiple perspectives is a central concept. In this sense, systems don’t really exist in the world at all, they only exist as convenient descriptions of the world."

Description of the new zero-carbon building at the National Renewable Energy Lab

The Community Earth System Model (CESM) is a coupled climate model for simulating the earth's climate system. Composed of four separate models simultaneously simulating the earth's atmosphere, ocean, land surface and sea-ice, and one central coupler component, the CESM allows researchers to conduct fundamental research into the earth's past, present and future climate states.

Lots of interesting questions and ideas, exploring the division between deep and shallow 'greens'. Unsatisfactory in its criticism of shallow greens but lack of exploration of the implications of the alternative. Still a good read.

"The greens, it seems, are being tamed. Capitalism, always so effective at absorbing and defanging dissenters, is transforming an existential challenge into yet another opportunity for shopping."

"The real system is interconnected. No part of the human race is separate either from other human beings or from the global ecosystem. It will not be possible in this integrated world for your heart to succeed if your lungs fail, or for your company to succeed if your workers fail, or for the rich in Los Angeles to succeed if the poor in Los Angeles fail, or for Europe to succeed if Africa fails, or for the global economy to succeed if the global environment fails."

Jon Pipitone, asking for research activism examples.

Monbiot on Stewart Brand's turn for the worse.

"People with strong intrinsic values must cease to be embarrassed by them. We should argue for the policies we want not on the grounds of expediency but on the grounds that they are empathetic and kind; and against others on the grounds that they are selfish and cruel."

Jon explaining the theory of planned behaviour and how it relates to environmental action

Reasons for not flying

Kwame Anthony Appiah on the everyday atrocities of our society.

"The truth is that there is not and never was a strategy certain of success, as the powers ranged against us have always been stronger than we are."

Mark Morford

Another version of McKibben's call to action

Bill McKibben's call to action

Steve's take on the Muir Russell report.

"the world is run by those who turn up"

The Secret Life of Bugs and Climategate

2009 climate report from NOAA

Satellite temperature readings from NOAA

---Indeed, think of all the planes grounded for nearly a week in northern Europe last month, as a volcano poured ash in the atmosphere. There was no technological fix, and many passengers couldn’t believe it. Said Mr. Kohut, of Pew Research, “The reaction was: ‘Fix this. Fix this. This is outrageous.’ ”

Collection of climate change visualizations

Great postmortem of a High School climate change curriculum