Again with the news about the eminent, catastrophic collapse of our human habitat ... unless we do something about it immediately.
Is this an electoral issue? It could be, though it'd be nice if more politicians were encouraged to campaign on it. Is it a winning issue? Yes, yes it is. As it happens, even auto industry union workers and SUV drivers understand that major, systemic changes need to be made so that living our lives doesn't destroy the health of the ecosystems that provide our air, water and food.
Join me on the flip, or the planet gets it.
City, County, State and Federal officials in Washington State are taking global warming seriously. The Seattle P-I reports, and interviews Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA), who is a member of the Apollo Alliance and will shortly be releasing a new book, "Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy."
Check out this Discovery news report on the need for green city planning, accompanied by a YouTube report on gathering climate data from stalagmites.
The Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation forum is likely to reject emissions caps in favor of improving efficiency targets and increasing forest cover. It's not nothing, but if your economy increases car-ownership several hundred fold or adds a lot of new coal-fired power plants, and minimally lowers emissions standards, that might not be much help. Also, if by forest cover, they mean stands of oil palm for producing biodiesel to export to Europe, not impressive.
600 people stripped naked on a Swiss glacier to remind the world that we only have eight years to prevent catastrophic climate disruption. 2,00 Britons are preparing to protest a runway addition at Heathrow to get a similar point across.
The Society for Ecological Restoration explains that rebuilding our ecosystem health is nothing more or less than the path of enlightened self-interest.
I'd like to be a fly on the wall when 34 agriculture ministers from the Americas meet in Guatemala to discuss how climate change will affect agriculture and what needs to be done to make it sustainable.
Northern moose and wolf populations are already under threat from warming related habitat changes.
Kevin Drum reminds folks that global warming is still happening even if there was a slight flaw in some of the data. The flaw has been corrected for. The danger is still real.
Temperatures in Japan have hit a 74 year high, 12 people are dead.
With title as is, the Doha Bank Holds Seminar on Climate Change in Turkey. The bank's CEO stresses the need for businesses to take the initiative to move towards green business models in light of the seriousness of the situation and consumers' growing interest in sustainability.
Lastly, from the files of the sublimely, grimly ridiculous, the story of an Indian couple who got together because of a flood. As floods are becoming increasingly common around the world, I expect we'll be seeing a lot of this sort of thing.