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Al Gore changing stance |
Al Gores remarkable results in raising awareness about global warming has won him a Nobel Prize. Until recently however, he implied that the climate crisis could be solved more or less through "business as usual", with a few eco-friendly practices thrown in. Many who believed this have had to change their views as changes are accelerating. This, by the way, is coming to be the real divide in the real "climate debate": Between those who understand than there won't be a "business as usual" anyway in a few years time, and want to prepare for a just transition, and those who spend their energies and our money in intensifying the same destructive patterns that have shapen our present crisis. "The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more - if more should be required - the future of human civilization is at stake" says Gore, who calls for the United States to produce all electricity from carbon-free sources by 2028. Read the whole text of Gore's speech here |
Nowhere to run from nature |
The UN's news service, IRIN, on environmental change and forced migrations |
As the world grapples with food shortages brought on in part by climate change, the estimates of the number of people likely to be displaced by natural disasters og rising sea levels are adjusted, and the temperature of debates on providing protection to people displaced by the vagaries of nature is rising. More |
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Tropical cyclone Nargis killed over 20,000 people and left 40,000 missing in its wake. It is not just a natural disaster. Why is the rich industrialised world doing so little to contain its emissions? Why are we not beginning to penalise the polluters, so that emissions are reduced? Read the press release from Center for Science and Environment, India, here
Dr. James Hansen, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies: The heads of major fossil-fuel companies who spread disinformation about global warming should be put on trial for global-warming lies. "Special interests have blocked the transition to our renewable energy future," writes Hansen. "Instead of moving heavily into renewable energies, fossil fuel companies choose to spread doubt about global warming, just as tobacco companies discredited the link between smoking and cancer".
USA: Black churches weigh in on global warming more
USA: Climate change is disproportionably affecting the black community, which is struggling with more heat-related deaths and increased trouble adapting to rising energy costs. More: Group Seeks Minority Help On Global Warming