“Full Speed Ahead.” The engine room of the historic icebreaker St Erik, one of the museum vessels in Stockholm harbour. Captions and Photo source: ©© Dans Le Grand Bleu
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This November, leading environmental writer and 350.org founder Bill McKibben is hitting the road for a 21-city tour that will kick-start the next phase of the climate movement: taking on the fossil fuel industry. Organizers hope that the “Do the Math” tour will spark a nationwide fossil fuel divestment movement at colleges and universities and inspire new protests against the industry…
“Do The Math” refers to the simple and terrifying new reality of the climate crisis: the fossil fuel industry currently has 2,795 gigatons of carbon in their reserves, five times more than the maximum 565 gigatons the world can emit and keep warming below 2°C, a goal agreed to by nearly every nation on earth, including the United States.
Climate Change, the Taboo Phrase in U.S. Electoral Politics, IPS
The United States endured its hottest summer in history this year, with droughts and wildfires ravaging the country. And according to a new report from the global reinsurance giant Munich Re, insurance losses related to extreme weather have nearly quadrupled in the U.S. since 1980. So one might expect that climate change would be a hot topic in the debates being held ahead of the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 6. But during the four nationally televised debates held so far – three presidential and one vice presidential – neither Democratic incumbent Barack Obama nor his Republican challenger Mitt Romney has even mentioned the subject of climate change. “According to a new survey from Texas University, 73 percent of the (U.S.) public believe that climate change is happening. In a recent Yale study, 70 percent say so. The surveys were made in September. So, what we see is that seven in 10 Americans notice this problem,” Deans said…
Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math, Rolling Stone Magazine
