News — climate change

David Orr on need to teach earth climate science and rebuilding democracy about 4 minutes into the video

James Balog about climate chaos- photos of receding glaciers, more and more intense fires, rising sea levels, more and more intense hurricanes and tornados

Link  This could cut off nutrientupwelling, warm the ocean, quicken the ice sheet melting, and cut off the ocean's ability to absorb CO2.

Grist list of eco-climate monkeywrench books

I liked Ministry of the Future,  the Overstory, and Hummingbird Salamander.  I also like  Paolo Bacigalupi's books- they are bit dark and violent, but unpleasantly accurate in their predictions of the future.

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 Stanford's Jacobson's defense of renewables in MT lawsuit

Montana would save 6.3 billion per year by switching to renewable energy instead of coal, oil, and natural gas. 

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 if applied just to cool the NH, which might have preferential local climate responses (eg, less Atlantic TCs) for the geoengineering parties, there could be potentially devastating impacts (eg, Sahelian drought) in other regions.

Elizabeth Kolbert  Her interviews and stories catch your attention and won't let go.  They are like a great book that you can't put down.