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Friel: Serial Mistake-Makers on Climate Change (Part I): On Matt Ridley and Bjorn Lomborg
Znet Article, June, 10 2010
Howard Friel
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What shall we call them—those “skeptical environmentalists” and “rational optimists” about global warming—superheroes of best-selling books who write and speak in open opposition to facts and science as easily as Superman and Spiderman defy gravit...
Jamail: Trucking Toward Climate Change
Znet Article, May, 24 2010
Dahr Jamail
Jamail's ZSpace page
The tar sands mining project in Alberta, Canada, is possibly the largest industrial project in human history and critics claim it could also be the most destructive. The mining procedure for extracting oil from a region referred to as the "tar san...
Gupta: Geoengineering the Planet?
Zmag Article, May, 24 2010
Arun Gupta
Gupta's ZSpace page
Remaking the planet's atmosphere for corporate profit
Friel: Bjorn Lomborg on CO2
Znet Article, May, 11 2010
Howard Friel
Friel's ZSpace page
Politically and scientifically speaking, the most important fact to know about global warming is that the world must reduce carbon dioxide emissions very steeply and very quickly, despite the fact that this is probably the most complicated and com...
Larson: Come Hell and High Water
Zmag Article, May, 06 2010
Robert Larson
Larson's ZSpace page
Scientists indict state capitalism for interrelated problems
Bello: Making Connections: Economic Crisis And The Politics Of Climate Change
Video, April, 24 2010
Walden Bello
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Politics Of Climate Change
Loeb: "From Drunken Party Girl to Climate Change Activist"
Znet Article, April, 18 2010
Paul Rogat Loeb
Loeb's ZSpace page
When we try to engage people politically we never know who will respond, or when someone will shift from reveling in their apathy to taking powerful public stands. With Earth Day coming up, here's a striking example of one such transformation.
Dimaggio: Witness to Mediagate: Making Sense of the “Climategate Scandal”
Znet Article, April, 08 2010
Anthony Dimaggio
Dimaggio's ZSpace page
Leading global scientists have been exonerated of blame in the “climategate” controversy, although this won’t stop right wing and corporate funded pundits from attacking the science of global warming.
Glick: A Response to Bond and D’Sa
Commentary, April, 07 2010
Ted Glick
Glick's ZSpace page
Patrick Bond and Desmond D’Sa have written an article, the latest in a series of back and forth’s between climate justice activists mainly in the U.S. about strategy and tactics. It has been mainly U.S. activists because a major focus of the debat...
Sen: Be the Seed
Znet Article, April, 04 2010
Jai Sen
Sen's ZSpace page
An Introduction to and Commentary on the government of Bolivia’s Call for a ‘Peoples’ World Conference On Climate Change And The Rights Of Mother Earth’
Bond: Climate Justice Opportunities After US Carbon Market and Legislative Crashes
Commentary, April, 01 2010
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
Fierce debating about United States climate justice (CJ) strategies and tactics on ZNet over the past couple of months leave us ready to continue exploring comradely but sharp differences.
Smolker: Land, The Greatest Excuse of All
Zmag Article, March, 28 2010
Rachel Smolker
Smolker's ZSpace page
Accounting trick "offsets" instead of real solutions for the climate crisis
Friel: Andrew Revkin’s Climate Centrism
Znet Article, March, 17 2010
Howard Friel
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In his 2001 book, The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World, Bjorn Lomborg argued that the real state of the world’s environment was better than what the major environmental organizations and scientists have reported. T...
Friel: Lomborg’s Public Diplomacy, Part 1/5
Znet Article, March, 12 2010
Howard Friel
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Given his public diplomacy skills, if Bjorn Lomborg had worked for the Bush-Cheney White House, the world might still be thinking that Iraq’s Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. This is because there has never been any evidence to supp...
Dimaggio: Manufactured Dissent
Znet Article, March, 09 2010
Anthony Dimaggio
Dimaggio's ZSpace page
Global warming has graduated to the status of one of the great enduring political issues of our time. Unfortunately, public discourse has taken a dramatic step backward in light of corporate media’s attacks against the scientific community. Scie...
Hahnel: Why Cap And Trade And Not A Carbon Tax?
Commentary, February, 25 2010
Robin Hahnel
Hahnel's ZSpace page
A carbon tax is preferable to cap and trade unless there are compelling practical reasons a tax won't work as well.
Glick: Climate and Political Tipping Points
Commentary, February, 22 2010
Ted Glick
Glick's ZSpace page
There's a famous quote attributed to Mahatma Gandhi: "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." However, according to Wikipedia, it may be that this concept was first expressed by a U.S. labor leader, Nicho...
Landau: The Hottest Decade
Commentary, February, 19 2010
Saul Landau
Landau's ZSpace page
Global temperatures varied because of changes in ocean heating and cooling cycles. `When we average temperature over 5 or 10 years to minimize that variability,' said Dr. James E. Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, one...
hansen: If It's That Warm, How Come It's So Darned Cold?
Znet Article, February, 03 2010
james hansen
hansen's ZSpace page
Public skepticism about global warming was reinforced by the extreme cold of December 2009 in the contiguous 48 United States and in much of Eurasia. The summer of 2009 was also unusually cool in the United States.
Petermann: What Really Happened in Copenhagen?
Zmag Article, February, 01 2010
Anne Petermann
Petermann's ZSpace page
A report from December's historic UN climate talks (COP15)
