There is still time to stop irreversible climate change if we act now. But we have to act fast or else the consequences will be dire and inescapable. That, in a nutshell, is what more than 90 of the top climate scientists from 40 countries around the world announced recently in a special report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (the IPCC).
Oct 29
2018
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Oct 25
2016
2016
ExxonMobil’s Revisionist History
CLF is taking ExxonMobil to task for its decades-long cover-up of climate change impacts, which is leaving vulnerable Massachusetts communities directly in harm’s way. In response to pressure from public interest groups, Attorneys General, and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Exxon has attempted to deflect attention away from its historic denial of climate change…
Aug 6
2013
2013
The Most Important Thing You Will Read Today – The Clearest Statement on Climate Science From the Most Definitive Source
You just can’t find a more solid, conservative, reliable and grounded group than the American Geophysical Union. Since 1919 the AGU has been the hub of the physical sciences in the United States providing a gathering place and information exchange for earth, air and space scientists and then communicating carefully reviewed scientific information to the…
Nov 9
2012
2012
One More Lesson from the Presidential Election: Ignoring Rigorous Number Crunchers Is a Bad Idea
It is a dangerous thing to ignore very smart people who are using rigorous methods of analyzing data. This is true when discussing elections, it is even more true when it comes to thinking about the earth’s climate. Consider the case of Nate Silver, whose computer forecasting tools have been making spookily accurate predictions about…
Oct 25
2012
2012
Brace for Impact – Heavy Weather Ahead (and a Changing Climate is Part of the Reason It is Happening)
If you have a sense that this business of hurricanes becoming routine in October is new and that we didn’t use to have to worry about such storms with names starting with S, T and higher in the alphabet so much in the past then you are correct. As Hurricane Sandy (no relation to CLF’s…
Oct 23
2012
2012
Really Cool Event About “Doing the Math” and Taking on the Fossil Fuel Forces of Doom
There comes a time when you just have to say that enough is enough. That is where we are in the world of climate advocacy. As Bill McKibben laid out in his essay on Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math we can no longer ignore the deep and fundamental need for action to save our climate,…
Jun 4
2012
2012
When Global Warming Attacks, People Won’t Take Action to Stop It
A sober, clean and depressing article from Inside Climate News details how scientists who work on climate are grappling with the science and reality of global warming puts me in mind of a classic science fiction movie paradigm – they know something terrible is unfolding, but no one will listen ! Or in this case,…
Mar 29
2012
2012
Reason to Believe In Taking Action on Global Warming
Climate Scientist Katherine Hayhoe is an evangelical Christian who sees her work and the need to protect the earth as deeply consistent with her faith. Read all about her at Climate Central. Buy her book, co-written with her husband who, like Dr. Hayhoe, is a Professor at Texas Tech. He is also the Pastor of…
Mar 20
2012
2012
Doctor Mann’s Courage
I am not the only person to find a sharp description of our unfortunate political and cultural situation in W.B. Yeats dark meditation on the aftermath of World War I: The Second Coming. Many remember that poem for the hair-raising question that comes at its end, “. . . what rough beast, its hour come…
Mar 14
2012
2012
Doctor Yergin’s dilemma
Update – The debate about this phenomena continues. See compilation of further ruminations about continued available petroleum and climate from a variety of powerful voices in another post from June 11, 2012. And some of the same ideas are chewed on in an interesting op-ed by Reuters editor Chrystia Freeland in the August 9, 2012…