Energy: Reducing CO2 Emissions Will Be Harder Than You Think - Ecocentric - TIME.com

A little good news/bad news on the climate and energy front. In the Sept. 10 Science, Steven Davis and Ken Caldeira of Stanford University have a study that estimates what future carbon emissions—and consequent global warming—would be from existing energy and transportation infrastructure. (In other words, what would happen if we used all the current buildings and power plants and cars we have today to the end of their operational lifetimes, but built nothing new.) It's a useful thought experiment, and the results are somewhat cheering.

The New Graduate Who Served as IPCC Lead Author « NoFrakkingConsensus

...a mere two years after Patz achieved his Masters, with no relevant publications whatsoever, he was one of nine people chosen to be a lead author of the IPCC’s health chapter. Remember, this is a report that is supposed to have been written by the world’s top experts.

Rosh Hashanah Begets… Global Warming? | GlobalWarming.org

What could Rosh Hashanah have to do with environmental activism? My colleague Sam Kazman found out last year, listening to a sermon with a surprise twist.

A Symbolic Solar Road Trip To Reignite a Climate Movement by Bill McKibben: Yale Environment 360

Some of that movement will go on at the local level, as we transform cities and towns and show what can be done. Some will be done on college campuses like Unity College, or Middlebury where I teach, which are showing the way forward. Some of it will be done in jails—I’d be very surprised if civil disobedience doesn’t become a bigger part of this battle in the years ahead, if only because it’s the tool we use to show our society how urgent, morally and practically, this crisis really is.
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The point of the solar panels is to help build the movement that we allowed to wither away.