Top climate activist calls focus on economy, security ineffective - The Hill's E2-Wire

Bill McKibben, co-founder of 350.org, tells the National Journal in an interview that advocates should instead emphasize the “peril” facing the planet.

Are Humans Parasites? « NoFrakkingConsensus

James J. Lee was off his rocker. But my friends in the environmental movement need to explain how they can dismiss him as a madman and yet continue to revere a publication that expressed virtually identical views in its first editorial.

Scientist Smackdown: No Link Between Climate Change and War in Africa? | 80beats | Discover Magazine

The argument for a link between global warming and war came from UC-Berkeley economist Marshall Burke, who said that food shortages and drought brought on by climate change could cause 50 percent more armed conflict by 2030 under the scenarios that climate models predict. However, Norwegian political scientist Halvard Buhaug looked at sub-Saharan civil war over the last half century for this week’s study. When he compared the records of military conflict with the records of temperature and rainfall, did not see a correlation between the two.