Power Shift will be biggest organizer training session in history | Grist

Power Shift 2011, the biennial national summit of the youth climate movement, begins this Friday in Washington, D.C. The dirty-energy economy poses seemingly insurmountable challenges to the millenial generation: the destruction of our planet's atmosphere, the poisoning of our political discourse, the dissolution of the American dream. Armed with the vision of a cleaner, greener future, the participants in Power Shift are choosing not just to fight back, but to organize and realize their collective potential.

Schellnhuber’s “Green Mein Kampf” Is Dangerous Social Engineering Adventurism – Denies Cheap Energy To The Poor

Their manifesto, a sort of Green Mein Kampf, not only calls for a radical overhaul of society, and especially the energy systems that support human life on the planet, but also of our politics and even the way we think.

William M. Briggs, Statistician » Overstretching Climate Change Attribution

Climate change is made of toads and snails and puppy-dogs’ tails. I mean, if there isn’t already, then there soon will be peer-reviewed papers that threaten plagues of toads, surfeits of poisonous snails, and unexpected shortenings of puppy-dog’s tails, all caused by that great maleficence of our time, climate change. “It is the organiser of half that is evil and nearly all that is undetected in this great [world].” It is the Moriarty of sciences.

California Group Plugs Climate Science Gap in America's Schools | Reuters.com

The Alliance for Climate Education (ACE) hopes to plug the gap. Founded in 2009, the California nonprofit visits high schools across the country to give assembly presentations on climate change. Any teacher can request an appearance.

According to the ticker on ACE's website, the group has reached nearly 750,000 students in 1,300 schools.

"[It's the] Superbowl experience of climate," Matt Stewart, ACE's head of marketing, told SolveClimate News. "We try to present something that stands out and energizes [students] around science, and to find creative ways to solve [climate change]."