Fast for Climate Justice group ends hunger strike | Metro

“One third of Bangladesh will be under water soon because of climate change,” said activist and faster Dewar Afzal, an immigrant from the poor South Asian country. “It will create 50 million climate refugees. India is already putting up a fence to prevent people from going there. But I don’t know how they’re going to stop them.”

Column: To a climate change denier

But we don’t need to look to melting ice for evidence of climate change. In many cases, we simply have to glance out the window at our own yards and gardens. ...
So far, we’ve turned up the planetary heat by an average of .8 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperature levels. Most experts believe that warming must be kept below 2 degrees in order to avoid major problems. Beyond 2 degrees, things start to get dicey for human civilization.
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The dying, however, will commence in earnest long before we reach 6 degrees...We may survive as a species in a world without the ice and the glaciers, but we will not flourish.

In the end, it is humanity we mourn for.

Better Place board ousts Shai Agassi as CEO - Globes

The board of electric car venture Better Place has removed founder Shai Agassi as CEO of the global company. He will be replaced by Evan Thornley, CEO of Better Place Australia, to CEO of the global company. Agassi will continue as a board member and shareholder in the company he founded.

Better Place has accumulated a loss of $490 million since it was founded.

The Heretic – review | Stage | The Guardian

Everyone knows the Maldives are sinking. Everyone, that is, except for Dr Diane Cassell, a climate-change expert at the university of York, who has been studying the islands for 20 years and has no empirical evidence that sea levels are rising. That may be good news for the environment, but not for her department, whose funding is threatened by such apostate views.

Playwright Richard Bean has made no secret of his scepticism over global warming – he dismissed the scientific arguments presented in Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth as "very close to nonsense". And The Heretic, given the first out-of-London production by the Library theatre, is a belligerent and fleetingly brilliant riposte against heterodox thinking. The drama seems to be fuelled by Bean's annoyance at the unwillingness, or inability, of politicians to comprehend factual evidence. Cassell complains: "If Frankenstein went into the House of Commons and chopped everyone up, he wouldn't be able to put together a single decent scientist."