http://climeshift.org Can We Change As the Climate Changes? Sat, 08 Nov 2008 18:54:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here's a call to the newly-forming Obama administration to re-analyze the idea of "clean" (greenwashed) coal, and to please not include it in the green economic stimulus package which is likely to occur. Coal is most likely critical to maintaining a base load and to keeping the electricity grid ... http://climeshift.org/2008/11/08/clean-coal-convenient-politics-inconvenient-facts/ You might have thought that the biggest opportunity in the climate changed world was the ice-free Arctic. And it may be so. But there's another whopper of an opportunity: Naomi Klein mentioned in the July 15th 2008 Democracy Now that Monsanto is looking at a drier, hotter world ... http://climeshift.org/2008/07/25/monsanto-climate-ready-seeds/ A recent article in the New Scientist suggests that Atlantic oceanfront and low-lying have more to fear, short-term, than the same types of places in and on the Pacific Ocean, from the melting of Greenland. According to the simulation, performed at Hamburg University, most of the melted water will stay ... http://climeshift.org/2008/07/23/slow-wave-how-greenland-meltwater-spreads/ Do we, as an earth ecosystem, have too many people? Maybe that is the wrong question, Jared Diamond is urging us to consider. In his interview on Living on Earth earlier this year (mp3), as well as a New York Times Op-Ed, he suggests that it ain't the ... http://climeshift.org/2008/07/09/jared-diamond-on-population-vs-consumption/ I've wondered for a while how litigation might get going on global warming. There are an awful lot of nasty situations either here or on their way, and one wonders if some enterprising lawyers will figure out how to start suing the biggest corporations in the world. One approach currently ... http://climeshift.org/2008/07/09/nuisance-lawsuits-a-new-form-of-climate-change-litigation/ Well, it seems very few people in the media give a flying f**k about the planet suddenly warming up. Two pieces of evidence. Here in the south-west Pennsylvania area where Climeshift finds its home, we've had extremely high temperatures over the last week. Monday and Tuesday were all-time highs... ... http://climeshift.org/2008/01/10/questions-for-candidates-015-about-global-warming/ So, I woke up today and am trying to figure out what to expect from the 13th Conference of the Parties in Bali. (Conference of Parties to what? Um, the 1992 Rio "Earth Summit" agreement on climate change. The "Kyoto Protocol" was an amendment to that agreement. ... http://climeshift.org/2007/12/03/bali-expectations/ There's a smack-down in the world of Word of the Year. Since 1991, it was the American Dialect Society which handed out the most repeated "Word of the Year" (as well as other variations, such as "Most Useful" or "Most Outrageous"). But the New Oxford American Dictionary is ... http://climeshift.org/2007/12/03/locavore-2007-oup-word-of-the-year/ Back in March 2007, it looked like the buyout of TXU - the largest energy generator in Texas - was going to lead it away from a major new investment in coal-fired power plants. It still plans to have a smaller investment in coal: hence, the proposed Oak Grove ... http://climeshift.org/2007/06/30/txu-update-coal-and-nuclear-in-texas/ One interesting strand of the discussion of global warming is, and will continue to be, how to make money off of it. Wherever there is human activity, the entrpreneurs and marketeers will be sure to follow. And, if you're a sympathetic person such as the Paul Hawken of ... http://climeshift.org/2007/05/31/the-economist-on-future-opportunities/