Climate Change and Renewable Energy
– Our Scenarios
Session One. Sunday, January 26, 2013, 11:00 a.m.
425 S. Central Park Blvd.
Dear
friends,
I have been
collecting the following resources as a supplemental aid to those who want to
dig deeper into aspects of and perspectives on climate change as we are living
into it. This is by no means required
material for those who will attend the class.
It is rather a set of resources I have organized to offer an avenue
toward better understanding of specific aspects of our global situation. These resources are connected to the Climate
Reality portion of the course, which I will be hard pressed to cover in a single
one-hour session on January 26 in order to dedicate maximum time to renewable
energy in subsequent sessions. In
Session Two, on February 9, we will look at renewable energy and fossil fuels
in context and do some interior work to integrate climate realities into our
hearts, minds, psyches, lives and relationships.
Climate change: Where we stand
A Review of our climate reality
Supplemental Resources
Climate Change is real
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VIDEOS |
ARTICLES |
Climate
101 with Bill Nye (4:34)
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November 2013 Global Temperature was Highest on Record (NOAA/National Weather Service)
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Chasing Ice – the calving (4:42) |
Arctic Wildfires In Winter: Norway Experiences
Freakish Historic Wildfire In January Country’s worst wildfire since WWII
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Climate Change is serious
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VIDEOS |
ARTICLES |
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The Jetstream has changed because of differential warming at higher latitudes (5:32) (4:35-5:31: evolution of Jetstream change brought about by disproportionate heating of the arctic zone.) (long version (40:29)) |
2013: Record number of billion-dollar-plus weather
disasters (reinsurer’s report) |
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Weather Forecaster Tom Skilling Addresses Citizens Climate Lobby |
Typhoon Haiyan:
“We fear this will not be the last”
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Last Hours (10:37) |
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Positive feedback from Arctic thaw (4:33 (1:32-2:45*)). Half of earth’s
soil-based carbon – 4-5 times that emitted through human activity since 1850
– is beginning to be released as Arctic topsoils
thaw. |
Planet
likely to warm by 4C by 2100, scientists warn A new climate model
taking greater account of cloud changes indicates heating will be at the
higher end of expectations.
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Years of Living Dangerously (movie trailer) (2:20) |
Acid Test The world’s seas are becoming more acidic.
How much that matters is not yet clear. But it might matter a lot.
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Moral ambiguity: Fighting climate fires with New
Jim Crow prisoners |
The 2014 Shrimp
Season In The Gulf Of Maine Has Been Canceled |
Climate
Change is human-caused
Climate Change is alterable (potential of
Renewable Energy)
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VIDEOS |
ARTICLES |
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Our carbon budget (1:49) |
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Playing
the odds with climate change scenarios (9:34)
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Seven of the
Greatest Solar Stories Over the Millennia Solar energy has been around a
while. |
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Scientists
Call For Radical Economic Overhaul to Avert Climate Crisis
(27:00-34:30)
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Other resources on climate change
Earthweek –
atmosphere/climate issues
Weather Underground – climate
change news