Category: CCE
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Dr. James Hanson Speaks: Again The Science is Grim and These are the 3 Fundamental Required Actions — All of Which We Are Ignoring
Read “Global Warming in the Pipeline” paper by James Hansen Take away from slide at COP28: Talk “We aren’t going to reach 1.5 C without intervention” Fundamental Required Actions (we aren’t doing) Rising Price (Fee) on Carbon All funds to public (combating wealth disparities). Border Duties (to make carbon fee near-global). East-West Cooperation Present focus…
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Listen to Secretary Simon Stiell — pin it to your wall, if COP28 can deliver these ambitions, we survive.
At the start of the second week and this next intense period of work. I thank you all for the hard work and progress made thus far. Colleagues, if you don’t begin bending the emissions curve In the next two years, we will pass key tipping points. What you’re negotiating today can set our trajectory…
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COP28 Lesson: Dr. King spoke often of tension at the heart of the universe between good and evil. Today after listening to updates on promises and actions at COP28…
…it is clear the new struggle of our time is here. We can say we’re for the ocean of the living in time to save it but if we put our investments and attention towards the ocean of the dead (fossil fuels) with unrealistic plans to pivot in time, the words don’t matter. To be…
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What if we had listened to Rachel Carson when she wrote The Sea Around us in 1951?
“For the globe as a whole, the ocean is the great regulator, the great stabilizer of temperatures…Without the ocean, our world would be visited by unthinkably harsh extremes of temperatures.” The kicker is so much of what Rachel Carson thought was influenced by Alexander Humboldt in 1800. Both were correct in their predictions and Big…
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