July 21, 2008

**For Immediate Release** 

CONTACTS: Oregon: Monica Vaughan (541) 521-1832 / westcoast@climateconvergence.org New York: Marty Driggs (508) 361-0136 / mdriggs@gmail.com Virginia: Paxus Calta (541) 505-0803 / paxus.calta@gmail.com www.climateconvergence.org http://www.climateconvergence.org/ (Keep reading…)

Greenwire, Jul. 17, 2008

Global warming could have devastating effects across the United States, harming human health, settlements and welfare, according to a report (2.4 Mbyte PDF) released today by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program. (Keep reading…)

Globe and Mail July 9, 2008

Question: When is a carbon tax not a carbon tax?

Answer: When it’s collected by corporations (instead of governments) and the revenues go to investors (instead of services and infrastructure). (Keep reading…)

Environment 360 June, 2008

With soaring prices for agricultural goods and new demand for biofuels, the clearing of the world’s largest rain forest has accelerated dramatically. Unless forceful measures are taken, half of the Brazilian Amazon could be cut, burned or dried out within 20 years. (Keep reading…)

June 26, 2008

Tomgram: Nation Institure

Introduction

For those who didn’t happen to notice, perhaps because it wasn’t exactly front-page news in most of the country, NASA’s James Hansen, the man who first alerted Congress to the dangers of global warming 20 years ago, returned to testify before the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming this week. This time around, he was essentially offering a final warning on the subject. Unless the U.S. begins to act soon, he pointed out, “it will become impractical to constrain atmospheric carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas produced in burning fossil fuels, to a level that prevents the climate system from passing tipping points that lead to disastrous climate changes that spiral dynamically out of humanity’s control.” (Keep reading…)

From: BBC News, Jun. 5, 2008

Evidence of serious flaws in the multi-billion dollar global market for carbon credits [aka “pollution rights” or “allowances”] has been uncovered by a BBC World Service investigation. (Keep reading…)

The Tar Sands, Downstream: Who pays price of pollution?

TheTyee.ca May 20, 2008

When 500 ducks died earlier this month after landing on a tar sands tailings pond, Canadians got a glimpse into how unfettered tar sands development is taking its toll. (Keep reading…)

ZNet May 12, 2008

Even for Americans, constitutionally convinced that there will always be a second act, and a third, and a do-over after that, and, if necessary, a little public repentance and forgiveness and a Brand New Start — even for us, the world looks a little Terminal right now. (Keep reading…)

Canadian Dimension magazine, May/June 2008 issue

by Jeffrey Simpson, Mark Jaccard and Nic Rivers
McClelland & Stewart, 2007

The Church of the Free Market Fairy is divided into two denominations.

The fundamentalists believe that the Free Market Fairy will always deliver the best of all possible worlds, so long as we don’t let the government interfere. (Keep reading…)

Canadian Dimension magazine, May/June 2008 issue

H.L. Mencken once wrote, “For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.” (Keep reading…)