Climate negotiators are promising ‘negative emissions’ using a risky and unproven technology called BECSS. It’s the wrong way to go.
Geoengineering
Fantasy technology won’t stop climate change
Archive | IPCC
Anthropocene heat, part 3: A one way street to climate hell
“The effects of climate change are being felt today, and future projections represent a potentially catastrophic risk to human health.”
James Hansen: Sea level disaster ahead, but when?
It’s time to stop waffling and say that the evidence is pretty strong … multi-meter sea level rise is an issue for today, not for the next millennium
The IPCC report: Between nightmare and revolution
Belgian ecosocialist Daniel Tanuro says the latest IPCC report has sounded an alarm that we must not ignore. Only radical change can avert climate disaster.
IPCC: ‘Severe, widespread, and irreversible impacts’
Eighteen key conclusions from the summary report issued this week by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The IPCC still underestimates the situation
Breaking the power of the fossil fuel industry won’t be easy, especially since it has to happen fast. But, thanks to the IPCC, no one will ever be able to say they weren’t warned.
If you aren’t worried about climate change, you aren’t paying attention
The normally-conservative IPCC gives us eight reasons to make action against climate change a top priority.
Climate crisis: The rich don’t want solutions
The latest IPCC report inadvertently shows that corporations and their governments are determined to avoid protecting the poor from climate change.
IPCC: The world is not ready for climate change
Now on the C&C website: IPCC report on impacts and risks of climate change. “The world is ill-prepared for risks from a changing climate.”
IPCC: The north outsources emissions to the south
A draft of the IPCC’s next report has been leaked. As well as well-known warnings, it gives new stress to the transfer of northern emissions to the South.
Haiyan, capitalism and the climate
Typhoon Haiyan shows once again the urgency of replacing capitalism with a society based on the rational, democratic use of resources in the interest of people and planet.
‘Growth imperative’ versus ‘climate imperative’
Attempts to use capitalist markets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions ignore the fact that fossil fuels are the lifeblood of the capitalist economy, and the strongest forces in the market are fossil fuel producers
Wall Street to Earth: ‘We don’t mind and you don’t matter’
The stock market’s non-response to the IPCC report on climate change exposes the inability of capitalists to address or even worry about the climate crisis
IPCC report: Human-caused warming is ‘unequivocal’
C&C will have much more to say about this important report. For now, here’s a quick summary of the key messages.
In Harm's Way
A new report from the IPCC provides extensive evidence that climate change is already increasing the frequency of droughts, floods, heatwaves and other extreme events, and shows how that combines with societal vulnerabilities to produce human disasters.
IPCC: Renewables could provide 80% of global energy by 2050
When a cautious and conservative group like the IPCC goes this far, we can be certain that much more could be achieved by a society committed to ecological sanity (more…)
IPCC vice-chair: Attacks on climate science echo tobacco industry tactics
Jean-Pascal van Ypersele says rows over ‘climategate’ emails and Himalayan glaciers were organised to undermine Copenhagen summit (more…)
Is it time to change the IPCC?
An Australian ecosocialist argues that the framework for climate science has to change to provide faster responses that meet today’s challenges (more…)
Anti-capitalism, Climate Change, and Copenhagen
How should anti-capitalists intervene in coming IPCC meetings in Copenhagen? Cynthia Kaufman says she wrote this piece for Climate and Capitalism “to incite some serious conversation among anti-capitalists.” She suspects that C&C readers “might be pretty divided on its content.” Of course we encourage reader comments … (more…)
'We are facing the worst case scenario'
“We can forget about the 2C. We are now facing the situation where we have to avoid a 5-6C rise in temperature.” (more…)