This Friday the Climate Minute looks to issues global, domestic, and right here around the corner. Join Rob and Ted from the Pink and Orange Coffeehouse, and follow along to our conversation with the links below.
Here's a link to the Scientific American story highlighting the possible climate contribution to the Arab Spring and the events happening today in that part of the world.
For a side-by-side comparison of arctic sea ice between any two dates from 1979 to the present, go ...
This Friday the Climate Minute looks to issues global, domestic, and right here around the corner. Join Rob and Ted from the Pink and Orange Coffeehouse, and follow along to our conversation with the links below.
Here's a link to the Scientific American story highlighting the possible climate contribution to the Arab Spring and the events happening today in that part of the world.
For a side-by-side comparison of arctic sea ice between any two dates from 1979 to the present, go here, plug in your dates, and hit "submit."
The master site has a wide selection of data sets and tools, including a mobile app!
For the chart we mentioned which shows the sea ice area flucuations over the years, go here.
We're all going to have to start studying up to answer those skeptics who cherry-pick some data out of the next IPCC report and claim that climate change / global warming has "ended." This Grist piece is a good place to start.
For a Republican economist's defense of a carbon tax, check out Harvard Professor Greg Mankiw's article. Likewise, this Minnesota Public Radio podcast talks about the latest science of climate change in a very accessible way and might be a good thing to send along to your doubtful friends.
Annnnd... here's an interesting piece about The Weather Channel's shift to focusing on the climate impacts of weather. Perhaps you might share it with your favorite television meteorologist?
Here's the story about the discovery of Greenland's sub-glacial "Grand Canyon."
As Ted mentioned, he found a couple of interesting musical pieces focusing on the Alberta tar sands - here you go:
This coming Tuesday, September 10th, there will be a hearing on S. 1225, a carbon divestment bill filed by Senator Ben Downing. There will be a rally in front of the State House before the hearing, at 9:30. The legislation would require the state to divest its pension fund in holdings of carbon stocks. Massachusetts would be the first state in the nation to take this step. (Several major US cities, including San Francisco and Seattle, have already made this commitment.)
There's an interesting event coming to the State House on September 25th. The 4th Massachusetts Sustainable Economy Conference will take place in the Great Hall, where you can here from speakers such as Alicia Barton of the Mass Clean Energy Center, Steven Clark with the Secretariat of Energy and Environment, and John Kassel, head of the Conservation Law Foundation. You can learn more and register here.
If you're thinking about changing careers toward something more sustainable, the Fifth annual Green Careers Conference is coming up Thursday, October 3rd, at the Marlboro Holiday Inn.
You can support a great organization while helping to honor an excellent local activist at the Clean Water Action's Annual Benefit party where Boston Climate Action's Loie Hayes will be recognized for her tremendous activism on the local level.
Finally, 350.org's Bill McKibben will be at Harvard giving a talk titled "Oil and Honey, Notes from a Rapidly Changing Climate," hosted by the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement. The event is free, but registration is required.
Remember, for more climate activities near you check out our MCAN climate action calendar. You can enter events as well as browse for interesting things to do.
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So we will close the way we always close, by saying that because we recognize the necessity of personal accountability for our actions, because we accept responsibility for building a durable future and because we believe it is a patriotic duty as citizens, we insist that the US put a price on carbon. Good bye and see you next week…
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