Environmental Library Archive

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The Archive here hosts the articles that we shared years ago. An even larger offsite repository is available in the link at the bottom of this page.

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Climate Change ​​

 

1/2021-7/1/2021​​ 

• 12/28/21: "Chile Writes Its Constitution, Confronting Climate Change Head On" NYT

• 12/27/21: "As Miners Chase Clean-Energy Minerals, Tribes Fear a Repeat of the Past" NYT

• 12/16/21: WaPo: "The race to defuse Congo’s carbon bomb"

• 12/14/21: "Arctic Report Card: Climate change transforming Arctic into ‘dramatically different state’" NOAA

• 12/14/21: "Trends in Arctic Report Card: ‘Consistent, Alarming and Undeniable’" NYT

• 12/14/21: "Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' could meet its doom within 3 years"

• 12/14/21: "The Biden administration said its drilling-lease spree in the Gulf was court-ordered. It wasn’t." Grist

• 12/3/21: "Lawmakers demand oil and gas firms divulge methane leak data" WaPo

• 12/9/21: Banksliding and CalPERSiflage, McKibben and CalPERS/STRS

• 11/20/21: "A Power Struggle Over Cobalt Rattles the Clean Energy Revolution" NYT

• 11/19/21: "Biden's Infrastructure Law Is Good for the Climate But Not Enough" Treehugger

• 11/6/21: WaPo: "At COP26, 100,000 march for climate justice"

• 11/2/21: There’s Only One Way to Save the World from a Climate Armageddon" Earth Island Journal, Michael Klare

• 11/1/21: "How Much Are Countries Pledging to Reduce Emissions?" NYT (lots of interactive data)

• 11/1/21: Guardian: "After 30 years of Cop, our ex-environment editor is now optimistic"

• 10/29/21: "Five Important Questions About COP26 Answered" Smithsonian

• 10/27/21: NYT It's Time for COP26

• 10/27/21: Al Jazeera: "Arctic ground ‘literally collapsing’ amid abrupt thaw"

• 10/21/21: DW: "Leaks Show Attempts to Weaken UN Climate Report, Greenpeace Says​"

• 10/21/21: "Fossil Fuel Companies Receive $11 Million a Minute in Subsidies, New Report Reveals"

• 10/15/21: "It’s easy to feel pessimistic about the climate. But we’ve got two big things on our side", Bill McKibben

• 10/13/21: "Private Equity Funds, Sensing Profit in Tumult, Are Propping Up Oil" NYT

• 10/12/21: "China’s plan to build more coal-fired plants deals blow to UK’s Cop26 ambitions" Guardian

• 10/11/21: "Who’s who at Cop26: the leaders who hold the world’s future in their hands" Guardian

• 10/10/21: "Major Climate Action at Stake in Fight Over Twin Bills Pending in Congress" NYT

• 10/8/21: "Kyrsten Sinema Wants to Cut $100 Billion in Proposed Climate Funds, Sources Say" NYT

• IUCN Conservation Congress Marseille, 2021, "Natural allies, Climate and biodiversity are two sides of the same coin"

• 9/27/21: "Mainstream Media Attention to IPCC Report Neglected Real Cause of Emissions"

• 9/24/21: "The “Most Important Question” on Earth: How Soon Will China Quit Coal?”

• 9/24/21: "Fridays for Future global climate strike – in pictures" Guardian

• 9/18/21: "Biden Administration Says IPCC 'Does Not Present Sufficient Cause' to End Offshore Drilling" Gizmodo

• 9/17/21: "As climate pledges fall short, U.N. predicts globe could warm by catastrophic 2.7 degrees Celsius" WaPo

• 9/13/21:"25 Cities Produce More Than Half of World's Urban Greenhouse Gas Emissions" Treehugger

• 9/7/21: "Activists push for delay of U.N. climate summit, as heads of churches issue unprecedented joint statement" WaPo

• 9/7/21: "Human Rights and the Environment: Interview with UN Special Rapporteur David R. Boyd" (Harvard Univ.)

• 9/5/21: "More than 200 health journals call for urgent action on climate crisis" Guardian

• 9/1/21: "IPCC Findings Illustrate Need for Banks and Insurers to Divest From Fossil Fuels"

• 8/26/21: "Many measures of Earth’s health are at worst levels on record, NOAA finds" WaPo

• 8/23/21: "Climate Change Contributed to Europe’s Deadly Floods, Scientists Find" NYT

• 8/21/21: "Methane Is Flaring Out of Control. Biden Administration, Congress Must Step In."

• 8/19/21: "Thwaites Glacier: Significant Geothermal Heat Beneath The Ice Stream"

• 8/18/21: "CFC ban bought us time to fight climate change, say scientists" BBC

• Cities are the key to fighting climate change, curated by Flipboard

• 8/13/21: "July Was The Hottest Month In Recorded Human History" NPR

• 8/10/21: "The solutions to the climate crisis no one is talking about" Robert Reich (short video 8 mins)

• 8/9/21: "'Not a Report to Despair Over': IPCC Gives Humanity Clear Directive to Act Boldly and Urgently"

• 8/9/21: "Climate Change 2021; The Physical Science Basis" the full IPCC report

• 8/9/21: "Worst polluting countries must make drastic carbon cuts, says Cop26 chief"

• 8/9/21: "Humans have pushed the climate into ‘unprecedented’ territory, landmark U.N. report finds" WaPo

• 8/9/21: "A Hotter Future Is Certain, Climate Panel Warns. But How Hot Is Up to Us"  NYT

• 8/9/21: "Summary report, 26 July – 6 August 2021

• 8/8/21: "When Even the Conservative IEA Sounds an Alarm on Climate, the World Must Listen"

• 8/3/21: "Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Includes $25 Billion in Potential New Subsidies for Fossil Fuels" Intercept

• 7/28/21: "How many years until we must act on climate? Zero, say these climate thinkers" Guardian

• 7/26/21: "Climate change: Researchers begin discussions on vital report" BBC

• 7/26/21: "It's Time for an Urgent Intervention in the Food System Ruining Our Climate"

• 7/25/21: "Chinese satellite reveals global net carbon has reached six gigatons"

• 7/21/21: "Climate Change Comes for Rich Countries" NYT

• 7/18/21: "Opinion: The E.U. is getting serious about climate. Can the U.S. follow suit?" WaPo

• 7/10/21: "The science of heat domes and how drought and climate change make them worse" WaPo

• 7/8/21: "Pacific Northwest heat wave would have been "virtually impossible" without climate change, experts say" CBS News

• 7/6/21: "Another intense heat wave to roast Western U.S., southwest Canada" WaPo

• 7/5/21: "The scientists fighting to save the ocean’s most important carbon capture system"  WaPo

• 7/2/21: "Australia ranks last on climate action in U.N. report" WaPo

• 6/30/21: "In Video, Exxon Lobbyist Describes Efforts to Undercut Climate Action" NYT

• 6/28/21: Northwest "heat dome" signals global warming's march"

• 6/26/21: "Global warming makes extreme weather a regular event: Earth's climate has drastically shifted in three decades" Axios

• 6/25/21: "Bill McKibben: It’s Not the Heat—It’s the Humanity" New Yorker Climate Crisis Newsletter

• 6/24/21: "Terrifying UN Draft Climate Report Urges Total Transformation of Our Way of Life"

• 6/16/21: "Earth is now trapping an ‘unprecedented’ amount of heat, NASA says" WaPo

• 6/17/21: "To save planet, solve twin crises of climate change and species loss together, say UN scientists"

• 6/13/21: "David Attenborough Warns Humans ‘On Verge Of Destabilising The Entire Planet’

• 6/3/21: "Climate tipping points could topple like dominoes, warn scientists" Guardian

• 6/7/21: "Carbon Dioxide in Atmosphere Hits Record High Despite Pandemic Dip" NYT

• 5/27/21: "Warren Proposes $1.9T in Investments in Energy Research, American Manufacturing"

• 5/27/21: "Exxon, Shell, and Chevron All Lose Big on Climate Battles"

• 5/26/21: "Oil giant Shell ordered to halve greenhouse gas emissions"

• 5/26/21: "Tracking Biden’s environmental actions" WaPo

• 5/25/21: "It’s wrong to blame ‘overpopulation’ for climate change" WaPo

• 5/24/21: "West Virginia’s coal mine cleanup process is an underfunded ‘house of cards'"

• 5/24/21: "World’s Largest Iceberg Breaks off From Antarctica"

• 5/24/21: "Can We Fight Climate Change by Just Electrifying Everything?"

• 5/21/21: "G7 nations vow to phase out international financing for coal projects" WaPo

• 5/22/21: "The fight for the soul – and the future – of ExxonMobil: Three giant pension funds are set to vote against the oil titan’s management and in favor of new directors"

• 5/18/21: "A mysterious rise in methane levels is sparking global warming fears" New Scientist

• 5/17/21: "$1.5 trillion for 1.5°C: a back-of-the-envelope budget to save the planet" (lots of charts) Medium

• 5/17/21: "Part of the Greenland ice sheet may be close to a tipping point"

• 5/12/21: "Climate emissions shrinking the stratosphere, scientists reveal: Thinning indicates profound impact of humans and could affect satellites and GPS" Guardian

• 4/28/21: "Climate has shifted axis of Earth, says study"

• 4/20/21: "What Earth was like last time CO2 levels were this high"

• 4/14/21: "Carbon dioxide levels now higher than at any time in past 3.6 million years"

• 4/13/21: "Sea levels are going to rise by at least 20ft. We can do something about it"

• 4/12/21: "Glacier Is Surging Down Denali Mountain in Alaska"

• 4/7/21: "Atmospheric CO2 Passes 420 PPM for First Time Ever"

• 4/3/21: Bill McKibben, "The Powerful New Financial Argument for Fossil-Fuel Divestment"  New Yorker

• 4/12/21: The Search for Environmental Hope: Climate news is relentlessly, objectively grim. Should we ever allow ourselves to feel optimism?

• 4/22/21: Overcoming climate anxiety could be the secret to real change WaPo

• 4/20/21: "An Earth Day message for California: Move faster on climate change"

• 3/31/21: "Biden plan eliminates billions in fossil fuel subsidies"

• 3/24/21: "One of Earth’s giant carbon sinks may have been overestimated - study" Guardian

• 3/23/21: "New Report: World’s 60 Largest Banks Have Poured $3.8 Trillion Into Fossil Fuels Since Paris Agreement; Climate Groups Sound Alarm as Financing for Fossil Fuel Expansion Continues to Rise"

• 3/9/21: "3/9/21: "Big U.S. Banks May Curb Lending to Fossil Fuel Companies" Scientific American"

• 3/17/21: "Why a powerful planet-warming gas is surging in Earth's atmosphere" (CH4)

• 3/8/21: "China's Five-Year Plan 'Underwhelming' on Climate"

• 3/5/21: "Call the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Net-Zero Bluff"

• 3/4/21: "In the Atlantic Ocean, Subtle Shifts Hint at Dramatic Dangers" NYT Storymap with detailed graphics"

• 3/2/21: Guardian: "Fossil fuel emissions in danger of surpassing pre-Covid levels, International Energy Agency data shows steady climb over second half of 2020"

• 3/1/21: "How the United States can return to credible climate leadership" Brookings

• 2/25/21: "We Need 4 Waves of Climate Action"

• 2/25/21: "Michael Klare, Heating the Planet Through a New Cold War"

• 2/22/21: "Why Texas Republicans Fear the Green New Deal" Naomi Klein, Opinion, NYT

• 2/10/121: "The Case for Declaring a National Climate Emergency"

• 2/2/21: "American cities under-reporting greenhouse gas emissions by nearly 20%, research says, Up to 75 per cent of all carbon emissions produced by burning fossil fuels coming from cities"

• 2/3/21: "The Terrifying Warning Lurking in the Earth’s Ancient Rock Record: Our climate models could be missing something big."

• 2/2/21: "Sea level rise could be worse than feared, warn researchers"

• 1/21/21: WaPo: "Tracking Biden’s environmental actions: the new president is unwinding Trump’s climate change legacy while forging his own"

• 1/12/21: "The carbon skyscraper: A new way of picturing rapid, human-caused climate change" WaPo

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2020:

• The "good, the bad and the ugly" from the UN climate Report 12/9/20

• 12/9/20: NYT, McKibben, " "You Should Have Listened, New York Tells Big Oil"

• 12/4/20: WaPo "Denmark becomes first major oil-producing nation to set deadline to end extraction"

• 12/3/20: The Climate Crisis Is Already Killing People, New Lancet Report Warns

• 11/13/20: "Are We Really Past the Point of No Return on Climate? Scientists Respond To Controversial New Study"

• 11/20/20: Can California’s Cap and Trade Actually Address Environmental Justice?

• 11/25/20: NASA and California Team up on Climate Research

• 11/3/20: Money manager calls for climate Marshall Plan

• 10/30/20: :"In 'Road Map for a More Sustainable Future,' NY Regulator Tells Banks to Consider Climate Risks in Planning"

• 10/29/20: How "Net Zero" Targets Disguise Climate Inaction

• 10/19/20: Driver of the largest mass extinction in the history of the Earth identified

• 10/14/20: The number of global methane hot spots has soared this year despite the economic slowdown

• 8/7/20: Earth is overheating. Millions are already feeling the pain. NYT

• 8/28/20: UCSD free online course attempts to reach a worldwide audience to educate on climate.

• 8/24/20: "8/24/20: "The End of Oil Is Near:  The pandemic may send the petroleum industry to the grave" Sierra Club

• 8/17/20: "'Canary in the Coal Mine': Greenland Ice Has Shrunk Beyond Return, Study Finds"

• The Climate Crisis – A Race We Can Win (United Nations)

• 7/14/20: "Methane levels have hit a scary record high, new studies say"

• 7/13/20: "Earth Could Hit Critical Climate Threshold in Next Five Years"

• 7/14/20: "Global Methane Emissions Reach a Record High" NYT

• Warmest Oceans on Record Could Set Off a Year of Extreme Weather

• Bill McKibben on the death of fossil fuels and the legacy of oil wells 3/10/20

• 10 Myths about climate change that need debunking.  ​​

• Fossil Fuels Are to Blame for Soaring Methane Levels 2/19/20

• Climate Models Are Running Red Hot, and Scientists Don’t Know Why

• 2019 Capped the World's Hottest Decade in History (WaPo, 1/15/20)

• COP25 climate summit ends in staggering failure of leadership

• Summary of the Chile/Madrid Climate Change Conference COP25

• Paris Agreement Targets Need to Be 5 Times Stronger to Actually Work

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2019

• Carbon Dioxide Reaches Highest Recorded Levels In Human History 11/30/19

• Goldman Sachs will no longer fund drilling in Arctic refuge sacred to First Nations

• How Scientists Got Climate Change So Wrong

• Nature-Tipping points-too risky to bet against 11/28/19

• In bleak report UN says drastic climate action needed now 11/26/19

• ‘Untold human suffering’: 11,000 scientists from across world unite to declare global climate emergency

• As Sea Levels Rise, so do the Ghost Forests of the Eastern Seaboard NYT 10/8/19

• Landmark UN report warns sea levels will rise faster than projected by 2100

• LAT Editorials on Climate, 3 parts, 9/15/19

• Voters like taxing carbon as long as you don’t say ‘carbon tax’

• Dangerous new hot zones are spreading around the world WaPo 9/11/19

• We scientists must rise up to prevent the climate crisis. Words aren’t enough 9/6/19

• Frustrated by the lack of action on climate change and gun violence? Divest 8/30/19

• The University of California is Ending its Investments in Fossil Fuels (Vox, 9/18/19)

• Climate Scientists Drive Stake Through the Heart of Skeptics' Arguments

• Alaska's Sea Ice Has Completely Melted Away 8/5/19

• There is time to avoid the worst of climate change 8/5/19

• Historic Greenland Melt Is a “Glimpse of the Future” 8/2/19

• YouTube: Did You Know the State of Sea Level Rise (2019)? (30 mins)

• We've Exceeded 415ppm of Carbon Dioxide for the First Time Since the Pliocene (RSN 5/13/19)

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