Subject: Climate Change and Mountain Ecosystems From: “Nicky Phear” <nicky.phear@cfc.umt.edu> Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:53:41 -0700 Climate Change: Moving from Science to Solutions The Wilderness Lecture Series continues Tuesday, February 12th, from 7:00-8:30 pm in Urey Underground Lecture Hall. Dan Fagre, a Research Ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey,… Continue reading
[The Beehive Collective is a political art and design collective and a local Rising Tide contact – they are preparing to launch a major new “graphic campaign” focused on Mountain Top Removal coal mining in collaboration with others in Rising Tide.] In anticipation of our most exciting and busy year… Continue reading
” The essence of “Climate Code Red” ( http://www.climatecodered.net/) is that the World is facing a Climate Emergency and a Sustainability Emergency because we have passed crucial atmospheric CO2 “tipping points”, “Climate Code red” further declares that, as demanded by Dr James Hansen, we need not “CO2 emissions reduction targets”… Continue reading
Book excerpt from Spencer Weart’s excellent The Discovery of Global Warming. Table of Contents at the webpages of the American Institute of Physics: http://www.aip.org/history/climate/index.html#contents Summary of chapter on the Sun’s role in setting climate on Earth: http://www.aip.org/history/climate/solar.htm Chapter summary: Since it is the Sun’s energy that drives the weather system,… Continue reading