Climate Change

Sources of Analysis and Thought

• An Inconvenient Truth (Al Gore)
• Why Global Warming Should Be Every Candidate's #1 Priority (Steve Kirsch)
• How It Will End (Steve Kirsch)

Climate Effects in an Interconnected World

The effects of climate change are varied in the directness of their causes and the impact of their effects. The world has always been interconnected, but as we strain its capacity, the points of interconnection are ever more visible. For example, as precious crops are redirected foolishly toward biofuel uses, the world hunger situation worsens. People may imagine that the way climate change will kill us is that we'll get too hot and die of heat stroke or that we'll get flooded. But what's more likely is that as heat rises, the global food supply system will break down because there won't be enough food to go around and it won't be evenly distributed, so war will break out. People getting angry about food may not seem like a “climate change story,” but it's all inter-related.

This list of cross-referenced articles is for tracking “related effects” that are not directly about whether climate change is happening, but rather are about how climate change is impacting us, now and in the future:

• Alaska salmon may bear scars of global warming (Los Angeles Times, 15 Jun 2008)
• If a Tree Falls in the Forest, and No One Is Around to Hear It, Does Climate Change?
  (Science Daily, 13 Jun 2008)
• Pesticides blamed for plummeting salmon stocks (New Scientist, 9 Jun 2008)
• Global Limits of Biomass Energy (Carnegie Institution for Science, 3 Jun 2008)
• Acidic ‘champagne sea’ nothing to celebrate for corals (New Scientist, 8 Jun 2008)
• Climate Change Could Impact Vital Functions of Microbes (Science Daily, 8 Jun 2008)
• New Zealand seeks to curb livestock's gas emissions (Los Angeles Times, 7 Jun 2008)
• Ocean Life Under Threat From Climate Change (Science Daily, 6 Jun 2008)
• Editorial: The Science of Denial (New York Times, 4 Jun 2008)
• Unique biodiversity hotspot faces destruction (New Scientist, 2 Jun 2008)
• Editorial: Troubled Oceans (New York Times, 31 May 2008)
• Should all Arctic species be red-listed? (New Scientist, 30 May 2008)
• US Struggling to Respond to Climate Shift (New Scientist, 28 May 2008)
• Biodiversity loss costs six percent of world income (Physorg.com, 17 May 2008)
• Indian vultures circling towards extinction (New Scientist, 30 Apr 2008)
• Poison ice (Salon, 30 Apr 2008)
• Even the homeless have large carbon footprints (New Scientist, 29 Apr 2008)
• US ordered to act on polar bear (BBC, 29 Apr 2008)
• Warming ‘affecting poor children’ (BBC, 29 Apr 2008)
• UK tabloids contribute to climate complacency (Physorg.com, 28 Apr 2008)
• Running Out of Planet to Exploit (New York Times Opinion by Paul Krugman, 21 Apr 2008)
• Across Globe, Empty Bellies Bring Rising Anger (New York Times, 18 Apr 2008)
• Ted Turner: Global warming could lead to cannibalism (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 4 Apr 2008)
• Government Reports Warn Planners on Sea-Rise Threat to US Coasts (New York Times, 12 Mar 2008)