Hurricane season 2011 has begun ('Irene' pictured above).  This is the start of a collection about the connection between hurricanes and the climate crisis / global climate EMERGENCY.

Note: A lot of important info in the video above, but ecoSanity.org does not necessarily support the specific 'solutions' it poses.
 

 

Section 1: Summary: Food/agriculture & the climate emergency
Section 2: Videos: Food/agriculture & the climate emergency
Section 3: Videos: Food production/factory farming
Section 4: Videos: Genetic modification (GMO - Genetically modified organisms)
Section 5: Essential resources: Articles, blogs, websites, reports

 

From GOES-13 via NOAA (Above)

This is an abbreviated re-post of, Confonting the Climate Cranks, The Nation, adapted from Mark Hertsgaard's HOT: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth.  Links + bold added by ecoSanity.

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...I had been covering the climate story for fifteen years by then, and when Chiara was almost six months old, I went to London to interview Sir David King, then the British government's chief science adviser. The interview changed my life. King, who had done as much as anyone except Al Gore to awaken the world to the dangers of climate change, helped me understand that the climate problem had undergone a profound, largely unexpected paradigm shift that carried the gravest of implications for little Chiara and all the world's children. No longer was climate change a preventable future threat; it was now a punishing current reality, one that was guaranteed to get worse, perhaps a lot worse, before it got better.

Below is a re-post of an essential article published on the Australian independent news site, Crikey, Emergency Response Needed for More Than Floods, by Author of Climate Code Red: The Case for Emergency Action, David Spratt (website: ClimateActionCentre.org).

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With the military on the job and perhaps the post-1945 Marshall Plan on her mind, Queensland premier Anna Bligh has designated recovery from the floods “a reconstruction task of postwar proportions.”

The words are deliberate: "I want people to understand how big it is, and how long it might take," because the machinery of government needs to be reshaped.

The premier goes on to "hope and pray that mother nature is leaving us alone to get on with the job of cleaning up and recovering from this event".

Yes, but … we also need to leave Mother Nature alone, and stop loading the atmosphere with carbon emissions, so that more extreme climate events which are part-and-parcel of a warming planet do not tumble down upon us with increasing frequency, as they have around the globe in the last year.