Climate Change News

SHS in the News

• NPR : A Climatologist's View of the Kyoto Treaty Morning Edition, February 16, 2005 · Countries participating in the Kyoto protocol hope to lower worldwide carbon levels to pre-1990 levels over the next seven years. Stephen Schneider, a climatologist at Stanford University, talks about the treaty's goals and potential effect on global warming.
• Stanford Report, Feb. 16, 2005: Whole Earth Systems symposium (see next item) celebrates climatologist Stephen Schneider, who turned 60 on Friday. To mark the occasion his Stanford colleagues threw a bash befitting one of the world's leading climate experts—a three-day international symposium on climate change and its potential impact on the planet.
• Whole Earth Systems: Science, Technology and Policy -- Symposium , February 10-12, Stanford University
  "The Whole Earth Systems symposium is an international gathering of academic, government, media, and non-profit scholars and leaders who have accepted the challenge of an interdisciplinary approach to environmental concerns... We celebrate the professional contributions of Stephen Schneider whose career-thus-far has personally and intellectually touched all of these fields of inquiry. "
• What are 'Dangerous' Climate Impacts? Here are the slides of an overview, in a presentation made to to the symposium, Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change, and here is an accompanying paper, Schneider and Lane, 2005.
• 'Honest Debate' Needed on Global Warming, Chico Enterprise Record, 12 April 2004
• Panel Examines Communications Difficulties When Discussing Marine Fisheries, Stanford Report, 18 February 2004
• Scholars Weigh in on Implications of U.S. Power, Stanford Report, 22 Octobre 2003
• New Stanford Institute to Provide 'United Voice' on Environmental Research, Stanford Report
, 13 Octobre 2002
• Congressional Testimony, 1 Octobre 2003
• Stephen Schneider, Presentation on Climate Change, NSW State Parliament House, Australia, 7 July 2003 (Real Player)
• Chimmneys of Mass Destruction, NineMSN Bulletin, 6 August 2003
• Global Warming is Now a Weapon of Mass Destruction, The Guardian, 20 July 2003
• The 2003 Society for Conservation Biology Awards: Edward T. Laroe III Memorial Award
• Stephen Schneider, Presentation on Climate Change, NSW State Parliament House, Australia, 7 July 2003 (Real Player)
• California Climate Bill Signing Ceremony, 22 July 2002, at the Presidio, San Francisco
• The New Scientist: Two Years to Save the World?, 6-2002
• Journalism and Environmental Reporting, interview on The Environment Show, Greg Dahlmann, WAMC, 8 March 2002
• Debate on Global Warming: The Skeptical Environmentalist produces Misleading Math About the Earth, 1-2002
• View video (requires ASX player): The Global Warming Controversy -- Can we Separate Scientific Signal From Political Noise? Stanford University Computer Systems Laboratory, EE380 Colloquium, 1-2002
• Bill Nye, the Science Guy, interviews SHS (Real Player video) at COP 6, Sixth Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
  The Hague, The Netherlands; 13 - 24 November 2000
• PBS Frontline/Nova, What's Up With the Weather?, Interview with Prof. Stephen Schneider, 2000
• A Consensus Emerges Around Global Warming, 1-1998.
• Schneider Meets With Clinton, Gore, 7-1997. See also: White House Testimony, 24 July 1997 Congressional Testimony, 10 July 1997
• Science Magazine Issue on Ecology, 7-1997
• Ecologists Warn Clinton on Global Warming, 5-1997
• Politics and Cost/Benefit. 19 July 1977. Steve Schneider interviewed by Johnny Carson (Real Player: Modem; High-Speed)

Climate Change in the News

• "The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: Does the Bush Administration Think It Can Fool Mother Nature?", John Holdren, Presentation at Ohio State University, sponsored by Scientists and Engineers for Change, 7 October 2004
• Climate Change Could Have Drastic Impact on California - Stanford Report, 18 August 2004.
• EIGHT STATES & NYC SUE TOP FIVE U.S. GLOBAL WARMING POLLUTERS -- Press Release, NY State Attorney General, 21 July 2004
• “Urgent Action Call on USA Climate”, BBC News, 15 June, 2004
• Browne, J., 2004: “Beyond Kyoto”, Foreign Affairs 83(4), 20-32
• Griscom, A., 2004: “How Green Was the Gipper?” Grist Magazine, 10 June 2004
• Toner, M., 2004: “Global Warming Increase Predicted”, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 23 June, 2004
• Henley, J., 2004: “France Launches Radical Green Tax on Bigger Cars”, The Guardian, 23 June, 2004
• Hanley, C.J., 2004: “As the Earth Heats Up, Many Questions Remain”, Associated Press, 6 June, 2004
• Macalister, T., 2004: “Corporates Warm to Climate Change”, The Guardian, 15 May, 2004
• McKie, R., 2004: “Stardom is a Gas for Brad and Leo”, The Guardian, 23 May, 2004
• Rainey, J., 2004: “Eco-Activists Sharpen Plans to Unseat Bush”, The Los Angeles Times, 22 May, 2004
• Dickinson, T., 2004: “Diary of a Dying Planet”, RollingStone.com, 19 May 2004
• Big Climate Shifts: Postcards From the Artic -- Andrew Revkin, New York Times, May 2004
• Davies, J., 2004: “Hybrid-car Popularity Shifts Into Overdrive”, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May, 2004
• Mitra. D., 2004: “Hot Politics at Jasper Ridge”, Stanford Scientific Review 2 (Winter 2004): 29-31
• Adam, D., 2004: “I’m Really Very Worried for the Planet”, The Guardian, 17 June
• Climate Debate Gets Its Icon: Mt. Kilimanjaro, New York Times, 23 March 2004
• Carbon Dioxide Reported at Record Levels, Associated Press, 21 March 2004
• Earth Faces Sixth Mass Extinction: scientists are alarmed at the rate at which insect populations are declining and going extinct relative to other flora and fauna and wonder if the crisis in insect populations is a sign of the Earth's sixth mass extinction. They believe one major contributor is nitrogen pollution, New Scientist, 18 March 2004
• Environmental Ills Require Immediate Action, Gore Says on Stanford Campus, Stanford Report, 17 March 2004
• 'Untouched' Rainforest hit by Environmental Change. Changes in Tree Communities Underline Humans' Pervasive Influence: rain forest communities may not be safe even when they're located far from humans, Nature, 11 March 2004
• Changing Climate: Going to Depths for Evidence of Global Warming - Heating Trend in North Pacific Baffles Researchers: looking for an explanation for why water near the Aleutian Islands is warming, scientists reported in a recent issue of Nature that solar-heated water is traveling all the way to the ocean floor over a period of decades rather than centuries, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 March 2004. See the actual Nature article
• Corals in Hot Water: in an interview, Joan Kleypas, a marine scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, reports that increased carbon dioxide in the ocean has caused acidity levels to rise, which is harming coral reefs, Earthbeat, ABC National Radio (Australia), 28 February 2004
• Pope, C. and R. Gettelfinger, 2004: “More Jobs To the Gallon”, The New York Times, 18 February, A19
• Hakim, D., 2004: “Plan for Rules on Cars Joins 2 Adversaries”, The New York Times, 18 February, A17
• Huge Amazonian Fires May Spawn Fierce Tempests in South America: Amazonian fires may be devastating in a way not previously considered -- their ability to disrupt the climate and cause more storms, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 February 2004. See the three articles in Science magazine upon which this story is based: one by Graf, one by Andreae et al., and one by Koren et al
• Bush 'Bending Science to his Political Needs' - Scientists Accuse US of Manipulating Research: Many renowned scientists complain that the Bush Administration manipulates scientific data, especially on global warming, to meet its political ends, The Guardian, 19 February 2004. See also a New York Times article, a press release from the Union of Concerned Scientists, and the report by the UCS upon which the news articles and the press release are based. In response to the UCS statement, John Marburger, III, of the government's Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) prepared a statement defending the Bush Administration's scientific integrity
• In Follow-Up to Investor Summit on Climate Risk, California Treasurer Launches Environmental Disclosure and Investment Initiative: California Treasurer Phil Angelides is calling on CalPERS and CalSTRS to a four-part plan to assure that investments they make are environmentally sound, CERES Press Release, 3 February 2004
• Europe's Summers 'to get Hotter': while scientists are still calling Europe's very hot summer in 2003 an anomaly, they predict that greenhouse forcing will increase year-to-year weather variability, BBC News, 12 January 2004
• Cooke, S., 2004: “Government begins Work on CO2 Storage Project at Teapot Dome”, Associated Press, 28 January.
• US Science Body Warns on Climate: the American Geophysical Union (AGU), one of the most influential US science organisations dedicated to studying the Earth and its environment, says human influence on the climate is increasing. BBC News, Dec. 16, 2003. See also the AGU report itself
• Listening to the Climate Models, and Trying to Wake Up the World, NY Times, 16 December 2003
• Global Warming Kills 150,000 People a Year, Warns UN, Independent (UK), 12 December 2003
• New Book Demonstrates How Climate Change Impacts on Health: the World Health Organization has published a new book detailing the health implications of climate change, WHO press release, 11 December 2003
• Climate Study Highlights Inadequacy of Emissions Cuts: a report by the German Advisory Council on Global Change states that the world can only tolerate a 2^oC rise in temperature over pre-industrial levels and that emissions must be decreased by 45%-60% (versus 1990 levels) by 2050, Nature, 4 December 2003
• Climate Change -- It's Not Over 'Til the Fat Lady Sings, the Milan Talks, Grist Magazine, 3 December 2003
• Hot Topic: Mark Lynas major issues at the Ninth Conference of the Parties (COP) meeting in Milan, including Russia's decision on the Kyoto Protocol, the US's obstinance, and the potential of contraction and covergence (C&C), The Guardian, 3 December 2003
• New View of Data Supports Human Link to Global Warming: a re-examination of 24 years of weather satellite data has found that temperatures are rising in the troposphere, whereas some previous studies using the same data had shown no warming, NY Times, 18 November 2003
• U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, Hearing on “The Case for Climate Change Action”, October 2003
  • Summary of Lieberman/McCain Draft Proposal on Climate Change
  • The Climate Stewardship Act
  • MIT Joint Program on Science and Policy of Global Change: Emissions Trading to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the United States: The McCain Lieberman Proposal
  • Hearing on the Case for Climate Change Action - Testimony of Dr. Stephen Schneider, 1 October 2003. Steve Schneider discusses climate change, its projected effects, the potential for "surprises" and other "dangerous" climate change, and the policy implications of all this in a testimony to the Senate Committe on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
  • Steve Schneider's Answers to Climate Change Questions Posed by Senator McCain, 26 October 2003. Steve Schneider answers John McCain's questions on his October 1, 2003, testimony in regards to temperature change to 2100 and the probabilities of various climate sensitivities
  • Steve Schneider's Answers to Climate Change Questions Posed by Senators Kerry and Hollings, 26 October 2003. Steve Schneider answers Senators Kerry and Holling's questions on his October 1, 2003, testimony in regards to temperature change to 2100 and the probabilities of various climate sensitivities
  • Hearing on the Case for Climate Change Action - Testimony of Dr. Tom Wigley, 1 October 2003. Tom Wigley, a senior researcher at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), testifies to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation about evidence of the occurrence of climate change
  • The 2001 Assessment of Climate Change -- Testimony of Dr. Kevin E. Trenberth, 2 May 2001. Kevin Trenberth, the head of the climate analysis department at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and a member of Working Group I of the IPCC testifies before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on the science behind climate change
  • McCain-Lieberman Bill Vote: Global Warming: Finally a Hot Issue on the Political Agenda, Senate Warming up to Climate Issue (Environmental Defence)
    • Actual vote by Senators
  • New Yorker: Talk of the Town -- "Getting Warmer", 12 November 2003
• NASA Study, "Dwindling Arctic Ice", 24 October 2003
• Road to Ruin: How America is Ravaging the Planet, The Guardian, 24 October 2003
• North Sea Faces Collapse of its Ecosystem, The Independent, 19 October 2003
• Governors Announce Tri-State Strategy To Reduce Global Warming, 22 September 2003
• Guardian Unlimited Special Reports on Climate Change (Past year to present)
• Americans Among Most Misinformed About Global Warming, Eureka-Alert, 3 September 2003
• Not Just Warmer: it's the Hottest for 2,000 years, The Guardian, 1 September 2003
• Canadian Prime Minister Chrétien Unveils $1.3-billion Toward Implementing Kyoto Accord, Globe and Mail, 13 August 2003
• Climate Change Science -- 1) Letter: "Climate Change: The Science Isn't Settled", James Schlesinger; 2) Rebuttal by David Schindler
• Report Faults Big Companies on Climate, 10 July 2003
• “Science Friction”, July 2003
• Dr. Terry Root was interviewed by Ira Flatow on Science Friday about the impacts of global warming on species (RealPlayer -- Dr. Root's segment begins at 14:45 minutes into the show, so when connected advance the RP slider to that point), Science Friday, Talk of the Nation, NPR, 10 January 2003.
• Reaping the Whirlwind — Extreme Weather Prompts Unprecedented Global Warming Alert, 7 July 2003
• U.S. and Other Countries Outline Program to Curb Carbon Emissions, 24 June 2003
• Report by the E.P.A. Leaves Out Data on Climate Change, 19 June 2003
• Survey Finds Americans Want Action on Global Warming, 2 June 2003
• Nonprofits Push Controversial Climate Study, 1 June 2003
• "This Just In ...", Leonie Haimson, Grist Magazine, 30 May 2003
• No Doubts Global Warming Is Real, U.S. Experts Say: Reuters reports on the results of a new study by Thomas Karl and Kevin Trenberth that suggests warming is being caused by humans and that the IPCC's estimate of warming to 2100 may be low, Reuters, 12 May 2003
• New Look at Satellite Data Supports Global Warming Trend, NCAR, 1 May 2003
• "Global Warming Found to Displace Species", New York Times, 3 January 2003
• Black Carbon Contributes To Droughts And Floods In China, NASA, 12 September 2002