For a long time now, James Hansen, chief NASA climatologist has been something of a voice in the dark, saying that, to avoid cataclysmic climate change, we must stabilize the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere at no more than 350 parts per million (ppm). That is to say, essentially, that for every one […]
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Calling on the President-Elect Obama to make climate an immediate priority
From a blog post by Gillian Caldwell, executive director of 1Sky, about how we can help the President-Elect and our other newly-elected representatives do the right thing on the climate crisis: The results of yesterday’s election are encouraging for our economy and our planet’s future, but we’ll only achieve the change we need by pressing […]
The planet’s most important number stars in a two-minute cartoon
May Boeve of 350.org, the organization that is trying to let the entire planet’s population know that atmospheric carbon dioxide needs to be stabilized at no more than 350 parts per million (ppm), wrote to me today. She wrote: “The video is live… Feel free to send it out. The cat is out of the […]
What will it take to save the world?
This is a guest post by Leslie Berliant, blogger and editor at Celsias.com. Let’s give her a big No Impact Man welcome with lots of comments. Do you agree with the scenarios she imagines? Would you be willing to deal with them? Or do you imagine happier possibilities? “The most recent science tells us that […]
No Impact Man writes a climate bill for the House of Representatives
OK. Not really. Or maybe I am. Who knows what will happen? But I’ve had enough interest from bloggers and other people for the “sense of the House” resolution I asked Congressman Nadler to introduce (see here and here) to take it a little further. If you haven’t been following, the idea is to establish […]
My new hero Congressman Jerrold Nadler
But listen: I walk into Nadler’s office and I sit down and I start by explaining where I’m coming from. I say that thanks to the visitors and commenters on this blog, I know that thousands of Americans are voting to do something dramatic about climate change, not just in the voting booth but with […]
What I’d say if I was wrong about climate change
Yesterday, a reader calling himself “Richard Miller” left behind a critical comment about my meeting with Congressman Nadler in which I will ask him to sponsor a “Sense of the House” resolution calling for climate change policy based on what is scientifically necessary rather than just politically possible. Richard asked, “How are you going to […]
The No Impact Man global warming primer
In this post, I present a layman’s primer on global warming. But before we begin, I’m so excited and full of thanks for the fact that I have received more than 2 x 350 = 700 emails of support for my coming visit to Congressman’s Nadler (click here to help me reach my goal of […]