While nations talk… There is a chorus of media coverage on what is going wrong in Copenhagen. From walk outs to private jetting to arrested protests, it really is starting to look a bit like an act of the Theater of the Absurd. The most basic definition of absurd in this reference, “takes the form [...]
Like so many other people around the world, folks here at the Institute are waiting anxiously for next week’s talks in Copenhagen. There has been all sorts of analysis flying around the web and loads of it has been positive and upbeat (we have found the Guide offered over at Grist to be especially helpful [...]
Yesterday, we hosted a large event on the environmental transformation of the New York City region since 1609. Titled in the Wake of the Half Moon: Environmental Transformation of the New York Metropolitan Region: 1609-2109, the event traced the relationship between (new European) people and their environment since Hudson’s voyage to the region in 1609. [...]
African leaders are boycotting. American leaders are scaling down hopes. Copenhagen is starting to look like an exercise in mediocrity. And its a carbon intensive one at that. How many people are flying in again? On the national front, a delayed vote because of a partisan boycott has left our climate bill as non-existent. At [...]
The British Government recently released a map that forecasts the disastrous scenarios that could play out with a 4 degree (C) rise in temperature across the globe. It features nine categories of effects (including drought, sea-level rise, and permafrost) which can be toggled on and off. The selected category tab displays a “hot spot” on [...]
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