Planet Restart: Living With Climate Change

Why Planet Restart?

Too many Americans think climate change isn't important. Why? Because it is hard to explain, because it is happening in faraway places, and because a lot of vested interests don't want to change how they do business. Our goal is to simplify without over-simplifying, to put a face on climate change, and to get past the rhetoric and give ordinary people the tools to make their own decisions.

What's New On THE BLOG

02/08/10: Anyone who follows this stuff knows that there has been a huge kafuffle over the inclusion in the UN's 2007 report on climate change of an admittedly inaccurate claim that the Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035. ... Read More

02/05/10: Faced with the inevitability of change, some argue even stronger for keeping things the way they are for as long as possible, extracting every last drop of oil, every last piece of coal no matter what the cost to the environment. ... Read More

Let's Go Surfing . . .

Water and Climate Change: Around 1.2 billion people, or almost one-fifth of the world's population, live in areas of physical scarcity, while another 1.6 billion people, or almost one quarter of the world's population, face economic water shortage (where countries lack the necessary infrastructure to take water from rivers and aquifers); nearly all of which are in the developing countries.