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  • Carbon Dioxide Double Talk

    Created: Wednesday, 29 July 2009 23:21 Author: G J Lau
    Let me state right up front that I am not a scientist. I am an ordinary guy who got interested in climate change because I worry about what kind of world I will be leaving to my grandchildren. What I know I have learned from a growing list of books and fr...

  • What Europe Thinks About Climate Change

    Created: Sunday, 26 July 2009 19:49 Author: G J Lau
    The European Union recently released results of a survey on Europeans' attitudes towards climate change. The surveys were conducted in the first two months of 2009. There were responses from 26,718 citizens in 30 different countries. Respondents were ask...

  • Two Converging Forces: Climate Change and Population Shifts

    Created: Wednesday, 22 July 2009 00:00 Author: G J Lau
    One of the things I have learned about climate change is that it is about a whole lot more than climate. It is about people and places, politics and power. If you think about it, climate change wouldn’t matter nearly as much if population levels were a...

  • Two Degrees of Separation

    Created: Tuesday, 21 July 2009 00:00 Author: G J Lau
    We hear a lot about limiting the rise in global temperature to 2 degrees Celsius (3.5 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels. The recently concluded G8 summit in Italy (July 2009) did for the first time agree to a target of no more than a 2 degre...

  • The Ghost of Climate Change Past

    Created: Thursday, 16 July 2009 00:00 Author: G J Lau
    One of the big reasons that ordinary folks have so much trouble getting their arms around the problem of climate change is that the discussion so often concerns events in the distant past or the remote future. We are either debating climate events from th...

  • G8 to Humanity: You Are On Your Own. Stop. Save Yourselves. Out.

    Created: Sunday, 12 July 2009 00:00 Author: G J Lau
    The relative inaction on climate change by the G8 during its meeting in Italy may have one beneficial effect. Few of us should have any remaining illusions that help is on the way or that what little is being done will be anything other than too little, t...

  • The G8 Fiddles While the Earth Burns

    Created: Friday, 10 July 2009 00:00 Author: G J Lau
    This was not a good couple of weeks for those seeking action on the issue of climate change. On the other hand, it was a very good couple of weeks for those who have a vested interest in keeping things as they are. The U.S. House of Representatives was b...

  • The Front Lines of Climate Change

    Created: Sunday, 05 July 2009 12:33 Author: G J Lau
    The blogosphere is filled with climate change skeptics. One place you won't find them is among military strategic planners. They take climate change and global warming quite seriously as an increasingly important factor in defense policy. For those folks...