The Sunrise Movement If you want to understand the red-hot cutting edge of the state of climate change activism, you can do no better than to read the article Not Dark Yet from the New Yorker magazine. I got the March 7, 2022 issue in the mail today. I just read the entire 8 page article by Andrew Marantz. The subtitle is The Sunrise Movement wants to revolutionize climate politics . Oddly, the online version accessible from the link in the paragraph above has a completely different title and subtitle. Bleeding edge! The New Yorker magazine often carries articles from the best climate journalists, like Elizabeth Kolbert and Bill McKibben. I've been a subscriber for years. My mother told me that I learned to read from looking with her at her albums of New Yorker cartoons. You can get various introductory subscriptions here . I don't know Andrew Marantz yet, but he may be the next generation. In fact, the article conveys the idea that the generations o...
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Bill McKibben Bill McKibben is a climate writer, educator and activist who teaches at Middlebury College in Vermont ( Bill's website ). I have only 3 of his 17 published books. I have his latest, Falter , 2021, and I really need to get and read his first environmental book, The End of Nature , 1989, published a year after Dr. James Hansen testified on global warming before a U. S. Senate committee. Besides his books he has written notable articles published in many magazines, including, of all places, Rolling Stone Magazine. As far as I know, McKibben is a science journalist specializing in climate change, not a scientist. This is similar to Elizabeth Kolbert , Naomi Klein , David Wallace-Wells . And as I said, he is also an activist, founder and long-time leader of 350.org , which he founded in 2008 with Middlebury College Students. Interesting fact: in 2008, the parts-per-million of CO2 in the atmosphere was already 385.83 according to Mauna Loa da...
IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, Working Group 3 When I wrote yesterday's post about the IPCC AR6 Working Group 2 report, I had a thought. I almost included it in the post, but for some reason left it out. It was basically this: the report discussed adaptations to risks, that is, actions to minimize the damage from expected risks or after-the-fact actions to cope with damage from risks that had actually happened. But the report did not mention the partner word to adaptation, mitigation . Mitigation is the climate change buzzword for prevention , i.e., what can and should and might be done to keep the greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere in the first place. It seemed a huge and obvious omission to me, given the subjects covered by this report. This just goes to show how much I am learning by doing this blog. After I put up yesterday's post, I asked myself, "Hmmm, I wonder what Working Group 3 is about?" [Tremolo violins indicating foreshadowing o...