Links

The Science is Settled

• The American Association for the Advancement of Science publishes "What We Know" March 2014
• Dr. James Hansen Ted Talk
• David Roberts Tedx Talk
• Buddhist teachers Being Mindful of climate change basics
• Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (RI) teaches about climate change: his weekly easy to listen to talks

Wait! If the Science is settled, why am I still hearing it's not settled?

• Koonin's WSJ article
  • But it has been debunked here:
  • The Wall Street Journal Publishes Long-Debunked Myths To Promote Climate Inaction by Joe Romm
  • Excerpts from scientists responding to Koonin: Mann, MacCracken, Frumkin,
  • What's wrong with claims made by Koonin, Curry and others urging we wait?
  • ClimateCrocks.com debunks supposed slow down in global warming
  • Yale Forum On Climate Change and Media presents "No Slowdown in Global Warming"

If the Science is settled and someone tells me it's not settled, how do I know they're wrong?

• Every Climate Change Misconception Clarified
• Case of a Climate Scientist Clearly Answering a Politician's Questions and then Finding the Politician Misquoted him in order to Deny Climate Change
• Dr. James Hansen's testimony before Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (March 13, 2014) on reasons not to build KXL pipeline and the need for a carbon tax, find Hansen's opening comments at the 40 minute mark, and around 120 minutes find a politician bent on denying climate change arrogantly interrogating Dr. Hansen and with chutzpah telling him that the science is not settled!

The Science is settled, but someone tells me it's impossible to fix and/or too expensive. How do I know they're wrong?

• Why a national carbon tax would be amazing, in four simple pictures
• Fighting climate change with carbon emissions fee and rebate to public
• Regional Economic Models Inc: "Study shows carbon emissions fee and rebate would grow economy and increase jobs, June 2014

Special sites for clergy to bring themselves up to speed on the issues

On climate change:
• Citizens Climate Lobby
• The New York Times
• Science News
• Climate change from well-respected Meteorologists
• Climate Central
• Climate Desk
• Think Progress
• Nature: Climate
• National Geographic
• Scientific American
• Union of Concerned Scientists
• On climate change and the Jewish community and Israel:
• Read where different Jewish organizations stand on climate change and action
• What does Thomas Friedman say about climate change and the Arab Spring, Syrian refugees, the Mideast drought, Israel's security?
• On Carbon taxes:
• Information on carbon tax and climate change from S.C. Republican former U.S. Rep Bob Inglis
• What does Mitch Romney's economic advisor, Professor Greg Mankiw say about carbon taxes?
• Info about carbon taxes is too hard to listen? Try a stand up comedian who has a Ph.D. in economics
• What does George W. Bush's Secretary of the Treasury say about a carbon tax?
• What do former EPA directors who served under Republican presidents say about climate change and a carbon tax
• CarbonTax.org
• On Grief:
• Climate change and grief
• How can clergy help people deal with grief associated with climate change?

Yale Climate Communications Research

• What to learn from the People's Climate March
• Climate Scientists Need to Set the Record Straight
• Americans: taking action on climate

Readings for Advocacy Writing

• LTE and Op-Ed Guidelines
• How to find the names of your US Senators and US Representative
• Bender, What Writers Can Learn From 'Goodnight Moon'
• Carey, The Long Slow Death of No Child Left Behind
• George, Yellow Is the New Green
• Hiestand, On Style
• Lakoff, Metaphors We Live By
• Lamott, Shitty First Drafts
• Luntz, Words That Work
• MLK Jr, letter from Birmingham Jail
• Muller, The Conversion of a Climate-Change Skeptic
• Onan, Not Stopping
• Orlean, On voice
• Orwell, Politics and the English Language
• Orwell, Shooting an Elephant
• Pew, Beyond Red vs Blue The Political Typology
• Samuelson, Greehouse hypocrisy
• Tsui, Writing Alone Together
• Tufte, Syntax As Style
• Creating an E-8

Miscellaneous important items

• Senator Whitehouse's 50th weekly Senate Climate Talk "Time to Wake Up"
• HuffingtonPost
• ClimateCrocks
• Confessions of a Climate Change Convert

Videos and Publications from Coursera: Turn Down the Heat: Why a 4°C Warmer World Must be Avoided, 2014

• Risks to Ecosystems and Biodiversity
• Risks to Food Production and Agriculture
• Increasing Ocean Acidification
• Impacts of Sea Level Rise
• Projected Sea Level Rise

• Radio interview, June 2013