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All About Those 2° C
Among the international delegations of climate experts gathering in Paris for COP 21 this month, leading researchers from the University of California are presenting “Bending the Curve,” a thorough report covering their top 10 scalable solutions for reducing global warming and addressing the impacts of climate change. For a preview of what they are prescribing […]
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Understand Climate Change – and What You Can Do About It
Learn more about climate change with new programs that examine its impact from a variety of perspectives. Discover how humans and climate interact and affect one another, learn what you can do to reduce greenhouse emissions, and get a behind-the-scenes look at the Pope’s call to protect the environment. Climate Change, Consumerism and the Pope […]
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Economic Growth or the Environment? A False Choice
The Industrial Revolution ushered in fundamental change. The global economy and prosperity grew exponentially, primarily through the use of vast amounts of fossil fuels. Science, particularly climate science, has shown that our current course of a fossil-based economy is unsustainable but our society is often presented with a dilemma. Should we continue our exponential economic […]
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Get Serious About Climate Change
“Climate change is no longer in the future — its impacts are upon us, already.” So begins this Keeling Lecture featuring David Victor, an internationally recognized leader in research on energy and climate change policy. With the inevitability of climate change, we now must consider adaptation. How will we deal with its effects socially? Politically? […]