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Bill McKibben Talks Keystone XL on the Colbert Report

February 14, 2012 by Joseph Romm
with 299 views

Environmental Activist and 350.org Founder Bill McKibben had a lot to be excited about when he walked onto the Colbert Report last night. After wondering publicly whether the environmental movement could accumulate 500,000 messages in 24-hours from citizens opposed to the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, by last night he announced that... [read more]

How I Would Decide the Keystone XL Pipeline Issue

December 1, 2011 by Robert Rapier
with 233 views

The following is a lengthy essay explaining why I would approve the Keystone pipeline despite finding myself on the side of those concerned over the negative environmental impact of tar sands development. I will debunk much of the misinformation going on in the pipeline debate and ultimately lay out my conclusions. I intend for this to... [read more]

Was Hurricane Irene Caused By Climate Change?

September 2, 2011 by Simon Donner
with 2,000 views

Every major weather event raises the same debate over the same unanswerable question: was it caused by climate change?And every time, some prominent name or public figure, fed up with media coverage or with the persistence of skepticism about science or the lack of action, throws statistics out the window and says yes. Or says something... [read more]

When Changing A Lightbulb Isn’t Enough…

September 1, 2011 by Marc Gunther
with 381 views

What have you done lately about climate change? In the last two weeks, about 700 Americans – with more to come – have been arrested in front of the White House, calling on President Obama to block the construction of the $7 billion, 1700-mile Keystone pipeline project that will bring Canadian tar sands oil to largest... [read more]

Doing a 180 on 350?

August 15, 2011 by Gernot Wagner
with 360 views

Why, if activism won’t do, would I ever link to 350.org‘s tar sands campaign? Simple: Activism of the sort that gives us lists of “10 things you can do to save the planet” is impotent at best and counterproductive at worst. Recycling, refusing plastic and paper, eating local, biking to work, or avoiding bottled water are all good. I do... [read more]

On Climate "Failure Is Not An Option"

July 20, 2011 by Lou Grinzo
with 279 views

From Bill McKibben Avoids the Fetal Position (last Q/A exchange): MJ: Well, how do you stay hopeful, or at least engaged? How do you keep people from just curling up into the fetal position? BM: You know what, at some level I’ve given up trying to figure out whether I’m pessimistic or optimistic. I get up in the morning and do what I can... [read more]

Extreme Weather and Climate Change: Remixed

July 12, 2011 by Peter Troast
with 476 views

Getting people to understand energy efficiency, especially the massive opportunity that exists in the residential building sector, is one of Energy Circle’s core missions. As such, we’re big fans of clever, creative communications that spread the message broadly and use all the available channels. Video is one of the best, evident in the... [read more]

Physics, chemistry, politics, timing

April 15, 2011 by Lou Grinzo
with 26 views

Bill McKibben hews to the bone, again: Climate change, above all issues, requires a transformative and not an incremental vision. We have fundamental change to make, and a very short window to make it in — Obama’s typical (and often quite savvy) little-bit-at-a-time approach doesn’t square with the physics and chemistry that govern this... [read more]

Eye-Opening Videos

December 9, 2010 by Michael Tobis
with 1,074 views

Via Treehugger, a ten minute interview by Revkin of McKibben. (I think they talk past each other a bit without noticing. Revkin injects a bit of Pielkeism in there and I don't know if McKibben even notices.) But McKibben has come to the same place in the last year or so that many of us have. Our future is down to difficult vs impossible... [read more]

Jimmy Carter Solar Panel Heads Back to White House

September 8, 2010 by Taylen Peterson
with 1,301 views

In a time when little to nothing is getting done about climate change at the legislative level, much of the efforts of the frustrated environmental movement must be symbolic in nature. Such is the mood and motive of Bill Mckibben, and others en route to Washington D.C. with one of the now-legendary Jimmy Carter solar panels that once... [read more]

McKibben on the invisible oil slick

May 3, 2010 by Lou Grinzo
with 167 views

Bill McKibben nails it in, Oil Slick You Can’t See Threatens the Entire Ocean: If you think that slick of oil spreading across the Gulf of Mexico is a nasty sight … well, it is. And so we’ll probably do something about it. Within hours of the crude reaching the coast, an aide to President Barack Obama said new offshore drilling would... [read more]

Bill McKibben on Eaarth Day

April 23, 2010 by Joseph Romm
with 181 views

We have created a new planet. Not entirely new. It looks more or less like the one we were born into; the same physical laws operate it. But the changes that have already happened are large enough that if you were visiting our planet in a spaceship, this place would look really different from the outside than it did just decades... [read more]

McKibben: Earth is over

April 19, 2010 by Lou Grinzo
with 357 views

Bill McKibben, author of the just-released book, Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, is doing a lot of interviews, and it makes for interesting reading, to say the least. One of the best interviews I saw with him appeared on Salon, “Eaarth”: Earth is over: What is “Eaarth”? The meaning behind the title is that we really have... [read more]

Bill McKibben compares the attack on climate science to OJ Simpson trial

March 11, 2010 by Richard Graves
with 102 views

A familiar face in the climate movement - and a major partner behind the TckTckTck campaign - Bill McKibben last week wrote a great in-depth article comparing the OJ Simpson trials in the 90's to the current relentless attacks on climate science by entrenched fossil fuel and flat earth types. The analogy is drawn due to the way OJ's... [read more]

McKibben: The Attack on Climate-Change Science

February 25, 2010 by Lou Grinzo
with 98 views

Let me be the 187th person to tell you to go read Bill McKibben’s, The Attack on Climate-Change Science Why It’s the O.J. Moment of the Twenty-First Century. It’s a longish, detailed, and deadly accurate look at climate change deniers and their tactics. I can’t recommend it highly enough. (To be blunt, I could have done without the... [read more]