[GPSCC-chat] Climate Change

[Gerry Gras]

Several things relevant to climate change...

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Bill McKibben with be touring the country
from 11/7 to 12/3:

http://math.350.org/

(Click on a city for more info, and to buy
tickets.)

He will be speaking at Spangenberg Theatre
at Gunn High School in Palo Alto on November 10th.

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The Yale Project on Climate Change has three new
reports in the last two months:

http://environment.yale.edu/climate/

- The Political Benefits of Taking a Pro-Climate Stand
   in 2012
- Climate Change in the Indian Mind
- The Potential Impact of Global Warming on the 2012
   Presidential Election

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Common Dreams:
http://www.commondreams.org/

"Fighting the Tar Sands: Day 3 of Direct Action in Texas"
"Tar Sands Blockade activists continue to fight
TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline"
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/09/26-7

"Big Oil CEO Says Oil Drilling in Arctic Spells 'Disaster'"
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/09/26-4

"Is Climate Change Hell Now Inevitable?"
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/09/25-0

"100 Million Dead, Trillion of Dollars Lost from
Climate Change by 2030, Estimates Study"
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/09/26-1

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UK Government report on the Arctic
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmselect/cmenvaud/171/171.pdf

(Conclusions and Recommendations start on page 70.)

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Gerry