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The Climate Stewardship Act (AKA The Lieberman-McCain Climate Stewardship Act)
The Pew Center on Global Climate Change has provided a summary of this Senate bill and the companion House bill, The Gilchrest-Olver Climate Stewardship Act. >>> read a summary of these acts
Caring for Climate
A U.N. Guide to Climate Change Convention and the Kyoto Protocol. >>> download pdf
On Thinning Ice
London Review of Books, 1-6-05
by Michael Byers
A comprehensive piece with important background information. >>> download doc
An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and Its Implications for United States National Security
Pentagon Report, 10-03
by Peter Schwartz and Doug Randall
In February, 2004, The Observer in Britain published information about a Pentagon secret report on global climate change. It predicted “a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters,” weather patterns in Europe that “begin to resemble Siberia,” “a third more days with peak temperatures above 90F” in the US and Europe by 2010, “mega-droughts [which] affect the world’s major breadbaskets, including America’s Midwest,” and a “threat to global stability” that “vastly eclipses that of terrorism.” >>> download doc
Death of Environmentalism; Global Warming Politics in a Post-Environmental World
By Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus
A provocative report sponsored by the Nathan Cummings Foundation in 2004, which calls for a fundamentally new paradigm for climate conscious environmentalists. Read the report [death_of_environmentalism] >>> download pdf
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