Anthony Leiserowitz: The Greatest Single Threat Facing Humanity

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MoyersandCompany
Jan. 4, 2013

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Remember climate change? For the first time since 1984, the issue didn’t even come up in a presidential debate. But bringing climate change back into our national conversation is as much a communications challenge as it is a scientific one. Scientist Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, joins Bill to describe his efforts to do what even Hurricane Sandy couldn’t — galvanize communities over what’s arguably the greatest single threat facing humanity.

Will Superstorm Sandy Break The Silence on Climate Change?

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www.workers.org
Nov. 2, 2012

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As of Nov. 2, the toll from Hurricane Sandy, the huge storm that ravaged the Caribbean and then cut a swath from the mid-Atlantic states all the way up into Canada, is reported to be 67 people killed in the Caribbean and 95 people dead in  the U.S., including 44 in the New York City area.

Millions are still without power, and the damage is reckoned at many tens of billions of dollars. No numbers have been put on personal losses of the masses of people in terms of their homes, cars, household possessions, lost wages, lost jobs, let alone irreplaceable personal items of precious, lifetime, sentimental value.

Bill McKibben on Hurricane Sandy and Climate Change: If There Was Ever A Wake-up Call, This Is It

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Oct 29, 2012 by democracynow

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Much of the East Coast is shut down today as residents prepare for Hurricane Sandy, a massive storm that could impact up to 50 million people from the Carolinas to Boston. The storm has already killed 66 people in the Caribbean where it battered Haiti and Cuba.

Record breaking drought to affect US food prices

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Jul 26, 2012 by PressTVGlobalNews

The record breaking temperatures in the U.S. and the worst drought in nearly half a century are now driving up food prices.

This is What Global Warming looks like 2.0

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Jul 26, 2012 by NRDCflix

We dump billions of tons of carbon pollution into the atmosphere each year. As a result, the concentration of carbon dioxide has increased by 40%. Excess carbon dioxide traps excess heat in the atmosphere. Excess heat causes extreme heat waves, droughts, and storms.

“Welcome to the Rest of Our Lives” + Yes, Virginia, Sea Level Really is Rising

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Jul 9, 2012 by greenman3610

Don’t miss the Companion video at the Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media
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Dallas Hail Storm

Weird Winter – Mad March

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Apr 16, 2012 by greenman3610

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For these and more videos, check out the Glimpse Science Network.
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Deaths as Hurricane Irene batters U.S. East Coast

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Millions of people are taking shelter along the American east coast.

Hurricane Irene is not the most powerful storm on record, but still large enough to cause damage.

The Sky Really Is Falling by Chris Hedges

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Truthdig
May 30, 2011

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The rapid and terrifying acceleration of global warming, which is disfiguring the ecosystem at a swifter pace than even the gloomiest scientific studies predicted a few years ago, has been confronted by the power elite with equal parts of self-delusion. There are those, many of whom hold elected office, who dismiss the science and empirical evidence as false. There are others who accept the science surrounding global warming but insist that the human species can adapt. Our only salvation—the rapid dismantling of the fossil fuel industry—is ignored by both groups. And we will be led, unless we build popular resistance movements and carry out sustained acts of civil disobedience, toward collective self-annihilation by dimwitted Pied Pipers and fools.

From Snowstorms to Heat Waves, How Global Warming Causes Extreme Weather and Climate Instability

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Democracy Now!
Dec. 28, 2010

The East Coast is struggling to recover from the massive blizzard that slammed into hundreds cities and towns from the Carolinas to Maine. The storm was a grimly fitting end to 2010, which was characterized by extreme weather from start to finish with heat waves, floods, volcanoes, blizzards, landslides and droughts. While TV networks closely follow extreme weather events around the world, they rarely make the connection between extreme weather and global warming. We speak with Dr. Paul Epstein of Harvard University’s Center for Health and the Global Environment. [includes rush transcript]