Interview with Dr. Mark C. Trexler. Mark has more than 30 years of regulatory and energy policy experience, and has advised clients around the world on climate change risk and risk management for more than 25 years. He and his business partner, attorney Laura H. Kosloff have created The Climate Web, a tool for finding “actionable climate knowledge.” It’s critically needed in the face of today’s overwhelming levels of raw information relevant to climate change and climate risk.

Mark Trexler was interviewed by Ruth Ann Barrett of EarthSayers.tv, Voices of Sustainability and videotaped by cameraman, Barry Heidt in the EcoTrust Building in Portland, Oregon on April 23, 2016. Published on Apr 27, 2016

Interview with climate change expert, Dr. Mark Trexler on April 23, 2016. Mark covers climate risk analysis and scenario planning as well as an introduction to The Climate Web™ is a knowledge solution developed by Mark and his business partner, Laura Kosloff to help users find the information they need to identify and track the climate risk issues of most importance to them. The Climate Web organizes thousands of reports, news stories, blogs, and other materials, often extracting and linking critical information for easy access. He was interviewed by Ruth Ann Barrett of EarthSayers.tv, Voices of Sustainability. Camera work by Barry Heidt. Published on Apr 27, 2016

Published on Jul 27, 2016

Published on Dec 6, 2015

"Make It Hot" is a song from the forthcoming album & hip-hop theatre show "Rap Guide to Climate Chaos", as performed here by Baba Brinkman, exploring some of the game theory dynamics that drive global warming and arguing for the urgent need to price carbon emissions. 

More information about the show here. Help support Baba's "Climate Chaos" IndieGogo campaign here.  

In his long-awaited encyclical (download here) on the environment and climate change, Pope Francis has called for swift action to save the planet from environmental ruin, urging world leaders to hear "the cry of the Earth and the cry of the poor." He called for a change of lifestyle in rich countries steeped in a "throwaway" consumer culture, and an end to "obstructionist attitudes" that sometimes put profit before the common good. Pope Francis said protecting the planet is a moral and ethical "imperative" for believers and nonbelievers alike that should supersede political and economic interests. A major theme of the encyclical is the disparity between rich and poor. "We fail to see that some are mired in desperate and degrading poverty, with no way out, while others have not the faintest idea of what to do with their possessions, vainly showing off their supposed superiority and leaving behind them so much waste which, if it were the case everywhere, would destroy the planet," he said. We speak to Naomi Klein, author of "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate." She has been invited to speak at the Vatican, where she will speak at the "People and Planet First: The Imperative to Change Course" conference. And here in New York is Nathan Schneider, columnist at America magazine, a national Catholic weekly magazine published by the Jesuits.

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Arctic sea ice appears to have reached a record low wintertime maximum extent for the second year in a row, according to scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center and NASA. This short animation shows the Arctic sea ice freeze cycle from the last summertime minimum extent to March 24, when it reached its wintertime maximum extent: at 5.607 million square miles, it is the lowest maximum extent in the satellite record.

Credit: NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio/C. Starr

From the Center for Humans and Nature's Fostering a Water Ethic project, contemplate the many compelling reasons as to why a water ethic is essential for helping do the right thing by each other,by the generations that follow us, and by the whole community of life. For more information on the Water Ethic visit Humans and Nature here.

Viewpoints from Dorene Day Midewaunnikwe (Water Woman); Jane Elder, Executive Director, Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters; Cynthia Barnett, Environmental Journalist and Author; Jeremy Schmidt, Assistant professor, Carlton University; Rick Kyte, Director, D.B. Reinhart Institute for Ethics in Leadership; Christiana Peppard, Associate Professor, Fordham University; and Josephine Mandamin (Ojibwe), Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve.

Published on Mar 16, 2016

We were thrilled to be joined on The RSA stage by Sir David Attenborough and explorer and conservationist Tim Flannery, who spoke passionately about an era-defining issue; climate change.

We speak to guest editors Stephan Lewandowsky, Chair in Cognitive Psychology, University of Bristol and Richard Pancost (Professor of Biochemistry) about their Philosophical Transactions examining the relationship between scientific uncertainty about climate change and knowledge from physical, economic and social perspectives.

It is on the verge of another attempt to extract some of the estimated 400bn barrels equivalent of oil and gas at the top of the world. But drilling in the Arctic is expensive and dangerous. And oil prices have fallen dramatically. Will this and government action thwart Shell's ambitions? Published on Jul 16, 2015 BY THE GUARDIAN.

See also This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein here.