Michael Pollan's letter to the next Farmer in Chief

An Open Letter to the next Farmer in Chief - New York Times

Michael Pollan believes that the next president of the US will become the Farmer in Chief as the issues of climate change, public health, and international food security will force him to confront the issue of Food. America’s food and agriculture industries and the American diet are such an enormous underlying influence on these more mainstream issues, and Pollan goes into great depth into breaking down the problems and some of the solutions.

What are the costs of reducing climate change? What has the biggest impact?

For Blog Action Day, Vattenfall's Climate Map (pdf) - Vattenfall's mission is to get rid of 26.7 billion tonnes of emission by 2030. Read about their 27 ways to cut emissions.

You'll be really surprised to see so many emission reducing solutions that actually save money on page 21.

Blog Action Day for the environment

October 15 is Blog Action Day; one day when blogs focus on ways to address climate change and the environment. Here are some of the best ones that I've come across.

Lifehacker: 10 Easy Ways to Live Greener

Instigator Blog: How Entrepreneurs Can Help Save the Environment

Freelance Switch - 29 Simple Ways to Become a More Environmentally Friendly Freelancer (+ Help Us Donate $500 to Charity!)

Nobel Prizes - The Best of the Best

Nobel Peace Prize 2007
The Nobel Peace Prize 2007 was awarded today to 2 winners, Al Gore and the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Find out the other winners in Medicine, Economics, Literature, Physics, Chemistry and Peace through the history of the Nobel Prize.

How to Talk to a Climate Change Skeptic

How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic

Last week someone asked me what scares me the most. My answer was: Global Warming.

The tipping point for me was reading a Roger Ebert review of a movie, where he said, "In 39 years, I have never written these words in a movie review, but here they are: You owe it to yourself to see this film. If you do not, and you have grandchildren, you should explain to them why you decided not to."
I thought to myself, "Man, if Roger Ebert is saying, for the first time ever, that there is a MUST-SEE movie, well this is a movie that I NEED to see." So, I went to the theatre with Mrs. Linkjockey to see "An Inconvenient Truth". I bought it when it came out on DVD, and I'm lending out my copy to my friends.

If the Al Gore movie or book doesn't work, you might need to dig deeper.

If you need to dig deeper, today's website has answers to many (hundreds, even?) questions that people have about the Climate Crisis. They are broken down into different categories, for quick browsing, arguments are divided by:
Stages of Denial,
Scientific Topics,
Types of Argument, and
Levels of Sophistication.

Example arguments include the answers to:
Global warming is a hoax
Current global warming is just part of a natural cycle
What's wrong with warmer weather?
There is no proof that CO2 is causing global warming
There is no consensus

Sure, there are lots of objections that I'd never heard before (or didn't understand), but the arguments explain where those objections came from, and refute them.

As far as I can tell, Climate Change is real.