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WMU Climate Change Research and Education

A multi-disciplinary faculty group at WMU dedicated to providing intelligent discussion of global climate change impacts to students and the public.

10/09/2024

Why is the UNFCCC failing and how can stronger international governance help to solve the climate crisis?
My chapter on "Climate Risk, Climate Justice, and Why We Need Stronger Climate Governance" in Climate Policies - Modern Risk-Based Assessment of Investments in Mitigation, Adaptation, and Recovery From Residual Harm (working title) edited by Gary Yohe just appeared online:
https://www.intechopen.com/online-first/1194492
Paul Clements

Scientists often assume that their analyses of risks will lead to rational action through the policy process. In reality, however, levels of risk normally depend on how information is channeled through political and institutional processes. Here, climate change presents great challenges.....

01/29/2024

Here's a recording of my presentation from last Wednesday on
"Climate Targets: Truths, Deceptions and Uncertainties":

Seminar at Lee Honors College: Dr. Paul Clements, WMU Political Science Why is climate chaos winning? From where we stand today, what would global climate justice look like, and how could we possibly get there? This talk advances several perspectives on climate targets and the politics of effective....

01/29/2016

http://bangordailynews.com/2015/01/22/politics/senate-not-ready-to-tie-climate-change-to-mankind/

WASHINGTON — The Senate rejected the scientific consensus that humans are causing climate change, days after NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared 2014 the hottest year ever recorded on Earth. The Republican-controlled Senate defeated a measure Wednesday stating that…

11/30/2015

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/01/world/americas/us-climate-change-republicans-democrats.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0

The stark partisan divide on environmental policy will still make it difficult for President Obama and his successors to put in place energy and climate policies.

09/10/2015

http://www.sciencealert.com/this-animation-shows-what-earth-would-look-like-if-all-the-ice-melted

Earlier this week, NASA revealed that Earth's oceans are rising faster than expected, and the space agency projected that we're now

09/02/2015

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/01/us/us-makes-urgent-appeal-for-climate-change-action-at-alaska-conference.html?utm_medium=socnet&utm_content=20150901_bo_potus-in-alaska_nyt_2&awesm=ofa.bo_t9DT&utm_campaign=socnet_fb_CC_20150901_bo_potus-in-alaska_nyt_2&utm_source=fb&source=socnet_fb_CC_20150901_bo_potus-in-alaska_nyt_2&_r=0

President Obama said at an international conference that “we’re not acting fast enough,” challenging leaders and citizens to reduce emissions to “protect the one planet that we’ve got while we still can.”

07/13/2015

http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-whats-warming-the-world/

Climate deniers blame natural factors; NASA data proves otherwise

06/25/2015

http://www.smh.com.au/environment/un-climate-conference/what-climate-change-will-do-to-your-loaf-of-bread-20150621-ghshcq.html

If the promise of higher temperatures, rising sea levels and more frequent natural disasters doesn't convince you of the urgent need for the world to act on climate change, maybe this picture will.

06/04/2015

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/06/03/rick-santorum-tells-pope-to-leave-science-to-scientists-forgets-pope-has-masters-in-chemistry/

Rick Sa****um tries to bash Pope Francis for speaking about climate change, fails biblically.

05/28/2015

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=85932

The small town of Eagle was hotter on May 23 than it has been on any day in Houston or Dallas this year.

01/22/2015

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/01/16/its-official-2014-was-the-hottest-year-in-recorded-history/

Both NASA and NOAA agree: The planet just set an ominous new record.

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