A new issue of Conservation is out. Erika J. Techera (UWA): Climate Change, Legal Governance and the Pacific Islands: An Overview. Jonathan Collins (UCLA): Me Against the World: A Quantitative Analysis of the Relationship Between Race and Climate Change. Robert V. Percival (Maryland): Human Rights and the Evolution of Global Environmental Law. David Roberts interviews Al Gore on carbon taxes, natural gas, and the “morally wrong” Keystone pipeline. Good gas, bad gas: Burn natural gas and it warms your house — but let it leak, from fracked wells or the melting Arctic, and it warms the whole planet. Thinking the unthinkable: What if America’s leaders actually want catastrophic climate change? Dave Lindorff wonders. From Monthly Review, John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark on the planetary emergency. Some lessons from Texas: Until recently, Americans thought ecological threats occurred in faraway places. Why are TV weathercasters ignoring climate change? You definitely don't need these weathermen to know which way the wind blows. Rebecca Boyle on 7 gift ideas for the climate change denier in your life.
