* Text - Monbiot's A Sudden Change of State and climatologist James Hansen's Huge sea level rises are coming - unless we act now in New Scientist. The sea level rise if we continue to conduct business as usual may be closer to 75 feet than 2 feet.
Monbiot in general.
His book Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning; it's on its way.
Want to see what the coastline will look like, when it's 25m higher? So do I, but flood.firetree.net's max "sea level rise" setting is only 14 meters. Which puts Sacramento largely under water already.
* Video - The final third of this BBC program on global dimming, laying out the implications for global warming
And some personally disturbing information on meat:
Producing 1kg of beef results in more CO2 emissions than going for a three-hour drive while leaving all the lights on at home.*
Corollary: [I]t’s actually better [for a typical American] to be a vegetarian that drives a Chevy Tahoe, than to be a meat eater that bikes or walks everywhere. *
I suspect this will be a golden opportunity for purveyors of grass-fed beef that's locally raised, slaughtered and sold.
and finally, not news but a good resource:
New Scientist's Climate change: A guide for the perplexed ("our round-up of the 26 most common climate myths and misconceptions."). For those short on time (or who've been watching Fox Entertainment), the take-home message is this:
...a firm and ever-growing body of evidence points to a clear picture: the world is warming, this warming is due to human activity increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and if emissions continue unabated the warming will too, with increasingly serious consequences.
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