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Warming warnings get overheated - Björn Lomborg attacks Kyoto2 in The Guardian, Friday 15 August. "The bottom line is that benefits from global warming right now outweigh the costs (the benefit is about 0.25% of global GDP). Global warming will continue to be a net benefit until about 2070, when the damages will begin to outweigh the benefits, reaching a total damage cost equivalent to about 3.5% of GDP by 2300. This is simply not the end of humanity. If anything, global warming is a net benefit now; and even in three centuries, it will not be a challenge to our civilisation ... ".
The Climate Convention - Objective and Principles - posted here as a reminder of what Kyoto2 is seeking to deliver - the Objective of the Climate Convention, consistent with the its Principles.
Words of warming - as the world hots up, so does the market for books about climate change. Tim Flannery, author of The Weather Makers, looks at the latest works on the crisis, and sizes up their solutions, from nuclear energy to genetically engineered trees. Published in The Guardian, Saturday 9 August 9. "Were the leaders of either country seeking a guide to determining a negotiating position in Copenhagen, they could do no better than Oliver Tickell's just-published book Kyoto2 (Zed Books), which provides a big-picture approach to the prevention of climatic catastrophe ... Reading Kyoto2 gives one hope that there is a way forward."
On a planet 4C hotter, all we can prepare for is extinction - there's no 'adaptation' to such steep warming. We must stop pandering to special interests, and try a new, post-Kyoto strategy, writes Oliver Tickell in The Guardian, Monday 11 August 2008.
Science dictates that we need a 100% reduction in carbon emissions. Here's how to achieve it - writing in Green Futures, Oliver Tickell makes the case for controlling greenhouse gases ‘close to the source' via a groundbreaking new worldwide permits auction. Published on-line, 15 July 2008.
Kyoto2 Discussion Group - describes and links to the Yahoo Discussion Group for Kyoto2.
Kyoto discussion Yahoo Group - formed to enable a dialogue around the issues of international climate policy, problems with the existing UNFCCC / Kyoto Protocol, alternative approaches to global climate governance, weak points (if any!) in the Kyoto2 framework, ideas about more effective mechanisms and so on. The overall purpose is to feed into the Kyoto2 model and help it to evolve and improve.
Hell & High Water: Climate Change, Hope and the Human Condition - by Alastair McIntosh, (Birlinn, 2008). "In this groundbreaking new book, Alastair McIntosh summarises the science of what is happening to the planet - both globally and using Scotland as a local case study. But politics alone is not enough to tackle the scale and depth of the problem. At root is our addictive consumer mentality. Wants have replaced needs and consumption drives our very identity. In a fascinating journey through early texts that speak to climate change - including the ancient Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh, Plato's myth of Atlantis, and Shakespeare's Macbeth - McIntosh reveals the psychohistory of modern consumerism. He shows how we have fallen prey to a numbing culture of violence and the motivational manipulation of marketing. To start to resolve what has become of the human condition we must get more real in facing up to despair and death. Only then will we discover the spiritual meaning of these our troubled times. Only then can magic, new meaning, and all that gives life, bring hope to a broken world."
Heat - by George Monbiot (Allen Lane, Penguin Press, 2006). "We know that climate change is happening. We know that it could, if the worst predictions come true, destroy the conditions which make human life possible. Only one question is now worth asking: can it be stopped? In Heat, George Monbiot shows that it can. For the first time, he demonstrates that we can achieve the necessary cut - a 90% reduction in carbon emissions by 2030 - without bringing civilisation to an end. Combining his unique knowledge of campaigning and environmental science, he shows how we can transform our houses, our power and our transport systems. But he also shows that this can happen only with a massive programme of action which no government has yet been prepared to take."
Climate Code Red : the case for emergency action, by David Spratt & Philip Sutton (Scribe Publications, 2008). "Climate policy is characterised by the habituation of low expectations and a culture of failure. There is an urgent need to understand global warming and the tipping points for dangerous impacts that we have already crossed as a sustainability emergency, that takes us beyond the politics of failure-inducing compromise. We are now in a race between climate tipping points and political tipping points.