Project Peru:The Case of Huaraz: Saúl versus RWE

A Peruvian farmer is demanding that the German energy company, RWE, pay compensation for its role in causing historical climate change. RWE is one of the “Carbon Majors” identified by research commissioned by the Climate Justice Programme and published in the journal Climatic Change. The plaintiff, Saul Luciano Lliuya, has demanded that RWE pay part of the costs for urgent protective measures as his home lies in the floodpath of the Palcacocha lake which is damming glacial melt-water upstream of his home in the town of Huaraz, in Peru’s Cordillera Blanca, or white mountain range. The lawsuit is the first of its kind in Europe. “This is a precedent. If the case goes through, it could lead to further lawsuits being brought against climate change contributors worldwide,” according to lawyer Roda Verheyen. “To meet legal standards, we must prove to the court that RWE does carry partial responsibility for the risk my client’s property is exposed to – and we will achieve this.”   Read More...

The Climate Group Business & Climate Summit 2016 Quad Shot

The °Climate Group is an independent international non-profit organization. Our goal is to help government and business set the world economy on the path to a low-carbon, prosperous future. To reach this goal, we've created a coalition of governments and the world's most influential businesses, all committed to tackling climate change. Through this coalition, we're helping to set the targets, create the policies, build the confidence, and generate the political willpower needed to make the changes the world requires by 2050.

Bold New Climate Policy In Canada’s Oil Sands	Climate Policy in a post Paris World
Andy Ridley, CEO, Circle Economy	Felipe Calderón: Remove fossil fuel subsidies right now

James Balog Double Shot Ted Talk from 2009 Nat Geoc Special Extreme Ice Full Documentary

James Balog combines art and science to explore a changing planet and inspire transformative social action today.
Marrying still photographs, video, and film with the written word and other media, we hope that our work is an antidote to natural amnesia. We preserve a visual record of fast-changing landscapes and critically endangered animals and plants and then disseminate this record to the global public using all available forums, including the Internet, electronic and print media, public presentations, and educational resources created for classrooms

Why I Care Quad Shot from Years of Living Dangerously Season 1. Season 2 coming soon

Mark October 30 2016 on your calendar Years of Living Dangerously Season 2 is coming

Why I Care — Michael C. Hall Why I Care — Matt Damon	Why I Care — Sigourney Weaver Why I Care — Don Cheadle

YaleClimateConnections Double Shot:TV Meteorologists Warming to Climate Science / Warmer Oceans, Stronger Hurricanes

Yale Climate Connections aims to help citizens and institutions understand how the changing climate is already affecting our lives. It seeks to help individuals, corporations, media, non-governmental organizations, government agencies, academics, artists, and more learn from each other about constructive “solutions” so many are undertaking to reduce climate-related risks and wasteful energy practices. Hey Gaston, Hermine, there's a Huricane with your name on it! NHC issuing advisories for the Atlantic on Hurricane GASTON, TD EIGHT and TS HERMINE
Through articles, radio stories, videos, and webinars we “connect the dots” between climate change and energy, extreme weather, public health, food and water, jobs and the economy, national security, the creative arts, and religious and moral values, among other themes The Guardian reported in March 2016 on a new survey which found a growing climate consensus among meteorologists 96% of AMS members realize climate change is happening, and most understand humans are responsible. Nearly all AMS members (96%) think climate change – as defined by AMS – is happening, with almost 9 out of 10 (89%) stating that they are either ‘extremely’ or ‘very’ sure it is happening. Only 1% think climate change is not happening, and 3% say they don’t know. It is not surprising that more meteorologists are now more convinced that human-caused climate change is happening. That is how science works. As the scientific evidence becomes more irrefutable, which is the case with harmful, human-caused climate change, more scientists of all types will become convinced. Edward Maibach

Not your Dad's or Grandad's TV. TYT Double Shot New Ways Climate Change Will Affect Public Health

Getting the word out to the to the younguns!!!
The Young Turks demographic Seventy-eight percent of The Young Turks’ viewers are under the age of 35. It’s very similar to the shows I used to do on cable news for MSNBC or Current TV. On MSNBC, the regular age is 63 years old. The difference between 63 and our average age of 28 is monumental. Through good work and luck, we find ourselves on the right side of history. I don’t know how much time they have left, but cable and broadcast news is on the clock. We have not yet reached any plateau. We still have a lot of audience to take from television and other platforms out there.

NASA Double Shot:Alaska’s Bubbling Lakes - Measuring Sea Ice at the Peak of Melt

“In the last 30 years we’ve really moved into exceptional territory,” Gavin Schmidt, director of Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said. “It’s unprecedented in 1,000 years. There’s no period that has the trend seen in the 20th century in terms of the inclination (of temperatures).” “Maintaining temperatures below the 1.5C guardrail requires significant and very rapid cuts in carbon dioxide emissions or co-ordinated geo-engineering. That is very unlikely. We are not even yet making emissions cuts commensurate with keeping warming below 2C.”
“It’s the long-term trend we have to worry about though and there’s no evidence it’s going away and lots of reasons to think it’s here to stay,” Schmidt said. “There’s no pause or hiatus in temperature increase. People who think this is over are viewing the world through rose-tinted spectacles. This is a chronic problem for society for the next 100 years.” Schmidt is the highest-profile scientist to effectively write-off the 1.5C target, which was adopted at December’s UN summit after heavy lobbying from island nations that risk being inundated by rising seas if temperatures exceed this level. Recent research found that just five more years of carbon dioxide emissions at current levels will virtually wipe out any chance of restraining temperatures to a 1.5C increase and avoid runaway climate change.