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Climate Solutions Consensus

Climate Solutions Consensus

Published: February 14, 2010, 5:04 pm
Updated: October 14, 2011, 2:04 pm
Lead Authors: David Blockstein, Leo Wiegman
Topics: Climate Change
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This article has been reviewed by the following Topic Editor: Peter Saundry

 

 

 

About the book

 

 

This website serves as an accompanying resource to the book published by Island Press in November 2009 titled Climate Solutions Consensus edited by David Blockstein and Leo Wiegman. The book presents the consensus of the more than 1,300 scientists, educators, students, environmentalists, policymakers, business people and other citizens who attended the National Council for Science and the Environment's Eighth National Conference on Science, Policy and the Environment in January 2008 with a theme Climate Change: Science and Solutions that much of what we need to do now is known, many actions are technically feasible, although massive investment is needed to develop the next set of solutions, and that these actions are economically and socially beneficial and necessary.

This site accompanies the text with video and power point presentations from the conference, the list of speakers, sponsors, and other participants, and considerable background material. It also contains a set of educational resources for those teaching about climate science and solutions prepared by NCSE’s Council of Environmental Deans and Directors (CEDD). This website will continually be updated. We invite readers of the book to contribute their own ideas and report on their own actions.

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Online material

    Part I What we know about climate

  1. The Dance of the Mice and Elephants
  2. Three Questions Every Citizen Should Ask
  3. Human Carbon as the Smoking Gun
  4. Rising Carbon, Rising Oceans
  5. The Five Horsemen of Extinction

    Part II How to think about climate solutions

  6. The Cheapest Carbon
  7. No Silver Bullet, Many Silver Wedges
  8. Energy in the Cycle of Material Life
  9. Multiple Intensity Disorder
  10. Carbon Meets Wall Street

    Part III How we work together now

  11. The Climate Message Starts to Stick
  12. Think Globally, Incubate Locally
  13. Where the Science, Policy, and Public Meet
  14. Scaling Up Amidst the Curse of Knowledge
  15. All of the Above! Solutions in Perspective

    Part IV Thirty-five Immediate Climate Actions

  16. Actions 1-20
  17. Actions 21-28
  18. Actions 29-35

 

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Citation

David Blockstein, Leo Wiegman (Lead Author);Peter Saundry (Topic Editor) "Climate Solutions Consensus". In: Encyclopedia of Earth. Eds. Cutler J. Cleveland (Washington, D.C.: Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment). [First published in the Encyclopedia of Earth February 14, 2010; Last revised Date October 14, 2011; Retrieved February 4, 2012 <http://www.eoearth.org/article/Climate_Solutions_Consensus>

The Authors

David BlocksteinDavid E. Blockstein is a Senior Scientist with the National Council for Science and the Environment, a nonpartisan organization of scientists, environmentalists, business people, and policymakers working to improve the scientific basis of environmental decisionmaking.Dr. Blockstein joined the organization in 1990 and was its first Executive Director. Presently, he organizes NCSE's annual National Conference on Science, Policy and the Environment. Dr. Blockstein also serves as Executive Secre ... (Full Bio)

Leo Wiegman A former book publisher, Leo serves as Mayor of the Village of Croton-on-Hudson, New York, and is Vice Chair of the Northern Westchester Energy Action Consortium. Leo is the founder of E to the Fourth Strategic Communications, a firm dedicated to helping environmental groups communicate more effectively. Leo is co-author of The Climate Solutions Consensus with David Blockstein at the National Council on Science and the Environment and of the forthcoming, Heirlooms to Live In: H ... (Full Bio)

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