‘…Climate change is everything, a story and a calamity bigger than any other.’

via Are We Missing the Big Picture on Climate Change? – NYTimes.com.

‘…Of this figure, roughly 48,000 will be via diarrhea; 60,000 via malaria; 95,000 via under-nutrition during childhood; and 38,000 via heat exposure (the elderly mostly) — according to the new report.’

via WHO Report: Climate Change To Cause 250,000 “Extra Deaths” A Year By 2030 | CleanTechnica.

‘…Almost every year, the World Bank has put out a devastating report on some aspect of climate change. Last month, in a report entitled “Turn Down the Heat,” the World Bank warned that if nothing is done, global temperatures will rise by 4 degrees Celsius, or 7.2 degrees Fahrenheit, by 2060, creating a “cataclysm” for poor countries.’

via Adjusting the Tune on Climate Change – NYTimes.com.

‘The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Lima, Peru, this week and next will lay the groundwork for a more significant gathering in Paris a year from now: the 21st conference of the 1992 United Nations Convention on Climate Change. … The 15th conference, held in Copenhagen five years ago to draw up a successor treaty, collapsed spectacularly under determined opposition from China and India.’

via Rupert Darwall: Obama Puts Climate on the 2016 Ballot – WSJ.

‘…Even with a deal to stop the current rate of greenhouse gas emissions, scientists warn, the world will become increasingly unpleasant. Without a deal, they say, the world could eventually become uninhabitable for humans.’

via Optimism Faces Grave Realities at Climate Talks – NYTimes.com.

‘…This was in large part a contest between OPEC and US frackers for power over the oil market. With the new technology of hydraulic fracturing, US oil production has increased by nearly 50 percent since 2008, after more than three decades of decline. By pushing prices lower OPEC hopes to restrain the growth of the costlier production.’

via OPEC in the age of climate change – Opinion – Al Jazeera English.

‘Berkeley has approved an ordinance — and San Francisco is drafting one, too — requiring gas pump warning labels about climate change.’

via Carroll: Climate labels on gas pumps? – The Denver Post.

‘Ideas range from trying to block the Sun’s rays with sulphur particles in the upper atmosphere to making the seas and deserts more reflective to forests of artificial trees soaking up carbon dioxide -concepts that seem so outlandish that many refuse to take them seriously.’

via BBC News – How could we intervene to change the climate?.

‘Outdoor air pollution is the fifth leading cause of death in India, according to a study showing it led to 627,000 premature deaths in 2010 alone.’

via Climate change talks offer India new opportunity – Opinion – The Boston Globe.

‘This map, from Sophie Yeo at Responding to Climate Change, rounds up surveys and polls from around the world since 2009 that look at views on climate change from abroad.’

via What people think about climate change around the world, in one map – The Washington Post.