Here is a post from Annelene Decaux, a climate change scientist, and Integral follower. She dosn't have a I-I membership, but really wanted to contribute this post to the discussion, so here it is! Enjoy...
Here’s an all-quadrant exercise for you:
Set aside one or two hours, and do your own research on global warming on the internet (LR). If you want, and for starters, you may want to peruse some of the links below -- or come up with your own “research protocol”.
As you do so, I invite you to conduct 2 inquiries (UL):
- Do you feel trustful, or distrustful, of the material? What makes you trust, or distrust it? (some LL elements)
- What else do you feel as you read the material? (e.g. fear, sadness, boredom, excitement, inspiration?)
When you’re done, take a moment and ask yourself (UL):
- What did you learn from the exercise? About the topic? (LR) About what/who you trust? (LL) About how you learn? (UL)
- What actions will you take based on what you learnt? (UR)
Enjoy! Here are some links:
***If you have only a few minutes to spare
Science’s Article on the scientific consensus on climate change
And this more recent one on the same topic
Pew Center’s Answers to Key Questions Raised by M. Crichton in State of Fear
More comments on State of Fear on the Real Climate blog
Woods Hole Research Center’s Beginner's guide to understanding the issue of global warming
Especially this article
And you may want to spend some more time with the excellent Pew Center website and the Real Climate blog.
***If you are more serious about this (these are only some of many links)
Climate science
NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies
American Institute of Physics
MIT Center for Global Change Science
Hadley Center
Non-profit
Center for Clean Air Policy
The Climate Group
Resources for the Future
Pew Center
US Administration
US DOE
US EPA
US Climate Change Science Program
US Climate Change Technology Program
US Global Change Research Program
US Global Change Research Information Office
California Climate Change Policy and Programs -- find out what’s going on in your state!
Some other countries
UK Environmental Protection Agency
European Commission
Australia Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
United Nations
UN Environmental Program Climate Graphics
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Full text of the Rio Convention (1992, acknowledges global warming as a result of man-made emissions, entered into force in 1994, US signatory)
Full text of the Kyoto Protocol (1997, provides a framework for concerted action for the parties to the Convention, entered into force in 2022, US non-signatory)
Some other international bodies
International Energy Agency
World Resources Institute
International Institute for Sustainable Development
World Bank on climate change and on carbon policy
Industry
Edison Electric Institute
American Petroleum Institute
BP
Business and investors
Carbon Disclosure Project
World Business Council for Sustainable Development
International Chamber of Commerce
Energy R&D
Stanford Global Climate and Energy Project
International Energy Agency Greenhouse Gas R&D Program
Global Energy Strategy Technology Program
DOE Carbon Sequestration Program
CO2 emissions trading markets
Point Carbon
EU Emissions Trading Scheme
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (US North-Eastern States)
Chicago Climate Exchange
International Emissions Trading Association
GHG Protocol
CO2e
Climate Trust
World Bank’s Carbon Finance Unit
Climate news
Climate Ark
Tiempo
BBC Climate
www.ukinext.com