The relationship between personal experience and belief in the reality of global warming

A recently published article in Nature Climate Change suggests that your belief or disbelief in climate change alters your perception of its effects on your surroundings.


http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate1754.html

To Stop Climate Change, Students Aim at College Portfolios

Cool movement at Swarthmore and other colleges to get the school to sell off the endowement's holdings in fossil fuels.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/05/business/energy-environment/to-fight-climate-change-college-students-take-aim-at-the-endowment-portfolio.html

Edward Burtynsky photographs the landscape of oil

Check out this 4 minute TED talk - "In stunning large-format photographs, Edward Burtynsky follows the path of oil through modern society, from wellhead to pipeline to car engine -- and then beyond to the projected peak-oil endgame."

It's a reminder that we can all do our part to make a difference within our own little spheres of influence.

From the talk:

"I feel that all of us need to take the task of using our talents, our ways of thinking, to begin to deal with what I think is probably one of the most challenging issues of our time: how to deal with our energy crisis. And I would like to say on the other side, 30 or 40 years from now, the children that I have, I can look at them and say we did everything we possibly, humanly could to begin to mitigate what I feel is one of the most important and critical moments in our time."